We grow with the flow. It's the Gardening Simplified show. Hey, that
right, I'm off to a good start. You were off to a blazing
start right. Coming to you from the beautiful studio a at Proven Winners Color
Choice Shrubs. It's Stacy Hervella me, Rick weisst and our engineer and producer
Adriana Robinson. All right, Stacy, it's our second season, episode fifty
three. We have a year in the books. Congratulations. Congratulations to you
too, and obviously a huge thanks to all of our listeners and viewers wherever
you listen or on YouTube, because you know, show can't stick are on
for a year without people who actually like it. You nailed it exactly,
thanks to you, and also thanks to our sponsor, Proven Winners Color Choice
Shrubs. This has been great and folks who are tuning in and watching it
our show also understand that they are starting a second season, the fall season.
We'll talk about that today. I often like to say that it's an
opportunity to start over again and arguably one of the best times of the year
to garden, and so we start the second season. It's kind of kind
of cool. Yeah, I'm I am really I can't believe how fast it's
gone. You know that we've gone through every season of the year so far,
and that, yeah, now we're off to a new a new season.
But you know, I think we can say with confidence that all of
our listeners can be assured the same great or even better contents, probably the
same amount of possibly more puns. Oh yeah, and increased limericks. Well,
i'll tell you what in that first year, here's some of what we
learned. We learned decumbent growth is a thing. There are people out there
now who are googling that if you haven't watched our show. Plants that beat
the heat. Garden hoses are a pain. Vines and clematis blues are highly
desired. Color bees and mosquitoes are a big deal. Blamo is a word,
right, You better believe it help for beginning gardeners. Peppers are popular
container gardening, deer resistance, fragrance, we're weary of daylight saving time and
wind chimes. Would youila? We all learned how to pronounce that word,
and it feels therapeutic and instinctive to slap a bag of pottings. Limericks are
a means of communication. We've grown at puns and dad jokes. We've learned
about the meteorological calendar, and I learned that meteorological is hard to say.
Yeah, it's a lot of syllable strap your voice around, for sure.
But I'm operating by that calendar because today, in my mind is the first
day of the fall gardening season. Of course, we learned about hydrangeas we
visited the Temple of Bloom. We know people like to touch plants. Annuals
today are advanced. There's gray to interest in specimen plants. I like cucumber
and cilantro martinis. We learn that you and I have both been to Europe
and back. I primarily wear blue and black, and Stacy wears beautiful jewelry
from her it's from your grandma, right, it's yes, and also some
newer stuff from my mom which I forgot about. I gotta get that out
and get it on air. I love it. I love it. Variegation
is polarizing, Garlic is fun to grow. And we can all be a
little less pedantic. That's a word I learned from you. We're gonna let
nature take its course. That's just a snippet of what we learned in Year
one. Can you imagine what's coming in year two. Not yet, but
I'm excited about it. Well. In fall, of course, the weather
pattern is opposite of what we have in the spring, because in spring we
start with cold soil and then the days get really hot as we approach summer.
So we have the opposite in fall, nice warm, so cooler temperatures.
That makes it such a great time of the year to put plants in
the ground. I think it's it's ideal in my mind and one of the
things I love about this time of the year. And I'm not ashamed to
admit it. You go to a garden center or a greenhouse, you can
get bargains, yes, oh yeah, I mean they don't want to put
that stuff away for the winter or risk it dying or getting overgrown. So
I you know, I'm surprised that it is not more popular as people go
back to the garden center to get their mums and cornstalks and hay veils and
so forth, that they aren't making it more of a point to go back
there and look at the shrub section, look at the perennial section, scoop
up those bargains and know that you can absolutely, positively safely plant in fall
up until about six weeks before your ground freezes. And that's a long time.
You know. Obviously that's a moving target. We never really know for
sure when that's going to happen. But you know, here in Michigan or
most of the Midwest, I always tell people that you can safely plant new
perennial trees and shrubs until at least late October. I agree completely, And
you can move some plants that need to be moved if you like to add
plants to your landscape but want to do so with minimal or less maintenance.
Fall just maybe the season for you. Word of the day today is boski.
Have you ever heard that word bosky? B o s k y No,
I haven't. When you're feeling boski, it means you have abundant trees
and shrubs. Okay, So the word bosc or bosque it comes from like
the Latin word for forest, so ins. In French and Spanish, she
still call like a forest or a woods a bosque or a bosque. So
I knew it might have something to do with that. But the sky kind
of, you know, I guess it's like an americanized version. It is
americanized. I'm impressed. That's excellent. Yeah, yes, b O s
k y. It's an adjective as I understand it, but it's about abundant
trees or shrubs. Now, also in early fall we get to enjoy the
monarch butterflies, that fourth super generation. They're trying to energize themselves before they
traveled to Mexico, California, or as we learned in season one, South
Carolina, the sea islands along South Carolina. Now, my Verbena bonariensis was
covered with monarchs. Yesterday my miss Molly Budleia was covered with butterflies. And
season one we learned Stacy that you are an Asclepius expert and that should be
added to your landscape. But today also I was thinking about drive by botany,
Joe Paie weed. So any of the upatoriums yea, the hardy adgeratum,
which I believe is in the astor family, and they will cluster around
them. Am I correctly? Definite? Yeah, And so these butterflies and
planting for that for next year, do your planning and plan for it,
because that fourth generation needs the energy of the flowers that we put in our
landscape and our garden and there are so many great ones. Now a roadside
weed iron weed is fun to watch at this time of the year. Also,
I'm looking at the botanical name here and it says vernonia if you want
to look it up. But it's iron weed and bright purple flowers. Beautiful.
It's such a beautiful plant. And it's one of those ones that I
think, once you know what to look for, you start seeing it everywhere.
You know, once you have picked it out along the side of the
roads. It is tall, and you might think, oh, it goes
by the side of the road, it's not a garden worthy plant, but
it absolutely is. It's a fantastic plant for gardens. It has a strong
architectural presence, really handsome foliage, and the color of those flowers is really
really stands out in the landscape. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up
because I have a neighbor who's very much into pollinator and butterfly gardening and she
has iron weed in her landscape. It's just not it's not only just a
ditchweed. It is. It is a beauty solidago also or golden rod.
It's a herbaceous perennial. Also in the Astor family proven Winters has a solidago
named little Lemon, Little Lemon, and it's sometimes confused with ragweed and wrongfully
accused of bearing that windborn ragweed pollen that causes allergies, and just because it's
showy, you know, so the ragweed blooms at the same time, and
people say, oh, my allergies are going crazy. Must be that yellow
thing that all of a sudden I see everywhere. But that is just not
fair to solidago, because it is a marvelous plant, just beautiful. And
you know, I was driving last weekend along the highway and there's just miles
and miles of it and it's it's glorious it is, and glorious love it.
So our second season starts today. Your second season starts in the garden.
Fall is for planting. Throughout the course of the next few months,
we'll talk about the fact that it's a great time to control weeds, especially
familiarizing yourself with winter annuals. It's the perfect time of the year to control
weeds. Of course, many of the plants in my landscape are eligible for
frequent flyer miles. I've moved them so many times, change my mind,
move them around and this is a good time of the year to do it.
And then of course here in the northern hemisphere, before winter arrives,
good time to take your house plants outside, maybe repot them some fresh potting.
So there's a lot of things in our job jar and on our worklist
for fall. And isn't it great because I love being outside and fall it's
such a great time to be outside. And for an added bonus, you
get all that monarch and hummingbird action too, exactly second seasons. That's what
we're all about. You know, I was just thinking about Jimmy Buffett.
I was so sad this past week. We'll see that Jimmy Buffett had passed
away, and you know the lyrics to a song, some of it is
magic and some of it's tragic, And I can say that about my garden.
It's past summer too, But we'll fix it all here during the months
of September and October. Plants on Trial coming up next here on the Gardening
Simplified Show, Proven Winners, Color Choice Shrubs cares about your success in the
garden. That's why we trial and test all of our shrubs for eight to
ten years, making sure they outperform everything else on the market. Look for
them and the distinctive white container at your local garden center. Greetings gardening friends,
and welcome back to The Gardening Simplified Show Second Seasons. Indeed, so
it's a second season of The Gardening Simplified Show, which is great. We
don't plan on going anywhere, and I hope that you don't either. We
truly appreciate you listening, and of course that has inspired my selection for today's
plant on Trial, this idea of second seasons. And you know, really
I was spoiled for choice trying to decide what I was going to put on
the show, because here at proven Winner's Color Choice Shrubs, we do have
so many different shrubs that rebloom, bloom, rang lilac blooms in spring and
then in summer. We've got reblooming hydrangeas like the Let's Dance series. We've
got a reblooming viberne on which we've discussed Stetti Eddie. We've got a reblooming
spyriea double play Doozy. But there is another reblooming shrub in our line that
has not yet, to my knowledge, come up on The Gardening Simplified show,
and that is perfecta mundo azaleatastic and people stacy they people do love azalias.
Now, I do want to say right off the bat azaleas or something
that often confuse people, because yes, you can absolutely grow azalias here in
Michigan. They're very common as a landscape plant. But Perfecti mundo is a
reblooming azaleas. And generally speaking, the reblooming azaleas are not as hardy as
the regular azaleas that people grow in their landscape here in Michigan. And the
reason for that is because the genetics, the parentage of the plant that contributes
that reblooming performance is actually from a more tender azalea. So generally they have
not. As breeders have worked harder and harder on reblooming azaleas and put more
effort into it, they have not yet been able to overcome that tenderness that
that one parent that brings in the reblooming is contributing. So generally speaking,
if you're not you're sitting there going, hey, reblooming azalias sound great,
Why don't I have one? Why don't I know about it? It might
be because it won't grow well in your area. So most reblooming azaleas are
hardy to USDA Zone seven six B, and the perfect A mund Of series
is really no difference. It does survive for us here in Westmi Chien,
but usually that's not so much a function of our temperature, but because we
have reliable snow cover during the hottest part or not that hardest the coldest part
of the year, so then they have that kind of like puffy jacket on
when the really really cold weather comes. So that's why you could be say
in Missouri, going, well, shoot, I'm a zone six B,
but I can grow that, and you might not have as much luck as
someone like us, So it is something to keep in mind. This is
one of our plants for probably some of our more warm climate listeners, but
even still you can enjoy their beauty because they are super colorful. And I
picked Perfected Mundo double Pink to cover today because it was actually the first of
the Perfecta Mundo azaleas that we introduced, and it's really a classic pink,
very very nice color, goes with just about everything. And the second season
aspect comes in because it blooms really really well in spring, then takes a
little bit of a break to put on some new growth, and then it
will start to bloom again late summer through fall and perfecting into azalias. There's
a number of things that are really quite different about them than other reblooming azaleas.
But one of the most important factors is actually going to come as a
surprise to most people, and that is that it is actually a very good
spring bloomer. So even though these azaleas have traditionally been marketed as reblooming,
their spring display was actually not their shining mow and it was really more of
the autumn. And that's good. But you know, when people want an
azzalea, they're thinking they want that big spring. So right around the time
of the Master's Golf tournament early April or minty, right, you know,
And so I do want it. I'm glad you brought that up. There's
a variety, a huge number of azaleas at the Master's Golf tournament. They're
closely associated with it. I'm not a golfer, but I have found out
over the years all of this inextricable relationship between golf and azaleas. It is
it is a myth that the groundskeepers are putting ice on the plants to get
them in bloom. That would not work. People think that like, oh,
you know, oh, the groundskeepers are running around with like a golf
cart full of ice and putting out that won't actually work. The flower buds
are opening based on the temperatures that they've gotten they've been exposed to so far,
and just chilling down the roots or anything like that is not going to
change the amount of day length and temperature that the flower buds have been exposed
to. And they definitely can't put the ice on top of the plants because
the flower, you know, tissue is so sensitive that it would immediately blacken.
So whatever you have heard or theorize or believe about ice on the azaleas
that the master's it's not true. So you can tell your golfing friends that
when you're waiting around for your turn on the next hole. But anyway,
but anyway, they are these perfectly as do bloom really really well in spring,
and then again they take that break and they bloom just as well in
fall. And that's just one of the things that really make them different.
These plants came to us from a person that I have spoken about many many
times on the show over the past year, and we'll continue as a show
goes on. And that is doctor Tom Rainey from North Carolina State University.
He is truly one of our most innovative plant breeders, really just genius level
art and science and the combination of the two to develop these new plants and
to develop these reblooming azelias. You know, he was really working hard.
Obviously, like I said, everyone wants to get that heartiness in, but
there's other factors that are so important. Again, that spring bloom, which
you would think is an automatic but hasn't always been the case. Good color.
We want big flowers with extra petals, because single azelias are beautiful,
but most people do want that more frilly, you know, bold bloom,
good saturated colors. Good disease resistance, particularly a lot of azalea and rhododendron
diseases are cultural. So that means that it's not just like, oh,
the plant is susceptible. It means it has to have the right conditions to
grow in to avoid getting root rot diseases and that kind of thing. But
they do tend to also resist azalea lacebug, which is an issue for a
lot of gardeners. In the South. And then of course you need what
everybody loves about azaleas is that nice, tight, cute little habit. I
mean, people are out there trimming there azalias to get that. So we
don't want to introduce a big, gangly azalea. That's just gonna make people
work even harder. So Tom and his crew at North Carolina State University have
been working really hard. It is the biggest, the Perfecti Mundo azalea trial
that we have done to select the varieties that are in the line so far.
Is the largest and most expansive that we have ever conducted here at Proven
Winners Color Choice Shrubs. You can find links to it on our YouTube channel,
where you're also find the YouTube version of our But our R and D
team developed this extremely complex matrix of data so that they could really compare things
to one another, compare things to varieties that are already on the market.
It was a massive data undertaking. So if you think that you know,
introducing new plants is as simple as walking down the island going yep, that's
pretty let's introduce that, it is not. You have to That's very true.
There's a lot that goes into that. A lot of data points.
They call it, yes, so as you develop it. So that's what
I think makes these really interesting is that they have had so much thought and
effort and purposefulness behind them because a lot of people, again they don't realize
they think, well, gosh, that's beautiful. Of course they picked that.
Well, I'll tell you every azalia in this trial, Almost every azalia
in this trial is genuinely beautiful. Yeah, they're irresistible, they really are.
But they're not all high performance. And that's really what we're going for,
well as far as high performance is concerned. So you have deciduous azaleas
and you have what we consider broad leaf evergreen. We're talking about perfect a
mundo. Perfecto mundo doesn't keep its foliage in winter, so it is a
semi evergreen. I knew there'd be a complicated answer, So semi evergreen,
and I think we actually just talked about this a week or two ago when
we were talking about gembox ink berry holly. So semi evergreen means that it
keeps the foliage on the ends of its branches, but generally the middle foliage
will drop. It's totally normal. Now, if you do live, say
in like Florida or a very very warm climate, or you have an unusually
mild winter, you may find that it does not lose all of its loses
less of its foliage, or maybe even stays evergreen. But when we get
into evergreen azalias, that's when we're really getting into much more tender kind of
azalias that aren't going to do well, and it's one of the factors that
make them less likely to grow in a place like say Michigan or elsewhere in
the Midwest. Well, another question I have on perfect a Mundo is was
it named that way because of the Fonds Arthur Fonzarelli Happy Days in nineteen seventy
six nineteen seventy seven, when I was in high school, that show was
hot. Everybody liked the Fonds. The Fonds would always say perfect the Mundo.
There were so many great characters on that show. I love The guy
who owned Arnold's drive in his name was Mitsumu Takahashi. Oh, but he
changed his name to Arnold because he didn't want the expense of changing the sign.
Too many letters in Mitsumo Takahashi. So anyhow, I was just curious
if Perfect the Mundo was named after Arthur Fonzarelli. Well, so I think
if you were to look at all of the names in the proven Winner's Color
choice line, you would find your answer, and it is absolutely yes,
thank you. It is yes. It was named for the fonds Is one
of the fonds Is signature sayings. I don't think we'll name a plant sit
on it, or a or anything like that. But it also we love
the fact that perfecti mundo, even though he was kind of like, you
know, making it a take on Italian pronunciation of that, it also means
perfect world in Spanish, and we really saw these as sort of like the
perfect azaleas for an imperfect world, because they really are solving a lot of
the problems that other azalias have and nothing's perfect, but these are pretty much
as close as you can get when it comes to a re blooming azalia.
Now unfortunately out of time to tell you how to take care of it,
but not to worry, because you can always find that in the show notes
at Gardening Simplified OnAir dot Com. We're gonna take a little break and when
we come back, we're going to open up that garden mail bag, So
please stay tuned at Proven Winner's color choice. We've got a shrub for every
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them at your local garden center. Greetings gardeners, and welcome back to the
Gardening Simplified Show. I and Rick both love to help gardeners with the problems
that they encounter on the path to gardener vana. There are many no one
ever goes it alone, so we'll give you a good swift kick in the
plants every week. Yeah, in the past year, sometimes we've probably delivered
some news that people didn't want to hear. Sometimes we've probably delivered good news.
But you know, we will always share our experience and knowledge. If
you have a gardening question for us, we'd love to hear from you.
Visit Gardening Simplified on Air dot com or send it to help HLP at Gardening
Simplified OnAir dot com and reach us there. And what do we got in
the garden mail bag this week? Rick, Let's take a look. Janelle
asked, what are your thoughts on old rose varieties in Michigan. Interesting question.
It is an interesting question, and obviously I love being asked for my
thoughts about something. It's you know, opens up a door. Okay,
okay, so my thoughts. I love old old rose varieties, I truly
do. And you know, they are generally old roses were a lot of
times in the show we've talked about how whether you're breeding for annuals, perennial
shrubs, whatever, you have a breeding goal in mind. There's a specific
thing or things that you want to accomplish in developing that plant. And the
breeding goals for old roses were completely different than the breeding goals for roses over
the past, you know, thirty years or so, and that was that
they were mostly developed for fragrance, fragrance, fragrance, fragrance. So in
that case, I love them. That the flowers are marvelously fragrant, really
just unworldly smells. You can smell all sorts of different nuances in them.
But what people need to know about them is that they are not generally disease
resistant, so they can readily succumbed to even like a little bit of powder
email do. A black spot is going to it's going to make a big
difference on these plants, So you either have to be prepared to live with
that or treat it, which is one of the reasons why these roses have
fallen out of favor. And second that there really was not the expectation or
even realization that roses could rebloom. So these are roses that are going to
have a relatively small amount of flowers in early summer and then they're not really
going to do much again until the following summer. And that's totally fine.
There is a place for everything, you know, but I think that if
you want to grow old roses, you do need to sort of reassess your
expectations of what they're going to do. And you have to be in it
because you want that uniqueness, you want that story, and so many of
them have such incredible stories. So I highly encourage anyone who's interested in growing
old roses to do so, but to know that they're not going to perform
like the OsO Easy roses. They're not going to perform like the Landscape roses.
They aren't even going to perform like other series that we have improven winners
like Rise Up or reminiscent that have old fashioned appeal and old fashioned charm but
modern day performance. But even those, they're not going to have that just
really complex and unique fragrance that of those truly old rows as well. Yeah,
with the old roses, you're gonna have to look at watering at the
base, You're gonna have to become an expert at pruning, sanitation, in
fall clean up. You're gonna have to protect that graft in cold areas so
that they over winter and stacy with this issue. I don't blame Janelle.
I agree the fragrance and the beauty unreal, but your reminiscent rose comes close
to matching it. They do come close. They're really beautiful. They have
that big pedal count cabbage rose as they call it. They are very fragrant.
Now, if you compare them to certain old roses, you're not going
to get that, just like I don't know, I can't even really explain
it, just that complete sensory overload where the fragrance is just so strong.
Yeah, exactly. You know what my favorite old roses are. I love
the moss roses. Have you seen those before? They the buds get covered
with these weird fleshy, little green tubercles that look like they're covered in moss,
and then that flower just explodes open and the fragrance is amazing, and
they're just their conversation piece. But again, they're not going to perform like
that landscape rose. So it's just important that people understand what they're getting and
are choosing to grow them based on that story, based on them having that
great story, based on having that amazing history and being content with you know,
perhaps ten to twenty flowers a year instead of ten to twenty flowers new
flowers every single day like you get with the landscape rose. Maintenance issues exactly.
Edward has two questions. I bought a few different Piniculata hydranges in quart
size, live in Zone four, Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm naturally concerned that
because these plants are so small, I should cover them up for winter.
I was thinking we should cover them with styrofoam domes or something similar so they
don't get crushed by the snow. And then a separate question, can you
discuss sun requirements for incrediballs? Yeah, so, Edward, this is a
great question, and panical hydrangeas are some of the hardiest hydranges out there.
They're hardy to USDA Zone three. So in your case, there's no need
to protect the hydrangees just for the sake of getting them through winter. But
you are right since they are a quart size, which is generally like a
mail order size, it's pretty small, roughly a four and a half inch
wide and deep pots. Absolutely snow can crush them at such a small plant
is like a little snack for a rabbit hopping around out there. Mice can
girdle it, so you do. Probably it's a good idea to give them
that extra la of protection until they get a little bit bigger, and then
they'll be perfectly fine. So I think those styrofoam cones, which they actually
sell for roses, would be perfectly fine to just you know, get and
set out there. You can even use something that you might have, like
a plastic garbage can or something like that, if that's easier. I just
think that it's super important to poke ventilation holes in the styrofoam cone, super
important, And Edward, my recommendation here in Windy West, Michigan is make
sure it's seated well on the sorrows so a mouse can't get underneath it.
And then when we get those windstorms, you know what I do. I
get a sharpie marker and I write my phone number and then my neighbors collect
them for Oh that's nice. And you could do the same in Minnie apples.
I'm sure you have lots of nice neat yes, Minnesota nice right.
Seeah, maybe weigh it down with some soil as you're as you're securing them
down or something like that, but you do want to keep them in place.
They won't need it for long, I'd say a winter or two.
By the time you are no longer able to fit that seraphum cone over them,
they should be just fine to go on their own. And then you
had a question about sun requirements for incredibles, and I thought this was a
really good question because we hear from so many gardeners who will look at our
tags and say, hey, I'm looking at incredible and it says full center
parts on. Well, which is it? And the answer is it really
depends on where you live. Our tags go on plants all over the country,
and so we don't know if you're buying it in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
or if you're buying it in Arkansas. And we really have no way to
segment it out that way. So the answer is that in a colder climate
like Minneapolis, you can absolutely grow Incredible in full sun six or more hours
of bright sun a day, especially if you've got mulch and some irrigation,
they'll be perfectly fine. Now. On the other hand, if you do
live in Arkansas or Dallas or one of those warmer climates, you're definitely gonna
want parts on and you're gonna want that shade during the hottest part of the
day in the afternoon, and you're definitely going to want mulch on that.
Yes, Incredible can take part sun in cooler climates like ours. It cannot
take full sun in warmer climates. But you do have to understand that even
in cooler climates, if they get too much shade, that does start to
impact the number of flowers they create. The stems might not be as strong
because they're kind of reaching more for the light, but they can grow,
they'll live, and they'll look pretty good, but they'll be happier if they
get at least some sun each day. Great questions, Edward, Thank you
very mulch. Ashley writes to us about a struggle with containers realizing the soil
and the containers isn't absorbing water. And Ashley did a little research and said,
I think I have hydrophobic soil. What's the deal? What do I
do with that? You know? I thought this was such a good question
because it's something that is very apt to happen. It doesn't always happen.
And the reason that this happens is because potting mixes that you'd use in a
container are very high in peat moss, and peat moss is naturally hydrophobic exactly,
and then once it loses its moisture trying to exactly so, that means
it's very difficult to rewet once it dries. And one of the things that
can happen, especially in a container, is that that surface starts to dry
out and then nothing can get through it. But there are a couple of
things that you can do to rewet it. So number one, you can
just try kind of if you can get in there, you can just rough
it up with your fingers to try to get increase that surface area. You
can also put a drop of dish soap in a watering can, so not
like a ton of water, but just a little bit of water. Put
one drop of dish soap and that will actually break the surface tension. Interest
you can also use warm water, and that warm water tip is a really
good one, especially if you're working with potting mix or seed starting mix in
spring indoors. Warm water can really work. Wonders on rewetting your peat.
See if I've feel the waters running across the top surface and then down the
sides of the pot because it's hydrophobic, I use a screwdriver. I just
use a screwdriver and get your aggressions out and just and it's worked for me
every time. So for the screwdriver method will also work. So lots of
a drink a screw driver yea. So lots of options there for resolving your
hydrophobic soil. If you have questions for us, please reach out at Gardening
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It's time for branching News, and right off the bat today for branching
News, wanted to mention a limerick to celebrate the event. But prior to
that, I'm kind of excited about the fact that we are now on Instagram.
Ok, here we are. That's cool. Yes, it is very
cool. And so the reason we created an Instagram account is, you know,
obviously we talk about a lot of things that where we're referencing pictures,
right, we also know that we have a number of followers who use Instagram
and we would love the opportunity to reshare your pictures, as you know,
to our audience as we grow that audience. So you'll find us on Instagram
at Gardening Simplified Show. So please give us a like and let us know
what you think, and we will continue to put content on there. You'll
be able to see whatever plant we put on trial, things that we're sharing
and seeing here on the Trial Gardens. It's going to be a little bit
of everything, and I think it's going to be a lot of fun and
keep sending us your questions and your pictures Gardening Simplified show OnAir dot com.
And remember also that when you send us something, we of course are on
YouTube also and we may share that also on the YouTube version of our show,
because everybody loves to see what everyone else has got cooked in their gardens.
Exactly now, Limerick to celebrate our first anniversary here on YouTube, radio
and podcast. Thankful for support. We've amassed one year is quite an accomplishment.
We appreciate your acknowledgement for us. It has been a blast. We
know that we're a combo that it takes some give and go about weeds hose's
deer. We have ranted on this show that we have planted, and even
the occasional blamole. Thanks for sending us a question and even the occasional suggestion.
With little control or dominion, we still will share our opinion and try
not to cause indigestion. So pardon the puns and prognostication and the occasional mispronunciation.
We handled occasional controversy and made it to our one year anniversary still standing
and dodged cancelation, so there's celebratory limerick. So do you are there certain
things stacy that you buy impulsively, like regularly? Yeah? Anything, almost
certainly. Yeah. See for me, I buy plants impulsively. I'm one
of those people walking around the yard with a plant in one hand and a
shovel in the other, you know, trying to find a place to put
it. I also am an impulsive buyer. I learned this about myself at
bargain stores or second hand stores or thrift stores, because I don't know,
it's it's no longer impulsive, it's serendipity. Serendipity it is. It's like,
well, if I don't buy this, it's not going to be here
as money, and it's really cheap because it's secondhand. So I kind of
buy impulsively at thrift stores because it's fun just to go in there and poke
around. Now, the most common impulse buys of twenty twenty three, according
to a survey that will post on our website. Number one on the list
is clothing. Food is number two, and household items number three. Then
shoes, take out, books, toys, technology, and of course coffee.
Everybody buys coffee. It is really an impulse buy You're just like,
oh, coffee sounds good, I'll have one, not like, oh,
I don't really need any, you know, jujubs. But here I am
in the checkout line, so I guess i'll get some good point. I
don't know. You can buy an ointment for impulsiveness. It helps with rash
decisions. Okay, so we'll post that for you. A community in South
Florida has an adorable problem on its hands. Dozens of domesticated bunnies have overrun
parts of Wilton Manners, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. I've been there two
years after a resident let loose lion head rabbits from their yard. They have
real they're real fluffy, they're so cute, and they're adorable. Exactly.
They probably don't like Florida, And right right, the neighbors the residents are
are basically divided, some allegedly threatening to shoot the bunnies and others trying to
save the bunnies or let them roam free. But you're right. The animals,
which are prone to heat stroke, have been digging holes in the ground
to escape the oppressive heat and the irritation of some residents. So so know,
I've had a pet rabbit before. There are so many misconceptions about pet
rabbits. They are not like hamsters. They're more like a dogger cat,
which you can't leave them alone for a weekend. And I think when a
lot of people find that, they just say, well, we'll shoot,
I'm just going to get rid of this rabbit, and they let them go
in the wild, which is terrible for the rabbit, it's terrible for the
environment. So, you know, a lot of people who have owned rabbits
definitely take a strong stand on knowing all the facts before you get a rabbit,
and if you don't want it, definitely give it up to a rabbit
foster or local animal shelter. Please, please, please, as the story
shows, do not release them into the wild, no matter what other rabbits
you're seeing around. Don't be part of the problem. And that's what they're
trying to do here and collect them up, so hopefully they're successful in that.
Hopefully this story has a happy ending. A Canadian farmer has been ordered
to pay more than sixty one thousand, seven hundred and eighty four dollars in
damages over and in oji. It was a confusion. He had a contract
to grow flax, as I understand it, and the communication between him and
the grains buyer basically resulted in him just sending an emoji a thumbs up on
the contract, and a judge ruled that a thumbs up emoji is as good
as a signature, because he backed out of that order as I understand it,
and the judge is making him stick to it, because a thumbs up
emoji is as good as a signature according to this judge. Oh y,
that's interest, God forbid you. It takes the heart emoji that what's gonna
happen to you goes to show you you win thumb, you lose thumb.
Oh my, yeah. So next time you thumbs up emoji something I don't
know, be a little bit careful because it's subject to interpretation. Right,
Just send something really confusing and totally not Jermaine to the subject to be safe.
The judge says, I'm satisfied on the balance of probabilities that Chris okayed
or approved the contract just like he had done before, except this time he
used a thumbs up emoji. A thumbs up maybe handy, but now he
has a sore thumb and he has to pay out sixty one thousand dollars because
that is an expensive emoji. Now I want to ask you a question,
Stacy. I have often looked at the festival in Spain that took place last
week. It happens every year, and that is the Toma Tina Festival where
they bring in one hundred and twenty tons of over ripe tomatoes and let people
have at it for about an hour lunchtime the last Wednesday in August and they
battle in they battle in the street. Tickets for the festivals start at twelve
euros or thirteen bucks to participate in tomatino. I would like to do that.
You would, Oh, would that be a blast or what? Well?
Okay, so I'm just thinking this being the overripe tomato season, have
you smelled an over ripe tomato? Because they can get pretty gross. Bad
tomatoes have a liquidation, that's what they have. You know, what do
you do with bad tomato workers? You can cam them, but in this
case, they take them into the streets and people just chuck them at each
other and they're covered they you know, they're just covered in tomato juice.
And now that would be a cool I think they have it set up so
that within an hour after you do this, everybody showered off, washed off,
and you walk away happy and saucy and all that kind of stuff.
Oh my goodness, I would not like to. I would I wouldn't be
I'd be okay with watching, but I would not want to participate. So
I can tell you that it just sounds sting. It could be if the
tomato is somewhat yeah, firm, like it's you know, like all the
acid like sometimes if you're working with tomatoes a lot, it can even kind
of irritate your hands, so, you know, being covered head to toe
and almost rotten tomatoes just as not. Well, if I'm in Spain,
there's other things I want to be doing. That's I guess that's what I'm
saying. Tomatina is on my bucket list, Stacy. We want to thank
our listeners are viewers. Again. We are on radio, we podcast,
and then of course we are on YouTube. You get a lot of bonus
footage on YouTube. Adriana puts in pictures of plants on trial and other fun
little things, so the YouTube people have like a totally different experience. So
if you listen to us on podcast or radio, swing over sometime check us
out on YouTube too. We'd love that and you can see what it is
we do here on the Gardening Simplify Show. Happy one year, We start
year number two and enjoyed doing the show with you today, Stacy, look
forward to our next one and of course thank you to Adrianna Robinson, our
engineer and producer. Have yourself a great week. We'll talk to you again
next week here on The Gardening Simplified Show.