Speaker 1: Coming to you from Studio A here at Proven Winners
Speaker 1: Color Choice Shrubs. It's time for the Gardening Simplified Show
Speaker 1: with Stacy, Hervella me, Rick Weist, and our engineer and
Speaker 1: producer Adrianna Robinson Stacy. Today we talk about hanging baskets.
Speaker 1: It's Mother's Day weekend and so hanging baskets are kind
Speaker 1: of a big deal. They were a big deal, I
Speaker 1: guess to King Nebekenezzar and Babylon way back when the
Speaker 1: famous hanging gardens where allegedly hanging baskets got their start.
Speaker 1: May baskets were a big deal back in the eighteen
Speaker 1: hundreds and nineteen hundreds. People would fill little baskets with
Speaker 1: candies and cut flowers and hang them on the door
Speaker 1: knob of their neighbor.
Speaker 2: That's the tradition we should bring back. That's quite lovely.
Speaker 1: I think we should exactly. And then, of course the
Speaker 1: Saturday before Mother's Day and garden centers is considered basket
Speaker 1: because well, what are you gonna get for mom? And
Speaker 1: a hanging basket, of course, is a great gift. IDEA.
Speaker 1: One flower that sticks out in my mind because when
Speaker 1: I first started out in the garden center industry years ago,
Speaker 1: we would sell all kinds of them, still do today.
Speaker 1: But it made a great Mother's Day hanging basket. And
Speaker 1: that is Fuchio's.
Speaker 2: Oh yep, classic choice. And you know, attract hummingbirds. So
Speaker 2: if mom likes hummingbirds, can't go wrong with a fusia.
Speaker 2: Although I will say I did buy my mom fusia
Speaker 2: hanging baskets for many years and she didn't love them
Speaker 2: because they need a dead heading.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So even though they.
Speaker 2: Did attract hummingbirds and that was great. And also if
Speaker 2: depending on where you live, if it gets really hot
Speaker 2: in the summer, they will kind of slow down, yes,
Speaker 2: and not be as fabulous. But I'll tell you fusha
Speaker 2: flowers are some of the prettiest flowers. And the colors
Speaker 2: are just irresistible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can give them a little bit of shade,
Speaker 1: you can get upright and pendulating. There's a cultivar out
Speaker 1: called black Key Midnight. Have a picture for our YouTube
Speaker 1: viewers of that. There's eruptions all different types of fusia cultivars.
Speaker 1: And then of course I also love bogonia baskets. You
Speaker 1: can get tubris, fibrous rex, bogonias pendulating begonias. Bogonia foliage,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you're growing them in a hanging basket,
Speaker 1: are notorious for deflecting irrigation. Water. Yeah, I think you're
Speaker 1: watering that basket, but it's deflecting off the off the foliage.
Speaker 1: And then of course angel wing bogonias also have become
Speaker 1: very popular over the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like Bonfire and all of those fabulous choices.
Speaker 2: Right colors though on Bonfire, which I actually love best,
Speaker 2: bright orange, al switch tracks, hummingbirds.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Now, when you purchase a hanging basket or
Speaker 1: give one to mom, most hanging baskets you'll find in
Speaker 1: garden centers come in a plastic ten inch basket.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give that a thumbs down. Same here,
Speaker 2: because I don't buy that kind for my mom.
Speaker 1: And so what I want you to do, and that's fabulous,
Speaker 1: Your mom is lucky. What I want to do is
Speaker 1: just point out to people that there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: upsizing those. In other words, I view those ten inch
Speaker 1: poly baskets as a delivery container, similar to how you
Speaker 1: would go to the grocery store and let's say buy
Speaker 1: cool whip. Okay, yeah, cool whip invented in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1: To this day, we still do not know what non
Speaker 1: dairy cool whip is made of. But that's a whole
Speaker 1: other story. I like cool whip containers because I can
Speaker 1: store nuts and bolts and nails and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So what do you do with that ten inch hanging basket?
Speaker 1: Because I like to upsize into a twelve inch, fourteen
Speaker 1: inch or sixteen inch basket, maybe a Sphagnum moss basket,
Speaker 1: or just go online and look, there are a multitude
Speaker 1: of great twelve to sixteen inch sized baskets that you
Speaker 1: can purchase to upsize your your hanging basket.
Speaker 2: Right and upscale it. I think that's really important too,
Speaker 2: because you know that plastic container in most scenarios where
Speaker 2: you're hanging a hanging basket, that container is like right
Speaker 2: and eye level, so you're looking not at this fabulous plant,
Speaker 2: but this kind of junkie white molded like these weird waves,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of containers. And I understand that's the
Speaker 2: lowest cost for garden centers and that's why they do that,
Speaker 2: But I always do prefer to get my mom a
Speaker 2: bigger hanging basket that's in more of the moss type
Speaker 2: or even the cardboard, the cord fiber, yeah, that pressed
Speaker 2: cord fiber even, that's just something that looks a little
Speaker 2: bit more organic, so that while the hanging basket is
Speaker 2: growing out, and most do eventually grow out, that's kind
Speaker 2: of why they're hanging baskets, because they're big plants that
Speaker 2: are going to overgrow the basket in time. It just
Speaker 2: looks a little you know, more organic and nice. But
Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea to invest in really
Speaker 2: high quality hanging back baskets which aren't going to cost
Speaker 2: that much, that go with your decor of your home,
Speaker 2: and that you can plant into every single year, and
Speaker 2: that's always going to look a lot nicer. And that's
Speaker 2: a good way to save the money by buying the
Speaker 2: inexpensive plastic hanging basket, but give it more of that upscale.
Speaker 1: Look exactly how I feel. And then when you do that,
Speaker 1: make sure to use a good quality, lightweight potting mix
Speaker 1: or soil where you can upsize into that basket. You
Speaker 1: could consider using soil moist granules, just a few granules
Speaker 1: in the soil to help hold the moisture in because
Speaker 1: one of the key aspects of hanging baskets. If you're
Speaker 1: buying one of these ten inch hanging baskets and hanging
Speaker 1: that thing up, is that as the season progresses, the
Speaker 1: root system develops and creates a firm or solid surface
Speaker 1: along the top. Also, if the soil dries a little bit,
Speaker 1: it contracts away from the side of the pot, then
Speaker 1: you're watering that pot. It's running across the surface down
Speaker 1: the sides and not getting the rootball.
Speaker 2: What never really saturating it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So when growing hanging baskets, I'd love to just
Speaker 1: walk along and lift up on them. Tell by the
Speaker 1: weight of the basket whether or not it needs moisture.
Speaker 1: And I like to keep a screwdriver handy because I
Speaker 1: just puncture some holes to basically cut into that surface
Speaker 1: tension and stacy. You're going to have a lot easier
Speaker 1: job watering your hanging basket.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you know, for anyone who is listening who
Speaker 2: is getting this into their head, for the love of
Speaker 2: your mother or anyone else important in your life, do
Speaker 2: not put a diaper in a hanging basket in an
Speaker 2: attempt to make it hold more water. No matter what
Speaker 2: you've seen on interest or any other social media site,
Speaker 2: any parent can tell you that a diaper is intended
Speaker 2: to hold onto moisture and not release it. And that
Speaker 2: is exactly what's going to happen in your hanging basket.
Speaker 2: Is you're going to have a really gross, dirty dipe
Speaker 2: that is just full of soil and water that is
Speaker 2: not doing anything for your planet except actually taking away
Speaker 2: space that could have been soiled that could have actually
Speaker 2: helped it. So, no matter what you've read, and a man,
Speaker 2: I tell you off topic, but I feel like the
Speaker 2: misinformation on social media right now is just going through
Speaker 2: like a wildfire. It's just we are in the season,
Speaker 2: So don't believe everything that you hear. And please, if
Speaker 2: you are repotting a hanging basket, do not put a
Speaker 2: diaper in it.
Speaker 1: That's right. Instead, you should pamper your baskets.
Speaker 2: That's exactly. That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Coming up in segment four today we will talk about
Speaker 1: plants that are great in hanging baskets, because I think
Speaker 1: you should pot up your own hanging baskets. Combinations are
Speaker 1: great proven winners. On their website has countless recipes that
Speaker 1: you can tap into where you take two or three
Speaker 1: different types of plants and plant them, some of them
Speaker 1: quite simple. I love the vista view you recipe. I
Speaker 1: use it every year. It's just three different types of supertunias,
Speaker 1: including the bubblegum supertunia. But boy do they perform as
Speaker 1: a hanging basket. So we'll talk about that. We're also
Speaker 1: going to talk about on a different subject, tulips and
Speaker 1: the different types of tulips. Now that they're in bloom,
Speaker 1: you can see the different types of tulips that you
Speaker 1: could grow in your garden. We'll also talk about that
Speaker 1: in segment for today. While we're on this subject of
Speaker 1: hanging baskets, and I think this is a subject stacy
Speaker 1: that probably you and I both have very strong opinions on.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a limb a rick that I
Speaker 1: wrote about hanging baskets. It's called the basket case. My
Speaker 1: baskets hang around my place, hung without enough headspace. Be
Speaker 1: very careful where you tread. You're liable to bonk your
Speaker 1: head and become a basket case. So if your head
Speaker 1: you clobber, take some asp for that throbber. Don't be upset.
Speaker 1: Get a grip, because that basket is next going to
Speaker 1: drip on your clean white shirt. It will slob.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Again, Having worked in the garden center industry for years, Stacy,
Speaker 1: I wish I had a dime for every time I've
Speaker 1: walked into a hanging basket or bunked my head on one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, or that feeling when it drips down and
Speaker 2: it goes right down the back of your neck and
Speaker 2: down your shirts is not good. So all of that
Speaker 2: is to say at home, if you're having guests or
Speaker 2: you're planning to hang out on your patio or porch
Speaker 2: later in the day, do the watering in the morning.
Speaker 2: Let them drain through and avoid that whole mess.
Speaker 1: Yes, And another suggestion, get yourself a good watering wand.
Speaker 1: So if you are not installing drip irrigation on these
Speaker 1: hanging baskets, get a good quality watering wand. And the
Speaker 1: very first thing you do, at least I do, is
Speaker 1: I take that watering wand, I pull out the cheap
Speaker 1: washer that's in there, and I put in a good
Speaker 1: quality rubber washer. Because there's nothing worse than holding that
Speaker 1: watering wand up and having that water run right down
Speaker 1: your arm, into your armpits down your side and it's
Speaker 1: cold and it's miserable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, a hanging basket watering wand is
Speaker 2: a life changer, Like if you don't have one, you
Speaker 2: will not believe how much easier it is to care
Speaker 2: for that. So if you are looking up to looking
Speaker 2: to up your Mother's Day gift game, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: think about that hanging basket watering wand instead of just
Speaker 2: the hanging basket. If you feel like you know, hey
Speaker 2: two into hanging baskets. I'm getting moum watering wand this year.
Speaker 2: She will so appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Put a bow on it. Stacy's next
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Speaker 1: Keep rolling. We're gonna use this, okay.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you know, I've been thinking about trying to change
Speaker 2: up my greeting and I've been puzzling over it, and
Speaker 2: i was like, is this going to be the day
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna give it a whirl,
Speaker 2: and it yeah, it obviously did not feel natural. So
Speaker 2: greetings gardening friends, and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show,
Speaker 2: where for the time being, I will be sticking with
Speaker 2: my traditional welcoming greeting. Obviously, Happy Mother's Day. Yes, Happy
Speaker 2: Mother's Day to my wonderful mom, uh and to moms everywhere.
Speaker 2: And you know, we're talking about hanging baskets because it
Speaker 2: is a classic gift. And I think one of the
Speaker 2: reasons that a hanging basket is such a classic gift
Speaker 2: for mom is because they do tend to be little
Speaker 2: bit more expensive. Yes, you know, and whether or not
Speaker 2: your mom really considers herself a gardener, it is a
Speaker 2: little bit. Especially a big nice one is a bit
Speaker 2: of a splurge.
Speaker 1: But they're grab and go. It's easy. Pick out a
Speaker 1: couple nice ones, grab and go, one in each hand.
Speaker 1: And that's why we talked about in the first segment
Speaker 1: that's wonderful. It's a delivery container. But think about upsize well.
Speaker 2: And the other part of it too, is that you're
Speaker 2: not giving mom work. Now some of our moms are
Speaker 2: gardeners and are happy to you know, get a bunch
Speaker 2: of fabulous Proven Winns annuals and get to work planting
Speaker 2: them in their planters and pots or whatever. But a
Speaker 2: lot of them are not, and they want something beautiful,
Speaker 2: and that that's the great thing is it's a grab
Speaker 2: and go. You give that hanging basket to mom, you
Speaker 2: hang it up on the hanger for and you know,
Speaker 2: your work there is done and she gets to enjoy
Speaker 2: a fabulous hanging basket all season long. Now, obviously, you
Speaker 2: know this show is primarily about Proven Winners colored Choice shrubs,
Speaker 2: so we do have a vested interest in Proven winners.
Speaker 2: But I will say honestly that when it comes to
Speaker 2: hanging baskets, Proven Winners plants in a hanging basket are
Speaker 2: usually pretty clearly denoted. They either have the tags in
Speaker 2: them or a special hanging basket tag. And you know,
Speaker 2: if if this is your first time tuning in, it
Speaker 2: is really worth mentioning that all of the Proven Winner's annuals,
Speaker 2: all of the Proven Winner's plants in general, but this
Speaker 2: is especially important for Proven Winners annuals, and talking about
Speaker 2: hanging baskets, Uh, they are all tested to really outperform
Speaker 2: what is already on the market. So you know, we've
Speaker 2: talked numerous times about say, super Tunia Vista bubble Gum petunia,
Speaker 2: which is super popular, probably the best selling proven winners,
Speaker 2: uh you know, annual, And the reason for that is
Speaker 2: because it doesn't need dead heading. So your mom might say, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't like petunias. They need dead heading, they smell terrible.
Speaker 2: Super Tunia Vista bubble Gum doesn't need dead heading. So
Speaker 2: you're choosing plants that will actually perform better and bloom
Speaker 2: all summer for mom and not just one of those
Speaker 2: ones that are going to peter out. And then you know,
Speaker 2: your mom's like, well, that was a crummy hanging basket.
Speaker 2: So they really do make the better choice. I'm not
Speaker 2: just saying that because I work here. I'm saying that
Speaker 2: because I know the process and everything that goes into them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not only do the plants have great genetics, but
Speaker 1: the plants are tested, as you said, and even the
Speaker 1: recipes and the combinations are also tested and proven, and
Speaker 1: so you can proceed forward with confidence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's important too, because sometimes you get a
Speaker 2: fabulous looking hanging basket in may and the plants don't
Speaker 2: all kind of grow at the same rate, and then something,
Speaker 2: some really important key element of it gets totally overwhelmed
Speaker 2: and it disappears and you're like, oh, wait, wasn't there
Speaker 2: like this other plant in there. So they are like
Speaker 2: really scientifically tested to make sure that all of the
Speaker 2: plants in there are compatible and will give you that
Speaker 2: nice colorful look all season loss it will look like
Speaker 2: what you bought, which is important. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to hanging baskets, shrubs, which we usually talk about here
Speaker 2: on Plants on trial, not the first plant that comes
Speaker 2: to mind. I mean, if you stretch your imagination, you
Speaker 2: can say, okay, well maybe like ivy. Ivy is in theory,
Speaker 2: Actually not ivy is a woody plant, though of course
Speaker 2: in hanging baskets they don't ever really reach that point
Speaker 2: where they're actually putting on woody growth. That's probably as
Speaker 2: close as you could find, generally speaking, to any kind
Speaker 2: of shrub or woody plant truly woody plant in a
Speaker 2: hanging basket, and over the years we have definitely experimented
Speaker 2: with different plants in hanging baskets in our R and
Speaker 2: D facility research and development, trying to find out if
Speaker 2: there are other plants that we can put in a
Speaker 2: hanging basket and you know, make that a more interesting
Speaker 2: way to kind of decorate and enjoy plants. And most
Speaker 2: of them have not been successful because generally speaking, with
Speaker 2: these woody plants, they want to grow up, and so
Speaker 2: when you try to put them in a hanging basket,
Speaker 2: which you want to grow usually down and have that
Speaker 2: cascading effect, they won't do that. They'll just grow up
Speaker 2: and they'll try to cling to the basket hangers and
Speaker 2: it just does not work out that well. But there
Speaker 2: is one major exception, and that is well one of
Speaker 2: them is today's plant on trial. The major exception fairy
Speaker 2: trail cascade hydranges. Love that plant, so you can kind
Speaker 2: of guess by the name right there, trail and cascade.
Speaker 2: These are hydrangeas that naturally grow with a very cascading
Speaker 2: sort of trailing habit. And the first and original plant,
Speaker 2: which has actually already been a plant on trial, was
Speaker 2: fairy trail bride cascade hydrangea. And this was a plant
Speaker 2: on trial a little over a year ago, and it
Speaker 2: was the first one in the series. And this is
Speaker 2: a plant that was sold in the EU and the
Speaker 2: UK as Runaway Bride hydrangea. So Runaway Bride got a
Speaker 2: ton of notoriety because it won in twenty eighteen the
Speaker 2: Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year and people went
Speaker 2: bonkers for it. They had never seen anything like it,
Speaker 2: and it was not actually available in the US until
Speaker 2: we were able to get the rights to it in
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two. So it's a
Speaker 2: fairly recent plant to be available here in the US,
Speaker 2: and we're really thrilled about that. And you know, it
Speaker 2: is actually developed. Some people might not know this by Ushiosakazaki,
Speaker 2: who is the same plant breeder who developed the Supertunia
Speaker 2: Vista series too Supertunia Vista bubblegum All time bestseller, Proven
Speaker 2: Winners annual. He also developed Fairy Trail Bride, so you
Speaker 2: know it's got some serious chops with his talents behind it.
Speaker 2: So Fairy Trail Bride is a lace cap cascading hydrangeles,
Speaker 2: that's what we call them. We call them cascade hydranges
Speaker 2: because we really wanted to differentiate them from big leaf
Speaker 2: hydranges hydroge of macrophylla, because they are a bit different.
Speaker 2: So they look a lot like it, but there are
Speaker 2: some really key differences. So we really felt that to
Speaker 2: help communicate that to people and understand their different habits
Speaker 2: and need of care, that we should give them kind
Speaker 2: of a new category because they're a wide hybrid of
Speaker 2: different hydrange of species, So we call them cascade hydranges,
Speaker 2: which really goes to describe their habits. So instead of
Speaker 2: just growing upward and rounded like most hydrangees do, it
Speaker 2: grows these long, arching, horizontal stems and it sets flower
Speaker 2: buds at each individual leaf node along those stems. So
Speaker 2: it's almost like and it's a little bit weird to
Speaker 2: say that, to say this, but it's almost like a viburnum,
Speaker 2: like a double file viburnum, which also looks like this
Speaker 2: in the spring where you're getting that kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: very distinctive look of the flowers kind of stacking along
Speaker 2: the stems. Sure, yes, tearing. So fairy trail bride, like
Speaker 2: I said, is a lace cap, so the flowers are
Speaker 2: very large and open. Today's plant on trial, fairy trail
Speaker 2: white cascade Hydrangea is a mophead cascade hydrangea. So I
Speaker 2: personally am an equal opportunity hydrange of flower appreciator. I
Speaker 2: like both the mopheads and the lace caps, and in fact,
Speaker 2: if I did have a choice to live with only
Speaker 2: one for the rest of my life, I would actually
Speaker 2: choose the lace caps. Myself. I do prefer them, but
Speaker 2: I get why people like the mophead because those are
Speaker 2: the ones that are big and round and you just
Speaker 2: want to kind of like put your hands around because
Speaker 2: they're just so like fluffy. So fairy Trail white cascade
Speaker 2: Hydrangea is today's plant on trial, and that's what makes
Speaker 2: it really different. So when you see these plants side
Speaker 2: by side in the garden center, and there are going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of these in garden centers this
Speaker 2: Mother's Day, you'll really be able to decide which one
Speaker 2: you personally like better. There is also fairy Trail green
Speaker 2: cascade hydrangea, which is like fairy Trail white in that
Speaker 2: it's a mophead, but the flowers are green, like that
Speaker 2: nice fresh green color.
Speaker 1: You know, it's exciting to think of growing something like
Speaker 1: this in a container or even a large basket. I
Speaker 1: was gonna mention I have tried flowering shrubs in hanging baskets,
Speaker 1: like oh so easy roses, But of course these were
Speaker 1: hanging baskets that were packed with spagnum moss and they
Speaker 1: were four feet in diamond.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so took a high load to lift things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not really practical for most people. And
Speaker 2: many of these plants that you're going to see at
Speaker 2: your garden center at this time of year are actually
Speaker 2: going to be in hanging baskets because this plant does
Speaker 2: look absolutely beautiful and hanging baskets. So I did want
Speaker 2: to give you a little bit of information in case
Speaker 2: you are buying one of these for yourself or for
Speaker 2: your mom this year. They are really going to be
Speaker 2: very similar to growing a big leaf hyder range. So
Speaker 2: they bloom on old wood just like the big leaf
Speaker 2: hyder ranges do. So that means they set their flower
Speaker 2: buds in winter, and that means that they also are
Speaker 2: going to not need pruning. So it's a great plant
Speaker 2: to give as a gift because it's very low maintenance.
Speaker 2: But of course there's going to be a tag in
Speaker 2: there that explains all of this, so don't worry. You
Speaker 2: can give it and you don't have to like explain
Speaker 2: all of this extra information. So no pruning, blooms on
Speaker 2: old wood. It does bloom much earlier than big leaf
Speaker 2: hyder ranges do. So for us outdoors, it's gonna bloom
Speaker 2: usually probably by about early June, whereas, of course in
Speaker 2: the garden center they've already been forced to bloom because
Speaker 2: everyone wants to give their mom a beautiful plant that's
Speaker 2: already in flower. So don't be totally deceived by the
Speaker 2: bloom time. But they do bloom quite a bit earlier
Speaker 2: than the big leaf hyder ranges do. Now there's one
Speaker 2: key differ that we really want everyone to know about these.
Speaker 2: Because they do bloom earlier than big leaf hydranges do,
Speaker 2: they are actually more susceptible to spring frost damage. So
Speaker 2: they bloom on old wood. They have their flower buds
Speaker 2: all through winter. Spring comes along, it starts to get warm,
Speaker 2: the plant starts to leaf out and open up those
Speaker 2: flower buds a little bit more. Because it is going
Speaker 2: to be so much more close to its bloom time
Speaker 2: than a big leaf hydrange, it actually can make those
Speaker 2: flower buds a little bit more susceptible to cold damage
Speaker 2: even than a max. So what we recommend for these
Speaker 2: is that you plant them in parts sun only, and
Speaker 2: we actually recommend that that part sun occur in the morning. Now,
Speaker 2: this might all sound like oddly specific, but there's a
Speaker 2: good reason for it, and that is that when you
Speaker 2: plant it in that part sun for the morning, if
Speaker 2: a frost or freeze does occur, the frost or ice
Speaker 2: crystals will actually melt very slowly instead of all at once,
Speaker 2: like when the sun comes over the horizon hits that
Speaker 2: all of that cold water instantly melts onto that bud
Speaker 2: and damages it. Interesting, so if you plant it so
Speaker 2: it is shaded in the spring in the morning, then
Speaker 2: what's going to happen is that those ice crystals will
Speaker 2: melt very slowly, and that will help to prevent the
Speaker 2: damage to those flower buds. You can also just throw
Speaker 2: a blanket or a towel or something like that over
Speaker 2: the plant on any night that one of these frosts
Speaker 2: or freezes threatens. But that's really the only kind of
Speaker 2: tricky little thing to know about it. If you buy
Speaker 2: your Mama hanging basket once, you should can certainly enjoy
Speaker 2: it as those flowers persist. But once those flowers start
Speaker 2: to fade in a few weeks, it can just be
Speaker 2: taken out and plant it in the garden.
Speaker 1: I really love this plant and it's exciting and for
Speaker 1: folks who are riding in their car or in the
Speaker 1: yard listening to us, folks listening to the podcast or
Speaker 1: radio version of this show, just a reminder that this
Speaker 1: plant's name is fairy Trail t r Ail, not fairy
Speaker 1: tail white cascade hydrant.
Speaker 2: That's right, and it's available garden center near you for
Speaker 2: you or your mom or anyone who's special in your life.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a little break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be opening up the garden mail bags, so
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Speaker 2: know that a better landscape starts with a better shrub.
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Speaker 2: Winner's Color Choice dot com. Greeting's Gardening Friends and No,
Speaker 2: I am not attempting another greeting variation. Although if you
Speaker 2: have a suggestion for me, you can certainly leave it
Speaker 2: as a comment on YouTube. I would be interested to
Speaker 2: hear it. I'll keep workshopping it and we'll see. Not
Speaker 2: that I have anything wrong with greeting's gardening friends, but
Speaker 2: you know, it's just just exactly you know, some alternatives
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Speaker 1: So and as always maintain your compost.
Speaker 2: See you got that's your thing. Yeah, all right, I'll
Speaker 2: keep working on my thing. Maybe when i'm working in
Speaker 2: the garden this weekend, something well, something will come to me.
Speaker 2: Our first question comes from Randy, and I thought this
Speaker 2: was a good question. He sent some pictures of his plants.
Speaker 2: He received an order or an online order of plants,
Speaker 2: and they were in rough shape and he was worried
Speaker 2: about them, and so I thought this would be a
Speaker 2: good opportunity for us to kind of talk about for
Speaker 2: people who do order plants online, kind of what to
Speaker 2: expect and how to deal with these situations. Now, I
Speaker 2: love shopping in garden centers, and I think it's important
Speaker 2: that people realize that, for the most part, you're always
Speaker 2: going to get the best value in plants by shopping
Speaker 2: at a garden center because you don't have to worry
Speaker 2: about shipping, and you're not then paying to have you know,
Speaker 2: this giant three gallon container, if they indeed even offer
Speaker 2: a three gallon sized container, you know, shipped halfway across
Speaker 2: the country or whatever. Everything's been trucked. It's you know,
Speaker 2: locally grown, so you will spend less for a bigger
Speaker 2: plant in person. But of course, sometimes people want to
Speaker 2: buy something and their stores don't stock it, and the
Speaker 2: people can't you know, the people who own the garden
Speaker 2: center are unable to source it. So ordering online in
Speaker 2: those conditions can be a really good alternative. And for
Speaker 2: the most part, I would say that the majority of
Speaker 2: online plant nurseries are really good and really reputable, and
Speaker 2: they want to help. They don't want you to fail.
Speaker 2: They want to send you a good product. But of course,
Speaker 2: lots of things can go wrong in between the time
Speaker 2: it leaves their greenhouse and arrives at your at your doorstop.
Speaker 2: And you know, we've all had packages of things that
Speaker 2: were less fragile than plants arrive on our doorstops in
Speaker 2: less than ideal conditions, So you can imagine if something
Speaker 2: goes wrong with the plants in the shipping, how they're
Speaker 2: going to arrive. So I would say, first of all,
Speaker 2: if you notice something wrong with your plants when they arrive,
Speaker 2: reach out to the company right away. You don't have
Speaker 2: to be angry. They're going to want to help.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Take a picture of what you're seeing, or a couple pictures,
Speaker 2: and immediately reach out to them and just say, hey,
Speaker 2: this is how my plants arrived. That is really important
Speaker 2: to document that process. Now, it's very possible, depending on
Speaker 2: how they look, that the company will tell you to
Speaker 2: just take a wait and see approach, because very often
Speaker 2: the plants will recover. I know, it's not a great
Speaker 2: feeling to open up the box that you were so
Speaker 2: excited to get and the plants don't look amazing, but
Speaker 2: very often they will recover. They just need some time
Speaker 2: to kind of recover from that shipping shock, and you
Speaker 2: can sort of tuck them back into their containers. So
Speaker 2: they may ask you to wait and see what happens,
Speaker 2: and you know, take that with a grain of salt,
Speaker 2: knowing that they will back up their product, but that
Speaker 2: you should, you know, give it a chance to see
Speaker 2: if it will recover. Make sure that you water them
Speaker 2: right away, unless they are coming out very, very soggy,
Speaker 2: which is not typically the case, but crazy things do happen.
Speaker 2: Water them and keep them in a shaded location. This
Speaker 2: is important because you know, not only have they been
Speaker 2: in a protected greenhouse, now they just spent a week
Speaker 2: or so in a dark box and now they're in
Speaker 2: your backyard and they're just like, what in the world
Speaker 2: is going on here? So you don't want to just
Speaker 2: expose them right away to bright sunshine. Remove any packaging
Speaker 2: as you're keeping them, if they're wrapped in plastic.
Speaker 1: Or anything like that's the keys. That's an absolute key. Again,
Speaker 1: when I was running a garden center, we'd get a
Speaker 1: lot of plants in boxes, primarily tropical plants. When we
Speaker 1: get them in we always had box cutters in our
Speaker 1: pockets because the shrink wrap comes off the palette right away,
Speaker 1: you get the boxes out of the sun. And also
Speaker 1: if you can't get to the plants right away, just
Speaker 1: cut open the tops and let them air out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the bare minimum that you should do, is
Speaker 2: just make sure they're getting air. And then again keep
Speaker 2: them in the shade because they've just been in this
Speaker 2: dark box and they're going to need to acclimate back
Speaker 2: to sun even if they're full sun plants gradually, So
Speaker 2: give them a few days in the shade to kind
Speaker 2: of recover. And one last tip here. If the plants
Speaker 2: that you purchase have colorful foliage like purple foliage or
Speaker 2: yellow foliage or something like that and the plant arrives green,
Speaker 2: don't be shocked. They most likely did not send the
Speaker 2: wrong plant. Although it's always worth asking. But a lot
Speaker 2: of these plants either don't develop good leaf color in
Speaker 2: the greenhouse environment, or they developed it fine in the
Speaker 2: greenhouse environment, but they lost it being in a dark
Speaker 2: box for a few days. So we see this a
Speaker 2: lot with our blacklace elderberry. I'll tell you if there
Speaker 2: is one plant that people order by mail order that
Speaker 2: they've written me about and said I don't know what
Speaker 2: to do it doesn't look good, it is probably black
Speaker 2: lace elderly. This plant does not enjoy being in a
Speaker 2: dark box, and it shows that by turning green instead
Speaker 2: of the dark purple that it actually will be in
Speaker 2: the in the gardens. So you know, don't panic. If
Speaker 2: you see that. You can certainly let the company know
Speaker 2: just in case there was a mix up, and they
Speaker 2: will note that in the order. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: you know, they just need a few days acclimate, get
Speaker 2: out into the sun and they will take on the
Speaker 2: color and be everything that you dreamed of. Are so
Speaker 2: just a couple tips there from people who are looking
Speaker 2: at purchasing plants online.
Speaker 1: Stacy Valerie writes to us, I have a perfect storm
Speaker 1: that I want to transplant. I'm in zone five be
Speaker 1: should I transplant now or wait until I see growth showing,
Speaker 1: which is typically the beginning of June. So perfect storm, Stacy,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking we're talking about Summerrific high biscus.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if that's the case, my personal opinion, because
Speaker 1: it's a late bloomer, do it.
Speaker 2: Now, Absolutely, do it now. This plant will be so
Speaker 2: much happier if do the transplanting well it is dormant
Speaker 2: and not once it starts growing. Because once this plant
Speaker 2: starts growing, And just a reminder to anyone who has
Speaker 2: the Summerific or any other perennial hibiscus in their garden,
Speaker 2: these are absolutely, hands down the last plant to emerge
Speaker 2: in spring, no matter where you are. They emerge later
Speaker 2: than anything else. They are like waiting to cross the
Speaker 2: finish line till the very last minute. And so once
Speaker 2: that growth comes out, usually for us in Michigan here
Speaker 2: it's probably Memorial Day weekend. I've found for my summer efics.
Speaker 2: Once that happens, that growth is going to be very delicate,
Speaker 2: the way that it comes out of the root mass
Speaker 2: or the crown of the plant, very easy to damage that.
Speaker 2: And if you were to damage that growth in the
Speaker 2: transplanting process, it may not be able to put out
Speaker 2: more growth that season, and whether or not it can
Speaker 2: survive that really depends, because then it won't have the
Speaker 2: benefit of photosynthesizing all summer long to do that. Overall,
Speaker 2: I have transplanted summerfic hybiscus a lot in my time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've transplanted more than my share of them,
Speaker 2: just because you know, I change my mind about colors.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of them, and they are actually
Speaker 2: very amenable to transplanting. And even if you accidentally cause
Speaker 2: quite a lot of damage to their roots, and their
Speaker 2: roots are really thick, they're almost like woody roots. They're
Speaker 2: not really fleshy roots. They're very fibrous. But even if
Speaker 2: you like cause some damage and you break them apart
Speaker 2: a little bit, or you know, lose a big chunk
Speaker 2: of it, the plant can recover. It may or may
Speaker 2: not flower, or it may flower less as it's trying
Speaker 2: to recover from that substantial root loss. But overall, I
Speaker 2: feel like these plants are very, very amenable to transplanting.
Speaker 2: The trick that I have found is, especially if you
Speaker 2: do a good job at digging up the root ball,
Speaker 2: which you should attempt to do if at all possible.
Speaker 2: Trying to fit that into the new hole is like
Speaker 2: not an easy task, you know, because they're throwing all
Speaker 2: over the place, and you got to position them, and
Speaker 2: you've got to put a little more soil on this
Speaker 2: side so that you kind of even out what's going
Speaker 2: on this side. So they take a little bit of
Speaker 2: a steady hand to figure out exactly how you're going
Speaker 2: to get them in there. But if you just put
Speaker 2: the extra soil in, you know, a container or a
Speaker 2: tub or some things that you can kind of use
Speaker 2: it to maneuver the plant in Overall, I have found,
Speaker 2: you know, knock on wood, but I haven't lost any
Speaker 2: to transplanting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't either. And you're looking at a tough
Speaker 1: native plant, is what you're looking at. And you know,
Speaker 1: the old approach also of trying to move a plant
Speaker 1: when it's dormant is probably the best rule to stick by,
Speaker 1: absolutely and again because it's going to be blooming in
Speaker 1: August probably in zone five B. Doing it now, I
Speaker 1: think it's the time to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like I said, you may have fewer flowers,
Speaker 2: but you are likely to still have some. But yeah,
Speaker 2: once that growth comes out. This job is going to
Speaker 2: be infinitely more tricky and complicated, so do it now
Speaker 2: and hopefully to be able to enjoy some great flowers
Speaker 2: in it's new home this summer. We're going to take
Speaker 2: a little break. When we come back, we're going to
Speaker 2: be sharing some favorite hanging basket plits as well as
Speaker 2: talking tulips, so please stay tuned. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Gardening Simplified, Joe. We'll continue our
Speaker 1: talk on hanging baskets today, but prior to that, Stacy,
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention here in West Michigan, it's tulip time,
Speaker 1: and of course my parents were from the Netherlands, so
Speaker 1: I'm kind of into tulips. I went out the other
Speaker 1: day shot some pictures we'll show our viewers on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Also posted some stuff in social media, and I was
Speaker 1: surprised at the number of people who reached out to
Speaker 1: me and said that tulip is incredible. What is that?
Speaker 1: It was a frilly type of tulip that had the
Speaker 1: green streaks and multi colors in it, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: that's a parrot tulip, and they're like, what's a parrot tulip?
Speaker 1: And then I realized a lot of people do not
Speaker 1: know that tulips basically are in different classifications. So there's
Speaker 1: all sorts of cultivars and hybrid tulips with registered names.
Speaker 1: But they organize these tulips into groups by shape, heritage,
Speaker 1: and flowering time. And I thought I'd take one minute
Speaker 1: just to share with you that there are many different types.
Speaker 1: For example, there are single early tulips which are perfect
Speaker 1: for forcing in pots, double early tulips that almost resemble peonies,
Speaker 1: triumph tulips which are a mid season cross of early
Speaker 1: and late Darwin hybrids which have a big traditional look,
Speaker 1: single lates that are very elegant. And then you get
Speaker 1: into some of these interesting tulips lily flowering look that
Speaker 1: have this flared lily look to them, fringed, crimped, wildly
Speaker 1: cut feathery viid flora which have the green streaks in
Speaker 1: them from base to tip. The Rembrandt tulips I mentioned,
Speaker 1: the parrot tulips, the double lates, the calfmania tulips, petite,
Speaker 1: very early flowering, All of these are I love the
Speaker 1: Fosteriana tulips Red Emperor is one very large flowers, but
Speaker 1: short plants ten to sixteen inches. Greggy I tulips distinctive
Speaker 1: modeled foliage, very short, but big blooms on them. I
Speaker 1: guess the point I'm trying to make is that not
Speaker 1: all tulips are created the same. And when you buy
Speaker 1: them and fall and put them in the ground, do
Speaker 1: a little bit of research and look, because fringed or
Speaker 1: lily or parrot tulips are sensational.
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree. And you know those parrot tulips or
Speaker 2: rembrant tulips are the ones that are modern hybrids or
Speaker 2: attempts to recreate the classic broken color tulips that caused
Speaker 2: infamous tulipmania that was actually caused by a virus, which
Speaker 2: was why the tulip bubble burst. So you don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about that. Don't cause a tulip bubble, but
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about that with these because
Speaker 2: these are actually stable hybrids that were not caused by
Speaker 2: a virus. They're just an attempt to bring back that
Speaker 2: cool old look. And I think this is an important
Speaker 2: thing to mention because, you know, being tulip time out
Speaker 2: here in West Michigan, a lot of people will see
Speaker 2: the city of Holland plants all of these tulips, so
Speaker 2: they have that really long season of bloom, and so
Speaker 2: those early start blooming and everyone says, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it's tulip time ruined. All the tulips are blooming. Now,
Speaker 2: no they're not. That's just the early tulips. But they
Speaker 2: really do include all of these different groups so that
Speaker 2: you have that perpetual, you know, ongoing show of flowers
Speaker 2: that bloom at different times. And you know, so if
Speaker 2: you're shopping just at like a local you know, box
Speaker 2: store or even a garden center, you're not likely to
Speaker 2: get that much detail on what type you're buying, Like
Speaker 2: it might say that it's a Darwin Hybrid or something
Speaker 2: like that, but for the most part, or just say
Speaker 2: like you know, Red Emperor or what, I just have
Speaker 2: the variety name. So if you want that extra information,
Speaker 2: it does pay to do some research and you know,
Speaker 2: order online. A lot of bulb suppliers that you can
Speaker 2: order online from will offer a discount if you buy
Speaker 2: in spring and reserve your plants to be shipped. The
Speaker 2: bulbs will be shipped in fall. And yeah, so that's
Speaker 2: a great way to get really really cool tulips that
Speaker 2: your neighbors are not going to have. But but you
Speaker 2: have tulips, they've got to be in your deer compound.
Speaker 1: They're in the compound because deer. It's candy to.
Speaker 2: A Yes, now I have not. I've I have attempted
Speaker 2: to grow tulips before the full realization of how bad
Speaker 2: my dear issue was was apparent, and I have This
Speaker 2: is funny, uh sort of, except I'm probably jinxing myself.
Speaker 2: I have a couple of small plays of species tulips
Speaker 2: up against a fence that I don't think they can
Speaker 2: get their little deer noses down there, because there's like
Speaker 2: a three inch space between like my driveway and the
Speaker 2: neighbor's fence. So I kind of try to use that
Speaker 2: to get a little stand of some of some species
Speaker 2: seals because species tulips are my favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and species tulips, you could say, are the originals,
Speaker 1: and they reliably come back year after year, arguably better
Speaker 1: than let's say, some of the hybridized varieties, and there's
Speaker 1: all other sorts of issues like planting depth and that
Speaker 1: type of thing. I won't get into that today. Just
Speaker 1: the main point here is to understand that there's roughly
Speaker 1: about fifteen different categories or groups and get to know
Speaker 1: those groups because I think it will cause enjoyment for
Speaker 1: you in years to come as far as Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you can use the City of Holland approach to
Speaker 2: having tulips in bloom for you know, three or four
Speaker 2: weeks instead of just one big show.
Speaker 1: Like I always say, if you've got questions on bulbs
Speaker 1: because of that Dutch European blood running through my veins,
Speaker 1: just use your two lips and speak to me and
Speaker 1: I'll try to help you out, Okay, Stacy. Back to
Speaker 1: hanging baskets. I was thinking the other day working in
Speaker 1: the greenhouse. I know you like broelia.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love that plant.
Speaker 1: Like endless flirtation, endless illumination are proven winter's varieties. So
Speaker 1: I was looking at the hanging baskets thinking you're probably
Speaker 1: a person that likes streptocarpella.
Speaker 2: I do like it. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a very interesting plant and that's one that I feel
Speaker 2: like a lot of people know as the houseplants, but
Speaker 2: you do find it as a hanging basket because the
Speaker 2: flowers come out on these long, thin stems and kind
Speaker 2: of give it that really cool halo look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautiful. And then of course, also walking through
Speaker 1: the greenhouse, I look at these plants that I call
Speaker 1: trigger plants. So in some combinations there's b coopa or
Speaker 1: for example, Tradus can anti bridle veil, which is an
Speaker 1: old fashioned plant. Once again, some people view it as
Speaker 1: a houseplant, but we do sell a lot of those
Speaker 1: in the spring. These are what I call trigger plants.
Speaker 1: In other words, you can see at a glance whether
Speaker 1: or not the basket needs water, So always have some
Speaker 1: trigger plants in your landscape. Of course, Boston ferns are
Speaker 1: a classic, especially if you've got a shady porch. Mini
Speaker 1: vista supertunias. Any of the supertunias do fantastic in hanging baskets. Stacey,
Speaker 1: I can't help it, but I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 1: super venas yep. I think perfect for hanging baskets. Silver falls,
Speaker 1: dichondra trailing out of the basket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of places will do those like in
Speaker 2: the very bottoms and they look like a jellyfish. Do
Speaker 2: you ever see that, like where they got all the
Speaker 2: puffy flowers on top and then the dichondra coming out
Speaker 2: the bottom. It's kind of a fun look.
Speaker 1: That is a fun look. Lamium, which is a perennial
Speaker 1: ground I don't cover. The lobilias are just so beautiful
Speaker 1: and proven Winters has the Laguna ultra violet, the dark blue,
Speaker 1: the royal lilac, the royal pink.
Speaker 2: Love those, and you know I would add to that.
Speaker 2: This is another area where choosing the proven Winner's variety
Speaker 2: is going to be really important because older and more
Speaker 2: conventional lobilias do not hold up to the heat, even
Speaker 2: like Michigan heat when we don't usually get super hot summers.
Speaker 2: They'll just fry and they'll stop blooming, Whereas the proven
Speaker 2: Winners lubilia are all tested to keep blooming in the heat,
Speaker 2: so they might need some shade when it's really hot,
Speaker 2: and if you live in a hot climate, they're definitely
Speaker 2: going to need some shade. But that's one area where
Speaker 2: you can count on a better performance than your standard lobilia.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the genetics they're amazing, so you would look for
Speaker 1: Laguna lobilia's stacy. In some of the hanging baskets. We
Speaker 1: have manda villas, which may seem crazy and they go
Speaker 1: nuts and they vine up the all the way up
Speaker 1: and all over the place. But it is a fun
Speaker 1: thing to grow on.
Speaker 2: I'm crazy about the mandavillas. I love them. I have
Speaker 2: not grown a hanging basket, but I love to put
Speaker 2: them on a trellis and get that look.
Speaker 1: I mentioned in the first segment. Of course, fuschia's and
Speaker 1: begonias just a favorite of mine, tuberous begonias. But I
Speaker 1: wonder if you've have you ever grown the small leaf
Speaker 1: creeping wire type vine.
Speaker 2: Krokia.
Speaker 1: No, it's I'm going to take a shot at this.
Speaker 2: Mule len Bea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, muelen BEI I have not grown it.
Speaker 2: As a hanging basket, but I've definitely grown it as
Speaker 2: a houseplant and as a topiary. Okay, but very pretty.
Speaker 2: I love that plant. It's just got such a beautiful,
Speaker 2: delicate look.
Speaker 1: Interesting approach to baskets are containers plectranthus. I love plectranthus,
Speaker 1: and there's a variety called guacamole that I love fantastic
Speaker 1: and then Thunbergia or people would refer to it as
Speaker 1: black eyed Susan. Proven Winners has lemon appeal, coconut, orange, tangerine. Again,
Speaker 1: using vines in hanging baskets can really add some cool
Speaker 1: dimension to your basket, your arrangement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of them, like you said about the mandavilla,
Speaker 2: they do want to grow up, so instead of cascading
Speaker 2: down like you might envision, they will kind of find
Speaker 2: each other their fellow vines and twist all together and
Speaker 2: go up. But that can be kind of a fun
Speaker 2: look and I think that's especially nice. It all depends
Speaker 2: on where your hanging basket situation is. You know, if
Speaker 2: you have it on a lower hook, then letting those
Speaker 2: vines grow up on the hangars could actually look really,
Speaker 2: really nice.
Speaker 1: So I'd encourage the use of vines also in hanging baskets.
Speaker 1: End of the season, I clean out my hanging baskets
Speaker 1: and then it's fun to watch as we approach winter,
Speaker 1: the squirrels use them as a porch swing. They sit
Speaker 1: in the baskets and just kind of swing in the breeze.
Speaker 2: That's so cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is cute, cute, lovable, little fuzzy.
Speaker 2: I love squirrels too, They're amazing. I'll tell you, if
Speaker 2: squirrels were not everywhere and they were just like on
Speaker 2: social media what people watching videos, they would go crazy
Speaker 2: for them. They would visit zoos to see them. But
Speaker 2: because there ever where, people just kind of go, eh,
Speaker 2: it's a squirrel. Very true, just saying. And on that note,
Speaker 2: just one for the squirrels there, So happy mothers. Stay
Speaker 2: to you until all of the moms and mom figures
Speaker 2: out there. And thank you Rick, thank you to Adriana,
Speaker 2: and thank you all so much for listening. We hope
Speaker 2: you have a wonderful week.