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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lon and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg’s Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That’s
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning, Baton Rouge. Welcome once again to the WJBO
Lawn and Garden Show. We’re pleased to have you with
us this morning. Alan Owens with Braiden Bada Donna, Good morning,
Good morning, Braiden. How are you? I’m good? How are
you doing? Good? Good? And of course we’re with Cleg’s
Nursery here in Baton Rouge. We have three locations and
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one Endentum Springs. And we always appreciate everybody out there
in the South Louisiana area listening to our gardening program
every Saturday morning here on WJBA and.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Beyond, because we’ve found out one time that there are
people like up north that listen to us.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well. I hope we’re giving us a good information. I
was actually at a horticulture meeting in Lafayette last Saturday,
and a lady said, Hey, Alan, when are you going
to be back on the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show.
So you know, some people do know about us. Yeah,
I’m not sure how famous we are, but we are,
you know, known somewhere to some people.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So you know.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But anyway, always good here to be here with Braiden,
and usually lately it seems like Alan and Braiden are
the tag team. Yeah, so they must have good confidence
or something. So but uh, of course spring arrived yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, and it definitely looked and felt like spring.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yesterday you said the Garden Center was tremendously busy, extremely busy.
Is that more busy than we’ve normally been busy.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, so moving into the spring, it’s it’s been busy
on Friday and then Saturday the skies is falls, yes, right,
but yesterday it was a different kind of busy for Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And we have had good weather. I mean, we did
have some cool temperatures of Monday and Tuesday morning earlier
this week. I think that was this week. Yes, that
was this week, and but for the most part, since
about the second week in February, we’ve had pretty good weather. Yeah,
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and I think we’ve only had a couple of Saturdays
or Sundays where we had rain part of the day
and it’s usually been in the evenings exactly exactly. And
of course, you know good weekends in the late winter
through Mother’s Day, Memorial Days what garden centers need to
move the most plants. You know, when we’re rainy every weekend,
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we don’t sell as many plants in the spring as
when we have nice weekends. Last year was very bad
for the Arkansas, North Mississippi, North Alabama, Tennessee garden centers
because it was raining every weekend. So we’ve been blessed
so far this spring. But if you all have any
lawner garden questions you want to call in this morning
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Speaker 5 (03:25):
There not let’s see you covered eleven fifteen ninety eight
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Speaker 2 (04:11):
Right now while we’re live, just leave us a message.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
We check it regularly and we can listen to it
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Speaker 2 (04:20):
Very very good Jeremy, and we always appreciate Jeremy here
with us being in the booth and directing and producing
and keeping us on time and running the boards for us.
And so what are some of the topics that’s going
on right now? Of course, ideal vegetable planning time, I believe.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, a lot of people are getting their vegetable garden.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You said, people have been buying cucumbers like crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh yes, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Right, peppers, all your normal spring vegetables. You know, time
to direct, So maybe some beans. You can get corn
in the ground. Corn likes to be planted early. Yeah,
Brandon and I were discussing corn, and you know the
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best thing to do is just get you some corn
seed and direct so in your garden or in your
raised bed. You can’t regularly or easily find corn plants
in a cell pack. I don’t like you do with
the other vegetables. Yeah, other vegetables. I don’t think I’ve
ever seen that. I think I may have one time.
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I don’t know whether that was that one of the
mass merchants or but anyway, you know, watermelons and peppers
and egg plants, and so there’s an abundance of things
we can be planning of this time of the year.
The soil temperature is finding warming up a little bit. Yeah,
we’re still in the mid fifties at night. You know,
when we get to the sixties sixty five at night,
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it’s even better for your warm season of vegetables.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Would that be like ideal were planting? Okrah the or
egg plant things that like get a little a little
hotter or should you wait.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A little long? Well, you know, peppers and eggplants and okra.
You know, everybody wants to plant all their vegetables at
the same time, but I still like to plant those
a little bit later, a little later. Yeah, yeah, because
I know okra for sure, like exactly, exactly exactly. So
you know okrah usually April fifteenth or even May first
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or so. Yeah, And you can plant okrah early, sure,
and it’s going to germinate and grow, but it’s just
not will germanate and grow as fast as if we
wait until the soil got warmer in the nighttime temperature
got warmer. Okay. And if you you know, plant your
okra usually by September October, you’re you’ve been picking a
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lot of okra and people get tired of picking okra.
So so but so, but just think about that and
look at the LSU Planting Guide or the planning date
sheet that Johnny Naylor has or our flex locations, and
that gives you some good ideal planting times for some
of the different vegetable plants.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That’s where as far as planting times for vegetables or
when you when you start doing your seeds. I rely
heavily on that on that chart we have at Clegs exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Always always like to look at that, so always gives
you some good information. And you know, if you’re one
of the folks that likes to look at the farmers
on my nec and follow things in there, and that’s
okay too as far as moon phases and all those
kinds of things. But I’ve never been a big believer
in that, but my uncle always did it and he
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swore by it. So if it makes you happy, that’s
perfectly good.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
J On the so that that sheet that we have
that shows all the dates for different seed plantings, if
you turn that turn it over to the backside, there’s
another chart on the backside. And I asked what that
was for one time, and they said that was for
people that plant by right the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Moon exactly exactly. So. So, but you know, we actually
still have some some seed potatoes. Now. Normally you want
to get your sea potatoes planted by March twentieth, and
I believe March twentieth was yesterday. Yeah, but you know,
if you want to try to do some of the potatoes,
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go on and do, go ahead and get them on
and get them done as soon as you can. And
assume we still have red lest soda and white Kennebec
and Yukon gold. Those are the three. That’s the three
that Warm Day sell.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, and once in a while at some of the
other feed stores and garden centers you may find another
variety or two, but those are the main three that
most people in South Louisiana grow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And since we’re on the topic of potatoes, yes, we
also received I’m gonna just go ahead and say the
whole thing certified Beauregard sweet potato.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Okay, Okay, Well, you know people are always asking about
sweet potato slips or sweet potatoes, and typically we have
not carried those, right, but now we have them. Yeah.
So I’ve been telling folks where I will have them,
and now we have them. So you know, communication is
the key. But well you found out today on the show.
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Yes there you go, so so, but Beaureguard is the
most popular LSU developed sweet potato. Okay, and that’s the
top grown sweet potato variety. Generally across the South California, Louisiana, Mississippi,
and the Carolinas grow most of the sweet potatoes.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So if you came into Cleggs and you wanted to
do sweet potato slips, look, we would have at the stories,
I believe, just a whole sweep.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay, okay, I wondered what we were doing. Yeah, you
have to make the slips, okay.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Would you mind kind of going over that process of
how you do sleep?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay? Okay, So what you want to do. You know,
basically you’re going to be producing some cuttings that will
hopefully have some roots on them from these whole sweet potatoes.
So you get your whole sweet potato and you plant
it in a container or you plant it in the ground,
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You lay it lengthways and you bury it about halfway,
and then over the next six to eight to ten
weeks you’re going to get foliage growth coming out of
that potato, that sweet potato. And then after that time,
where they’ve been growing for about two weeks, you can
go in there and you can section off your cuttings,
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which are called your slips, off that sweet potato root
that’s down in there, and then you take those cuttings
slash slips to the garden or to your containers or
to your raised bed and plant those, and then after
about ninety five days for your bore guards, ninety five days,
you can start digging your sweet potatoes. So sweet potatoes
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are an easy crop to grow there, and they’re kind
of like a colias or you know, ornamental sweet potato
that some people may be familiar with. They’re very easy
to root. Even if you put your sweet potato in
the soil and you get all this new foliage growth
under your sweet potato. And even if you cut the
cuttings out of the sweet potato or out of the
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soil and you don’t have many roots on it, you
can plant those and they’re going to root within a
couple of days and successfully take cold. Also, and sweet
potatoes don’t require much of a fertilizeration regime, full sun,
you know, they don’t need a whole lot of irrigation.
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You know, easy, easy crop to do cool And a
lot of people are interested in the sweet potatoes for
the edible kinds. And so I’m glad to see that
we have those boar guards. Yeah, and nothing better than
sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving with some cool whip on it.
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Let’s see what other topics do we need to be
addressing what about fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, it’s well, it’s a good time to start fertilizing
quite a few different things. So a lot of your shrubs,
like your azalea’s, they’re they’re almost une blooming, so it’d
be a great time to fertilize those. If we’re talking
about the lawn, it’s a good time for to put
down your.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Weed and fish.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I’ve noticed the lawns in the last ten days have
really greened up. I live in ham and we got
a little bit of frost damage on our warm seasoned
lawns over around the Hammond area. But you know, after
you emoje or lawn once or twice, good time to
go out there and get the fertilizer done. Usually, you know,
late March, first week in April, it’s a real good
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time in the Baton Rouge area. A lot of people
have a tendency to want to fertilize too early. Yeah,
so try to try to avoid that. And I was
talking to somebody yesterday and you know, we were saying
the azalea bloom has been about average this year. What
do you think have you noticed?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I don’t know, but around my thought been pretty showy.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I think I think it’s been average, maybe a little
bit better than average. But uh, but as you said,
when they when you’re azalea quit their quit bloom, that’s
a good time to get that annual fertilization out there
on them. I like the fertile on mozellea fertilizer. I
really like that product. Don’t they even have one with
systemic then they do to take care of the lace
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bug issue, right right, So.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Having a treat for those here surely, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, if you have not fertilized roses, go ahead and
fertilize your roses. I see some roses out there and
in commercial landscapes you know, that looked like they probably
haven’t had any fertilizer this spring. So even though we’re
a little bit late for your rose application, as far
as the fertilizer concerned, I’d go ahead and do it.
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I know.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Recently at Clegg’s we went ahead and sprayed all our
roses with I think we used up f stop Yeah
sung a side.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Right right right, So with his rose time, all the
roses at Clegg’s are looking very nice, all the avertees
and Flora bundance and grand before us and I assume
we have some knockouts and drifts still in stock and
looking pretty good. Oh yeah, so well, you know, don’t
be waiting till Mother’s Day, or don’t be waiting till
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mid April. One of my friends who’s a very serious rosarian,
he came into Cleggs on Segan, probably ten or fourteen
days after y’all got the roses potted up, and he
bought about ten plants and nice. He said, our roses
this spring the weeks the once it came from weeks
or some of the best ones he’s seen in the
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last five to six years. So you know, that was
good to hear. So yeah, always planning early is gonna
get you a better if your spring performance. And if
you wait too late, if.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You’re waiting to buy roses until they’re in bloom. Yes,
by that time we’ve sold most of the the more.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Popular, the most popular varieties have already moved out right right,
And I was noticing that, you know, five or seven
days ago, a number of our roses were starting to
show some flower colors, so they’re gonna be really be
coming into color over the next couple of weeks. So,
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but any of your other shrubs besides roses and oseelia,
is also a good time to fertilize there. Yeah, whether
it be Indian hawthorns or distilliums or guardena’s or camilia
or she she so sanquis exactly. So get that fertilization
done real soon and fertilized you shrubs every year in
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the spring. That just makes a whole lot of difference.
Most people think it doesn’t, but you know that annual
fertilization does a lot, produces all that new growth, and
new growth brings more flowers. And then crate myrtles if
you haven’t fertilized your crpe myrtles, fertilize you crate myrtles,
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and that could be a tree fertilizer a day day,
triple thirteen, osma coke, whatever you want to use, grower
special and that would be a good product to use
the crp myrtles of course, bluemen the summertime here in
Baton rouget see you everywhere, and whatever spring foliage growth
you get equals the number of summer flowers. So more
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spring foliage, more summer flowers. Yeah, good to keep that
in mind. How about the how about the bedding plants
in the uh in the green houses, we’re fully loaded.
Where do I begin?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Uh yeah, the green the bedding houses. It is just
chock full of so much color. One of the things
that really keeps catching my eyes. We got in these
one gallon uh like really bright red cilosias. And then
I assume it was probably Cat, one of the ladies
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that works in the bed and house.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
She does the radio so sometimes, but I assume she
did this.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But they set up this end cap right at the
entrance with that red cilosia in this really dark purple
salvia and those two colors together.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Man, it’s just really I okay, very nice, very nice
with those still here now, oh yeah, okay, okay, I
want to go see what those are. Yeah, and uh,
you know, geraniums. You probably want to get your geraniums
done pretty soon. Yeah, sun patients.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
We’re actually starting to get some of the geraniums in
that legs proven winter.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Right, proven winter varieties. Okay, I’m sorry. Hydranges, hidrangs, Yeah,
they hydrange is, yes, the of course, marigolds and zenias
and the Silesius and Colius ornamental sweet potatoes, and we’ve
got pintos petunias, Angelonius pentus right bagonias. And when you
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come to Cleggs, usually the bedding plants that do vetter
in shade are kind of in the shade section of
the green.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We tried to towards the back, yes, sometimes we if anything,
Sometimes we start to run out of space towards the front,
and then some of the things that eat a little
more some kind of get pushed towards the back a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
We try to try to keep all that towards the
front right right, And sometimes it’s hard for people to know,
you know, well, just this particular plant do best in
sun or shade. Most of our warm season betting plants
or sun type plants, right, but we do have the erennia.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And if you if you want, if well, if you
need betting plants for a shady area, this.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Is the time of year to come in for it.
Other than the spring.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
There’s there’s really just not a whole lot available for
betting plants in the shade exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It’s ernations, of course, in patient ornea, your green leaf,
the green leaf, Pagunia’s right of course, kalladiums now, we
don’t have kladium plants in yet, but that’s coming yeah,
now that’s coming. But we do have all the bulbs
in so you usually tell folks kladiums, plant your bulbs
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April one. People plant the kladiums too early, sometimes too Yeah,
and then we were talking pre we do have venka,
we do have vega. Why are we laughing? Because it’s
too early for vega. We will usually start asking me
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the first warm day in February or the venka here.
That’s also called perrywinkle for some some folks, what qualifies
as warm? Anything above sixty or well sixty and sixty
or sixty five in February. It’s nice warm.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It did seemed like it got warm early this year.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It has been getting warmer earlier, you know. But Venka
is one of those warm season betting plants that likes
to be planted later in the spring and very susceptible
to cool soil, getting root rot, over watering. Now, there
are a lot of new varieties of venca that have
more disease resistance built into them, but that doesn’t necessarily
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mean we’re not going to have a problem. So, you know,
we want to be planting a plant so that when
you plant it, it’s going to start growing and be
healthy and not struggling because it’s too cool in the
soil or too cool at night. So Minca likes to
have warmer weather, right and uh, my good, some of
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my good landscape friends. We’ve been a preaching that since
the nineteen nineties, and I get I don’t know if
we’re making progress or not, But anyway, I’ll give us
a call two two five four nine nine w JBO.
We’ve had no calls zayin is probably Zayne’s too busy.
He’s not listening this morning. But Zain always says he
gets way more calls than the rest of us do.
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But anyway, I think he exaggerate. I think he does too.
I want to see the data, show me the data.
Let’s see. You did mention we have some hydranges, yes, okay,
do we.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Start receiving a few different varieties of uh the proven
winners like okay, forget exactly which varieties?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, okay, Yeah, so you know this time of year, well,
I guess you know. We start getting hydrangs in in
March and kind of builds toward Mother’s Day and that’s
when the time you see hydrangees at the garden centers.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Mostly they’ll just be all over the plan.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Exactly exactly, so you know, go ahead and think about
getting some hydranges planted. And hydrangea is are one of
those plants also that you have in your landscape that
needs some fertilizer right about now. So if you haven’t
fertilized your hydrange of shit, may you may want to
get going on your hydrange of fertilization.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
If you’re trying to make your your hydrange is more blue,
you’re you’re making your soil more acidic.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right it needs are soiled to be more acidic for blue.
And it’s like if your alkaline or seven point zero
or six point five, it’s going to be more pink.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Would you want to amend your soil now or should
you have already done that?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
You should have already done that. It’s going to probably
take you like an application of some luminum. So if
maybe now and then again this fall, and then that’ll
maybe change your flower color for next year. Okay, So
this will take a couple of applications a year prior,
so that’s what you’re going to need to be doing
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on that. We also have Peggy Martin Roses. Yes we do.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
We have a very nice selection and right now where
we have them on the lot. When you first walk out,
it’s like one of the first things you see and
you just see.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
All thats a few flowers starting about a week or
ten days ago, and you know, every week the flower
is going to be building up. So we’re probably about
three weeks or so away of the Peggy Martin rose made.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Would say, if you want to Peggy Martin, come get it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Every year, I say, we cannot sell as many Peggy
Martin roses this year as we saw last year, and
we do and we do, but we have some beautiful
ones right now that are on a nice traillis and
some of the wholesale growers have more Peggy Martins available.
So you know, that’s another plant that everybody waits till
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they all get in peak bloom, and then then they
all want to come in and all of a sudden
get it well.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And that’s about the time we have to start doing
a waiting.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
With exactly exactly. So uh, you know, try try to
beat your neighbors and get your Peggy Martin roses planted.
And Peggy Martin, you gotta give it some room, give
her some room, and she gets big a train to
grow kind of horizontal and you get better flowering, and
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they need a pretty substantial support system to grow on. Yeah,
because Peggy Martin will get big.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And of course that’s the climbing rose that survived a
Hurricane Katrina in South Louisiana and Miss Peggy’s a yard
down there, the only plant that was alive after three
weeks when she was able to return home. So very
emotional story about the Peggy Martin rose. And it’s not
Seven Sisters Rose. Seven Sisters have thorns and Peggy just
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has prickles. Yeah, and there’s been DNA tests that have
confirmed that Peggy Martin is not a Seven Sisters rose.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Okay, I have to ask a question because I’m not
familiar with this. What is the difference between a thorn
and a prickle Because they both sound like they hurt,
they can. A prickle is a softer thorn, so you
don’t say owl as much when you have to deal
with ale, and there’s nothing to do with like.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Length or anything like that. And they’re usually a prickle
as smaller, smaller and not as prominent as a thorny
as I guess I need to look up the botanical
or horticultural or rosarian definition of a prickle. I knew
people were going to start asking that. You made people curious.
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Now they we initiated something, because now the phone is ringing.
So but so, fertilization your Peggy Martin roses, and uh
realize that, uh you know, I like to fertilize Peggy
Martin every year late February early March, about the time
that you normally fertilize your other roses, prune them on occasion,
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and train them to keep them growing to where you
want them to grow. They are mainly a spring bloomer.
Now in some years you will get a little bit
of bloom in the fall, but mostly they’re a spring bloomer,
like a lot of your ramblers and climbers are like
Lady Banks. It’s just a spring bloomer. Okay, we have
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Randall and he is calling from Walker and he has
a Peggy Martin rose question. Good morning, Randall, You’re on
the w JBO going on the Garden Show. How can
we help you today?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Hey? Good morning. Uh yeah, I kind of felt bad
for you guys, so I figured i’d try to initiate
some of the calls. Hey, I got you know, I
bought a Peggy Martin rose last year from Clegg’s Beautiful
in the pot, like a lot of people. I bought
it when it was blooming, and I put it in
the ground. Uh my my yard, okay. Uh, it’s against
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a fence that’s on the east side of my yard,
so the sun’s coming up. Of course, all of my
roses on the other side of my yard are in
sun right now. Uh you know, my my regular knock
out some stuff and they’re they’re looking good. Just Peggy
Martin’s in the shade. So it’s not going to get
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sun until you know, like much more later in the day, midday,
and then it gets it all afternoon. There’s nothing blocking
the sword right now. It’s like real viney, kind of
leggy looking. I planted it next to the fence. I
put an iron traillis that I had kind of a
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decorative trailers almost looks kind of like a church piece.
It’s got you know, pulled the leaves on and stuff,
and I kind of connected it to that. Whether it
was small or it’s kind of growing. Then it started
like branching out. I didn’t know what to do with
I was afraid to cut off all of the kind
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of the spreading limbs. So I sort of attached them
to my fence, my privacy fence. I didn’t know what
else to do, you know, I put like staples in
the fence and use some more twist tie and kind
of tied them off. And right now it’s it’s got
foward on it. It just you know, nothing else I
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can’t really see. I guess it’s starting to maybe bud,
So is this a good place to grow this thing?
I seemed like the accent of videos of they have
beautiful ones, you know, like growing up on fences and stuff,
And uh, I just didn’t know if I should.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Do you think back a lot? Do you do you
think as the hours or as daylight? Do you think,
I’m sorry, as the day length hours are getting longer?
Do you think it’s getting eight hours of sun a day?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Uh? My guess would be probably. So. I mean my house,
the front of my house, you know, faces straight south,
you know, the back faces north, So the sun comes
across pretty much and starts hitting my backyard. You know,
it hits this eastern fencelying you know, kind of midday,
(29:54):
I guess, so it’s like, well, all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I think Randall. This spring is going to tell the
tail on it. You know how, if you have a
nice bloom, this spring is getting enough sun. If you
have a what I call a sporadic bloom or not
much bloom, it’s not getting enough sun. So that’s gonna
be the main thing. I think. I think you’re right
(30:22):
on the borderline as far as the sun shades suggestion.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
It sounds like, well, it’s under an oak tree too. Yeah,
it’s got directly under the oak tree. It’s probably about,
you know, twenty feet from this giant oak tree that’s
in my backyard kind of again close to that that
eastern fense line.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So but but you’re doing it. You’re doing it the
way you need to do it because you’ve got it
on a fence, you’ve got it on a structure, so
you’re growing it.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Does your fertilize yet this spring?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I have not fertilized, and I haven’t sprayed anything on
and it’s kind of got some spots on some of
the foliage. Yeah, any any and I’m used to spray,
and I spray. I’ve got a lot of roses, okay,
and I’ve got you know, I spray.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Them, so okay, you cauld spray your Peggy Martin, but
typically it doesn’t need any fun aside or insecticide on it,
but fertilization would help you maybe with spring bloom. And
a lot of Peggy Martins in landscapes have not started
flowering yet, but they should be starting to get some
buds out there. Usually, you know, mid April to mid
(31:32):
May is there four weeks of really prominent bloom in
the landscape.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
So I think that was question.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
This spring is going to tell the tale.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah, I didn’t understand how they how they put out
blooms compared to all other roses, which of course sort
of bloom year round. I mean, you know, you get
after I do the a year, then they start fluting
out bloom and I’m like, well, what’s wrong with this
Peggy Martin? But you kind of cleared that up. I mean,
they really only just bloom for a certain period during.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The right They do just to once a year spring bloomer, gotcha.
And as they get three, four or five years old,
you know, we have nice weather in the fall and
they’re healthy and growing well, you’ll get a little bit
of bloom and it’s like ten percent of the flowers
compared to the springtime bloom.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, okay, well as we go, as we go, like
further into the season, the trajectory of the sun. Does
the sun cross the sky more on the northerly.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Side as it goes east to west? Is the sun
more in the northern sky? Because if that happens, then
this tree is going to inhibit some.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Of the sun I think.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Right, it sounds like you’re going to have some shade
issues later on in the year, even more than you
have right now.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Okay, so I guess I never paid attention before, but
the sun is going to kind of be covering more
across in the north right right, Okay, that’s what I thought. Yeah,
well I get Can I transplant this thing if I
need to?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well that’s the good thing about Peggy Martin. It’s very durable.
I do a lot of cutting back on it and
digging it up and move it like November December this year.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Okay, yeah, I’m likely going to do that if I
can find a better spot. I just have these giant trees.
My neighbor’s got a huge oak tree, you know, on
the other back corner of the yard opposite behind, and
then I got two big cypress trees in the back,
and I don’t know. I got to be covered, Paddy.
I got a lot of things putting off different lines
(33:46):
of shade. You know, I got you, and I just
don’t have any available space right, I don’t know. I’ll
have to.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
See, okay, Randall, Well you keep studying that, Peggy Martin,
and we appreciate you calling in this morning. We have Randall, No,
we just talk to Randall Patrick. We have Patrick Patrick.
Good morning. You’re on the air with w J Bola
and Garden Shed.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Yeah, good morning, Good morning, Peggie Martin. Roses I brought
up you were talking about it, but I had planting
one last year that I got from y’all and it’s
got a lot of leaf formations on it. Now you
mentioned about buds. Do you think this one will bug
this year?
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I got it from as a plot.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You should definitely be getting
some flower buds in two to three weeks and then
be getting a nice spring blown Okay, yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Okay, great question about camellia. The best type of camelia
to plant in the sun.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
It gets a lot of sun.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Okay, some type of well, honestly, all though succintuists take
sun a little bit better. They don’t necessarily need to
be in son, but they’ll handle son.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Better, okay.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
And a soil preparation.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
Mostly I have clay, so I have to remove it
and put you know, a mix.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Is there anything special?
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Do I need to put ass any type of acid of.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Higher for those? Or well, well, your your camellias do
like a more acid soil, so and you want to
make you a wide planning hole, make it a little
bit raise with some nice race bed soil, that kind
of thing, right, right, okay. And last, but the camellia,
(35:31):
the camellias, the cycle was gonna be good choices, yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
And transplanting elephant ears, Uh, those, I guess tubers. Do
they need anything special?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
When I move them?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
You know most I need them up?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I guess it’s a tuber. They’re gonna be They’re gonna
be very durable. You can dig those up almost any
time and move them anytime, and you’re gonna be successful.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yes, okay, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Thank you, very good, Patrick, thank you, thank you. Patrick’s
gonna be busy. Yeah, Patrick, sounds like he’s got some work, Okay,
we have another collar we have Eve in was even
Matton rouge. Eve, good morning. How can we help you
on the WJB or lawn and garden shade.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
I’m looking for the name of some plants that can
grow in the shade they get some sun daylight, but
mostly shade, but not every second of the day, that
have fragrance and or color.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Well, there was one thing that came to mind. It’s
not something we get it from time to time, but
it’s not something I feel like we always have on hand.
But there’s a type of Japanica camellia, which are Japanica
camellias take more shade, one called high fragrance. That one
would produce some color and would have a scent to it.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
And are you thinking, Eve, about more traditional bedding plant
type plants or you’re thinking shrubs.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
No, I’m thinking anything that will grow in the shade,
that will bush out a little bit, but that has
scent preferably and color, which would be the best. And
do you know I think it’s frank of Panny.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Do you have any of that?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, not familiar with that one.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Okay, right, I’m not sure what that is.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Eve, I’m sorry, that’s Okay, it can go anything that
will grow around a fence line or where date palms
do like the soil okay, or queen palms I think
they’re called. So the soil is comfortable for palms. Okay,
if that’s of any help, right, yeah, I would have
(37:56):
to do some research on that and okay, find that
out for you. Well, thank you, Okay, we appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Uh yeah. When when it comes to man shrubs or
bedding plants in shade with fragrance, that’s gonna be hard.
You know, sweet olives need son, magnoia and ana magnolias
needs son.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Is that just something it’s tough to answer because of
what we have around here?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Is that maybe like another I think that’s a problem
across the whole United States. I know there might be.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Some regional thing that you know only works in the
Northeast needs son.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
When you think about your fragrant shrubs, almost all of them,
or the sun the more sun favored types. Right. We
do have a few events that we can maybe talk about.
There’s gonna be a garden fest at Accent of Botanic
Gardens next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Next Saturday between eight and two at the Burden Center
it’s gonna be the East Baton Rouge Master Gardeners Plant
Cell in the Botanic Garden Plant Cell. Also they’ll have
booths with local garden organizations.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And then if you’re in the Covington or Fallsome area
today there’s a garden show going on and Folesome downtown.
Folsome at the Church Park there free and they have
about fifteen different plant exhibitors there. And there’s several things
coming up in April that I’ll be speaking at. But
in the meantime, we appreciate you all joining us. Braden,
(39:31):
thank you for being here, and thank you callers. Thank
you callers. I’m Alan Owings and we will see you
all next time on the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show.
Have a great Saturday
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