Google Lens to Identify what Bug is Eating our Tree. Road Trip to Buy a Golden Falls Japanese Maple

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Today we visited a local farm to pick up some dahlia tubbers and and also visited Tolland Garden in CT to pickup a new Japanese Maple called Golden Falls. George finds bugs eating one of our maples and takes it upon himself to diagnose and treat the situation all by himself using Google Lens to identify the bug. Go George!

Open Gate Farm in Westport MA: https://opengatefarm.bigcartel.com/
Tolland Garden, Tolland CT. (Japanese Maples & Conifers. Run by Hassan): https://www.facebook.com/NewEnglandJapaneseMaples/

Thanks for watching – Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b) #plants #planting #tree #japanese #maple #googlelens
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these are roughly tulips are what they call the pey Tulips gorgeous look how beautiful this greenhouse looks so many beautiful colors that you get with these Japanese maple trees they try to get a clear image on these things but they are all over it what is neem oil Steph probably would know but she’s not around right now so don’t let George tell you that he doesn’t like gardening I don’t I don’t like we can all we can all see it now George it kind of grew on me a little bit I would say hi it’s staff and I’m here with George today and we’re going on a road trip where we going George Saturday morning so we’re going to hans’s Tolen Farm in Connecticut and we’re also going to a local Farm Nursery to pick up some dalas Dalia tubers that I bought yeah um so this is a tree we purchased from Hassan last summer and this is an orium and it’s just starting you can see it’s just um about to LEAP out you see that so it has big buds it’s looking really good so the tree that we are looking for that he said he should have in stock is a golden Falls and it’s a yellow cascading Maple and in the spring it leavs out almost like this catura with the orange color we also have another one right behind it which is called orange dream so I think it spring color is something in between the C catur in the orange dream you have that orange but then eventually it turns into a yellow and it’s a cascading type so you stake it up to a certain point let’s say 5 6 ft and then it should just kind of start to Cascade and come down where we planning on putting it so right behind the Fire Glow which is red we’d like to have a yellow and that’s the spot it’s we kind of have a gap in the garden right now so we’re thinking of putting it right behind in that Woodland bed go right here all right let’s go on a road trip yeah let’s go we’ve arrived at opengate Farm which is a beautiful Farm here in Westport Massachusetts and this is where I ordered some Dalia tubers from and I’m picking up my order I didn’t even remember what I had ordered um I picked up three and they are called Rip City Jesse G and Cornell so these are colors that I haven’t grown before they’re more like burgundy Reds um and I’ll pop some pictures up to show you but I’m really excited to add some different colors to my dollas so that I can experiment a little bit more with different Cut Flower Arrangements but such a cute place and they have beautiful eggs um different colored eggs and there’s even a really cool peacock that George found the picture of on Instagram and he was hoping that we would get to see the peacock today look at these beautiful tulips so pretty these are ruly tulips are what they call the pey Tulips gorgeous look at this one right here and these peachy colors so [Music] pretty we’re on our road trip and we stopped at Subway for some lunch these chips are so good a little spicy but I really like them but of course after we’re done eating this guy always needs to have a little sweet something what’d you get I got two oatmeal raisin much sure if we’re dating ourselves with oatmeal raisin so good right we used to really like the have peanut butter ones but they don’t have those anymore oatmeal raisin it is lookie lookie I’ve got a cookie Who you calling ET haven’t seen one of those in a while that’s a glass from the past yeah we’re visiting with Hassan we ended up going to his farm Tolen Farms but it’s still closed for the season for a couple more weeks but because we had made the TRU up here he told us to come by his house where he also has some green houses with his more rare varieties of um Maples and conifers look how beautiful this greenhouse looks now all of these are leafed out because they’re in this greenhouse so they’re in a a warmer climate but so many beautiful colors that you get with these Japanese maple trees so Hassan has the Japanese Maple that George wanted and we’ll go over and look at that in a little bit but I’ve been after one of these ice breakers I believe they’re a type of Korean fur they have this really beautiful white frosted look to them so I am going to pick one of these up for the Japanese Maple Garden so we’re back home from Tolen farms and I had hoped to film and talk to Hassan a little bit more while we were there but the opportunity didn’t present itself we started talking about the trees got carried away and the time passed us by and it was time to get going so here is what we picked up um we picked up this beautiful golden Falls and of course it’s all leafed out because it was in one of his green houses but it has really beautiful spring color with this golden yellow with the red edges just really pretty I also picked up two conifers dwarf conifers this one is called Tom Thumb that’s quite a tongue twister but let me show you the tag there’s the name of it and it stays really small so that is what I want something that grows really that stays Compact and small and that has a really slow growth rate so that I think is going to be great for the Japanese Maple Garden and this one that I’ve actually been after for a couple of years now this is the ice breakers Korean fur there we go and it has this most beautiful color it almost looks like it is frosted so I really loved this one and this morning morning when we stopped at Open Gate Farm um I got to talk to Sharon who was working on some gardening and she sent me home with some seedlings these are so cute of course when I start talking to another Gardener I can’t stop talking and it was like a half hour later George is waiting and here I am walking into the greenhouse and she’s showing me all of her beautiful starts this I believe she said it was a hibiscus and that it’s a foliage plant so when I did a little bit of looking around I think that this is the mahogany Splendor um mahogany Splendor habiscus so she said it looked like the F foliage so I’m pretty sure that’s what that is and then she also shared with me two Salvia starts so one of them is a blue salvia and one of them is a red salvia and this is a type of crysanthemum so that was really fun so if you get to watching this Sharon because you did tell me that you like YouTube um I hope that you know I am very thankful for these starts and I can’t wait to see what they do in my garden so it’s the end of April and the Japanese have started to Leaf out specifically the the Katura right there that’s like the first to Leaf out um the orange dream in the corner we’ll go see that in a second and that’s that’s a maawa this one comes out like a lime green it’s really cool but they’re just starting to Leaf out right now and this one right here on the side is Sister ghost but I noticed that it has these little beetles um um you see that and they’re called a steel blue lady Beetle I looked them up on Google and apparently they don’t eat the leaves and they’re native to Australia and New Zealand this is the first time I’ve seen them in our garden and they’re all over this tree and I don’t know apparently they don’t eat the leaves they eat algae and other insects that’s what it says on Google I don’t know so they are all over this tree though and I’m a little worried about it um but what I am also more worried about is this one that’s already leafed out and these leaves are starting to get munched on is that one of those beetles see this has something some other insect on it all right there’s an example what is this look at them all this is just one little piece that I removed okay so I took a picture of this insect and I’m just going to do this live I’m outside and I’m going to use Google Lens to see if I can figure out what these bugs are so I’m just going to get right on the bug I guess it’s an apid so I need to figure out what I need to do to treat for aphids all right so I’m just going to go on my phone and just there you go AIT control neem oil what is that what is neem oil Steph probably would know but she’s not around right now so AIDS right there okay so I guess this would and caterpillars so it’s possible that what I applied this morning I applied BT I need to go check the uh the packaging to see if it also controls aphids but if not I need to get some NE oil all right this is the stuff I used this morning and I sprayed all of the um the Japanese maples that have leafed out with and we’ve used it in the past but it just says controls worms and calip pillars it doesn’t mention aits so this is step’s sta of things that she uses oh look neem oil neem oil this say yeah AIDS it says it right there in the middle all right so I’m going to use this it’s my lucky day and it’s full so I was just reading the packaging on here and this seems to be really good stuff it’s organic and it says can be used used up to the day of harvest which is really good so if it’s safe on fruits vegetables and things that people can eat I’m sure it’s going to be fine on this tree I just finished spraying the tree and hopefully I caught it early enough and we’ll take care of the problem it’s the next day after we went to Hassan’s farm and um George has been working on getting some soil mixed up to plant the new Japanese maple but I’m so impressed with him today I went grocery shopping earlier and he told me he figured out a problem with a couple of the trees we had noticed that there was a couple of holes in the leaves and we were thinking was the tent caterpillars from last year right no it was right I thought it was the caterpillars then I saw the Beetles and then I went over to the ‘s dream it was something completely different yeah so instead of calling you cuz I knew you were busy I just went on Google and I figured it out I mean I don’t know if it’s exactly what you would have done you’re being such a gardener and you don’t even know it yeah well I have Google as my uh my helper yeah that’s right Google helped you out but it’s so funny because well not funny so would you have done that would you have done the same thing so he treated it with what NE oil right yeah yeah first thing that I would have done probably is the most common thing that you do first is just spray them off with the hose you get like a nice hard stream on the hose shower setting kind of knock them off as best you can right and then you can spray them with NE but it was an overcast day today you went right for the mean for the ne oil that’s fine it’s been overcast it’s going to work good job so this is proud of you look at you now you can be disease and Pest Management too on the in the garden so here’s the golden Falls that we picked up from hassans yesterday and because it was in his Greenhouse it’s about a month ahead in terms of being leafed out so when these first uh the leaves first emerge they are more of a orange color like the katsur and the orange dream right now you see it’s yellow color with the the red or orange tips on it but this is the spot and I’m going to use a taller piece of bamboo and this already has a bamboo in here uh for it being staked but because we want this to to go up a little bit higher and Cascade down I’m already going to place the taller bamboo so we can continue to stick upwards yeah so we’re going to stick the bamboo in the same spot that we’re going to remove the other bamboo so that we don’t damage the roots or anything and it will gain some more height and then it’ll eventually start cascading downward because it’s a rusin type or a waterfall type Japanese maple so it has kind of a cascading effect it will go up until you stop staking it and then it’ll start to Cascade down y all right let’s get planting so we’re working on mixing up some soil in the wheelbarrow we have some uh native soil and some of the coast of M Lobster compost we’re going to mix that up real well and then we’re going to go ahead and get the tree planted I’m also going to add a little bit of the biotone startup fertilizer to get it going and growing and when we plant it we’re going to show you because you don’t want to bury it too deep so we’re going to make sure to um put the root ball at the proper place today we’re switching rolls George is doing some planting of his tree and I’m getting to do the camera work yeah my tree right you weren’t supposed to buy any plants no I did nope see I did good I did not buy any more plants just like I said for April you bought a tree and I just threw the two Evergreens into the car okay it’s kind of like when we take the kids to the grocery store and they throw the snacks in the car so technically so technically you’re still good on your word I’m still good yep okay only a couple more days all right we grabbed some rocks to place around the back of the tree you can see that this bed here is sort of at an incline and it slopes downward so what we’re doing is we’re just packing some rocks along the back to retain the soil so we’re essentially building a mini retaining wall we’ve had to do this a bunch of times with different shrubs that we’ve planted around the yard um on our Hillside over there by the raised bed garden and now we’re doing it here because we don’t want to lose our soil and what we did was you can see that the maple is planted just above um ground level because you don’t want to plant these too low the number one thing that will kill your Maple is planting it too deep um and it staying too wet so plant it low it won’t grow plant it high it won’t die that’s working out well in the back right yeah this rock retaining wall it’s all you need you just need a a little something just to hold this dirt from going right down the hill right but you know the key is with these Maples is you don’t want them to be below the surface and just get saturated with water you need them to drain if they drain they’ll do fine but if you if you plant them too low you’re going to have problems and I’m going to use the same hole that’s there I’m just going to slide this guy out just like that and this is just hand I’m just doing this by hand and it’s going right in okay now I’m getting some resistance so now I’m just going to tap it in with a mallet just going to tap it in that just went down a little bit more honestly but that’s where it’s staying so now we have this additional bamboo to keep on training it upward you know training it up yep so I’m going to go and tie the bottom and we use this green tape you get on Amazon it’s stretchy tape yeah it’s stretchy tape it’s not sticky and we use this on all the maples what’s good about it is um you don’t want anything tied to your tree that’s going to cut into the bark and because this is flexible it will stretch as the trees Cali as it grows it has like Flex to it yeah don’t let George tell you that he doesn’t like gardening I don’t I don’t like G we can all we can all see it now George it kind of grew on me a little bit I would say well that is it for today’s video I would say all in all pretty successful George got one of his wishlist trees this weekend and the two places that we visited were Open Gate Farm in Westport Mass and Tolen farms in Connecticut and I’ll leave the link to both places in the description of the video as well as in the pinned comment so now we’re just going to water it in and hope that this Japanese maple is happy in its new home thank you so much for spending your time with us and we’ll catch you in the next one thanks for watching this video if you liked it please hit the thumbs up button and please consider subscribing so you don’t miss any of my future videos and we’ll see you soon [Music]