And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program and once again our number one eight hundreds
up in four nine, five nine three six. I'm Tom. I just
answer the phones around here. The real brains of the operation is standing right
next to me, Larry Glass. Larry, how are we doing today?
Pretty good, Tom, been awful busy getting us some landscaping weren't done and
getting caught up. We're selling a lot of plants at the nursery too,
and we're kind of selling a lot of hummingbird and oh the mother things.
What are they? A lot of things humming bird plants. Yeah, yeah,
anyway that they liked to hummingbird plants, so we'll get those. And
so that's kind of kind of cool going on around. It's kind of the
hot time of the year too, obviously a little bit, and you have
to obviously have to be very concerned conservative with water, and as I've say
it in the past, so we'd over again multi multi molts. That helps
it. I have my tomatoes under about about nine inches of mults and there's
plenty of moisture down there. So they're looking good too. They're looking really
good. I think we've had about five tomatoes, but there's more on the
horizon. But anyways, there's more and add a lot of mults. And
also my drip system works very well. And that's kind of a system because
it addresses the water specifically rather than just slinging out like you know, like
hash on them Saturday morning, you know, but just yeah, really no,
it the more specific the water you can, the more efficient you're going
to be with it. And let's let's clarify things. Larry's using bathwater these
days because of the conservation of water. Yeah, I use for my elephant
ears here. Yeah, and they're doing fine, but they are, but
they're clean. Who wants the dirty elephant? Your planets, not me?
Anyway, that works works for rather what plants don't seem to care about what's
going on, and it's wat it's water. It's good. Yeah. A
lot of my customers are doing the same thing, but they are. Yeah.
Yeah, I got a bather a couple of buckets in the showers also,
and it it helps uh to alleviate having to use so much water sure
waste. So that's the one way to do it. Of course, what
I what I talked about in the last winter and all in the spring gets
a good deep soil prep so that water can get down into that soil.
That's a practice we follow when we do landscaping. It's really loosen it up
because the soil is acts sort of as a capacitor for water. It's sore
as water and does a good job of the two if it If it's opened
up enough so that's where the compost comes in. It makes the soil will
pour, so it goes down deep. And also when when it comes to
water usage, Uh, I've said a priority at my house, I make
sure the foundation has adequate moisture. First. Hadn't water my grass yet this
year. You know, it's starting to turn a little round but in places.
So what I'm gonna do is dig that up and take the rocks out
and put some soiler out there, so so that'll help it later on.
Having some soilers can grow in beside rock. So anyway, so just just
kind of ease up on the grass a little bit. It'll survive, okay,
you know, once a week it's fine. But I, like I
said, I don't water my grass. I'll value the water more than my
grass. Yeah, So I don't do that anyway. At the Nurse Creek
container in Balden Brees bald burn out trees can be planted about anytime. You
got a phone call this morning sixty five kind of plants and trees and things.
So trying to beat the heat, weren't they lay Yeah, they're out
there digging holes and I know you're up at four o'clock. How do I
plant? They wanted to know how far apart the plant them and how deep
and so on, and gave him some quick tips on it, and it's
okay, yeah, I will do that anyway. So the cell phone comes
in handy, Yeah it does. It just got gotten out of the bath,
so filled the bucket and they answered the call. I didn't have the
camera on good show here, so the hostess also they're still showing their their
blooms and leaves. I have something my house. Between the shed and the
house, there's a building code that's part of how far away from the house
she can have the outbuilding and all that, so that there's nine feet and
there's a pathway. They're also to get from one part of the yard to
another. And they're doing fine in that and that niche if you will big
old leaves and flowers on them and all that. I haven't watered them yet
this year. You're doing just fine. So you make these microclimates for them
like that, and they do very well. Okay, hostess are showing the
blooms real well too. The en Corzelia is show a little flower here and
there, and the cone flowers are starting to show some color too. Cone
flowers is uh, the e and aca is a native species that the hummingbirds
are like too. Oh yeah, they're gimming hummy to the hummingbirds hum like
this real well. Yeah, and butterflies and monarchs are like them well too.
So anyway, you're gonna have friends if the wildlife kingdom out there,
if we have that is going on. Yeah, they like my sunflowers too,
the sunflowers in the backyard too, and the squirrels like the seeds so
whatever. Anyway, So anyway, they're starting to exhibit some color. The
hard hill biscuits are just about ready to bloom out, and the crepe myrtles
seem a little bit late this year for some odd reason. I think it's
because of the rather cool spring wind this year and cool and relatively dry spring,
so they're they're a little slow, so they'll be out pretty soon.
And the hard hir biscuits too. Got some of my yard that have your
blooms that they're six feet another. They're big, big old flowers all that,
and they're very drought tolerant also too. So life's going on pretty well
despite our lack of water. And some of the indigenous plants, some of
the well established plants are they're they're not affective. You don't see any trees
out there they're have any problems, no, because we have pretty good water,
pretty good water down deep. But it's just on the surface where the
grass and your flowers are where we have some issues there. So and I
always say just be conservative with the water and just water that only wind it's
needed, and they do fine. We've we've done some landscapes too in the
past that also utilize little water requiring plants, and we're in the process of
doing one right now where the plant materials are more drought tolerant than others.
And there's some microclimates involved in the site too, where you use different kinds
of plants in the shade, in the sun and all that on the same
property too, So and you try to use plants that will tolerate the low
water conditions right well in those situations too, so usuagaus right. Anyway,
that kind of gets to weeds and things, and round up is is a
common, uh insecticidal. It's a little bit of controversy behind it at this
point, but my mouth, my thought on that is just just don't get
it on you. And I've had this theory about round up if if it
wouldn't be much of a problem with the people that they made the stink.
Yeah, you know, some of these insecticides or herbicides just smell bad.
Yeah, you know, I don't want that on me. And if it
really if they put some stink on in it, you'll get the point across.
I don't be any problems with I don't want that. But they sling
it around like you know, like sut mouth when when it doesn't smell,
they think they they think it's kind of harmlets. So anyway, so be
very careful with the use of that, make sure your proportionate proper. I've
I've done some spots spraying on like cry brass. Taking care of it took
it a week and a half. Yeah, well you know it's getting it
out, but anyway, so round up is a good tool to use in
an area where I say, you might have some gravel or something or unwanted
vegetation. It's good for that. Yeah, and any any application of that
that hits the ground is completely useless. This this mechanism works like through being
absorbed through the leaves rather than into the ground, so it doesn't take a
lot for this. I really think people over apply it too, so you
have to be very careful with it and apply it asparingly and also use a
spread er sticker per se. A lot of these plants have a little haired
hairs on them, and that's designed to make rain water and stuff bounce off.
And if you if you water it's particularly hard, which it can be
in some parts, the same thing happens. It bounces off the leave and
it's in his the ground that doesn't really get absword properly. So you want
to add a surfactant to the to the round up. Now. Soap is
a pretty good one who works pretty good too, but really a genuine spread
it just takes a few drops. A genuine spreader sticker works really well to
mix with that. So when you're when you're applying that around the brainier beside,
you always want to use a spreader sticker with it. There you go.
It makes the water wetter and it stays on the leave, so therefore
it gets a chance to do its job exactly. So if that's good.
A roundup works by being absorbed into the into the plant, and it stopped
some growth mechanisms in the plant. That's why it takes it a little bit
of time for it to work. Now sometimes you get quick kill. Yeah,
yeah, well that it comes back. That's die quod, and a
die quot is worse than roundup when it comes to harming you and all that.
You have to be very careful with it. Yeah, that's a really
dangerous stuff. So anyway, it I think we had that once when I
lived in Illinois. It killed everything. Anyway, round up motive or glashosate
for the motive action to inhibit an enzyme involved in the synthesis of the amedio
acids trio sne, triophan and phinileline, that too stopped all that production going
on. If I gotta down there here too. So anyway, it soaks
into the foliage and it's trans located in growing tissues and kills it that way.
So anyway, that's kind of how round up works, okay, and
I'd be very careful with it too. So it was produced at Montano's campus
located in Middleton, Wisconsin. And there are some roundup ready ready crops.
I guess they're they're called GMOs yep. The only thing is they have a
gene in there that's ops the mechanism of roundup or prevents the mechanism of roundup
to work, so they can spray spray it all over the place and kill
the weeds out. So that's kind of how that works too. So they
engineer the plants to have an immunity to it. Yeah, I've seen that
stuff. You know. It keeps the kids from walking beatings these days,
you know. Yeah. One thing about the clapp is it also is it
decomposes rather readily, so I don't think it's much of a problem for being
in the food itself, so it's no big deal. Okay. So that's
kind of the story with a round up. Use it sparingly, use it
properly. Anything that hits the ground is a waste, yes, And don't
get it on you ya, don't get it on you. It needs to
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five nine three to six. We want to talk to Larry Glass, our
expert today and uh, well we got next on our list there. Well,
another thing getting down to insect side server sides. I had some white
fly on my tomatoes, which is death nail for your tomatoes. You don't
want those, and I said, okay, So I said I'll try this
stuff. It's a Captain Jack's dead bug. Well, I like the name.
It's a spinazad which is a synthesis of spinazad A and B and uh
it's it's sort of organics, very safe, sort of organicis well, not
safe for the bug. It's a bacterial thing that was found in a a
run factory because the buggins would jump into that soup whatever it was and they
just die. So wow, what's the deal? What is this stuff?
And I tried that. I'm like, I said, okay, right,
fly really hard to control. So it comes with a we have it at
the nursery and hook on the hosing kind of thing, and it worked.
I don't have any white Jack's dead bug. Wieflies are extremely tough to control.
Yeah, and this seems to do the job. There's still a few
I'm on there, but it's you know, a few of them aren't bad.
Yeah, but you know, wipeflies they multiply like crazy, even more
than rabbits, and I've always had problems with them in the past and just
seat them up and then plants get weak and they go you know. So
they're doing rather well, actually right and healthy. And also I have a
nine inch layer of mulch on the tomatoes too. That works. That helps
help keep it. If you're if you're soil, it's the moisture level in
your soil. It's fairly constant. Then you don't have much of a problem
with cracking and stuff like that. And and the road to me, it's
just origented east and west, so they kind of shade each other a little
bit too, so that helps kind of fly a little bit of wisdom.
You're good. And I didn't grow tomatus or I think or anything last year,
but every other year I'll I'll put them on there. Then I'll grow
tomatus in the pots in the yard. You know the next year you don't
want to put them in the same place. But really, with with the
Seder role Chi, I don't know if the Seder Walsch has anything to do
with it, but there's no bacterial lead spot on them this year. Well,
if it's working, I'd stick with it. It's doing pretty good so
anyway, and Kelly, I worked at soil up all winter. I even
put a drip system in which I can't use, but put us there just
the case. But anyway, they're doing just fine. So anyway, Tree
the Week this year this week is uh blue spruce. And the blue spruce
is actually somewhat drought tolerant and also tolerant of some alkaline soils too nice.
It's pretty well barlows except for the clay, but anyway, it will tolerate
dry clay if it's well drained. Got to be drained, ye, So
narrow upright growth eighty two hundred feet tall, but not here it doesn't have
a fight plan. We'll get to forty feet out of them, but yeah,
about and about twenty feet wide or so, give this one lots of
room. It cannot grow an anticipated area. I'll be a little bit rather
slowly. But the thing about it is you really can't prune them back.
You can't know, So you need to pick out a variety that that will
fit the space that you want them to be. In the other ways situation,
I want a blue spruce at the corner of the house. Well,
it may seem a little odd to plant at ten feet away from the house,
but but it'll grow into it. Yeah. In the meantime, you
can plant some other things in between it and the house, perhaps to join
it up a little better. I'm kind of taking a look at one of
our neighborhood home. They kind of started putting their spruces right up in every
corner, and it's like, well, that's a that's gonna cause a little
problem here in a little bit. But anyway, they weren't. Anyway,
this one does not like wet feet, and when we plant them typically we
mounded up a little bit. Yeah, and I try to advise people keep
it unless you put an upright growing sprucer. Are some vertical growing variety's totem
is one of them. There are some others that it grows narrow and upright,
so he can be planting close to the house without too much of a
problem. Got it. But I'd like to keep him away from the west
side. Uh, primarily because of spider spider mon Ye. Spider mights really
like warm surfaces, and they will develop pretty quickly on the west side of
the house. And also these have a tensity to get back words too.
Yeah yeah, bag bag, But you remember what I talked about the spins
ad. Yeah, it's a very good right after. Yeah, it'll knock
out your backworms pretty quickly, so be prepared. And the backwards are kind
of sneaking up on us this year. I've seen little tiny ones, even
on some oak trees. So but they seemed to stop for a little while.
Okay, but just a little while ago before it really stopped raining too
much. I'm seeing them everywhere. The tackle the backwards remember that movie from
nine, No, did we have a big problem without a few years ago,
like like way out of hand. They ate everything last year, and
their recurrence like that is somewhat cyclical, so I think we're on an uphill
swing. Next year will probably be a real, real kill a year for
backworms. So see, you wanted to look real closely at your spruce trees
because they will defoliate tree rather quickly, and look for the little tiny ones
at this point, small backworms, and what I talked about with the spinash
very effective control for those. We did have some on a on a tree.
We planted some little tiny bagworms. I sprayed it on it. The
next day they were just complete. So and it's certain you can take a
bath in this stuff. It's pretty safe. I wouldn't want to do it.
I do it, but maybe it'll kill all the fleas and pick up.
So it's a good. Uh. It's a good insecticide. And it
does control the backworms for well, too good. However, if you see
them and they're fairly large, and they and they stopped eating your plant,
sin is too late, so they've already done their damage. So good.
A funny thing is that backworms were different colors, like reds and blues and
yellows. People would want them. I'll tell you what. We didn't take
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too now on the agenda lawns uh crab grass? Yeah, yeah, the
post emergent crabgrass control quincl iraq okay is if you can say that that three
times quinn chlora que quick. We have at the nursery and product call weed
out with Q and it's a selective Remember MSMA Mount of Sunny massid Myth and
Arson eight. Yeah that one. Yeah, that one that was an only
bit of goody. That was a popular one to control grassy. We actually
annual grasses and targets in pretty well, but there some issues with the arsenic
being that's always a bit of a bother staying in the soil and we don't
want that in drinking water. So anyway, so they kind of took it
off. They took it off the common market. You can still get it
from wrench stores and all that. So anyway, anyway, crab grass is
a warm season annual grass grows and best in the heat of the summer.
I've seen some lawns that are made completely of crag grass. I have two.
It's right next to my house. Oh yeah really yeah. Anyway,
it overwinters as seed and the crag grass at this point in time is beginning
to go to seed. It is, so we're running out of time with
the control. Once they get to the point where it's a hard stage like
that, you you missed the boat. So anyway, it comes up about
mid May or lad when it comes up, and it is often killed by
a fall frost. Crabgrass is not shay tolerant and grows best in full hot
sun. Uh. Several long practices can be used to help control crab grass.
A pre emergent urbside in the in the in the fall works rather well.
Get it in there in February two. You want to get it on
there, so to control the seeds from coming out. The word is control.
You're still gonna have something here and there. But the technical fast majority.
Yeah yeah. My neighbor crossed the street doesn't have crab grass, but
I do. The winds of change, I know, I got I have
one day a week I can work on my yard. Come on, man,
yeah, really quit sharing so much. Well you know where it comes
from. It blows up the street. My curb, curb in my house
just stops that airflow jumped over the curb. There you go. We got
crab grass on the southwest part of the yard. Word anywhere. So yeah,
So anyway, a good healthy grass is a good control for that too.
And knowing you when to put down a pre emergent and a post emergent
urbside at the right time, we'll do a good job of controlling that.
So you want to keep your grass getting healthy. And that is a you
know, fertilizer about once in a month and watered occasionally. But we're having
issues with water this year, so next year maybe it'll rate next year,
So take your claw hammer and dig it out fall else fails. It's a
it's more of a problem in warmer areas, say by curbs and driveways.
I noticed that along the curb and along the sidewalk is where it comes out
most. And it will fill in where the permuter grass had died out ahead
an area where the grass died for some odd reason dive out last last last
summer. And this year the crab grass is taken over. And I zinka
was some round up so good. I don't know what to do with it.
But anyway, it's take that, thank that. So so you want
yeah, anyway, So crab grass, it's tough to control at this point
because it's starting to go to seed. Yeah, so you probably missed a
boat on it. A claw hammer works real real well too. You can
see we're allcome. Just dig it up and put in a bucket and throw
it out in one way to get rid of it too, unless you got
a whole lot of it. So then you go and be out there a
few days. Yeah, keep them more blade good and sharp. Yeah.
So anyway, so crabgrass, you got to be strategic with it, and
the timing is really important. A fall application of for diamine works real well,
or spring application will work real well. You keep it under control,
and then I say control and then post post emergent applications of a Queen CLARAQ.
We'll do a good job to control it. But but you have to
there's a time frame when that has to be done and we're getting out of
that time frame right now. So okay, that's to deal with cray brass
on your fescue lawns, they need to be fairly high right now and real
tall. It does help prevent moisture loss if it has a lot of green
on the top and the grass can transpire better and draw it more moisture that
way, keep itself cool, so it's healthier. Bermuda grass about an inch
and a half two inches tall, same with zoysia. Now Zosia is less
drop tolerant than bermuda grass. So when you do selzio grass, you want
to make sure you have some good soiled depth so we can tolerate our periodic
weather dryness without much of a problem, without having the water all the time.
There you go, So there you go. But anyway, if you
do want to do some ground prep before you plan zisia. We're doing a
project now where it's going to involve in selesio grass, but we're kind of
kind of putting on a hold until maybe it starts to rain a little bit
so we can water it in. Yeah, I'm I'm looking at that big
old bright sunshine on that imagined. By the end of the week we might
be at stage four really looking at it. The bet man would agree with
you. Yeah, so, and then there's no no watering anywhere. No,
so yeah, more more more bathtub. So we need more tub.
We need to We need to keep ourselves and you know, ourselves clean and
all that before we worry about the grass. But anyway. Um, oh,
there's there's not I thought that was a third page. We'll take a
break real quick, right back, but more of the Green Country Gardener program.
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program. It's eight forty one. Our phone lines were open and one eight
hundred and seven four nine five nine three six. Larry, what's uh what
do we have here? We can talk a little bit about salvia. I
might have talked about this last week, a little bit. It's a little
square stem, you got it right. Pay attention, Pay at attention here,
Remember that the salvia family goes all the way across. There's a good
plant to have around here. And there's a perennial one too, several perennial
and it was a wide spectrum of plants too. And another plant I like
is Petrovska. It's the Russian stage. Okay. It has this, uh,
this kind of silvery foliage and these blue flowers on it, and it
gets to be a pretty good sized plant. There are some small one so,
but it grows anywhere, and it's it's a perennial too. It's a
pretty tough plant, so you might well, you might want to consider it
if you got an area, what's some pretty good room in the landscape where
it's relatively dried and you don't want to water something so much, you might
consider the Russian stage or Trumb's easy for you to say, Yeah, anyway,
it's it's a quite showy plant, quite large. All right, good,
we got a call here. Let's go for it. Hi, good
morning, and welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program. Your question to comment
for Larry, Good morning, Larry, good morning. Have you have you
had any experience with bind weed? Bind weed? Bind Weed's radio that?
Yeah, it comes up out of real fat white flower on the top right
now. Yeah, it's a tough one to control around. Yeah, I
have it in my yard up. I just pulled it up and just keep
after it. But it has a very deep root system on it. Sure
I didn't understand you. I said, I have it in my beds at
home and I just keep pulling it up. But it does have a deep
root system, so it is difficult to control. Yes, it is,
you know around it probably wouldn't kill it, would it. It has a
very glossy leaf and because of that, it probably wouldn't soak up very easily.
No, So what I do at home, I just pull it.
I'll just keep pulling it. And if a plant can't photosynthesize, it can't
survive, So it'll eventually just die out if you just stay after it.
Yeah. Well I have some of that in the pasture and I can't find
the chemical that will kill it. Yeah, it's very hard to kill.
Okay, thank you. It's a tough one, all right, thank you.
For anybody has any idea of how to control bindweed, Well, give
us a sho yeah, because we'd like to know something that's not really you
know, like deadly. Just no, it just gets Yeah, but it's
a it's a tough one to control this very deeply. You pull on it
and you get eight inches of stem before it breaks off the route. Wowee.
And it is a pain in the neck. Now if you mix a
sure factor in with it, with it help you know, to stay on
the leave a little bit. Oh, I can experiment with it. Maybe
we didn't. We did have you take hold project. But I think what
I can do probably is I get a small container like like cut like a
pop bottle. Yeah, sure, and and then dip it in that and
see what happens. What happens? Yeah, yeah, with a rubber glob.
Remember you don't want it on you. No, no, that'll probably
take care of it. But it has a very waxy leaf on it.
And because of that, tough. Yeah, what we need is some kind
of bug that lead it. Now there you go. Yeah, then it'll
probably eat your crape myrtles too. Oh well then then that's not fun.
That's not fun at all. Ye see, we solve one problem creative.
It's a tough one to control. And uh, I don't know if the
cattle either or not. I'm not familiar with this. Yeah, I don't
know about that. A nice sour of the milk a bit uh so much
for the Swiss cheese, but won't be very gooda okay, yeah that that
that gooded cheese. Yeah, I know, I know. Silent treatment.
Wow? Could I heard a pin drop? Who? I kind of practice
that's the best way to say. Nothing. But anyway, salbia as well
and average or red soils and fertilized it kind of had as it needed and
over long season it flowers as flowers will drop leaving kind of a bit of
a ragged spike. But that's just cut it back a little bit and the
new growth emerges, you know, kind of refresh too. So this one
it responds very well too. Some cutting back now and then. So if
you if you have like five leve minu a row, you might cut back
actually two even them, and then let them, you know, just alternate
them so they don't all cut back at the same time. But anyway,
shabby is a very good plant for for our climate here because they just tolerate
the drought real well. Didn't you say that? Like mint? Yeah,
mint, just remember the mint family. Yes. And another plant that does
very well in the landscape and the subber time is an annual pailinkle, okay,
and it tolerates to eat real well too. Lantana is another good one.
And the hummingbirds where they like the lantanas. So so there's a lot
of butterflies like them too. There you go. So we get people coming
in wants some butterfly plants, and here's some. I have a meeting with
somebody today who is purchasing some for butterflies. So the secret to a butterfly
garden is a fairly large. One say, they just kind of go in
the wind. And I don't know if they communicate with each other, but
I think you do. Say, hey, George, I found a big
plot of flowers over here. Come on, bring your friends over. Yeah,
let's go to Margees. So they probably don't. They don't communicate too
much. It's just kind of wandering around trying to find them, though.
I guess humming birds are the same way. We have a humny repeaters at
our house and someone just asking me about those, and I bought ten of
them. That's a lot of Well, you don't put them all out at
once. They can only stay out for so long you want to. You
don't want fungus to build up in there. It's kind of deadly for them.
So we leave them out for a few days and empty mountain and put
them in the dishwasher and make sure to put Yeah, so if you want
to, if you want to have hummingbirds, and you how many repeaters by
double and not you want to get just so you have somehothing that you can
keep clean. And if you pull them over there and wash them or and
it takes a couple of days to put them back up there. They're going
to go somewhere else, so they don't quite understand. And I'll change them
out at night too, so they're not exactly loyal. They're just gonna go
to where. Yeah. I really think they come back every year at the
same ones too. They try it out, they know where it is.
Yeah, So anyway, that's so how many repeaters tiny? I don't know
how they do what they do, but oh yeah, it's amazing just to
watch that in motion. You just kind of look at that and say,
I don't get wings just flapping and they're just there's nothing to them, no,
because wings in the beak. Yeah, And earlier in in the the
spring, we had a lot of the how many bird moth? Now that's
basically the adult adult stage of the to me to hornworm, is that what
that is? Yeah, I didn't know the jette. It's a tornado the
tornado hern hornworm. Tomato hornworm is a fairly large about the size of this,
a little bigger than this plug in thing over here, almost the size
of your little finger. And they have a little spike on the back and
they're green with the kind of an iridescent green color. But this a little
bit of banding on it and a spike on the end MT yeah really yeah.
I guess that the robins don't like that little spike so they don't eat
them. Whatever anyway, and then and they turned into tornado a tornado.
They turned into butter humming bird moth and they hover around and they were they
were looking at my hanging pots, just just hovering around them. And I
think they've kind of gone for now. They laid their eggs and they we'll
have these big giant worms on her tomactus. Good. So okay, Well,
I want to talk a little bit about also the yellow leave to Spyria
Syria x boom. Well, it's actually somewhat drought tolerant and tolerant, no
it is, but where am I oh? Attractive bronzy new growth matures to
a yellow green leaf later on as it grows, and some crimson blooms,
a small little bloom blom in the summer, and the fall color is copperated
coprate orange. It's great in the foreground. It's a smaller plant, and
it's deciduous and there's nothing about nothing to it in the wintertime, which could
be a good good thing too, because it's always looks looks good in the
summertime. It likes full sun and moderate growth. About three to four feet
tall and spreads a little bit whiter. It's great for color accent plant.
It's kind of a parallel to they say, the crimson pygmy barberry, which
has these red leaves on them, and people find that attractive. And it's
very hearty, very durable response ory world of pruning, and it's easy to
grow. A drought tolerant plant even tolerates pour soil, hardy down to thirty
below zero. It's a really good plant. Gives you a lot of color
on it, but it has thorns. That's this primary drawback. They haven't
been able to breathe the thorns out of these things. But when they're getting
they're really not that spiky. It's the old thorns that that that persists on
the on the branches. People get a little and probably the best thing you
can do on your spiriha. It is such a plant that's so well suited
for this area. Oh, I mean not Spatis firia, but the barbary
plants. Yeah, it's to cut them back every spring, okay, almost
to the ground. Oh for a good good oh, Yeah, they grow
and developed so quickly the variegated spireas that they'll be assumed that size rather quickly.
Again, so don't let them get too big. Same thing with the
with the spirea plant. People let them get too big and they get ugly.
They need to be cut back at least every year or maybe every other
year for them to look real good. So spiria or a good thing in
the landscape. They're very hearty, they're very easy to grow. There's no
insects along with the the the colored leaped spirea, So the spirea and the
and the barbara. I kind of use them in tandem. Down them.
But the important thing is to cut them back, all right, gotta pay
attention to they just they just look ugly when they get too big. Yeah,
they kind of like kind of like Nandina's. Actually, actually they are
related to Nandina's. They are, yeah, not the spiria, but the
barbares. And the common denominator is the yellow wood numb the bart scratch scratch,
Oh yeah, that's a barbaris yellow. Yeah, so there's always a
way to tell. So anyway, that's kind of the story with small shrug
that give you color and important thing is to cut them back rather sternly in
the spring. All right, we're gonna take another break. We'll be back
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And let's go to the telephones here and good morning. Hi, you're on
with Larry. Your question or comment? Good morning. I wasn't sure your
break was over yet. Oh yeah, you timed it perfectly. Great.
Hey, y question. I haven't heard you talk about this. But what
about flowering quins? Um, My neighbor has one, and I see out
my kitchen window. Yes, and it said bookou red blossoms on it this
year by hidden. But it's not moving now except there was an occasional red
blossom. But I've never seen any fruit in thing. You used to have
one. They grew in far bed outside our church and it actually if you
go on the way, I think somebody pointed a shroud in front of it.
You know, you research it in the sunlight. Again, So Ry,
what have you got to do to get fruit in these things? You
need a male plant and a female plant. Yeah, the flowering well for
one thing, when they bloom is typically it's very early in the spring and
there's not very many pollinators out at that time of the year. So perhaps
a more southern latitude you might have some better fruit on it. But even
the northern one let let bloom a little bit later. But typically they're drown
primarily for their flowers, and really the food production is nil, if any
at all. Okay, it's kind of a kind of a freak if it
does have a little bit of fruit on it, but then again, fruits
good for nothing but throwing at something. But it's hard as a rock.
But I understand they make a pretty good pie. They do. They do
when you when you when you cook them up enough and all that. But
yeah, flowering quints blooms. Uh this year, they boomed late. This
year they boomed after the leaves emerged because we had such a change of environment.
But most of the years it will bloom in the absence of leaves.
Were a fairly brief period of time typically and coincident with the uh for Scythia
so which which is actually remember the olive family. But anyway, so flowering
quints, yeah, go ahead, and it's a good durable plant. It
can take all the drought. I think it'll just grow in concrete. Uh.
And it's it's a very durable plant. And it helps also to punt
it back a little bit in the right after the blooms when it's done blooming
in the spring, and it'll make a prettier shrub I think. But it's
just a strong, durable, virtually pets free plant. Okay, great than
all right, thanks going, all right, thank you very much. Oh,
there's some Japanese vats of that which are beautiful when they bloom. It's
a apple blossom like bloom, pink and white, really really nice kind of
growths are regularly also, so they're real they can be real pretty plants.
But the bloom is variable on that depending on the weather. It's just they're
can' fickle well no, well, not tickle, but responsive to the weather.
Okay. Responsive, So if we have a cool spring, they'll be
late. If we have a warm spring to bloom real early, okay.
So that you can't really count on the calendar. It knows when it's supposed
to do it. Yeah, But it's a good plant. It's very durable.
It does tend to also spread through writ divisions as well too. It
does so it eventually it will form a bramble. So, if you know
what I mean, I do so good. A lot of good plants like
that are the goold fashioned plants like that that do real well. And with
this weather a bit going on, we might see more of those. I
get the feeling you may be correct. Yeah, exactly. So anyway,
come by the nursery and check out our good selection of plants. We've got
plenty of heart of hibiscuits out there right now, in varying leaf color too.
Some of them have red leaves on them. Red flowers are very attractive.
These are really easy to grow. It's it's a native. It's an
American native plant, tooky, and it can tolerate some of the conditions we
have here without incrouble troubles. I've got some of my house that are growing
without without irrigation and they're doing just fine. Great, And it's a good
plant to have. Give it room though, because you get a pretty good
sized plant. So you've got to keep that in mind really when doing all
your landscaping. How big are these plants are going to get? Yeah,
you can't say this looks good right now, you have to wait and see
what's going to happen here in a couple of years. Look look at the
specs and that's why when we do a landscape plants that kind of firepart with,
they'll grow into it three years later. Yeah think so. Anyway,
Kevin, Kevin, Tom, come by the nursery and see what's going on
and keep that shovel sharp. We will see you next week. Flowerland,
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