WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.080 What doesn't mean when the plant tag says partsun, part shade or sun and 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:14.000 shade. How literally should we take these recommendations? Let us brighten your day, 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:20.280 enlighten you on the subject here on the Gardening Simplified show coming to you 4 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:27.239 from Studio A at Proven Winner's Color Choice Shrubs with Stacy Hervella me Rick Weistanar 5 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:32.960 engineer and producer Adrianna Robinson. Well, Stacey, it's quite easy to understand 6 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:38.359 full sun for a plant or a shade recommendation. I think I can handle 7 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:43.200 that pretty well. But when they start talking about parts son and part shade, 8 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:48.079 first of all, isn't part son and part shade the same thing? 9 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:55.359 And this is coming from a guy who can confuse etymology with entomology, which 10 00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:00.840 really bugs me. So I guess let's start here. What kind of shade 11 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.959 are we talking about? Structural shade, filtered shade, seasonal shade, parts 12 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.799 sun, part shade. Aren't they the same thing? I mean, I 13 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:12.159 know I'm getting caught up in the weeds here, Stacy, but kind of 14 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.079 tough for me to figure those out. Well, you and a lot of 15 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.319 people. I mean, I've definitely heard from a lot of people that they 16 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.799 get confused. So let's just get this right, you know, get this 17 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.640 out of the way right off the bat. Parts sun and part shade are 18 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.599 interchangeable, okay, at least for us. So if speaking for proven winters 19 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.680 colored choice shrubs, the way that we use those on our plant tags is 20 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:41.760 interchangeable, and we specifically opt to use parts sun over part shade because the 21 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.879 sun in terms of the plant performance, is the more important part, not 22 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.599 the shade from when it comes to most shrubs. So we use parts sun 23 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:53.519 and what we mean that to what we intend that to mean is four to 24 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.519 six hours of sun each day or filtered light all day. Okay, does 25 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.599 that make sense? Yes, it does make sense. You know. My 26 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:04.319 approach always has been, Okay, if this is a sun plant and the 27 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.960 tag says it's a sun plant, don't put it in the shade and vice 28 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:13.840 versa. But as far as part shade or part sun is concerned, I 29 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.199 don't know. I just kind of I just kind of wing it. So, 30 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:22.159 but that description is good as a matter of fact. In the Gardening 31 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.800 Simplified Catalog, you're right, it says full sun six hours of bright sun 32 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:32.960 each day. Part shade is foward to six hours of sun daily or filtered 33 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.960 light throughout the day. And then shade is less than four hours of sun 34 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.800 a day, and I guess that that's a pretty good way to define it. 35 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.199 So again, in my mind, partsun and part shade are the same 36 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:54.360 thing for to six hours of sun per day. And yet what time of 37 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.560 the day? Right? Yeah, absolutely, because I think the afternoon sun 38 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:04.599 off you, is hotter than the morning sun. The morning sun is great 39 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.639 because it dries the dew off the foliage of roses or plants, helps to 40 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:14.080 decrease disease. And then the next question that comes to mind, Stacey, 41 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:19.599 is how do you figure out how much sun you have? Because most people 42 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.000 do not have a light meter in their back pocket, right, And even 43 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.439 if they did, light meters don't just say okay, you're reading is full 44 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.919 sun. They gave you it in lumens, and no one to my knowledge 45 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.560 has done the translation work to say, okay, this many lumens over the 46 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.080 course of the day in a spot equals this much light. But I do 47 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.520 think that there is a simple way that one can test it, and that 48 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:47.039 is if you can stand being out there for certain parts of the day, 49 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.919 then that is shady and if it's hot, if you go out on a 50 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.080 hot summer day and it feels real hot and sunny, if it's like that 51 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.960 most of the day, you've probably got sun. If it's like that part 52 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.759 of the day, you probably got parts on. If it's like that, 53 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:00.800 none of the day, you got shade. So what we're saying is that 54 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:06.400 this part sun, part shade, sun shade, filtered shade, whatever is 55 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:12.639 somewhat of an inexact science, like the hardiness zone map. It isn't an 56 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.719 exact science. And you know, that's why we often say that gardening is 57 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.959 art and science, because there is a little bit of that instinct intuition that 58 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.040 goes along with it. But you know, for us, you know, 59 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:28.720 being a company that introduces new plants and writes tags, what we're trying to 60 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:33.680 provide is the conditions under which you will see results similar to the photos on 61 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.720 the plant tag, because that's what we really want people to have. I 62 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.600 mean, if they're buying a plant we've sold them on the plant tag those 63 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.759 pretty pictures, they're like, yes, I want this, I want it 64 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.319 to look like this in my yard. And while that plant might be able 65 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.079 to survive in more shade, more sun. Whatever that looks like it won't 66 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:54.519 perform, like we have set up your expectations to perform. And that's what's 67 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.839 really important to us, is how can you recreate the conditions for this success 68 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.399 home. So the plant tag is there to help the plant thrive, not 69 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:10.319 survive, yes, exactly, not just survive, survive, thank you, 70 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:16.360 important word to interject, not just survive exactly. You know, I think 71 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.959 I was thinking about this subject, and I was thinking that if I were 72 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.160 a plant, I think the tag that they would make for me and staple 73 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:29.519 on the lapel of my jacket here would be sun. Because I love the 74 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.759 sun. I love summer. And as a matter of fact, I wrote 75 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.319 you a little limb a rick about that because I'm really popping the vitamin D 76 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:41.879 right now. I can't wait for spring. I'm really lacking sunlight. It's 77 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.639 making me quite uptight. I'll pop some Vitamin D and drink some hot green 78 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:51.560 tea and maybe I'll be more polite. My houseplants are experiencing depression. It's 79 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:58.399 causing a slow digression, and so I have conceded that therapy is needed with 80 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:02.360 a sun lamp in her vengean. So we're a lot like plants. Stacy, 81 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.160 Well, I have a question for you. Yeah, So if you're 82 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.160 talking about the plant tag you're wearing and it's full sun, what's your hardiness 83 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:15.199 own? I gotta be a Zone nine or I think you're gonna go I'm 84 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:20.279 living zero coal tolerance. It's something else now, of course, that does 85 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:25.120 bring up a good point, and that is the sun tags in the shade 86 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:29.639 tags sun or shade or part shade. Uh, it's going to be a 87 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:34.800 little different dependent on where you are in the country also because full sun in 88 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:40.360 Georgia is going to be very different from Toronto, Canada. Absolutely, and 89 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:42.600 you know what you started talking about this earlier. I think it's a really 90 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.879 really good point for us here in Michigan, most of the Midwest and certainly 91 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.680 the North, that time of the day that you get the sun is less 92 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.079 important. We don't have. I mean, we might have a couple of 93 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.759 very very hot days, but for the most part, our afternoons are not 94 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.279 scorching or outside the realm of what most plants can take. But absolutely, 95 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.560 when you get into those warmer climates, I would say basically, you know, 96 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:14.399 from Virginia south Ish over west to Oklahoma, that afternoon sun can really 97 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:18.240 change the plant's ability to thrive in that area because it is so hot and 98 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:23.079 at that point you've had hours of accumulated heat, and so how stressed is 99 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.839 the plant getting And so in those cases, you know, it does become 100 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.720 much more important to pay attention to those shade needs. And that's why plant 101 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.000 light tolerances are typically listed as a range, and people often get confused, 102 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.720 but you know, we can only have plant one plant tag for each plant. 103 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:41.720 If we had them for every region, it would, trust me, 104 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.079 it would be a mess. As nice as it would be, it would 105 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.199 not work out as well as it might seem. And so we put that 106 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.600 range so that people can, you know, make the right decisions. And 107 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:55.680 I say this often, but it's why shopping at a local garden center is 108 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.839 so important, especially if you aren't familiar with what you're doing or looking at 109 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.600 new plants. The local expertise in what that plant will tolerate, how it 110 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.160 will actually thrive and not just survive, is crucial because they're the real experts. 111 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.560 And I think Stacy's going to take us down this road and plants on 112 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.160 trial because two plants that I think of as we talk about this topic, 113 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.560 one is hydranges because I personally believe hydranges need a lot of sun to bloom 114 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.560 well. And yet some people stacy consider them to be a shade plant. 115 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.079 Yes, I'd say they are widely considered to be a shade plant, and 116 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:33.279 generally I would say that is a not an appropriate assumption exactly. So we'll 117 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.080 get into that and then for me personally, as a matter of fact, 118 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.000 I was just chatting with Kevin Hurd from Proven Winners about this. I remember 119 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.759 Colius when I got when I first got into the industry over forty years ago, 120 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.200 Colius was strictly a shade plant and it would be blooming its head off 121 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:56.840 by July. Now, via genetics and plant breeding, the Colius really doesn't 122 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.720 put its energy into blooms and we can have it right out there in the 123 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.000 hot sun. The label or the tag on Colius has changed through the years. 124 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:11.200 Yeahs has changed, and people sometimes do need to reconsider all of their 125 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:16.600 assumptions about that because of plant breeding. Yes, so take it with a 126 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.519 grain of salt. Apply the same principle we did with the heartiness zone map, 127 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:26.639 and that is we're talking about ranges. We're talking about in the ballpark, 128 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:31.440 but at the end of the day. Regardless of what the tag says, 129 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:35.600 the proof is in the pudding and the plant will quickly show you whether 130 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.759 or not it's happy in the light environments. It will and read the tag 131 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:45.759 and read the labels. Plants on trial Coming up next, Stacy will introduce 132 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:50.720 us to a plant and will continue our talk on this sunshade part shade filtered 133 00:09:50.759 --> 00:10:01.200 shade stuff right after this. Stay tuned Proven Winter's Color Choice Shrubs cares about 134 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.600 your success in the garden. That's why we trial and test all of our 135 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.600 shrubs for eight to ten years, making sure they outperform everything else on the 136 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.600 market. Look for them and the distinctive white container at your local garden center. 137 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:18.000 Creeting's Gardening friends, and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show. We're 138 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.440 going to put a plan on trial. But as is often the case, 139 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.159 I have a few last words for our previous topic. Great so do I 140 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.519 good perfect great minds. You know, we gave people a lot of good 141 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.159 information about light, but we didn't really talk about what to look for. 142 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.960 If a plant is not in light that you know that would make it happy. 143 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.840 So if a plant is in too much shade, you're going to see 144 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:45.919 a lack of flowers. You're going to see dull colored leaves, and the 145 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:48.600 plant is going to be more sparse and open and not unless dense and rounded. 146 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.200 Those are typical signs that the plant is in too much shade. But 147 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.759 flowering, I would say, is probably one of the biggest, and fruiting 148 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.279 if it's a fruiting plant, know, if it's in too much sun, 149 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:01.759 what you're going to see is basically an inability to keep it watered no matter 150 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.120 what you do. Now, don't get that confused with overwatering, because an 151 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:09.000 overwatered plant and an underwatered plant both wilt but hard to keep it watered. 152 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:16.360 Browning around the leaf edges and the leaf tips, and the plant just kind 153 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.919 of looking sort of beige and sad. You know, it's hard to explain 154 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:22.639 unless you've seen it, but they do take on this kind of like bleached 155 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:28.279 sad look, a bleached look and burnt along the margins of the foliage. 156 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.879 Yes, you're gonna see that. I wanted to mention. If you go 157 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:37.440 to proven winters dot com and you're looking for a plant, let's say you're 158 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:43.879 looking for a hydrange. There's a icon on the website that says light level 159 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.000 and you can click on that. Now here's the choices they give you full 160 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:54.120 shade, part shade to shade, part shade sun, or shade part sun 161 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.720 to sun sun. Yeah, they really break it. It's a little over 162 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.559 complicated, and I think there's a little bit of a lack of consistency since 163 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:07.519 many different people contribute to that website. But there's lots of other places to 164 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.320 find out any For the most part, anytime you find out a light requirement 165 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.840 of a plant genus of say Salva or whatever, you're going to be able 166 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.240 to extrapolate that to most of the other members of well and working in the 167 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.279 garden center. I've got to say that the tags for proven Winners Color Choice 168 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.960 shrubs are fabulous. I mean, when you're out there working with customers, 169 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:33.679 anyone, whatever their level of gardening ability is, but you open up one 170 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.399 of those tags, you pretty much find what you need to. Well, 171 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.639 that's what we try to do. We want people to be successful, we 172 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.480 really do. And last word on this before we move on to today's plan 173 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.519 on trial. If your plant is not in the right amount of light, 174 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.759 you can move it. Yes, so it's not a forever commitment, unless 175 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.440 it's a tree, and then you've got bigger problems literally and metaphorically. But 176 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.840 you know, for the most part, you can absolutely move that plant. 177 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.399 Early spring is a great time to do that. You can even do that 178 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.320 through spring or in fall, whenever the plant is dormant. So it's not 179 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:11.200 a you know, life sentence if you have misplanted your plant in terms of 180 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.519 light conditions, so you know, obviously all of the plants in the proven 181 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.799 Winter's Color Choice line need light. Plants need light to photosynthesize. It is 182 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.320 a crucial part, although often omitted, part of the photosynthetic equation. You 183 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.679 can look it up if you are curious. They don't always put light, 184 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:31.120 but the photosynthetic reaction must happen in the presence of light or it doesn't occur. 185 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.799 It's incredibly important element. Yes, so some people will skip that. 186 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:39.240 One will write light over the arrow that shows the conversion. But now I'm 187 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.159 just being pedantic and I'm trying to say something really important about a plant here, 188 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:48.080 and the plant on trial today is fairy trail bride hydrangea. Wow, 189 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.399 beautiful, Now you call that you said I would probably pick a hydranga because 190 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.799 they are a plant that is often very confusing for people in terms of light. 191 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:00.759 Now Here in our trial gardens in West Michigan, we grow the majority 192 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.840 of our hydrangeas in full sun. So that is to say, again at 193 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:05.960 least six hours of bright sun each day. Now, that said, our 194 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.039 hydrangeas are mulched within an inch of their life. We have a very nice 195 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.080 thick blanket of mulch over them, which they love because they have shallow roots 196 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.480 and they are irrigated, so those two things can help a plant take more 197 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.720 sun. But that said, in a milder climate like this, where our 198 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:24.360 summers you know, again, we might have a few days in the hundreds 199 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.120 in you know, over a hundred, but they're few and far between. 200 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.080 For the most part, our summers are you know, around eighty five degrees 201 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.399 eighty three eighty five degrees. Now, if you live in the south, 202 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.000 yes, absolutely, your hydrange is going to need shade in the afternoon because 203 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.720 for all of their wonderful qualities, hydrangeas are just not that efficient at using 204 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.279 water. And when they are in a very hot climate and they're in a 205 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.440 lot of sun, they're going to lose water faster than they can replace it. 206 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.039 And you're going to have a wilted hydrangea all the time, which you 207 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.720 know is fine short term, but long term we're just kind of like, 208 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:01.519 why am I growing this sad looking thing because it's moping all the time? 209 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.320 Yes, not a moped, A moped, my moped. That was a 210 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.799 good one. I'm writing that one down, all right, you can use 211 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.799 that one, Okay, thanks, But this today's plan on trial. Fairy 212 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:18.159 trail Bride hydrangea is uh. It is a plant that has really kind of 213 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:24.440 opened my eyes to the fact that a plant light needs can be about more 214 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.360 than just the number of hours of sunlight they need for successful photosynthesis and health. 215 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:31.600 Now, before I get into why that is, I want to kind 216 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.399 of paint a picture of fairy trail Bride hydrange for you. It's a newer 217 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.360 hydrangea. You may have heard of it. It was originally introduced in Europe 218 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:43.919 as Runaway Bride hydrangea and one best in show at the Chelsea Flower Show in 219 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.679 twenty eighteen. People went bananas for it. They kept saying, you guys 220 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.759 going to have this in the US. Well, it is finally here. 221 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:54.000 It's sold under the name Fairy trail Bride Hydrangea because we felt like Runaway Bride 222 00:15:54.039 --> 00:16:00.000 was a little bit depressing. Speak now or forever, hold your peace, 223 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.279 and you know it's not a runaway plant. It's actually a very lovely plant. 224 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.039 It's a different type of hydrangea. It's related to big leaf hydrangea hydrangel 225 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.360 Macrophylla oka, but we call it a cascade hydrangea because it has a very 226 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:17.080 different habit. So most hydrangs are really rounded, fairy trail Bride is very 227 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:23.080 horizontal and the branches almost have like a garland or cascating type effect. So 228 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:27.000 it's very, very different, really beautiful in the landscape. It's perfect if 229 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.080 you can plant it, like near a wall or someplace where this unique habit 230 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:36.279 is really going to shine. And to make it even better, the flowers 231 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:41.440 are set at every single leaf note or where the leaves meet the stems on 232 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.480 the plant, so when it's in flower, it is just a mass of 233 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:51.639 blooms. It flowers so much almost completely obscures the foliage. And this is 234 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:56.000 actually one of the few, if not the only, spring blooming hydrangees. 235 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.000 Huh. Now, a lot of people get viburnums confused because viburnums are very 236 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.240 much spring blooming and people think they're hydranges. Fairy Trail Bride's coming along to 237 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.680 mess with everybody's expectations by blooming in late spring, but it is actually truly 238 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.519 a high range, so late spring, so if you're having a late May 239 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:17.200 early June wedding, it may be ideal. It would almost be certainly be 240 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.519 ideal, Okay, at least here in Michigan. And it does get its 241 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:23.039 name Fairy Trail Bride or Runaway Bride because it has beautiful, pure white flowers. 242 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.759 They are lace cap flowers, but there are mophead versions that will be 243 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:32.000 on the market in the Fiy Trail series next season. So exciting, very 244 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.759 exciting, but you're probably wondering. Okay, get to the point about the 245 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.519 light. This show is about light, and I have been enlightened, as 246 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.559 it were about this plant. So when we first introduced it, we sold 247 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.799 it as hardy to USDA's one seven, which is not very hardy. Most 248 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.839 hydrange of macrophillas and relatives are hardy to at least USDA Zone five, if 249 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:55.240 not usda'son four. And a lot of people were very disheartened by that because 250 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.440 it's a beautiful plant and they were super duper excited about it. But the 251 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:03.079 reason that we were more conservative about its heartiness is because it does bloom earlier 252 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:10.359 and so it has those flower buds on the plant in late winter and spring, 253 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:14.039 and a lot of times here in Michigan will get those frosts, you 254 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.119 know, late April through Mother's Day. Seems like it never fails. We 255 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:22.400 have a frost on Mother's Day almost never fails. And so even though the 256 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.960 plant could survive in terms of actually living in colder climates, what we were 257 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.279 afraid of is that it wouldn't bloom well. And you know, we want 258 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.519 people to be successful, so we're trying to give people the information they need 259 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:38.559 to actually be successful well. Over the past couple of years, what we 260 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:45.000 have learned, and this is very interesting, is that the plant is perfectly 261 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.200 hearty. And yes there is this issue of the earlier buds, but if 262 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.200 it if you cite it in part sun or part shade, however you want 263 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:55.759 to think about that. So we're going four to six hours of sun each 264 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:00.319 day in this case, we want morning shade for this plant. We have 265 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.640 found is that if you do get those frosts or freezes in spring, when 266 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:08.359 the plant is starting to leaf out and butt out. That that prevents the 267 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:14.200 frost crystals from melting immediately as soon as the sun hits it, and that 268 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.640 slower melting than it gets just by sort of gradually warming due to exposure of 269 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:25.680 the warmer air temperature reduces or eliminates the damage to the flower bud tissue. 270 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:30.319 That's fascinating, you know. I think about how in the nursery industry sometimes 271 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.279 when we have those marginal frosty mornings or nights, will irrigate get a coat 272 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:38.279 of ice on the plants and allowed to nature to take its core. Yeah, 273 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:44.240 so this is kind of the same concept. So we have changed the 274 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:48.559 light recommendations on this plant and are specifically only recommending parts on or part shaped 275 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.039 however you want to put it. But again I always go with parts shaite 276 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.759 with parts sun, and we are specifically recommending that shade in the morning so 277 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:03.079 that you can eliminate that dramatic melt of the ice crystals and damage to the 278 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:07.440 plant. And I think going with partsn as opposed to part shade is being 279 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.240 positive. Yeah, and it's fuer letters. I like it. Letters. 280 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.519 These things matter when you're designing to so shout out to our designer Shannon on 281 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:19.599 that one. Another great thing about fairytrail Bride Hydrangea. It was developed by 282 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:23.799 a gentleman named Ushio Sakazaki in Japan. And you may not have heard his 283 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.880 name before, but if you have ever grown proven Winter's plants, you are 284 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.119 you have definitely grown his work. He is the breeder behind super Tunia, 285 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:38.480 Vista Bubblegum. Oh really he is just and some Yeah, he is really 286 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.640 just an absolute brilliant breeder. I'll put some links in the show notes at 287 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:47.559 Gardening Simplified on air dot com so you can read more about how he managed 288 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:52.119 to basically revolutionize petunia breeding. He's also the breeder of blew my mind, 289 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.559 of Volvulus, a plant that I really like you grow a couple of years 290 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:59.559 in a row, Lemon Slice, super Bells, Lemon Slice, Caliber CoA, 291 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:02.640 and a lot of the other Vista Bubblegum, super tun News and of 292 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:07.240 course Fairy trail Bride Hydrangel because his true love is hydrangees. I'd love to 293 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:08.480 meet him, Yeah, I would too, way to go. We'd have 294 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.960 him on, but I don't know how confident he is in his English skills. 295 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.000 And there's also a twelve hour time difference, and I would not require 296 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:21.160 him to join us at one am Japan time to join us on the show. 297 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:25.359 So it's a really incredible plant. We're now saying it's hardy USA zone 298 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.200 six to nine even five if you cite it carefully with all this information in 299 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:34.160 mind, four to feet four foot tall and wide and really just an absolutely 300 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.920 beautiful plant that everyone will make you well. Everyone will say, what in 301 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.000 the world is that I need to know? And now that everybody got a 302 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.519 raise where we bumped up the hardiness zones a little bit, maybe you want 303 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.880 to try it? Yeah, you definitely should. You can learn more at 304 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:51.480 Gardening Simplified on air dot com. We're going to take a little break. 305 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:52.720 When we come back, we're opening up the garden mail bag, so stay 306 00:21:52.720 --> 00:22:04.000 tuned. At proven Winner's Color Choice, We've got a shrub for every taste 307 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:08.960 and every space. Whether you're looking for an easy care rose and unforgettable hydrangea 308 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:12.240 or something new and unique, you can be confident that the shrubs and the 309 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:17.279 white containers have been trialed and tested for your success. Look for them at 310 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:22.960 your local garden center. Greeting's Gardening friends and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified 311 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:26.359 Show. It's my favorite time of the show where we answer gardening questions. 312 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:30.559 I love answering gardening questions, don't you. Yeah, it's fun when people 313 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.640 like ask you to party or you know, like all right, well you 314 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:38.440 better have a photo. But I do love it because I do get stumped. 315 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.799 But I love when I'm stumped because that gives me like a new topic 316 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:45.920 to explore. And I don't stay stumped for long, so that gets my 317 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:51.119 stump of approval. Yeah, outstanding. Yeah, and I love it too 318 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:53.759 because it reminds us we're all in the same boat. It's so true. 319 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.640 Yeah, I mean, when you ask something, there's almost certainly someone else 320 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:00.119 out there going, oh, yeah, I've been wondering that too. So 321 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:03.759 anyway, if you have a question for us, you can reach us at 322 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:07.920 Gardensimplified on air dot com. You can also leave a YouTube comment. Adriana 323 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.319 will pass those along to us. You can put it on Instagram. There's 324 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:14.640 so many different ways to reach us. So if you have a question, 325 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:19.759 do ask. Spring is coming very quickly. In fact, meteorological spring is 326 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.839 less than a month away. Yes, and I go by meteorological spring even 327 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:26.880 though it's tough to pronounce. Well, you know, it makes sense. 328 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.519 It's a very nice, tidy way to think about the season. So I 329 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.720 feel you on that. So what's our first question? Rick? All Right, 330 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.720 Trixie's got a timely question. At what points should gardeners fertilize their gardens 331 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:42.079 in spring? Great question. My cool seasoned vegetables are not growing very well, 332 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:48.039 so Trixi's in Zone nine A. The fifteen day forecast shows highs in 333 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.000 the upper sixties with overnight lows in the mid forties to low fifties. My 334 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:57.400 average last frost is around March tenth. Also, will organic fertilizers such as 335 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:03.359 aspoma start working now or do they require heat in order to release their goodness 336 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.359 to my plants? Thanks for all you do. So I think you want 337 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:08.400 to live where Trixy is living. Yeahs like you're kind of climate there, 338 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:14.240 So Tricksy, this is such a great question, and I feel like there's 339 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:17.079 a couple different components to it. So you have the vegetable issue, and 340 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.559 fertilizing cool season vegetables is obviously going to be very different than just doing regular 341 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:26.839 garden maintenance fertilization, And I don't know what cool seasoned vegetables you're growing, 342 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.200 but certainly if you have unusually cool temperatures, they are going to grow a 343 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.599 lot more slowly. And that's just you know, a simple fact of them 344 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:38.000 not being able to metabolize as effectively as they do in spring. So even 345 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:41.200 if you're growing cool season vegetables, they're not going to grow like a vegetable 346 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:45.200 at you know, the height of the season. So I would recommend that 347 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:51.400 you continue to fertilize those, you know, using a liquid fertilizer like you 348 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:55.680 would your your summer vegetables. But I would say probably looking at like once 349 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:57.519 a month instead of every week or every two weeks. What do you think? 350 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:00.359 Yeah, you know, the the approach that I take, Stacey, 351 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:06.559 is I look more so at soil temperature than air temperature. So Trixie's talking 352 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:11.440 about frost or temperatures in the upper sixties, but when that soil temperature gets 353 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:15.680 to fifty five sixty degrees, if they're sufficient moisture in the soil, then 354 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:22.640 I think fertilizer can be effective. Yeah, definitely, definitely. So speaking 355 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.119 of fertilizer being effective at certain points, so organic fertilizers like a spoma, 356 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.240 which as you know, we both love. We've talked about them many times. 357 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:36.440 They don't require heat in order to release, but unless the planet is 358 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:41.200 actively metabolizing, they could release their nutrients through the process of weathering, which 359 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:47.359 is just to say, the acids in the soil, rainfall, water worms, 360 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.839 and other microorganisms, all of that working together to break down the grain 361 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.240 of the fertilizer and make the nutrients available to your plant. That will happen 362 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.440 pretty much as long as the ground is not free. But again, if 363 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.839 it's releasing your nutrients those nutrients and the plant is not actively metabolizing to take 364 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.759 them up, then what can happen is the fertilizer can run off and it's 365 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:14.000 just a waste and potentially polluting, or by the time the plant is actively 366 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.559 metabolizing, it's not that the fertilizers the nutrients are already gone. So I 367 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.720 do recommend going a little bit closer to the growing season. So I think 368 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:29.440 probably for you Trixy now ish mid February should be fine. But the thing 369 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:33.640 to consider with requiring heat for release is time release fertilizers. So like your 370 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:38.240 Ozma coat, Proven Winners has a continuous release fertilizer like that, anything that's 371 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:42.920 that's engineered into a prill and intended it with. If it says something like 372 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:48.920 fertilizers for six months, that is a time release fertilizer, and those do 373 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.880 release their nutrients based on temperature, and they calculate that range of time based 374 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:57.559 on temperature a certain temperature. So if you live in a warm climate like 375 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:00.920 Trixy does, and it's a feeds for six months, but yet you have 376 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:06.000 a much warmer season than what was calculated, it's not going to actually provide 377 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.640 nutrients for six months. They will actually go out sooner. Yeah, which 378 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:12.279 is true, And I'm glad you brought that up because these prills are highly 379 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:15.039 effective and great. They take some of the guests work out of it. 380 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:21.359 Ideal for containers or if you're a container growing some of your vegetables are flowers 381 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:26.200 ideal and for folks who are keeping score at home. Stacy mentioned the Aspoma 382 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:32.279 fertilizers, So those are the tone fertilizers like garden tone or tomato tone or 383 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.240 plant tone. Yeah, love that Rose tone is my go to for all 384 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:40.559 shrub fertilizer needs. So you can keep that in mind if anyone's wondering that. 385 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.119 What's our next question? Uh, Yolanda writes to us, First, 386 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:47.640 I like to say I love your show. Thank you very mulch. You 387 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.799 guys are fun and super informative. My husband and I have finally bought our 388 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:55.039 own home, and I get to spend lots of time outside gardening. I 389 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:59.640 read books watch videos like yours to learn, but there's nothing like hands on. 390 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.799 You're right about that. I don't use any chemicals, but I can't 391 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.720 seem to find a solution for the white fly problem in this particular garden. 392 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.240 I've never seen anything like it. They congregate on the salvia, tomatoes, 393 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.880 even the mint. What's going on? What can I do? I've tried 394 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:22.440 four seasons, but they seem to be multiplying each year. Help with numerous 395 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.880 exclamations, Yorlanda clearly needs some help it. You know, Yorlanda is in 396 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.839 a unique situation because most people think of white flies as just a greenhouse pest. 397 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.680 Yes, so it can be very difficult to find good information about managing 398 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:40.720 white flies outdoors. And they are typically an issue of warmer, milder climates 399 00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.119 than us here in Michigan. But you can have them in Michigan. I 400 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:47.480 had terrible white flies on my tomatoes last year, which must have certainly come 401 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:49.759 from the greenhouse, but they just didn't go away, and so some of 402 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.200 my tomatoes they really didn't do well, and I was just very disappointed in 403 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.599 that. So it can happen, and if you have a mild enough climate, 404 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:03.400 then they can keep overwintering and not die out. So most of the 405 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.839 control recommendations you're going to see do indeed recommend using something chemical. But I 406 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:15.480 am going to put an alternative out there, and that is that white flies 407 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:22.319 have a number of natural enemies, things like parasitic wasps, lace wings, 408 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.319 which almost every garden in the US has a good population of lace wings, 409 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.680 and all of these beneficial insects. It's primarily the larval stage of the insect, 410 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:36.480 or the baby as it were, that controls the pests. And if 411 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:38.319 you want them to be in your garden, you need to make the adults 412 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.000 feel at home. And what that means is planting more flowers. And what 413 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:48.160 a great recommendation for pest control other than to plant more flowers. So look 414 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.920 for flowers, especially small flowers, because these insects tend to be quite tiny, 415 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:56.319 so they're not really necessarily going to make use of like a rose. 416 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.920 They like things that are in the daisy family, which each flowers made up 417 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.200 of a lot of little individual florets, you know, yarrow. Also in 418 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:11.240 the daisy family. Sweet Alyssum is another good example zinias. Yeah, anything 419 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:17.960 with that compound center and smaller flowers plant more that will definitely encourage those beneficial 420 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.559 insects and they should take care of it on their own. And another thing 421 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:25.440 you can do is if you have a really badly infected plant, part go 422 00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:27.440 out there early in the morning and just snip it off and throw it away 423 00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:33.200 exactly because they do tend to congregate the white flies. And I think great 424 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.039 point, Stacy, and I think you look for that and you clip off 425 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:44.559 some of those really infected foliage leaves. But the other thing to do is 426 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.880 to inspect the underside foliage. That's where you want to attack. And Yolanda, 427 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:55.920 if you decide to spray, I've had some success using insecticidal soap. 428 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.160 And if you use insect decidal soap, the key element there is not simply 429 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.519 to sprits the plant. But again, you're gonna get dirty. Your knees 430 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.039 are gonna get dirty, your hands are gonna get dirty, because you've got 431 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.319 to get up under the plant. Now, that is one of those easier 432 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:14.200 said than done things if I've ever heard one, and they're done that. 433 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.359 But whether you are hand picking or spraying, do remember they are flies, 434 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.720 so they like to fly up if they're disturbed. But if you go out 435 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.079 there early in the morning, you'll get them before they wake up and you'll 436 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.000 have much better success. Sounds good. Ann has a question about a plant 437 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:34.160 we love and is located in Ontario, Canada, zone five B and has 438 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:40.599 two hellibor plants in a mostly dry, shady area. I only offer supplemental 439 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.519 water when it hasn't rained for a week or two. They get about two 440 00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:47.559 hours of sunlight in the afternoon. They've been in the ground for two seasons, 441 00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:51.440 have not bloomed at all. Could you please advise what I should do 442 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.119 to get them to bloom. I have some hellibores in the same situation, 443 00:31:55.240 --> 00:32:00.319 and I find stacy that in dry shade I can grow hellibar foliage that they 444 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:05.319 don't bloom. Well, yeah, they aren't a plant that particularly enjoys being 445 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.480 stressed. I mean most plants probably don't, but I very often stress my 446 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:14.559 plants, and my helibores don't appreciate it. So yeah, I think that 447 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:17.839 you know in and did include a photo which we'll put in our show notes. 448 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.079 Now looking at her garden, she has a beautiful planting of lungwart in 449 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.440 aurelia, And these are plants that I think for them to do well, 450 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:30.160 you know, definitely there must be some amount of water because they could take 451 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.839 far less drought than the hellibor is. But one thing on helibores is a 452 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.359 lot of people don't realize if you have seed grown helibores, they take a 453 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:42.720 lot longer to get to a blooming age than tissue cultured helibores. So if 454 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:45.319 you don't know, or the plants are smaller, they just need to be 455 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:47.799 more mature. Tissue culture helibores, you'll pay more for them, but they'll 456 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:53.240 flower much faster. And in dry shade. I've had success by simply adding 457 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.440 organic matter. So if you can add organic matter, that's going to make 458 00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:01.119 a difference. Yeah, even mulch. Yeah, up and have faith. 459 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.440 This should hopefully be their year. If not, well what else can you 460 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.960 do? At least they have good foliage, which they're earning their keep. 461 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.480 We're going to take a little bit of a break when we come back We've 462 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:19.839 got branching news, so please stay tuned. The Gardening Simplified Show is brought 463 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:23.279 to you by proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs. Our award winning flowering shrubs and 464 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:29.359 evergreens have been trialed and tested for your success so you enjoy more beauty and 465 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.279 less work. Look for proven Winners, Color Choice Shrubs and the distinctive white 466 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:38.240 container at your local garden center. Welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show. 467 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:44.480 It's time for branching news and Stacey, it's well super Bowl time and it 468 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:49.119 causes me to think of the story of Sir Isaac Newton discovering gravity by having 469 00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.480 an apple fall on his head. Now, let me explain there's a lot 470 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.640 of people who do not understand or know that there is a tool and instrument 471 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:06.039 around called the the cleg Impact soil tester. So this is a device where 472 00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:10.440 and the cleg hammer, so to speak, takes its name from Baden Clegg, 473 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:16.880 who is an Australian engineer who dreamed up this device not with sports in 474 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:24.119 mind, but basically foundations. And it's a hammer or a tool that drops 475 00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:30.039 weight like the apple on Sir Isaac Newton's head. That is alleged to have 476 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:36.679 happened to cause him to discover gravity. And that weighted hammer with a sensor 477 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.679 on its nose drops from a tube on a defined height to the turf area 478 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.159 or to the soil. And what it does is it measures the density of 479 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:49.639 the soil. Now, how does this all tie into the Super Bowl? 480 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.800 Well in the news this past week, the San Francisco forty nine ers made 481 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:57.960 it to the site of the Super Bowl game and to practice, they get 482 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.280 a field and they didn't like the condition of the field, And I guess 483 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:09.039 I can't blame them. Athletes have really concerns over how dense or compacted a 484 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:14.840 soil is or how hard the turf is. Golfers do too, and so 485 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:21.320 they use a cleg device to determine how compact or how hard the surface is. 486 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.320 And there's your football lesson for this week. So did they do the 487 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:29.280 cleg test to say, hey, this field won't work for us, we 488 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.519 need a cleg of at least X number? Yes, they did. Isn't 489 00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:35.519 that any they travel with their own cleg hammer. That's a great question, 490 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:39.000 and it causes me to believe they do. They must somebody around has the 491 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:44.840 cleg job drops the Sir Isaac Newton Apple and says this field isn't going to 492 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.840 work. And of course, you know, high concern within the NFL and 493 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:53.599 in football for things like concussions, and rightfully so, and so I'm just 494 00:35:53.639 --> 00:36:00.639 sharing this with you that there is such a thing as a cleg hammer and 495 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.920 athletes have interest in it. Well, you know, I don't celebrate the 496 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:13.000 Super Bowl. I celebrate the Superbowl. The Superbowl. And how did you 497 00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:15.960 do that, Stacy Hi? You know, looking at pictures of owls and 498 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:20.280 talking about owls and hoping to see an owl? You do bird watching on 499 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.880 Super Sunday. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Well, 500 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:28.159 hopefully you have some good snacks to go along with that. That's great, 501 00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:35.199 all right, boy, you are hot on the puns today. Superbowl is 502 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:40.320 It's a phenomenon. I love it, all right. Well, hey, 503 00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.400 as long as we're on the subject of wild animals. A power outage affecting 504 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:51.119 thousands of customers in downtown Toronto was caused by an unlucky raccoon that wandered into 505 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:57.599 the wrong place. Utility officials say so seven thousand downtown customers in Toronto were 506 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.840 out of power last week. They did determined that the raccoon had made contact 507 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:09.239 with their equipment at a downtown Toronto station. Uh, that poor raccoon. 508 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:13.880 What is with the raccoons in Toronto. It's a phenomenon. It is a 509 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:16.320 phenomenon. It's like there's a whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, And I 510 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:22.199 have tons of great raccoon puns, but they're all in the trash, so 511 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.880 I won't share them with you. Here's a great story. I love this. 512 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.519 A two hundred and eighty five year old lemon. Oh can you imagine 513 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.679 that? A fruit? Oh? No, I can't. A two hundred 514 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:36.840 and eighty five year old lemon was found in the back of an old cabinet 515 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:42.719 drawer and was auctioned for one thousand, seven hundred and eighty dollars in England. 516 00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:46.280 So they had a nineteenth century cabinet that was brought to an auction house 517 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:51.880 by a family who said it belonged to a deceased uncle, and a specialist 518 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:57.440 was photographing the cabinet for sale when the lemon was discovered in the back of 519 00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:01.800 a drawer. The fruit was inscribed with the message and it was dated November 520 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:08.159 fourth, seventeen thirty nine, and so the auction house thought, all right, 521 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:13.159 let's auction off this old lemon. They got one thousand, seven hundred 522 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.000 and eighty dollars for I. You know, I don't know that the lemons 523 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:20.000 should have been separated from the cabinet. Tell you the truth. Good point. 524 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.440 Well, the cabinet meanwhile, sold for forty bucks. What Yeah, 525 00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:30.519 the cabinet sold for forty bucks, but the lemon sold for one thousand, 526 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:35.519 seven hundred and eighty dollars. Doesn't surprise me. Lemons are simply the zest. 527 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.400 And as far as this lemon from seventeen let's see, it's November four, 528 00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:45.199 seventeen thirty nine, I say, bitter late than never. Indeed, 529 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:51.480 yeah, ifty remark greck. Most kitchens around the world will likely have a 530 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:57.239 jar of papri cut in the spice rack. But here's an interesting thing. 531 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:02.239 Most people have no idea where prika comes from. They do not, and 532 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:07.079 I will admit I didn't either. Well, there has been a bit going 533 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.719 around on social media. It just topolic recently, so exactly, and I 534 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:15.239 did. I have to admit I didn't know. Now, I didn't think 535 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.960 that there was some paprika tree out there, of course, Okay, but 536 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.960 when push comes to shovel. I really hadn't taken the time to think about 537 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:30.960 it. And essentially it's dried and crushed red bell peppers and other peppers. 538 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:34.440 Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people were surprised to discover that it is 539 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:39.480 comprised primarily of your standard red bell pepper. Well, paprika was invented so 540 00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:45.920 that they could liberally coat it all over the top of deviled eggs, which 541 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.639 are about one of the most miserable rotten things you could eat. Controversial, 542 00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:57.800 You'll never eat one, yes on super Bowel Sunday and I will not be 543 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:04.280 having devil days on su perb owl Sunday. Wow. Yeah, what does 544 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.280 the paprika say when you knock on the door? Hold on? I'm Koman. 545 00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:16.559 I figured I threw a bit and I love this story from Bellevue, 546 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:22.320 Washington. An inert rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has 547 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:28.039 been found in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in Washington State. 548 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:30.760 So the Bellevue police responded. Now, the reason I'm bringing this up 549 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:35.559 is, as you know, one of my New Year's resolutions was to finally 550 00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:38.519 get my shed cleaned out. And when you clean out a garage or a 551 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:43.119 shed. You never know what you're gonna find. And in this case with 552 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:47.440 this gentleman, he had a rocket in his garage his shed. The bomb 553 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:53.000 squad members inspected the rusting object and found it was a Douglas air to Genie. 554 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:59.440 The previous designation was an MB one, which is an unguided air to 555 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:05.079 air ride bocket that is designed to carry a nuclear warhead. Oh dear, 556 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.199 and it was just sitting in his grudge. Yeah, he probably planned to 557 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:13.079 do something with it, but it never took off. So can you believe 558 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.360 that when you clean the tool shed you never know what you're going to find. 559 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:22.119 And then let's finish this off here. I was so overjoyed some time 560 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:29.000 ago when punk Satani Phil did not see his shadow? Right I did he 561 00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:30.760 see his shadow? He didn't see his shadow. So spring is coming. 562 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:34.119 It's an opposite of what you would think it should be. Okay, So 563 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.400 he didn't see a shadow, so we're going to have an early spring. 564 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:43.199 This groundhog tradition is thought to have originated in the eighteen hundreds. But why 565 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:46.199 should Pennsylvania have all the fun? So I just want to share with you 566 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:52.639 that across the country there are other methods of determining whether or not it will 567 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:59.039 be an early spring. Oregon has the Fufu hedgehog, Florida has a burrowing 568 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:05.400 owl. Oh yeah, North Carolina has Penny the Squirrel. New York has 569 00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:10.519 Kluck Satawny Henrietta the Chicken. Connecticut has Scrambled the Duck. Texas has b 570 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:16.840 Cave Bob the armadillo, and Oregon also has Stumptown Phil the Beavers. So 571 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:23.800 punk Satawani Phil has some competition for this prognostication of the spring weather. They 572 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:29.800 should create an event where they all come together in cell tickets. I would 573 00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:32.079 see that. Yes, that sounds kind of amazing. I love it. 574 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:36.679 I love it. Hey, today's show has been a kick in the plants, 575 00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:39.440 and happy trellis to you until we wead again. Thank you Stacey, 576 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:44.400 thank you Rick, thank you Adriana Robinson, and thank you to you all 577 00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.360 of you who watch on YouTube, listen to our podcast, listen to us 578 00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.239 on radio, of course, our website Gardening Simplified on Air dot Com, 579 00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.360 look for us on Instagram, and for all of that, we say thank 580 00:42:55.400 --> 00:43:01.760 you very much. Have a great week.