Speaker 1: Broadcasting from Sunny Studio A Here at proven Winter's color
Choy shrubs. It's time for the Gardening Simplified Show with
Stacy Hervella me Rick weisst and our engineer and producer
Adrianna Robinson. Today we talk about the color yellow. Yellow
is a color between green and orange on the spectrum
of light. No wonder we like it. Orange is exciting
and well we all know how we feel about green
and the color yellow likes to use descriptive words like lemon, canary, banana, gold, mustard, sunflower, daffodil.
There's over one hundred shades of yellow. It's one of
the most luminous colors, if not the most luminous color
in the light spectrum. And of course it's all around
us in our lives, from yellow taxi cabs to the
smile emoji, to bananas, yellow cards in soccer. Then you're
in trouble to a memory I have of my childhood,
and that is the Yellow Pages and using it as
a doorstop at home. And who doesn't have somebody in
their life or multiple people in their life where when
you pick up the phone and you call them, they
invariably always answer.
Speaker 2: It yellow Adriana does that. I mean, not that we
talk on the phone, but if I come over and
I'm like hey, Adrianas will be like yellow. So yeah,
that's Adriana might be that person in my life.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic and nothing wrong with it. It's great yellow.
And you know those are the people also who are
going to have a tendency when you leave to say
bye bye.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know she'll attention.
Speaker 1: Okay, love it. Not everybody loves the color yellow. Here's
a news flash. Yellow can be the color of sickness,
like chlorosis in foliage.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Not everybody likes variegation in foliage. And then, of course,
if you have a bad product, we refer to it
as a lemon because it leaves a sour taste in
your mouth. And then you have mellow yellow the Donovan
song from nineteen sixty six, They call me mellow yellow.
It basically causes you to feel relaxed and chill and
all that kind of stuff. Yellow with violet the opposite
on the color wheel. A complementary color is the classic
complementary color combination. I would argue yellow and violet or
yellow and blue. But here's something for us to think
about Stacey, and that is how effective is the color
yellow in attracting pollinators to the landscape. I would have
to say yellow must have a tremendous ability to attract
pollinators to the landscape because look at sticky cards in
insect traps, or the pheromone traps and the cards on
Japanese beetle traps. They're always a bright yellow. So I'm
going to think that yellow is a good color to
pull pollinators to your landscape.
Speaker 2: Right about that, It certainly is yellow is Obviously there
are a number of sort of markings on plants that
insects and pollinators can see that we cannot. But overall,
especially bees of all types love yellow flowers, and all
types of bees are important pollinators. And if you think
about or perhaps you've gone on a cross country trip
during the summer, if you think about the North American
native flora, especially the summer blooming stuff, tends very strongly
toward a whole lot of yellow. And that's all about
the insects. So that's why I have a lot of
yellow in my garden, because I'm in it for the bugs.
I didn't really set out for the yellow. I do
prefer those stronger, brighter tones over like pestels and softer colors,
And it just so turned out that my garden has
a very significant yellow moment in the summer and I
love it that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too. I have some pictures to share
with our YouTube viewers of mystic illusion dahlia and that
mellow yellow flower with the dark foliage. Wow, and the
monarchs and the bees were swarming that thing last summer.
Speaker 2: You know, Mystic illusion dahlia is truly one of the
most extraordinary plants that you can grow as a summer annual.
When we used to do Improven Winners used to do
the Grand Garden Show on Mackinac Island, there was always
one of the gardens that had a bunch of Mystic
Illusion dahlias, and it was far and away the most
asked about plant. Honestly, I'm surprised that not every garden
center sells them because they're just They're irresistible when you
see them. They're so beautiful. They really are a plant
that you have to see to believe. And I think
they appeal to pretty much everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no question about it. And just this past
weekend in the greenhouse. I was enjoying cultivars like Sombrero
Poco yellow Echinasia. Wow, the yellow on that thing is unbelievable.
Shadowland Echo the Sun and autumn frost hostas. There are
a lot of beautiful, bright yellow hostas available on the
market today. And then I love the going bananas, one
of the best reblooming day lilies with fragrant lemony flowers.
And I have to say to you, Stacy that again
this past weekend, as people were shopping plants the globe
Pop Japanese holly and the soft serve false cypress, people
were drawn to those plans.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, people love evergreens, and if you can
make them ever yellow, they like them even better because yeah,
they love, love, love that year round color.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So just some fantastic yellow plants there, and I
and you know who would not love I don't know,
maybe some people want, but for me in fall, a
ginko tree in its full glory, bright yellow with some
yellow chrysanthemums on a crisp autumn day, that's inspiring.
Speaker 2: That is. And you know in Japan, seeing ginkos turn
yellow and drop their leaves is probably a seasonal activity,
almost as popular as cherry blossom viewing is in the springs,
it is very much a thing to go to parks
that are full of ginkos and take in that amazing
bright yellow moment that is so unique to ginko trees.
Speaker 1: So, Stacy, you like the color yellow, right?
Speaker 2: I do? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I decided to write a limerick just for
you because you like the color yellow. It's a salute
to Stacy and the color yellow. Limerick. Yellow's her sunshine
on a cloudy day. Even though that might sound cliche,
for Stacy, yellow's a favorite. She sits in a lawn
chaired a savorite while she'll skillfully knit and crochet. Do
you crochet?
Speaker 2: I do, yeah, okay, mostly knit, but I crochet a bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, because I threw that in there because it obviously arrives. Okay,
all right, because I know you're an excellent knitter, but
I didn't you know. Actually, to be honest with you,
I don't know the difference between knitting and crocheting.
Speaker 2: So again, on the break, thank you.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it make you happy? Yellow makes me a smiling,
contented fellow. Your garden will bloom because there's always more
room for flowers and lime jello. Yellow's a must and ultimatum,
and I quote almost verbatim, Stacy says, for a pollinaise,
there is no plant that's greater than her beloved Sylphium perfoliatum.
Speaker 2: I got as that was some very impressive rhyming. Thank
you nicely done.
Speaker 1: But that's cup plant, right.
Speaker 2: That is the cupplant. The yeah, it's it is, it
characterizes and it's very bright yellow characterizes in my garden
easily one of my favorites. And yeah, it's you know,
what I love about it, aside from the way that
it looks, is how much life it supports, because that
really is what it's all about for me. And you know,
I have a lot of other yellow flowering plants, of course,
because I grow a lot of native plants, but nothing
can really quite beat the sylphium for showiness and pollinator
attracting and bird attracting ability.
Speaker 1: I like how perfoliatum rhymes with verbatim and ultimatum, all right. Anyhow.
Excellent color combinations with yellow include navy blue, charcoal, gray, white, purple,
shades of green like sage or hunter green. For a bold,
modern look, pair bright yellow with black muted yellow works
well with neutrals like beige or light gray. Because a
lot of these pairings Stacey are inspired by nature. There
is some historical context that I'm going to share in
segment four for why I really love the color yellow.
But it is a great color to pair with other colors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I don't usually go for really strong
contrast in the garden, but I have to say, for me,
in the summer, you cannot be yellow and bright red
my sylphium with a cranberry crush Hibiscus summarific hibiscus. I
just love it. I mean, some people would call it
ketchup and mustard, and I'm not going to say you're wrong,
but it is where I can just I just love,
love love those two together in a summer garden. It's
just can't beat it for me.
Speaker 1: What does it for me? Bright yellow tulips with purple
tulips love.
Speaker 2: That's very West Michigan of you.
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and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show, where we
are doing one of our color shows. We haven't done
one of these in a while.
Speaker 1: I love these shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really fun because we can just talk about
plants that we love in that color and talk about
how to use them in the garden and the plants
that we have, and that makes it really fun. So
we haven't done yellow yet. And as you are, you know,
in a cooler climate, probably planting your garden, maybe you
are planting your annuals. I have to say, I'm surprised
for your enthusiasm for yellow when you hate marigolds so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that with marorgolds. It's just my past
history and the smell of those things. Okay, yeah, the aroma.
Speaker 2: But marigolds are like a classic, very very classic yellow
annual and I know they're on your.
Speaker 1: Please don't do not like cards, letters, notes, It's okay.
Speaker 2: Do you even hate the African marigolds? That are really
really big and tall. They're like, those are pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Again. I handled thousands and thousands and thousands of flats
of these had the dead head them smell like them
going home. That's why I don't. Okay, all right, If
you like marigolds, have at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please do. But especially if you like yellow in
your annuals, then marigolds are probably very much a part
of that. Now, if you have ever wondered why when
it comes to color foliage for plants, your options are
fairly limited. You have green, of course, we all know
foliage tends to be green. You have variegated, you have purple,
and you have yellow. Now there's some plants with kind
of bluish foliage like, but it's not, you know, really major.
When you're looking for like a colorful foliage plant variegated
purple or yellow, red, black, you know, some kind of
permutation of purple, that's pretty much where your choices end.
And if you've ever wondered why that is, well, it
comes all down to plant pigments, and chlorophyll itself is
a pigment, but there are other pigments which are responsible
for different colors. So anthocyanins are the pigments that tend
to favor red, purple black type pigments, and then you
have the carotenoids, which favor the yellow and orange pigments.
So basically what we have here is a situation where
the plant and plants will generally have a lot of
all those It's not like it's an either or, And
it's not like a plant that is high in carotenoids
or anthocyanins has no chlorophyll. It's still very much has chlorophyll.
It's just that those other pigments are masking the chlorophyll.
But that is why we have somewhat limited choices, and
you don't just have, you know, any kind of crazy
color in your foliage. But as gardens we can really
kind of use this to our advantage by adding colorful
foliage plants to our garden. And I think yellow is
particularly useful. Of course, purple and black are useful to
and they're lovely. But what I think is really so
so great about yellow foliage is that, especially compared to red,
purple black foliage, it tends to be very much more
shade tolerant. This is going to depend on the variety
and the type of plants. You're growing, of course, but
how great is it that these yellow foliaged plants tend
to do well in the shade where they can offer
some bread brightness into those darker corners of our yard
and really help to light up those spaces.
Speaker 1: You know, you're right. I love sun king Aurelia, and
it's grown in the.
Speaker 2: Shape classic choice, definitely one of the absolute best for
a shady for brightening up a shady spot. So yellow
foliage plants are extremely useful. So I wanted to kind
of go over a list of the yellow foliage plants
that we have here in the proven Winter's Color Choice
Shrubs line, so you can think about how these plants
might fit into your landscape add some brightness. They're really
great because as much as I love all my yellow flowers,
the fact is they're around for you know, maybe six
weeks at best in the summer. You know, my Sylphia,
that's probably about how long that blooms. Whereas yellow foliage
is there all season long, you never have to worry
about it not being there, so it really helps to
contribute interesting color and brightness to the landscape. Now, the
first thing I have to say, of course, is my
all time favorite yellow foliage plant in the proven Winter's
color choice line lemony lace Alderberry.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean same here.
Speaker 2: You know again, I've said it so many times on
the show, but it every year. It blows me away.
It's a plant that I saw growing here for years
and until I got it on a plant giveaway, which
if you like free plants, definitely look for a job
in the green industry. You can be an accountant, you
can be an HR person, you can be a salesperson.
There's all these different ways to get into the industry
and you will get free plants. So hot tip there.
So I got this one years ago and I was
just like, yeah, lemony lace is okay. You know, when
I've seen it around the garden, it's pretty. Until I
had that thing in my own yard, I just had
no sense of how much I would love it. And
it is an extraordinary plant because not only do you
get that beautiful yellow foliage, it has the texture. It
stays actually quite nice and small in my landscape because
I don't provide a lot of water. If you have
a lot of water or moistu or clay soil, it's
going to get much much alarer merger stays pretty small
for me. And it's just an absolute beautiful plant. Now,
this is a plant that definitely benefits from placing it well,
you know where it can really kind of be fully appreciated.
And through some miraculous confluence of circumstances, I did actually
manage to plant this in the perfect spot. And that
it's just a plant that I don't think I could
live without. Now do you have one?
Speaker 1: I have one. I love it, and I love the
way it contrasts with blue colors in the landscape.
Speaker 2: Yes, so, Lemonie lace my first choice. Such an amazing plant,
and of course for our warm climate friends, not the
most heat tolerant, we do have this one, I think
at heat tolerant only through USCA Zone seven. So but
stay tuned. We've gotten another one for you. How about
a yellow Abelia. Now Abelia, we've talked a bit about
the show on the show here here and there. It's
definitely more of a southern plant, even though it is
fairly hardy. We have two fabulous yellow abelias, brilliant Tina
and poke Loco. And for our warm climate friends, if
you want that same bright yellow, these are great for
the shade. They do flower, and the flowers are quite
nice and fragrant, but these are really primarily foliage plants
that you can just kind of put in the landscape
and count on to give you extremely bright, very low
maintenance color. Our abelias, and this is going to make
sense to those of you who grow them in warm
climates have been selected to not throw what is known
as dog legs, and if you're again, if you're familiar
with growing them, this probably makes sense to you. But
it's when they put out these crazy long shoots. And
doctor Judson Lacompte, our new plant development manager, southern guy
at heart and by breeding, and he hates the abelia
dog legs, so he makes sure that all of our
abelias are free of dog legs. So Sunshine Blue Carryopterress
yellow very much, so it's got the blue contrast that
you like. So Carryoptress, of course is a fall bloomy plant.
The green variety that we have beyond Midnight is also
absolutely beautiful. But Sunshine Blue with that bright yellow foliage
to go all through the season until it starts to
bloom in late August September for us here, and then
you get that great contrast. It's just a wonderful plant
to have around because it's really pulling its weight all year. Now,
as much as I love a plant that is kind
of nondescript and then all of the sudden is like
look at me, it's also nice to have something that's,
you know, contributing substantially to the landscape throughout the season.
Winecraft gold catinas. Now there is a showy plant.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, And there's a lot of interest in this way.
Speaker 2: Yes, and is a very cool one. And that is
one that you know, compared to the purple leafed catinas
or smoke bush, this is one it's going to be
able to take a little more shade than those sun
loving ones. So you know, if you love a type
of plant and you don't have a lot of sun
very often, you can check to see if there is
a yellow variety and in many cases it will be
a little bit more shade tolerant than the other counterparts.
Chardonnay Pearl's dutsia more people should plant it. The only
yellow foliage dutsia on the market, and it's one of
those plants it's been around for so long. It was
one of the first plants that we offered in the
line doesn't really get enough attention. Man, When you see
that thing in bloom, it is just so beautiful golden
foliage and then beautiful white bell shaped flowers kind of
hovering over that mound of golden foliage.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about that in segment. For one of my
favorite color combinations is yellow and white.
Speaker 2: So elegant it is. It's surprisingly elegant for you, Rick,
I know you like the louder thing, so I'm impressed.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Kodiak freshter Villa trying to become more refined.
Speaker 2: So you have to put your your pinky up while
you drink that mug. Then then you will be refined.
The higher the pinky, the fancier you are. There you go.
A little SpongeBob reference for all my SpongeBob peeps out there.
A Kodiak Fresh Dravilla, a beautiful orange yellow foliage darvilla
great for shade or really for anywhere. And double play
candy corn now a workhourse a double play candy corn.
I know once when I was writing catalog copy for
this plant, I asked rhetorically, can a plant be too colorful?
Because if a plant can be too colorful, it's probably
double play. Candy car and this thing is a color powerhouse. Yeah.
So in spring it comes out with its bright red foliage.
It just pops out of the mulch and then through
the suit and then it kind of turns orange with
that red new growth. And then through the season it
has this bright, bright yellow foliage with these hot pink flowers.
It is such an interesting and unusual combination. It is
obviously a hit because it is far and away our
best selling SPYRIEA the Proven Winner's Color Choice line. So
that's when you have to see to believe. I have
a whole list. So I didn't even get a chance
to get to because I was just yammering away about
how much I like yellow plants.
Speaker 1: We pick some of them up in segment four perfect.
Speaker 2: So you haven't heard about all of the yellow plants
in the Proven Winter's Color Choice line just yet. So
we're going to take a little break. We're going to
answer some questions when we come back, and then we'll
go back to our yellow plant discussion. So stay tuned
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Color Choice dot com. Readings Gardening Friends, and welcome back
to the Gardening Simplified Show where we're talking all about
the color yellow and using it in your garden. And
this is the time where we answer your garden questions,
quandaries and conundrums which never seem to cease. And we
know that here at Proven Winners, I mean I think
that on the Proven Winners website we have answered you know,
we answer an average of over three thousand shrub questions alone,
never mind questions on annuals and perennials and kalladiums and
houseplants and all of that stuff. So we are committed
to helping you. And if we don't get to answer
your question here on the Gardening Simplified Show, and you
can reach us at Gardeningsimplified on air, dot com or
of course you can leave a comment on our YouTube
version of the show. Adriana reads all of those. You
can also reach us at Proven Winners, color choice dot
com and ask us a question there, because we really
do want you to be successful. And no, we don't
use AI and we don't use robots to skim our
website and offer you some sort of stiche of an answer. No,
we give you real uh information from real horticulturists who
care about your success. Pastiche. You've never heard that word.
It's like, you know, like a it's like a mix
up of bad information. Like it's like a poor facsimile,
is how I think it would be described.
Speaker 1: Could I use that word in my life? Where have
you been all my life? Pastiche?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay adding it to my Vocay.
Speaker 2: Okay, lovely perfect, that's outstanding. I'm wondering about the context,
but I'm glad to know it's.
Speaker 1: Say, I got a question for you, if I you
know this part of the show, if I may ask
the question. It's been bothering me since segment one, but
I think it just popped into my head that the
difference between knitting and crocheting. Now, crocheting is not that
game you play on the lawn with the ball and
the that's croquet croquet.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the difference between knitting and crocheting, it just popped
into my head, is that crochet needles use a hook?
Am I right?
Speaker 2: Crochet you crochet with a hook. You wouldn't call it
a crochet needle.
Speaker 1: It's not a crochet needle. But you use a hook.
Speaker 2: You use a hook, and with needles. With knitting, you
use a pair of needles.
Speaker 1: Because years ago we used to have all those they
called them latch hook kits.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's totally different, okay, but yes, the latch
hook kits were really quite the rage in the seventies.
I was a little too young to have one, but
I remember seeing them everywhere, like on TV, and you know,
seeing the.
Speaker 1: And is that the needle you used to make your
lawn chairs?
Speaker 2: So if you are making a lawn chair out of
macrime cord, you tend to use two crochet hooks, okay,
to hold the loops while you're you know, weaving the
crow the macrime cord back and forth. But it's not
technically crochet. It is actually a combination of macro weaving.
So it's very confusing because people will call the macrame
launchairs that not is kind of like a macrime, but
you use crochet hooks and mostly you're just weaving macrime
cord through the I'm learning.
Speaker 1: A lot here. Yes, that's really pistiche What does the
word mean again?
Speaker 2: It means a poor fact simile. So it's like you,
like I would say that the results that an AP
or sorry, an AI or a chat but gives you
is a pistiche. It is they're taking a variety of
sources and kind of cobbling together into some sort of
really subpar answer.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to use my new word. I have
a picture for our YouTube video viewers. I found an
AI image of container plant, a colorful plant that those
images are just everywhere and it's terrible. And you can
see the smiling lady the picture of this multi colored plant.
Her shoes are offset from where she's standing, so you
can tell it's an AI photo. I guess it's just
an opportunity to remind people that those things are abundant
out there right.
Speaker 2: Now, right And you know you don't want to get
me started.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but no, but this is important because example.
Speaker 2: Of it is. I would say most AI results are
a postiche. And you know, it's very frustrating to me
the way that AI has been used in for gardening
and for plants and by bad actors. You know, I'm
not talking like you know, because plants are pretty freaking
cool as it is. If you haven't noticed, plants do
not need to be you know, transformed into some imaginary
thing for them to be appreciated and to be useful
and to be cool.
Speaker 1: But you know that in my rewirement, I help out
in the greenhouse a little bit in spring Stacy. You
wouldn't believe the number of people come in asking for it.
Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, oh man, Well you know what, if
you go to the proven Winner's Color Choice website, we
don't use AI on our photos. They are real photos,
are actual plants in our actual landscape. And if they
don't look real, that's just because they are that great.
So yeah, again, We've done an AI show years ago
and it was like, sort of at the beginning, I
think we need to probably reprise this, but I will
tell you this, if it looks too good to be true,
it probably is. And if you are not sure and
you are thinking about spending money on any kind of
seed or plant or anything like that. I truly mean this.
You are most welcome to contact us at Gardening Simplified
on Air dot com or a proven Winner's Color Choice
dot com. Send us a link, send us a photo,
and we will tell you kindly if it's a real
plant or if you should not waste your money, because
there are a lot of scammers out there using these
plants to try to sell them to people and it's unconscionable.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know whether or not it's pastiche you
go ahead, it'll look.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Okay, So we have a question here
from Genie. She has two April tryst camelias. She decided
to retransplant them side by side against the south side
of her fence to protect them from hot afternoon sun.
Good idea for camelias. From a distance, she said, they
look beautiful with spring blooms, but on closer look, they
look diseased. The leaves are dropping off and she's constantly
cleaning them off the ground. Please help me identify what's
going on and how I can treat the problem. So
she sent some pictures. The good news here, Genie, I
am not a complete expert on camellia's not by a
long shot, since I cannot grow them sadly in Michigan,
I actually don't think you have anything to worry about. Yes,
camelias are susceptible to some various diseases, certainly ifitoptera, which
is a root disease that happens in poor drainage, is
one of the most popular or most common not popular,
that has a very distinctive look. And if you look
up camellia diseases and leaf spots, you will you won't
find anything that looks like what yours look like. So
I think there's a couple of things going on. I
think that the damage that you're seeing on these leaves
is very possibly from cold and not from any kind
of disease or anything like that. We did have remember
an extremely cold winter this past winter, and because these
plants had been transplanted, they probably were not quite as
well equipped to deal with that cold as they would
have been if they hadn't been moved. The other thing,
I don't know how long you've had these, but camellias
drop their three year old leaves every spring and early summer.
So the fact that they are dropping the leaves may
simply be a fact that the plant has gotten mature
enough now that it's just shedding those leaves in a
normal way. And as long as the plant is putting
on fresh, healthy, new growth to replace that, you've got
nothing to worry about. Because even evergreens do lose their leaves,
and that causes people to kind of freak out because
they think that something is wrong and different evergreens lose
their leaves at different times. We've talked about white pines
losing their needles in fall, which of course also freaks
people out. So I don't see anything in your Camellia's
genie that is causing me worry or anything like that.
I think they're just you know, again, I'm not sure
where you're located. I think it was somewhere in New York.
Not quite ideal Camelia territory, a little bit too cool. Still,
so the fact that they might have gotten some cold
damage and are now at an age where they're just
replacing those three year old leaves that may combine to
make it look very alarming, But in reality, I don't
think you've got anything to worry about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you nailed it, Stacy, because think about it,
in spring or early spring, we're going to tend towards
looking towards cold or winter damage, as opposed to later
in summer when we'd be looking closely at disease. Yeah, exactly, Okay,
all right, Karen writes to us. I am slowly adding
shrubs perennials each summer. I have an area in my
backyard I'd like to turn into a butterfly garden with
a fire light Hydrangea alium lantana cone flowers. The concern
here is stay is the walnut tree stump in the middle.
So worries about the soil because of this walnut and
says please help a new gardener out as I am stumped.
Speaker 2: Right, So she also says, I'm worried about the soil
in this area being acidic due to this stump. I
don't think you have any concern about that. Of course,
people are always worried about walnuts, black walnuts, because they
do kind of have this chemical that can suppress the
growth and even kill very sensitive plants that are growing
around it. A lot of people believe that it is
the walnut roots that are the culprit. But in fact,
that's not the case. It's actually the leaves, the stems,
and especially the fruits when they fall. So if this
thing has been cut down and that stem, that stump
is decomposing, you don't have to worry at all. I
mean maybe if you have very very sensitive plants, like
I know tomatoes are extremely sensitive to jug loan, but
you're not even talking about growing tomatoes around this plant
so or around this old stump, So I don't think
it's a cause for concern. Go ahead and leave the
stump as some interest, and I wouldn't worry about it.
You can do some research again, if you just want
to be perfectly safe. I don't know how long this
walnut tree has been cut down, you can do some
research on plants that are resistant to jug loan. That's
jug l O n E. That is the chemical that
the walnuts can emit. Just so you're not putting anything
that's super duper sensitive in there. But for the most part,
I think that everything you've listed should be absolutely fine.
It's a pretty small list that is truly that sensitive
to jug loan. So good luck with the project. It
sounds very interesting. We are going to take a little
break when we come back, We're continuing our conversation on
yellow in the garden and plantscape, so please stay tuned.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show. As we talk
about the color yellow, Stacy I had mentioned that I
love that yellow and white combination. Let me give you
some examples. Sunsatia, coconut nmejus, Oh, isn't it great? That's
very cool, bright yellow color in the center on a
white flower. I have a picture for our YouTube viewers
of yellow hellabores in my landscape that I took on
a snowy day. That combination of yellow and white. I
love that combination of a mellow yellow with white, luscious lantana,
vanilla breeze, Biden's campfire marshmallow, all of those are great.
And I think it stems from and yeah, pun intended,
it stems from my interest in history. The yellow paint
color used on the walls of Thomas Jefferson's dining room
at Monticello is known as chrome yellow, but today it's
marketed as Monticello Yellow. But it's vibrant and the color
that they used in interiors at that time, seventeen hundreds
into the eighteen hundreds. You'll see that in those types
of homes, a buttery yellow on dining room walls. Alexander
Hamilton's home is another great example. And if you look
at the exterior of the home, also surrounded by thirteen
sweet gum trees that are there to note the thirteen
original colonies, but the dining room or even outdoors in
the yellow exterior. In the exterior it's yellow with white trim.
And that combination of yellow with white trim, I love it.
And you can see it at the Hamilton Grange National
Memorial in Harlem. I've visited there, of course. That's the
or just to the northeast of that location would be
Yankee Stadium and the New York Botanical Garden, which I
know you're very familiar.
Speaker 2: I am very familiar with, yes, but.
Speaker 1: Again with a little historical context, I love that yellow
and white combination.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is great, and it has more of that subtlety.
You'll take a daffodil, right, we're just at the tail
in a daffodil season, a white and yellow daffodil. I mean,
of course, the classic yellow is fabulous, but the white
and yellow, it just has so much more depth than
it's just you know, it's a little bit unexpected.
Speaker 1: You got it, you got it, love it. So here's
some favorite yellows. Decadence, pink, lemonade, lemon, meringue, any of
those baptisias. I think a classic yellow on a Solosia
flower is amazing. Last year I grew some straw flower flombay.
The yellow also known as common everlasting, heat and drought tolerant,
can handle poor soils, deer resistant cool plant. Another one
that I tried in my content was the y kaki
sunset lysomachia. That's a cool plant also. But when I
think of the color yellow and the landscape too stacy
right away my mind aside from the spy rheas that
you had mentioned in Plants on Trial, the Arctic fire yellow.
Speaker 2: Yes, now there's an unexpected yellow, and that works well
for your yellow and white combo exactly because you know
everybody knows red twig dogwood turns nice red in the winter.
This is one that turns yellow and it is really
extraordinary and just so refreshing to see something different. Now,
I do love the red, it's beautiful, but the yellow,
it's just it's a really nice twist on you know,
the kind of the ubiquitous red. And I'll tell you,
if you match it in your landscape with the right
color house and with evergreens, it could be something that
it's truly truly stunning and still very nice to bring
in for the holidays. So for some nice light in
the house and Stacy.
Speaker 1: Speaking of shrubs again, I have observed on the sales
floor that people love the Tater Tot arborvitie. But then
you show them Anna's Ball.
Speaker 2: And it's magic ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow.
Speaker 2: So I mean Tater Tot is easily one of our
best selling shrubs evergreens. It is a small round arborvite
and people do love it. But yeah, Anna's magic ball
actually can be for Tater Tot and it is a
beautiful bright gold. So you call them evergreens, but they're
actually ever yellows. And so we've selected all of these
golden evergreens to keep that golden color in winter, because
a lot of them don't. They'll kind of go bronze
or you know, not so nice. So when we're trialing
and evaluating these, yeah, our new plan evaluation team is
out there even in the dead of winter making sure
that they really keep that nice color and stay interesting
and beautiful in the landscape.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic plant. So let's run through a few very quickly. Here,
marguerite daisy, golden butterfly. The uh oh yeah, why that
one A tough one for people to pronounce argur ranthemum,
I believe is how it's pronounced. Seed them yellow brick road,
any of your achillas, your yarrows, like firefly, sunshine, lemon
zest Oh so easy rose. I had that in my
lands landscape, and Stacey threw up this exercise. I've realized
there's many yellow plants I love in the landscape. Potentilla
happy face yellow potentilla, Saint John's wart Sonny Boulevard.
Speaker 2: Two great pollinator plants, by the way.
Speaker 1: Exactly amazing daisies, banana cream. Oh, that's such a great plant.
Speaker 2: That is so pretty.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: And like I was saying about the about the yellow
and white Davidils. It's just a nice twist. I mean,
Shasta daisy's are fabulous and they're already yellow and white.
But banana cream is just such a pretty plant. It
takes my breathway every time I see it. It's what
I need to get in my garden.
Speaker 1: My mom told me there'd be daisies like this mojave
yellow purse lane. I grow that in my vegetable garden
to attract pollinators, super bells, lemon slice, calibricoa.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: And then we've got to mention the new plant on
the front this year, the super lofuss nice a Sunglow
Texas primrose or it's an onethra. Now talk about a
dependable drought and heat tolerant plant with beautiful yellow flowers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and big yellow flowers too. It's definitely if you
see that one and you have a lot of sun
and you feel like you are not a reliable water
for waterer for your containers, that would be a great choice.
Speaker 1: Show off for Scythia. I know we're past early spring,
but show off for Scythia will give you yellow yellow
color like you can't believe. And then, Stacey, I want
to ask you about because I have it growing up
the pergola now a non invasive scentsation honeysuckle that's in
bloom in the green for spring sails. Those blooms are spectacular.
Speaker 2: They are, and they hummingbirds love them. And it just
has so many of them. And that has a nice
combination of sort of that powdery blue foliage, you know,
that kind of like blueish waxy foliage. Beautiful combination.
Speaker 1: It's a great plant. Sun credible yellow sunflowers or helianthus.
I mentioned the sun king Aurelia for shade lemon coral
seedum to use as a spiller, let's say, in a
container raised for days. Heliopsis I had mentioned the going
bananas day lilies, Tuscan sun fun yellow Colomatis.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is such a cool plant. Adriana
loves that. She's a huge smile on her face because
she loves this plant. And it's another one you have
to see to believe, because you know everyone knows clematis,
but it unlike other clematis, the flowers kind of hang
down right like little yellow octopi. They have a lot
of long petals. It smells a little bit like grapefruit,
just a beautiful, soft yellow color, very long blooming. This
is a newer clematis, and this is definitely one. This
isn't gonna be one of those clematists that kind of
cover your whole fence or whole railing. This is more
of a perennial garden clematist that you would grow on
a smaller trellis or something like that. But you will
not regret it. This is every time I see this plant,
I'm like, is that real?
Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's amazing and it perfectly fits
the description canary gold in my mind. It's just such
a great plant goldilocks, rocks bidens. And we have to
mention the reminiscent yellow rose.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, very new, very cool yellow roses. You know
in the rose world, yellow is actually the hardest variety
to develop disease resistance in. And that is why in
our rose series, like lemons Oh so easy lemons s
that you mentioned before, and Reminiscent yellow were some of
the later additions to our line because they really needed
we needed a lot more plants and a lot more
testing to make sure that they met our standards for
disease resistance, because I don't know what it is about roses,
but there's something in the genes that make the yellow
color that tends to reduce their ability to withstand, you know,
diseases like powdery mildew and black spots. So a lot
of extra testing goes into those yellow roses.
Speaker 1: Interesting and of course to wrap it up, maestro gold, hummingbird, mint, agistachi,
and then of course supertunias now have yellow, and some
pretty good yellow supertunias in honey petuna or saffron finch.
Speaker 2: So I love finch. That is not only a great color,
but a truly high performer. Couldn't believe my eyes when
I had that in my garden. I said that a
lot this time, but I couldn't believe my eyes.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's true, but it's true yellow. You've got some
great opportunity to enjoying your landscape this year. Thank you Stacey,
thank you Rick, Thanks Adriana, and thanks most of all
to you who watch us on YouTube, who download the podcast,
tell your friends and neighbors, or listen to the radio
show version of the show. Have yourself a great week.