1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Broadcasting from Studio A. Here at proven Winners, Color Choice Shrubs. 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,240 It's time for the Gardening Simplified Show with Stacy Hervella, me, 3 00:00:10,439 --> 00:00:14,919 Rick Weist, and our engineer and producer Adrianna Robinson. Well, 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,839 today we're talking national Plants of the Year, annuals, flowering annuals, 5 00:00:20,839 --> 00:00:25,199 and Stacy, the elephant in the room is that for 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,120 some people they kind of resist buying annuals because they 7 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:36,640 only last for a year. And I say, no, that's 8 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,719 because annuals are something that well, you know, garden centers 9 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:46,520 will take the approach. Annuals die, they don't come back, 10 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,359 so you'll come back, right. 11 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:52,119 Speaker 2: Well, I mean I just think I get everybody's at 12 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:55,280 a different position in their gardening journey and everything. But 13 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,759 like that's the same as saying, you know, I only 14 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:04,519 buy pants, not socks, not jewelry, not a scarf. I 15 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,959 only buy, you know, a sofa. I don't buy pillows 16 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,000 or a throw or fun things to have around my house. Like, yes, 17 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,640 annuals are a bit frivolous in that they don't come 18 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,640 back every year, but they are so important for keeping 19 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,159 your garden dynamic, keeping it colorful, giving you an opportunity 20 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,480 to do something different every year, because when we invest 21 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:29,959 in shrubs and perennials and trees and all of that, 22 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,120 those are somewhat permanent. 23 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,359 Speaker 1: That's exactly where I was going with this preache. It. 24 00:01:35,599 --> 00:01:39,879 I agree, a landscape without annuals is like red velvet 25 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,079 cake without the frosting. I mean, what would you do 26 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,879 without that cream cheese frosting? Right? Otherwise I wouldn't eat 27 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,439 red velvet cake. 28 00:01:48,319 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 3: Right, you'd be too freaked out by the food coloring. 29 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,879 Speaker 1: As Marie Antoinette said, let them eat cake. Actually she 30 00:01:54,959 --> 00:01:58,359 didn't say that, but that's a whole, other, whole other road. 31 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:03,120 It's an important part part of the season. And I 32 00:02:03,159 --> 00:02:08,520 remember Bill Veck, the famous promoter and marketer in Major 33 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:12,120 League Baseball fifties, sixties and seventies. He was the guy 34 00:02:12,159 --> 00:02:17,120 behind the disco demolition in Chicago that turned into a riot. 35 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:21,599 Look it up. It's quite fascinating, did it. My brother 36 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,159 in law was that bad game. People were flinging record 37 00:02:25,199 --> 00:02:28,120 albums from the upper deck and the boy it got 38 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,960 pretty bad. But anyhow, he always said, there's two seasons 39 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,360 in the year, winter in baseball or here in Michigan 40 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:42,240 winter and road construction. Right, basically, annuals are important part 41 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:46,439 of our growing season, and I think for me, I 42 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:48,919 have a frame of reference in that working in the 43 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,000 industry in the nineteen seventies and eighties, the annual season 44 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:57,599 was a short season. We essentially had Mother's Day weekend 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,400 for mom, and you had decoration Day or Memorial Day 46 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:08,319 and people would would decorate the at the cemeteries with flowers. 47 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:12,960 We are so far past that now with the genetics 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,400 and the incredible varieties that are available that bloom all 49 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:23,840 season long and perform just admirably that Stacey, I'm of 50 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,240 the opinion now that a landscape without annuals is not 51 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:28,240 a landscape. 52 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:30,599 Speaker 2: Well, I think that you're missing out as a gardener. 53 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:34,159 I think you're really missing out on an opportunity. And 54 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,639 you don't have to go crazy, you don't have to spend, 55 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:41,439 you know, five hundred dollars to get some enjoyment out 56 00:03:41,479 --> 00:03:44,280 of annuals. And I think, you know, another big change 57 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,759 here is it's not simply the genetics. The genetics that 58 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,759 have been introduced by companies like Priven Winners definitely have 59 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:53,479 made a change. But I think one of the biggest 60 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,479 changes really is the evolution of containers. Yes, you know, 61 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,400 we've talked about it on the show before, and I 62 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:03,879 know our listeners will remember this as well, many of them. 63 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:06,919 You know, back in the day, you had the plastic cauldron, 64 00:04:07,639 --> 00:04:09,039 you had the plastic. 65 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 3: Swan, whiskey bears had a whiskey barrel, and that was 66 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:15,639 pretty much the extent of it. And now, I. 67 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 2: Mean, garden centers have these huge selections of beautiful imported pottery, 68 00:04:20,319 --> 00:04:23,639 and there's weatherproof stuff. And so with that advent of 69 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,720 all of these really interesting containers, you needed something to 70 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:28,839 fill them up, you bet. 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,399 Speaker 1: And we'll talk about recipe combinations coming up in segment four. 72 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:37,319 But you're so right about that. And you add these 73 00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:44,199 great performing varieties. I think about petunias or verbina or kleome, 74 00:04:44,319 --> 00:04:47,399 I mean cleome. Back in the seventies and eighties, I 75 00:04:47,439 --> 00:04:52,480 think the variety was rose queen. Oh yeah, sticky the 76 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:58,079 odor was awful, reseated itself like mad. You know, now 77 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:04,199 you've got wonderful to ours that really perform in the landscape. 78 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,959 So everything has changed. I guess that's my point. And 79 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:13,279 if you're one of those people that resists annuals in 80 00:05:13,319 --> 00:05:16,000 your landscape, I'd take another look I would too. 81 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 2: And you know, I will come right out and say it. 82 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,240 My husband prides himself on his frugality. He's very frugal 83 00:05:23,879 --> 00:05:27,079 and I appreciate that. And so for many years he 84 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,360 was just very resistant to us growing annuals because he 85 00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:32,319 was just like, oh, you know, they're just going to die, 86 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,759 they only live one season. I won him over by 87 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,079 focusing on annuals that attract hummingbirds. So if you have 88 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,240 this resistant person in your life, try this. Get so 89 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,120 all the annuals that I buy pretty much attract hummingbirds, 90 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,879 almost every single one, And so plant those and then 91 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:55,759 position them around where you do most of your outdoor sitting. 92 00:05:56,519 --> 00:06:00,399 And the day that a hummingbird hovers at their knee 93 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,439 just inches away, they will be converted. 94 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:04,079 Speaker 1: There you go. 95 00:06:04,199 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 3: So that's just a little pro tipic. 96 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: No, you're right, proven winners Salvia Koufia, any of those. 97 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 2: Those are two of I go too, So I think, 98 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:16,399 you know, and that also helps me choose because there 99 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:19,680 are so many annuals that by making sure that I'm 100 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,079 selecting four annuals that attract hummingbirds, not only am I 101 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,920 making us happier and hummingbirds happier, I'm also helping to 102 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,519 kind of curate that enormous selection that you can get. 103 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,519 So even me knowing what I'm working with, knowing what 104 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,319 to expect, yeah, you can get overwhelmed when you see 105 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:35,879 all those fabulous planks. 106 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: Well, I love annuals and I buy lots of them 107 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:41,959 for my landscape. I enjoy them. So let's take a 108 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:45,240 look at the national Plants of the Year, and we're 109 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,160 going to start with Annual of the Year. The envelope, please, 110 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:56,600 it's Safari Dusk, South African Flocks or James Britannia. That's 111 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:02,399 tough to say, stacy for people to say Safar Dusk, James. 112 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 2: Britton, James Britannia, Yeah, Britannia. This is definitely one of 113 00:07:06,439 --> 00:07:11,519 the funkiest botanical names out there for sure. Definitely one 114 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:12,600 of the most unique ones. 115 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:12,839 Speaker 1: I know. 116 00:07:12,879 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: The first time I heard it, I was like, what 117 00:07:14,879 --> 00:07:17,720 did you just say? And it's it is what it 118 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,680 sounds like. It is someone's name. James Britton. Yeah, James Britannia. 119 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:26,319 South African Flocks definitely rolls off the tongue a little 120 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:28,800 bit more easily. But it's not a flox, right, It's 121 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,720 not a flox and it's a pretty new annual. So 122 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:35,439 you've got this weird name that people aren't really familiar with, 123 00:07:35,879 --> 00:07:38,319 and even the common name people aren't really familiar with. 124 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,160 But what an amazing plant. 125 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: It is incredible. It's a relative of soutera or uh 126 00:07:45,759 --> 00:07:49,399 some people would recognize be copa. But copa is one 127 00:07:49,399 --> 00:07:52,360 of those what I consider to be a trigger plant 128 00:07:52,399 --> 00:07:56,160 that you put in hanging baskets or containers. If you 129 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:02,040 think of snowstorm, giant snowflake. But copa a great plant. 130 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,439 So this is a relative causes me to think that 131 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,279 if I'm in a bar setting or whatever and they 132 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:13,439 have karaoke that night, I always have to do the 133 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:19,199 Copa caban. Yeah that's a crowd pleaser, I tell you what. 134 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,160 But anyhow, aside from that, this plant is heat and 135 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:28,839 humidity tolerant. It blooms through the whole summer without cycling, 136 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,399 very very forgiving. And now it's of course available in 137 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:37,960 a broader range of colors. Also, you have the Safari dusk, 138 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:41,960 so glitzy kind of purple blooms with a gold eye, 139 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,240 but you have a lighter lilac Safari sky, Safari dawn. 140 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,919 The blossoms transition through rose pink and lavender shades, and 141 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,960 then Safari lava flow, which is red. 142 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,759 Speaker 2: Yeah, the colors on these plants are really cool, so 143 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,440 anyone who is kind of taking that reference to. 144 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:04,759 Speaker 3: The copa at face value. They are not white. 145 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:07,639 Speaker 2: They're all sorts of different colors, and they're multiple colors, 146 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:10,639 which is very cool to see. And the flowers do 147 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,440 look a little bit like a flux and it's kind 148 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:18,000 of a mounded e type of habit. So it's a 149 00:09:18,039 --> 00:09:19,840 pretty easy plant to use. I haven't grown it yet, 150 00:09:19,879 --> 00:09:20,399 have you grown it? 151 00:09:20,519 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: I have not grown. 152 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited to try it. I mean, you get 153 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:24,799 me red. It's going in my garden. 154 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 3: That's simple, you bet you. 155 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: And now thanks to Stacey, we know it's Britannia, James Brittannia. 156 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 3: And it's all one word. 157 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,399 Speaker 2: That's the crazy thing is it's all one even though 158 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:39,200 it's like one person's name, James Britton. It's all one word, 159 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:39,960 James Britannia. 160 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:42,279 Speaker 1: I want to say James Brittania. 161 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 3: But James, there's no wrong pronunciations, only wrong. 162 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:47,279 Speaker 1: We thank you. 163 00:09:47,879 --> 00:09:48,039 Speaker 3: Uh. 164 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: Petunia of the Year envelope please super Tunia Hoopla vivid 165 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:56,360 orchid petunia. And of course this one has been around 166 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,039 for a while. It's a pickle te patterned petunia, so 167 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:05,759 the edges are different than the flower's base color. In 168 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:08,960 this case, you're looking at a purple flower with a 169 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:16,440 white edge, and performs admirably as a supertunia, keeps blooming 170 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:17,799 its head off all summer long. 171 00:10:17,879 --> 00:10:20,039 Speaker 2: And you know, I think that's so important for this plant, 172 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,360 because so it's like this really vivid kind of purple 173 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,960 or could purple in the center and a crisp white edge, 174 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:28,120 and that would be pretty cool on its own. But 175 00:10:28,159 --> 00:10:30,399 this is not one of those petunias. It just I 176 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,399 bloom a little bit here, I bloom a little bit there. 177 00:10:32,919 --> 00:10:35,159 It is a mass of blooms. And so when you 178 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,200 get that really wild pattern juxtaposed over the whole plant, 179 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,320 it is eye dazzling, like really just makes a crazy 180 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,039 kind of visual like illusion in the garden. 181 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: It is. 182 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,879 Speaker 2: It is a polarizing plant. I have to tell you, 183 00:10:49,919 --> 00:10:52,919 it's not my favorite. It's not one that I personally 184 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:54,559 would grow, but I totally get the appeal and I 185 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:55,879 see why people like it so much. 186 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,279 Speaker 1: But you put it in a container or a basket 187 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,080 with a super beina may be a white or a 188 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,200 purple superbina. Wow, it's ipop. 189 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:07,919 Speaker 2: It's a high performance, very unique plant, that's for sure. 190 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,360 There's just so much cool stuff happening with petunias right 191 00:11:10,399 --> 00:11:11,039 now now. 192 00:11:11,039 --> 00:11:13,759 Speaker 1: Part of the reason I grow annuals in my landscape. 193 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:18,200 And again from these plants you get tremendous performance. I 194 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,159 grow them to impress my neighbors. 195 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean there are a front yard 196 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:23,080 plant for you. 197 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: Then yeah, front yard, backyard, sideyard, on the deck. It's 198 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:30,799 I don't know. You impress your neighbors with your flowering annuals. 199 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,519 And so I've written a limerick along that line. To 200 00:11:34,919 --> 00:11:39,399 impress your neighbors with flowering annuals. I want something colorful, 201 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:44,039 bloomy everywhere, make it feel roomy. Why live with life, 202 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,159 duller when there's season long color. I've had it with 203 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:54,720 winter long gloomy. I catching perfect combinations. My neighbors will say, congratulations. 204 00:11:55,159 --> 00:11:59,080 I'm telling you it grew my mind when annuals with 205 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,320 others come by to become a form of public relations. 206 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,960 Let me make a pundently clear. See what I did there? 207 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:08,279 Speaker 3: I did. 208 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:12,759 Speaker 1: I did a pundently clear It's grow time in spring 209 00:12:12,879 --> 00:12:16,960 each year, Here today, gone tomorrow. But as impressive as 210 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,720 Killeman Jarl. Watch this and please hold my beer. Looking 211 00:12:21,759 --> 00:12:24,960 forward to planting Annuals of the Spring. Let's see how 212 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,679 Stacey ties this in with Plants on Trial that's coming 213 00:12:27,759 --> 00:12:31,360 up next here on the Gardening Simplified. 214 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:39,799 Speaker 2: Show, Beautify your home and community with Proven Winner's Color 215 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:42,759 Choice Shrubs with over three hundred and twenty five unique 216 00:12:42,799 --> 00:12:46,000 varieties to choose from. There's a flowering shrubber evergreen for 217 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:49,240 every taste and every space. Just look for the distinctive 218 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,000 white container your local garden center or learn more at 219 00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:57,399 Proven Winner's Color Choice dot com. Greeting's gardening friends, and 220 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,080 welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show, where we're talking 221 00:13:00,159 --> 00:13:02,519 all about the annuals of the year. So our first 222 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:04,200 show of the year, we did the four Shrubs of 223 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,759 the Year. Second show, actually there's more than four Shrubs 224 00:13:06,799 --> 00:13:09,240 of the Year. Second show Perennials of the Year, and 225 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:12,240 this week Annuals of the Year. And you know, as 226 00:13:12,279 --> 00:13:15,279 we've said before, of the Year program from Proven Winners 227 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,720 is just a way to help you kind of focus 228 00:13:17,759 --> 00:13:19,519 on a couple of the varieties. We have so many 229 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,200 varieties in the line, and it also helps to ensure 230 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,799 that these plants are going to be pretty abundant in 231 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:27,720 the marketplace, so they're going to be easy to find. Now, 232 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:29,919 we were chit chatting so much about our love of 233 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,279 annuals in the first segment that we did not actually 234 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,559 get to announcing all of the annuals of the year, 235 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,639 and Plants on Trial is actually centered around one of 236 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,000 the annuals that we did not get to, and segment 237 00:13:44,039 --> 00:13:46,320 one and we'll talk about it more and segment for 238 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:51,000 I'm sure, but the landscape annual of the year is 239 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,480 Senorita Rosalita. 240 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 3: Cleomi. 241 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:55,519 Speaker 2: Now you said Cleo, I say Cleomi, however you want 242 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,080 to say it again. The bottom line is you got 243 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,600 to walk out of the garden center with the plant 244 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:01,799 you want and then some but at least the plant 245 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:04,399 that you wanted. So Cleomi or Cleome, however you want 246 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:10,759 to say, it is fine. I happen to be. I 247 00:14:10,799 --> 00:14:14,879 happen to be of the mind that I love Rose Queen. 248 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:21,080 And the old fashioned cliomis that they're they're tall, they 249 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,639 self so everywhere, which I happen to think is an 250 00:14:23,679 --> 00:14:24,519 excellent quality. 251 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:26,919 Speaker 3: Because I love some people, some people don't. 252 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 2: I love that kind of free self sewing cottage gardening 253 00:14:31,519 --> 00:14:34,840 kind of feel, so I like that in my plants. 254 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,240 And it's quite tall and it does get quite leggy, 255 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:45,120 whereas senior Rosalita cleome Cleomi is much smaller and it 256 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,200 is still kind of tall, but it keeps its foliage, 257 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,320 doesn't have smell, doesn't have thorns, and it doesn't have seeds. 258 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,679 So it's a good problem solver, especially if people are 259 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:58,440 looking for something that is a little bit tidier and 260 00:14:58,519 --> 00:15:01,120 easier to maintain, which is why it is the landscape 261 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:02,120 annual of the air. 262 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: Doesn't stink and doesn't have thorns. 263 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:07,559 Speaker 2: Right, which probably means it's not dear resistant. Other cleoi 264 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,120 are probably dear resistant. Can't speak to Seniorita Rosalita, I'm 265 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:15,799 not sure. But the thing about Kleomi, and it's a 266 00:15:15,799 --> 00:15:17,799 little bit different. You know, when I think of most 267 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:19,720 proven winner's annuals, or at least the way that I 268 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,440 use annuals, I plant almost entirely in containers. 269 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 3: What about you, do you plant annuals in the. 270 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: Ground primarily containers. No, I'll put some in the ground, 271 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,480 you know. I'll use miny vista supertunas as a groundcover 272 00:15:32,639 --> 00:15:36,279 to fill an area, right but primarily containers, right. 273 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 2: And the funny thing about Senorita Rosalita Clomi is it 274 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,960 can be grown in a container. But this is one 275 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,120 of those annuals that I think really is best in 276 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,559 the ground. And the reason for that is it's a 277 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,799 little bit taller and thinner than your average annuals. When 278 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:53,639 we talk about annuals and containers, we're looking at, you know, 279 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,000 the whole thriller, spiller filler thing, whereas this is really 280 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:02,799 a plant that is very upright and it flowers very freely, 281 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:05,200 but it just has such a different habit. You can 282 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,759 grow in a container, and if you look on the 283 00:16:06,759 --> 00:16:09,759 proven Winter's website, you'll see examples of it in a container. 284 00:16:09,799 --> 00:16:13,399 But I really think of Klomi as a landscape annual, 285 00:16:13,519 --> 00:16:16,519 something that goes into the ground. And the reason for 286 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,200 that is it's one of those sea through plants. Yes, 287 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,960 and see through plants might sound like a very bad thing, 288 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,639 but quite the opposite. It's an excellent quality to have. 289 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:31,159 And a sea through plant basically adds height to your 290 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,559 garden bed without adding bulk. So it adds a light airiness, 291 00:16:36,559 --> 00:16:39,879 It has color, it has texture, it has interest, but 292 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,440 without like plunking itself right down into the middle of 293 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:46,039 your border and taking up a bunch of space. And 294 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,080 this lets all sorts of fun interactions happen with what's 295 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,840 in front of it, what's behind it, the color as 296 00:16:51,879 --> 00:16:54,360 the plants come and go. I love sea through plants. 297 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,679 And if you don't know what I'm talking about, here's 298 00:16:57,679 --> 00:17:01,519 a fun winter project for you. Spend some time on 299 00:17:01,559 --> 00:17:06,960 your favorite search engine looking up different English perennial borders. 300 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,720 You can look by the different estates like Great Dixter 301 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:11,559 and Sissinghurst and all of that. You can look up 302 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:16,000 by the designer Vitascville, West Grutr, Jicyl, Beatrix Potter, etc. 303 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,119 However you want to do this, just you know, get 304 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,119 your source material and that will kind of lead you 305 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,799 down this wonderful rabbit hole. And as you look at 306 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:28,759 these absolutely brilliant flower beds that these designers have created 307 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:31,279 and put together, you will see that a central element 308 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,640 for all of them is these sea through plants. That 309 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,119 that is what really keeps them very interesting. And the 310 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,960 sea through plant may actually be the flowers of a 311 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,359 perennial that get very tall. Like you think about you know, 312 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:43,920 I can't believe I'm going to say this, but it's 313 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,039 the first thing that came to mind at daily where 314 00:17:46,039 --> 00:17:49,720 it has those long, thin scapes that help give it 315 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,559 that sea. You know, when it's just the planet itself, 316 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,440 not see through, but when it starts to flower and 317 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,559 you have those long thin scapes, you get some of 318 00:17:55,559 --> 00:17:56,640 that sea through height. 319 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: I think of Verbena benarians. 320 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 2: Verbena banarians is a classic. That is why it became 321 00:18:02,079 --> 00:18:06,119 so popular, and similar to senior Rida rosalita, proven winners. 322 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,039 Verbina anariensis also doesn't seed. So good thing if you 323 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:13,599 don't want verbinav oriensis everywhere, but not such a good 324 00:18:13,599 --> 00:18:15,720 thing if you prefer that cottage garden. 325 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:16,519 Speaker 3: Look oh on. 326 00:18:16,559 --> 00:18:21,279 Speaker 1: Those rose queen cleomes or klioni or however we pronounce it. 327 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,960 The following year, the seeds the plant, the little plants 328 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,440 come up like crazy. 329 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's prolific. 330 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: It is, yeah, prolific. 331 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 2: Now it is a some lover, so as the plants 332 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,319 start to grow and other plants around it start to grow, 333 00:18:35,559 --> 00:18:37,680 it will pretty readily get shaded out, so it doesn't 334 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,240 become a huge, huge issue. But again, if you are 335 00:18:40,279 --> 00:18:44,000 the type who doesn't like, you know, randomness and unpredictability 336 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:44,599 in your garden. 337 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 3: Not the plant for you, definitely you're gonna want seniority. 338 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:51,759 Speaker 2: To Rosalita, but because Seniorita Rosalita has this amazing sea 339 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:54,839 through quality, I wanted to spend plants on trial talking 340 00:18:54,839 --> 00:18:57,920 about some different things in the garden that you could 341 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,680 combine it with, kind of going back to what I 342 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,960 said the beginning about annuals being more of like the 343 00:19:03,079 --> 00:19:07,000 jewelry or the throw pillow or you know, the fun 344 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:11,519 decor item compared to the structure of your garden. So 345 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:15,000 I wanted to discuss some of those options to combine 346 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,400 different things for color and for interest. And I'm starting 347 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,000 with an absolutely classic combination roses, not just because of 348 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,680 the name Senorita Rosalita, but because roses and Kleomi. I 349 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,480 don't know, I just feel like they are such a 350 00:19:27,519 --> 00:19:31,160 classic kind of cottage gardening, a English garden combination. 351 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: It's beautiful. 352 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:35,559 Speaker 2: I would a combination that would just knock your socks 353 00:19:35,599 --> 00:19:40,519 off is Seniorita Rosalita with our reminiscent crema rose. As 354 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:44,240 the name implies, it is kind of a creamy white rose, 355 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:46,359 and I just think that white would set it off 356 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:50,000 so beautifully and you know, I think if you're not 357 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,079 familiar with Kleomi, because it did kind of fall out 358 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:54,240 of fashion for a while. Used to be everywhere and 359 00:19:54,279 --> 00:19:56,480 then it kind of, you know, fell out of fashion 360 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,559 a little bit. It kind of has this sort of 361 00:19:59,759 --> 00:20:04,559 round funded flower head. It's common name, very unfortunate for 362 00:20:04,599 --> 00:20:09,279 some is spiderflower, does not attract spiders, doesn't even really 363 00:20:09,319 --> 00:20:12,799 look like spiders, but has this kind of like whispyness 364 00:20:12,839 --> 00:20:16,759 to it that earns it that name. So it's kind 365 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:20,160 of a rounded whiskery flower head. Whisker flower. That would 366 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,680 be a more fun name for it, So Mue should 367 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,119 get on that. So I think that when you pair 368 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,640 it with the roses and that high pedal count, it's 369 00:20:28,759 --> 00:20:30,720 just a really nice contrast. Now, if you want to 370 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:34,079 more contemporary twist, I think it would look amazing with 371 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,799 ringo double pink rose as for a little bit of 372 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:42,000 something different. And if you love contrast, then I would 373 00:20:42,079 --> 00:20:45,160 recommend try it out with So Easy lemon zest or 374 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,880 Oh so Easy Sonya rita rose, both of which are yellow, 375 00:20:49,559 --> 00:20:52,880 for some really interesting contrasts and really kind of taking 376 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,200 it over the top. 377 00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,079 Speaker 3: So very classic. Now. 378 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 2: I also love this with panicle hydranges. And the reason 379 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,839 why I think panicle hydrange is out of all of 380 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,960 the different hydrange types that you could plant it with, 381 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:07,960 are such a good idea is because panicle hydrange of 382 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,960 flowers are pointed most of them, so that point that 383 00:21:12,079 --> 00:21:15,599 kind of rounded football or big ice cream cone shape 384 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,720 I think really counter points nicely with that rounded Kleomi flower. 385 00:21:21,519 --> 00:21:24,079 Adds a lot of texture and interest, and I think 386 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,720 the colors that especially panicle hydrangs turn later on in 387 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:32,480 the season is just an ideal combination. So you can 388 00:21:32,519 --> 00:21:35,799 pair it with really large, full sized panicle hydrangees like 389 00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:38,559 Limelight Prime or Pinky Winky Prime or quick Fire fab. 390 00:21:39,039 --> 00:21:40,599 These are going to be more in that six to 391 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:42,279 eight foot range, so they're going to be more of 392 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:46,319 a backdrop or enclosure type of role, but they also 393 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,559 work really well with small to medium varieties the kleomi 394 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,279 do like little lime, puffer fish or fire like tidbit, 395 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,400 so that things are more covorting on a similar level 396 00:21:56,559 --> 00:21:59,519 rather than way up above it. So I love the 397 00:21:59,559 --> 00:22:01,480 way that it's going to be dynamic, that you're going 398 00:22:01,519 --> 00:22:04,279 to see the colors of the panicle hydrange of flowers 399 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,559 changing through the season and that Cleomi is just going 400 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:09,319 to keep flowering and flowering and flowering. 401 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,799 Speaker 1: I love the fact that you mentioned that, Stacey. We 402 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:14,599 have a garden center here in West Michigan called Garden 403 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,559 Crossings which specializes in proven winters plants and in their 404 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,039 landscape in the front every summer, and I've taken pictures 405 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:29,559 they combine panicle hydranges with either Senorita rosalita or the 406 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,880 Verbina benariensis variety meteor shops. Yeah, and the combination of 407 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,920 the two is fantastic. 408 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 3: Well, they know what they're doing. 409 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. 410 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,079 Speaker 2: They definitely do now for our friends in warm climates, 411 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,279 you could grow most of the plants that I just mentioned. 412 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:47,359 But wow, wouldn't Senorita rosalita cleomi look absolutely stunning with 413 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:51,000 any of the purple leafs jazz hands Laura pedulum. Oh yeah, 414 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,920 I mean it's just that is a match made in heaven. 415 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:57,359 So if you have a jazz Hands Laura Pedalum in 416 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,839 your landscape, consider looking for the Senorita Rosalita Kliomi to 417 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,920 just kind of plants around it. It's low stakes. You 418 00:23:05,079 --> 00:23:07,000 just buy a couple plants, put it in there, see 419 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,480 if you like it. Next year, you can do something 420 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:09,920 different or you don't have to do it at all. 421 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:13,200 And for our cold climate people, I think it would 422 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,880 look amazing with happy faced white potentilla. Yes, So just 423 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,759 some fun different choices for you there to think about 424 00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:26,839 pairing Senorita Rosalita the rather unusual landscape based annual compared 425 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,400 to your more typical container based annual. We're going to 426 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,200 talk a lot more about it in segment four, so 427 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,279 stay tuned because first we're going to have the mail bank. 428 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 3: At Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs. 429 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 2: We know that a better landscape starts with a better shrub. 430 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,480 Our team of experts tests and evaluates all of our 431 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:52,480 flowering shrubs and evergreens for eight to ten years to 432 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,000 ensure they outperform what's already on the market. For easycare, reliable, 433 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,880 beautiful shrubs to accentuate your home and express your personal style, 434 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,720 look for Proven Winners Shrubs in the distinctive white container 435 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,359 at your local garden center or learn more at Proven 436 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,839 Winner's Color Choice dot com. Reading's gardening friends, and welcome 437 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:14,079 back to the Gardening Simplified Show, where it's time for 438 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,880 us to help you with your garden questions quandaries. And 439 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,079 conundrums should you have any, which you probably do, because 440 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,599 I mean, I've been doing this for a long time 441 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:25,640 and i still have questions, quandaries and conundrums at all 442 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,920 the time. So if you have any of those and 443 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,960 you want to reach out, you can reach us at 444 00:24:30,039 --> 00:24:33,720 Gardeningsimplified on air dot com. There's a contact form there. 445 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:37,839 We also welcome your celebrations and that kind of thing, especially, 446 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,000 you know, we love to hear what's going well. We're 447 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:42,599 not just here to help you solve your problems. We're 448 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,799 here to celebrate your victories as well. So don't hesitate 449 00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:48,000 to reach out as you're looking through the phone roll 450 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,119 on a cold winterry day dreaming of last year's garden 451 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,039 and what is to come this year. Now, speaking of 452 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,559 things to do in winter to keep you busy, we 453 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,920 heard from Cheryl So right before the holidays, Cheryl had 454 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,400 written us with a question about her amaryllis, and she 455 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,680 wrote back to us thanking us for our answer, and 456 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,000 she said she wants to spend the winter. I love this, 457 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:16,160 so you're going to understand why I chose to include 458 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,680 this in today's show. Cheryl wants to spend the winter 459 00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:22,920 learning botanical names and meanings, which is a great way 460 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,519 to spend winter if you love plants and words and 461 00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:29,000 reading and all of that jazz and I certainly do. 462 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:31,720 And she was wondering if we had any suggestions for 463 00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:32,359 how to do this. 464 00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: Oh wow, well yeah, I have suggestions. 465 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 3: Okay, what is it? 466 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: And I think it's a I think it's a good 467 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,799 thing to do because I you know, well, my first 468 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:46,359 suggestion would be watch Stacy her Villa on the Gardening 469 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:52,480 Simplified Show, because that's where I learn how to pronounce James, Brittania, 470 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:57,039 Britannia whatever, Kleiomi, Yeah, so I watched Stacey. I get 471 00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:01,319 a lot of help from Stacy. That's number one. Throughout 472 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,440 the years for me, I've always relied on Timber Press 473 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,640 because they have great resources to help you do that. 474 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,759 And then you can start reading and you can start learning, 475 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:18,039 because you know, Stacy, you are are very adept at this, 476 00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:21,519 whereas with me, you know, the things that I struggle 477 00:26:21,559 --> 00:26:26,839 with are like Pendula, well that makes sense, it's hanging weeping. 478 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,880 But if pendula is hanging weeping, then why does Scandon's 479 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,480 mean climbing? That makes no sense to me. Globosa is rounded, 480 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:43,480 makes sense Elba is white, Pumila is dwarf, right right, 481 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:49,400 So this is just crazy stuff. Silvestros means woodland or 482 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,200 vulgaris means common. 483 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to learn. 484 00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: All that stuff. Well, it's got to make sense to you. 485 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 2: I mean, we call it, you know, botanical nomenclature, but 486 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:03,039 it is a mix of Latin and Greek and sometimes 487 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,519 other words as well. So that's why sometimes you'll have 488 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:10,200 synonymous words that, like the translation means the same thing, 489 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,279 in two different words mean the same thing. I guess 490 00:27:13,319 --> 00:27:16,039 it was whatever Carl Lenaeus felt like doing at that 491 00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:19,759 particular moment. We're all at Linaeus's whims now. I do 492 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:22,240 want to tell you, Cheryl here at work, I rely 493 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,440 on one book. It is excellent. It is David Gledhill's 494 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:30,160 The Names of Plants. It's from Cambridge Press. It is 495 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,440 rather expensive for a book, even though it's not a 496 00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:35,599 huge book. I think obviously it has a fairly niche audience, 497 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,920 so not necessarily you know Ben Airport bestseller here that 498 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,880 we're talking about, So that one is a little bit 499 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,759 on the pricier side. So you might want to see 500 00:27:46,759 --> 00:27:50,039 if you can find it at you know, a library 501 00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:52,279 or through a used book exchange. Even when I was 502 00:27:52,319 --> 00:27:54,319 just looking for the show, the used ones were still 503 00:27:54,319 --> 00:27:56,359 pretty pricey relatively speaking. 504 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:57,279 Speaker 3: But that is excellent. 505 00:27:57,799 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 2: I love that book because it has an entire basically 506 00:28:01,519 --> 00:28:06,079 encyclopedia of every single genus and species all listed out. 507 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:09,000 If it's in Greek, it has the Greek spelling and 508 00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:11,599 it goes way into depth about everything that you could 509 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:13,440 want to know. So that is my main go to 510 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,039 at work, and it's excellent. But yeah, the Timber Press 511 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,079 Dictionary of Plant Names by Alan Coombs is a great 512 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,960 choice as well. That's going to be a little bit 513 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,279 more affordable. I can't vouch for this one, but I 514 00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:27,160 did find it and it was one of the lowest costs. 515 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,079 The Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names by aw Smith from 516 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,000 Dover Publishers, And if you're not familiar with Dover, they 517 00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:37,039 do a number of low cost books and they're always 518 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,039 really fun and interesting and has a very pretty picture 519 00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:43,200 on the front. So that's a good vote in its direction. 520 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,359 But of course you can always start with your local library. 521 00:28:46,359 --> 00:28:48,799 If they don't have something, they should be able to 522 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,680 inner library loan it for you and then that can 523 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,799 help you decide what you actually want to invest your 524 00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:55,920 time and money in for the long haul. 525 00:28:56,279 --> 00:29:00,079 Speaker 1: It's fun, you know, it's a great activity summertime, sitting 526 00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:03,599 on the deck and friends are over, you know, with 527 00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,200 my family, and you look at a plant and you say, 528 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,440 you know, well, if somebody asks you what it is, 529 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:14,319 you say, that's Gladisia triacanthos. Enormous, you know, and my 530 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,119 family will roll their eyes and then they'll look at 531 00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:19,240 the guests and say, he just makes that stuff. 532 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 3: You know, you really didn't. 533 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: You're going to be subject. 534 00:29:25,319 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: But it's always a fun thing to learn. So for 535 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,799 anybody who wants to spend their winter upping their botanical 536 00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:33,599 nomenclature game, those are great places to start. And if 537 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,799 you are already on our YouTube channel, Adriana and I 538 00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:40,799 made a series of botanical pronunciation and derivation videos, so 539 00:29:40,839 --> 00:29:42,559 you can also take a look at those. 540 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: That's great. Well, I'm still going to use you as 541 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,799 a resource, Stacey, so I appreciate that Tina asks us 542 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:53,200 on YouTube. I have about a dozen roses, including several 543 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,519 of my favorite at last roses in my Ohio garden. 544 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,240 Every summer I have a few weeks of a beautiful 545 00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:02,440 rose show followed by the rest of summer with black 546 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,680 spots tons of Japanese beetles. Now I think I have thrips. 547 00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:09,559 I want to be very proactive this winter and spring 548 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:13,119 trying to mitigate this for next summer. My Rose show 549 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,480 is very disappointing last year. Can you advise for a 550 00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:23,240 comprehensive preventative program and Stacey, as far as prevention is concerned, 551 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,880 I'd have to say, there's a sign there if you're 552 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,359 dealing with those issues, that there is some sort of imbalance. 553 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,480 Usually the case maybe water, maybe your irrigation methods, whatever 554 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,480 it may be. But you know, roses can put on 555 00:30:39,559 --> 00:30:42,640 a show well into in Ohio, should be able to 556 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,240 put on a show well into November, right, And. 557 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,519 Speaker 2: You know, I would say that Japanese beetles aside and 558 00:30:49,559 --> 00:30:53,839 will deal with them in a moment. You know, roses, 559 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,599 there are certainly older varieties that are very susceptible to 560 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,240 black spot, but typically, especially if you have more modern 561 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,160 disease resistant landscape roses, if they are getting a lot 562 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,400 of black spot, it does indicate that something is not ideal. 563 00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:10,400 You know, very often we plant something and as the 564 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,559 years go by, it gets kind of shaded out by 565 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:16,440 its neighbors. Everything's growing, continuing to grow, and so that 566 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,720 can cause some shade trees that you know you didn't 567 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,440 take into account when you planted it because it was 568 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,559 full sun, have grown and shaded it out. So black 569 00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:28,000 spot happens with shade with overhead watering, especially with a 570 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,359 sprinkler system that pelts it every morning, it dries out 571 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:34,160 all day. Next morning, same time happens again exactly. But 572 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,839 as far as prevention goes, it will do so much 573 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,759 if this spring, before the plant leaves out, but when 574 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:44,880 the snow has finally melted, if you get out there 575 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,000 and you take away all of the rose foliage that 576 00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:49,759 you can find in your garden. You know, very often 577 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:51,839 when they when the foliage drops in fall, it just 578 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,680 kind of blows away. But sometimes it drops below the plant, 579 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,640 gets wet, gets matted down. Black Spot spores love, love, 580 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,559 love to live on that fallen foliage and below the plant. 581 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,039 And then when it leaves out in spring, that leaf 582 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:11,000 is so fresh and so delicate, it doesn't have a 583 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,839 cuticle to protect it from fungal infection, and those spores 584 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,880 just go right up and can reinfect the plant. And 585 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,000 that's called called a disease cycle because you keep getting 586 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,960 this cycle. So removing that will help a lot because 587 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,039 it will take that, you know, all of that fungal 588 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:29,599 spores and take it away from the plant. Now, it's 589 00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:32,160 not fool proof method because if things are going wrong, 590 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:35,799 your plant's probably still going to get them, but it 591 00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:38,640 will help. Pruning helps a lot to make sure you're 592 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,359 pruning your ros as well. You know, thrips are a 593 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:47,559 tiny little insect that cause damage to flowers primarily, and interestingly, 594 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:49,759 I was reading that thrips are mostly an issue on 595 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,079 lighter colored roses and particularly yellow roses. Interesting so they 596 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,960 like the lighter colors more than the more vibrant boulder colors. 597 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,920 But they can happen on any rows. And trips are 598 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,559 nearly impossible to control because they are so so tiny, 599 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,240 and they get in the flower and they suck and 600 00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:12,759 they cause these little like spots and deformities. They are 601 00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:15,680 probably one of the hardest pests for home gardeners to 602 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,160 control for. But pruning will help a lot. And again, 603 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,000 if you have a landscape rose, whether that's at last 604 00:33:22,279 --> 00:33:24,400 I know so easy rows or any of those landscape 605 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,720 roses that bloom continuously without deadheading, I know this is 606 00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:32,000 gonna hurt, but if you can cut the whole plant back, 607 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,559 even though it has flower buds or flowers on it, 608 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,640 you can actually get it to rebloom outside of the 609 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,480 main invasion time of the thrips. Now again, I know 610 00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,079 that's painful and easier said than done, but that is 611 00:33:44,119 --> 00:33:47,319 a good effective way to management. Now, as for Japanese beetles, 612 00:33:48,079 --> 00:33:51,240 I mean, there's really no help for Japanese beetles. I 613 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,640 don't want to be defeatist or you know, disappoint anyone, 614 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,200 but you know, all of the things, it takes a 615 00:33:58,279 --> 00:34:03,000 multifaceted approach and all of the things that people recommend. 616 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,759 You know, you can put milky spore down in your 617 00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,840 yard and make sure that the grubs aren't maturing in 618 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,400 your yard, and you don't have a population of Japanese 619 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,599 beetles raised in your yard. But the simple fact is 620 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:17,119 they fly, and they fly everywhere, and they love roses, 621 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,920 and they're going to come from miles around for your delicious, 622 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:25,280 delicious rose garden. So it's really really hard to control 623 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,360 for Japanese beetles. 624 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,079 Speaker 1: Well, I think the key with Japanese beetles I have 625 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:34,360 found is understand when they emerge in your area, and 626 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:38,360 at that time I spray the roses with something like 627 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,679 a gneam oil or something like that, because if you 628 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,960 can get it early, you know, once Japanese beetles begin 629 00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:48,559 attacking the roses, others join the attack. So if you 630 00:34:48,599 --> 00:34:51,119 can avoid that in the first place. You know, it's 631 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:56,800 always important to understand the triangle host, pathogen and environment, 632 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,039 and we can control the environment. Maybe the plant it 633 00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:03,920 needs more sunlight, maybe, as you said, irrigation, all key 634 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,079 factors and doing the detective work you need to do 635 00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:07,760 to deal with this. 636 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,280 Speaker 2: And you know, you ken if you have another of 637 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,000 landscape ros again, you can cut it back when you 638 00:35:13,039 --> 00:35:15,639 first start seeing those Japanese beetles. I know it's hard, 639 00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:19,599 but by the time it reblooms in, you know, six 640 00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:22,360 weeks down the line, they're no longer interested and they 641 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,559 can move on. So it is hard to do, but 642 00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:28,400 that is an effective, non toxic way to try to 643 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,920 at least save yourself the heartbreak of seeing your rose 644 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:32,960 looking like a skeleton in the garden. 645 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 3: We're going to take a little break when we come back. 646 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 2: We're continuing our conversation on annuals of the year so 647 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:46,840 stay tuned. Thanks for listening to the Gardening Simplified Podcast, 648 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,679 brought to you by Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs. Our 649 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,760 award winning flowering shrubs and evergreens are trialed and tested 650 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,719 by experts with your success in mind. Learn more at 651 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,280 Proven Winners color Choice dot com. 652 00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show as we continue 653 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,960 our conversation on national Plants of the Year flowering annuals 654 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,360 and Stacey, you did a great job of outlining senior 655 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:16,599 Rita Rosalita, and that is the landscape annual of the year. 656 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 2: Right, And like I said, you know it is. I 657 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,480 think of Proven Winners Annuals right or wrong, as primarily 658 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,880 container plants. And I really realized thinking about how I 659 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,599 would plant Seniorita Rosalita kleiomi, that I have really only 660 00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:33,239 ever seen kleiomi widespread in the ground. Yeah, and so 661 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,559 it does. That's not the only reason that something is 662 00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:37,920 the landscape Annual of the year. The landscape annual of 663 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,639 the year, like the Landscape Perennial of the Year and 664 00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:41,840 the Landscape Shop of the Year, are plants that are 665 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,599 suitable for landscapers, So you know, kind of bulletproof easy 666 00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:49,360 to plant, easy to maintain. They're going to make you 667 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,920 look like a superstar. And of course it translates great 668 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,719 to home gardeners like us, because we know that reliability 669 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,760 is going to translate just as well into our gardens. 670 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,440 So it's not just that it is suitable for the landscape, 671 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,840 but that landscapers where it meets landscapers needs. And you know, 672 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,960 I feel like I have kind of you know, it's 673 00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:12,199 gotten me thinking about how I could use annuals more 674 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,960 in the ground. I have self sewing annuals. Of course, 675 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,159 as I've already explained, one of my favorite things in 676 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:22,039 the garden is self sewing annuals and pop up wherever 677 00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:25,400 and you know, kind of create that cottage gardening look 678 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,960 without you having to do much work. 679 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean they're a good problem solver. 680 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,559 Speaker 2: You can fill in little spots while you're waiting for 681 00:37:32,559 --> 00:37:34,400 something to grow in if you started with a very 682 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:40,360 small plant. And pretty much all annuals, almost all annuals 683 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,880 except for the proven Winner's Superbells or Caliber CoA, are 684 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,280 suitable just as suitable for planting in the ground as 685 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,760 they are in containers. Caliber CoA is the exception because 686 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,880 it needs really really really good. 687 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,639 Speaker 3: Drainage and good moisture. 688 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,639 Speaker 2: So it is really much more suited to containers, hangar 689 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,199 baskets the like. But that is really the only annual 690 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,599 that I can think of offhand that's really only suited 691 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:08,320 for containers. Everything else, you know, it can go in 692 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:09,920 the ground. I just rarely put it there. 693 00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 1: Sure, And if you're driving in your car or listening 694 00:38:13,519 --> 00:38:16,920 to the radio version of this show or the podcast, 695 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:24,320 Cleome or Kleiomi is spelled cl Eome. Okay, let's move 696 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,280 on to Kalladium of the Year. I love the Heart 697 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,679 to Heart series. An envelope please, In this case, Kalladium 698 00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:34,840 of the Year is Heart to Heart Chinook. It's a 699 00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:39,519 sun or shade kalladium. And that's the thing that excites 700 00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:43,119 me is that kalladiums today, and with the Heart to 701 00:38:43,199 --> 00:38:46,760 Heart series, many of them can be grown in both 702 00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:52,000 sun or in shade. And with kalladiums, I've found you 703 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:55,519 really don't need a lot of fertilizer. You got to 704 00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:58,719 cut back on the fertilizer. You really don't want to 705 00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,920 over furtilz lie kalladiums. You can burn the foliage. So 706 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 this is a plant in the right conditions and in 707 00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:09,679 a container, even though it can go in the ground, 708 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,400 creates just incredible color. It's a salmon pink kalladium and 709 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,119 really scored high end trials all over the United States. 710 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,960 I on an annual basis, no pun intended, have really 711 00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:28,519 enjoyed growing Heart to Heart kalladiums in my landscape. Yeah. 712 00:39:28,559 --> 00:39:31,840 Speaker 2: They really are so much different than kaladiums used to be. 713 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000 You know, you used to buy like a bag of 714 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,599 you know, twenty five kalladiums, and the tubers were like 715 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,760 the size of a dime and you were lucky to 716 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,719 get like two leaves if you lived in Michigan. Whereas 717 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,599 the Heart to Heart series is all about those top 718 00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:48,159 quality bulbs and so you don't have to worry so 719 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,960 much about fertilizing them to try to get the growth. 720 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 3: The growth comes from. 721 00:39:52,159 --> 00:39:56,039 Speaker 2: The quality, top quality bulb that you're starting within the 722 00:39:56,079 --> 00:39:56,679 first place. 723 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:56,960 Speaker 1: Now. 724 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,360 Speaker 3: I love Heart's Heart kalladiums. They are beauty full. 725 00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:04,159 Speaker 2: I am done trying to grow them because the only 726 00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:06,320 thing that loves them more than me do I do 727 00:40:06,559 --> 00:40:07,000 is the deer. 728 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 3: Oh oh my gosh. 729 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,159 Speaker 2: And last year I had some I thought, oh, you know, 730 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,920 give it a try on my patio. See how it goes. 731 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:18,159 And I swear to you, every time those things would 732 00:40:18,159 --> 00:40:20,559 start to put up a new leaf, trying to recover 733 00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:23,559 from the previous time they were devoured to nubs, they 734 00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:24,199 would be like. 735 00:40:24,119 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 3: Hey, did you hear everybody? Get over here? I think 736 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,880 there's enough to go around. So well, they. 737 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,599 Speaker 1: Look tasty, they look like candy. 738 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,119 Speaker 2: Well, you know, but I was thinking that they're in 739 00:40:35,119 --> 00:40:39,960 the aeroid family, which contains a number of toxic plants. 740 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,639 They have a toxic alkaloid, so even if they're not 741 00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:46,199 going to kill you, they don't taste good. They're really alkaline. 742 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,880 It did not stop the deer, so which feel thinking. 743 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,119 Speaker 1: Keep trying, you know. I like we talked about in 744 00:40:54,159 --> 00:40:56,960 the first segment. The thing that I love about annuals 745 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:02,039 is every year is a new year. So annuals are 746 00:41:02,079 --> 00:41:06,920 the perfect plant to do some experimentation. Just let your 747 00:41:07,159 --> 00:41:13,159 mind wander and experiment with annuals. That's the fun thing 748 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,000 about them. There are throughout the United States into Canada, 749 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:21,320 there are many wonderful trial gardens. They call them trial gardens, 750 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,079 and they try these plants and see how they stand 751 00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:27,480 up to the weather and how they do. So Annuals 752 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:32,400 to a large extent, are about creativity. You know, I 753 00:41:32,519 --> 00:41:37,920 dabble in stand up comedy, and I remind myself all 754 00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:41,079 the time that when it comes to stand up comedy, 755 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:45,679 you have to be serious about your craft the art 756 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,880 how to do stand up comedy. You have to be 757 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:52,800 serious about it. At the same time, you can't take 758 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:57,199 yourself serious, and you have to combine those two factors. 759 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,239 I see it the same way in planting annuals. And 760 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,679 when you plant annuals sometimes you need a little help 761 00:42:04,159 --> 00:42:09,280 with those combinations. And that's why Proven Winners provides recipes 762 00:42:09,519 --> 00:42:15,119 or combinations and has combinations of the year. And again, 763 00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:18,400 these are something that just isn't pulled out of the 764 00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:23,440 hat on a whim. These are trialed and tested. And 765 00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:30,039 there are four great combinations in twenty twenty six Saffron Sunrise, 766 00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:36,000 there's moonlit Lavender, there's pixie powder. I love that, and 767 00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:41,760 there's a kalladium combination called Kindness. And many of those 768 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,920 recipes are set up assuming that you're going to use 769 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,480 a four and a half inch plant container that you 770 00:42:48,519 --> 00:42:51,880 would typically find in a garden center or a greenhouse, 771 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,360 and the combination put into a fourteen inch size container 772 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,519 for example, the combination Saffron sun Rise has two super 773 00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:07,400 Bell's Tropical Sunrise Caliber coas a great spiller, two Safari 774 00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:11,840 dusk South African flocks. Thank you to Stacy, we now 775 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,400 know it's James Britannia as a filler and two super 776 00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:21,400 Tunia Saffron Finch. This is a great supertunia. And I've 777 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:26,920 always longed for a really good yellow petunia or super tunia, 778 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,199 and Stacey Saffron Finch fills that bill. 779 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,199 Speaker 2: It is such a great plan. I grew it one 780 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,639 year and that thing did not stop flowering, which for 781 00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,920 a yellow petunia is really saying something. Now with these, 782 00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:41,960 we're going to continue with the recipes, but I do 783 00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:45,000 want you to know if you are not the type 784 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,599 of person who wants to whip up a garden recipe. 785 00:43:48,159 --> 00:43:52,760 Just like with the annuals and other shrubs and perennials 786 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,159 of the year, these recipes are also going to have 787 00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,280 higher availability in the garden center. So this helps garden 788 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,800 centers when they are putting together their combinations to sell 789 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,559 or they're buying them in from a grower. The growers 790 00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:07,440 are focusing on these, so these aren't just things that 791 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,199 you can create yourself. There are also the recipes that 792 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,480 you are going to see in higher quantities this year, 793 00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:15,400 so you can try a new hanging basket, or give 794 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,320 your mom a new hanging basket for Mother's Day, or 795 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,440 you know whatever, you're whatever you're looking for. So these 796 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,559 are recipes that we can use as home gardeners, but 797 00:44:23,559 --> 00:44:27,239 there are also recipes that are given to growers, so 798 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,400 you can kind of work this however you want to. 799 00:44:29,679 --> 00:44:32,119 Speaker 1: I love that point, Staceye. So when you go to 800 00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:35,719 the garden center or greenhouse, uh, let's say Mother's Day 801 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,320 weekend and get a hanging basket for mom our odds 802 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,440 are some of those maybe these types of things, yes, 803 00:44:42,519 --> 00:44:48,000 combinations and you can access them on proven Winner's website. 804 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:53,039 So a combination like moonlit lavender has two Supertunia Hoopla 805 00:44:53,559 --> 00:44:57,039 vivid orchid petunias, as we mentioned, is the petunia of 806 00:44:57,079 --> 00:45:01,199 the year. You combine with that supertunya men Vista white 807 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,760 and again the Mini Vista series makes such a great 808 00:45:05,199 --> 00:45:10,559 filler in containers in hanging baskets, and then combine that 809 00:45:10,639 --> 00:45:16,679 with a Superbina violet ice verbina. Again, the combination is 810 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,199 knock your socks off. Great Pixie powder has two double 811 00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:27,039 delight apple blossom begonias as spillers, two diamond frost Euphorbia 812 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:34,360 a classic filler, and two Rockapoco coral reef double impatiens 813 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,840 as a filler. You put these three together, these combinations 814 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,440 of three, and boy, by the time you get to 815 00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:45,320 June here in the North, June July, you've got quite 816 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,840 a presentation. 817 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:46,760 Speaker 3: For sure. 818 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:51,199 Speaker 1: Yeah. So I can't wait to start putting annuals in 819 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,440 the ground. I love annuals and the season long color 820 00:45:55,519 --> 00:45:58,039 that they provide us. But again, as I mentioned in 821 00:45:58,159 --> 00:46:01,599 segment one, Stacy, the thing that blows me away is 822 00:46:01,639 --> 00:46:04,840 the frame of reference that I have looking back at 823 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,840 the seventies and eighties, the cultivars that we have generally, 824 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,400 you know, the approach where everyone had geranium spike and 825 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,199 vincavine and a container. And what we have today blows 826 00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:17,679 my mind. 827 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,360 Speaker 2: Oh for sure, absolutely, And we're lucky to have it. 828 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:21,960 So take advantage of it. 829 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,079 Speaker 3: Have fun. Start saving your pennies now. 830 00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:27,320 Speaker 2: If you don't want to spend a lot, then you 831 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,559 can spread out your winter budget and spend it all 832 00:46:29,599 --> 00:46:30,800 in May for your annuals. 833 00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:34,039 Speaker 1: I like that line of thinking. Thanks Stacey, Thanks Rick, 834 00:46:34,119 --> 00:46:37,079 thanks Adriana, and thanks to you. Thanks for watching us 835 00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:41,880 on YouTube or listening to the podcast or our radio 836 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,760 version of the show. Have a great week.