WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.919 And we're back. Hey, welcome back to Guardenline folks. Good 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.240 to have you with us. We have a special guest 3 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.320 this hour. I've been looking forward to this. Uh, David 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.919 Williamson from r CW Nurseries is going to be on 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.440 with us and we're going to pick his brain and 6 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:20.879 just kind of talk a lot of topics. But me, 7 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.000 We're going to start off with a lot about trees 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.199 for those of you who don't know the RCW Nurseries. 9 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.079 And then there's Williamson Tree Farm, which is up in 10 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.119 the Planners area where a lot of different kinds of 11 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.640 quality trees are grown. And we're going to talk a 12 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.320 little bit about some of the trees that do well here. 13 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.359 Proper planning. You know, here we are in summer and 14 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.520 you may have planted a tree in the wintertime or 15 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.600 last fall, or maybe you're platinum. Now, how do you 16 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:51.280 water it and keep it alive? You know? What is 17 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.000 the what are the secrets to success in getting off 18 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.200 to a good start with trees? So we're going to 19 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.399 head out here and pull David in. Hey, David, are 20 00:00:58.399 --> 00:00:58.759 you there? 21 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.719 Yeah? Here? Can you hear me? Okay? 22 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.280 I can? I can here? Welcome to Garby good. Good 23 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:06.400 to have you with us. 24 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.840 Oh, good morning, thank you you bet well. 25 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.920 So I was just talking about we're gonna have you 26 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.439 on and and uh, i'd like you to start off. 27 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:18.640 Would you just tell us a little bit about Williamson 28 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:20.640 Tree Farm. I know the history goes back into the 29 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:25.040 seventies I believe. And then I'm sorry the RCW nursery, 30 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:26.439 but also I want to hear a little bit about 31 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.920 the tree farm if you don't mind talking about those. 32 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:30.120 Sure. 33 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.640 ARSIW started by three guys, my father and two other 34 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.079 friends of his, Robinson and Cox. That's where the arsen 35 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.079 Wie comes from. They all work to show all together. 36 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.280 And it was working out of their backyards doing landscaping 37 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:46.799 for people on the weekends, whether or not in the 38 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.879 regular nine to five jobs. And then they found a 39 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:55.439 place to store plants and it turned into where ARCW. 40 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.400 Is now and. 41 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:02.079 The Robinson they got out early one got transferred and 42 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.840 the other one got was just didn't want to be 43 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:07.640 involved anymore and got out of it. And my dad 44 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.960 took earlier in time in eighty three, and then he 45 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:13.639 also opened the tree farm in eighty three, which it 46 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:18.280 really it really got going probably i'd say late eighties 47 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.159 early nineties it really started going just selling to the 48 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.520 nursery and then also selling to the landscape version of 49 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:28.919 the nurseries through Texas. And we're pretty diverse spout as 50 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.919 far as products at the tree farm. A lot of 51 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.879 ornamental shade trees, some large shrubs. 52 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:36.599 Quite a quite a variety. 53 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.280 Okay, we're starting to grow more fruit trees and bigger sizes. 54 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:49.960 Pears plumb I did, Okay, Yeah, we're starting. We got 55 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.520 something growing in fifty, We got those growing now in fifteen. 56 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:54.479 So we're going to try to produce some thirties. 57 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:56.960 I don't know if I'll go to forty five gallon size, 58 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.319 but we keep on getting requests for them, so for bigger, 59 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.439 bigger fruit trees, so I think we'll try it out 60 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:11.800 and then uh, okay, but yeah, pizza been going since 61 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:13.360 seventy nine, that's when it started. 62 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.039 Good good, well. I always enjoy going by there. One 63 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.319 thing I always noticed when I drive up to R 64 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.840 C W is there's just there's just color that just 65 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.520 jumps out at you and I know, you know, here 66 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.520 we are in summertime, Like boogom villas are always looking good. 67 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.680 They have been for a long time. There and looking great. 68 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.560 But you guys have a lot of really nice color plants, 69 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.439 from annuals and perennials to boogom villas and and one 70 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:44.080 of my favorite hibiscus uh is your Cajun series, And 71 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:45.639 I know you guys grow a number of those. I 72 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:49.319 have two different Cajun hibiscus myself, uh that I just love. 73 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.960 But that's a that's such an easy plant to grow. 74 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:53.759 Uh. 75 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:57.120 Do you you talked a little bit about hibiscus. 76 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.800 There's a hundred there's one hundreds of rises cages of 77 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.319 the people that DuPont Nursery growths and moving in and 78 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:07.759 they hybrid eyed and hybrid got I mean, I mean it's. 79 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.000 Like two pages of varieties. 80 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.039 It's like, you know, it's a little overwhelming. 81 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:12.360 And. 82 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:16.879 I'd have to buy my neighbor. I'd have to buy 83 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.079 my neighbor's house. Bulldoze the house a way to have 84 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:19.800 room to plant. 85 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.920 Like the Booging Baby is probably my favorite one of 86 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:27.480 that of that series, but it's it's hard to find. 87 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:33.560 We had some in the Baby, Yeah, well I've got some. 88 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:37.319 The thing that caught my caught my eye about him 89 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.639 was just the the colors. That's like, oh, I haven't 90 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.560 seen that color before, you know, kind of thing in biscus, 91 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:51.000 and it's pretty stunning. But that want to have hibiscus success. 92 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.360 Well, those high biscuits are traffic by biscuits, so you 93 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:56.920 have to put them in pots or you get to 94 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.639 make sure you protect them so they like, you know, 95 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.040 occasions seemed to be a little bit better, a little 96 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.120 bit of parts shade. They don't they don't dry out 97 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:08.199 as fast and they can do okay in the regular 98 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.639 tropical business. But you just got to make sure, you know, 99 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:13.079 you keep me if you can keep them in the pods. 100 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:14.680 You got a water, you know, it depends on the 101 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.079 side of the pond. You get a water you know, in 102 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:21.160 this seat daily and then also make sure that you 103 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:23.800 protect them in the wintertime. And you got you know 104 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.319 the I like there there's new hybrid, I guess a 105 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.879 perennial perennial hyph biscus and the. 106 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:33.120 Like. 107 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.600 The Texas Star have been said that's that's a staple 108 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:38.279 that it comes back every year. And the big series 109 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.600 called head over Heels And there's another series I'm not kidding, 110 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.600 but it's they make these huge like freeze beside flowers 111 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:46.480 and they die every year and come back. 112 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.160 I like those lots. 113 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:53.360 I like the ones you don't don't and is a 114 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:59.720 great drop bil go ahead, Yeah, the bug bid is 115 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.439 a great too. But that's another tropical that you have 116 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:04.680 to protect. And so we we we get some big 117 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.360 ones in and you know, some people buy them and 118 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:09.959 then if they freeze, the freeze they come back and 119 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.399 replace them. Sometimes they just they wheel them in the 120 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:16.199 garage and protect them. But we've had a huge specimens 121 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:20.199 who still have them, Some big specimens a patio tree 122 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:25.000 shape and then some they're on trollses. Yeah, I mean 123 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:27.000 they provide a lot of color and they like to 124 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.519 be they like to be dried out between waterings. 125 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.199 And uh true. 126 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.360 Yeah. The brackets on those is what you what your 127 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.120 color is. 128 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.040 Where you usuld color not there's not that's not the 129 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.519 real bloom. But they call the brackets the color part. 130 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:48.439 Mm hmm mm hmm. 131 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:53.639 Yeah they are. They're so gorgeous and uh I when 132 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.199 they're when they're looking their best, it's just it's just 133 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.720 amazing the amount of color, the amount of bracts that 134 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:04.000 they put on, it's just stunning. Well, I'll tell you what, 135 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:05.720 let's do this. I got to take a little break 136 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:07.680 here and when we come back, I would like to 137 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:13.160 talk about some tips for tree planting success, tree and 138 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:16.759 shrub for that matter. But we're talking with David Williamson 139 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.279 from RCW Nurses and Williamson Tree Farm and we're going 140 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:22.920 to be right back. Folks, don't go away. Well, let's 141 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:26.600 head back out here. We're visiting with David Williamson from 142 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.319 RCW Nurses and Williamson Tree Farm this morning. And if 143 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:34.639 you have a question that's related to our conversation David's 144 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:38.160 in my conversation right here, or about RCW or the 145 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.800 tree Farm, I feel free to give me a call. Otherwise, 146 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.480 hold your calls until nine o'clock and I'll be taking 147 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.959 general gardening questions as we always do, starting in the 148 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:50.480 nine o'clock hour. So David, let's talk a little bit 149 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.079 about what would you what would you suggest, What would 150 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:58.399 you tell someone would be how you go about planting properly? 151 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.759 What are some tips for six us, whether it's planning 152 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.279 any time of the year, but especially planning in warm weather. 153 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:10.639 Yeah, we play year round. You know, as long as 154 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:15.079 you can maintain water and you're you're okay. But you know, 155 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:17.920 if you go on vacation for a month and don't 156 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:19.399 don't do it in the summertime. 157 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:23.360 Just you better off wait until it's cooler. 158 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:28.279 But we when we plant, people will tell you the plant, 159 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:29.800 but we've been in it for this way. 160 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.639 For a while. So we we dig the whole about 161 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:32.559 six inches wider. 162 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.440 We had native soil, NAT mix up nato soil with 163 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.120 black humus to decomposed pine multch and then we mix 164 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:40.000 that into. 165 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:41.559 The hole packet type. 166 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.200 We had microwife into the hole as well, and then 167 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:46.360 we leave the roofol a little bit exposed, and then 168 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.879 we create a moat around the outside coming up to 169 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:51.399 the top of the roof all but not over the 170 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:51.840 root all. 171 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.879 And then we stake it and then we we water 172 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.600 in with root activator. And then we recommend you know, 173 00:08:58.960 --> 00:08:59.240 in the. 174 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.799 Summer when we're dry, which we have not been dry 175 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.440 this summer, but watering on a new tree in the 176 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:08.480 summertime two or three times a week with you know, 177 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.200 either slow trickle hose or get a gator bag and 178 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:15.279 fill that up, you know, and just moderate balls are 179 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.360 different throughout Houston, you know the area, and it can 180 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.559 it can range from staying to clay soil, so You 181 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:22.759 just got to dig down to see what your water 182 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.159 moitures like to determine whether you need you know, how 183 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.639 much you need to water it next time. If you 184 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.879 do that, you know, for a couple of weeks, check 185 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.759 it each time you water that SWI gets you an 186 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:37.200 idea on off in your tree needs it until they 187 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.919 get roked out into their soil, they're gonna need, you know, 188 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.399 the hand watering. It depends on the size tree you have. 189 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:45.559 Is you know how much? 190 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:51.080 But mm hmm, you know that's a that that is 191 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.080 good advice. And a lot of times I think folks 192 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.200 are thinking, well, it's hot. You can't plant when it's hot. 193 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.799 And and mind it's not an an analogy. It's just 194 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.480 a fact that I always say about that is so 195 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.519 there's a tree sitting at RCW Nursery right now, and 196 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:08.919 you're going to either planet it now or planet in 197 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:13.480 the fall. How is that tree living if it can't 198 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:15.120 make it? I mean, it's not going to be alive now, 199 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:17.039 but it's alive all the way unto a fall. So 200 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:20.159 when you put it in the ground, if it gets 201 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.600 what it would have gotten at RCW, and that is 202 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:24.679 watered every day, I don't know if y'all water once 203 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.320 or twice a day, but you're keeping the root ball moist. 204 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:29.360 If you put it in the ground and do that, 205 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:33.320 it's going to be fine. In fact even better because 206 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.840 it's going to start getting roots in the ground and 207 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:40.159 getting established. And I think the trick is that keeping 208 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:43.600 it moist without just totally making it like an underground 209 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.480 bathtub full of water that where roots can't get oxygen. 210 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.759 Someone gave me a tip one time. I don't know 211 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.120 if you've ever tried this or not, David, but they 212 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:57.080 put a like a inch and a half or whatever 213 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.399 PVC pipe straight down to the bottom of the rod ball, 214 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:04.240 uh and uh had I think they drill some holes 215 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:06.360 in it, uh so water could come in from on 216 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.879 the bottom or from the sides. But they didn't use 217 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.559 it to water. That's where you see that a lot 218 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:14.039 of times. And they didn't use it to water. They 219 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.120 used it to check the water. And they would take 220 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.759 a dry like a yard stick or one of those 221 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.519 little one inch square yard sticks or a dowel or 222 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.200 a doubt and stick it down in the pipe to 223 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.519 hit the bottom and then pull it back up and 224 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.720 they could see like if there was standing water, if 225 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.919 there was a water table uh in there. Well then 226 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.759 you know, well, let's not drown the roots. I don't 227 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.759 know if what you think about that, but that's that 228 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:41.279 made a lot of sense to me, Like you're not sure. 229 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.159 Yeah, we have not we don't even do that. 230 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.919 There's sight too, so you put them in there so 231 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:50.200 you can check your mos your water, you know, but 232 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.639 they're you definitely, I mean to you away of mods 233 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:54.080 to the water at the bottom and make sure it's 234 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.519 not sitting in water, because you know that's that's a 235 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:58.759 big issue in clay holes. 236 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.879 Yes, so it is. 237 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.879 It is a good idea, but we don't we don't 238 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.159 do it only install trees. But it is a good 239 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.000 idea to do. I think actually that if you especially, 240 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:10.000 I can find a lot of them. 241 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.639 And you guys carry some of the stuff that you recommend. 242 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.200 Some of the stuff you mentioned, uh you know as 243 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:21.519 far as like roots stimulator or you mentioned microlife fertilizers 244 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.960 and things. Tell a little bit about what you guys 245 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.720 have on hand. Then when someone gets a tree, if 246 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.799 they need, if they wanted, they could get some supplies 247 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:29.399 to go with that. 248 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:34.039 Yeah, so what we we use the philandscaper's pride block humus. 249 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.399 We we've been using it for years and it's just 250 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.039 a really good amendment to the soul. And then we 251 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.200 had the Microlife the green label, and then we use 252 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.919 a product by Carlpool called Carlpool Rod Activator and we 253 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:50.120 sell it from pines to gallons to in that gallons 254 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.000 and we also let people know that they can come 255 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.360 back and refill those at a cheaper price. So we 256 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.440 recommend doing that rot actator once a month for the 257 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:05.360 first year encourage the root growth. So that's pretty much 258 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.320 our tree kit. And we also have a large pole 259 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.559 tree large poole for you was strapping to state trees 260 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.799 if it's necessary. 261 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:23.799 Yes, I'm sorry. Go ahead. We've got a delay that's 262 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.639 making it hard for us to talk, but let's just 263 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:27.879 fight through it. Go ahead and finish what you were saying. 264 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:28.200 Please. 265 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.600 Now we sell a kid for the homeowner to if 266 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.600 we want to plant themselves and give them complete destructions 267 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:36.279 on how to plant it out of water and how 268 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:40.960 to take care of it. And when courage hope they 269 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:44.360 have issues with trees, you know, just email us, you know, 270 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.519 and so we you know, we can look at it 271 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.480 seat so we can diagnose what's going on try to 272 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:49.919 catch it. 273 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:55.200 Before it's too late. So okay, but not. 274 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.559 Of the trees that that do die because of either 275 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.039 too much lot of water, and that's the biggest cause. 276 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:09.120 Yeah, okay, very good. Now you mentioned something. You mentioned 277 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.960 the term gator bag, and for those of you listening 278 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:15.799 that aren't familiar with what is that, just think of 279 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.799 a bag almost kind of a tall, triangular kind of 280 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.120 thing that goes around the trunk, but you fill it 281 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.679 with water, but it leaks out of the bottom like 282 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.159 a little drip irrigation system. And so the nice thing 283 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:28.679 about that is if you try to put a hose 284 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.759 on the ground, it tends to run off the surface, 285 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.440 and with a gator bag, you get a nice slow 286 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.759 soak end that goes right down into that root zone. 287 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:42.879 And one final tip too, is remember where the tree 288 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.799 roots are when you plant them. They're still in the 289 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.240 cylinder you put in the ground cylinder of roots that 290 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.279 came out of the pot, and they're going to be 291 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:53.840 pretty much there for a while. And so while they 292 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.559 do venture out and you'll widen your watering area, the 293 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:01.120 primary spot is that cylinder, especially in the first few 294 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.879 weeks that you're taking care of the tree. And I 295 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:05.360 don't know if you want to add anything to that, 296 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:06.320 David or not. 297 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.399 Yeah, they make several much of those those water bags. 298 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:13.679 This one of the tree they catered. The tree bags 299 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:15.759 that catered they called gator bag. They goes up on 300 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:18.039 the tree. And they have also had low profile gat 301 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:23.600 water bags. And uh, our last spinner we were buying 302 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.039 from quit selling them, so I've got to find a 303 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:27.919 new source. But I've been telling people go to Amazon 304 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:30.519 and get the the twenty gallon bags, to get the 305 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.159 to get the ones I like the low profile versus 306 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.879 the ones go on the trunk, up so high on 307 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:40.000 the trunk, but they do good. 308 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.840 Is that the Is that the one that looks like 309 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:45.879 a little flat doughnut laying on the ground. 310 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:47.200 Yeah, exactly. 311 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:53.120 Yeah, okay, well good, all right. There's some tips there 312 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:58.720 on planting the tree. Uh that's excellent. And and we 313 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:00.799 we've been talking trees, but the same as tree with 314 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:04.720 shrubs or both wooding ornamentals, and they both need to 315 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.440 be to be kept moist in the root system and 316 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.960 you can plant them. Now, now's a fine time to 317 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:15.639 go ahead and get that done too. So, uh, when 318 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.559 you're when you are looking at established trees. Do you 319 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.799 have any tips on like watering. Let's say someone's had 320 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.159 a tree and it's been in for a year or 321 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.080 two or three or five. Uh, any tips on general 322 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.120 watering of those trees because the roots aren't all in 323 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.000 that cylinder still. 324 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.159 No, they've they've definitely broadened out. So I tell people 325 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.039 to try to water, you know, to drip wine. It's 326 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.480 you know, especially if we're in a drought and we're 327 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.879 not getting adequate water, you know, with the with the 328 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.039 rain and irrigation, you might have to go something that 329 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.480 with the you know, the hose drip around the tree, 330 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:51.360 you know, but we put on a slow drip and 331 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.000 move it around the drip line to give it, you know, 332 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.159 five to minutes, you know, move it around the whole 333 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.080 perimeter to so that trees getting some water depends on 334 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:01.879 how big it is. Okay, So going run out to 335 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:03.879 finding something in any one of them. We're not the 336 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.119 irrigation systems not providing are the rain? 337 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:13.000 So okay, but you guys have been I've got about David, 338 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.519 I've got about a two minutes here before I have 339 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.640 an absolute hard break. But you guys have been planning 340 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.759 and growing trees for many many years, and I'd like 341 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:23.920 to hear what are some of your favorite trees? Like, 342 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.440 if someone your neighbor walks over and says, I'm wanting 343 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.640 to put a new tree in, can you give me 344 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.279 three that you think they ought to consider. Well, we'll 345 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.319 continue on after the break, but what are what are 346 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:36.960 three that you think would be top choices? 347 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.400 The German red maple, one legro of San Silite probably 348 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.039 one of my favorites. I like the schue mart and 349 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.559 not all oaks a lot, and I like the white oak, 350 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:50.680 some of my favorites as well. 351 00:17:52.680 --> 00:18:07.319 Okay, I uh yeah, so for're smaller, Okay, good, I am. 352 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:10.240 I'm so sorry about this delay. We are still trying 353 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.960 to figure out how to fix it. Uh. You mentioned 354 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.160 the sem Felipe. Tell me some things about sam Felipe 355 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.160 that you like better than other red maples that are 356 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:19.680 out there. 357 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.279 It's a druman red maple that was found off of 358 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.279 Santanapea Road and they we just been plunging it, propagating. 359 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.640 It hits a female and they come out with those 360 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.359 little samaras in the early spring, really bright red and 361 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.559 it all good fall color. And they grow probably two 362 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.960 or three for a year. Okay, I like because they're 363 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:42.839 fast growing and they and they add some a little 364 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.960 bit of color to your yard as well, and they'll 365 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:48.359 get fifty three feet tall and they provide a lot 366 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:48.720 of ship. 367 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:55.920 Wow, that's a that's a good good size, good sized tree. 368 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:58.759 That's nice good shade tree. Well, thank you for that. 369 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.680 As you usual, we just get going. Time flies when 370 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.240 you're having fun, and I've got to go to a 371 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:07.720 hard break right here. We're going to come back with 372 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.359 David Williamson from RCW Nursier and Williamson Tree Farm. If 373 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.480 you've got a question regarding planting trees or some of 374 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:16.960 the things we're talking about, feel free we'll get David 375 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.599 involved here on it. If it's a general gardening question, 376 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.920 just hang on and at nine o'clock I'll be back 377 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:24.920 answering general gardening questions. But don't go away. We've got 378 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:27.440 plenty of interesting things to talk about with David Williamson. 379 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:31.279 We are talking with David Williamson of RCW nurseres and 380 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:35.680 Williamson Tree Farm this morning talking about plants, basically summer 381 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:39.519 planting and some of the favorite trees and species and things. 382 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:42.440 I want to bring David back on now. David Good 383 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.880 to be back with you. Do you have some shrubs 384 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.599 that you think people ought to consider more in the 385 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.480 planting options? You know, what are some maybe some favorites 386 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.759 of yours or some things that you think maybe ought 387 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:56.559 to be utilized a little bit more. And when it 388 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:01.559 comes to shrubs, whether it's for screaming or just for 389 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.480 a beautiful flowering shrub or kind of wide open, what 390 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:05.920 are some favorites of yours? 391 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.880 I mean for privacy, I like I like the Hollys, 392 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:14.960 the Eagleston Hollies, the Oakland Hollies, the Robin Hollis. Those 393 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.519 are all good for probably c r accent trees as well. 394 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.680 I really like the sunshiny cushum. I know it's used 395 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:24.559 a lot, but I mean when I like, when you 396 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:26.920 you let that go naturally, it's really a good yellow 397 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:30.119 It gets, you know, six foot tall if you let it. 398 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.240 I also like illi agnuses some of the shrubs, so 399 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.200 I like the Martini olive illiagnists a lot. It's got 400 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:42.359 a yellow screen irrigation to it. I think it's it's 401 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.759