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Speaker 5: Well, good morning, good Sunday morning. We are glad to
Speaker 5: have you with us here on Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 5: Skip Richter. And what are we going to do today?
Speaker 5: We are going to talk about all kinds of things
Speaker 5: gardening that is, that's what we do. You got a question,
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Speaker 5: people say, well I try to call in, but you
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Speaker 5: It's call early in the day. It's awfully quiet this
Speaker 5: early in the morning. And you know, I've got plenty
Speaker 5: of things I'd like to talk about today, but if
Speaker 5: you'd like to get through, it's the best time to
Speaker 5: try to do that. So I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 5: I have been gosh, there's so many projects I have
Speaker 5: going on at the house right now. I have a
Speaker 5: couple of plant light stands that well, they're they're shelving
Speaker 5: that I'm putting plant lights on and starting seeds from,
Speaker 5: because you know, seed starting season is almost upon us. Well, actually,
Speaker 5: you could be starting seeds right now for the midwinter
Speaker 5: planting of things like broccoli and cabbage and cauliflower and
Speaker 5: all that kind of thing. But when once we get
Speaker 5: I would say about well, for me, I start just
Speaker 5: after Christmas around New Year's I go ahead and plant
Speaker 5: for tomato transplants, things like that. I start a bunch
Speaker 5: of seeds. Then if for those of you that are
Speaker 5: not going to be able to plant them out until
Speaker 5: a little bit later, getting past that last average frost ate,
Speaker 5: then what you'll end up doing is bumping them up
Speaker 5: into four inch pots and then into gallon pots. Now
Speaker 5: why would you want to do that, Well, here's why.
Speaker 5: We have a short season for tomatoes setting fruit. So
Speaker 5: the time between the last average frost date and it's
Speaker 5: getting too hot to set fruit, it's fairly short. If
Speaker 5: you go further north, you go far enough north of Minnesota,
Speaker 5: they have a long growing season that's reasonably mild. You know,
Speaker 5: some hot days, but they don't know what hot is.
Speaker 5: But here, hot is like first thing in the morning,
Speaker 5: you walk to the car and you're sweating before you
Speaker 5: get to the car. That's hot in the summer here.
Speaker 5: So what we have to do is we need to
Speaker 5: get tomato. Is that produce fast, but we need to
Speaker 5: put in a bigger, better plant when we put them
Speaker 5: in so that we have that head start. And typically
Speaker 5: when I bump those up all the way to a
Speaker 5: gallum pot and I have them indoors under lights. As
Speaker 5: we get into the spring season, I'll move them outside
Speaker 5: quite a bit and back and forth, but they already
Speaker 5: have blooms and sometimes fruit forming on them at that stage,
Speaker 5: and so that gives me a head start. And it's
Speaker 5: just what I like to do, and it's not the
Speaker 5: way everybody has to do it, but I just like
Speaker 5: to get that head start. So I've been setting up
Speaker 5: these lights. Got me some really good LED lights that
Speaker 5: work well for years. I just used the shop light
Speaker 5: four foot shop light with a cool white and a
Speaker 5: warm white bulb. Two shop lights like that hanging over
Speaker 5: your plants. Those fluorescent tubes are kind of going by
Speaker 5: the wayside these days, and it's all LED now, so
Speaker 5: you kind of do the equivalent, but it it just
Speaker 5: depends on how well do you want them to grow.
Speaker 5: How fast do you want them to grow? Row? Uh?
Speaker 5: And you can get some really cool lights, which would
Speaker 5: be I think a good gift for someone on your list,
Speaker 5: including yourself, if you want to, If you want to
Speaker 5: do some seed starting, just remember it starts Arlie. You know,
Speaker 5: those of you listening down in Galveston, for example. I
Speaker 5: mean you you're you're planning a lot earlier than people
Speaker 5: that are listening up in Huntsville, that's for sure. Anyway.
Speaker 5: So I've been getting that set up. I've got my
Speaker 5: heat mats and things out, you know, going through the
Speaker 5: boxes and finding all the stuff that's been stored away
Speaker 5: over time. I mentioned I think I talked about this
Speaker 5: a little bit yesterday. But the importance of having a
Speaker 5: good lighting being number one. That's a number one mistake
Speaker 5: people make is they they settle for something less than
Speaker 5: good lighting. Uh. And that means a very bright light.
Speaker 5: The second mistake is is watering. Certainly too dry is
Speaker 5: bad for a ceiling. It'll kill it once the seed
Speaker 5: starts to germinate. If it gets dry, it has no
Speaker 5: re zis. It dies. Once it gets roots in the ground,
Speaker 5: there's a little bit of resilience. It can it can
Speaker 5: wilt and then you water and it bounces back. But
Speaker 5: watering is important, but not too much water. A lot
Speaker 5: of people over water and they end up creating disease
Speaker 5: issues for their plants. And then finally, temperature. Each of
Speaker 5: the different kinds of plants you might try growing from
Speaker 5: seed has its own temperature preferences. Many of them are
Speaker 5: very very similar in general. If you can keep the
Speaker 5: root zone at about oh, maybe say seventy eight degrees
Speaker 5: somewhere in there, somewhere in that range, eighty degrees even
Speaker 5: a little bit better for some of the warm season
Speaker 5: things for getting them up and growing. Now, that doesn't
Speaker 5: mean the air temperature in the room has to be
Speaker 5: eighty degrees. It just means just keeping the roots a
Speaker 5: little warmer, getting the growing faster. That works pretty good,
Speaker 5: but plants are pretty pretty forgiving of some of those
Speaker 5: kinds of things. You always want to have fresh seed. Well, anyway,
Speaker 5: I'm getting all that set up and I'm ready to
Speaker 5: go on it. In fact, I have plans to do
Speaker 5: some rooting as well. The same setup that you're starting
Speaker 5: seeds in is a great setup for rooting plants, and
Speaker 5: there you do want a really good quality and quantity
Speaker 5: of light that is important on that And let me
Speaker 5: just say that light. I talked yesterday about the fact
Speaker 5: that the blue and the red wavelengths are the key
Speaker 5: wavelengths for getting success with your seedlings or anything you're growing.
Speaker 5: That does not mean that plants don't use or need
Speaker 5: some green light or some toward the infrared end or
Speaker 5: you know, or told the auto violet end on each
Speaker 5: end of the spectrum. They don't need that. Well, those
Speaker 5: are helpful, but it blue and red are the keys
Speaker 5: to doing it. But I want to talk right now
Speaker 5: a little bit about light. I tell you what. Let
Speaker 5: me let me save this till we come back after
Speaker 5: a breakwork, because I'm going to take just a moment
Speaker 5: to explain some of these things. Welcome back, Welcome back
Speaker 5: to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
Speaker 5: here today to help you have a bountiful garden and
Speaker 5: a beautiful landscape. All you gotta do is give us
Speaker 5: call seven to one three two one two kt r
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Speaker 5: a very long time. He has experience in the field,
Speaker 5: and he knows how to prune properly. He knows what
Speaker 5: needs to be taken out and what doesn't need to
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Speaker 5: You know, just because you want to pick up in
Speaker 5: a chainsaw and drive around putting cards in people's doors
Speaker 5: doesn't mean you're a pruning service or an arborist or
Speaker 5: knowledgeable or anything like or responsible for that matter. But
Speaker 5: Martin is the kind of guy who can come out
Speaker 5: do an evaluation of your trees, look at what needs
Speaker 5: to be done, what doesn't need to be done. If
Speaker 5: you got any questions you know that you're wondering about
Speaker 5: if you're going to do any kind of construction around
Speaker 5: a tree, especially, you need to have him come out
Speaker 5: and look at that. And the printing season that is
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Speaker 5: service dot com a ff tree service dot com. Now,
Speaker 5: I was talking about something when I went to break.
Speaker 5: I can't remember what the trial starting to see. Oh,
Speaker 5: lighting lighting. I want to talk about plant lighting. In
Speaker 5: addition to the colors that are in light and how
Speaker 5: they affect the plant and how important they are, Uh
Speaker 5: there are there is uh two other factors. Actually there
Speaker 5: are several other factors, but let me give you let
Speaker 5: me I think I'll do two or three here. One
Speaker 5: of the important things in plant lighting is the quality
Speaker 5: of lighting, and that that is the color pattern that's there.
Speaker 5: How what what quality of light you have? But another
Speaker 5: is the quantity, and the quantity of lighting means how
Speaker 5: much light does the plant get, and quantity can be
Speaker 5: done by a rain fall analogy. So think about this.
Speaker 5: If you were to get a gully washer rain for
Speaker 5: an hour in get an inch of rain, or let's
Speaker 5: say two inches of rain in an hour, that would
Speaker 5: be a lot, but that would be a certain amount
Speaker 5: of water on your let's say lawn. Okay, on the
Speaker 5: other hand, if it rained all day, but at a
Speaker 5: very slow pace, you could still end up with two
Speaker 5: inches of water on your lawn, same amount of water,
Speaker 5: but at a different time. Now within reason, that applies
Speaker 5: to plants when it comes to light, because light or
Speaker 5: photons falling onto the plant leaves. That's that basically is
Speaker 5: what happens when sunlight shines of the photons of light
Speaker 5: hit the plant leaves. So if you have a bright light,
Speaker 5: a good quality light, or a light that's closer to
Speaker 5: the plants, if it's not as bright as a light,
Speaker 5: you would be able to not run the light quite
Speaker 5: as long. But if it wasn't as good a quality,
Speaker 5: you may have to run it a little bit longer. Normally,
Speaker 5: I set my seedling lights to run about fourteen hours
Speaker 5: a day. You could run them sixteen hours a day,
Speaker 5: you could run them twelve hours a day. I mean,
Speaker 5: there's a range there on that. But just think of lighting.
Speaker 5: Just remember that if you have not such a great light,
Speaker 5: you need to run it longer. I have a house
Speaker 5: plant that is it's a Norfolk Island pine. They like
Speaker 5: a lot of light and it's kind of in a corner.
Speaker 5: But I've got a plant light over it. But you know,
Speaker 5: Norfolk is a big plant, or it can be, and
Speaker 5: so getting light down in there instead of just a
Speaker 5: very dim light up on top is a bit of
Speaker 5: a challenge. So I run my lights a very long time.
Speaker 5: They're on an automatic timer. They come on early in
Speaker 5: the morning and they stay on until I don't know
Speaker 5: about eight o'clock at night. Sometimes it just depends on
Speaker 5: what I'm going after. But it's achieving the quantity of light,
Speaker 5: that's what That's what it is achieving, and that is
Speaker 5: very important. How long do you run it and how
Speaker 5: do you run it? And then of course I mentioned
Speaker 5: the light quality, and getting those two things together is
Speaker 5: important if you're going to have success. So when I
Speaker 5: used to use fluorescent tubes, those put out to our
Speaker 5: eye a lot of light, but to a plant, I
Speaker 5: would have to have the fluorescent shop light tubes about
Speaker 5: an inch or two from the plants. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 5: literally an inch or two from the plants, and that
Speaker 5: would be the quantity of light. Our eyes adjust to
Speaker 5: light very well, but the brightest, most intense indoor light
Speaker 5: you're ever going to have is just a fraction of sunlight.
Speaker 5: It's just a fraction of the amount, a quantity of light,
Speaker 5: quantity of photons hitting the leaves and stuff. So but
Speaker 5: we have plants that can take that, and many of
Speaker 5: our houseplants do. I'm going to run to the phones
Speaker 5: now and we're going to head to Magnolia and talk
Speaker 5: to Tim. Hello, Tim, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey Skip, Hey, I called last Sunday because I'd sent
Speaker 7: my pictures of my lawn, but then I didn't do
Speaker 7: it as an attachment to put it in the email,
Speaker 7: and you had asked me, I said, to uh, attachment,
Speaker 7: So I did, but I wasn't able to call back
Speaker 7: in last Sunday.
Speaker 8: So I was gonna see if you had a chance to.
Speaker 5: Look at those pictures. I'm looking for your email here.
Speaker 5: It would have been last Sunday. Boy, I don't have
Speaker 5: a Tim in my listener list. I'm not sure why
Speaker 5: that is, but let's do this. Uh, would you just
Speaker 5: hit resend on it. Uh and uh and and if
Speaker 5: you want to hang on and put you on a
Speaker 5: whole a little bit and I can pick you back
Speaker 5: up when I get it. How about that, well, i'm driving.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, we'll just describe. Describe to me the the
Speaker 5: photo that you sent me. It's you know, my yard.
Speaker 7: It's just turning like that tan brown, you know, all over.
Speaker 8: I don't know if it's oh.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, yes, yes, I do remember. And I did
Speaker 5: see the photos that it looked like drought types of
Speaker 5: injury to me, like that it didn't get some water.
Speaker 5: The lower area between the woody the foresty woody shrubs
Speaker 5: on the sides, The lower area down there seemed to
Speaker 5: look a little bit better than as you get up
Speaker 5: closer to the competition with shrub roots and things, and
Speaker 5: a little bit higher. So I thought drought could have
Speaker 5: been a part of it. Oftentimes, when our grasses are stressed, though,
Speaker 5: take all root rot comes in and it also causes
Speaker 5: drought symptoms, and so it may have been a combination
Speaker 5: of those two. But getting a good soaking of water in,
Speaker 5: especially during the intense heat, is very important. But the
Speaker 5: take all root rot would be a disease that you
Speaker 5: would have to treat for, and there are if you
Speaker 5: go to my schedule online at gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 5: there's a schedule that says it's the lawn Pest Disease
Speaker 5: and Weed Management schedule, and that one includes information on
Speaker 5: take all root Right now, if you if you're going
Speaker 5: to apply something for it, we're getting a little bit
Speaker 5: late for the take all applications. However, it is our
Speaker 5: grass is still you know, out there and happy. So
Speaker 5: I think I would do one application still this year,
Speaker 5: and then when we get into the next spring, look
Speaker 5: at my schedule and there's a second application that you're
Speaker 5: going to want to do then. And the ingredients are
Speaker 5: listed on the schedule. There's one called a zoxystrobin a
Speaker 5: zo x. That's that's how you find and they are
Speaker 5: products that contain that that I would recommend that you
Speaker 5: would do that.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, well I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad. I I'm glad we got that. Got
Speaker 5: that I did look at those. Maybe I inadvertently closed
Speaker 5: them down. I don't know anyway that I do remember.
Speaker 5: And that's what.
Speaker 7: House you can see the yellow house in the background. Well, no,
Speaker 7: I didn't have the house in the background.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just had the grass.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the one there were two pictures I think that
Speaker 5: you said, so yeah, all right, all right, thank you,
Speaker 5: all right, yeah, thanks for Colin. Appreciate that you take care.
Speaker 5: Uh that that is uh, that's good, you know. Uh.
Speaker 5: In Chenny Forest they had their big Grench fest yesterday
Speaker 5: out there and in Tended Forest. I was looking at
Speaker 5: the pictures. Looked like they had a really good time
Speaker 5: out there. Uh. In Chenny Forest is as just an
Speaker 5: enjoyable place to go. It's as I think it's fun.
Speaker 5: Really when when I have been in the past and
Speaker 5: and you know, just walked around, it's I feel like
Speaker 5: I'm in another world. It's beautiful shaded area, the buildings,
Speaker 5: the plant layout, everything. It just makes you want to wander.
Speaker 5: And there is so much right now to wander through.
Speaker 5: Lots of fall color, lots of fall color. And when
Speaker 5: we say fall color here, it can carry us into winter.
Speaker 5: Many of the plants will carry us into winter. Their
Speaker 5: point setus are unbelievable. I mean, you know what color
Speaker 5: is a point SETA It's red. Well, yes, and no
Speaker 5: they've got double point settas. They just have a whole
Speaker 5: lot of extra red leaves in them. They've got kinds
Speaker 5: that have white sprinkled through them, almost look like peppermint candy.
Speaker 5: They of course they have the red and the white.
Speaker 5: They have types that are blotchy variegated on the sides
Speaker 5: and a pink pink colors and they're gorgeous. And if
Speaker 5: you need a good holiday decoration ory gift for when
Speaker 5: you're going to visit, one of these point set is
Speaker 5: would be really really good, really good to do when
Speaker 5: you're out there and enchanted for us. Just keep in
Speaker 5: mind they have a wonderful shop with lots of good gifts. Again,
Speaker 5: you need to wander through that and check it out.
Speaker 5: It's still time to be planning herbs and vegetables, and
Speaker 5: they always keep a supply of that on hand. And
Speaker 5: then of course when it comes to shrubs, well there's
Speaker 5: always plenty of shrubs and trees. By the way, they
Speaker 5: still have some Christmas trees, and Christmas trees include free delivery,
Speaker 5: so you pick out a tree, you don't have to
Speaker 5: worry about getting it home. They'll they'll bring it for
Speaker 5: you if you'd like to do that. And they have
Speaker 5: a nice supply still available, so check them out. That's
Speaker 5: at twenty seven fifty nine. Excuse me, FM twenty seven
Speaker 5: fifty nine in Richmond, Texas. If you're in Richmond heading
Speaker 5: towards sugar Land, it's off to the right down farm
Speaker 5: to Market FM twenty seven fifty nine and Chenny Forest.
Speaker 5: Here's the website. You need it because it'll show you
Speaker 5: how to get there. It'll show you what's going on there.
Speaker 5: You can be signing up for their social media and
Speaker 5: lots of good information. Enchanted Forest Richmond TX dot com.
Speaker 5: Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com makes it real easy
Speaker 5: to check it out. And they got a great website too.
Speaker 5: While are out there, say hi to Danny and all
Speaker 5: the crew and make plans this spring to get out there.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have a whole bunch more of those plants
Speaker 5: that attract butterflies, both the ones for the adult butterflies
Speaker 5: and also the ones for the caterpillars that bring them
Speaker 5: to your house. If you build it, they will come.
Speaker 5: All right, We're gonna take a little break here. If
Speaker 5: you'd like to give us call seven one three two
Speaker 5: one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the
Speaker 5: guard Line. We are happy you are listening and looking
Speaker 5: forward to talking to you about the kind of questions
Speaker 5: that you may have. If you have not put down
Speaker 5: a mineral supplement for micronutrients to your lawn this year,
Speaker 5: you need to get that done. It is it is
Speaker 5: important to make sure that your lawn has all the
Speaker 5: nutrients that it needs, not just the big three on
Speaker 5: the fertilizer bag. They're you know, sixteen to twenty depending
Speaker 5: on the plants and the part stages of a plant
Speaker 5: growth and different nutrients that those plants really really need.
Speaker 5: And azamite is one of those trace mineral supplements that
Speaker 5: is outstanding in terms of the response we see on
Speaker 5: our plants. It's used in turf at a rate of
Speaker 5: about forty four pound bag covering about six twelve thousand
Speaker 5: square feet six to twelve thousand square feet. Put it
Speaker 5: in vegetable gardens. I have it put in my vegetable
Speaker 5: garden at about ten pounds per thousand square feet. And
Speaker 5: when you have that complete bank account of all the nutrients,
Speaker 5: not just the famous ones, but the ones that Rodney
Speaker 5: Dangerfield would say, get no respect, We don't talk about
Speaker 5: them well asmit does. It covers that and you can
Speaker 5: get it pretty much everywhere. Our feed stores, our garden centers,
Speaker 5: our ace hardware stores, you know, Southwest Fertilizer, all those
Speaker 5: kinds of places are going to carry azamite. And if
Speaker 5: you want to learn more about it, just go to
Speaker 5: azmite Texas dot com and you can find out more
Speaker 5: about the product. You hear me talk about. It's on
Speaker 5: the schedule. Mineral sub elements, very very important. We need
Speaker 5: to make sure and put that bank account that we
Speaker 5: have in the soil. We need the bank account to
Speaker 5: be totally loaded up and ready to go. I want
Speaker 5: to talk a little bit about the time of year
Speaker 5: we're in right now and doing a landscape evaluation. You know,
Speaker 5: when you go through a long, hot summer, we get
Speaker 5: toward the end of the year and you kind of
Speaker 5: look at how things are in the landscape. It is
Speaker 5: a it's a great opportunity to make some decisions and
Speaker 5: some changes if needed. So for example, this morning, you
Speaker 5: get up when the sunshine comes out, and well, I
Speaker 5: don't know if the sunshine's coming out when it's light.
Speaker 5: How about that this morning and you walk around and
Speaker 5: you look at things like you don't overhear the lawn,
Speaker 5: I just it just doesn't do well. It's too shady.
Speaker 5: I keep trying to fill it in, but it's then
Speaker 5: it doesn't look good. Make a note. I need to
Speaker 5: put a shade loving groundcover in here, and that would
Speaker 5: really be beautiful and there's a lot of good options
Speaker 5: for that. You got a rose bush somewhere that is
Speaker 5: doing the same thing. It's not blooming really well. Will
Speaker 5: fall in winter are the best time to dig and
Speaker 5: move plants. So make a note. This rosebush needs to
Speaker 5: be moved to this other location. Do you see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying? Or maybe something's in too much sun, or
Speaker 5: maybe something where you're depending on how your property is,
Speaker 5: the irrigation system just isn't really reaching over there very well,
Speaker 5: and maybe we need something more drought resistant in that area.
Speaker 5: Or you're looking around and kind of noticing as the
Speaker 5: leaves come off, you know what, everything over here is evergreen.
Speaker 5: Everything over there is deciduous, and it kind of looks
Speaker 5: lopsided when we hit the winter season. That's the kind
Speaker 5: of things I'm talking about. Even just looking at the
Speaker 5: landscape and you know what is missing? What would I
Speaker 5: like here? How about that front door? How do I
Speaker 5: call attention to the front door? Put, you know, bring
Speaker 5: the eye to that spot, changing the shape of beds.
Speaker 5: There's a lot we can do with the late season
Speaker 5: landscape evaluation right now. And I don't encourage you to
Speaker 5: get out and make some notes because some of the
Speaker 5: things you're going to want to do, like moving plants,
Speaker 5: planting new shrubs, trees and perennials, changing the shape of
Speaker 5: landscape beds. Winter times a good time to get that
Speaker 5: kind of work done in order to have success with
Speaker 5: what you're trying to do, because we want you to
Speaker 5: have a beautiful, beautiful landscape and take a look at it,
Speaker 5: get you a note. Another thing it's good to do
Speaker 5: is drive around and pay attention to other landscapes. What
Speaker 5: do you like? What catches your eye? Maybe the way
Speaker 5: that they designed a bed that came around the side
Speaker 5: of the house and tied in to something else. You know,
Speaker 5: you just a little simple things like that, or hey,
Speaker 5: that plan is great, I need one of those. What
Speaker 5: is that? We'll take a picture of it and ask Google.
Speaker 5: It'll tell you the image image searches scarily scarily accurate. Anyway,
Speaker 5: take advantage of a trip around town and make those
Speaker 5: plans in order to have a beautiful landscape like you want.
Speaker 5: That is important. Our phone number if you'd like to
Speaker 5: give a skull seven three two one two five eight
Speaker 5: seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 5: seventy four. I wanted to mention that this season is
Speaker 5: an important time to keep your soil mult Now, we
Speaker 5: all know in the summer it's hot and weeds are
Speaker 5: coming up, and the rain or erosion or crusting things
Speaker 5: like that, the overheating of the soil with the sun
Speaker 5: baking down on it. You got to get multa on
Speaker 5: your ground. Yes, that's true. But there are winter weeds also,
Speaker 5: there's winter rains also, and then there's even times when
Speaker 5: it gets a little cold. And if you have a
Speaker 5: borderline tender cold tender plant, that's a perennial for example,
Speaker 5: something like what depends on what part of the area
Speaker 5: you're listening in. But those of you living up a
Speaker 5: little further north, the Pride of Barbados, that sometimes called
Speaker 5: red bird of Paradise. That plant is cold hearty in
Speaker 5: our area. But you get fur enough nor far enough
Speaker 5: north and we get a gold winter and you can
Speaker 5: get significant damage to it. Multch helps protect the base
Speaker 5: of that plant, keep it moderated and get it through
Speaker 5: those kinds of things. Multch moltch. Maultch now black velvet
Speaker 5: mulch is an excellent opportunity. It's the one Landscaper's Pride
Speaker 5: has that is not dyed. It's naturally dark and its
Speaker 5: color and you need to keep a covering a mulch
Speaker 5: on the soil. If you don't cover the soil, nature will,
Speaker 5: but nature's going to cover it with green things called weeds,
Speaker 5: so we can cover it with beautiful things like black
Speaker 5: velvet mult or. Speaking of landscapers Pride, they also have
Speaker 5: a cedar multch. Cedar multch is very attractive, you know,
Speaker 5: as you put it out in that fresh color, in
Speaker 5: the fresh sand and everything. That's a nice one, nice
Speaker 5: aroma to Greek guests as they come for the holiday visits.
Speaker 5: And then if you're looking at your I was talking
Speaker 5: someone yesterday who is going to redo their lawn and
Speaker 5: the backyard. They've got some dips and low spots in
Speaker 5: it and it's half weeds and half grass and it's
Speaker 5: just a mess and they're going to be redoing it
Speaker 5: in the spring. Well Landscaper's Pride has something called topsoiled.
Speaker 5: It's a sandy loam and composted top dressing, and it'll
Speaker 5: help you repair areas in your lawn. Of course, you
Speaker 5: can use it just if you're going to rejuvenate a
Speaker 5: landscape bed and you want to you want to get
Speaker 5: something that's a little more solid than just compost out there,
Speaker 5: and it's excellent for that. All that stuff is from
Speaker 5: Landscapers Pride. They got like two dozen plus different things
Speaker 5: and they're all over town. Easy to find. Just I
Speaker 5: guess I'll just just tell you go to Landscaperspride dot com.
Speaker 5: Landscaperspride dot com. You're going to find more information there.
Speaker 5: You're also going to find where to get it, and
Speaker 5: it's really easy to find their products all around the area.
Speaker 5: That mulching is a good tip for this time of year.
Speaker 5: It's always a good time to maintain. Think about nature.
Speaker 5: Does nature uh not have mulch on the soil at
Speaker 5: times and then have multch on the soil to No,
Speaker 5: it's all year round. Nature is keeping a coating of
Speaker 5: organic materials on top of the surface. We can learn
Speaker 5: from that. All right, I'm gonna take a little break here.
Speaker 5: I will be right back with your calls at seven, one, three,
Speaker 5: two one two kt RH. All right, folks, welcome back
Speaker 5: to Garden Line. Glad to have you with us this morning.
Speaker 5: We are talking about all kinds of things gardening. I've
Speaker 5: got a few topics i'm gonna be going through today.
Speaker 5: And during our eight o'clock hour, we have got some
Speaker 5: special guests calling in with ideas for Christmas gifts, and
Speaker 5: I think you'll find that very interesting, So stick with us.
Speaker 5: We'll be back. The RCW Nursery, by the way, has
Speaker 5: gotten in. I want to mention this. They've gotten in
Speaker 5: a shipment of camellias. They got the the Camellia susanqua
Speaker 5: and the Camellia japonicas, and some of the sussanquas they
Speaker 5: just got in are gorgeous, just beautiful. And I don't
Speaker 5: know how many of you are not familiar with camilla's,
Speaker 5: but it used to be. I just saw a lot more.
Speaker 5: It seemed like planted in the past, and they've always
Speaker 5: been popular, but I think they're making a comeback. And
Speaker 5: camellias have these gorgeous blooms at a time of year
Speaker 5: when other things aren't blooming. For example, December, the sussanka
Speaker 5: was blooming and the Japonicas one type in December, one
Speaker 5: type and more in January. Here in our area, they
Speaker 5: look good. And RCW, by the way, also has ligularia ligularia.
Speaker 5: The only way I can describe it is a terrestrial
Speaker 5: lily pad. You know how lily pads grow in water, Well,
Speaker 5: imagine something looks like a lily pad growing in your shady,
Speaker 5: shady areas of the garden. They're very tolerant of that.
Speaker 5: By the way, they have still got twenty percent off
Speaker 5: now off their shrubs, Azelias and camellias, all kinds of
Speaker 5: shrubs on sale right now. If you're looking to purchase
Speaker 5: a shrub to fill in, you're not going to find
Speaker 5: a better time to do that. R c W Nursery
Speaker 5: this is our December, so they're thirty percent off metal
Speaker 5: artwork and arbors and fifteen percent off all their trees.
Speaker 5: This is the best time to plant a tree or shrub.
Speaker 5: Get out there and do it. They're at the corner
Speaker 5: of Highway two forty nine, which we call Tombo Parkway
Speaker 5: and belt Wait eight. R CW Nurser you gotta check
Speaker 5: those out. Excuse me, I was talking about some different
Speaker 5: ideas and things that you know, we can do to
Speaker 5: have success in our gardens and in our landscapes. And
Speaker 5: I just wanted to, I guess make a what an
Speaker 5: appeal for a plant is that it can I do
Speaker 5: like a personal appeal, like, please consider this plant. This
Speaker 5: is an awesome one. You need to plant it. Okay,
Speaker 5: are you wondering what on earth is he going to
Speaker 5: talk about right now? It's per lemons. Uh. Per Simmons
Speaker 5: are a plant that offers ornamental beauty and culinary flavor.
Speaker 5: And I think they may be the Rodney danger Fields
Speaker 5: of the fruit world. You know, when you talk about fruit,
Speaker 5: you know, you think of apples and pears and plums
Speaker 5: and peaches and all that kind of stuff in nurseries.
Speaker 5: And but percimons are great. Let me tell you some
Speaker 5: reasons I like per simmons. They are number one, they're
Speaker 5: native fruit. The native per simon is an astringent, little
Speaker 5: small golf ball sized thing called Diasporus virginiana in Virginia.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: And the kind of per simons we typically purchase to
Speaker 5: plant and eat or more of an Asian type of permon.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 5: Persimmons can be divided into two two groups, one or
Speaker 5: the astringent types, and they've got to be so ripe
Speaker 5: that it's like a bag of jelly before you eat them.
Speaker 5: If you eat them too soon, uh, then they're gonna
Speaker 5: pucker your mouth. And some people will put in the
Speaker 5: freezer and then thalm put them in the freezer and
Speaker 5: thalmb that's all fine. I love them, and they're a
Speaker 5: messy thing to eat. I like the slogan per semons
Speaker 5: the fruit you eat in the bathtub, because what you
Speaker 5: do is you sit down about that. You get a
Speaker 5: good a stringe of per semon that is just essentially
Speaker 5: a sack of jelly, and you go after it, and
Speaker 5: you're gonna have percimon drip dripping off your elbows when
Speaker 5: you're done. Then you can just take a bath. There
Speaker 5: you go. The other kite is non astringent, and these
Speaker 5: can be eaten after turning fully orange. You don't wait
Speaker 5: on them to get you don't have to wait on
Speaker 5: them to try to get soft. And there are a
Speaker 5: lot of great varieties out there. You just need to
Speaker 5: check them out. By the way, we have a Texas
Speaker 5: per semon Diasporus Texana, I believe is the number on
Speaker 5: that one or the proper name on that one, but
Speaker 5: it's a little black fruit. It's edible, but it's I
Speaker 5: don't know. It mostly seed, the big seeds inside and
Speaker 5: maybe dime size to nickel size fruit. But I just
Speaker 5: have to mention that one too. Per Simmons ripen in
Speaker 5: mid to late fall, and their bright orange fruit just
Speaker 5: hang on the tree like a Halloween And we have
Speaker 5: Christmas trees. This is a Halloween tree. It looks really
Speaker 5: beautiful and goes all the way through Thanksgiving too. By
Speaker 5: the way, I think they're attractive. The foliage has nice
Speaker 5: fall color. Am I convincing you of this? If you
Speaker 5: never had per smon bread, you need to try per
Speaker 5: semon bread. It is awesome. So there I've made my appeal.
Speaker 5: You need to try per Simmons. Consider planning one in
Speaker 5: your landscape. Again, so many good attributes of this fruit
Speaker 5: that is way way underplanted. Just make sure and give
Speaker 5: them a well drained area. They don't want to be
Speaker 5: in a swamp and a place with plenty of sun.
Speaker 5: They do okay in a little shade, but mostly they
Speaker 5: need good sunlight in order to do well. There you go.
Speaker 5: My appeal for per Semmons. Ace hardware stores are They're
Speaker 5: just a great place to find any kind of items
Speaker 5: that you're needing for the holiday season. For example, if
Speaker 5: you're looking for gifts, maybe it's some power tools for
Speaker 5: the do it yourself for in your list. Maybe it's
Speaker 5: some houseware type items for decorating and cooking and other
Speaker 5: things like that. Maybe it is a toy for a
Speaker 5: child they have. Do you know Ace has some really
Speaker 5: cool toys, real retro toys too. I like those and
Speaker 5: right now, oh my gosh, holiday lights and decorations inside
Speaker 5: the house, outside the house. They've got you covered on
Speaker 5: both of it. For example, the one thing that I
Speaker 5: think is just really cool until I ran across Ace,
Speaker 5: I didn't even know this existed. But it's called lights
Speaker 5: by the foot. So you know how you buy Christmas
Speaker 5: lights and their X feet long, Well, what if you
Speaker 5: needed lights to go twenty seven and a half feet long?
Speaker 5: I mean, you know what I'm saying That you can
Speaker 5: pick the exact length of light you're looking for there
Speaker 5: and provide that. You just have to go by and
Speaker 5: see how they do that. But it's really cool. It's
Speaker 5: a great way to do because then you have lights
Speaker 5: that fit your home or fit your Christmas tree or whatever.
Speaker 5: You're putting lights on holiday decorations to just beautiful, you
Speaker 5: need to go into ACE and check it out. It
Speaker 5: is the place, as they say. And of course while
Speaker 5: you're in there, you're going to find all the landscape supplies. Now,
Speaker 5: there is an ACE Hardware store in Orange called Child's
Speaker 5: Building Supply. For those of you out there in Orange,
Speaker 5: if you're Highway six, you know, near the Bear Creek area,
Speaker 5: Hamilton Hardware would be an ACE Hardware there. Aspas ACE
Speaker 5: up in the Woodlands is a wonderful location. And then
Speaker 5: the K and M ACE there's two locations, one in
Speaker 5: Kingwood and one a Tascas Sita. That's the K and
Speaker 5: M hardware that bunches of them. Just go to ACE
Speaker 5: Hardware dot com, find the store locator, find the store
Speaker 5: near you. I think that is the best way to
Speaker 5: go about. It works for me. Let's see here, where
Speaker 5: are we on time? Yeah, I'm about to run out
Speaker 5: of time here. I believe I did want to. I
Speaker 5: do want to continue on with a couple of things
Speaker 5: that are kind of related to gardening tips and ideas
Speaker 5: and things like that. We will when I come back.
Speaker 5: I'm going to talk about some pruning mistakes some real
Speaker 5: common pruning mistakes that you definitely want to avoid. That
Speaker 5: is I see a lot of malpractice. I'll say, when
Speaker 5: it comes to pruning, we need to make sure that
Speaker 5: we're taking care of our plants and pruning them in
Speaker 5: a way that helps them sets them up, if you will,
Speaker 5: for success. Plants for All Seasons is located on Highway
Speaker 5: to forty nine, just north of Luetta, So if you're
Speaker 5: going to Tombol out to forty nine you exit Luetta
Speaker 5: crossover Luetta. It's on the right hand side. Plans for
Speaker 5: All Seasons has long been a great place. I mean,
Speaker 5: they've got every plant that you want that grows here.
Speaker 5: But most of all is importance of quality products and
Speaker 5: the advice just go to Plants for All Seasons. Check
Speaker 5: them out again. They've been here since the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 5: this family operated place. Those of you who go there,
Speaker 5: you know you know what I'm talking about, very very
Speaker 5: good place. And they also have some gorgeous gifts inside
Speaker 5: their gift shop. Well, I hear some music here in
Speaker 5: the background. That means I need to be quiet, and
Speaker 5: we're going to take a break for the top of
Speaker 5: the hour news. We'll be back with your calls if
Speaker 5: you'd like to get on the board now seven to
Speaker 5: one three two one two k t r.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skimmed Ricard's.
Speaker 4: Crazy. Just watch him as many season not a sign
Speaker 4: s starting.
Speaker 5: So Cleo, all right, welcome to garden Line. Welcome back.
Speaker 5: We're going to start this next hour up with a bang.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: I've got a lot of tips and ideas and comments
Speaker 5: I like to make. And then of course we got
Speaker 5: your calls if you'd like a seven one three two
Speaker 5: one two k t r H seven one three two
Speaker 5: one two k t r H. I tell you Buchanan's
Speaker 5: Native plants. They had a quietish India yesterday in their greenhouse. Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's a huge covered greenhouse full of all kinds of
Speaker 5: house plays, loaded with pointsettas. It's just really beautiful out there.
Speaker 5: You know. If it comes to Christmas ideas, they have
Speaker 5: got it. They've got you covered. Their gift shop is stunning,
Speaker 5: stunningly outstanding. They you can get plants for example. Of
Speaker 5: course you can get things to decorate your house, you know,
Speaker 5: for the home. There's things for children in there. If
Speaker 5: you're a nature lover, they have things for you as well,
Speaker 5: perhaps a hummingbird feeder, little place for the tiny bees together,
Speaker 5: and those what do you call them, wood boring bees.
Speaker 5: They have low homes for them, some real cool spiceets
Speaker 5: for gifts, gifts cards. Of course, it just goes on
Speaker 5: and on. I mean there's things for her, things for him.
Speaker 5: We're talking about jewelry and ideas. You can't just just
Speaker 5: loaded for the holidays. And it is a wonderful place
Speaker 5: to visit. And of course there's the beautiful landscape color
Speaker 5: like cyclomen Oh those are so beautiful. We ought to
Speaker 5: plant more cyclements in our landscapes in the cool season.
Speaker 5: They're really good. One even orchids that would be another
Speaker 5: great gift idea. Mabbie Cannon's is located on eleven Street
Speaker 5: in the Heights. You know it, but you need to
Speaker 5: go to their website because it is the most outstanding
Speaker 5: educational thing I have seen. You go to their website
Speaker 5: and the resources that they have, the articles and calendar
Speaker 5: and garden guides and all kinds of videos and other things,
Speaker 5: very very helpful. Get on the newsletter too. While you there,
Speaker 5: I'm going to head out to the phones and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to in US Hello, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, mister Richter. How are you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. What's up today?
Speaker 9: Well, I've got several plants that I don't know how
Speaker 9: to win arize, and I don't want to lose them.
Speaker 9: It's a purple honeysuckle bleeding hall and it's beedanza.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're not going to lose esperanza. But it may
Speaker 5: die back in a bad winter. It can die back
Speaker 5: all the way to the ground. Were you located.
Speaker 6: I'm located about sixty miles west of Houston, sixty miles
Speaker 6: west Marshall Markham, Texas.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, all right, all right, Well so the esperanza
Speaker 5: may die back, but you know what I do, and
Speaker 5: I live in an area where it dies back some.
Speaker 5: The cutting it back to the ground at the end
Speaker 5: of winter is a good thing. And you can just
Speaker 5: do that. When I stay to the ground, I mean,
Speaker 5: you know what, four or six inches tall something like that,
Speaker 5: and it sprouts back out from the base and looks
Speaker 5: really good. Sometimes if it gets halfway damaged, it looks
Speaker 5: kind of ugly. Some of the others the vine you're
Speaker 5: talking about, believing heart and other things I would just
Speaker 5: make sure and multch the base very very well, and
Speaker 5: that if there is any die back on any of
Speaker 5: your plants, the base is protected and you get fresh
Speaker 5: new growth and they they will come back out of
Speaker 5: that base with that kind of protection. It's hard to
Speaker 5: protect a vine because it's you know, typically on a trellis,
Speaker 5: and trying to build some structure to protect it as difficult.
Speaker 6: Ok.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yes, I've tried covering them up and it helps somebody.
Speaker 9: It's I wouldn't quite sure exactly how to do it.
Speaker 9: And also I want well, you know, like you said
Speaker 9: to the cutback, I I've never done it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, forty six inches, so it's okay.
Speaker 5: Well on the on the esperanza, I'm trying to remember
Speaker 5: all the different plants that you named several plants. So
Speaker 5: here's the thing on cover bleeding heart honeysuckles. Yeah, it
Speaker 5: should be fine. Just i'd multivate. If you can cover
Speaker 5: a plant and exclude air you know you mentioned like
Speaker 5: how do you cover?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: The idea is to create dead air space so the
Speaker 5: wind blows and it doesn't blow around that plant because
Speaker 5: you've created this this think of it as an igloo
Speaker 5: or something over the plant, a tint over the plant
Speaker 5: that's plastic so the wind doesn't go through it and
Speaker 5: it holds that air inside there. If whatever plant you're
Speaker 5: gonna be covering is super tender, you can put a
Speaker 5: light bulb, one of those clamp aluminum lights with the
Speaker 5: bright one hundred and fifty watt light bulb in it
Speaker 5: at the bottom, shine it down and that provides just
Speaker 5: a little bit of heat, because all we need to
Speaker 5: do is keep them reasonably above the damage point, you know,
Speaker 5: below above freezing for example.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, so just I mean, okay, if I don't
Speaker 9: cover or just mulching the base.
Speaker 5: With that should do it. That should do it.
Speaker 6: Another question that I had master garden programs, is there
Speaker 6: what's the nearest one, let's say, sugar Land that you
Speaker 6: know of or is it on your podcast website somewhere folk?
Speaker 5: No, I don't. That would be a good thing for
Speaker 5: me to put on the website. You know, I pride
Speaker 5: myself in knowing all these obscure towns around the uh
Speaker 5: state of Texas, and I'm having to look up mark
Speaker 5: where Marketing. Sorry, you're down by Bay.
Speaker 6: City, right, Yes, sir, it's more cows and chick.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh boy. You know what, if I were you,
Speaker 5: I would call your county Extension office and and ask
Speaker 5: them that I think that's that's probably the best way
Speaker 5: to go about it. Your county extension agent should know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if they have a program, you know,
Speaker 5: Whart Nuro, Tempo or any of the areas around you. Uh,
Speaker 5: you're pretty close to Brazoria County, and Brazoria County has
Speaker 5: a gardener program that would be the east of you.
Speaker 5: I don't know what their policies are in terms of
Speaker 5: where you how close you have to live, or do
Speaker 5: you have to be in the same county or anything
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you for the infull sir.
Speaker 5: All right, good luck, take care, thank you bye, all right,
Speaker 5: bye bye. Master Gardening is a great program. It is
Speaker 5: a volunteer training program done here in Texas by the
Speaker 5: Agrolife Extension Office in your county. Now, not every county
Speaker 5: has a Master Gardener program because it is a volunteer training.
Speaker 5: Not everybody needs a whole bunch of volunteers, but especially
Speaker 5: in urban areas and higher populated areas, but also in
Speaker 5: some rural areas. Sometimes three counties go together to have
Speaker 5: one of those programs. But did they train you with
Speaker 5: an extensive course in gardening and an exchange you get
Speaker 5: back a time of volunteer time to help Extension reach
Speaker 5: more people. It's one of the reasons why Extension is
Speaker 5: one of the best deals when it comes to your
Speaker 5: tax dollars and things like that, is because they provide
Speaker 5: so much more return and through the volunteers. You know,
Speaker 5: some counties of volunteers put in ten thousand hours a
Speaker 5: year of volunteer time. So one agent ten thousand hours
Speaker 5: of volunteer time. That's a good deal. It's a good
Speaker 5: program full of good people too. All right, well, it's
Speaker 5: time for me to go ahead and take a break here.
Speaker 5: We will be right back, and when we come back,
Speaker 5: I'm going to talk to you about making house plants
Speaker 5: feel at home. All right, Welcome back to Garden Line.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help
Speaker 5: you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
Speaker 5: and more fun in the process. That is an important thing.
Speaker 5: If gardening is not fun, we got to fix that
Speaker 5: because gardening should be fun, that's for sure. The folks
Speaker 5: at Medina have created a it's been around for a while.
Speaker 5: Now a product called humate humic acid. Humate humic acid
Speaker 5: so humate liquid humus is like it's like concentrated compost
Speaker 5: in a bottle. Everybody knows what compost is like. You know,
Speaker 5: it's this crumbly coffee grounds, maybe bigger size in that,
Speaker 5: but it's all decomposed organic matter. If you let composts
Speaker 5: keep breaking down, its final stage is humus, and humus
Speaker 5: contains humic acid and fulbic acid. It's got a lot
Speaker 5: of different things in it, but it helps build the soil.
Speaker 5: It helps improve with moisture retention in some types of soils.
Speaker 5: It helps enhance the release of some of the nutrients
Speaker 5: that are there. Certainly it has micro and macro nutrients
Speaker 5: in it. It improves the soil's physical properties. So in
Speaker 5: a clay soil, humus is one of the keys to
Speaker 5: helping loosen up that clay. Now, humate humic acid for
Speaker 5: medina is available in a quart jar, a gallon jar,
Speaker 5: even buy bigger if you want, But whenever your playing,
Speaker 5: you can put a couple of tablespoons of this liquid
Speaker 5: product in a gallon of water and just soak the
Speaker 5: root ball in it. Soak the root ball in it
Speaker 5: and then plant the plant. That's one way to do it.
Speaker 5: Another way people do it is that they plant the
Speaker 5: plant and then soak the area by using watering can
Speaker 5: or something to water it in. Well, you can soak
Speaker 5: seeds in. You make acid in a mixture of one
Speaker 5: tablespoon per gallon of water and let that seed swell
Speaker 5: up and plant them and you'll get a very good
Speaker 5: head our pre Soaking seeds is a good way to
Speaker 5: get a good head start and all. This is just
Speaker 5: another one of the many quality products from Medina that
Speaker 5: we fortunately have a lot of opportunities to purchase here
Speaker 5: because it's available everywhere. Nice quality product from the folks
Speaker 5: at Medina. I was going to talk a little bit
Speaker 5: about making house plants feel at home, making them feel
Speaker 5: at home, you know, the home environment. Well, let me
Speaker 5: put it this way. No plant is native to the indoors. Right,
Speaker 5: where are they native to? Well, they're native to places
Speaker 5: like a jungle where it is they're understories and a
Speaker 5: tropical rainforest. It's moist, it's humid, the light is a
Speaker 5: little is quite a bit lower there. It's light, but
Speaker 5: it's lower light. And we bring those in our house
Speaker 5: because they do better in our low light indoor environment
Speaker 5: now because they like it indoors, but just because they
Speaker 5: feel it more at home there. There's a few keys
Speaker 5: to remember. Number one, the indoor environment has very low
Speaker 5: light intensities, and houseplants differ in their needs for light.
Speaker 5: So some plants can do better and significantly lower light.
Speaker 5: Some plants are going to need more light, so you
Speaker 5: have to put them in areas in your home where
Speaker 5: they're going to get the amount of light that at
Speaker 5: least allow them to hold on and enough energy, enough
Speaker 5: food they make with light to keep them well fed
Speaker 5: enough to keep going. And as you go down and
Speaker 5: lower lights, you go less and less growth, less and
Speaker 5: less health less and less vigor So that's important now indoors. Also,
Speaker 5: our air has low humidity. Somehouse plants like to be
Speaker 5: in areas with increased humidity, and it's very difficult. People
Speaker 5: talk about putting trays of gravel and water among plants.
Speaker 5: From what I understand, that just really doesn't do a
Speaker 5: whole lot, and certainly missing them doesn't do a lot. Now,
Speaker 5: you can put a humidifier or yeah humidifier in a
Speaker 5: room where you're going to have a lot of plants,
Speaker 5: and that will increase the humidity levels if you want
Speaker 5: to go to that trouble to do that. They don't
Speaker 5: like temperature fluctuations that are wide. So let's say you
Speaker 5: know you've got them and there's event blowing on them
Speaker 5: and it's either air conditioning or heat blowing on them,
Speaker 5: and the temperature fluctuations. They generally don't like that very much.
Speaker 5: That's kind of problematic. Second thing is sudden changes in light.
Speaker 5: I've got a Vicus that was living outdoors that we
Speaker 5: are bringing indoors. It's time to get it done. I
Speaker 5: should have already done it. Well, when you do it
Speaker 5: sudden fluctuation, it can cause problems. If you go from
Speaker 5: low light the plant light. The plant leaves grow in
Speaker 5: a way where they adapt to the low light as
Speaker 5: best they can, and then suddenly you put them in
Speaker 5: full sun, you're gonna get scorching. On the other hand,
Speaker 5: taking a plant from high light to low light can well.
Speaker 5: Number one, it will tend to decline if it needs
Speaker 5: more light. But on some things like Ficus, the standard
Speaker 5: little ficus trees that everybody used to grow everywhere. We
Speaker 5: still see them a lot. They'll just drop their leaves
Speaker 5: that light change, they drop another grow new leaves, but
Speaker 5: you've got to gradually acclimate them. Third thing overwatering. Overwatering
Speaker 5: kills more houseplants than underwatering. Plants want moist soil, and
Speaker 5: you want to water them and then don't water again
Speaker 5: until the growing mix has begun to dry out. And
Speaker 5: one of the best ways I find to do it
Speaker 5: is if you know your plants. You know, you pick
Speaker 5: up a container, most of the weight is the if
Speaker 5: if the container is like plastic, most of the weight
Speaker 5: is water that you're picking up in the soil. So
Speaker 5: when you water them they're heavier. You can tell the
Speaker 5: difference when they're lighter, when they're dryer, they're much lighter.
Speaker 5: Now if it's in a big old, heavy clay pot,
Speaker 5: well that's a little different. But just picking them aug
Speaker 5: and by and picking them up, you can tell, okay,
Speaker 5: this plant's getting dry. Another way, and this is a
Speaker 5: little cool trick, sharpen a pencil, because you want the
Speaker 5: wood edge of it, the wood tip of it to
Speaker 5: be a sharpened raw wood, not wood that your fingers
Speaker 5: have gotten oil all over. Sharpen a pencil, stick it
Speaker 5: down in the soil to a depth of about two
Speaker 5: inches maybe three, dependent on the size of the pot,
Speaker 5: and then pull it out and look. Either you'll see
Speaker 5: the water stain on soaking into that fresh wood, or
Speaker 5: you'll see bits of soil sticking to it, kind of
Speaker 5: like when you put a toothpick into a pound cake
Speaker 5: to pull it out and see if the pake cake's
Speaker 5: ready or not. That's a real quick way to check.
Speaker 5: If you don't know, Some people just stick their finger
Speaker 5: in there and feel it. Now, I just want to
Speaker 5: make a comment about the winter season. House plants just
Speaker 5: don't grow as vigorously in winter. Our day links are shorter.
Speaker 5: Typically rooms tend to be a little bit cooler, but
Speaker 5: that lower light intensity is slower growth. So they're going
Speaker 5: to need less water than they would during the summer
Speaker 5: months and less fertilizer because they're not growing as much.
Speaker 5: So keep them supplied with nutrients, but don't overdo it
Speaker 5: in the winter time, especially salt based fertilizer. Don't overdo
Speaker 5: that on your houseplants. Just a few tips on helping
Speaker 5: them to feel at home. I was checking out Neilson
Speaker 5: Water Gardens this past week, looking, Okay, what's going on
Speaker 5: out there?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 5: Because there's always something going on in Nelson Water Garden.
Speaker 5: They're the garden center by the way, that's out there
Speaker 5: in Katie, Texas. You go out to Katie turned north
Speaker 5: on Katie Fort Ben Road and you get to Nelson
Speaker 5: Water Gardens. I mean, it's so easy, easy to do.
Speaker 5: Nelson Water Gardens made famous by their watergardens many years ago,
Speaker 5: Nationally famous by their watergardens many years ago. I would
Speaker 5: recommend that you go check out their plants. Though watergardens
Speaker 5: are wonderful, but go check out their plants. They have
Speaker 5: got an awesome selection. They First of all, they got
Speaker 5: Christmas trees in that look really really good, points set
Speaker 5: us that just look awesome. But all the fall color plants,
Speaker 5: the winter color plants that you're talking about, Nelson Watergarden
Speaker 5: has you covered. They have an excellent selection. I purchased
Speaker 5: some herbs there just a while back. Just really enjoy
Speaker 5: shopping the place and also getting to visit with some
Speaker 5: really fine folks, the Nelson family again, Katie Fort Ben Road, Katie, Texas.
Speaker 5: Nelson Watergardens and Nursery. You can go to their website
Speaker 5: if you would like to do that. Just go to
Speaker 5: Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelsonwatergardens dot com. By the way,
Speaker 5: they do landscape design and build and they can put
Speaker 5: in fountains and the nice disappearing fountains or maybe a
Speaker 5: waterfall and a pond or whatever you like. They can
Speaker 5: do that for you and they can advise you on
Speaker 5: it if you want to do it as a do
Speaker 5: it yourself project as well. Well, you're listening to guard Line.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, skip Ricktor and we're here to talk
Speaker 5: about all kinds of things gardening. So what I would
Speaker 5: recommend is you give us a call seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two kt RH. What do you want to
Speaker 5: talk about. We'll be glad to visit about any kinds
Speaker 5: of those topics that you might find interesting. Let's see
Speaker 5: what are some Oh, I wanted to talk a little
Speaker 5: bit about screening with plants. You know, sometimes you don't
Speaker 5: want to see what's on the other side of a fence,
Speaker 5: or you don't want to see a view of some
Speaker 5: construction site that now you're having to look at from
Speaker 5: your landscape. Typically it's blocking views next door and things.
Speaker 5: Neighbor that finds the need to sunbathe in his speedos
Speaker 5: or whatever whatever insightly scenes you might see well, they
Speaker 5: say good fences make good neighbors. But certainly time when
Speaker 5: a little screening, even above a fence, it's helpful. Now,
Speaker 5: how high should a screen be? I get that question
Speaker 5: a lot. I need something real tall. Well, think about this.
Speaker 5: Where are you going to be when you're looking in
Speaker 5: the direction you want screened? Are you going to be
Speaker 5: sitting in a patio outside? Are you gonna be looking
Speaker 5: at your kitchen window? Well, from wherever you are, there's
Speaker 5: a sight line. So if you have a six foot
Speaker 5: fence and you are almost six foot tall looking at it,
Speaker 5: there's not much of a screen there. But if you're
Speaker 5: sitting down looking at a six foot spence, there's a
Speaker 5: significant screen there. Right. The closer you get to the screen,
Speaker 5: the higher the screen appears to be in terms of
Speaker 5: blocking of view. So even a six foot fence, if
Speaker 5: you're sitting right beside it blocks a two foot house
Speaker 5: next door because you see what I'm saying, the site line.
Speaker 5: So remember that. Also, remember winter, you need evergreens when
Speaker 5: you're going to do screening. Otherwise in the winter you
Speaker 5: lose your screen and you don't need to just use
Speaker 5: one species. You could put a row of shrubs down
Speaker 5: low and behind them a row of shrubs that are higher.
Speaker 5: If you need something fast, you can put a cattle
Speaker 5: panel on posts that's above the ground. And let's say
Speaker 5: now the top of the cattle panel instead of being
Speaker 5: four feet high, is ten feet high, if you want
Speaker 5: to go that route and put a vine that's fast
Speaker 5: growing on that. So there's a lot of ways to
Speaker 5: go about screening. Give me a call on guardline. We
Speaker 5: can talk about more how to take care of these things.
Speaker 5: But it is a good idea to think about screening
Speaker 5: and where the screen needs to be, how high it
Speaker 5: needs to be in order to achieve what you are
Speaker 5: wanting to achieve on it. That is important when it
Speaker 5: comes to supplies for anything you need for your landscape,
Speaker 5: your gardens. Southwest Fertilizer has got you covered, you know,
Speaker 5: Bob uh He just makes sure that he keeps a
Speaker 5: stock of everything, including things that are new, keeps that
Speaker 5: stock on hand, so when you go in there, you
Speaker 5: know you're gonna find what you're looking for. I don't
Speaker 5: think I've ever said the name of a product or
Speaker 5: anything on garden Line that Bob wasn't already stocking there
Speaker 5: at Southwest Fertilizer. They're on the corner of bus and
Speaker 5: Net and Runwick. While you're in there, grab some tools
Speaker 5: is Christmas gifts or for yourself, by the way, it's
Speaker 5: okay to buy yourself Christmas gifts, by the way. All right,
Speaker 5: well you get the idea Southwest Fertilizer corner of Businet
Speaker 5: and Runwick. Uh, if you want to call them seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two one seven four four seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two one seven four four. We're
Speaker 5: going to go to break and when we come back,
Speaker 5: Darren and Kay will be our first two up. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: we're back here we go another segment garden Line. If
Speaker 5: you'd like to give us a call seven to one
Speaker 5: three two one to fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna
Speaker 5: go to let's see who has been online. We're gonna
Speaker 5: go to Willis and talk to Darren. Now, Darren, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Skip got two for
Speaker 5: you here.
Speaker 10: I've recently purchase this place out here, and it's about
Speaker 10: two acres probably eight and a half of grass Saint Augustine.
Speaker 10: But I noticed after we got some cool weather that
Speaker 10: the there's.
Speaker 5: A lot of crab grass out here.
Speaker 10: So my question is when I put a pre emerging
Speaker 10: out for the springtime to try to keep the crab
Speaker 10: grass a little bit under control. I would really like
Speaker 10: to have some of those spots filled in with with
Speaker 10: some bermuda grass.
Speaker 5: So I was wondering about putting that set out. Is
Speaker 5: that seed gonna be a protected seed where I could
Speaker 5: set it? Or will it not come up if I
Speaker 5: put the pre emergent out. It will not come up
Speaker 5: if you put the pre emerging out. So the is
Speaker 5: the grass you're seeing now you're calling crab grass? Is
Speaker 5: that green? Is it bright green? Right now?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 10: After we got this little cool front out here, the
Speaker 10: crab grass that's gone. Okay, pretty yeah, it's gone. So
Speaker 10: now you know, okay, patches more? Yeah, Okay. I just
Speaker 10: want to make sure we were talking about crag grass
Speaker 10: because we've got we've got a lot of cool seasoned
Speaker 10: grasses that are up and starting to grow.
Speaker 5: Now. Uh yeah, the crab grass with a pre emergent
Speaker 5: in the spring on my schedule. Uh, let's see you
Speaker 5: are located up in Willis. If you get my lawn pest,
Speaker 5: disease and weed management schedule, it's got the timing on everything.
Speaker 5: It's got synthetic and organic options and stuff for pre emergence,
Speaker 5: So you're gonna be putting it out up in your area.
Speaker 5: Probably early to mid February would be about the best
Speaker 5: time to get that down, if you can get it
Speaker 5: down at that time. Now, So as far as the
Speaker 5: bermuda grass is concerned, if you're going to seed bermuda,
Speaker 5: first of all, that's a challenge. I realize you're covering
Speaker 5: a large area, so you're not going to sod bermuda
Speaker 5: because it costs and just the amount of work and stuff.
Speaker 5: But seeding bermuda is it. You gotta have moisture on it.
Speaker 5: It's got to sprout, and it's got to continue to
Speaker 5: have a little bit of moisture until it gets established.
Speaker 5: So trying to get that done is a challenge. And
Speaker 5: what's happened to me before is you get a gully
Speaker 5: washer rain after your seed and it washes all the
Speaker 5: seed down into the little puddles and now you have
Speaker 5: clumps of bermuda coming up everywhere. So that's going to
Speaker 5: be your challenge on it. But another way is by
Speaker 5: sprigging it. You know, you can put bermuda little runners
Speaker 5: of it just they touch dirt and they root. So
Speaker 5: there's you can put out sprigs that you basically lightly
Speaker 5: plow in, you know, just scratch into the surface and
Speaker 5: they root. And a lot of professional fields are done
Speaker 5: with sprigging. Okay, I lost you there for a minute. Okay,
Speaker 5: uh yeah, So those are some options for you. Finding
Speaker 5: sprigs is a little bit of a challenge depending on
Speaker 5: the kind of bermuda. If you're going with more of
Speaker 5: a pasture type, maybe your county extension agent there in
Speaker 5: Montgomery County, could I assume you're in Montgomery, if you're
Speaker 5: in Willis, Yes, in the Conroe office, he should be
Speaker 5: able to get you off on the right start in
Speaker 5: terms of finding what you're looking for.
Speaker 10: Okay, so we you answered my question about the pre
Speaker 10: emergent then, so one more question is I've got five
Speaker 10: door set apple trees, and one of the trees mature enough,
Speaker 10: it's got small apples on it, and I was told
Speaker 10: by a neighbor that they did really well last year,
Speaker 10: but I haven't sprayed anything on them or and now
Speaker 10: a couple of them have some spots look like a
Speaker 10: fungus or something. So is there any kind of something
Speaker 10: that I should be spraying on those right now, just
Speaker 10: as a preventative, whether it be insecticide or fungus side.
Speaker 5: No, not right now. There's nothing for apple that you
Speaker 5: would apply right now. Again, pointing you at your county
Speaker 5: Extension office. There is a home fruit Disease insect disease
Speaker 5: management schedule guide that they can give you, and that
Speaker 5: will essentially tell you what to spray and when for what.
Speaker 5: So you're going to on apples, you're going to deal
Speaker 5: with some leaf spots that are very significant, and you're
Speaker 5: going to deal with some fruit rots that are very significant,
Speaker 5: and those are the ones that you're going to need
Speaker 5: to be probably spraying for. Okay, okay, well, thank you
Speaker 5: so much that. Yeah, that'll be next year, next season
Speaker 5: when they start. Okay, yeah, all right, yep, thank you,
Speaker 5: all right, you take care, good luck with that. It
Speaker 5: sounds like a good project. We're gonna go to Paralan
Speaker 5: now and talk to Kay. Hey, welcome to Gardanne.
Speaker 12: Hey morning, good morning, Skip, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 13: I have a question.
Speaker 12: I dug up all of my amarillis yesterday and I
Speaker 12: have four or five kitchen bags full of bulbs I'm
Speaker 12: having my yard man is going to put in fresh
Speaker 12: malts everywhere in my yard tomorrow morning, and I wonder,
Speaker 12: can I just keep them in the garage for the
Speaker 12: winter and plant them in the spring or is that
Speaker 12: not a good plan? I have a friend used to
Speaker 12: dig hers up every year and put him in the
Speaker 12: garage for the winter and then planted them in the spring.
Speaker 12: So I don't know what is your idea on this.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you a little bit about this amarillis.
Speaker 5: Can you describe to me the color of the blooms.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're variegated, pink and white. I have a few
Speaker 12: red ones, a couple of red ones.
Speaker 5: Okay, gotcha, gotcha. There are some amarillas that are extreme
Speaker 5: eemly good and naturalizing. There's one called Johnson's amarillus, and
Speaker 5: you see it in old homesteads for you know, for longer,
Speaker 5: from a long time ago here in Texas, that when
Speaker 5: you just leave and you don't dig it other than
Speaker 5: dividing it occasionally. The other kinds also do a decent
Speaker 5: job of coming back year after year. So if you
Speaker 5: want to dig them, that's fine. Put them in the garage,
Speaker 5: let them dry out, make sure they get good air circulation.
Speaker 5: Don't put them in a plastic bag or something.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: They need good air circulation, and then you can bring
Speaker 5: them out and you can plant them in the springtime
Speaker 5: if you'd like to do that. But I do. I
Speaker 5: need to be them in the ground.
Speaker 12: I have, and I used to dig them up every
Speaker 12: year and separate them because they do need to be separated.
Speaker 12: And I've lost some of them, have been, you know,
Speaker 12: victims of the freeze, and I've lost a number of
Speaker 12: them in the last year.
Speaker 6: But I wanted to you know, they're.
Speaker 12: Some of them have like eight or ten pups on
Speaker 12: them and they need to be separated.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 3: It's just all right, fast time.
Speaker 5: So okay, like you're well on your way to getting
Speaker 5: that done.
Speaker 12: But it's okay to just keep them, you know, dry
Speaker 12: during the winter and plan it in the keep.
Speaker 5: Them cool, cool and dry, cool and dry. Okay.
Speaker 3: Very good.
Speaker 12: Merry Christmas and happy holiday season to you well.
Speaker 5: And Merry Christmas to you as well. Which reminds me
Speaker 5: we need to play some Christmas music here on guard Line.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a break here for for the news.
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardenline. We're glad
Speaker 5: you're with us. If you would like to give me
Speaker 5: a call, ask a question seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two fifty eight seventy four seven one three, two one
Speaker 5: two five eight seven four. I was talking earlier about
Speaker 5: house plants and making them feel at home. Make houseplants,
Speaker 5: you know, feel at home. How do we do that?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 5: I'd like to talk a little bit now about homescaping
Speaker 5: with house plants. How about that homescaping. Now we know
Speaker 5: what landscaping is, but we also homescape the interior of
Speaker 5: our home with plants. You know that. Well, there are
Speaker 5: many species we can choose from, especially in the brighter
Speaker 5: areas of our home. They do really really well. So
Speaker 5: some plants do good alan you know, like a large
Speaker 5: fiddly fig or Norfolk columpine or corn plant in the
Speaker 5: corner of a room. You know, it just sort of
Speaker 5: commands its own space. Maybe you've got a coffee table
Speaker 5: and you put a little attractive papermia on there. And
Speaker 5: by the way, I often will put plants by the
Speaker 5: windows during the week, and then if we have company
Speaker 5: or something over it, you can bring them out and
Speaker 5: put them in other locations, use them to decorate. And
Speaker 5: I think that allows you to have plants in places
Speaker 5: where they wouldn't normally grow row row well by themselves. Secondly,
Speaker 5: plants work well in groupings. You can group plants. You
Speaker 5: should consider different things. Number one, the light requirements. You
Speaker 5: want to group plants that had the same general light
Speaker 5: requirements and so that they all do well. Consider color
Speaker 5: of plants, the textures of plants, the plant forms, the
Speaker 5: plant sizes. Many of our houseplants now have really attractive
Speaker 5: foliage and that's one of my favorite part of a
Speaker 5: house plant collection that I have. And I like Chinese
Speaker 5: evergreen because Chinese evergreen comes in many different versions and
Speaker 5: shades of color, from variegated green to some beautiful corals
Speaker 5: and reds and other things in it. Kalathia the rose
Speaker 5: painted Kalathia. There are Darsina marginata, the tricolor one has
Speaker 5: some beautiful color in it as well. And by the way,
Speaker 5: there's Dressina is a nice straped a linear leaf, almost
Speaker 5: a grass like leaf to the plant, compared to a
Speaker 5: big fat leaf like a prayer plant. Or Moran for example,
Speaker 5: has big, large leaves, and I like combining them. Also
Speaker 5: in table arrangements, now you can plant plants together in
Speaker 5: a container. I find that to be a little more challenging,
Speaker 5: and I have a better way that I do it.
Speaker 5: I get a large container. It does not have to
Speaker 5: In fact, it shouldn't drain well. It does better if
Speaker 5: it doesn't drain at all. And then you want to
Speaker 5: take the plants in the plastic containers you bought them
Speaker 5: in and set them in that other container. Maybe it's
Speaker 5: a large I don't know. You can go rustic and
Speaker 5: get one of those little galvanized metal oval buckets and
Speaker 5: put them in there. You may need to put some
Speaker 5: little rocks or some scrunched up paper or something down
Speaker 5: in the bottom, just to kind of I want this
Speaker 5: one leaning out that way or leaning out this way.
Speaker 5: And then when you're done, you fill in with moss,
Speaker 5: and when you get through that thing looks like a
Speaker 5: beautiful planting. And you can create all kinds of combinations
Speaker 5: that way, something tall like or just seen in the middle,
Speaker 5: and then things spilling over the side, like a little
Speaker 5: ivy that's starting to grow. Now, so how do you
Speaker 5: take care of them? You just take the whole thing
Speaker 5: over to the sink, pull the moss back, pull a
Speaker 5: plant out, water it, let it drain, and put it
Speaker 5: back in. And if one plant isn't looking good, Pull
Speaker 5: it out, get another plant, same species you just bought it,
Speaker 5: or a new different kind of species, put it in
Speaker 5: that same place, and that kind of combination gives you
Speaker 5: really really fast things. So, for example, for the holiday season,
Speaker 5: a cycloman is a great choice. Beautiful, red, pink and
Speaker 5: white cyclomans. Put some dusty miller in there with them.
Speaker 5: Do you get the idea? We often see some little
Speaker 5: ornamental plants like a pepper with peppers on it, or
Speaker 5: other kinds of fruiting like plants like that that you
Speaker 5: can use combine plants, combining plants to housescape or homescape
Speaker 5: with plants using houseplants inside. We're going to go now
Speaker 5: to Brunham and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line, Thank you, good morning. Two quick questions.
Speaker 15: I've got quite a bit of acreage and hundreds of
Speaker 15: native pecans, everything from sixty feet tall to four or
Speaker 15: five inches in caliber trunks. Looking for an economic way
Speaker 15: and maybe a selective process for fertilizing a nut. Production
Speaker 15: is not good on these trees. Been here for about
Speaker 15: three years and a little small fruit and just not again.
Speaker 5: What could I do to enhance that nut? Production. Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: keeping the grassmow down low is important. You want to
Speaker 5: minimize the competition. If they are struggling with a lack
Speaker 5: of water, then finding a way to water them is
Speaker 5: going to help, but is usually not practical. In a
Speaker 5: native planting like that, you kind of have to depend
Speaker 5: on nature. If you were choosing a plant a pecand
Speaker 5: to plant, you would choose varieties with smaller pecan nuts
Speaker 5: because it's easier to fill a smaller pecan. There's one
Speaker 5: variety called Mayheon that's long and big as your thumb
Speaker 5: and it almost never gets filled all the way because
Speaker 5: you lack water a little bit and it doesn't fill
Speaker 5: the kernel. But again, dealing with natives, those are typically
Speaker 5: smaller and they do feel a little bit better as
Speaker 5: a result, you're going to want to fertilize. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what. In order to help you the best mark,
Speaker 5: I want you to go to the Aggie Horticulture website
Speaker 5: click on fruit and nut resources and there is a
Speaker 5: publication called Pecans Native Okay Native Pecans And I don't
Speaker 5: know that things got like seven pages and it goes
Speaker 5: all the way through. You know, what do you do?
Speaker 5: How do you take care of them. You know, when
Speaker 5: you're culling out trees, which ones to keep, which ones
Speaker 5: to get rid of, and cultivating them. The different you know,
Speaker 5: things from dealing with diseases to you know, fertilizing and harvesting.
Speaker 5: But you're going to want to put a higher nitrogen
Speaker 5: fertilizer out there. In fact, something that would be a
Speaker 5: ratio you would see for lawn care during the summertime
Speaker 5: would be a good A good type of fertilizer to
Speaker 5: put the pecans lots of nitrogen, not a lot of phosphorus,
Speaker 5: a medium amount of potassium. That that's kind of what
Speaker 5: would be a general guess, not knowing what your soil
Speaker 5: already has got it well, no pun intended.
Speaker 15: I'm a nut for trees, so I don't clear anything
Speaker 15: when it comes to a tree.
Speaker 5: I don't like to cut them out, and so okay,
Speaker 5: my other question.
Speaker 15: My other question is I bought a little tree called
Speaker 15: the it's I guess the nursery name. They were referring
Speaker 15: to it as a Chinese lantern, and I'm concerned about
Speaker 15: cold hardiness. And I mean, it's a little thing, grows fantastic,
Speaker 15: but I'm just curious about cold heartiness.
Speaker 5: You know anything about those things. Yeah, Chinese lanterns have
Speaker 5: little like a papery husk that hangs down around them,
Speaker 5: and my I'd have to check on this to be
Speaker 5: real sure, but I'm going to think it's not a
Speaker 5: very cold hardy plant. Now. Sometimes the oh god, it
Speaker 5: is the it's a it's a hibiscus hibiscus relative. Gun it.
Speaker 5: The name is escaping me right now. I'll think of
Speaker 5: it in just a second here. But normally Chinese lanner
Speaker 5: is going to be something called either if i salus,
Speaker 5: which is like a tomato relative. Oh uh, all but
Speaker 5: a buttlan is what I was looking for. A butlan.
Speaker 5: Those hang down and they're also called Chinese lanner. The
Speaker 5: leaves on al buttlan look kind of like a hibiscus leaf,
Speaker 5: So uh, not real cold hardy, but you're gonna need
Speaker 5: to protect it to be sure, especially if you're going
Speaker 5: to get a good cold hard freeze. Got it? Okay,
Speaker 5: thank you? They are beautiful.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, appreciate.
Speaker 5: Good luck with that. That's a fun, fun plan. I
Speaker 5: hadn't thought about our beauty lines in a long time.
Speaker 5: That is a that is a great all right, folks.
Speaker 5: Obviously I'm going to the news right now, we'll be
Speaker 5: back seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 5: If you'd like to give us a call and be
Speaker 5: ready on the board when we come back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip rich.
Speaker 4: Trim. Just watch him as.
Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 5: Skip Richter, and we're back. We're here to help you
Speaker 5: have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and
Speaker 5: more fun in the process. Don't forget that third part
Speaker 5: that is very importan. If gardening and fun for you,
Speaker 5: give me a call. Let's fix that because it should
Speaker 5: be fun and it is fun. I'm going to be
Speaker 5: having some guest callers in this hour talking about some
Speaker 5: really cool ideas for Christmas gifts, and so we're going
Speaker 5: to put the phones on hold. If you just hang
Speaker 5: with us, if you've got a question, come back after
Speaker 5: nine o'clock or nine o'clock hour and we will be
Speaker 5: back on the phones talking to you. Then, if you've
Speaker 5: got a beautiful color bed out front and you want
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Speaker 5: And remember that in order for your plants to keep blooming,
Speaker 5: they need to have nutrition and have leaf growth. So
Speaker 5: like a pansy, for example, in this cool season, you
Speaker 5: want to invigorate it so that it grows and produces
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Speaker 5: That's why you planted the thing. Color Star does that
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Speaker 5: you want to buy peanuts and you pull the handle
Speaker 5: and fill the bag. Well you have that for color
Speaker 5: Star too. Nelson's color Star is available that way too
Speaker 5: in many places here around the Houston area. All right,
Speaker 5: we are going to head to the phones now, and
Speaker 5: first thing I want to do is talk to Danny
Speaker 5: Lenderman from Enchanted Forest Garden Center.
Speaker 16: Danny, are you there, Yes, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning. You had a Grench deal going on yesterday,
Speaker 5: didn't you.
Speaker 16: We did. It was good turn good turnout, and everybody
Speaker 16: had fun. Santa Santa visited as well, so that was
Speaker 16: it was good.
Speaker 5: Well, you guys do a great job of events like that.
Speaker 5: I saw the pictures of people that made little things
Speaker 5: to take home, and it sound like it.
Speaker 16: Was a lot of fun that they enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: Well, Denny, I'd like to ask you, what would you
Speaker 5: say would be a few gift ideas from Enchanted for
Speaker 5: us that you think would be cool. Maybe some things
Speaker 5: people haven't thought of, maybe some things they have.
Speaker 16: Well, the girls in the gift shop go through it
Speaker 16: and then made me a list of about five hundred things,
Speaker 16: so I ed it down a little bit.
Speaker 5: Let's let's cover the first one hundredth of that list.
Speaker 16: When times, When times always make a good gift. We
Speaker 16: have a brand of wind times called Music of the Spears,
Speaker 16: and it's they are just oh, those are great, phenomenal.
Speaker 5: I love them. And they're tuned. They're tuned to be
Speaker 5: harmonic and that is so cool.
Speaker 16: Yeah, they are awesome, are awesome. Of course we have statues,
Speaker 16: little religious statues, all kind of little fun statues. Those
Speaker 16: are always good and of course they last forever. So
Speaker 16: which is you know, a gift that you won't have
Speaker 16: to throw away next year because they've made some concrete
Speaker 16: so they don't last for a very very long time.
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
Speaker 16: We have b Lover decor and local honey, so that's
Speaker 16: always a fun, a fun thing. My wife's gonna start
Speaker 16: keeping bees next year, so she's excited to do that.
Speaker 16: And there's a lot of other people that do that,
Speaker 16: so it is a fun thing.
Speaker 5: Is that in your gift shop back there, Like if
Speaker 5: you're staring at the cash registers, it's the built of
Speaker 5: the room behind them.
Speaker 16: Right, correct, correct? And that that area now smells like Christmas,
Speaker 16: Like you wouldn't believe. I walked in there yesterday and
Speaker 16: I'm like, wow, if I was a think of Christmas,
Speaker 16: this is what Christmas smells like.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 16: Candles, we have candles. Candles always make a good gift
Speaker 16: is scented for for the holidays. And every day since,
Speaker 16: so you don't have to have just a Christmas candle.
Speaker 16: The decorative glass hearts, the blown glass hearts. I don't
Speaker 16: know if you've ever seen those before, but those are
Speaker 16: those are very popular.
Speaker 5: I think I have those are things you hang right,
Speaker 5: they right on the.
Speaker 16: Table exactly exactly. Yeah, those are those are really neat
Speaker 16: and thoughtful and all that. So that's a that's a
Speaker 16: good idea. We have Calivera all kinds of different Calavera
Speaker 16: pots and decor so those are those are always popular.
Speaker 16: We have some tea towels with different funny scenes on them, right,
Speaker 16: so okay, and funny things for the kitchen. Uh, those
Speaker 16: are always popular.
Speaker 5: You're good at that. I like the t shirts you
Speaker 5: guys sell, tell you yeah a bid by.
Speaker 16: I'm not gonna that we sell those two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're great. I don't I'm not going to
Speaker 5: even try to quote any of them, but they'll they'll
Speaker 5: they'll crack you up.
Speaker 16: Okay, Yeah, for sure, for sure, those are really popular.
Speaker 16: Apparently I'm not I don't have any teenagers, but apparently
Speaker 16: Natural Life brand uh blankets and pillows and purses and
Speaker 16: socks we have and apparently Natural life is is a
Speaker 16: popular brand for the for the youngsters. Now we do that.
Speaker 16: Those books, we have books out there. Books are good.
Speaker 16: One of the books that happened to stumble across was
Speaker 16: called how You Raise a Wild Child? And I thought
Speaker 16: maybe my parents wrote that, But come to find out,
Speaker 16: it's about raising kids with with a little nature involved,
Speaker 16: instead of being behind a TV screen or a computer
Speaker 16: screen all day. So I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 16: I think we've lost touch of that as as the
Speaker 16: kids go. Yes, wind spinners, that's cool.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 16: The wind spinners are always really neat, really neat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you hang out, hang out on the edge
Speaker 5: of the porch and stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 16: They are sitting on a pole basically, and they spin
Speaker 16: with the wind and they're just really intriguing to watch.
Speaker 16: It's it's almost horizing.
Speaker 5: Danny, give me, give me, give me Emerald. Let's yes,
Speaker 5: the four sports. Let's do one more. Let's do one more.
Speaker 5: And then I've got a commercial about to hit me here.
Speaker 16: How about how about gardening tools? Corona makes garden tools
Speaker 16: all the different always yeah, always, for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that, And I'm gonna just go up
Speaker 5: for I'm going to add one last one before we
Speaker 5: close here. Uh, go outside and look at the plants.
Speaker 5: You know, a beautiful rose bush will be something I
Speaker 5: remembered for ever. And if it's someone that's it's older
Speaker 5: on your on your list to the little note with them. Hey,
Speaker 5: I'll come over, have a cup of coffee and we'll
Speaker 5: get this planet together. And and the boy that the
Speaker 5: memories that I still walk around my landscape and see
Speaker 5: plants that people gave me and I think about that person. Hey,
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you so much for going on that.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate that. Good luck down there. And if
Speaker 5: you haven't visited in Jenny Forest, folks, you need to
Speaker 5: go see it. It is a beautiful, wonderful place. Thanks Danny,
Speaker 5: thanks for having me.
Speaker 16: Thank you you.
Speaker 5: Bet all righty, all right, got to run to a
Speaker 5: quick break here. All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 5: We are glad to have you with us today. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go right to the phones again. This is our
Speaker 5: hour of gift ideas for gardeners on your list and
Speaker 5: even for non gardeners on your list, and we're going
Speaker 5: to head out to the phones and talk to Heather
Speaker 5: from Buchanans Garden Center. Hey, Heather, welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hi Skiff, how are you.
Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good. I'm sorry I missed your event yesterday.
Speaker 5: That looked like a lot of fun.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we had a lot of fun. I'm sure all
Speaker 17: the kids had fun too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well kids of all ages. I'm still a kid too. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm glad you're here. How about giving us a few
Speaker 5: ideas on some Christmas gift ideas from Beginning's Nursery on
Speaker 5: eleven Street in the Heights.
Speaker 17: I have got so many ideas for you, kid, I
Speaker 17: don't know if I can fit them alleys, and.
Speaker 5: I asked you to pick a few.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's right. So I was going to start with
Speaker 17: just like my plant parents. You know, we've got lots
Speaker 17: of house plants and fun decorative pottery. I think that that,
Speaker 17: you know, any plant parent would really love. I don't
Speaker 17: know if you all visited the Greenhouse that we've got
Speaker 17: lots in there to choose from. Of course, for your
Speaker 17: hostess paper White and Amarilla's bulbs. And for those ornament
Speaker 17: exchange parties, You've got lots and lots of fun unique
Speaker 17: ornaments for those parties that you go to, for the
Speaker 17: kids who've got jellycat plushies, baby toys, and books, and
Speaker 17: you know, for those nature lovers, we've got insect houses,
Speaker 17: hummingbird feeders and bird houses that are really cool. So
Speaker 17: lots of shoes from Yeah, and for guys, you know,
Speaker 17: we've got barbecues, spice gift sets. That's a really cool
Speaker 17: addition to the buffalo.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like all of those, and I've I always
Speaker 5: tell people plants are also just a great gift because
Speaker 5: absolutely give a plant, you're you're giving a memory too
Speaker 5: as well. So and you guys specialize in natives, although
Speaker 5: you have pretty much ever kind of plant you can imagine,
Speaker 5: and so unusual plant that maybe not everybody has, but
Speaker 5: everybody should because it's just not been religious.
Speaker 17: Yeah. Yeah, we've got tons of really unique natives. Obviously,
Speaker 17: we have lots of gifts that grow, as I like
Speaker 17: to call them, you know, citrus. I know that's a
Speaker 17: really popular gift during the holidays. And also you know,
Speaker 17: gift cards. You can never go wrong with a good
Speaker 17: gift card.
Speaker 5: No, that's true, that's true. That way they get to
Speaker 5: pick up what they want. Yeah, I love ceterrius. I
Speaker 5: have fixing to put in some trees and an orchard
Speaker 5: and centrius is including that as well as a couple
Speaker 5: of patioceterris which I could sit beside a blooming citrus
Speaker 5: and smell the air for days on end.
Speaker 17: It is so wonderful, right, And you know, we just
Speaker 17: got our a lot of blue bonnets in that's also
Speaker 17: really popular. A lot of people like have those for spring.
Speaker 17: So another great gift idea. And you know, speeds great
Speaker 17: stocking suffers for all of your gardening friends.
Speaker 5: That's that is good. And you do you guys have
Speaker 5: a really good selection of seeds as well. You know,
Speaker 5: the blue bonnets, that's it. I hadn't thought about that,
Speaker 5: but now that we have them by transplant so available. Uh,
Speaker 5: that's a good one to put in. You know, like
Speaker 5: when you cut back, maybe your lantana's or something filling
Speaker 5: with blue bonnets to enjoy that while the lantana decides
Speaker 5: to wake up in the spring.
Speaker 17: Exactly definitely, I would. You know, we've got a lot
Speaker 17: of those that just came in, those chansplants and they
Speaker 17: look really really great, good.
Speaker 5: Good those are those are really cool ideas. Anything from
Speaker 5: the standpoint of going going back into the greenhouse, the
Speaker 5: houseplants and things, any specific things that you think are
Speaker 5: catching people's I was talking earlier about how much I
Speaker 5: love Agema, the Chinese evergreen, because of the colorful foliage
Speaker 5: and to the wonder wonderful versions of green we have
Speaker 5: in most of our house plants.
Speaker 17: Well, right now we've got a large selection in Zygo cactus.
Speaker 17: I would say that's probably been the most popular item
Speaker 17: in the gift shop. Are the greenhouse right now, you know,
Speaker 17: because it's about ready to bloom and it's a great
Speaker 17: house plant just to always have.
Speaker 5: As well, we've gotten a lot.
Speaker 17: Of fiddly thigs. We've gotten a lot of philodendrons that
Speaker 17: are really great. So, lots of fun house plants that
Speaker 17: people you know love, a lot of plants that are
Speaker 17: the easy care plants like snake plants things like that,
Speaker 17: as easy plants that are easy to take care of
Speaker 17: for those you know, new new house plants lovers.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I've said it more than once on Garden Line
Speaker 5: that if you can't grow a mother in lost tongue,
Speaker 5: I can't help you, because I'm pretty sure it's easier
Speaker 5: than silk plants to keep looking good.
Speaker 17: Yeah, they're pretty simple. They're pretty simple.
Speaker 5: You mentioned the Zygo cactus, you know, the Thanksgiving and
Speaker 5: Christmas cacti. A lot of people are kind of afraid
Speaker 5: to try them, but they are so easy at my house.
Speaker 5: Plans have to thrive on neglect. I hope if anyone
Speaker 5: could see some of the plants at my house, say,
Speaker 5: quit listening to garden. I seriously, I get around and
Speaker 5: neglecting them. And those You water them once in a while,
Speaker 5: get them in a moderate light outside, and they just mind.
Speaker 5: I need to go outside and bring them in. It's
Speaker 5: getting cooler now. Mine are cos and I can't take
Speaker 5: credit for doing that. That's an easy plant.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you treated them like a cactus, you know, so
Speaker 17: you know, a little a little of youse, you know, like,
Speaker 17: don't water them often, and they're they're pretty easy take
Speaker 17: care of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's good. Well, I know it's always fun to
Speaker 5: go there to be cannons and shop and visit. And
Speaker 5: I really appreciate you taking some time to come on
Speaker 5: and yeah with this about some of these ideas. So
Speaker 5: you all do care. I tell people every time I
Speaker 5: talk about Buchanans, you got to sign up for your
Speaker 5: newsletters and you got to go look at all the
Speaker 5: videos and educational stuff. The website is just y'all have
Speaker 5: done an outstanding job on it, and I just congratulate
Speaker 5: on that trying to get people a look at it
Speaker 5: because it's.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we have a lot of I wanted to make
Speaker 17: that website more of like a resource for education and
Speaker 17: really to learn about gardening, and so that's what we
Speaker 17: have on there. It's you know, we've got a really
Speaker 17: fun plant library. It's not what we have an inventory,
Speaker 17: but it is a library of plants. We've got a
Speaker 17: lot of educational videos, like you said, and a lot
Speaker 17: of great blog posts that I think are really informative.
Speaker 17: Plus our gardening calendar is always a hit.
Speaker 5: That that is a good, a very helpful thing as well. Well, Heather,
Speaker 5: thank you so much for taking time out to come
Speaker 5: on today. We really appreciate that.
Speaker 17: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: All right, well, you take care. All right, folks, We
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Speaker 5: It is time for me to take a little break
Speaker 5: and then we're going to come back to some gift
Speaker 5: ideas to help you have a memorable Christmas. You know,
Speaker 5: there's the people that what am I going to buy them?
Speaker 5: They have everything? What's different? You know, what's different than
Speaker 5: the standard kinds of gift. That's what we're talking about today.
Speaker 5: So stay tuned. We've got more of that good stuff
Speaker 5: coming up. Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. We are
Speaker 5: glad you're with us. We're continuing with our theme this
Speaker 5: hour of great Christmas gifts. You know those people that
Speaker 5: you're shopping for and it's like, what can I get
Speaker 5: them that's unique, that's different. Well, that's what we're all
Speaker 5: about here. We're going to go straight to the phones
Speaker 5: and talk to Beverly from Arburgate. Hey beb Welcome to
Speaker 5: Garden Lines. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Skip, It's great to be here. How
Speaker 3: are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, having a good time today. I'm excited
Speaker 5: about hearing you tell us about some of the cool
Speaker 5: stuff that you guys have there at Arburgate. Now I
Speaker 5: realize that this could take what five shows over a
Speaker 5: course of two or three months right to do exactly.
Speaker 5: We're going to hit it and go for fast here.
Speaker 5: So I'll just turn it over to you. Give us
Speaker 5: some great ideas people might enjoy.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
Speaker 8: Skip.
Speaker 18: You know, gardeners, whether they're new gardeners or experienced gardeners, love.
Speaker 3: To be inspired.
Speaker 18: So one simple way to do it is a really
Speaker 18: good book that we Carrie called Month by Month Gardening Texas.
Speaker 3: Are you familiar with that?
Speaker 5: Another guy? I've heard the guy. I know he's kind
Speaker 5: of shady, but anyway, so books.
Speaker 18: Are a great way, especially on cold, winter, rainy days
Speaker 18: like this, you know, to get your gardener inspired. Another
Speaker 18: way is a is a gift certificate for a one
Speaker 18: on one in house consultation, whether you're trying to reimagine
Speaker 18: a garden, add edibles, roses, create a habitat guard you know,
Speaker 18: sometimes we get a little steymied when we, you know,
Speaker 18: look at our same landscape day after day. So an
Speaker 18: in house personal consultation is a great way to get
Speaker 18: started on inspiration.
Speaker 3: Another thing is.
Speaker 18: Maybe, yeah, another way is to maybe bring some of
Speaker 18: that inspiration indoors. There's a well known artist, Houston Lou
Speaker 18: from Georgia who creates a product called a spirit tile.
Speaker 18: Each tile is a handmade work of art of copper
Speaker 18: and glass and each piece is perfect to celebrate your
Speaker 18: gardener or inspire them to follow their dreams and ambitions.
Speaker 18: So inspiration is a good way to start. Another may
Speaker 18: be sound in the garden. You know, there's wonderful chimes
Speaker 18: called Music of the Spheres that are handmade in Austin,
Speaker 18: and they're lifelong chimes. They're just not decorative pieces. They're
Speaker 18: hand tuned to specific melon. Now one of the more
Speaker 18: popular ones is called pentatonic, and the notes of that
Speaker 18: wind chime are the notes of amazing grace.
Speaker 3: So you know, yeah, sound in.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and sound in the garden is so very very important.
Speaker 18: Another way to achieve that is through fountains, through water features.
Speaker 18: You know, we have things as small as tabletops, but
Speaker 18: you can create a custom, one of a kind fountain
Speaker 18: with the beautiful Vietnamese pottery. You know, you can, depending
Speaker 18: on your space allowed, you know, do the beautiful disappearing
Speaker 18: fountains into a reservoir or a self contained fountain. And
Speaker 18: they can even be made with light fixtures that are
Speaker 18: remote control, so when you're outside in the evening, you
Speaker 18: can light up that fixture.
Speaker 5: That's I was going to say, the fountain is in
Speaker 5: light is such a good idea because enjoying ours and
Speaker 5: having the sound of water, it is like a therapy
Speaker 5: session just to listen to water splashing around in the landscape.
Speaker 18: Right, it's so soothing. And you know, as gardeners, what
Speaker 18: do we do first thing in the morning, grab our
Speaker 18: coffee and go outside. So what a great day way
Speaker 18: to start the day. And then we also want to
Speaker 18: add whimsy to the garden. You know, there's so many
Speaker 18: beautiful pieces now of glass artwork, which if you walk
Speaker 18: through Arbrigate you know, we're big fans of art in
Speaker 18: the garden. And the glass garden is so beautiful. The
Speaker 18: light catches it, it changes colors throughout the day. It
Speaker 18: is not susceptible to freeze damage, so we don't have
Speaker 18: to worry about gathering it up in bad weather.
Speaker 3: You know, I love bottle trees.
Speaker 18: And we've got them custom made bottle trees and all sizes,
Speaker 18: tabletop all the way to like hanging chandeliers. They're just
Speaker 18: absolutely gorgeous and mesmerizing.
Speaker 5: I love I love the little uh covered your little
Speaker 5: covered area over to the left of your gift shop.
Speaker 5: For those folks that haven't been out there, you got
Speaker 5: to go and allow yourself time because your your eyes,
Speaker 5: you're gonna be blown away. But that covered area where
Speaker 5: you have the glass bowls on the wall, the beautiful gloss, yeah,
Speaker 5: times and things. I could just spend an hour just
Speaker 5: in that one spot right there, looking at all the
Speaker 5: cool stuff. I'm sorry to you, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, I was going to say, bring a launch.
Speaker 13: Hang out.
Speaker 3: We love that.
Speaker 18: Yeah, You've got to walk through several times, that's for sure,
Speaker 18: because there's always something.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 18: There's a little ceramic mushrooms too, those are great. And
Speaker 18: we had some custom designed toadhouses made, and there's you know,
Speaker 18: it's been years since I've found some really creative, colorful toadhouses.
Speaker 3: They really do go to them.
Speaker 18: But again they are another piece of art and color,
Speaker 18: permanent color, even on these dreary days, to look at
Speaker 18: and see all that bright, cheerful color in the garden.
Speaker 8: That is.
Speaker 5: Those are great ideas well.
Speaker 18: And one last, but not least, is to pamper your gardener.
Speaker 18: We have some locally made candles that are actually made
Speaker 18: from all essential oils and herbs. It's a long burning candle.
Speaker 18: But what is so surprising about it is as it melts,
Speaker 18: it is warm body lotion so you just dick your
Speaker 18: finger in and you know, after a long, hard day
Speaker 18: in the garden, it's so nice to put that warm
Speaker 18: body lotion on.
Speaker 5: That is amazing. I can tell you this. If you
Speaker 5: buy someone that gift, it'll be a gift they never
Speaker 5: have gotten before, that's for sure. This is so cool
Speaker 5: and unique.
Speaker 18: And we have a really wonderful signature, Arborgate Fragrance.
Speaker 5: Oh do you okay? Yes? Yeah, in the candles.
Speaker 18: You mean, yes, yes, in the candles Arburgate Fragrance. That's
Speaker 18: our own signature fragrance.
Speaker 5: Wow. Well that doesn't surprise me, Beverly, because I can
Speaker 5: tell you Arburgate is a very unique place and people
Speaker 5: come from far and wide for a reason, and you're fortunate.
Speaker 5: We're fortunate to have Ourburgate here in town. And I
Speaker 5: just love visiting it. And congratulations on that great new
Speaker 5: parking lot and back on off Threshal Road. It just
Speaker 5: makes it so easy to get it out in and
Speaker 5: out of the place. I love it. That is really cool.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
Speaker 18: It is a popular spot even if the front is
Speaker 18: wide open. Everybody loves parking back there. It gives you
Speaker 18: an opportunity to walk through those garden center, you know,
Speaker 18: when you come in so you can really see the
Speaker 18: depth of it. It's kind of deceiving from the front
Speaker 18: how far back it goes. But we're so excited for
Speaker 18: this season and we love helping people find that perfect gift.
Speaker 5: Well, and that is absolutely true. And your staff is
Speaker 5: so knowledgeable. You know you're not going to be misled.
Speaker 5: People can come in with any kind of question and
Speaker 5: even something like here's a picture, what can I do
Speaker 5: to the front of my house? You know, and you
Speaker 5: guys can help me with it, and that's good. I
Speaker 5: encourage people to visit and to visit frequently because the
Speaker 5: Arbigate landscape changes season by season by season, and it's
Speaker 5: always something new and cool out there. Beverly, thank you
Speaker 5: so much for being on. It's wonderful to have you.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately I got to take a break here, but I
Speaker 5: appreciate you calling in today.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you skipping Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5: I'm Merry Christmas to you all as well. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: time for me to take a little break and we
Speaker 5: will be back. All right, Welcome back to guard Line, folks.
Speaker 5: We're ready to go over the last segment of the hour.
Speaker 5: We got one more hour in the books coming up
Speaker 5: and more gift ideas. When we get back to that hour,
Speaker 5: I wanted to do my what is it broken record thing?
Speaker 5: You know, brown stuff before green stuff. I just know
Speaker 5: that the most important thing you can do to have
Speaker 5: success with plants is to take care of the soil
Speaker 5: first and then put in your plants. That's how that works,
Speaker 5: and the plants then are happy where they are right.
Speaker 5: Ciena Multch specializes in the brown stuff, and by brown
Speaker 5: stuff I mean organic materials like native hardwood maltz, double
Speaker 5: ground malts, two inch screen malts. It like the soil
Speaker 5: products like a rose soil and a veggiean herb mix
Speaker 5: from airlom soils. They carry that like Louis Louisiana excuse
Speaker 5: Landscaper's Pride black velvet malts, they carry that as well.
Speaker 5: In fact, they've got products from Landscaper's Pride from heirloom soils.
Speaker 5: And they also have fertilizers which is part of the
Speaker 5: brown stuff, to increase the nutrition in the soil. Things
Speaker 5: for microlife, the azamite that I talk about all the time,
Speaker 5: Nelson's turf Star line and other Nelson plant foods. Nitrofoss
Speaker 5: products are all their medina products are there. So when
Speaker 5: you go into Cenamaltu, when you call them up and
Speaker 5: you get your r together, you're coming home to create
Speaker 5: the perfect environment. A soil with a bank account of nutrients,
Speaker 5: a soil that drains well, A soil that supports extensive
Speaker 5: root growth, which makes your plant more drought resilient and
Speaker 5: helps it to thrive. Don't PLoP a plant into an
Speaker 5: unprepared plot, A poor plant. I needed another p in there.
Speaker 5: Don't PLoP a poor plant in an unprepared plot. Go
Speaker 5: to Cianimals, give them a call cnimals dot com. They
Speaker 5: are on FM five twenty one South Houston near Highway
Speaker 5: six and two eighty eight. They are open Monday Friday
Speaker 5: seven thirty to five Saturday seven thirty to two. They're
Speaker 5: closed today, but tomorrow would be a good day to
Speaker 5: get going, because you know what, as we enter this week,
Speaker 5: we've got some wonderful sunny weather. Take advantage of it.
Speaker 5: Get those gardens ready to go, because next thing you know,
Speaker 5: you can be ready to plant. And if the soil
Speaker 5: is already ready, you're good to go. I have made
Speaker 5: that mistake before where I waited too long and all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, whoo, here we go, it's raining. And
Speaker 5: I got a plant. And like my friend, I used
Speaker 5: to have a fellow knew doctor or mister Alden Colston
Speaker 5: and Conroe, Texas at the community garden out there called
Speaker 5: the Friendship Garden at that time. Uh. And he used
Speaker 5: to say, you can always add water, but you can't
Speaker 5: take it away. That's true. That's true. Make hay while
Speaker 5: the sunshines, make soil beds while the sun shines too.
Speaker 5: The sun is going to shine this week. So anyway,
Speaker 5: that was your public service announcement. I guess to get
Speaker 5: you off to a good start. Ace hardware stores are
Speaker 5: wonderful places to find everything you need for this season
Speaker 5: of the year, for example, holiday lighting indoor and outdoor,
Speaker 5: holiday decorations indoor and outdoor as well. You want to
Speaker 5: make that living room beautiful, You want to make the
Speaker 5: front of the house beautiful with lighting and other kinds
Speaker 5: of decor. Do you want to create that same ambiance
Speaker 5: in the back at a patio, a sitting area, port,
Speaker 5: something along those lines. They can get you set up
Speaker 5: for that. They've got gifts for all including toys and
Speaker 5: tools and home furnishings and things that just make your
Speaker 5: place more fun and I think make life a little
Speaker 5: easier too in the process. By the way, some of
Speaker 5: the really cool items for indoors that they carry now.
Speaker 5: Participating ACE Hardware stores offer you an option to round
Speaker 5: up for kids. It's called Round for Kids. It's a
Speaker 5: fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network. It's a local affiliate
Speaker 5: here is our Texas Children's Hospital. So every time you
Speaker 5: check out, you can say round up and they take
Speaker 5: it to the next dollar. I mean, just pocket change
Speaker 5: for you. But when you take all of the shoppers
Speaker 5: at all of these participating Ace Hardware stores, it makes
Speaker 5: us significant difference, and I appreciate the fact that they
Speaker 5: are willing to do that. You're going to find Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware stores all over go to Acehardware dot com. You
Speaker 5: can find many many locations near you, such as All
Speaker 5: Star Ace Hardware. They have two locations, one in Spring
Speaker 5: and one in Magnolia. If you're at in Kingwood or
Speaker 5: a Tascasida, you've got K and M Hardware at those
Speaker 5: two locations as well. And then up in Lake Conroe.
Speaker 5: Lake Conroe Ace Hardware another place where you can find
Speaker 5: these things that I'm talking about here at ace. We
Speaker 5: are going to be going to a break here in
Speaker 5: just a little bit, and when we come back, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna I've got a couple of ideas that i want
Speaker 5: to talk about. First thing I'm going to talk about
Speaker 5: is nine pruning mistakes to avoid. Nine pruning mistakes to avoid,
Speaker 5: So stay tuned for that. These are things. Listen. I've
Speaker 5: been doing this for forty plus years and I can
Speaker 5: tell you I've seen it all. And if you don't,
Speaker 5: promise not to tell anybody, I've done a lot of
Speaker 5: them too and learned the hard way. But weren't talk
Speaker 5: about nine pruning mistakes to avoid. That ought to make
Speaker 5: it a little bit, I don't know, more productive for
Speaker 5: you when to get out there, because we are entering
Speaker 5: the big time season for pruning. Intended Gardens Garden Center
Speaker 5: is done in Richmond, Texas. It's on FM three fifty nine.
Speaker 5: I would recommend you just write down the website Intended
Speaker 5: Gardens Richmond dot com and that'll tell you everything you
Speaker 5: need to know, hours of operation, how to get there,
Speaker 5: where it's located, and other things. You're going to find
Speaker 5: what you would expect to find from a sprawling, full
Speaker 5: service independently owned garden center. It's really like no other.
Speaker 5: And they also, by the way, are going to carry
Speaker 5: things like Microlife and nitrofoss and Nelson plant Food and
Speaker 5: Medina soil products from heirloom soils and Nature's Way and
Speaker 5: Landscapers Pride for crying out loud. Whatever you're looking for
Speaker 5: to make the brown stuff, it's sitting right there waiting
Speaker 5: for you now. The Lenderman family has been part of
Speaker 5: that community since nineteen ninety five when Chenna Garden first opened,
Speaker 5: and it truly is an unforgettable experience to go visit
Speaker 5: with them. I am a especially appreciative of beyond the
Speaker 5: wide variety of plants, the very helpful team. They're about
Speaker 5: as enthusiastic as they come. You can bring in photos,
Speaker 5: and you can bring in pictures, applying samples or things,
Speaker 5: and they'll help you with them. They'll point you in
Speaker 5: the right direction. Right now is Christmas time. They are
Speaker 5: loaded up with all the things you need from Christmas
Speaker 5: for Christmas, from plants to things from the gift shop.
Speaker 5: So take advantage of that and go out and visit
Speaker 5: them an intended gardens nursery again. They're on FM three
Speaker 5: point fifty nine it's on the Katie fulsher side of
Speaker 5: Richmond Enchanted Gardens regimend dot com. All right, it's about
Speaker 5: time for me to give up the microphone here as
Speaker 5: we get to the top of the hour, I want
Speaker 5: to remind you that my website, Gardening with Skip is
Speaker 5: where I put everything that I want to refer you to,
Speaker 5: such as the lawn care schedule such as the our
Speaker 5: lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. Also up there
Speaker 5: is a publication I wrote a few years ago with
Speaker 5: a specialist from the Horn Department on protecting landscape plants
Speaker 5: from frosts and freezes from your vegetable gardens to your landscape.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of good information on there. Check it
Speaker 5: out now and read it now so you can get
Speaker 5: the supply so when that freezes forecast from its stringing
Speaker 5: around trying to get what you do leading. I've been.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with scamp Rictor.
Speaker 4: It's crazy trip.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as so many.
Speaker 3: Birthdays to sept Day.
Speaker 4: Not a sid.
Speaker 5: Sun Welcome, welcome back. Good to have you with us
Speaker 5: on garden Line. Appreciate you listening in man if you
Speaker 5: like to call in do that as well. We're gonna
Speaker 5: be uh. I'm going to have a little bit of
Speaker 5: time here, I can take a call or two, and
Speaker 5: then we're going back into our uh visit about great
Speaker 5: ideas for gardening gifts for you. We're going to be
Speaker 5: doing that for most of this hour. I have a
Speaker 5: few time for a little bit of calls at the
Speaker 5: end as well, but I hope you're enjoying that. Right now.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you about some pruning mistakes
Speaker 5: that people may try to go through. Nine of them,
Speaker 5: if I'm able to hear that. I see commonly now
Speaker 5: people head out with printers and go after a tree
Speaker 5: or shrub, oftentimes really not knowing how to proNT it.
Speaker 5: And I understand that pruning is not just automatically intuitive
Speaker 5: as as you have you go about it. I spent
Speaker 5: a whole show talking about proper pruning, but I still
Speaker 5: want to talk about a few things that you want
Speaker 5: to avoid in order to have success and for the
Speaker 5: results to be which you want. Number One, dull, poorly
Speaker 5: adjusted tools. A clean cut made with sharp printers, heels
Speaker 5: the fastest when your printers are dull, when they're not
Speaker 5: well oiled. Used to get some rust on the blades.
Speaker 5: It takes more wear and tear on your hands and
Speaker 5: joints to do our shoulders. If you're using loppers to
Speaker 5: do that kind of pruning, I suggest you use the
Speaker 5: bypass type pruner. So think of a pair of scissors
Speaker 5: as opposed to the anvil type where the blade comes
Speaker 5: to a stop on a flat surface. I find that
Speaker 5: the bypass type seem to work a lot better for me.
Speaker 5: A good quality, well adjusted and sharp pruning tools. Number two,
Speaker 5: pruning plants that only bloom in the spring in the winter.
Speaker 5: Pruning plants that only bloom and spring in the winter.
Speaker 5: Spring bloomers set buds in mid to late summer for
Speaker 5: the following year, like Azela's. For example, spyriea flowering quints,
Speaker 5: and so you burn them in the winter, you don't
Speaker 5: get the prunes. Now, I got a couple of calls here.
Speaker 5: I don't want to have to wait, so we got
Speaker 5: through two of them. We're going to continue back with
Speaker 5: that in a bit. Here we're going to go first
Speaker 5: of all to JJ and Paarland. Hey, JJ, how can
Speaker 5: we help today?
Speaker 19: You're Lauryn Skip. I first want to say you're so
Speaker 19: patient with your callers love that. Okay, I'm still learning. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 19: my plumbbi goes. I usually turn them back to the
Speaker 19: ground about this time of year, but would it be
Speaker 19: okay to not prone them and just let them the
Speaker 19: natural branches fall and cut them back in the spring.
Speaker 19: I've read both ways.
Speaker 5: Yes, you can do that, Yes, and I whoever really
Speaker 5: mild winter, you may they may not die back as far.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the printing them back, you can wait until
Speaker 5: the end of winter to do that. In fact, that
Speaker 5: that top cover helps provide a little bit of protection
Speaker 5: for the base of the plant too.
Speaker 19: But that was my thank you too, Thank you so much.
Speaker 19: That's what I mentioned. No, you have a great guy,
Speaker 19: skip you too.
Speaker 5: That's wonderful. Thanks a lot, appreciate it. We're going to
Speaker 5: go now to Lakeside of States and talk to Maureene. Hello, Maureene.
Speaker 20: Hey, I'm happy to hear your voice and taking calls.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 20: So, over the years I put in some cameleons, and
Speaker 20: I do understand that there are different names for each one,
Speaker 20: and so that's what my problem is. I have one
Speaker 20: that's doing very well, so apparently that's that plant's time.
Speaker 20: The other ones haven't even started budding.
Speaker 17: So what am I needing to do?
Speaker 20: Since they haven't started budding, they're going to bloom later.
Speaker 17: What can I do?
Speaker 20: I need to fertilize them because I'm too early for
Speaker 20: their buds.
Speaker 5: Well, you should be having buds forming the sussanquies or
Speaker 5: blooming typically December. The jabonicos mostly in January. But I
Speaker 5: would say make sure they get on to light. Camellias
Speaker 5: grow in some shade, but not too much shade. That's
Speaker 5: important making if the did the plants look healthy, nice, green,
Speaker 5: and some bigger.
Speaker 20: Yes, yes, some of them do, but they are the
Speaker 20: ones that are getting more sunlight.
Speaker 17: I had somehow picked up.
Speaker 20: A message that they didn't mind if they got shade,
Speaker 20: So apparently maybe I need to move them.
Speaker 17: I mean, if they're not doing it well.
Speaker 5: They know that your message is right. They don't want
Speaker 5: to be in full brunt of sun. But as the
Speaker 5: shade levels get too high you don't get too much shade,
Speaker 5: you don't get the blooming that you do. If they
Speaker 5: look pretty good, I would just fertilize them using an
Speaker 5: acid loving plant food starting in spring. Don't fertilize them
Speaker 5: right now, but starting in the spring, use an acid
Speaker 5: loving plant food to form some vigor and growth on them,
Speaker 5: and they should do. Okay, if you want to take
Speaker 5: a pictures or sample of it, you know, into a
Speaker 5: garden center and independent garden center and have them take
Speaker 5: a look and see if they notice anything on that,
Speaker 5: that would be another option. Or you could send me
Speaker 5: a picture and I'll be glad to give you my
Speaker 5: opinion on it. If you want to go that way.
Speaker 5: It just looks exhausted.
Speaker 20: That's the easiest way.
Speaker 5: It sounds like to me. It sounds yeah. Camellias want acid, yes, soil.
Speaker 5: They want an acid loving soil that's well, that's well drained,
Speaker 5: and that has good nutrient content. Think of a forest
Speaker 5: soil with decaying organic matter that's very rich, very moist,
Speaker 5: and very well drained. That that's what they want.
Speaker 20: Okay, So can I do a dalia food or what
Speaker 20: is the number? What are the three numbers that I
Speaker 20: need to for the acid loving.
Speaker 5: Don't don't worry about well, there's a lot of different brands,
Speaker 5: so the numbers vary, but go with the something for azaleas,
Speaker 5: camellias for blueberries for you know, if it says rhododendron
Speaker 5: on the label. We don't grow those here, but that's
Speaker 5: the same kind of food. Uh and and you'll do
Speaker 5: just fine. Microlife has a product for acid loving plants,
Speaker 5: if you if you like them organic types of products, Yeah,
Speaker 5: just get a bag of their their pink it's kind
Speaker 5: of a pinkish bag that's for acid loving plants, and
Speaker 5: use that. Follow the label. You'll be good.
Speaker 17: Hey, all right, I got happy bye bye, Thank you
Speaker 17: so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you for the call you bet bye bye. All right, Well, Bill,
Speaker 5: I didn't quite make it to you here. We're about
Speaker 5: to have to take a break. Let's see where was I.
Speaker 5: I'm going to give a couple of real quick more
Speaker 5: tips on putting, shearing, or hedging plants. When you're trying
Speaker 5: to create a hedge, keep the top narrower than the bottom.
Speaker 5: Keep the top narrower than the bottom. Otherwise, if it
Speaker 5: gets top heavy, it becomes instead of it like a
Speaker 5: capital A, it becomes a capital V. If it gets
Speaker 5: top heavy like that, it shades out the bottom and
Speaker 5: you lose your foliage down low. So it could either
Speaker 5: be perfectly parallel sides or a little narrower on the
Speaker 5: top and you maintain good cover all the way. Through
Speaker 5: so there is one more tip and I'm about to
Speaker 5: run for a break here. We will be back with
Speaker 5: some more Christmas ideas as well as at the end
Speaker 5: of the show today we'll take a couple more of
Speaker 5: you calls. This is your Sunday morning moment of Zen.
Speaker 5: We can thank me later. We like to have some
Speaker 5: fun with the music here, so you never know what's
Speaker 5: gonna happen. Keep listening. We're gonna go straight out to
Speaker 5: the phones now and continue with our theme of great
Speaker 5: Christmas gift ideas. And I think we have Louis on
Speaker 5: the phone. Is that correct, Louis, are you there?
Speaker 8: That is correct?
Speaker 5: Okay, good, good, Well, welcome to Garden Line. Good to
Speaker 5: have you on. I think you're gonna tell us a
Speaker 5: little bit about some ideas from Warren's Garden Center that
Speaker 5: would be good for folks as gifts, maybe for gardeners
Speaker 5: or even non gardeners on the list.
Speaker 11: Yes, that's correct, But let's start with Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 11: in Kingwood. Okay, the garden Center has a gift shop
Speaker 11: and we have everything in the gift shop for fifty
Speaker 11: percent off.
Speaker 8: Right now through.
Speaker 11: Through before inventory or Christmas, which is going to be
Speaker 11: right around the tay. But in that gift shop we have
Speaker 11: picture frames, sunglasses, hats, we have party supplies, candles, jewelry,
Speaker 11: there's a lot of Christmas reheated merchandise right now, ornaments, trees. Also,
Speaker 11: both garden centers were installing gardens and Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 11: have all pottery thirty percent off right now. Points set
Speaker 11: us at twenty five percent off if somebody wants to
Speaker 11: go pipe points set us.
Speaker 8: And we still have Christmas trees.
Speaker 11: We have about eighty beautiful, natural, fresh caught Christmas trees available.
Speaker 5: Cool, well good. Those are some good ideas. And I
Speaker 5: know Kingwood Garden Center has been going through the sale
Speaker 5: because they're planning on getting in a bunch of new material.
Speaker 5: Then I believe after they they complete this process at
Speaker 5: least that's what I ask.
Speaker 11: Yes, what we are doing is we are we're restocking.
Speaker 11: What is the gift shop today. We're going to put
Speaker 11: more garden in and outdoor living related inventory and so
Speaker 11: and there's going to be a section of door plants
Speaker 11: and indoor plant supplies, including in door lighting, which.
Speaker 8: Is going to be very very cool to have in
Speaker 8: that area area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kitten, no kitten, that's that's a great idea.
Speaker 5: That's a great idea.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: For those of you that are that have kids or grandchildren.
Speaker 11: Next Saturday at the fourteenth, starting at nine thirty am
Speaker 11: through four pm, we have Santa Claus at Warrants Southern
Speaker 11: Gardens on North.
Speaker 5: Park, all right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you can make a reservation online, so visit
Speaker 11: on social media for the events page.
Speaker 5: Well, that's great. That that is really cool. I always
Speaker 5: love going out to guards Warns and Kingoo Garden Center too,
Speaker 5: beautiful places. Just the selection and supply of all kinds
Speaker 5: of things. What are some other things that you think
Speaker 5: might be good as a Christmas gift for someone from
Speaker 5: one of the garden centers.
Speaker 11: Well, so, you can never go wrong with a houseplant,
Speaker 11: a small house plant to somebody that likes anything that
Speaker 11: is plant related. And we have a pretty nice selection,
Speaker 11: and not only at our garden centers, but any of
Speaker 11: the garden centers. You talk about, a house plant is
Speaker 11: a very nice thing to give, something that you can
Speaker 11: give as well that it can get it somebody ready
Speaker 11: for the season. I don't know how often you see
Speaker 11: a pack of fertilector or a pack of soil under
Speaker 11: the tree, but there you go.
Speaker 5: If you're a gardener, yeah yeah, if you're a gardener,
Speaker 5: or a bag of compost wouldn't be.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll accomplished micros.
Speaker 5: There you go, there you get. Those are all great ideas.
Speaker 11: I think taking advantage of this this these uh discounts
Speaker 11: would be good because you know, you're saving, you know,
Speaker 11: so you have access to all this beautiful inventory, and
Speaker 11: you know, the Christmas is such a such a wonderful time,
Speaker 11: but it's also such a confusing time because you have
Speaker 11: to decide. You have to make all these decisions as
Speaker 11: to what to give, So go up please like that,
Speaker 11: and you have all these different options, right, Well, well.
Speaker 5: How about how about this is an idea. Why don't
Speaker 5: we make it available for them to purchase having you
Speaker 5: come out and plant any of the plants they buy
Speaker 5: at Warrens. You show up at the house, you'll make
Speaker 5: the bed, you'll put in the soil, you'll plant the plants.
Speaker 5: Does that sound reasonable to you? You know what?
Speaker 11: I would love to do it, that is, and I'm serious,
Speaker 11: I would love to do that instead of you know,
Speaker 11: doing the sales and managing the marketing and all that things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I'm just messing with you. But I think
Speaker 5: for ten thousand dollars they might be able to work
Speaker 5: something out. That's a price of Christonal skift. But hey, hey,
Speaker 5: you know money is no object, right, yeah.
Speaker 11: I can get the best crew for you and the
Speaker 11: com and rears and the whole, you know, a nice
Speaker 11: section of the garden there.
Speaker 5: You go, Well, that's that's really good. And I know
Speaker 5: another thing that Warrens does is the combination container planting.
Speaker 5: You guys have beautiful containers out there. Combination planning, you know,
Speaker 5: where you put together maybe a planting that could be
Speaker 5: put together with the different kinds of things that would
Speaker 5: do well in the cool season. That would be another idea.
Speaker 11: I know you do that, yes, and that's we have
Speaker 11: two very talented people in our staff, Crispin at Kingwood
Speaker 11: Garden Center in the at Warren sn Arts.
Speaker 8: And what you can do is you can say I
Speaker 8: need I need a pod. You know.
Speaker 11: You can go choose your pottery and you tell them
Speaker 11: the vision you have, or you choose the plans and
Speaker 11: you tell them, hey, make these plans look beautiful and
Speaker 11: this pot that you choose, and they have an amazing
Speaker 11: creative mind to put these plans together and We have
Speaker 11: some videos on TikTok.
Speaker 8: Specifically the Warren stt and Gardens.
Speaker 11: TikTok has a video of me putting these together for
Speaker 11: it was a it was an arrangement.
Speaker 8: For Fall full color.
Speaker 11: So yeah, that's a great point, Skip, thank you for
Speaker 11: bringing it up. And the price, uh is you pay
Speaker 11: for the plant and you pay a small fee for
Speaker 11: putting it together, so it's it's pretty affordable and it's
Speaker 11: actually probably one of the best gifts that you can
Speaker 11: do as a centerpiece for a table or an event
Speaker 11: like a party coming up.
Speaker 20: You know.
Speaker 11: So you just got to color and make sure that
Speaker 11: you call us and ask if if there were in
Speaker 11: that day.
Speaker 5: That sounds good, That sounds very good. Well and you
Speaker 5: got I think you said you guys or did you
Speaker 5: you guys have gift certificates available.
Speaker 11: No, we don't have gift certificates. What you can do
Speaker 11: is you can you can call or when you're visiting
Speaker 11: wanting to buy a gift certificate, you do a prepayment
Speaker 11: and what we do will create an account for the
Speaker 11: person that would be the recipient of that gift and
Speaker 11: they would have a credit on account that they can use.
Speaker 5: Yeah, same thing, So good good. Well, any other any
Speaker 5: other thing you want to add before we go, Uh.
Speaker 11: Well, other than you know, we were reconfiguring the interior
Speaker 11: of the garden center at Kingwood Garden Center.
Speaker 8: No, it's you know, I want to thank.
Speaker 11: Everybody that's been shopping at the garden centers this year, uh,
Speaker 11: the that go to Warrensall and Gardens. Thank you for
Speaker 11: being patient with that construction on North Park. And you know,
Speaker 11: I wish everybody at Merry Christmas and also on behalf
Speaker 11: of the other company that I work with and represent,
Speaker 11: Heirloom Soils. You know, thank you to everybody that's made
Speaker 11: that brand grow in twenty twenty four. It's been a
Speaker 11: great ride and we're looking forward to us to come
Speaker 11: in twenty twenty five. There's a lot of new things happening.
Speaker 5: Well good, it's great. And you mentioned you mentioned Warren's
Speaker 5: on North Park. A Kingwood Garden Center for those who
Speaker 5: haven't been there is on Stone Hollow driving Kingwood. So
Speaker 5: you're really fortunate to have both of these outstanding garden
Speaker 5: centers just so close to you. So Louise, thank you
Speaker 5: so much for coming on.
Speaker 8: Thank you STI time and Merry Christmas story Ready.
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas to you as well. All right there you go. Well,
Speaker 5: that's a bunch of ideas, folks, And you know, there's
Speaker 5: always some nice cool things that you can add for
Speaker 5: people that are on your Christmas list. One thing I'll
Speaker 5: add to it. We talk about Wildbirds a lot here,
Speaker 5: and wild Birds is set up for Christmas gifts as well.
Speaker 5: You know, you go into a wildbird store and you've
Speaker 5: got bird houses. You've got there really cool Martin houses,
Speaker 5: both the kind that look like white gourds and the
Speaker 5: kind that are like little condos that they telescope down
Speaker 5: or the house itself comes down where you can clean it.
Speaker 5: You can you know, get all the old nests or
Speaker 5: whatever out of there. Each year, make sure everything's going good.
Speaker 5: But you need to get those, and that'd be a
Speaker 5: good time to give one because in February we need
Speaker 5: to get those up because the Martins or purple Martins
Speaker 5: start to show back up as the scouts come looking
Speaker 5: for a place to live. At Wildbirds, there's some great
Speaker 5: gifts on birding, one written by the owner of the
Speaker 5: company that is outstanding. There is also high quality bird
Speaker 5: feed If someone already has feeders and things. Some of
Speaker 5: the high quality blends or a gift certificate for the
Speaker 5: wild Birds Unlimited would be another good idea for you there.
Speaker 5: I find that every time I go in, you know,
Speaker 5: I may go I go in for bird seed. I
Speaker 5: like their Wildbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend for this time
Speaker 5: of year. But while I'm there, I find myself looking
Speaker 5: at all the little bird baths and a lot of
Speaker 5: the different accessories for bird feeding that they have at Wildbirds.
Speaker 5: So keep that in mind as well. Well. I was
Speaker 5: going over some tips for pruning, so I'm just going
Speaker 5: to keep going on that. Another tip for pruning is
Speaker 5: to notice what kind of pruning a plant needs. If
Speaker 5: it's a shrub I'm talking about. So a lot of
Speaker 5: times people hedge plants that shouldn't be hedged, you know,
Speaker 5: Like there are plants that bloom on new growth, and
Speaker 5: if you keep hedging them, you get very little bloom
Speaker 5: production and you destroy the natural beauty of that particular plant.
Speaker 5: Like Abelia is one like that. Abelias are beautiful and
Speaker 5: if you don't want one that gets big, by one
Speaker 5: that stays smaller. But I don't hedge those plants. Other
Speaker 5: plants can be hEDS they're designed for hedging. But when
Speaker 5: you do that kind of hedging, you create a lot
Speaker 5: of new branches that form that beautiful dense sides of
Speaker 5: the plant. But just because it's a shrub doesn't mean
Speaker 5: it needs to be hedged. Texas Mountain Urrel is an
Speaker 5: example of that. It is a beautiful form of a shrub.
Speaker 5: And when you prune it instead of hedging it, you
Speaker 5: can just take those long, gangly wild hairs going out
Speaker 5: of the plant and cut them back to where they
Speaker 5: join another branch. And after pruning, it still looks natural.
Speaker 5: It doesn't look all chopped up like it just went
Speaker 5: to the barber shop. All right, Well, I'm getting to
Speaker 5: the point where I'm going to have to quit talking,
Speaker 5: but I am gonna say one more thing on pruning.
Speaker 5: But we'll come back to the list later at the
Speaker 5: end of the show. Today, leaving stubs cut back to
Speaker 5: where a branch joins another branch. Don't leave a stub,
Speaker 5: and also don't cut it flush against the branch that
Speaker 5: it is attached to. There's a little thing called a
Speaker 5: branch collar at the base and right where that branch
Speaker 5: starts to spread out, that's where you need to make
Speaker 5: the cut. I'll be back in just a moment with
Speaker 5: more gift ideas. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to the
Speaker 5: garden Line. We are glad that you're with us today.
Speaker 5: We've been talking about Christmas gifts ideas for people that
Speaker 5: are gardeners or maybe people that aren't gardeners on your
Speaker 5: list related to plants and the whole outdoor environment we enjoy.
Speaker 5: And we're going to heading out of the phones and
Speaker 5: talk to Sherry Hara from Plants for All Seasons. Hello, Sherry,
Speaker 5: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning. How's it going.
Speaker 5: Good morning, it's going well. We're doing well. I appreciate
Speaker 5: you calling in today. I would like to I'd like
Speaker 5: to hear from you some really cool ideas for gifts.
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes we go shopping and there's that someone
Speaker 5: that kind of has everything. What do you get that
Speaker 5: kind of person? Or if it's a gardener on your
Speaker 5: list or someone who wants to be a gardener. I
Speaker 5: I'd like to turn it over to you for a
Speaker 5: minute and let you give us some ideas for that
Speaker 5: from A plus for All Seasons.
Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 21: You know, one really easy gift idea for anybody who
Speaker 21: likes to spend time out outside would be wind chimes.
Speaker 21: Like all the nurseries that you talk about have gift
Speaker 21: shops in them, and they all have a selection of
Speaker 21: wind chimes, usually kind of a more fine tuned wind
Speaker 21: chime selection like gardener spheres or.
Speaker 13: Woodstock, but those.
Speaker 21: Are easy to wrap up and stick under the tree.
Speaker 21: And I don't everybody has a tone of wind chime
Speaker 21: that they like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now does woodstock? Is that like heavy metal headbanging
Speaker 5: stuff from the sixties? You know, maybe probably.
Speaker 21: What New York WoT Okay, actually, yeah, that's where the
Speaker 21: company's from.
Speaker 13: And they're all fine.
Speaker 21: Tuned, different themes, beautiful sounds.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well good, that's a great idea. That
Speaker 5: always is a great idea. What are some other thing?
Speaker 13: And like I said, easy, easy to wrap windchime? So
Speaker 13: great stock the bulbs and.
Speaker 21: Seeds, and bulbs and seeds are really fun because it's
Speaker 21: something that they don't have to plant right now. You can,
Speaker 21: you know, stuff their stocking with them, and that's something
Speaker 21: that they can do in the springtime too. It's easy,
Speaker 21: easy to store till it's time to plant.
Speaker 3: So bulbs and.
Speaker 5: Seeds at supply.
Speaker 21: Yeah, tons of seeds, especially for the veggie gardener. And
Speaker 21: you know, you could pick up a veggie and our
Speaker 21: planting guide and get them the seeds appropriate for the
Speaker 21: you know, next planting season, and and load up there.
Speaker 13: Stocking with them.
Speaker 5: Okay, now, is it physically possible when you walk into
Speaker 5: plant for all seasons to get to the seeds or
Speaker 5: through all the point settas and stuff, you guys right there, we.
Speaker 21: Have a right now, yes, but the wall of seeds
Speaker 21: is accessible absolutely all.
Speaker 5: Right, just thought I check.
Speaker 21: And as far as the bolts go, you know, a
Speaker 21: lot of your spring blooming bulbs are our most favorite
Speaker 21: spring blooming bulbs, like our tulips, in our hyacinths.
Speaker 13: We've pre chilled those already. So we have our.
Speaker 21: Refrigerator that we normally have our insects in, like our
Speaker 21: ladybugs in our nematodes, so we've bloated it up with
Speaker 21: all the spring blooming bulbs, so they're pre chilled and
Speaker 21: ready to go, so you don't have to worry about
Speaker 21: keeping them in the refrigerator for you know, six to
Speaker 21: eight weeks.
Speaker 13: At this point, they're already chilled.
Speaker 5: Good good, well, I saw the photo of that, and
Speaker 5: it is gorgeous. The selection of tulips and hyacinth and
Speaker 5: everything you got.
Speaker 21: Yeah, and you know what happens is, you know down
Speaker 21: on Post Oak in Houston, people be driving around seeing
Speaker 21: the tulips at the end of January or in February,
Speaker 21: and then they'll that's when you want tulips. The problem
Speaker 21: is is you will have to have a plant to
Speaker 21: them already to really enjoy them.
Speaker 13: So if you if you're buying for a gardener, you know.
Speaker 21: Buy them some tulips and hyacinbols and tell them to
Speaker 21: plant them between the holidays so that they're you know,
Speaker 21: loaded up with those beautiful flowers in the springtime.
Speaker 5: That's a good idea. So between Christmas and New Year's
Speaker 5: is a great time to get those in the ground.
Speaker 13: Absolutely all right.
Speaker 5: Any other ideas you have, oh yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 21: I'm loaded with them, because I mean I'm speaking for the.
Speaker 13: Real gardeners here.
Speaker 21: So real gardeners love to get plants. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 21: it doesn't matter what the plant is, but citrus trees
Speaker 21: with all the fixings. So a citrus tree with the
Speaker 21: citrus food, with the citrus soil, and a frost blanket.
Speaker 13: I mean, what what better gift is that?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 14: Is?
Speaker 5: All the things that go glad you mentioned that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, right, yeah, don't that is.
Speaker 21: Don't leave it just you could even get them the
Speaker 21: little wheels to put under the pot to move it.
Speaker 3: In for the winter.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, and and that. And since it's a gift,
Speaker 5: I'm glad you mentioned it that way, because you know,
Speaker 5: I drone on incessantly about bronze stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 5: But when you give a gift, somebody's just going to
Speaker 5: take that citrus out there and PLoP it in the ground,
Speaker 5: and to give them a soul mix to mix in well,
Speaker 5: and the food, like you mentioned, I like that. That's
Speaker 5: really nice.
Speaker 13: Yeah, just everything for success basically.
Speaker 5: So there you go, there you go.
Speaker 13: And then for our younger gardeners.
Speaker 21: And when I say younger, i'm talking you know you're
Speaker 21: it's it's all the rage to have house plants right now,
Speaker 21: and sow new home owners that want to do interior
Speaker 21: plants or even your college students. Indoor house plants are
Speaker 21: greenhouse is loaded up with exotic and tropicals right now,
Speaker 21: and so fun things for yeah, fun things for your
Speaker 21: new gardener. Something maybe easy like an airplant or a
Speaker 21: promeliad would be amazing, and they're kind of really cool.
Speaker 21: You know, conversation pieces, but then all the fology plants.
Speaker 21: Maybe a little pot with some interior plants, soil and
Speaker 21: some fertilizer would be an amazing gift to open for
Speaker 21: really any age.
Speaker 5: That is cool. And I know earlier in the year,
Speaker 5: back in the warmer growing season, you guys had unusual
Speaker 5: plants like the venus fly trap and some others that
Speaker 5: are really different and unusual. But you guys always keep
Speaker 5: a good stock in that greenhouse, so that's cool.
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's loaded up right now and it is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 5: All right, Well good, it looks like I've got about
Speaker 5: thirty seconds left. If you can come up with another one,
Speaker 5: we'll go through.
Speaker 21: Oh well, I mean always, a gift card to your
Speaker 21: favorite garden center would be an amazing gift. You we
Speaker 21: sell the plants for all seasons gift cards. But of course,
Speaker 21: you know all the other nurseries you talk about have
Speaker 21: gift cards. In what gardener would love a gift card
Speaker 21: to do their shopping. Some people come and buy five
Speaker 21: six hundred dollars gift cards to give to their spouse
Speaker 21: to get their garden going in the spring. So that's
Speaker 21: that's an amazing gift there you go.
Speaker 5: That's good and you can write on the gift card
Speaker 5: I've also purchased. It includes a free consultation with someone
Speaker 5: at Plants for all seasons to walk around and guide you.
Speaker 5: You don't have to tell the people that that already
Speaker 5: comes free. When people come to your garden, absolutely give
Speaker 5: them that little given value. Adam Cherry, thank you, thank
Speaker 5: you so much. I appreciate you taking time out to
Speaker 5: visit with us today. If you guys are located off
Speaker 5: off of two forty nine just north of Lua.
Speaker 14: You got it.
Speaker 13: We've been here for fe fifty two years. This is
Speaker 13: our fifty second year doing Christmas trees.
Speaker 21: Christmas Trees and Point Set is a full service garden center,
Speaker 21: so we're always here to help.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you so much again.
Speaker 13: Appreciate that, very very much, Very Christmas.
Speaker 5: H All right, folks, there you have it. We're gonna
Speaker 5: take a little break here. We got one last segment.
Speaker 5: I'm opening the phone lines back up and I want
Speaker 5: to continue talking about pruning if I got a little
Speaker 5: time in there. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Glad
Speaker 5: to have you with us. We got one last segment
Speaker 5: today and we're about to do it. I talk about
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Speaker 5: there Nature's Way. You can buy many of their products
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Speaker 5: go out to Nature's Way, take your pickup, take your
Speaker 5: trailer out there. They're located off Interstate forty five on
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Speaker 5: in from Magnolia. You just turn right or turn to
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Speaker 5: gonna go to the phones now and we're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Barbara in northwest Houston. Hey, Barbara Hight, good morning.
Speaker 22: I have a probably a funny question, but I'm start
Speaker 22: this off with I'm eighty one. I've had a high
Speaker 22: biscus tree my mother got me in two thousand and
Speaker 22: one or two, and it's very sentimental to me.
Speaker 3: I transplant it, you know, well, I repot it.
Speaker 22: Let's put it that way every every year, and I
Speaker 22: just did about two months ago and it's not doing well.
Speaker 22: I've cut off all the dead branches and everything. It's
Speaker 22: in my bathtub, so just can we get a laugh
Speaker 22: of that? But I can't. I can't haul it in
Speaker 22: and out. So I got it in there and I
Speaker 22: got my girl lite and it gets a lot of
Speaker 22: regular sunlight. So it's I don't know what's wrong with it,
Speaker 22: but it's it's dying.
Speaker 5: Have you put it in the bathtub with the grow
Speaker 5: light in previous years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, every year since I've had it.
Speaker 5: All right, Okay, so we know that.
Speaker 22: At the winter time, you know, yeah, yeah, pardon me, okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: When you say dying, tell me about kind of the
Speaker 5: symptoms that you're seeing when you look at it. How
Speaker 5: does that? What does it look like?
Speaker 3: The whole branch.
Speaker 22: It starts at the top of the branch and then
Speaker 22: it goes down basically to the trunk. I only have one, two,
Speaker 22: three good. Well, the fourth branch is the one that's
Speaker 22: really dying. But the leaves are turning yellow. And I
Speaker 22: don't over water it, I don't fertilize it. You're gonna
Speaker 22: laugh at this one, But for years I have done
Speaker 22: nothing but boil banana skins for about play minutes and
Speaker 22: then I let it sat for about a day and
Speaker 22: then I.
Speaker 3: You know, put the liquid in the jar.
Speaker 22: And then that's what I use for fertilization, and it
Speaker 22: works on all my inside and outside plants. I dilute
Speaker 22: it with water. I don't put it down there straight.
Speaker 22: But it has worked all these years. But it's not
Speaker 22: working anymore. I don't know what's wrong.
Speaker 5: Well, so if the leaves are turning yellow, that could
Speaker 5: be different things. You know, when leaves get older, they
Speaker 5: naturally turn yellow and then they fall off. If you
Speaker 5: go through a droudy period, that can happen to plants. Also,
Speaker 5: I'm the only thing I can think of. If you
Speaker 5: say you don't overwater it, it kind of takes out
Speaker 5: all the possibilities of what would be going wrong other
Speaker 5: than you know, a sudden change of light intensity or
Speaker 5: sudden change in watering. Soggy soil creates root rots. Dry
Speaker 5: soil creates, you know, the drought symptoms.
Speaker 3: But the leaves are just drooping everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something's wrong in the roots, Barbara, And I don't
Speaker 5: know for sure what it is. With a biscus. I
Speaker 5: have one in a container, and if I don't water it,
Speaker 5: it starts to get yellow and drop leaves, and then
Speaker 5: I watered again it perks back up. The only thing
Speaker 5: I can think of is somehow getting too wet. Maybe
Speaker 5: the soil, maybe the drain holes aren't working well, maybe
Speaker 5: I don't know, but something is wrong. I would take
Speaker 5: a little trial, dig down in the soil a little
Speaker 5: bit and feel it a few inches deep, see how
Speaker 5: wet it is, how soggy it is. And maybe you
Speaker 5: did that. Okay, yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to.
Speaker 22: I'm thinking maybe just old age.
Speaker 5: But I'm not going to send out to buy a
Speaker 5: funge aside drench because I'm not convinced it is a
Speaker 5: root rod or anything like that. You might want to
Speaker 5: try as we get into the growing season and the
Speaker 5: light is better. It doesn't spend summers in the bathtub,
Speaker 5: does it.
Speaker 22: It has for the last year and a half because
Speaker 22: I can't get it out.
Speaker 5: Oh it has, okay, okay.
Speaker 22: And I've got that plantation shutters the whole wall so
Speaker 22: they're open pace.
Speaker 5: Okay, good, Okay, Well, I don't know. I just watch
Speaker 5: the water moisture on it, make sure the light is
Speaker 5: intense enough to support good growth on it, and I
Speaker 5: think we're gonna have to leave it at that one.
Speaker 5: On this one, I'm sorry it's been giving you trusble.
Speaker 22: Is there any fertilizer or anything I should use.
Speaker 5: I would buy find something that says it's set. Find
Speaker 5: something for hibiscus. Nelson Plant Food makes one in a
Speaker 5: little jar that's for hibiscus, and I would recommend you
Speaker 5: do that. The banana is not going to provide all
Speaker 5: the nutrients that it needs. So all right, thank you
Speaker 5: very much for the call. Try to catch one more
Speaker 5: call here, Bill and sugar Land. Welcome to garden line. Bill.
Speaker 5: I think I got about a minute, but let's see.
Speaker 14: What we'll go fast. I have a Saint Augustine. I
Speaker 14: have a Saint Augustine line, I mean a lawn, and
Speaker 14: in October I did the folfertilization, spread herbicide and funge side.
Speaker 14: But I think I may have user area user errors
Speaker 14: of My line is Saint Augustine. But I have a
Speaker 14: section that dollar weed has just taken over. And that's
Speaker 14: all you see.
Speaker 8: I don't know how to give here.
Speaker 5: So here's the deal. Dollar weed number one. Culturally, it
Speaker 5: loves it when it's too wet. If it stays soggy wet,
Speaker 5: dollar weed proliferates. So if there's a way you can
Speaker 5: avoid that, it may mean turning off the irrigation. It
Speaker 5: may mean improving the drainage in the area. Anything like
Speaker 5: that will at least help. It won't get rid of
Speaker 5: dollar weed, but it won't make it proliferate. There's a
Speaker 5: product called Celsius that you can use and it is
Speaker 5: very effective against dollar weed. You may want to add
Speaker 5: a surffactant to it because dollar weed has a slick
Speaker 5: surface and you want the drops to really stick to
Speaker 5: those round leaves. So get you a quality surfactant. You're
Speaker 5: in sugar Land, Go to Bob in Gosh, I can't.
Speaker 5: I just want blanks. Yeah, he carries that, and he
Speaker 5: carries a surfactant. He can get you going on that.
Speaker 5: You got some of these hardware stores around you too
Speaker 5: that probably will have what I'm talking about. But Celsius,
Speaker 5: like the temperature, comes in a little packet. You make
Speaker 5: a dollar a gallon of spray with it, and that
Speaker 5: goes a long way, and you may have to repeat it.
Speaker 5: That's not don't be surprised if you need to repeat
Speaker 5: it next year. But get it on as soon as
Speaker 5: possible because things are going to be getting kind of
Speaker 5: dormant here on us pretty quick.
Speaker 14: I will do that Thank you so much and have
Speaker 14: a merry Christmas you too.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the call. Well that was a full show,
Speaker 5: busy right to the end. We'll be back next week folks.
Speaker 5: In the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful holiday
Speaker 5: season and enjoy the sun this week. Get out there
Speaker 5: in the garden and have fun.