WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.319 Three and FM at ninety five point one. 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.719 The Green Country Gardner Program with our expert Larry Class 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:11.720 is brought to you by Green Colum Nursery and Greenhouses, United, Reynolds, 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:17.879 Kelly Banks, Tree Service, Roman's Outdoor Power, Accent, Pest Control, Ascension, 5 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:36.439 Saint John, James Phillips and Gateway First Back. Ah Yeah, 6 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.119 good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome time now 7 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:41.159 for the Green Country Gardener Program. 8 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:43.799 He's Larry Glass, He's our expert. I'm Tom Davis. I 9 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:46.079 just answered the Poe's the kind of way ad level 10 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:46.640 of the humor. 11 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:48.920 But our phone line is open, so if you do 12 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.759 have a question or a comment at poor Larry are expert, 13 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.439 make sure you called in at one eight hundred seven 14 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:00.960 four nine five nine three six. Happy crabgrass season crabgrass. Yes, 15 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.159 I got a crop for you, buddy. 16 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:06.200 How tall is cra well? 17 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.040 I'm starting to see you get back home from vacation. 18 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:11.760 Time to get it before that happened. 19 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:14.640 I know, I've ran into some of the toughest crabgrass 20 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.280 in my place. It'll bend your blades. Yeah, it's crazy. 21 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.879 I love this weather. Some people actually call it waters 22 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:29.200 water crabgrass, but it's when it gets to that point. Uh, 23 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.439 the herbicides just won't work. 24 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.000 No, it's it's it's that will work. 25 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:35.239 Now. 26 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:36.359 Is a claw hammer? 27 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:42.319 Yeah? Pickax? How big it is? 28 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.159 I got craggrass the size of redwood redwood trees. Oh 29 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.000 my goodness, you can cut it up and make lumber 30 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.599 out of them. 31 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.159 Anyway, that's not a good thing for here. 32 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.159 Typically we're running into a lot of dry weather and 33 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.920 you know, I've cactus screwing in my front yard. But 34 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:03.359 this year things are looking pretty good. 35 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:03.920 They are. 36 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:07.760 We've had some makeup rain from last year. We've already 37 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:11.400 reached our amount of rain almost till the end. 38 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.360 Of the year. You were showing me back graft. That 39 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:14.199 was impressive. 40 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.960 We've had thirty one point seven inches of rain so far, 41 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.840 and typically we have forty. So they're going to have 42 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:23.560 to the Weather Department's going to have to make a 43 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:30.840 bigger chart. Probably. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Actually, I've 44 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.560 had experiences where it's we've had wall clouds come in 45 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:34.919 on July the fourth. 46 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:37.639 I bet we have in the past. 47 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.879 Back in the eighties and nineties. 48 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:43.919 Do we have some politility back then? Is that what 49 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:44.840 you're saying. 50 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:46.960 Yeah, and we still do. I mean that still happened. 51 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:53.479 The weather's cyclical and it's unpredictable. So yeah, anyway, we 52 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:54.560 would take all we can get. 53 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:56.759 We will. 54 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.240 I don't want to have anything like I was seeing 55 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.000 a few years ago where the fish will hit track 56 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.360 into the next pond because you're breaking out of water. 57 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:10.360 Catch me, please, trying to fight and chance with you. 58 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.280 Try not to, however, over water your tomatoes and try 59 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.960 not to. People who are watering the grass every single 60 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.199 day haven't water mine yet, and it looks great. So 61 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.120 that's a terrible waste of water. So you don't if 62 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.199 you don't need to, don't. I mean it's that does 63 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.159 is it makes your grass dependent on that shallow water. 64 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:30.439 It does, and. 65 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.520 When the time gets rough, they don't have the deep roots, 66 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.560 and it's like, uh, you know, like being on a 67 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:43.840 drug or something. They just can't survive a drought. You know, 68 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.719 we need to when you do water, let the ground 69 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.000 dry out between watering. This is a simple thing. Just 70 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.000 look look down in there and put your finger on 71 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.520 the ground. If you raise a kid, you know. But anyway, 72 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:56.280 see if it's wet down there, and if it's wet, 73 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:00.439 don't water yeah, easy. That Typically you get take your 74 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.319 wife's nine by thirteen pain and put it out in 75 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.759 the yard and run your sprinkler for a while, and 76 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:06.560 when you get to get it to one inch, that's 77 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:08.520 how much time it takes to water though the whole 78 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.520 yard on a weekly period. So typically about an inch 79 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:16.399 a week is its adequate brain for our needs around 80 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:16.759 in here. 81 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:17.319 All right. 82 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.839 So, and we've had that really so grounds and got 83 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:23.160 to lead. The trees are doing great. 84 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:25.279 The trees look wonderful. 85 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:28.519 Those that survived the past year's droughts. Yeah, I pulled 86 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.360 up the trucks from the Weather Service and it's been 87 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.279 three years in a row. We've been stuck in a 88 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.879 dry situation. And this is cyclical if you go back 89 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.720 way back in time patterns. Yeah, yeah, you look at it. 90 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.560 It's a cycle that comes and goes. So it's just 91 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.600 a natural thing. So don't worry about it. Just prepare 92 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.000 for it, right right, So, trying not to overwater your 93 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.279 tomatoes at this point, they're cracking the heat. 94 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.000 I was going to ask you what made tomatoes do that? 95 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.519 Now I know it's the Typically the skin when the 96 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:02.600 water comes in, they ripen the the water in there 97 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.560 soaks up the water and it breaks the breaks the skin. 98 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.839 So if you do have a situation where your tomatoes 99 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.519 crack a lot, you might want to pick them as 100 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:13.959 they turn peak and then bring them in the house 101 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.439 with them, ripe it in the house. Very good idea, 102 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.759 So that way, at least you won't have a little 103 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:20.680 little critters in. 104 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:24.759 Your I used to see those things about as big 105 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:27.680 as your fist, and then they would start to crack, 106 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:29.839 and the you know, we'd have to run into the 107 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.879 garden because somebody saw a crack and just pull them out, 108 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:36.480 you know quick, you know, before they start pick them, Yeah, 109 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.000 pick them, bring him in, put them in the window, 110 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:39.720 Put them in the window. 111 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:40.279 Still right. 112 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.759 So anyway, so that's kind of it. With the tomatoes. 113 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.079 I'd be sure to keep a steady fertilizer on them. 114 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.720 Don't try to overdo it, no, just just a good 115 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:55.680 steady flow use a you know, Tremertle Vitaler tomato fertilizer. 116 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:00.639 There you go, phanetic food pot there, just having an 117 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:06.199 issue there. Get to that for a lie as as 118 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:10.319 recommended on the package of the okay okay, also time 119 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.519 to in the in the in the garden. 120 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:17.600 Time to plant okram, so it'll be ready to go. 121 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.120 And Oka likes it's hot. 122 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:24.439 I heard her say that on TV. No O crah o. 123 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:29.240 Cra Yeah, your crap there, you just find Okay, the 124 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.839 roses are slowing down a little bit. Hydrants are slowing 125 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.920 down also a little bit. It's the latest time right 126 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.720 now to cut back to dogwood trees. They're going to 127 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:42.680 begin differentiating the days are what is summer solstice? Anyway, 128 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.439 we're there, huh, we're there over there now, Okay, these 129 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.160 aids are going to start getting a little bit shorter, 130 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.360 and that's their signal to go ahead and initiate blooms. 131 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.319 So you if you haven't prune back, and if you 132 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:57.399 do want to prune back your dogwood trees and your 133 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:02.439 zellios and other things like that to bloom this ring lightlacs, etcetera, etcetera. Uh, 134 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:06.560 get away along because they're going to start differentiating based 135 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.240 on the length of day. So as they shortened, uh, 136 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:14.040 they get that signal to put on bloom. So uh, 137 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:18.959 the wisteria buyings the same thing. It sets booms. The 138 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.120 booms are set in the fall and then when the 139 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:23.000 spring comes. 140 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:24.560 There you go. 141 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.360 Hey, getting back to roses, kind of go ahead knockout roses. 142 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.959 I've seen some of them start to turn pinkish sh 143 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.839 bang red, you know, yeah, is not a sign that's 144 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:37.639 not doing well. 145 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.560 It's probably either rosette disease or excessive water. 146 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:43.720 I'm going with excessive water. 147 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.600 Yeah. The rosette disease, which is a problem that people 148 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.759 a few years ago outs at the house too Thursday. 149 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.720 They had had it real bad on their knockouts. And 150 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:59.240 if it's typically associated with very closely related and numerous 151 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:04.120 uh thorns, and the flowers get all distorted and actually 152 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:05.680 they get a little bit of a little bit pinky 153 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.160 too when that happens. Okay, so your leaves get distorted, 154 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:13.839 the tips get burned, and that's typically typical of Rosette's disease, 155 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.879 which came a while back, and it's spread by mikes. 156 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:21.959 So I don't have it on my knockout road, of. 157 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.639 Course you don't. You do nothing to yours. They just 158 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:26.720 magically they just grow. 159 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.240 But anyway, they're planting on the north side of the 160 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.360 house away from mine on the south, and there's a 161 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.960 vegetation between it and the rock on the house. So's 162 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:40.919 it's in any microclimate that the mics really don't prosper 163 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:41.360 very well. 164 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.279 Yeah, mine's right there on the southwest, right in the heat, so. 165 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.720 That, yeah, you'll you'll probably have them if you haven't yet. 166 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:51.279 They probably hopefully that this disease will run its course 167 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:53.639 and then there will be a problem anymore. We can 168 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.200 grow some really nat rods is again, but kay, the 169 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.159 knockouts can't beat big old plants. They are nice and 170 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.200 just covered in blue booms and just boom like they're 171 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.200 all the same color. But they're coming out with some 172 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.679 different colors that there's a pink one and a yellow 173 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:10.799 knockout and a white one. It's called white out, believe 174 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:16.759 it or not. A man yeah white yeah that. But anyways, 175 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.960 so you want to kind of keep them fertilized to 176 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.360 on a regular basis. To add, with all this rain, 177 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.080 it's kind of washed away some stuff, so it might 178 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:33.000 be malnutriented due to just the fertilizer washing out of 179 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.440 the soil utilized by crabgrass. 180 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:41.759 So in your case, crab grass turned into a mouture. 181 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:46.519 And when your fertilizer, your roses don't use a high 182 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.039 nitrogen use ten twenty ten or something like that that's 183 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:53.399 thick or just get some rose fertilizer. Very simple, it's 184 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:54.039 all the work for you. 185 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:55.759 It'll diffuse nicely. 186 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.480 It's right now. Also is the latest time for the 187 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:06.960 fertilizer operation applications on azalias. This is the last one 188 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.200 to do. They're going to be initiating blooms pretty soon too. 189 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.320 And you don't want a whole lot of top growth 190 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:14.799 at this point. You want to kind of slow down 191 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:19.159 a little bit. So something with a fairly low nitrogen level. 192 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.519 Your jalies and look at the leaf size of the 193 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:25.279 rxalis that the leaves are really kind of small. Senses 194 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.000 are your pH is too high, So you get somen 195 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.759 with some salts in it or some iron salfate on 196 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:32.720 them or something to lower try to lower that pH. 197 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:36.639 Because they they're not native to this area. Alias or 198 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.440 what we call ericaceous, and that covers that term covers 199 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:45.039 a broad spectrum of plant cetera, acid requiring azalias and 200 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.919 rhododendrons and et cetera. Et cetera, like a require an 201 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:49.639 acid soil. 202 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:51.279 Got it. 203 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:55.039 They come from the Orient and they have a lot 204 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.320 of volcanic foil there and that that's why they're kind 205 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:02.000 of suited to that. Gotcha, up on Circle Mountain, though, 206 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:05.679 we do have some situations where the soil is somewhat 207 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:10.320 acid and these values do bid. I see some lawns 208 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:13.919 over their beautiful jailias, but some of them, some of 209 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.200 them around around town, just don't do as well because 210 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.360 we have a limestone based soil. 211 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.720 I've seen those. Yeah, I think maybe at my house. 212 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.720 So I don't have any values in my house. 213 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:32.919 Well, I've learned my lessons that Rhode todendron they don't work. 214 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.919 Well, yeah, there are. Actually I have a customer who 215 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.000 has a rotor dinner in her backyard in an elevated 216 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:44.519 bed that shielded from the afternoon sun by a pergola thing. 217 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.679 And it's lucky her, but it still has a little 218 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:48.919 bit of. 219 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.559 Stamp virus in it. But I told her to slow 220 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.799 down on the watering and hopefully it'll do better. 221 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:59.600 Let's take a quick break. We're going to be right 222 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.600 back after this two minute time out. 223 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:04.399 Did you know green Thum Nursery and Greenhouses is home 224 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.919 to Barnos Bill's largest election of quality plants shot their 225 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.759 new sales ribera Daisy's fifty percent off rows of Sharon, 226 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.840 African Violence, Japanese maples, clemenus, hydranges all thirty percent off. 227 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.399 Perennials get a dollar off person lane hanging basket regularly 228 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.919 twenty four ninety nine now nineteen ninety nine, and roses 229 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:28.720 at fifty percent off. 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In that way you can get in and 261 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:22.759 get your question answered by our expert, Larry Glass. I'm 262 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.200 Tom Davis. Where are we now on the program? 263 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:26.080 Larry, Well, we were. 264 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.679 Talking about the weather and how it's affecting things and 265 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.759 now this year I noticed a lot of the scale 266 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:35.320 insects are a little late, but you do need to 267 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.200 inspect your plants for those. And actually I've found some 268 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:42.120 clean crape myrtles here and there. Typically they're not associated 269 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:44.799 with the war with the worm spot and mine at 270 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.519 home don't seem to have too many of them scale 271 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:48.240 insects either. 272 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:49.039 Uh. 273 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.759 The scale insect also is spreading across the board into 274 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.720 the uanamous family, specifically burning bush and Manhattan euana us. 275 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:00.799 So you want to watch for that too. 276 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.279 How do I know if I have scale, Well, it's 277 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.840 a little dark, and it's kind of slimy. 278 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:12.440 It's a real small imagine a overcooked fried egg stuck 279 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.720 to the stem, very small though, about as big as 280 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:19.399 the head of a pin or something. And what they 281 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.519 do is they cling themselves to the tree and they 282 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.639 draw juices out of the plant. Then they take that 283 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.159 juice and do whatever they do with it, and then 284 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.759 they poop it out, if you will, along with eggs, 285 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:38.000 along with ants. Like that syrupy stuff they put out, 286 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:43.480 and that's good. They walk through it, and them and 287 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.960 Fred and Ethel and George also walk through that. Ants 288 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:53.279 walk through that slimy stuff and they carry it around. 289 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.559 And that's why there's one reason why the spacing on 290 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:00.639 them is fairly uniform too. Just by the the ant 291 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.960 has six legs, and that one leg is the same distance. Yea, 292 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.080 So watch out on your oak trees. I was at 293 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.440 a customer's house earlier this year, and they had terrible 294 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.759 problem with scale on their oaks. I wonder why they're 295 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.039 not growing fast. Well, they're they're being stressed out from 296 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.840 the scale insects. Then about two weeks ago went to 297 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.840 their house and we looked at it and the scale. 298 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.000 They put the amidle clo prid down the tree, drew 299 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.559 it up and then, uh, the scales are still there, 300 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:34.519 but they're they're not alive. Knocked them out and the 301 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.399 tree is actually having a second flush. 302 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:36.919 Good. 303 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:47.120 So yeah, crape myrtle's burning bush uanymous And actually a 304 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.000 lot of other plants are starting to get affected by 305 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.360 them as they kind of changed their diet habits, I guess, 306 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.799 so watch out for those. They're pretty bad things, okay, they, 307 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.440 like I said, the amid clo prid is at this 308 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:02.559 point is a good control, while the dormant In the 309 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.839 winter dormant oil works real well. But you don't want 310 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.559 to use dormant oil when it's hot. Yeah, leaves all 311 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:13.400 dry up flow lace. So timing is very important on 312 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:17.480 that too. So at the nursery, golly, we got all 313 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.160 kinds of container and bald bird out trees can be 314 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.599 planning just about new time, just don't want to move them. 315 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.839 Hawsters are doing very well. They're starting to bloom a 316 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.759 little bit. Encore as there's putting on As is putting 317 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.440 on some flowers here and there, and I began to 318 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.440 show some budswell opening up to colb. Flowers are showing 319 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.440 some color. Harder high Biscuits is growing aggressively and then 320 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.920 beginning to bloom. Hardy high Biscuits is a pretty cool plant. 321 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:47.000 It gets big, the name hardy. 322 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.000 Yeah, I have heard my house in the bed and 323 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.359 they're six feet tall, and you're starting to bloom right now. 324 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.240 But they need they get tall. So but I tried 325 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:00.200 on one of them, I tried cutting it back and 326 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.680 it actually increased the branching while it was young. Maybe 327 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.640 more branches coming out, so we'll have more blooms. So 328 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.680 but they will form eventually a kind of a V 329 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:15.039 shaped cluster of stems or clump, if you will, And 330 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:17.400 they bloom for a pretty long period of time, and 331 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:20.960 in the summer. I wouldn't make a big deal of 332 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.279 their composition. I mean, in your composition, you know, an 333 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:27.799 entire entire composition of these plants, because they're going to 334 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.240 bloom for a short period of time, so you put 335 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.200 them here and there to give you some seasonal interest. Yeah. 336 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.880 They associate real well with with rows of Sharon, which 337 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.079 is actually related. So and the roads of Sharon are 338 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:42.480 in full bloom right now too. 339 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:45.640 I see how you work in it. 340 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:46.519 Yeah, so. 341 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:51.079 The mesage to your madness. 342 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:55.400 So the crape myrtles are starting to starting to make 343 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.440 some show. Some of the earlier blooming ones are blooming 344 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:00.559 right now. And yeah, some a purple ones in the 345 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.160 landscape too. I'm working on a plan for somebody and 346 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:06.359 they wanted something purple on the west side of the house. 347 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:09.319 I said, well, I really wouldn't go with the little 348 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:14.599 Japanese maple. No, it'll turn into post hostis in no time. 349 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:19.680 So let's think about maybe a purple leaf crape and 350 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.599 a dwarf too, and that'll give you that purple color. 351 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:26.839 There's also nine bark, which is one two, but it's 352 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.079 it's very irregular in this growth habit and in this situation, 353 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:35.920 it wouldn't work because it's porky growth, you know. And 354 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.400 they just don't make a good form. I mean, they're 355 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.519 pretty well when they bloom, they're nice, and the purple 356 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:43.799 leaves are nice too, and They take the sun real well, 357 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:47.039 and we've used them on very successfully on some landscapes 358 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.440 when you allow it to get fairly large, and the 359 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.480 blooms all kind of show you on them too. But anyway, 360 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:55.920 so something purple like that would work. It's fine. There's 361 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:59.680 also a dwarf purple leaf plum, but they get so 362 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.400 full of bugs and disease and boards and stuff, but 363 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.720 it's not worth it at all. But probably one of 364 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:09.519 the better purplely plants on the Wist side is barbary 365 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:14.960 well really yeah, and thorns, but no, really, you really 366 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:18.119 only have to do anything with your barberies maybe once 367 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.839 a year in the spring, just cut them back a 368 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.839 little bit. People let them get too big and about 369 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:29.480 middle February early early March they need to be cut 370 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:34.880 back rather sternly. And my neighbor across the street did 371 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.720 that and they're beautiful and he doesn't do anything to them. 372 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:44.000 You know, some pleasure gloves you know in winter, and 373 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:45.680 the thorns aren't that bad on them. 374 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:51.519 If you got a rose bush, I think it'll be Okays. 375 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:55.160 Are worse, really, But the barbary is takes our heat 376 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.640 and it doesn't get the diseases we have here and 377 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:00.119 so on so on. So for some purple color you 378 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:05.319 might consider that good. Okay, we'll do our tree this 379 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:10.119 week is a little gym magnolia. The little gym is 380 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:14.960 a smaller version of the regular magnolia treetch. But however 381 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:20.359 it stays small because it has a shorter node between 382 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:23.240 the stems and the leaves. A node is a link 383 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:26.920 between the stem it branches out, or the distance between 384 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.079 the leaves. On the planet too, it thinks it's hey, 385 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:34.440 I'm a two hundred foot magnolia. I'm big and tall. 386 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.759 But no, no, it gets about ten or twelve feet tall. 387 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:44.920 So if you do want to magnolia or something, it 388 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.559 doesn't get us tall. Over here on the notes that 389 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:50.440 says gets up to forty feet forty by thirty feet. 390 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:56.759 But not in Oklahoma, No, no, not at all. One 391 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:58.880 thing about the magnolia tree is this, we planted something 392 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:01.240 for somebody and they said, you don't want to trend 393 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:04.640 them from the ground up. You don't know, And so 394 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:09.160 why is that? Because every single day they drop something, 395 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:12.920 They drop leaves. They're done with their leaf, drop in 396 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.960 the string. Then they around the leaf. They have a 397 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:19.440 sheath that falls off when the flowers come out. They 398 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:21.720 have a sheath that falls off the blooms, the bloom 399 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:25.319 fold bud. So there's also stuff, a lot of stuff 400 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:28.480 below them, So you want to make that just a 401 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.640