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Are our guest, our guru, our man who knows a lot of things
about a lot of things. Larry Glass is our Green Country Gardener. Hey
doing, Larry? I think it's gonna take me three months to cool down.
You've been out in this this blasted heat for gosh good six weeks straight
here and now we got we got temperatures coming up in the seventies here.
Where What are you going to do with yourself? I don't know. When
the heat index hits about four thousand degrees. Usually we'll quit the end of
the day. But a portal hat here, it just holds itself up.
All the dried up sweat and mud on it. Well, I can't read
the letters on it. You're lucky it hadn't disintegrated to the bar. I
think I'm gonna take me in Alaska cruise. I think that's telling bad.
We're in a bit of a yeah, but a bit of a transition time
right now, okay, from the blistering heat of the summer to the cooler
weather. And I guess some people have tried out their irrigation systems. And
I spent the better part of the day yesterday running around town. What were
you doing getting sprinter systems up and running again? I haven't used it all
year. It's it's a timer issues primarily. But once they get that solved
in, it's okay. So what I'm just I guess some overuse it,
just quipped so I told him what to get. They ordered it, and
I got it all done up for him. That's great. Now used their
chef phone to run their their just like you do. It's so nice it
is anyway, And another one out in Osage County it just blew out just
the timer just it's been in there since the day code was twenty sixteen.
Okay, that's so a little bit of time. Yeah, thirteen years.
Yeah. And I asked him, was electricity strange out here? Just?
Oh yeah, it's just it is more than strange strange. So it's got
a generator. Talk about that even Yeah, so whoops. Anyway, blew
out the secondary switchboard on it, just like it was literally smoking up.
I bet it was. It's a timer with these modules. And I pulled
out one of the modules to just to check on it. Check the circuit
board. It's fine. And and what happened to the switch board underneath there
where it takes to the information from the timer and switches it and up scales
it to twenty seven volts? So do you like your timer's deep pride or
extra Christmas? Of course, he said, I'm goody, goody goodie,
and get a new one. Oh my gosh. Anyway, back in the
garden, and actually we can probably not worry so much about it with the
cool weather the rain, I mean, with the with the rain coming and
the cooler temperatures and all that. Bermuda graphs is pretty a few I haven't
watered my lawn in three years, I believe that. And it comes back
after the rain that you guys were supposed to let come down this week.
Well, Sunday night, it'll be back back up and running just fine Sunday
night Monday morning. Yeah, but green is green can be so anyway,
there's some other things I'd rather do with my water than water permuter grass.
Yeah. So fall is in the air, the heat is off, so
it's time to get to work. There you go right now. Our fall
moms will be here shortly. Don't get slickered into buying just s anthemums right
now, don't know, because they're gonna usually when they say they're forced to
bloom this early in the year, and when the time comes for them really
to be a bloom, all all the flowers will be gone. So you
don't want to really try to make them bloom too early. Oh, you
can get a few. I'm just for declaration here and there, but kick
him out when the n put in the gardens were over with. Anyway,
they're not cars. Athemums are a very tolerant platus wars and the weather is
concerned. And if you have kept your mums cut back throughout the summer or
water door through even if they're alive, they should start blosing. Your prisoners
should be able to see some little tiny blooms forming them. Yeah. So
anyway, panzies, we've got twenty twenty two thousand flats of pansies. That's
a lot, yeah, this year. So we're exporting a lot of them
too. We'll have a whole bunch of really nice pantees coming on too,
going right here in your own backyard, so right now. Also, if
you're annuals looking at a poor someone could be cut back. I've got some
the going is at my house. You need to be going. It looks
like they got a attack from some alien or oh zap, you know.
But they can be cut back on the the sun Collier's also it's really quite
tall. It's been a it's been a winner this year, the sun Collius.
And oh I forgot to turn on my water front bedge today. I
went and got the mail last night. Everything he was just anyway, and
your phone's in the truck, yeah, the truck. That's okay, all
right, poor, leave all forty five minutes. You'll be fine earlier.
But anyway, that the sun. Colius has done very well and it's one
of the annuals that seems to be able to survive a wide variety of the
weather conditions. And we've planned some in the landscape and they've done really quite
well so and they can be cut back right now. They have a little
bit of false show if you want, so if they're a little bit tall,
have some in pots. Ever, got leave just about three and a
half. Yeah, pretty good, pretty good size about speaking tall. Cutting
back last weekend. So anyway, so it's just kind of a transition time
like okay, so also a great time to plant trees. We have some
new inventory and really nice slicking stuff. I was looking at it yesterday and
we get stuffed this locally grown nice it's just within you know, one hundred
miles down in Tulsa. There's several farms down there and that's where we like
to grow to get our stuff from. So that's pretty cool. So they're
acclimated and some of the maple trees look a little a little tattered, if
you will. They had some wind down there, as you know, just
a gentle breeze. So the leave it's like a little a little bit forward,
but when they turn color, they'll be all brilliant color. So so
a little too early for big baldon brood trees. I don't like to move
them when it's hot baldon brock trees. I like to move maybe a month
from now. But if you really really want one, we can get one
for you. We can do it. Boy, better wait till October.
Yeah, it's just a little early for that. Yeah, uh so.
And he also on the tree. So I back the trees. It's time
to do some fertilization on them. Also around not on. Yeah, you
want to encourage the riots to stretch out. Also, A good rule of
thumb when watering something is uh and the water doesn't go very fast into the
soil is to run a slow water for a long period of time rather than
a fast water in a short period of time. My neighbor across the street
was on vacation. I guess he migrated to a cooler climate for a while.
They went down to the Southern Hemisphere, and it wanted me to water
his tree. So I got five gallon bucket drive the eight of an inch
hole in and put a rock in it and then pour some ut some water
in it. And it slowly goes down into the ground solutely but surely surely
goes something ground. And that's one one way to water it. Another way,
if you do use the hose, make sure you do it in the
morning. Primarily, reason is the water gets hot in the hose, so
and just let it trickle. Just leave it there and just let it trickle
for a while. But don't forget. Don't forget. But that's the reasoning
behind using a five yallards like over with a small hole in it. It
doesn't forget, it just runs out. It does what it does exactly,
and you can several times. I had to refill it twice because it was
really really dry, especially in my neck of the woods when we have just
a little bit of dust on top of the rock. The five raptic people
were in there surveying the land and they have fun, don't though. They
couldn't get the flags in the ground bending the little metal there. And I
said, but normally the guy just throws it. It sticks everywhere in the
neighborhood. The whole neighborhood has done except for my street corner. Well,
you know, keeps bound. It's off like bullets from Superman's chest. You
know, I'd like to see what they do there. They said, there's
sun parts in town where they just simply couldn't get through. So they just
throw their hands and we'll get back with the hair. And I said,
well, y'all can just put a wireless in ten of somewhere and whatever he's
got to get back come back with a bigger hammer. I don't know how
many driveway, I said, but you're probably why I'm not replacing line.
I said, these fence posts over here, I had to use the jackhamer
to get him in the ground. I had to rent a jackhammer, oh
my, to dig a hole big enough to put a fence post in.
You know, it's shot a solid, solid rock still is. But the
thing is, when it rains, it's kind of a low spot in the
yard. It's gone. As it's raining, it'll have water on the surface,
but a few minutes later it's gone right. Only on the way down
to Marvel Cave Park. Anyway back to the yard, it's time to you
also install fescu seed, okay for your grass. There you go grass,
right. You want to try to get the moisture levels up pretty good.
In a soil party, they don't. Don't put fescue on dry ground.
It doesn't work. After the birds get done with their share, the wind
will blow it away a bag of grass. Man. Yeah, so it's
kind of dry right now, so you might want to wait till end of
the week or some time after we've had some rain ly scratch the soil or
do a shallow a shallow till on it so the seed doesn't just blow away.
So you want to integrate it into the soil pretty good. So I've
seen that so many times. And the river bank is pretty and green feest
grass. Wow, that's a green little river bank there. Have it there?
Well, that's Morty's yard. And take a take a shovel and see
if you can dig out a chump of dirt and see if you can break
it up the begin the roots aren't going to go into that, so you
might want to just just hold off on it. If you haven't irrigated,
you might just want to hold off a little bit on planting fescue. Seed
material acquisition would be a probably a good thing because it's not as common as
in the past, so that's some difficulty with it, and the cost is
going up a little bit too. So in order to control the high costs
of the seed, you might want to measure your square footage just so you
know exactly how much you need. Do the math it pays. Yeah,
all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back after this
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as you spend And welcome back to the Green Country Gartner programming. And he's
eight twenty three, And boy, I gotta tell you, it's a beautiful
day today to get out and about. I just don't know what where we're
gonna do out there. It's kind of that tweener period. I really I
went off the back door today, let the dog out and kind of check
on things from WHOA what happened? It's a nice and cool it hit this,
uh like you know, fifty six degree. Yeah, that's a walking
on a hot fry pan. Yeah. Hey, your fist you see probably
about a four inch chilling. It'll be good. Yeah, you need that.
You really want those roots to get down in the soil, what to
be established, so and just scattering on top of the ground, just something
if you're really serious about it. Just scattering on the ground, it's not
enough unless your soil is really really loose. Good luck here. You might
add a little compost maybe up in independence, it's what you really want on
on the on the good fescue lawn is good deep roots, and because of
our clay content, a lot of times the roots system doesn't go down that
deep and the grass is shallow rooted can't tolerate these periods of brightness. Not
to say it won't come back when it cools down. The fescue grass,
we'll look, if we get some good steady occasional rain there and cooler weather
and some it will really come back and look nice. But if the soil
is just real heavy, it's just it'll just be difficult for because the roots
just can't simply can't go deep, and it's not as as heat tolerant as
sapermeter grass and so always your for that matter. So anyway, so it's
a little bit of work involved also in picking your grass seed. Look at
the trees you have right now, while the leaves are still on there if
they're leaves left anyway, Look look down, look at the at the amount
of light getting on the ground right there too. I know Bermeo grass,
it really doesn't like dappled light too well. But fesca grass will tolerate dappled
light. Vesta grass is shade tolerant, and the word is tolerant, not
requiring. Yeah, so it will grow in the sun with some occasional buttering
occasion with too fine but it but it will tolerate, you know, some
shade to the point. And the more shade you that it's uh that it
encounters, the more the higher the grass should be too. You really can't
cut it too low in the shade beneath that surface area for two things,
transporation and photosynthesis for it to grow, so they plants to they're solar powered
there. Yeah, so you gotta you can't give it a skin job.
You gotta. You gotta let that thing kind of grow out a little bit.
It don't put your African violence in the closet, and so it won't
work that way. I don't need that that light in order for them to
live in a heavy shade situation like that. It really won't work. So
you might have an arbors come in, maybe thin out the tree canopy a
little bit, just so some I can get down there, and once that
crateria is met, then you should be able to grow some some fescue grass.
We did that worked out is fine, yeah, Or you can plant
some fescu seed. It'll do fine. I'll w along them in the summer
hits it will you get five top thoria beared around together and started getting in
the fall. Maybe this year, maybe next. Maybe it won't get hot
this year, right, yeah, welcome to Oklahoma. Anyway, that's the
nutra. You have some new shrubs in some dwarf yop on holies and mandedas
and and and all that too some months of the year shortly a little earlier
for blooms. We do have some fescue seed right now. So anyway,
just about any fine bladed fescue will do you know, give the ground and
or course I don't know the k y thirty ones. Okay, but it's
a clump forming. Some of the new fescues or rice I made us.
In other words, they don't just clump, they send out kind of like
permitter grass. Okay, so they spread out a little bit of that.
Yeah, they form a clump forming, so Trump checked that out too.
Also, a good time to do some planning for your landscape. I know
I've got some plans out. I've been out there suffering, suffering, slaving
away in the heat. Well that too, And I haven't had a chance
to get back to him pretty quick. But anyway, so and I got
to meet with somebody today after the show about some landscaping. So gave you
some ideas of what to do. We're kind of there's a weather it's kind
of backed up our crew quite a bit, and uh so we're a little
behind schedules. Can understand, Yeah, be working outside all day. Things
out there like extreme heat, volatility, things like that, deploy retention to
geez. So it's a good time to plan and fall and winter and early
spring or a good time to do your installations on your landscape. And if
you have a guide to plan you can follow. It's not that hard to
do. So we can give you some tips on what to do. And
a lot of people have really gotten to shovel and dug in on it and
they've done pretty well with it. So there you go, There you go.
So don't be afraid to do it yourself. Just don't try to take
the whole thing at once. Yeah, take take take it easy. A
lot of stages in landscaping. Number one is inventory. What is there on
the site? It's worth anything? Yeah? And can you keep it?
Can it be cut back and to be retained? Can it be trans transplanted
yet? Yeah? Can you can you keep those things? Yeah? So
sometimes there's actually a good bay there where some plants can be retained, and
then some of the plants look a little nicer over there, saying, and
some of them, well, I'll let it get out of hand, it's
way too tall. Well, depending on the species, they can be cut
back rather sternly and you just find and thrive. Yes, but you have
to make sure you know what you do it at A wind is the most
important thing. Yeah, A real heavy cut back on shrub shouldn't happen until
February because it's a Valentine's Day. Mean, yeah, but if you do
it right now, they really won't be tempered well enough for the winter.
No, and you can lose things like backwoods and all that. The tender
growth chis gets killed back and sometimes you can go go further into the plant,
and the same with dwarf fie upon hollies and whatnot. You just don't
want to trend in back right now, very sternly. So deciduous plants are
okay, crape myrtles and whatnot. They can be cut back a little bit
right now. They're not going to go hardly anymore so so anyway, So
so you have and then you have a hopefully a landscape plan or some ideas
what you might want the landscape to look like. One thing you can do
if you want me to do a plan is a site. An example is
something you see you really like, an address, I probably know about it
already anyway, dard in the yard in the area. I've done that so
many Oh I know that house. Yeah they've got this and this and this
and this all up the front. Okay, cool, so brick ranch with
daffodils. So if you see an example, you can cite an example and
then something that could be emulated somewhat, depending on your drainage and your exposure
and your social high and your time frame you have to maintain it, so
on, so on. All those things have to be factored, and then
you get to the budget too. Got a crunch the numbers, yea.
And sometimes we can do the ground prep and get ready. Then you can
put the plants in yourself. That people have done that all the cart like
that, and the in the expense it's the same except you know, paying
the labor costs for putting in plants. But it does have less of a
warranty though one you do it yourself. So yeah, I'm at that stage
in my life for I'm letting the pro do it. Okay. You know
ten years ago might have been different, layer, I'm telling you nowadays a
little extra point. Like a lot of things, you need to start with
a goal. Yes, what do you want this to look like? That's
what the plan is for ye create your goal. Okay, all right,
I think we got a caller here. Let's go ahead and try it right
here and good morning. Welcome to the Green Country gardener. Good morning,
good morning. What's the best get rid of my moles in my backyard?
Moles? See a dermatologist? Oh no, no, not that one.
There's a Moles do not like castor oil. They're absolutely absolutely repelled by it.
And it would be a good good place to start. Where do you
get cash? Roil. We have it in a granular farm at the nursery.
At the nursery, other people have it too. You can put it
in your spreader and spread around and water it in and when they go through
it irritates her little nose. And at the nursery we have that. We
also have a little poison worms you can put in there. And what you
do is you have to define their their main tunnel on that. In other
words, you go ahead and pack them all down and whatever tunnel comes up,
it's their main tunnel. And then you drill in or dig into that
and put the poison worms in that. If you put it in a lateral
chances are they won't get it. So that and and and then there are
physical traps too you can use. Also. Thanks for the tips. Okay,
so let it. Let them take the little little worm and kind of
you know, let the grass grow like like a caddyshack, and it's get
a fire hose in there and the water coming up over the y looking it's
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Welcome back to the Green Country Gardener Program. It is a eight thirty
five sixty two degree. Is a who a warming trendler. And yeah,
our phone lines were open at one eight hundred and seven, four nine,
five, nine three six. What we got next year on the old Jim
Oh, let's say tree the week, Let's talk about the saw. Let's
do that. Quercus acutissima. Easy for you to say. It is a
an unusual leaf shape for a no tree. It's right along and narrow and
has little tiny points on it, and the venation is parallel on the leaf,
and the leaf is somewhat wavy. Okay, appearance. It grows a
very sturdy tree, actually quite hearty and raised sturdy, and he grows a
good straight trunk on it, and it's it's it's a pretty good tree.
It wouldn't probably wouldn't be in our first chalice, no, but wouldn't be
your last. It wouldn't be the last, no, But but it does
pretty well here. It it seems to be taking the drop very well too.
There were some plants along along Madison over there, just south of No
Water Road, in front of the neighborhood over there south few. I think
it is okay all along there, and they're doing really very well. A
couple of them got frozen out though last year before last or last year,
which I found that unusual. And it was collisident with a with a shallow
limes from the soil right there, so I played the big bang a big
pack from that too. It's probably too dry there in the wintertime for it,
and it just didn't didn't make it so it wasn't the cold, it
was the dry. Yeah, a lot of a lot of plants drive dive
out in that. Big trees died, and a dry cold spell we had
too. So if it's going to get cold on this and other trees,
you might want to consider watering them, but before otherwise it's hard to get
the water through the hose when it's frozen. But keep an eye on the
weather, like it's a little weather charts. We got here it was like
negative ten. You might want to water your stuff. There's been dry You
know something you and I have lived in Chicago. Yes, we we we
know negative ten without the windshield. Yeah, when we got negative can a
couple of years ago without the windshield here, I'm like, what is going
on here? Yeah? I know. I can remember as a kid we
took the bus to school and it was a way across the field and I
had all these houses lined up, and you can tell which ones the clothes
drivers are going go warm our hands on the on the steam coming out of
a clothes dricker waiting for the bus. Yeah. Yeah, like my dad
said, I walked ten miles every day and it's not to school. Yeah,
right, show me a picture. Yeah, I walked up, you
know, five hundred feet in the cold. It was long enough, just
school bus, you know, long enough. See over there, it's it's
snowed on Mother's Day one year that I believe we're giving them a saddle left
to go to church and there's snow everywhere. What's going on? So anyway,
Yeah, it does because it does grow and has grown in some limes
foil around here. Sure, it does seem to be able to tolerate the
pH differences more so than say a shumart oak, okay, or a pinoak.
Especially pinocs just simply will not tolerate too high a pH. They get
the colorosis real bad and they just kind of get weak and they sort of
fall apart, start following under vehicles and what they do. So in some
parts of the town that if you want to create the salt tooth might might
be a good, pretty good choice, okay. On a negative aspect of
it is the leaves persists in the winter. They don't fall off, okay,
And that could be a good thing. That could be a bad thing,
since they're kind of brown and hanging in the breeze and you know,
it's kind of ugly. Yeah, got a little bit of the ugly in
the wintertime. If you really want a tough trade that'll grow anywhere, even
on top of asphalt, Chinese helm would be a good one. Yeah,
they're they're actually, there's some good ones growing downtown in that soil if you
will, between the sidewalks. Dude, pretty well. So anyway, there
are other other plants, but I just thought i'd mentioned this one that if
you're exploring different possibilities, might be a one to explore for its sturdiness.
It's a deep root system and say compatibility with things. But at least you
won't have to break up the leaves all at once or pick it up off
your roof. It's kind of an interesting tree too. So anyway, and
our shop of the week is uh compact Nandina Impact. Now, people say,
I don't want these Nandina's up all over my guard. How big do
they get? Well, the compact Nandina had some tendency not to spread.
You get some of the old fashioned nandinas and uh, you know they they
send out runners, sure, and the plants come up all over under the
driveway and the next block over and so on, and they sort of form
a bramble if you will, got one of those Bible fans where it's just
a big bramble of Nandina. But the compacts don't do that. The obsessions
don't do that, and the dwarf Nadinas don't do that. Okay, So
get that picture out of your mind when coming pick up a Nandina. It's
gone because it's ain't gonna do that. Ain't gonna happen. And what I
like about the Nandina's their nursery means, ye know, savior. I guess
there is no insect problems, but no disease problems, and evergreen for the
sun part unless it gets really really cold like this last when you get a
little brownish this last one, and they defoliated, but they all pop back
so nicely. Yeah. So the compact Nandina and the obsession Endiana and all
that, and they don't these the dies don't spread, They don't have any
bugs or anything like that. So they're pretty good plants. And uh.
One thing about about the compact one is it happens to have some berries associated
with it too. They do, and whereas the obsessions don't. Their their
primary attribute are their leaf color on it, and the moon bays and the
gulf streams, they're a good compact one. Also, I see a little
bit of spread on the on the gulf streams, but the moon based and
a hold that pretty well. But I think the color of the obsession is
superior to the to the other. Nandina's good. And you can't beat the
winter color of a dwarf Nandiana either. If you get some afternoon sun on
it turned a bright red color. Oh yeah, nyah, we saw a
lot of in the wintertime. I bet you do. When the colors are
just like like those buttons over there, that's red red, and the leaves
stay throughout the winter unless it gets really really cold. Then the sort of
collapse and fall apart. They they have a tolerance level everything else. And
I like to associate those with say box woods or dwarf Are you up on
hollies? Just so we have some winter interest, not necessarily the entire composition,
but vignette of that if you will, in the landscape. So you
do have some interest in the winter. But when you're doing designed, don't
do everything in pernicles. You need something in the backdrop. Yet, what
we mentioned in this design thing there you think the fourth dimension, fourth fourth
dimension. Stop stop anyway, Yeah, I notice, tell me by that
that's another plant that is a good workhorse in the landscape. And here in
our weather and in our environment over here, we have just so many things
affecting these plants, field or rapid temperature changes, moisture variations and you know,
hot sun and insect attacks and someone. If you want to pick out
something that has the least amount of that issue with it, some of these
other plants, they put them in the ground and they just they're attacked by
spider mics or something like that. And so try to keep it as easy
as possible. And these plants, the door, the nandinas, and the
door nandina is in the box within the door. Field plants, they're good
background plants. There's stability plants, anchoring plants, foundation plants, if you
will. And then in front of that you plant other things that set it
off. Yeah, annuals and perennials or whatever, and maybe some variegated lario
or something like that to give it some some more interest. Very good.
It's all nice optics. I like that. So it's all it's all in
the in the composition and height variations, and the tolerance of your schedule I
told you, or the just science. There's art going on here. Your
schedule of how you can maintain this stuff. What do you want to maintain?
Yeah, and so on. All these factors have to plan today.
Very good. That's why we take the plan and take it to Larry.
He makes that thing work. All right, We're gonna take a quick break.
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Another shot we talk. I'd like to use in the landscape for a bit
of seasonal color. Is the burning bush a burning bush uanam atheltum. It's
a member of the Uantamous families. Pretty tough plant, but it doesn't really
tolerate drop very well, so you have to kind of monitor your planting where
it goes and all that. We planted a sum in a project. The
summer and the heat kind of got to the all the leaves so long.
Now they're starting to put on new ones. Oh good, So you're saying
they're resilient. But watching it, I remember the Juanimous family, which is
tough, but the burning bush Juanimous elata is a excellent fall color, no
bugs or notthing like that. It's it's easy to grow plant. You can
cut it back. I have some of my house. Actually they have to
keep about this high, knee high or hip high. I guess you will
want it. It's I got one that's eight feet high, and some others
that are, you know, six foot or hedger kind of things too.
So examples of how you can manage your your burning bush. And if you
get tired of it being told, just cut it back, it'll take it,
it'll come back. Yeah, it's remember that the want of a family.
You can't kill them and good thing. One thing I like about him
is a very few, if any insects at all. No bugs, but
it does have a little bit of dropt intolerance, and it it doesn't like
the heat too well. Oh so other than that, it's a really nice
plant. Go to the bullet chain real quick. Hi, good morning,
and we'll welcome to the Green Country Gardener program. Your question to comment for
Larry, Good morning? On my cannons. Do I need to dig up
the ball? You kind of do a one on one kind of thing with
that. I dig up at my house. I dig up some of them
and I keep some of them in the ground, okay. And also also
when I do my my scalp into the yard with the grass and all that,
and and the leaves, I chop chop them up with the old snapper,
throw that on top of the bold bed where they are and they survive
very well with a lot of mulch on the surface. There you go,
a little ags or something something there. Appreciate it. Thank you for your
call. But kennibals, yeah, semihardy huh. But like I said,
to take half of them up. And typically the ones that are in the
ground when I grow the ones that are over go figure around here. And
the elephant I have elephant ears in my house that are eight feet tall.
Oh my goodness. That bathwater does pretty good. It does anyway. And
they've been in the ground too several years and so. And one of my
neighbors has one on the south side of our house. Been in it since
I fifteen years. It's been there and it comes back up every year.
That's fine. So it kind of depends on the situation too, sure,
And if it's way out in the open, for instance, it's going to
be subjected to a lot of damage from the environment in the wintertime. But
if it's up against the west facing fence or if west or south facade of
the house, it'll it'll have a better chance of surviving. Okay. And
then you take all those leaves that you can shop up stead of throwing them
away, you can put them on the ground and it'll keep it warmer.
So mulch very good. Okay. We were talking about burning bush. Burning
bush, yes, it really. It does have some fruit on it.
The birds really like the fruit on it, and as a result, you'll
have burning bush everywhere. It happens. But it's I know, but they
could be planted, making a hedger out of it, or just throwing lights
and they pull up easily. So going for you. It's it's primary thing.
It's the extreme fault color. Okay, that's one reason why people really
like it. And it's just distinguished some other unanimous species by the wings that
are on the on the trunk. Wings that in other words, there are
protrusions of the of the bark to come out, and the term is is
wings. They're kind of quirky in texture and all that. So back at
school we called them the winged You want of us, the winged you're want
of us, so instead of a burning bush, you would fail your design
if you called it burning bush, so we had to be winged. You
want us, there are the generic form of it. We'll get up to
fifteen feet tall. So this was some trimming will make actually kind of an
arborist. It's a small arborists and specimen plant in the landscape. And then
the compact ones they maybe maybe get six feet and then ruby had gets only
five feet tall. So there's several of them right now. A lot of
these, most of them come out or dwarf varieties and they don't really get
that tall. But in the wintertime, just take the hedge clippers and I
do that to mind? How hello, can you go as long as you
want? All right? Just checking asking for a friend. Keep in mind
they're going to grow about a foot and a half to two feet, so
you want to trim it a foot and a half or two feet below the
point where you want in the reach and guy in the next summer turned them
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the Green Country Gardener Program. Larry Glass is here to take your calls at
one eight hundred seven four nine five days, three to six. Where are
we here now, hey, Kelly, we were talking about the Brennie bush.
Oh yeah, stuff like that, and fescue seed whatnot, stuff like
that. The burning bush moses not hu. Well yeah it couldn't. It
could have gotten its name from that, but it it burning bushes because of
its brilliant fall color. It's it's a truly a maintenance shrub, free shrub.
So big, talk a little bit about pansies. It's too early to
think about plant and panties. So I guess what we can just talk about
how to get the soil ready for the panzee. Let's do that. Get
out work the dirt. Well. First of all, I got a sharp
in your shovel. That good idea to do that always good, yeah,
but anyway, and it gets soil really worked up. The root system of
the panze is very fibrous and very it's difficult to exploit the area, so
lots of organic material would help a lot too. Some people put a lot
of blood meal in there and it gives you some essential nitrogen, some iron,
and the rabbits don't like it too much. Too bad for the rabbits
on the deer and the bunnies they just love pansies. But if you work
the dirt properly, they don't like the blood meal though, so so that
something you had to be very careful how much you put in. Also,
if it's the norm outside you put it in, the panzies will turn into
right scriss beats. Oh yeah, so they burned it again, it's when
and how yeah, So you want to do it when it's cool, and
if you integrate it into the soil instead, it just don't just don't pour
the blood meal on the ground. It'll it'll have less of a negative effect
on the plants. So just don't let it get too dry and don't let
it clump up. And do this it's fine. You can also just use
a regular you know, annual perennial type for lights or twenty ten or something
like that, and it'll help too. They like the phosphorus, it helps
too, So just the blood meal is a good source of readily available nitrogen
and it helps them out a whole lot. So anyway, so viola is
also, and I like the little tiny ones the viola is. They have
lots of little tiny flowers on them. Huh yeah, yeah, okay,
just fiddling around, Leary, don't worry about me. It also helps when
you plant them to keep them moisture level as constant as possible. And a
good layer of mulch helps a whole lot. So I sort of like to
get the soil ready, to get the mulch down and then just put it
inside. It's a soil, it's really loose. You can plant a lot
of pansies in a hurry. When we do pansies or something trammercially or in
the residential landscape, we get in there and prep a soil, turn it
over, put in the composts into the blood metal and stuff level it out,
putting the mulch too, and then you just take your fingers and plug
it in. Plug it in right there. The mulch is already there and
all ready to go. I do like the milt because the plants are a
little bit floppy when they come in. They're not really sturdy yet, so
they kind of he holds it in place. Yeah. So so anyway that's
coming on, you need to think about getting your ground ready for your pansy
plantings. And you'll get blooms on them all all summer long, summer,
all winter long, and unless he gets down to you know, like six
or seven hundred drinks blow zero and then then they then they kind of fade
away, but they'll come back up. They'll recover and the flowers on it.
So get ready for that. Also, get your your yard ready for
for mums. You might want to put some mums, say by the front
door something. Put some good fog color. If your landscape is like mine
and everything looks like it's been hit with a blowtorch, a little color would
be kind of nice. And those the pots in front, they can use
some pansies too, Yeah, and the pansies, but mums give them some
color. So it's kind of a time when there are a lot of things
going on and you just need to be aware of what happened this year and
maybe add some extra molts to help reduce the amount of watering you need to
do next year. And it's been kind of dry like this for the last
two years, and I'm kind of changes my motives, changing my motives,
operandi on my front beds about what I plant, and nothing really has done
well. Big Any Winds awards every time for having a nice shard. But
it times it works, some times it doesn't. It depends on the plants
you choose. Anyway, Tom Golly has been a good show this week,
and we got a lot going on with the nursery. Is transition time from
the heat to the more reasonable weather and looking forward to putting some stuff in
the ground and making your yard nice and pretty. And Golly, just keep
your shovels sharp. We will see you next week. Dignity, Compassion,
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