WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.360 Katie r h Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:11.160 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 3 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:28.239 It's crazy trip just watching as us. So many good things to seep 4 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:41.719 bass not a side. Good morning. We are glad you're listening to garden 5 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:45.880 Line today and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you 6 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:51.079 have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. This is a season 7 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.320 to plant a tree. We've been talking about that woody ornamentals, perennials. 8 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:00.840 It's perfect time to do that. Verna tree farm can help you find the 9 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.760 right tree. 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That's what happens when you know what you're doing and you run 38 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:04.400 your business right. Twenty six sixty three, Well, I promised you we'd 39 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:08.800 have Chris Weisinger from the Southern Bulb Company on the line today, and we're 40 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:14.080 really looking forward to visiting with Chris and picking his brain because there's a there's 41 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.120 a lot of knowledge in there about everything bulbs. Chris, welcome to garden 42 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.199 Line. Thanks, kidd. I mean, if you pick my brain, 43 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.680 you might find other things up. They're too but yeah, it could get 44 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:30.479 scary inside our brain sometimes. Indeed, Well, thank you so much for 45 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.560 being on garden Line. I appreciate you taking time out today to enlighten us 46 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:38.639 about all things bulbs. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, I'm excited to be 47 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:43.280 here and you know I'm calling in from Northeast Texas and Tyler, where I'm 48 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.199 already out in my garden. Oh man, Every Saturday morning we have a 49 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.599 ritual in my house where I hide chocolate milk from my girls and we do 50 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.159 scavenger hunts. And then today I think I'm going to be hiding it around 51 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.960 the new paper white pots. I've planted up with all the violas and pansies 52 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.240 over the last week, including yesterday. And that's what I'm doing in the 53 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:08.599 garden right now, putting together like flower bold pots to force for Christmas. 54 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.479 Well, tell us a little bit about that. You know you're talking about 55 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.560 forcing him. I know you're talking about doing it outdoors, but are you 56 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.560 talking about for indoors too or what I'm doing both? So you know, 57 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.879 I'm a perennial flower bulb guy. I love airloom historic flower bulbs. That's 58 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.519 what kicks me off. On the Southern the Southern Bulb Company collecting old flower 59 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.360 bulls for old home sites, bulbs that have proven themselves for one hundred and 60 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:35.240 fifty years or more in Texas and the Southeast, that were growing with reckless 61 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:40.079 abandon on these old home sites. You know, So I love perennial flower 62 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:44.120 bulbs. You know, Chris, I know that doctor Bill Welch was one 63 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.720 of your mentors as well, and something he talks about he's talking about old 64 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.399 roses, but this would be true of flower bulbs, finding them in cemeteries. 65 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:55.199 If dead people can grow it, you can too. I have been 66 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:00.399 I've been past so many old homesteads where the house has just rotted and disappeared 67 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:05.040 and the yard is gone, but you can still see a line of I 68 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:09.360 don't know, you know, ox blood lilies or something that was where the 69 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.600 flower beds used to be, and those darn things are still going strong with 70 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.199 no care whatsoever. And that's what you're talking about. Yeah, absolutely, 71 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.240 and that's what I want to definitely talk about. But what I tell folks 72 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:21.319 is if you were to go out and look at all those old home sites 73 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:27.560 and gardens, one of the epiphanies I had as a as a young horticulture 74 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.000 major in my twenties driving around was that there was every week of the year 75 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:35.600 there was a flower bowl that was blooming right. And so it's really amazing 76 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:41.040 that we have this huge variety of selections of flower bulbs that will come back 77 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:46.600 every year in your garden as perennials, and so I love that. But 78 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.519 I married to florist, you know, and so sometimes I gotta I got 79 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:54.600 to make sure that I also have like floral quality stuff going on in my 80 00:05:54.720 --> 00:06:00.079 life. Okay, so that not versus versus just wild garden stuff, and 81 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.560 I think you can incorporate both of those well. But I always tell folks 82 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:05.879 that this is the kind of the time of the year where I do cheat 83 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:13.040 a little bit, where whereas I do find old heirloom paper whites in gardens 84 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:15.720 coming up in these old home site gardens. I do like to go this 85 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:20.079 time of year and just pick up some of those nice fresh zivas or in 86 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:24.680 balls, and I stick them in pots. It's like a cheap party trick. 87 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:30.360 Six weeks later they bloom that they're they're my centerpieces for my gardens, 88 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.920 are my tables decorations. There's centerpieces in my in my garden right now. 89 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.680 Wow. And it's fun to do with the kids because they can see the 90 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:42.399 connection of hey, I planted this six weeks ago. I could still remember 91 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.319 that I did this, and now they're all blooming. And you can have 92 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:46.720 a lot of fun with pots. You can put like these violas in there, 93 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.519 you can put cyclemen in there, or all these cool seasoned annuals that 94 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:54.439 are available at garden centers right now. So you know, I not not 95 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:56.879 to put a shameless plug here, but a lot of the flyballs I've collected 96 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:59.560 are over there at the arbor Gate. And what I what I love about 97 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.680 that is that, for example, you go to a good garden center like 98 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.319 the Arburgate, you can pick up the bulbs plus all the cool season annuals 99 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:11.759 they have in stock. You throw them together in a combination basket and voila. 100 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.959 You got this beautiful centerpiece with flower bulbs are gonna be blowing in six 101 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.600 weeks. There you go. That is that is cool stuff, you know, 102 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.399 Chris, I'm gonna take a little break here. We have to pay 103 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:23.839 the bills and I'm just going to do a quick quick read here and we'll 104 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:28.000 get back to you. But I've been telling everybody that fallows time to plant 105 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.639 trees and shrubs and perennials and all kinds of things like that. And when 106 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.439 you plant a tree, one of the products that I recommend you have on 107 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.560 hand, in fact, in my in my shed, it is just right 108 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.879 up there with the hose and shovels and every other tool I got, and 109 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.839 that's a tree hugger sprinkler. They go around the base of the tree. 110 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.800 There's a seven inch, eleven inch and fifteen inch size. If the tree 111 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.240 is just newly planted, you can just turn it on and water that area, 112 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:54.000 and five years down the line, the tree's got roots, it's a 113 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.240 much bigger tree. You turn it on a little bit more. Tree hugger 114 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:00.959 is your insurance when we go through the kinds of summer that we've had here, 115 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.519 because that first five years of a tree's life, it is absolutely critical 116 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.000 that you make sure the roots have water. And you don't need to turn 117 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.079 your whole landscape irrigation system on. You just put a hose with a treehggar 118 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:18.519 out there, water the area beneath and maybe just beyond the branch spread and 119 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.040 you can have success. And it's TreeHugger Sprinkler dot com. If you'd like 120 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.920 to find out more information. Thanks for hanging with me through that, Chris, 121 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:31.160 I appreciate that I would like you to talk a little bit about some 122 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.679 of the bulbs, maybe starting in late summer season on through where we are 123 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:41.519 now, and then anything going into the late winter time as well. Oh 124 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:45.480 Chris, are you there? So I'm here, yeah, Oh yeah, 125 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.159 I'm trying to do ten things at once and I just ran right up against 126 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.600 a break, so counted up to rookie. We got Jim from Montgomery's going 127 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.720 to ask you a purple irish question when we come back. Then we'll get 128 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:03.080 to my question. Thanks for hanging on. Welcome back to Garden Line. 129 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.600 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're talking some exciting stuff today about 130 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:09.080 fall and planting, and of course we have to have bulb so we're going 131 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.159 to get to that in just a moment. If you have not fertilized your 132 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.120 lawn, now's the time. Go ahead and get it done. The sooner 133 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.240 the better. It gives your grasp more time to take up nutrients before it 134 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.840 gets so cold that it just kind of starts to slow down a whole lot. 135 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.240 Now, Nelson Plant Food has put together a product called carbo Load, 136 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.240 and it is designed for our soils and for fall. It's got that lower 137 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.840 nitrogen number that we want. Excess nitrogen in the fall just makes brown patch 138 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:41.159 a lot worse and causes some other issues as well. But carbo Load is 139 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.679 designed for a fall and it also has a pre emergent herbicide in it, 140 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.559 So when you put down the fertilizer, you're also putting down something to stop 141 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.919 cool season weed growth. And they're sprouting. And the kind of weather we're 142 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.919 having right now, cool season weeds are sprouting and you don't really notice so 143 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.720 much. But boy when spring comes, when we are to get a break 144 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:05.080 from the winner, they come up and they become big problems. Avoid the 145 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.360 big problem by taking care of it now. Now the extra bonus of using 146 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.600 the carbo load is a forever bag you buy this fall, Dean is going 147 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:18.000 to donate two dollars to the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship at A and M for 148 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.720 horticulture students. And that is an important thing. I know it would make 149 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:28.759 Randy is very proud to know that his legacy lives on in that way. 150 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.120 But that's available this fall by purchasing bags of carbo load. If you live 151 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:39.399 down in the League City area, your hometown feed store is League City Feed. 152 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:41.879 Now, the Thunderbergs have been doing this for three generations. Over forty 153 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.559 years ago. It started now Wes and his sister Madison, they run the 154 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.559 place. It's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety 155 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.679 six. They carry the fertilizers that I recommend on garden Line. They carry 156 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.919 the soil products that I recommend on garden Line. They also have pesticides, 157 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.639 insexicides, fungicides, herbicides, things like that, quality pet foods. Of 158 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.919 course, you know their feed store. They got livestock, feed, everything 159 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.720 for your backyard chicken needs. Just go give them a call at this number 160 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:18.679 two eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three two sixteen 161 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.840 twelve Monday through Saturday from nine am to six pm. So after work, 162 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.840 swing by there at League City Feed and get quality products that will help you 163 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.879 have a beautiful lawn and a bountiful landscape. We're going to head back now 164 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:35.879 to Chris. Welcome back, Chris, thank you, thank you for being 165 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.080 here. Hey, I'm going to try to pull Jim from Montgomery, Texas 166 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.559 in on a question about purple irises. Let's see if this works. Jim, 167 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.279 are you there? I think so? Can I can hear you? 168 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.879 Chris? Can you hear that? Yes? Sir? All right? Good, 169 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:58.279 all right, all right, Jim, go ahead. I was told 170 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:05.679 that what I was seeing was the Asian iris. It was purple. It 171 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:07.919 looks kind of like if you held your hand up and cupped it, and 172 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.000 then it's the outside and inside is purple, except for the stamens are like 173 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.960 yellow and inside and they came up from a rhizome rather than a bulb. 174 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.559 Do you know what I'm talking about? Boy, Chris, I'm glad you're 175 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.840 here. What is it? Well? Uh? So you know the iris 176 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.440 that there's there's all sorts of different type of iris. And I'm not gonna 177 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.320 get too deep into the weeds here, but some some iris like the cemetery 178 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.519 white iris that we would typically see in old old cemeteries, like with the 179 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:48.960 bulls were talking about a tuber right. Then you got these Japanese iris, 180 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:58.480 uh it iris, iris iris. I can't hear some of them there. 181 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:03.039 Yeah, they're beautiful. Uh, they're beautiful. Some of them are actually 182 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:07.960 a little more like corns and they're a little more round and bulbusque. But 183 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.440 I think that the thing to remember, well, they're and and boy, 184 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.440 this reminds me of my very first garden talk where I got really botanical. 185 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:22.679 When they're all geo fights, right, they're all geo meaning earth and phytoe 186 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.879 meaning life. I mean, they all grow under the earth. But really, 187 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.799 you know what my encouragement would be like, don't maybe get too hung 188 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.840 up on the fact whether it's a tuber or a bulb. If it's if 189 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.200 it's an irish that's working for you, that's coming back over the year, 190 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.240 enjoy it and pot it or put in the ground and just let it bloom. 191 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.559 And okay, well iris go ahead, but this one's not. I 192 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.320 don't have them. I just saw them. And the leaves are like flat, 193 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.360 and they're and they stick's kind of straight up like fingers and they're pointed. 194 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.039 Yeah, that's that's a great way to describe it. I'm gonna use 195 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.600 that in the future. Yeah, and that's why some people call them like 196 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:09.440 flags. They almost look like flags. But flat irs is exactly what how 197 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:15.600 you describe it. And so that's I think of it like large flattened grass 198 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:22.799 leaves. And all bulbs are mono coops except for sallus, but which means 199 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:28.639 they all monocoq like corn like grass. They have these grass like blade leaves. 200 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.519 Some of them are thiffer and flatter. So the cool thing to remember 201 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.639 there from a garden design perspective is that anytime you take one of those monocots 202 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.159 and you put it flat against a perennial, think of all of your other 203 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.919 perennials that are out there, like Salvia's or verbinas or just about everything else. 204 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.879 It always looks good. So even when those iris aren't blooming, if 205 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.480 you put that iris or any of these bold monocots with other flat perennials, 206 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.759 it's gonna look cool even when they're not blooming. Hey, let me, 207 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:56.200 let me let me jump in here, Jim, do you have a picture 208 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.519 of that bulb? Oh? Uh No, Actually I don't have them here. 209 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.840 I saw them next door, but they've moved away and they've dozed out 210 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:09.960 all that area, so there's no telling. Okay, But well, I 211 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.279 think we're not going to get too far pasted on trying to identify them, 212 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.840 because it sounds like it could be more than one type of thing. Maybe. 213 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.879 But if you run across any and I'll send me a picture, I'll 214 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:22.679 run about Chris and we'll see if we can get a more specific idea on 215 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.639 it. Okay, I just want to words. I could buy some because 216 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.320 I wanted to get him, because I know now's the time to plan them. 217 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:33.639 They seem to come up early in the spring. Yeah, you might. 218 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:35.720 We have the white cemetery iris at the Uburgate Skip. Yeah, still 219 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.919 some there. I saw them last week, White cemetery. And there's a 220 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.960 purple cemetery too, right, Yeah, there's all these old German bearded iris 221 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.759 seem to do okay, okay, And don't give them a lot of nitrogen, 222 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.440 like Skip said, give them a lot of potastoum phosphorus. Right now. 223 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.399 All right, Jim, thank you, thank you for the call. 224 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:58.200 I appreciate that very much. All right over now thanks thanks. Uh So, 225 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:00.600 let's get back to the bulbs. I was kind of I realized I 226 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.639 kind of threw out this huge question, like tell us about all the bulbs 227 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:08.240 going through the fall, but like when we get to the end of summer, 228 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:11.679 we have some things that are that are starting to bloom in early fall, 229 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.279 and would you talk about some of those like if someone goes, okay, 230 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.120 you convinced me I can have bulbs y're around starting in the fall, 231 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.600 what would be a few good options and then carry us on a little further 232 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.320 than that. Yeah, well, I mean for all your Houston listeners, 233 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:33.559 I mean all is when the old historic heirloom starts screaming at us, like 234 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.919 the red spat blooming or even the yellow versions of that. We call the 235 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:40.799 hurricane the leak. So the hurricanes come through. Next thing, you know, 236 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.600 you've got like all these red spottery blooms coming up on these naked stalks. 237 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.240 You're going to use to start with the like Hoorus radiata of like corse 238 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.960 aria, the red and yellow spinal lease. Okay, boom, Hey, 239 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.759 those are also great indicators to you in the fall. It's like, hey, 240 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.279 they're blooming. Now it's time to do everything else I should be thinking 241 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.840 about with the fall, all right, And that's when you can start thinking 242 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:07.920 about your more traditional fall planted spring blooming flower bulbs. Okay, And I 243 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.200 know what folks are thinking, like, well, I want a trumpet shaped 244 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:14.599 daffodil, or I want a tulip there. Okay, Well yeah, yeah, 245 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:15.920 I know. And now is the time. In fact, we're running 246 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.240 a cell this morning on our historic daffodils right on Southern bulbs dot com. 247 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.920 Yes, and we're running half off. And I think they're cool. But 248 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:29.279 Houston, you can plant those down there, those large trumpets daffodils and those 249 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:33.920 big Dutch dark in the gardens, but they're going to be annuals for you, 250 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.279 not pernials. So perennials are going to come back for you every year 251 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.799 and get better and better. Annuals are going to bloom one time and be 252 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:42.119 one and done. And there's a place for both of those in your garden, 253 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.319 right, But it just depends on what you're what you're looking for, 254 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.680 what kind of garden you're looking for. Well, I have seen some beautiful, 255 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.799 little, small flowered narcissus, you know, the the uh I can't 256 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.480 even say the name of it now that anyway, they're blooming wild out here 257 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.160 in terms of abandoned homesteads. Yeah, paper white is what I was trying 258 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.720 to say. I'm sorry. Yeah, And there are old airline paper whites. 259 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.960 They'll start blooming in December and January in Houston home sites. So those 260 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:17.160 are also narcissus. So all daffodils are narcissus. Paper whites are narcissus. 261 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:21.400 So you can grow narcissus, just those large trumpet shaped daffodils. Treat them 262 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.440 like the annuals. That doesn't mean there's not this awesome selection of flower bulbs 263 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.319 that are narcissus that we can't grow like paper whites in the garden, or 264 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:37.240 grand primos, which are multi flowered heads with little yellow sinners. They make 265 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.319 a massive color impact in your garden. Think about Narcissus italicus. A lot 266 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:45.160 of these things were were sold out on on sothern bold dot com, but 267 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.319 I know some of the stores around there have them. We'll have them again 268 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.359 in the spring. Other things to plant that bloom well in Houston are in 269 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.839 Galveston are like this, the snowflakes Luko jamest of them. I'll never forget 270 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.599 going around Galveston. I spoke down there Moody Gardens and after a hurricane, 271 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:07.079 and these these homes were devoid of everything except snowflakes which are coming up in 272 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.000 mid March and blooming all across their home sites. And that does well all 273 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.359 the way up to Dallas too. Wow. So now the time to find 274 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.559 those plant them. And so so if you ask me what I'm doing right 275 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.480 now, I've already got I'm planting a lot of my fall bulbs that bloom 276 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.079 the spring. So I'm playing my snowflakes, I'm playing my grand primos. 277 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.960 But I'm also planting my flower pots to force for Christmas my paper whites, 278 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.759 and then I'm just going to sit back and let everything happen. And then 279 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.359 around January and February, I'm going to start enjoying all these narcissis and and 280 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.839 moving them around the garden quickly where I want them. And that's a whole 281 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.079 nother that's a whole other phone call. So yeah, that's right. There's 282 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.119 a lot of cool ones out there. And so give give some folks some 283 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.240 tips on you were talking about outdoor forcing, and we mentioned indoor forcing, 284 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:56.519 some tips on success with that, especially when it comes to timing. Yeah, 285 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.319 so for forcing flower bowls again, this is the cheap party trick that 286 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:03.640 will make every person listening to the show look like better homes and garden amazing 287 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.319 designer. So then living centerpiece and that's just buy some paper whites. They're 288 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:11.160 at every store, even box stores right now. All you gotta do is 289 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.920 put them in the ground and they're going to bloom in six weeks. Okay. 290 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.240 I was spoke at the Anti Grozenborium last weekend and down out in Burnham, 291 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:21.839 and my first question the whole audience was what's the number one reason flower 292 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:25.599 bulbs don't bloom? And everybody said, soil water, plant too deep. 293 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.240 I said, no, people don't plant them. I'll give flower bowls to 294 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:33.279 my family, good flower bulbs, and they'll call a year later saying they're 295 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.839 still in the garage. Kind of plant them. Paper whites, just go 296 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.440 buy them and put them in the ground. I don't care if they're too 297 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.920 deep or too shallow. They're going to bloom in six weeks for you. 298 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.880 There you go. You can then just do it. There you go. 299 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.000 Well, we're going to take a little break here, Chris hang on if 300 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.559 you would, and I want to come back and talk bulbs again. I 301 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.160 just want to remind everybody that when it comes to pest control, you are 302 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.400 not going to find a better, more dependable company here in the greater Houston 303 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.240 area than McGrath pest Control. And this isn't just me. I mean they 304 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:10.160 won the Curator's pick for the best pest control companies in Houston. Scott McGrath 305 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.000 does what he says he's gonna do. What does that mean? He schedules 306 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.680 a time and he shows up at that time. Isn't that worth? Oh 307 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:19.960 my gosh, if I could just have that for every service person that comes 308 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:25.920 to my house, serves the entire Houston area modern technology and techniques with old 309 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:32.039 fashioned customer service. That's Mcgrafpestcontrol dot Com two eight one four six' nine 310 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:38.680 eighty two forty. Oh my gosh, Asleep at the Wheel one of my 311 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:42.240 favorite bands there is. Well, we're going to head back out to talk 312 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:48.480 to Chris Weissinger, and Chris is the owner of Southern Bulb Company and I 313 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:52.480 actuld have mentioned this a long time ago, but the website, please write 314 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.960 this down Southern bulbs dot com. And when you're there, you need to 315 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:02.279 get signed up for the emails that they send out. I get those all 316 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.160 the time, and each one, and Chris, you can probably elaborate on 317 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.440 this better than me, but each one there's like a featured bulb and you 318 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:12.279 just learned a ton about it. I mean I save all those up just 319 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:17.079 so I kind of have a resource. And speaking of resources, you also 320 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:22.160 authored with our mentor, doctor Bill Welch, a book called The Bulb Hunter. 321 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:25.640 You want to tell us a little bit about either of those. Yeah, 322 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:27.599 sure, yeah, we were just with doctor Welch last weekend up in 323 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:32.279 Independence. Oh wow. And yeah, it was a lot of fun because 324 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:37.079 I brought my three girls, and even now he's still inspiring new generations of 325 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:40.799 gardeners. It's pretty it's pretty incredible. He's forgotten more than I know. 326 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:45.799 I'll tell you that. Yeah. And he coined a good phrase that I've 327 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.480 always appreciated about crime thems which are summer booming. Clara Bold for Houston. 328 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:55.240 He said, no has ever died. I remember that. It's about true. 329 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:00.319 Uh huh. I know. I tried to pull a volleyball sized and 330 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.160 crying them up at a garden in Houston, and I just about was the 331 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:07.079 point of calling a back hoe. Chris Well, A lot of folks do. 332 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:12.599 I've got a pile of broken shovels, but to so the bull hunter. 333 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:17.400 It's great because doctor Welsh writes a primer in the back about using these 334 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.839 flower bulbs in the garden, and then the front it reads more like an 335 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:26.039 adventure story of graduating from Texas A and M as a horticulture major, moving 336 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:30.119 up to northeast Texas to a little red cabin in the woods where I didn't 337 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:34.200 know a soul so I could be near sweet potato country, harvesting these flower 338 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:41.400 bulbs from old home sites, collecting stories, eventually getting married and committing somebody 339 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:45.519 to move into that little red unibomber esque cabin in the woods with me. 340 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:52.920 You know, Sorry that was tongue in cheek. It really was. Yeah, 341 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.119 But you know, so that the bulbs come alive, I mean, 342 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.039 you want these stories to come alive. And that's what I think. When 343 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.920 you're planting these air loom perennial flower bulbs in your garden, you're doing more 344 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:06.480 than just planting a pretty flower, which you are. You're planting a story. 345 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:10.519 You're planting your story and a story that can be shared with your kids 346 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:14.000 and grandkids that come after you. So you're planting a generational story in your 347 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.160 garden when you use these forever bulbs. Right, Well, that's good, 348 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:23.119 And thank you too for providing that email thing that goes out. I really 349 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:26.200 do. I literally there's a lot of emails I get and go okay, 350 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.240 yeah, I don't have time today. Now that one I actually read it 351 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:33.000 is always good. You do a great job on that. Wow, Well, 352 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.200 thank you the one you received this morning. I finished up last night 353 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.400 by the fire, okay, hot off the press. Yeah yeah. Try 354 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.960 to let folks know different types of daffodils that are out there. I only 355 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.400 spend about three weekends really hammering the different types of daffodils, because it's like 356 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:52.720 all the different types of Irish. I think it's important. I think it's 357 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:55.599 fun. But really, going back to what we said before the break, 358 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.960 really I just want to inspire people to go out there and plant flireabable. 359 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.079 I mean, you're gonna you learn by killing things in your gardener. You 360 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:07.519 know, you learn, Yeah, and if you get tired of killing things, 361 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.759 you can get better. But yeah, yeah. J C. Ralston 362 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:14.599 famous horticulturists, I think over in North Carolina direction somewhere over the the east. 363 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.160 He made the statement that to be a good horticulturist, you gotta maybe 364 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.119 it was Ralston, anyway, you got to kill a lot of plants. 365 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.119 And I think that is really true. Don't be afraid to kill a plant. 366 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:26.599 But I won't tell you there's some of these bulbs you can't kill. 367 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.000 And one of my favorite ones is rain lilies. There are so many, 368 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.839 and you guys carry you know, the typical white and some nice pinks and 369 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.039 even a yellow, the satrina, which I've just started with this year. 370 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:41.759 Tell us a little bit about the rain lilies. Well, okay, Well, 371 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:45.559 first of all, my favorite brant is Robustus. It balloons like spring 372 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.640 all the way through the fall. Just put them online. We put them 373 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.480 online this week. We've got some great forage pots for shipping out the people 374 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.920 good you know that that know they're available. That one, Chris God, 375 00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:00.160 When when I first looked at it, the are so big, It's like, 376 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:07.559 that's not right. It is huge, large pink trumpet shaped blooms like 377 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.000 that are three inches off the ground. It looks like it's a fairyland kind 378 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:15.119 of a deal. Yes. I like ze Frantis Candida, the one that 379 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:23.079 has little almost mondo grass sized little foliage. They'll thin foliage and it does 380 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:26.839 so well. I've seen it even in real wet areas and around here in 381 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.039 Houston sometimes we have areas that tend to stay soggy and it does well in 382 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:34.079 those well that white raindomly that you're talking about. They say it actually blooms 383 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:37.720 in the fall. It combines really well with like the OXPLD the leaves from 384 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.799 schoolhouse relieves. I tried growing at my field like in raised beds, just 385 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.960 failed, failed, failed, failed, until I went up to Longwood Gardens, 386 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.319 you know outside of Philadelphia, and they had that Longwood has that famous 387 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:56.880 arboretum, and right around the glass the glass greenhouses is a bog garden and 388 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:03.319 they were growing the white ringo leaves in the water submerged. Yes, y, 389 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:04.880 yeah, yeah, that's where I learned, Oh, I'm growing the 390 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:07.759 wrong. So we had some at a place here in Houston, the same 391 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.839 thing as a drainage ditch almost. And hey, we're going to go to 392 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:17.319 uh Marty in Fairfield and Marty has an amarillo above question, Marty, are 393 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:22.519 you there? Yes, I'm here, all right, go ahead. I 394 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.519 have a bunch of amarillas that are about twenty three years old in the same 395 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:32.359 spot, and I'm thinking I would like to divide them. Uh can I 396 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:36.079 do that now? And how do I RePOP them or reput them in the 397 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:41.240 ground? Sure, great question. I just separate Yeah, right, right 398 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:44.000 right. Remember that old Bob Newhart skit where he's a counselor and he just 399 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:45.799 says, stop it, you know, stop it. One of my favorite 400 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.119 that's his only advice, to stop it. That's all the same. That's 401 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:53.640 all I could do. Marty. My advice not to make a lot of 402 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:57.519 your your your serious horticulture situation here, but is just go do it. 403 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:00.680 Go do it right now, Do it right now. And I always say 404 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.920 the best time to do it is when you got time and when you can 405 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.519 see these things. But you know what the at a benefit right now, 406 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.599 Marty, is that it's actually the perfect time to go do that for it's 407 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:15.519 you do it sort of the off season when they're blooming and in field you're 408 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:17.759 gonna get some of those cold fronts. So all I suggest is, if 409 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:21.759 you're going to disturb this twenty three year old clump of amarillis, go ahead 410 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.559 and bulshit in case we just get one of those massive cold snaps to three 411 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:30.160 degrees again. Emeralds bulbs are semi tropical, right, so they will freeze. 412 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:33.359 And those old hard amerals, which is at least the red with red 413 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:41.240 ones with white stripes on them. Yes, yeah, that's the old solid 414 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:45.079 red, solid red. Okay, so maybe like an old red lion. 415 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:47.480 Yeah, those are gonna be a little more cold sensitive this. So you 416 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.240 definitely want to bulch shows after you do it. But now it's a great 417 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:52.920 time to do it, and they'll bloom for you around April next year. 418 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:57.759 That's cool, you know, I just jumping in here, doctor welch Our 419 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:03.119 mentor. He talks about in a pod having amarillis, the Johnson ameralists, 420 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.400 the hardy ameralists or others that he turns over on their side in the summer 421 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.079 to let them dry out, to go through that. Will you talk a 422 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.519 little bit about that, that type of the dormancy period and helping it blow. 423 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.440 Yeah. Yeah. This goes back to like, let's just think about 424 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:19.960 all our bulbs a little bit differently. We've got annuals and perennials, and 425 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:23.200 that's one big category, right, and a lot of the garden stuff are 426 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:27.119 perennials. Then you think about bulbs in another way. Think about all those 427 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:32.960 old world bulbs from Spain and France, our daffodil or the steps of Iran. 428 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.920 Those are like daffodils tulips that operate like on a wet I mean a 429 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.160 cold warm cycle you plant in the fall of bloom in the spring. Well 430 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:48.079 Amarillis and rain lilies and prinum are these New World bulbs like from the Equator 431 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.920 areas, and they operate on a hot I mean a wet dry cycle, 432 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.240 the wet season dry season. So if you let amaryllis dry out in the 433 00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:03.119 summertime, sometimes it mimics that dry season, and then they're more apt to 434 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.359 bloom for you when you plant them again in the spring or in the fall 435 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:14.319 to bloom that next season. But Skip in Houston and even Fairfield apparently leave 436 00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.759 your emeralds in the ground and it'll just bloom April every year. The trick 437 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.160 you're talking about is like the paper white that's trying to get it to force 438 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:26.039 again. Okay, for Christmas blooms, right, and so they're a little 439 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.599 harder to force bloom in a pot. But that's the way you would trick 440 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.599 them, the force bloom for Christmas. Let them try on the summertime. 441 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.519 Plant them now, and hope and pray that they'll they'll send up a nice, 442 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.759 beautiful bloom in your center your pot. Very very good, good advice. 443 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:45.160 We're gonna have to go to another heartbreak. Thanks Martin arty uh our 444 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:51.839 phone number seven seventy four. We have Chris Weissinger from Southern Bubble on the 445 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.359 line, and we'll be right back. Sandy. You'll be first up. 446 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:59.079 Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we 447 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.880 are here talk in bulbs today with a bulb expert, Chris Weissinger. Chris 448 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.480 Weisinger's of the Southern Bulb Company. If you've not heard of it or checked 449 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.640 it out, go to Southern Bulbs dot com. Southern Bulbs dot com you 450 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.480 can find out a lot more information. And by the way, let me 451 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.960 see Chris, are you still on here? Yeah? There we go. 452 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:26.960 Okay, I had an email come in from someone Chris Teresa Watkins, former 453 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.519 extension agent. Let's see in Florida. I believe she said that the iris 454 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:40.759 that guy was talking about maybe neo America griscillas or neo America cyrillia apostles Irish 455 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:47.240 giant apostles iris. I don't know that that's all Greek to me, yeah, 456 00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:53.240 or Latin or Latin. Very good. Thanks. At least one of 457 00:31:53.319 --> 00:32:00.319 us stayed in the holiday in last night. Yeah, you know, and 458 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.720 that and I appreciate that for sure, because you know, I think scientific 459 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:09.680 names are are important because as as it was said, to name something is 460 00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:15.119 to know to know something, and that's really important. That's why we really 461 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:20.880 focus on on naming flowers to enjoy them. So no matter what the name 462 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:22.480 is in this situation, think I'm glad we have a little more detail on 463 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:25.559 it, and I hope he plants that and enjoys it. He thought in 464 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:32.079 a neighbor's garden down there in Houston, though, and it's had like the 465 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:39.880 wide flags. Yeah, I'm tempted to think it could be the iris Albacan's 466 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:44.559 the cemetery wide Irish, but you know there's been some other bearded iris down 467 00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:47.720 there or they've done well. So regardless, we ought to see a picture 468 00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:51.039 of it. But I really appreciate somebody taking the time to email you. 469 00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:52.440 Oh, I do too, and I'm telling you people catch us like this. 470 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.720 I believe it was from Florida. I had one the other day from 471 00:32:55.079 --> 00:33:00.799 Indiana. Listens to the show, and so I guess I shouldn't pay attention 472 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:06.200 to my lawn fertilization schedule. We're gonna go now to Sandy in Cyprus with 473 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:10.480 a bulb planting question. Hello Sandy, Hi, good morning, Skip and 474 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:15.160 Chris. I have a question, and Skip, You're not going to like 475 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:19.920 this, but let me just get it out for the warning. I went 476 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.799 to Costco last time I bought a bullplant. I know you don't like that. 477 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.720 Yeah, I'm getting out my soil knife and I'm about to impale myself 478 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:32.599 on it right now. Go ahead. This was before I started really listening 479 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.240 to Randy Lemon, so it's been a while. But they blimmed once and 480 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:40.039 they never came up. So I was kind of mad, and I didn't 481 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.279 do it for a couple of years. But now that y'all are talking about 482 00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:49.759 bulbs, I want to try and plant a bulb. Bulbs and a container. 483 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.839 And what size container is the smallest container that I can plant bulbs in? 484 00:33:54.880 --> 00:34:00.839 Good question, that's a great question. Ironically, hold a really shallow 485 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.759 container in my hands right now. It's shallow because I'm just forcing these paper 486 00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:07.480 whites. They really don't need a lot of a lot of energy to bloom. 487 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:13.079 All the energy in a flower bowl is typically already there. But then 488 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.320 then, but these are paper whites, right, they're the size of racket 489 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:22.119 balls or or small smaller tennis balls. Uh. And and the thing about 490 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:25.920 a flower bowl, it has all of its needed energy inside the bulbright of 491 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:30.519 bloom. So when you're forcing a bowl to bloom, these little shallow pots, 492 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.440 you'll see them decorative pots like they're super shallow with just rocks. So 493 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:37.800 that's for forcing paper whites. Well, then you're thinking about, okay, 494 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:43.119 what about other pots? Well, I'm going to plant paper whites with violas 495 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.320 like little Johnny jump ups. I'm over here looking at some of these these 496 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.760 selections that are all the garden centers right now, like the Storbet fire or 497 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.119 whatever whatever else is out there. I think we've got Storbet jump up orange. 498 00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:57.840 I'm gonna have a deeper pot, right because I need I need the 499 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.760 violas to have some more soil, need that paper white in the middle to 500 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:05.840 do well. Then you start thinking about normal pots, right, and what 501 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:08.679 does a normal pot need in floral design? You need the three elements. 502 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:14.119 Maybe you've heard this. Maybe you haven't a filler, a thriller, and 503 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.360 a spiller, right, something that spills off the side, something that fills 504 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:21.559 the whole the pot, like you know, just pot level, and then 505 00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.719 the thriller in the middle. And bulbs are great thrillers to go in the 506 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:28.199 middle of pots. But if you're going to have that much room, you 507 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:32.280 need a soil to have these other perenni I mean other diecots that can spill 508 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.239 off the side. They can groundcover and fill the middle, and you need 509 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.400 room for your bulb and to go. So we're talking I don't know one 510 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:50.440 gallon pots typically something that side Okay, that's good and uh good. Does 511 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:52.960 the bulb like when I buy it, because I've never purchased it at a 512 00:35:53.039 --> 00:36:01.400 nursery, how does it generally come? Does it come with a pot in 513 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:06.000 it? Or are they just lose bulbs? Great? Great, great question. 514 00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:08.519 So this goes back to if you're buying flower bulbs for the garden, 515 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:14.039 they're typically not suited for pots, right. These are bulbs that are going 516 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.079 to be in your garden over and over and they don't always bloom well that 517 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:20.920 first year. It's it's the exact opposit of the Costco bulbs, the Costco 518 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:22.679 bulbs, which are are not bad bulbs if you treat them for what they're 519 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:29.519 supposed to be sometimes, which is that one bloom and done hopefully, but 520 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:35.320 that there's those are annuals. Then there's this whole opposite section of bulbs that 521 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.880 go into garden. So when you're trying to put bulbs in a pot, 522 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.199 I think you should just if you want to make sure it's going to be 523 00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:44.440 like blooming, I think you need to do something simple like paper whites, 524 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:49.079 which you just you buy the bulbs buy themselves, typically home depot, Costco's 525 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.119 lows. They've got these combination kits where they have you know, little little 526 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.039 boxes and they have they come as pots. Just start off with one of 527 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.960 those little combo kits. I think they're ten dollars and you can sort of 528 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:02.039 experience that. If you want to start mixing in like pots that you're going 529 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:06.880 to have in your patio like all summer long, well we need to get 530 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:10.000 bigger pots with more soil, different types of bulbs, so that that more 531 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.480 soil can help regulate the temperatures or regulate the moisture levels. It gets complicated, 532 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:20.679 Sandy in Cyprus, just because I think if you're going to do it 533 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.400 in pots, stick with the paper whites this first year. If you want 534 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:25.760 to go in the garden, stick with garden bulbs. If you go to 535 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.360 Costco, go ahead, Sandy. But does Ace have them? And I'm 536 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.000 not sure what paper whites are, but yeah, carry that. I don't 537 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:37.559 know about that, I know, Sandy. Some of our Mama Pop garden 538 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.800 centers around town. You know you're close to plants all seasons. You're close 539 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.960 to Arburgate over there, a want too far drive into the canons and a 540 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:49.280 lot of those there, some of them are starting to put their bulbs on 541 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.719 on a special But we're still in the middle of bulb season, so I 542 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:57.880 may be a little early on that. But you can pick up bulbs like 543 00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:01.000 Chris is talking about that, just a lot of different places. And and 544 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:07.440 it's so if I go, Chris to your website, Southern Bolts dot com 545 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.800 and order them, by the time they get here, will it be too 546 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:14.000 late to plan them. No. No, we'll ship out usually the same 547 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:15.920 day obviously not today or tomorrow. But we have gift kits where we have 548 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:21.039 these old porcelain pots with paper whites, so we bought those. Hey, 549 00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:22.639 everything's ready to go. Just plan it and it's a fund do activity. 550 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.440 We'll get it'll get to you by before next weekend, all right, Sandy. 551 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:29.599 And I got to warn you if you go to that website, it's 552 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.599 it's addictive. You're you're gonna it's gonna start up money. You're yes, 553 00:38:35.119 --> 00:38:37.400 you know people are gonna be calling in the credit card and report them stolen 554 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:42.639 when they know you're online at that website again because you start with bulbs. 555 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:47.880 But oh my gosh, it just it's not in the going on it right 556 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.880 now? All right? Thank you, Andy. You can call you, 557 00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.599 call us. We took up the phone a small little warehouse. Call Monday 558 00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:58.280 mornings and you get a hold of Audra and she'll she'll help answer to those 559 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.199 questions too. There you go. Oh okay, okay, so Sandy, 560 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:02.960 thank you, Sandy, thank you for that. Thank you for the call 561 00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.119 boy, Chris. This hour has gone fast. I mean, it's unbelievable. 562 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:13.000 We've just begun to scratch the surface. But there are so many cool 563 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.679 things. You know, she was talking about what size pot. Have you 564 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:21.440 ever heard the term the cobbers kids go barefoot? Yes? Basically what that 565 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:24.000 means is the horticulture doesn't take care of his own plants. I have got 566 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:29.679 some black nursery pots that used to be full of soil, and they've been 567 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.400 sitting underneath a crpe myrtle against a fence, ignored for a decade, I 568 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.559 think, and there's about an inch and a half two inches of soil left 569 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:40.760 in them. And I still have rain lilies coming up. I still have 570 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:45.480 some of the Johnson's and marillas. I guess they got roots down in the 571 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:51.320 ground through the holes or something. But they're tough plants. So bolts are 572 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:53.000 like old friends skip when you least expect them, they pop back into your 573 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:59.360 life. There you go, Sharon de Ray, Oh, Sharon, that's 574 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:01.360 a that's a good hey. You know, thank you. We're going to 575 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.400 get some music here in just a minute as we're playing out. But I'm 576 00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.599 talking to Chris Weisinger from the Southern Bulb Company Southern Bulbs dot com. If 577 00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:13.599 you're interested in his book, it's called The Bulb Hunter. He wrote that 578 00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:17.480 with doctor William welch Uh. There's just a lot of great information on there 579 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.039 and again his products as he mentioned, or available in some of our garden 580 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:25.840 centers here as well. So I hope you'll get inspired by bulbs. Remember 581 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:30.119 when you plant these kind of bulbs that they go out and hunt down and 582 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:36.119 find out and put put into the trade, you're investing in blooming dividends for 583 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:39.960 years and years to come. It just it just makes sense. Chris, 584 00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:43.760 thank you so much, my friend. I appreciate you taking time out. 585 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:47.199 Thanks Jim, all right, you take care. We're going to be back 586 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:52.480 in a bit for your calls. Seven one three two one two fifty eight 587 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:54.880 seventy four. Give Josh a call, who gets you on the boards and 588 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.679 we'll talk to you when we come back