Speaker 1: And we're back. Hey, welcome back to Guardenline folks. Good
Speaker 1: to have you with us. We have a special guest
Speaker 1: this hour. I've been looking forward to this. Uh, David
Speaker 1: Williamson from r CW Nurseries is going to be on
Speaker 1: with us and we're going to pick his brain and
Speaker 1: just kind of talk a lot of topics. But me,
Speaker 1: We're going to start off with a lot about trees
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know the RCW Nurseries.
Speaker 1: And then there's Williamson Tree Farm, which is up in
Speaker 1: the Planners area where a lot of different kinds of
Speaker 1: quality trees are grown. And we're going to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about some of the trees that do well here.
Speaker 1: Proper planning. You know, here we are in summer and
Speaker 1: you may have planted a tree in the wintertime or
Speaker 1: last fall, or maybe you're platinum. Now, how do you
Speaker 1: water it and keep it alive? You know? What is
Speaker 1: the what are the secrets to success in getting off
Speaker 1: to a good start with trees? So we're going to
Speaker 1: head out here and pull David in. Hey, David, are
Speaker 1: you there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Here? Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 1: I can? I can here? Welcome to Garby good. Good
Speaker 1: to have you with us.
Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, thank you you bet well.
Speaker 1: So I was just talking about we're gonna have you
Speaker 1: on and and uh, i'd like you to start off.
Speaker 1: Would you just tell us a little bit about Williamson
Speaker 1: Tree Farm. I know the history goes back into the
Speaker 1: seventies I believe. And then I'm sorry the RCW nursery,
Speaker 1: but also I want to hear a little bit about
Speaker 1: the tree farm if you don't mind talking about those.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: ARSIW started by three guys, my father and two other
Speaker 3: friends of his, Robinson and Cox. That's where the arsen
Speaker 3: Wie comes from. They all work to show all together.
Speaker 3: And it was working out of their backyards doing landscaping
Speaker 3: for people on the weekends, whether or not in the
Speaker 3: regular nine to five jobs. And then they found a
Speaker 3: place to store plants and it turned into where ARCW.
Speaker 2: Is now and.
Speaker 3: The Robinson they got out early one got transferred and
Speaker 3: the other one got was just didn't want to be
Speaker 3: involved anymore and got out of it. And my dad
Speaker 3: took earlier in time in eighty three, and then he
Speaker 3: also opened the tree farm in eighty three, which it
Speaker 3: really it really got going probably i'd say late eighties
Speaker 3: early nineties it really started going just selling to the
Speaker 3: nursery and then also selling to the landscape version of
Speaker 3: the nurseries through Texas. And we're pretty diverse spout as
Speaker 3: far as products at the tree farm. A lot of
Speaker 3: ornamental shade trees, some large shrubs.
Speaker 2: Quite a quite a variety.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're starting to grow more fruit trees and bigger sizes.
Speaker 3: Pears plumb I did, Okay, Yeah, we're starting. We got
Speaker 3: something growing in fifty, We got those growing now in fifteen.
Speaker 2: So we're going to try to produce some thirties.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'll go to forty five gallon size,
Speaker 3: but we keep on getting requests for them, so for bigger,
Speaker 3: bigger fruit trees, so I think we'll try it out
Speaker 3: and then uh, okay, but yeah, pizza been going since
Speaker 3: seventy nine, that's when it started.
Speaker 1: Good good, well. I always enjoy going by there. One
Speaker 1: thing I always noticed when I drive up to R
Speaker 1: C W is there's just there's just color that just
Speaker 1: jumps out at you and I know, you know, here
Speaker 1: we are in summertime, Like boogom villas are always looking good.
Speaker 1: They have been for a long time. There and looking great.
Speaker 1: But you guys have a lot of really nice color plants,
Speaker 1: from annuals and perennials to boogom villas and and one
Speaker 1: of my favorite hibiscus uh is your Cajun series, And
Speaker 1: I know you guys grow a number of those. I
Speaker 1: have two different Cajun hibiscus myself, uh that I just love.
Speaker 1: But that's a that's such an easy plant to grow.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Do you you talked a little bit about hibiscus.
Speaker 3: There's a hundred there's one hundreds of rises cages of
Speaker 3: the people that DuPont Nursery growths and moving in and
Speaker 3: they hybrid eyed and hybrid got I mean, I mean it's.
Speaker 2: Like two pages of varieties.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, it's a little overwhelming.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: I'd have to buy my neighbor. I'd have to buy
Speaker 1: my neighbor's house. Bulldoze the house a way to have
Speaker 1: room to plant.
Speaker 3: Like the Booging Baby is probably my favorite one of
Speaker 3: that of that series, but it's it's hard to find.
Speaker 1: We had some in the Baby, Yeah, well I've got some.
Speaker 1: The thing that caught my caught my eye about him
Speaker 1: was just the the colors. That's like, oh, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that color before, you know, kind of thing in biscus,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty stunning. But that want to have hibiscus success.
Speaker 3: Well, those high biscuits are traffic by biscuits, so you
Speaker 3: have to put them in pots or you get to
Speaker 3: make sure you protect them so they like, you know,
Speaker 3: occasions seemed to be a little bit better, a little
Speaker 3: bit of parts shade. They don't they don't dry out
Speaker 3: as fast and they can do okay in the regular
Speaker 3: tropical business. But you just got to make sure, you know,
Speaker 3: you keep me if you can keep them in the pods.
Speaker 3: You got a water, you know, it depends on the
Speaker 3: side of the pond. You get a water you know, in
Speaker 3: this seat daily and then also make sure that you
Speaker 3: protect them in the wintertime. And you got you know
Speaker 3: the I like there there's new hybrid, I guess a
Speaker 3: perennial perennial hyph biscus and the.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 3: The Texas Star have been said that's that's a staple
Speaker 3: that it comes back every year. And the big series
Speaker 3: called head over Heels And there's another series I'm not kidding,
Speaker 3: but it's they make these huge like freeze beside flowers
Speaker 3: and they die every year and come back.
Speaker 2: I like those lots.
Speaker 3: I like the ones you don't don't and is a
Speaker 3: great drop bil go ahead, Yeah, the bug bid is
Speaker 3: a great too. But that's another tropical that you have
Speaker 3: to protect. And so we we we get some big
Speaker 3: ones in and you know, some people buy them and
Speaker 3: then if they freeze, the freeze they come back and
Speaker 3: replace them. Sometimes they just they wheel them in the
Speaker 3: garage and protect them. But we've had a huge specimens
Speaker 3: who still have them, Some big specimens a patio tree
Speaker 3: shape and then some they're on trollses. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: they provide a lot of color and they like to
Speaker 3: be they like to be dried out between waterings.
Speaker 1: And uh true.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The brackets on those is what you what your
Speaker 2: color is.
Speaker 3: Where you usuld color not there's not that's not the
Speaker 3: real bloom. But they call the brackets the color part.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah they are. They're so gorgeous and uh I when
Speaker 1: they're when they're looking their best, it's just it's just
Speaker 1: amazing the amount of color, the amount of bracts that
Speaker 1: they put on, it's just stunning. Well, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: let's do this. I got to take a little break
Speaker 1: here and when we come back, I would like to
Speaker 1: talk about some tips for tree planting success, tree and
Speaker 1: shrub for that matter. But we're talking with David Williamson
Speaker 1: from RCW Nurses and Williamson Tree Farm and we're going
Speaker 1: to be right back. Folks, don't go away. Well, let's
Speaker 1: head back out here. We're visiting with David Williamson from
Speaker 1: RCW Nurses and Williamson Tree Farm this morning. And if
Speaker 1: you have a question that's related to our conversation David's
Speaker 1: in my conversation right here, or about RCW or the
Speaker 1: tree Farm, I feel free to give me a call. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: hold your calls until nine o'clock and I'll be taking
Speaker 1: general gardening questions as we always do, starting in the
Speaker 1: nine o'clock hour. So David, let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about what would you what would you suggest, What would
Speaker 1: you tell someone would be how you go about planting properly?
Speaker 1: What are some tips for six us, whether it's planning
Speaker 1: any time of the year, but especially planning in warm weather.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we play year round. You know, as long as
Speaker 3: you can maintain water and you're you're okay. But you know,
Speaker 3: if you go on vacation for a month and don't
Speaker 3: don't do it in the summertime.
Speaker 2: Just you better off wait until it's cooler.
Speaker 3: But we when we plant, people will tell you the plant,
Speaker 3: but we've been in it for this way.
Speaker 2: For a while. So we we dig the whole about
Speaker 2: six inches wider.
Speaker 3: We had native soil, NAT mix up nato soil with
Speaker 3: black humus to decomposed pine multch and then we mix
Speaker 3: that into.
Speaker 2: The hole packet type.
Speaker 3: We had microwife into the hole as well, and then
Speaker 3: we leave the roofol a little bit exposed, and then
Speaker 3: we create a moat around the outside coming up to
Speaker 3: the top of the roof all but not over the
Speaker 3: root all.
Speaker 2: And then we stake it and then we we water
Speaker 2: in with root activator. And then we recommend you know,
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 3: Summer when we're dry, which we have not been dry
Speaker 3: this summer, but watering on a new tree in the
Speaker 3: summertime two or three times a week with you know,
Speaker 3: either slow trickle hose or get a gator bag and
Speaker 3: fill that up, you know, and just moderate balls are
Speaker 3: different throughout Houston, you know the area, and it can
Speaker 3: it can range from staying to clay soil, so You
Speaker 3: just got to dig down to see what your water
Speaker 3: moitures like to determine whether you need you know, how
Speaker 3: much you need to water it next time. If you
Speaker 3: do that, you know, for a couple of weeks, check
Speaker 3: it each time you water that SWI gets you an
Speaker 3: idea on off in your tree needs it until they
Speaker 3: get roked out into their soil, they're gonna need, you know,
Speaker 3: the hand watering. It depends on the size tree you have.
Speaker 3: Is you know how much?
Speaker 1: But mm hmm, you know that's a that that is
Speaker 1: good advice. And a lot of times I think folks
Speaker 1: are thinking, well, it's hot. You can't plant when it's hot.
Speaker 1: And and mind it's not an an analogy. It's just
Speaker 1: a fact that I always say about that is so
Speaker 1: there's a tree sitting at RCW Nursery right now, and
Speaker 1: you're going to either planet it now or planet in
Speaker 1: the fall. How is that tree living if it can't
Speaker 1: make it? I mean, it's not going to be alive now,
Speaker 1: but it's alive all the way unto a fall. So
Speaker 1: when you put it in the ground, if it gets
Speaker 1: what it would have gotten at RCW, and that is
Speaker 1: watered every day, I don't know if y'all water once
Speaker 1: or twice a day, but you're keeping the root ball moist.
Speaker 1: If you put it in the ground and do that,
Speaker 1: it's going to be fine. In fact even better because
Speaker 1: it's going to start getting roots in the ground and
Speaker 1: getting established. And I think the trick is that keeping
Speaker 1: it moist without just totally making it like an underground
Speaker 1: bathtub full of water that where roots can't get oxygen.
Speaker 1: Someone gave me a tip one time. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever tried this or not, David, but they
Speaker 1: put a like a inch and a half or whatever
Speaker 1: PVC pipe straight down to the bottom of the rod ball,
Speaker 1: uh and uh had I think they drill some holes
Speaker 1: in it, uh so water could come in from on
Speaker 1: the bottom or from the sides. But they didn't use
Speaker 1: it to water. That's where you see that a lot
Speaker 1: of times. And they didn't use it to water. They
Speaker 1: used it to check the water. And they would take
Speaker 1: a dry like a yard stick or one of those
Speaker 1: little one inch square yard sticks or a dowel or
Speaker 1: a doubt and stick it down in the pipe to
Speaker 1: hit the bottom and then pull it back up and
Speaker 1: they could see like if there was standing water, if
Speaker 1: there was a water table uh in there. Well then
Speaker 1: you know, well, let's not drown the roots. I don't
Speaker 1: know if what you think about that, but that's that
Speaker 1: made a lot of sense to me, Like you're not sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have not we don't even do that.
Speaker 3: There's sight too, so you put them in there so
Speaker 3: you can check your mos your water, you know, but
Speaker 3: they're you definitely, I mean to you away of mods
Speaker 3: to the water at the bottom and make sure it's
Speaker 3: not sitting in water, because you know that's that's a
Speaker 3: big issue in clay holes.
Speaker 2: Yes, so it is.
Speaker 3: It is a good idea, but we don't we don't
Speaker 3: do it only install trees. But it is a good
Speaker 3: idea to do. I think actually that if you especially,
Speaker 3: I can find a lot of them.
Speaker 1: And you guys carry some of the stuff that you recommend.
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff you mentioned, uh you know as
Speaker 1: far as like roots stimulator or you mentioned microlife fertilizers
Speaker 1: and things. Tell a little bit about what you guys
Speaker 1: have on hand. Then when someone gets a tree, if
Speaker 1: they need, if they wanted, they could get some supplies
Speaker 1: to go with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so what we we use the philandscaper's pride block humus.
Speaker 3: We we've been using it for years and it's just
Speaker 3: a really good amendment to the soul. And then we
Speaker 3: had the Microlife the green label, and then we use
Speaker 3: a product by Carlpool called Carlpool Rod Activator and we
Speaker 3: sell it from pines to gallons to in that gallons
Speaker 3: and we also let people know that they can come
Speaker 3: back and refill those at a cheaper price. So we
Speaker 3: recommend doing that rot actator once a month for the
Speaker 3: first year encourage the root growth. So that's pretty much
Speaker 3: our tree kit. And we also have a large pole
Speaker 3: tree large poole for you was strapping to state trees
Speaker 3: if it's necessary.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sorry. Go ahead. We've got a delay that's
Speaker 1: making it hard for us to talk, but let's just
Speaker 1: fight through it. Go ahead and finish what you were saying.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 3: Now we sell a kid for the homeowner to if
Speaker 3: we want to plant themselves and give them complete destructions
Speaker 3: on how to plant it out of water and how
Speaker 3: to take care of it. And when courage hope they
Speaker 3: have issues with trees, you know, just email us, you know,
Speaker 3: and so we you know, we can look at it
Speaker 3: seat so we can diagnose what's going on try to
Speaker 3: catch it.
Speaker 2: Before it's too late. So okay, but not.
Speaker 3: Of the trees that that do die because of either
Speaker 3: too much lot of water, and that's the biggest cause.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, very good. Now you mentioned something. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the term gator bag, and for those of you listening
Speaker 1: that aren't familiar with what is that, just think of
Speaker 1: a bag almost kind of a tall, triangular kind of
Speaker 1: thing that goes around the trunk, but you fill it
Speaker 1: with water, but it leaks out of the bottom like
Speaker 1: a little drip irrigation system. And so the nice thing
Speaker 1: about that is if you try to put a hose
Speaker 1: on the ground, it tends to run off the surface,
Speaker 1: and with a gator bag, you get a nice slow
Speaker 1: soak end that goes right down into that root zone.
Speaker 1: And one final tip too, is remember where the tree
Speaker 1: roots are when you plant them. They're still in the
Speaker 1: cylinder you put in the ground cylinder of roots that
Speaker 1: came out of the pot, and they're going to be
Speaker 1: pretty much there for a while. And so while they
Speaker 1: do venture out and you'll widen your watering area, the
Speaker 1: primary spot is that cylinder, especially in the first few
Speaker 1: weeks that you're taking care of the tree. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to add anything to that,
Speaker 1: David or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they make several much of those those water bags.
Speaker 3: This one of the tree they catered. The tree bags
Speaker 3: that catered they called gator bag. They goes up on
Speaker 3: the tree. And they have also had low profile gat
Speaker 3: water bags. And uh, our last spinner we were buying
Speaker 3: from quit selling them, so I've got to find a
Speaker 3: new source. But I've been telling people go to Amazon
Speaker 3: and get the the twenty gallon bags, to get the
Speaker 3: to get the ones I like the low profile versus
Speaker 3: the ones go on the trunk, up so high on
Speaker 3: the trunk, but they do good.
Speaker 1: Is that the Is that the one that looks like
Speaker 1: a little flat doughnut laying on the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well good, all right. There's some tips there
Speaker 1: on planting the tree. Uh that's excellent. And and we
Speaker 1: we've been talking trees, but the same as tree with
Speaker 1: shrubs or both wooding ornamentals, and they both need to
Speaker 1: be to be kept moist in the root system and
Speaker 1: you can plant them. Now, now's a fine time to
Speaker 1: go ahead and get that done too. So, uh, when
Speaker 1: you're when you are looking at established trees. Do you
Speaker 1: have any tips on like watering. Let's say someone's had
Speaker 1: a tree and it's been in for a year or
Speaker 1: two or three or five. Uh, any tips on general
Speaker 1: watering of those trees because the roots aren't all in
Speaker 1: that cylinder still.
Speaker 3: No, they've they've definitely broadened out. So I tell people
Speaker 3: to try to water, you know, to drip wine. It's
Speaker 3: you know, especially if we're in a drought and we're
Speaker 3: not getting adequate water, you know, with the with the
Speaker 3: rain and irrigation, you might have to go something that
Speaker 3: with the you know, the hose drip around the tree,
Speaker 3: you know, but we put on a slow drip and
Speaker 3: move it around the drip line to give it, you know,
Speaker 3: five to minutes, you know, move it around the whole
Speaker 3: perimeter to so that trees getting some water depends on
Speaker 3: how big it is. Okay, So going run out to
Speaker 3: finding something in any one of them. We're not the
Speaker 3: irrigation systems not providing are the rain?
Speaker 1: So okay, but you guys have been I've got about David,
Speaker 1: I've got about a two minutes here before I have
Speaker 1: an absolute hard break. But you guys have been planning
Speaker 1: and growing trees for many many years, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to hear what are some of your favorite trees? Like,
Speaker 1: if someone your neighbor walks over and says, I'm wanting
Speaker 1: to put a new tree in, can you give me
Speaker 1: three that you think they ought to consider. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: continue on after the break, but what are what are
Speaker 1: three that you think would be top choices?
Speaker 3: The German red maple, one legro of San Silite probably
Speaker 3: one of my favorites. I like the schue mart and
Speaker 3: not all oaks a lot, and I like the white oak,
Speaker 3: some of my favorites as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, I uh yeah, so for're smaller, Okay, good, I am.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry about this delay. We are still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to fix it. Uh. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the sem Felipe. Tell me some things about sam Felipe
Speaker 1: that you like better than other red maples that are
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 3: It's a druman red maple that was found off of
Speaker 3: Santanapea Road and they we just been plunging it, propagating.
Speaker 3: It hits a female and they come out with those
Speaker 3: little samaras in the early spring, really bright red and
Speaker 3: it all good fall color. And they grow probably two
Speaker 3: or three for a year. Okay, I like because they're
Speaker 3: fast growing and they and they add some a little
Speaker 3: bit of color to your yard as well, and they'll
Speaker 3: get fifty three feet tall and they provide a lot
Speaker 3: of ship.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a that's a good good size, good sized tree.
Speaker 1: That's nice good shade tree. Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: As you usual, we just get going. Time flies when
Speaker 1: you're having fun, and I've got to go to a
Speaker 1: hard break right here. We're going to come back with
Speaker 1: David Williamson from RCW Nursier and Williamson Tree Farm. If
Speaker 1: you've got a question regarding planting trees or some of
Speaker 1: the things we're talking about, feel free we'll get David
Speaker 1: involved here on it. If it's a general gardening question,
Speaker 1: just hang on and at nine o'clock I'll be back
Speaker 1: answering general gardening questions. But don't go away. We've got
Speaker 1: plenty of interesting things to talk about with David Williamson.
Speaker 1: We are talking with David Williamson of RCW nurseres and
Speaker 1: Williamson Tree Farm this morning talking about plants, basically summer
Speaker 1: planting and some of the favorite trees and species and things.
Speaker 1: I want to bring David back on now. David Good
Speaker 1: to be back with you. Do you have some shrubs
Speaker 1: that you think people ought to consider more in the
Speaker 1: planting options? You know, what are some maybe some favorites
Speaker 1: of yours or some things that you think maybe ought
Speaker 1: to be utilized a little bit more. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to shrubs, whether it's for screaming or just for
Speaker 1: a beautiful flowering shrub or kind of wide open, what
Speaker 1: are some favorites of yours?
Speaker 3: I mean for privacy, I like I like the Hollys,
Speaker 3: the Eagleston Hollies, the Oakland Hollies, the Robin Hollis. Those
Speaker 3: are all good for probably c r accent trees as well.
Speaker 3: I really like the sunshiny cushum. I know it's used
Speaker 3: a lot, but I mean when I like, when you
Speaker 3: you let that go naturally, it's really a good yellow
Speaker 3: It gets, you know, six foot tall if you let it.
Speaker 3: I also like illi agnuses some of the shrubs, so
Speaker 3: I like the Martini olive illiagnists a lot. It's got
Speaker 3: a yellow screen irrigation to it. I think it's it's
Speaker 3: I think it's an easy, low maintenance plant that's uh
Speaker 3: add some contrasts in color to the yard.
Speaker 2: And I like the Pineapa gualba still.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, the twenty one freeze did damage
Speaker 3: them a little bit, but they still a great plant. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got that gray spree foliage.
Speaker 2: And I like wax sparles. To what else do I like?
Speaker 2: I like?
Speaker 3: I like sweet allars, not a lot of them, just
Speaker 3: poradically for for blooms. For the smell m because it's
Speaker 3: so much for your free yard is incredible, and.
Speaker 1: I know, and you know, the funny the funny thing
Speaker 1: about it is you you're trying to look around and
Speaker 1: see where is that smell coming from because the blooms
Speaker 1: are so tiny, you know, I know.
Speaker 3: But they they're small, but they they produce a powerful
Speaker 3: paunch of fragrance. That's pretty amazing. I also like the uh,
Speaker 3: the the different burns too. Some some of the viburnams
Speaker 3: sleet viburnum. Uh it is a good evergreen, a large
Speaker 3: leaf one uh, the sandangles, another good one, the thicker leaf.
Speaker 3: And then there's a spring bouquets more a dwarf variety.
Speaker 3: It's another good by Burnham.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: Let's see. I like to sages.
Speaker 3: I so I call it yeah green leaves and these
Speaker 3: different companies keep on coming up with a new ride
Speaker 3: of stage Desperado. And then they have another one that's
Speaker 3: a white woman when they just came out to remember
Speaker 3: the name of that one.
Speaker 2: That's really cool.
Speaker 3: San Antonio stage is really pretty. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: great types of stage. They like, you know, you don't
Speaker 3: do well in a dry area, but they also do
Speaker 3: regular and do well in a regular flower bed.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm okay, And I also like this just there's
Speaker 1: good drainage, right, that's.
Speaker 3: The main thing. They're drainage. They don't like wet seed.
Speaker 3: And then there's a growth pond that we're growing called
Speaker 3: that we've been buying and growing, but it's called Taylor
Speaker 3: Rudolph Fielpon. It's a dwarf field pond. It gets red berries.
Speaker 3: Looks similar to its regular field pond, but it has
Speaker 3: a little bit a little bit different look, but they
Speaker 3: get red berries in the winter time.
Speaker 2: It was the dwarfed Rudolph. Uh, Taylor Rudolph.
Speaker 1: I have not seen them, okay field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a love doug plant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, I like all those ideas. Those are
Speaker 1: those are wonderful and uh, you know, you get a
Speaker 1: good foundation of shrubs especially a lot of those you
Speaker 1: mentioned are evergreens, and they give you that year round
Speaker 1: foundation that then you can create around, uh, build that beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful uh property that everybody wants to have. We all
Speaker 1: want to have, right, So that's kind of cool, can
Speaker 1: can you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: When when it comes to woody ornamentals, trees and shrubs
Speaker 1: and things, well, actually, let me let me broaden it
Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't want to limit to just that.
Speaker 1: What are some some new things that and when I
Speaker 1: say new, you know, the last five years is legit
Speaker 1: or ten?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: What are some new plants that are out there in
Speaker 1: the garden center? And I'm gonna throw one out that
Speaker 1: I have seen and it's just like a showstopper, and
Speaker 1: that's Hearts of Fire red bud. Would you discuss that one?
Speaker 1: But also any other kinds of fairly new things on
Speaker 1: the market that people may not be aware of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the red bud market's gone crazy, But the Hearts
Speaker 3: of Fire it's got that sort of a yellowish green
Speaker 3: to an orange color variegation when it comes out in
Speaker 3: new growth, and the color stays pretty good to the summer.
Speaker 2: It stays a little bit.
Speaker 3: And also, you know the Rising Sun, and another good
Speaker 3: or truce yellow flower, yellow foliage. It comes out and
Speaker 3: brings up in the summertime. Another one called rise and Shine,
Speaker 3: and then they have several of red varieties, more low
Speaker 3: fur arts. I can't think of vision there's another one.
Speaker 3: There's so many red buds out there that have come
Speaker 3: out with Yeah, black pearl, black curls and my favorite ones.
Speaker 1: So oh it is okay, and it does it hold
Speaker 1: the color pretty well in the heat.
Speaker 2: It holds a color really well in the heat.
Speaker 3: Surprise. We got a bunch of them growing and as
Speaker 3: a farm in fifteen and thirties, and it's, uh, I'm
Speaker 3: surprised how well it's done compared.
Speaker 2: To the other red ones like them are.
Speaker 3: Low the earlier ones in the what's the other one
Speaker 3: that came out?
Speaker 2: But yeah, you got me?
Speaker 3: Got me think I'm thinking of red but now what
Speaker 3: I so.
Speaker 1: Well, those are all those are great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, forest pants at the original red leaf point of
Speaker 3: It's amazing how much.
Speaker 2: Stay hold a red color really well. In the hearts
Speaker 2: of fire.
Speaker 3: There's also one flamethrower, but the flamethrost will have got
Speaker 3: I can't find it really that much more. It's been
Speaker 3: kicked out because the hearts of fire.
Speaker 2: It does better.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, our landscape has become a sea of green
Speaker 1: in the summer. Green grass, green trees, green groundcovers, green
Speaker 1: shrubs and greens are pretty color. But it's so nice
Speaker 1: to have color other than what blooms in summer. We
Speaker 1: do have blooms for summer, but not like spring. But
Speaker 1: when you have something like these red buds, even the
Speaker 1: even the rising sun that the color is kind of
Speaker 1: a yellow short treuse looking orange yellow short treuse looking colors. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's still a color that's outside that sea of green.
Speaker 1: And I think those are really cool to add. Keeps
Speaker 1: your keep looking good even when blooms are harder to
Speaker 1: come by.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do that as well as the understory tree. And
Speaker 3: the rising sun seems to take more sun. You know,
Speaker 3: they all take sun, but the writing Sun just really
Speaker 3: holds up in the heat the first two years and
Speaker 3: than the other red buds.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good to know too. Hey. Uh well,
Speaker 1: hash time flies. Uh we gotta go to another break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. Got David H. Williamson from r CW
Speaker 1: Nurses and Williamson Tree Farm with us. We're talking all
Speaker 1: kinds of things. We're gonna talk some other new plants
Speaker 1: as we come back here. Stay tuned, don't go away.
Speaker 1: Wealk back to garden line and have you with us,
Speaker 1: and we are visiting with David Williamson from Williamson Tree
Speaker 1: Farm and r c W Nurseries. Now I've been talking
Speaker 1: all kinds of things, plants, new plants, how to take
Speaker 1: care of trees, h all sorts of things. Let's head
Speaker 1: back here and get David back on the line with us.
Speaker 1: Hey David, uh so, uh are there are there? Could
Speaker 1: you tell us anything about new or upcoming things. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's some new materials that you have there on site,
Speaker 1: plants or things that you just want to mention, or
Speaker 1: upcoming plans and activities there at RCW Nursery.
Speaker 3: Well r c W and we we constantly get a
Speaker 3: new stuff, but I know for us, we've been focused
Speaker 3: on getting our We're going to create a nursery called
Speaker 3: Williamson Family Gardens in.
Speaker 2: Front of a tree farm.
Speaker 3: It's going to be tapping. My wife has done most
Speaker 3: of this, but she's We've got a house into the
Speaker 3: sales off tear shop and then we're going to set
Speaker 3: up a retail up there an event center. That's the
Speaker 3: biggest thing we've been working on recently. Hopefully by November
Speaker 3: will be open. We already sell retail up there, but
Speaker 3: it's a company.
Speaker 2: Word of mouth.
Speaker 3: So that's our biggest, uh biggest thing going on with us.
Speaker 3: As far as a right plants and trees, I'm always
Speaker 3: trying new things. I don't know about. You know that
Speaker 3: El Nino or l Nino.
Speaker 2: Desert willow? I guess a combo, but it's a have
Speaker 2: you seen that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that the is that the cross or is it
Speaker 1: just strictly desert willow? Does that have Chatapa in it?
Speaker 1: Or is it just desert willow?
Speaker 3: It's I think it's across, but it's the only posted
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. I keep hearing about it though.
Speaker 3: It's the miniature hybrid tree desert willow katap across and
Speaker 3: it blooms profusely. And I had I had a handful
Speaker 3: I brought in and and two gallons. They are probably
Speaker 3: eight foot tall for a two gallon And I said,
Speaker 3: what did you huge? And they bloomed beautifully. But I'm
Speaker 3: trying to get some of those so I can grow
Speaker 3: more of those. Are the tree farmers. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a good tree, small medium tree.
Speaker 1: For our yards. I gotta I gotta try that out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go on line and look at it.
Speaker 1: You said, and you called it. Tell me again, please.
Speaker 2: El Nino Desert orchid tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna be at A'll be at t n
Speaker 1: l A and I bet i'll see some there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely will.
Speaker 3: I think it's I can't remember who brought it out.
Speaker 3: I can't remember. There's so many different people that advertise
Speaker 3: proven winners.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, proven winners with a woody ornamental. Okay, cool? Yeah, yeah, Hey, David,
Speaker 1: we got a question. We've got a collar with a
Speaker 1: question here that maybe it may stump us, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna give it a shot here. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is Martha from Kingwood. Hey, Martha, welcome to garden and Williamson.
Speaker 2: Hi, Well, thank you.
Speaker 5: I have been looking and I think I bought the
Speaker 5: tree at Mercer during their sail in the spring. And
Speaker 5: it's called a pomp palm orchid and it's white and
Speaker 5: the butterflies absolutely love it. So I'm wondering if you
Speaker 5: carry that. I understand it's you know, a lot of
Speaker 5: places do, but I haven't been able to find one.
Speaker 3: I assume that the ball, honey, some variety. Yeah, we've
Speaker 3: carried some of those, but whilst time I have not,
Speaker 3: I've gotten in any any recently. There is a who
Speaker 3: have them besides Barbara, I mean Mercer. I read them
Speaker 3: barbart Gate might have them and then yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You have to check around it.
Speaker 3: But nursery, what's the what's the nurse what's the nursery thing?
Speaker 2: What? They may have some there.
Speaker 1: Too, were in southern gardens. May be talking about the anacacha,
Speaker 1: the anacacha orchid tree. But any litoides that sounds a
Speaker 1: little bit like that. That's our best shot. Martha. Martha's
Speaker 1: still there with us.
Speaker 5: When I look on the uh leaps to identify it,
Speaker 5: calls it a pump pum orchid.
Speaker 1: Well that's a trade trade name. Yeah, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, Martha.
Speaker 6: To the leaves, are the leaves like two two leaves
Speaker 6: that are fused together, kind of two ovals that you
Speaker 6: put together, kind of like a cow's hoof would look
Speaker 6: like or something like that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: They remind me a little bit of a red bud leaf,
Speaker 5: but not as sick, you know they're all right, yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on hold.
Speaker 1: I want you to get my email from my producer
Speaker 1: and send me some pictures up close of the blooms
Speaker 1: and the leaves, and I'll help you going forward from that.
Speaker 1: But thank you very much for your call, So, David,
Speaker 1: any closing thoughts. But by the way, I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to hear about you guys doing the Williamson family gardens
Speaker 1: up there in the Plannersville area. Do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about availability of the tree farm for folks to
Speaker 1: stop in. Do you have some you know, certain days
Speaker 1: or hours that you're doing it, because I know you're
Speaker 1: primarily wholesale up there, but I think you mentioned just
Speaker 1: a minute ago that you'll do some sales from there.
Speaker 3: I'm doing by appointment only in the springtime.
Speaker 2: But no, come up.
Speaker 3: We're open seven and sixty eight a week there money
Speaker 3: through Saturday, and then we the guy through good Luck
Speaker 3: from twelve to one. So well, going to show you around.
Speaker 3: You know, fifty acres in production and lots of look.
Speaker 1: At wow, fifty acres of trees. Okay, I may need
Speaker 1: to let you go so you can get back to
Speaker 1: work fifty tree. Well that's good. Well, uh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I just have to throw I have to give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hard time here. You said
Speaker 1: that your wife was working on getting the wims and
Speaker 1: family gardens up and going. I thought your wife was
Speaker 1: who did all the work at RCW Nurseries too, am
Speaker 1: I right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she does that, she does that too, but she's
Speaker 3: she's been trying to get this shit.
Speaker 2: The farm going. Yeah. Well that's that's cool. Think's been
Speaker 2: pushing it.
Speaker 1: That's exciting. All right. Well, so before we before we
Speaker 1: run here, I just wanted to throw out any other
Speaker 1: particular plants or things, you know. I know you guys
Speaker 1: really focus in the spring on roses, but you have
Speaker 1: roses year round and you have such a great selection
Speaker 1: of them. Any you know, come in any about about
Speaker 1: the roses and maybe.
Speaker 3: Got umber road to they're they're all on sale to
Speaker 3: right now. The all the hybrid t that's four Bundanes,
Speaker 3: all the ones that we have from the spring that
Speaker 3: are left.
Speaker 2: Thanks. I still like the first prize, Double Delights and.
Speaker 3: Probably my favorite favorite roses, Fragrant Cloud another one. I
Speaker 3: like those older ones, my my my favorite roses. But
Speaker 3: roses take a lot of work. You gotta have you
Speaker 3: gotta have patients for them.
Speaker 1: Yes they do, but I'm telling you it's a cult people.
Speaker 3: And this five lady teams, she's from rosa Ide and
Speaker 3: I think she had over one hundred and fifty two hundred.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's been closer to two hundred variety of roses
Speaker 3: on our property. Holy cow, that preparation alone.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to go see that, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to be put to work because that
Speaker 1: is something well, you know, that's how it is with plants.
Speaker 1: You know, we we we find plants and there's a
Speaker 1: whole plant society created about them, whether it's Plumeria's Society
Speaker 1: or the Rose Society or all kinds of plants like that.
Speaker 1: That's one of the fun things about plants is you
Speaker 1: can you can really get into the deep end.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a lot of fun. That's good. Well,
Speaker 1: it has been great, you know, having you And thanks
Speaker 1: so much David for spending time with us on the
Speaker 1: phone today. If you guys are interested, uh, we tell
Speaker 1: a little bit about your hours there and location for
Speaker 1: RCW nurseries before we go.
Speaker 3: RW is open seven days a week. Right now, we're
Speaker 3: at seven to four money through Friday, eight to five
Speaker 3: on Saturday, and ten to five on Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, something to do there every day.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, David. I appreciate you being on. Well,
Speaker 1: that was fun, a lot of cool, and I learned
Speaker 1: a couple of things to myself there as we went through. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put this one into the news here in
Speaker 1: just a second, and I will be back for the
Speaker 1: nine o'clock hour. If you've got gardening questions, I see,
Speaker 1: we got some folks coming up here. Gym in a
Speaker 1: task Casita. You're gonna be our first up when we
Speaker 1: come back, and we will continue on here with garden line.
Speaker 2: Be right back