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six. How's your week? Oh, Tom, has been actually a good
week, not quite as hot, not quite as hot, and actually able
to get some stuff done. We did one project that took a fraction of
the amount of time if you were to do the thing your week ahead.
Wow. But what a difference, you know, the temperature makes out there,
especially when you're out in the hot sun and there's no wind and suns
just are glaring and kind of baking like something getta killed? Yeah. Really.
So somebody asked, we're going to go on vacation here in Oklahoma and
they said, you know, well, how hot does it get? I
said, are you familiar with cremation? No? I said, yeah,
but we're going to have a cool week ahead of us. Yeah, thank
goodness, And we need a break like that. Unfortunately, though, it's
associated with a lot of rain, and that's not very conducive to doing a
paving and brickwork and Jamie Walls stuff, all that good stuff, your landscaping
maintenance. Anyway, in the garden right now in the garden, and it's
green. Yeah, anyway, Yeah, it must be a bit of an
off year for the tent caterpillars. I haven't seen him yet. I haven't
seen him yet. No tent, what's the deal. Yeah, but maybe
that's because the crepe myrtles are late, but they're starting to bloom. They
are. The one in the backyard just started popping the other day. Yeah,
so we're going to have a pretty good show of craig myrtles, I
think this year. We do have a you know, some good weather coming
up this week, so I'm kind of a little bit excited about that.
Sure. But anyway, Mike be coming up a bit of a problem on
your junipers and things like that, So you want to go ahead and and
be a proactive on that, if you will, before he gets out of
hand. We'll look very closely at your your juniper plants and your boxwoods too,
and if sections of the needles or the leaves in part of one of
those trees are characteristically lighter than normal, typically that's the sign of the onset
of spider maights. And usually we have a bit of a problem with spidermights
here in the heat in the summertime because they just love that warm weather.
They do no Yeah, and I've seen some of some plants through bagworms also,
the little bagworms that hang down. Not so many this year, but
they seem to be very concentrated in their attack patterns. So being selective,
look very very carefully at your plant, very closely after plants, and if
it looks just a little bit off, get a little closer. That's when
they're small. That's when they do a lot of their damage. When they
get big, they kind of they kind of hang out. Then they turn
into them off and wait next year. So uh so watch the watch for
your bagworms on your juniper species, your arborvities especially. I've seen some arborvities
that have just riddled with them. And also if you get on a calm
day or a calm hot day, you can get down wind a little bit,
you can kind of smell the sour juniper smell, and that's that's a
sign that you have can't work bag worms on your So anyway, I watch
out for those. This time. You're also so on your lawn right now,
fertilized your permuda grass only after watering, then water afterwards if it hasn't
rained. We got some rain coming, so probably a good opportunity to do
a summer application of fertilizer free permuda grass. I'll probably be doing that to
mind tomorrow, just before it rains, because you do want to maintain a
you don't want this peaks and valleys and fertility levels. You don't want to
try to keep it as constantly as possible, and also on your grass from
meto grass and other types of grass, especially PESQ, and so you want
to kind of max out the height of the of your grass too. That
does help the plant have a deeper root system so we can tolerate these peaks
and valleys of wetness and dryness and so on. So moment as high as
you can or as high you can tolerate. I know I've got mindset,
Old Max. I think you need to put bigger wheels on my old snapper
higher yet tricycle tire. That's about it's about three inches, so all right
now, and I go to these people's yards and their lawns are just maybe
a half inch and you know it's fine for you know, March, April
and early May. But when it's hot like this, the grass needs that
surface area for it to transpire. The transperration is the process by which the
plant draws up water from the ground and it evaporates on the surfa to help
keeps it cool. So if it doesn't have that ability to do that,
and the sun is beating down on this plant, it overheats and it gets
kind of sick and it's sort of thin looking and lethargic. If you will,
so uh, mow that grass Bermuda grass and soldier grass, things like
that, and especially if aescu grass, mow it rather high at this point.
Now later on we can do and I've done this in the past.
I'm not recommend it for everybody, but in late late July, mid August
or so, scalp the yard when when the rains return, and it makes
for a really nice looking long and going into the fall. Okay, so
when the when the weather turns around and it's not so consistently hot, it
can be done. It's not I've experimented with it and it's turned out successful
in most cases too. Just to get rid of that thatch because when you
mow it up high, you get a lot of dead grass under there,
and it kind of looks you know, So if you were to cut it
down when when the when the good weather returns, it'll a little snap back
pretty quick and look nice again. This it'll be two weeks where you'll have
to mow, so that might be a good thing actually. And then as
far as fertilization is concerned, keep the fertilizer going and make sure that you
irrigate prior to fertilization fertilizing. Then afterwards it doesn't rain just because you don't
burn, your grass absorb a diffuse into the ground. So that's kind of
it with your lawn right now. Things to look out for pest wise,
not much of bermunographs except maybe some fundas if it rains a lot. But
it's pretty resilient. I had somebody come into the nursery yesterday and so we
have a picture of the phone of these little dead spots on their bermutographs.
Asking what part of town they live in, it told me and I said,
well, that's a lot of shallow rock. He said, yeah,
you're right there, and it's just drought stress, it'll come back. So
I said, if it's the house I'm moving in, if I were go
back, you know twenty years I had rented a big old back home and
taken all that rock out fresh dirted, so I can go some roots.
I mean that in the middle of my yard and sat on the shadow.
Clang. It just goes nowhere that the blast. So that's something I've tolerated
for the last you know, five hundred years. There's a little summer dead
spot. It's just nothing new, but it comes back. Actually, the
last rain we had has come back really well, so I think if we
get some rain now, it'll kind of keep up with it. I don't
have a sprinter system. I can't even plant trees in the front yard.
Yeah exactly. So anyway, kind of it with your lot. You know,
if you want to turn that print yard into a parking lot, all
you have to do is just do a little scrape. And I mean the
rocks already, well, you go up to the corner of the house and
just grab the sod and you can actually unroll it. Oh that bad,
Oh gosh, I know it was that bad in the backyard too. I'm
putting my fence in and the jack jackhammer, and the fence posts over there
by. The gate has five bags of concrete in it because I had the
jackcamer a whole thing enough just to get the post in there. I'm gonna
say, you know, the first time around, you take that big sledge
that did come back at you twice as fast as no, no, I
had to. I had the romous bootle jackhammer. And you know my daughter
just got out of boot camp. Yeah, and she came and helped.
She just loved it. Run it out, let me do it, let
me pounds. Anyway, that was kind of fun. And the fence is
still standing, by the way. That was a good twenty five years ago.
Cool anyway. Uh So trees, Trees make them work in the landscape.
Trees provide shade, of course, and some color, some architectural situation.
In other words, say they frame the house, if you will,
they kind of left and the right of the house or something, just to
kind of frame it. And uh and provide a habitat for wildlife. I
got a lot of birds and stuff in my yard too, just love it.
Oh yeah, you got those humming birds and everything. Oh yeah,
they're all over the place. You know, that's pretty cool. It's a
nature right and there a mini tree? Is they grow here? As anyone
could possibly consider when choosing a tree. Your primary consideration for funding a tree
a is it a specimen tree, a flowering, pretty fall color shade?
What do you want this tree to do? Also, you consider the one
factor of the tree. Some of them are just done right messy. But
yeah, yeah, you don't have one of those. Had a female InKo
tree? Oh I got a litter box in your front. I thank goodness
the wind was out of the south, my goodness. Anyway, yeah,
that's a consideration. If you have, say a patio or a decoration,
I think you might consider, say a male rose of Sharon or even a
male Gainkle tree. We do have some at the nursery. By the way.
These are clones sending the clones, so you're for sure going to get
the proper gender or that. And with the pistache trees too, they have
what male clones and those all, so they're a little a little more expensive
than just a who knows what pistache tree. But then again you don't get
all the mess associated with the female tree. I happen to find one growing
in my backyard, a crack in the cement, little tiny thing, and
I pulled it up and planted it in the in the front yard. Now
the trunk is pretty good, yeah, and it shades my old truck in
the afternoon when they come home, and it happens to be a male tree.
So it worked out pretty dark good for everybody did. Really, it's
amazing how big this thing is, how fast it's grown. How big a
boy is he? He's pretty good high. Yeah, it's as high as
a house and about as big around. But it's when I planted that thing,
I had to use a pick and a rock bar to get it in
the ground. And that poor little thing just sat there and wimp eat and
cried and all that. I said, you're on your own, buddy,
and and it's rich. Just went out and it's it's done, just great.
Wow. So I guess the point of that is you really don't want
to try to baby it too much. You want them to adapt to the
to the area. You want them to dig in and grow strong, build
characters and find those resources they need to find all that stuff. And that
that comes back to watering too. It doesn't hurt a plant to wealth a
little bit. When when it's hot. It's just the way they respond to
the heat. It's a way of preserving themselves. So and then they'll perk
back up at night. So but but when you do water, water fairly,
deeply and infrequently. It's kind of a rule I followed all along my
house and this that try to emphasize some of my customers too. It's to
not water something every single day. Don't that. No, it's just this
is not the way it occurs. To love it to death. And typically
when we put in plants and trees, we put some in that will adapt
to that kind of circumstance as far as watering is concerned, so later on
you don't have to worry about it. I did. It's this one landscape
here in the neighborhood. The entire thing was zerographic and they don't have to
water at all, hardly. In fact, I was over there yesterday day
before yesterday talking to him and we're walking talking about his plants, and said,
what you're doing is just fine. You said, well, I haven't
watered in three weeks, so well everything's doing great, so just keep it
up. Wow. So yeah, if you pick out the plants that will
match our climate. Here thing you should do very well, very good.
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Gardener Program. If you'd like to be on with the Larry with a question
or a comment when it comes to your lawn, your garden, your landscape,
give us a call at one eight hundred seven four nine five nine three
six Larry. What's next up? We talked a little bit about trees.
I will talk about some shrub let's do that. I typically shrubs are associated
closer to the house and they kind of screen stuff out now and then,
and they accentuate the architecture. Put them in the corners and so make the
entrance to the house like Bill inviting them all that. You must consider the
architecture of the house and how the plane materials relate to the house when doing
a design. So you just can't just throw out a bunch of rocks and
put the plants with them. Pretty for the best. Yeah, you have
to plan a little bit and keep in mind what the house is going to
look like after. You know, after ten years of these landscapes, you
got a color, Yeah, we did. Good morning. Welcome to the
Green Country Gardener Program. Your comment or a question for Larry. Hello,
OK, there we go. Welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program. Here
you're on the air. Thank you. We have some uh the only plants
out here in my front yard, and last year, I believe the freeze
got the blooms. This year they come up again, volunteer, but they
won't they're not blooming. You know, I don't think they're pros this year.
Blooming plants. Typically they're they're very cold hearty. We had them when
I lived in Chicago, right, So they're very cold hearty, and mine
went crazy this year. They bloomed, some of them that haven't seen bloom
blooms on them in years. They came up. They're just fine. Of
course, they bloom very early in the spring, right right, but they
didn't bloom again this year for some reason. It's odd. Yeah, it
is, okay, Well, most people have very good success with them.
So you're you're an exception to the rule. Possibility of on why it's doing
that. You might have a lot of grub worms in the area. If
you do have a lot of grub worms are probably dining on the roots of
your plants. That's one possibility. Another thing is after three or four years,
they need to be dug up and divided. Maybe it's far. They're
they're old. They're old plants. Yeah, but they come up part they
come up really pretty, you know, real healthy looking and everything. And
last few years there's not no blooms them. Are they real close together and
kindly tightly associated? Uh huh, they're probably it's probably time for a division.
Okay, well we'll give a shot. That's time to do that.
After the first frost, I got you. Yeah, anytime, any time
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the Green Country Gardener program. What you got for us today? I've got
black beetles on my tomato plants that are eating the leaves. Oh that's no
good, So so how do I fix it? There are several solutions to
that. You want to use something very safe to use on your on your
tomato plants, you might consider a BT, which is Besilla thorgenesis or thorocide.
It's an effective control. Also, uh spooners AD also known as Captain
Jack's Deadbug. I liked it. I like anyway. That does a good
job of controlling them. And the spinners AD is not toxic to us are
mammals, So but you do. You don't want to wash your fruit though
before you eat it. So but anyway, but amongst the insecticides out there,
the spinners ADD would probably be the most effective and at least least toxic
to use. Do you have dad at your store spiners AD? Yeah?
We do, Yeah, we do, we do have spiners add. Yeah.
Okay, right, thanks thanks for calling you, Thank you very much.
It is twenty eight and again our number is one eight hundred seven six
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too, because it works. There's something specific with insects is how it worked.
So that's cool. Anyway, we were talking about shrubs and uh.
Planting around the house also considered also the eventual size of these plants too,
so you don't have to go back and oh we go to troll the step
back. So a lot of times under the windows you want to use the
plant that's prefaced by the word the name of which is prefaced by the word
dwarf. Yes, because you don't want that shrub to get up about mid
window heights. I see, I see that my neighborhood. I'm like,
oh, there's something in the sooner part somewhere there's a house behind the hiding.
So anyway, and probably back then when those were planets, they didn't
have the selection of plants we do right now. So dwarfs yelp on holiday
dwarf menandina. Uh. The crimson pygmy barbary is another one and they do
very well, kind of around the crimson barber on those porns. But anyway,
the shape to the barbary plants is to just cut them really low.
In the spring. My neighbor did that across the street, had these barbary
plants really really just kind of like you know, they're all irregularly grown and
spaces in them, and he just cut them down and they're beautiful now.
But they are solid red hemispheres on the ground and he does nothing to that.
They don't have any bugs or anything. Your neighbors are cool like that,
but anyway, they just do nothing to it. It comes up looking
really good. How in the world, Well, usually those neighbors ard Sunday
and I couldn't get any work done for everybody walking by asking me questions.
Then I start the lawnmower up something else going way. What that's so funny?
So why does it take you three hours in the front yard? Well,
you know, dear of it anyway, there's a lot of friendly folks
around here. So so there are are amount of plants that'll meet that the
dwarfia and some of them, even though they say dwarf, it's a relative
term. So you want to look at the eventual height of the plant.
Also, for instance, the dwarf Jolpon holly. Yeah, it's kind of
a workhorse in the landscape. They're just evergreen to come around and very easy
to grow. Very few pests. But the dwarf jupon holly gets ten feet
tall if you let it. That's a big dwarf, yes, But the
yopon holly itself gets twenty five feet tall if you let it. So every
year on my dwarf Yopon Holly's in middle of February, they get they get
a Valentine's Day mass. They really get these good and you know they've stayed
really low. They're forty years old and they're not even the high so and
you only have to do it once a year. So there you go around
Easter, it's a good time for that. You don't want to do early,
too early at my urging the growth and you get frozen back. So
you want to wait until March, middle of March, middle of March.
Ok for them too, for cut them back really low. Okay, got
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Glass on the Green Country Gardener program is one eight hundred seven three six.
We were talking about shrubs and shrub that actually can be somewhat of a good
indicator as to the amount of water around your house too. You can typically
we have peaks and valleys in moisture content and the soil, and you associate
that with a clay soil that can cause some issues with your foundation. So
maybe that's why we started this tradition of growing plants up next to the house,
just so we know when we need water to try to keep that try
to keep that soil moisture content fairly constant, because there are some some houses
that are just basically just planted on top of the clay, you know,
And then I go to people's houses and you see the bricks and I'll say,
well, your house is falling on the hill. And because when you
get this shrinking and swelling of the soil, it also changes the volume of
the soil down below the house. So if your footings don't go down below
the frost liner down to the stone, which is pretty common, it rocks
pretty common around but some parts of town where there's in his tone, if
it doesn't go down to that far will cause some foundation problems. So keeping
the moisture level fairly constant around the year is it's very important in some parts
of town, especially if you have a lot of clay around the house.
So, and that's one roll of the plant is. They're what we call
indicators. They tell you, well, there's plants wilting, maybe they need
water, and then you water that your soil moisture constant stays pretty constant,
so be very aware of that if you do have some cracks in your house
and they might close up in the spring and open up again in the summer.
So sure it kind of help us with that too. Also consider on
the composition of course, uh, lime, form, color and texture,
all the other thing, architectural sentulation. The conical plants in the corner,
don't plant a don't plant a say a foster holly of the corner of the
house because they get you know, thirty five feet tall. Do you have
it sizable? Yeah, if you want a corner of a plant like that
in the house, you might consider it, say a will leaf holly or
a needle point holidays only get six to eight feet tall. Yeah, that
tall. There is a house down the street here from the radio station.
I just they got order and look at it. Monsters things eating the house.
And why people plant yelp on hollis which you get twenty to twenty feet
three feet away from the house. I don't understand because they didn't talk to
a problem. Yeah, you look at it accomplishing and sometimes you have to
do something. You want something good size. You do and they're easy to
control. To yepe on holly are very easy to control. You just cut
them once a year and they do fine. But some of them are are
not trimmed like we should be, and they get out of handy too big.
If we did that unless year, there's nothing to live at the hat
rack. This was in the string and she looked at that, looked at
me and wrote the check and walked inside the house. Cheap. Oh,
and then Pretto much later, it was fine. It's leaked out the house
now and then and it's a small one again. And you know, so
some some plants can be cut back like that. Then you'll find Hollis are
very resilient as far as that is concerned. They can be cut back really
really low. When they'll do just fine, they leap out real nicely.
So I like them because of their disease resistance and the insect resistance. And
soon they're good plants. They have good so also there you know, there's
all kinds of nandinas. You're not. It's not your grandmother's Nandina's anymore.
When I say on the design, I say it obsession Dandina, and people
go, I don't want to Dandina. I said, I think you really
like this one because the leaves on it say consistently dark purple pretty much throughout
the summer. And you got consistency and no bugs, none, no,
no. Insects don't like nandinas. They do not like them. Wonderful they
have a fairly long life span. You'll probably get twenty five to thirty years
out of an obsession. Andina didn't like everything else, get kind of old.
Just throw them out to get you a new one, but give them
a good home for a while. Anyway. It's kind of the same thing
with the Dwarf Nandina. And I see a lot of people let them get
too tall right around Valentine's Day. You need to get that big old thirty
two cylinder. We'd like Kevin. That's clipper, like Kevin has. Yeah,
and cut those Dwarf Dandina's back, big old diesel thing and you think,
oh my god, I cut it back to me. Nothing left.
Yeah, for a little whiles it will be. But they come back looking
so nice. If they're really If the Dwarf Dandine is to cut back really
low in the spring, So and I do that to mind about every second
or third year, and and this this next year, they're really gonna get
it. You're gonna get it good, go get it hurt right, They're
gonna more than that. And they come up some ice and they're small and
real bushy and tight. It's kind of like you like. But anyway,
they can't be beat. As far as the fall and winter color, the
Dwarf Landina has a very brilliant red like those buttons over there. Yeah,
red color on them in the fall in winter, so really nice and no
bugs and no diseases, and they're just easy to grow. A landscaper's dream
because you don't have to do anything to them. So a dwarf sandinas.
Another go went to using the landscape along with the yop on hollidays and so
on, and kind of a new A new one in the realm is a
blue star juniper. Okay, it's not new because I planted some of the
house thirty years ago, still there, yeah, but anyway, this one
gives you some blue color which contrasts actually in the wintertime with the red in
a composition. And it's a very low care plant. It's a junifer squamata
in a variety of blue stars. This squimata has a very durable plant.
And this the blue star universe stays really small. It's about the size of
a half a basketball. It just sits there and stays blue the whole time.
Just doesn't think. So the more the more sunshiny gets, the better
it is. I use it for little color accidents because you have to think,
what has going to look like in January, what's it going to look
like in July? All the things you have to factor into this landscape.
And that's kind of why I pick out certain plant materials I could do just
so it does have some stability. Now you put in other plants that do
stuff, perennials and whatnot, to do stuff on a seasonal basis in with
it. But it's gonna look fairly consistent from in July and same thing in
January. But you're going to ask some changes of other things around in there
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place. But in the winter time, what's there? Yeah, there's nothing?
So why looks so blending of perennials and annuals and some hardy shrub a
year round gives you kind of a year round interest. So a little flock.
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question or a comment, you can do that one eight hundred seven nine three
six. We love talking to inquisitive folks. Lurie. Let's talk a little
bit about the red maple. Let's do that. The red maple is a
highly adaptable tree. You can grow just about anywhere you do want to planet
in an area where have some fairly deep soil because shallow roots. Than that's
a pretty good tree. I like to avoid planting this on a hill.
Why when the soil it roads for not having the flight, you got gotta
go to the boom and that looks like a hand on the top of the
ground. You want to be sort of careful on a on a hillside situation.
You might consaid chime to use this dash or something like that. Yeah,
but anyway, the red maple is known for it's fall color. Really
wants the fall color. And there's some new varieties out there the red maple
that the feminize variety, which is across between the red and silver. Yeah,
it's a little bit of silver maple in it, but it does have
the strength of the red maple. And the color on the on the maples
is can't be beep. So you might consider that for an area put a
maple tree somewhere where you might want some shit, you missed it went over
that way. We have a flying beast in here that we're trying to catch.
But the red maple is very easy to grow. I mean, you
don't have to do too much to it, because I know because I got
two of them in my house. And they just sort of grow on their
own. The ones at the north of it, they'll got attacked by boards
is terrible and I usually emidic opri on it got rid of the boards.
Now it's just really flushing and doing very well. So typically they have a
lifespan of thirty years or so in the landscape. Then they kind of get
overgrown and fall apart a little bit. I know one on the south side
is starting to starting to kind of do that, you know, let's geting
a little old, kind of like what I do when I hit thirty.
So but anyways, these days are like I said, the highly adaptable plants.
They're indigenous to lowland areas. Typically, in other words, you find
them in the ecosystem of things in lowland areas where typically the soil is a
little bit anaerobic, and their response to that anaerobic soil is to have a
fairly shallow root system. So that's kind of drawback to the red maple.
But if you have it in an area and you keep it trimmed up so
the light can get to the grass down below it, you should have some
pretty good luck with it not having some shallow roots. I have two of
them in my house, and I don't have any shallow roots on the ground
at all because I'll keep it trimmed up. Plenty of light, right,
and the soil doesn't eroad when you have plenty of light, because the grass
is real. I actually had bermina grass going in shade at my house.
How do you do that? They just know it real tall. Okay,
it's not very thick. It's real kind of whispy. It's there. But
from the street it looks okay, but you get on top of it,
yeah, well you know. Anyway, So it's growing underneath the red maple,
and it got to the point where the grass was just so somewhat non
existent under the maple trees. So I made kind of beds underneath it,
these big rocks, put them on there, some of the rocks around it
the landscape composition, and I put some plants underneath it that will compete suespecially
with the red maple. So it looks kind of nice, so cool,
so red red maple. If you don't want to have the you have,
of course a little seed to spin around, and you do get a little
red maples all over the yard in the spring. But that's I consider that
a kind of a small price to pay for a tree that's durable and looks
nice even in the heat of the summer. So consider that for a shade
tree, keep it, say thirty feet twenty thirty feet away from the house,
because you do get pretty big. I've seen a lot of people who
plant them too close to the house and it's just not a good thing.
So they should do pretty well. But if you keep them thirty feet away,
twenty thirty feet away from the house, And I keep in mind your
water line coming into the house and the sewer line going out of the house.
Know where those are before you plant it, too, because the rich
system can cause some damage. And you can also wrap yourself around the water
pipe and snap it if it's PBC. Yeah, really good. The plumbers
are expensive, yeah, almost as expensive as a hard doctor, really,
so you want to kind of plant it head on that if you do have
If you do want a planet trade that's in that vicinity, you might consider
something like a pistache. I would steer clear of oaks around that area too,
because they can cause real problems with plumbing. Oh yeah, in the
sprinker system too, So so plan to plan ahead on locating a tree and
pick out the right species for the situations. Should do just fine to be
trouble free. Okay, Uh, plan your landscape out always a good time
to do that, and it's something we do. Have a meeting with a
customer here in thirty minutes about his landscape too, so we've been to discuss
it. And there's five different cost centers on this landscape. So broke it
down so you can look at it and decide what he might want to do.
So we do. We do landscape planning. It's a good idea to
have some kind of plan so you know what's coming on. And there's a
lot of professional do it. I mean, I mean, folks, you
can read all you want, but you've been doing this more than a minute,
Larry, Yeah, that's nineteen seventy nine. Here you go. So
you've got a little bit of experience behind it, just a little bit,
you know, a little bit there too. Yeah, and of course you
got a neat can't system that you can show people what it's going to look
like. Yeah. You get an overhead a plan view as well as the
perspective you too, so it helps to visualize. Some people have they can't
visualize something with a just a plan view. What this does is let you
see what it will actually look like. So I've got some designs on the
drawing board. I'm a little slow getting done because I'm out putting the stuff
in the ground. He's trying to and they out working out working for twenty
five year old. Yeah, oh yard than that. So anyway, so
yeah, a landscape a plan is something we offer to but I'm needing a
little bit of time just to get it done. So the okay, cool,
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us one eight hundred seven three six with questions. Comment. Didn't mean to
catch you off mid sentence there, Larry. That's where where we are.
Heart Hibiscus, they're blooming right now. I have some in the backyard that
are blooming, and unlike any of the flowers, say that's in the garden
if you will. The heart of hibiscus offers us flowers that are both rather
large and also rather delicate, just as if they were made from crape paper
the great big flowers. The flowers arrange in size from three to four and
is to up to eight to twelve inches in diameter, and it's highly reliant
on the amount of resources available. So the center of each flower is you'll
find a bit of a dark trickle like this right here here you go,
and it's reminiscent of a say, of a rose of Sharon, which is
actually related rosa Sharon is a Hibiscus syriacus. These are Hibiscus mochetto's here,
yes, so they're kind of related to that. And we all know the
durability and strength of the rows of Sharon being a very sturdy plant, a
very reliable one actually in blooming and quite show you in the landscape too,
so if this one also offers that, but it has a red of large
flower on it and lots of different colors available. This one also kind of
fools people in the spring because it takes it a while to come up out
of the ground. It's not the first one to show up in the landscape.
It typically it doesn't really start to grow until it gets the soil gets
really warm, and a lot of people take them for a loss and they
dig them up and oh no, oh no no. So if you do
have a hard have biscuits, hopefully it's in an area that's fairly well drained
and in the open sun, and it should do really, really quite well.
This is a native American species, the heart of hibiscuits, and it
typically grows in the swampy areas but obviously very hearty or very highly adaptable.
That's the name hardy, hardy hibiscuits. And it comes up every year.
Uh so it is very easy to grow. It has a few pats on
it too now and then you'll get some little caterpillars knowing on it, but
don't seem to bother that much. And if it's really really hot and humid
and rainy when they set their ballooms, chances are they won't bloom as heavily
as they would if it were a little drier. So they're in bloom right
now, thank goodness. And we've got some rain coming for the next few
days. So these uh they got to chance chants some in the backyard.
Did are. They're about five feet tall in the and they have red red
blooms on them. Actually dug them up out of a customer's yard you want
to have invited said, take some of them with you. Okay, cool,
it's throw in the ground. See you're on your own, buddy.
And right now they're they're in full bloom, and they're towards the back of
the landscape composition because they get rather tall, so and they're putting on a
lot of red flowers right now. So they're really kind of attractive plants too.
They don't bloom all summer long. They don't bloom as long, says
The Roads of Sharing. But when they do bloom, it's on quite a
good show, very good. So hard to have. Biscus might be the
one you want to consider in the landscape, in the back of the landscape
somewhere. It's going to be a year or two before it really really puts
on a big shell. But if you plant it in good soil, not
in clay, but in good soil, it should do quite well. So
add a lot of accomplish to the soil and do it a preparation about as
wild as you can reach around say three feet wide or so, depending on
your reat. But you want to do a pretty good size ground prep for
that so its roots can exploit the area and you have bigger, better ballooms
if you have a bigger, better prep on your soil. All about the
prep. You gotta work a very few pests on this also maybe a little
caterpillar now and then, but very few pests on too. Vegetables still time
to plant beans, cowpees, almost time for turnips and multiose tomatoes really well,
water only when needed. Try to keep the water level constant on your
tomatoes just then, don't crack and should do just fine. A customer brought
in tomato with a rotted bottom on it, and it's a blossoming rot and
typically that's indicate eating a chascium deficiency in the soil. So we have some
liquid calcium she's going to put on the plant. And also I told her
to get in February. I use some gypsum and some magnesium sulfate or epsom
salts in your soil. Blend that into the soil. You shouldn't have much
of a problem with blossom inrot. Then tomato is like a slightly lower pH
two, so the epsom salts will help that also. Anyway, come buy
the nursery and check us out. We've got all kinds of things on the
sale. Right now, got tons of composts, tons of dirt, got
some dirt a good still, a great selection of shrubs and hollies and whatnot
over at the nursery, and some cool things to have around the house too.
So anyway, we're on No Water Road, halfway between Madison and Washington,
on the south side of the road, and tom ally has been quite
a show. Keep your shovel sharp. We will see you next week.