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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn 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.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That’s four nine nine two.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Six, Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO Lawn
and Garden Show. My name’s Saint Mercer, joined here at
cat Dagapine. Hello, it is a fabulous morning today.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I actually agree with you on that.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah. I like it when it’s like cool and below overcast.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, this is a good day for sleeping in. Sleeping in, Yeah,
but don’t sleep in too late. You gotta listen to
the radio show.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And then you gotta get shopping. Yeah all right. You know,
I was actually cracking up yesterday. We were talking about how, oh,
it’s going to rain today, and it’s like, well, it’s
still a good time to buy the plants.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, you have to plant the plants. Yeah, and you
probably won’t have to worry about watering them.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, you know. And and Molly was actually
making fun of me because I went out and planted
yesterday when I got home and she was like, well,
it just rained. I was like, yeah, but if I
plan it and it’s not raining, I don’t have to
come back, you know. So uh but yeah, we’re here
(01:22):
to talk about plant related things, right, that’s what this
radio station’s about. Yes, And you could reach us at
four nine nine nine five two six. That’s four nine
nine nine five two six if you’ll had any calls
or questions. And we also have the iHeartRadio Station podcast
where you can listen to previous recordings super neat.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah there’s some gems in there.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh yeah, yeah definitely. And you know, I like to tune.
I’ll sometimes we’ll mention something and I’ll just I have
to go back and look, you know. Like one time
we had Bill Rountree on here. Oh and he had
mentioned like a bush cherry tree okay, and so I
was like, all right, like I go, I couldn’t remember
(02:07):
the name. I went to the trade show and I
was like, I’m gonna find that, yeah, you know, And
so I went and listened to it. And then it
was funny because I ran into them there and what
were they looking for? The bush cherry? Like I thought
that was the funniest thing was it was like, listen
to it on the way in. Yeah, and I was like,
all right, I got I added to my list to
(02:29):
look for and you know, run into him, say hello,
and they’re like, yeah, we’re looking for this cherry tree.
I was like, oh, the same one we talked about
on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
So it’s all archives, so you can pull it all
up and sound like a genius exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
So.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
But we got a lot of stuff going on in
the nursery. Again because my producer Jeremy says, I don’t
say the phone number enough. You could reach us at
four nine five two six when you all wait up.
And but we’re gonna go and jump into it. I
got a lot of fun stuff to talk about. Uh
So I want to start out with all the color
(03:09):
we’ve been getting in as far as shrubs, and then
we’ll kind of segue into other things. But the hydranges
that we’ve been getting in are fabulous color divisions, which
it’s something about the hothouse that they grow them in.
They’re already butted and blooming, you know. And then we’ve
got shipments of other varieties that have come in that
(03:32):
are just leafing out like your Limelight series all those which,
if you’re not familiar, that’s the panicle hydranges. Those are
gonna be the last to leaf out, the last of flower.
But that’s gonna be typically your whites. Allegedly they turned pink,
but I think that’s more more further north that we
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see that. I think it just gets a little too
hot too quickly for them. Flowers don’t quite change color.
So but it’s super neat. We got tons in and
if you had never planted one, don’t wait plant them.
Plant them as soon as we can, because for the
most part, when plants are actively growing foliage and flowers,
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they’re not really focused on root development. Yeah, and so
like the best time to plan a hydrangea personally is
in the dead of winter when it sticks. Yeah, and
just so I can get as much root development as
it cans, because so I don’t struggle watering it in
the summer. So try to just stay ahead of the game.
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We also got tons of high biscus in favorite time
of the year, right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Cat, Oh my goodness, Yes, it’s turning into a tropical paradise.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, No, we were I won’t say sleeping away, but
we were very we were actively stocking plants. That sounds
that sounds right, and so we were getting all the
high biscus out. It’s just I’m kind of in like
all different kinds of colors. Yeah, the Hollywood series just
continues to kind of blow away beautiful.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Okay, So there’s one that they’ve developed. It’s called First Lady. Yeah,
and it’s it’s a pink. It’s like a it’s like
a bright pink, but when you look at it in
the sunlight, it has like an orange peachy.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, it’s kind of a peach. Yeah, and it’s just
i mean huge, but count. Like that’s the big difference
between that like say the Seminole pink hibiscus, which is
the old class.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, it’s a beautiful one and.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It blooms well. But that’s like the big selling point
for like the Hollywood series is like they all have
like extremely high but count when they start flowering, and
like the First Lady, this is the first year would
carry that one and it probably won’t be the last.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, Yeah, that’s my favorite.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And see my favorite is the American Sweetheart. That little
it’s like a darker pink with a little dark pig
center as well, yeah, and I just I was blown
away when I went down to Florida and saw them,
you know, because they have like, you know, two thousand
of them or something in a row, right, and you know,
like nothing, nothing too many, and you go out there
(06:25):
you’re just like, wow, this is kind of impressive. Yeah,
you know so, but we got plenty of high biscus.
The I’ve been happy with the DuPont series high biscus.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Occasun yeah, occasun h biscuits.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Okay. I keep on going by our table at the
greenal Spring store and just seeing which one’s opened, you know,
because I’ll go through the tags sometimes, but like I
usually just wait until I see.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I see it in person. Yeah, when you see it blooming.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, there was there was one one called Into the
Night that is just fabulous. It’s like bluish and and
just super neat.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
They’re amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, and they I mean, honestly, I find the Cajun
high biscuits don’t get too big. You know, it’s not
an overly big, but it’s every single one of them
is a super unique flower right.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, and they’re kind of they’re almost like collectors items
to me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, I mean there’s a several customers that just roll
through just to check exactly what varieties because we get
them assorted, right, you know, I don’t have that much
pool to where I can just be like I need
twenty of these, twenty of these now. They just ship
them assorted to me, right, you know. But then by
doing that, we kind of come across some that we’re
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not really that familiar with that are super neat. Like
I had gotten one last year that looked like a fireball,
and it was like, oh, this is neat, or they
had one the year before. I think it was called gumbo.
It was just it was so ugly. It was pretty,
if that makes sense, just like a grayish grayish purple.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It was just like, well, how do I how do
I make this pup? Yeah? Exactly. So we’ve got tons
of tons of tropicals and all your dipladini in blues, yellows, whites.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
We got some hanging baskets of Dipladinia and they’re mixed.
Really is it like red and pink and them It
just planted together, so.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Okay, well cool, And that’s just a solid little impulse
tropical to hang up to give you color by the
pool or up on the porch. Of course, we still
have the ferns.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We do. We got more in.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, we’ve got so at the second location, we’ve been
getting in these really big Boston ferns.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, and we had gotten some as well.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, and they’re like what are they three feet long
at least?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, it’s it’s like it’s full size. It’s you know,
twenty nine nine free full size plant, right, you know. Yeah,
I mean you hang it up, so you hang it
up seven foot up, it’s dropping down for it foot.
Like I feel bad because we where we have ours
hung up, they hide the four inch beans. Yeah, and
(09:17):
like you know, pole beans and stuff like that, because
it just it goes down so far.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No, we the first time we got them in we
hung them over the shade one of the shade tables,
and I was like, well we can’t do that anymore
because you can’t shop off the table with these years.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So we have them. We have them to the back.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But I mean, you know, it’s just super neat. I
mean it’s between Bogan via and Boston ferns. It’s like
it’s like the go to for during the spring in
South Louisiana, you know, just like all right, let me
get like six of those Boston ferns. We’ll hang them up.
They’re good for the whole year. Yeah, you know most
of the time people don’t keep them to the next year.
(09:57):
It’s just a good, little solid annual. So uh. And again,
since we still hadn’t had any callers because everybody’s sleeping,
you could reach us at four nine nine nine five
two six if you just woke up. That’s four nine
nine nine five two six. And my producer smiling because
I’m gonna just keep saying it so he doesn’t bug
me anymore. OK, Yeah, I know exactly. So uh. And
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you know, we got a new shipment of Peggy Martin roses,
which are exciting.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yes, everything come in like beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You could pick one up and plant it and you’re
gonna have a show right.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Right there, right there, you know. And if you’re not
familiar it is. I enjoy it. It’s a very large, growing,
climbing vine, heavy heavy pink blooms in the springtime and
kind of sporadic later. I would almost equate it to
a weed, you know, with just how vigorous, like it’s
(10:57):
just a very vigorous ropes Yeah. You know, it’s like
when you think of climbing roses. They’re not always but
typically kind of thin. You know, they’ll be tall, they’ll
be like twenty foot tall, but the stalks will be
more thin, not as vigorous. Just takes a while for
them to get tall. The peggies just kind of I
mean they blow everything out the water.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, it’s almost like a climbing shrod.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah. I mean there’s one at Seagan they get or
not see. Well, there’s one at Seagan in the ditch
that’s probably ten ten by ten. But the one at
don Moore that they’ve had forever, like the trunk on
it’s probably a foot wide and it’s been there forever
and it’s probably twenty twenty feet wide something like that.
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But we’ve got our first collar. Looks like Carolyn woke
up first, so we’re gonna jump to her. Good morning, Carolyn.
How can we help you?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yes, I have three.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Newly planted hot discus plants by my pool and pots,
and some.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Of the leaves are turned I mean yellow. What What
should I do? Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Uh? You picked the leaves off so that there’s no
yellow leaves. That’s the first step. And you said you
you freshly planted them recently, yes, okay, And that’s probably
a little bit of shock, you know, occasional. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
They’re blooming a little bit, but not a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Does it take a little while, Yeah, it may just
take a little while. It depends how far along the
buds that are on the planet itself right now, how
far along we have they are. So but you know,
but I just picked the If you pick the leaves off,
it’ll stimulate new growth to pop out. And but it’s
(12:46):
probably just a little transplant shock. Okay. So I mean
you’re still still watering it pretty regularly. I mean, I
know we got derouge. Maybe not every day, but you
want to thoroughly, probably every every other day, right now,
something like that, if it’s in a pot. So, but
(13:08):
I would just go ahead and yeah, Joe, just water
it every every other day something like that. Okay, sounds good.
And I just pluck off the dead winds yep, m hm.
And what I’d like to do is as soon as
that that flower starts to turn so it doesn’t actually
form a seed head, I’ll pinch that whole butt off.
(13:32):
What do you do if it forms the seedhead? Do
you pinch Yeah, yeah, you would pinch it off. It’s
just before it formed. Like you don’t want to spend
any energy on making a seed head, so you pick
it early. So like as soon as that flower starts
to drop off, just go in there and pinch that
part off.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Okay, that sounds good because I have I think I
have been forming a lot of seed heads.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, and that’s just again that’s just gonna help promote
a new growth, which means new flowers.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Okay, Well, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You’re welcome, take care and yeah, so we’re talking about plants,
plant related things, you know what. I know, we’ve been
getting this wonderful rainfall for like what was that a week?
About a week? Yeah, you know, and if I talked
to my boss, he’s like, I wish the rain would
go away. And I’m with him because I just want
(14:26):
to sell stuff, right, but you know, it’s pretty good
that we got some rain.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
This is so good.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, and as it gets hotter, I wanted to just
talk about irrigation even though we’ve been getting rainfall.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Right, well, yeah, it’s been a few days of rainfall,
but that’s not guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, and so like yes, Mother nature is the best
source of irrigation. But for supplementary I would recommend micro
irrigation or or below ground if you want, if you
want to go that route, but just for average homeowners,
just that micro irrigation, just to keep all your fresh
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plants that you planted in the ground this year alive. Yeah,
because like you know, what would you say, June starts
is when it starts to get kind of hot, and
then it’s hide all the way into like pretty much October, yeah,
you know, or December. You know, I was cracking up
my birthday. It was December sixth and it was eighty five,
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you know. But you know, you we want to irrigate.
We can’t just count on the rainfall and I will
pull this soap box over here.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Oh yeah, I was about to do it if you
weren’t gonna.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Hand watering, which is great, it’s very hard to be
consistent and put an adequate amount of water out right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Hand watering spend a lot of time they’re doing it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Unless it’s a pot. If it’s a pot or something
like that. Yeah, I mean you could probably you can
keep that irrigated, but it’s pretty hard for like shrub
material and stuff to put out enough water by hand water, right,
So that’s why we sell the little micro half inch
micro irrigation takes like an I mean, it takes me
(16:15):
like forty five minutes to put it together. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The tube being the main tubing is half in yep,
and it hooks up to your faucet. So you put
a timer, a simple dial timer, something real easy, on
your faucet, attach that half inch tubing, run it along
your bed, and off that tubing. You add the little
spaghetti tubing with the little spray heads at the end.
(16:39):
It’s when I first started at Clegg’s years ago. I
set up my own micro irrigation at my house at
the time, and I didn’t know anything about it, and
I just was like following directions and I put it
together and it was so easy. Yeah, and it took
(17:02):
care of itself.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Like yeah, I mean, and again it takes care of itself.
Occasionally you’ll get a squirrel or something, the squirrels are
you know, But most of the time I’m just replacing
batteries on the timer. Yeah. Like this year, like one
of my timers went out, so I had to replace it.
But usually it’s just I’m just replacing batteries.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Right, and I feel like more and more I’m pushing
customers to go ahead and set up some micro irrigation.
Back in the day, I would say, oh, the rainwater
is good, like we get good rainfall.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But what year was it that we had the draw?
Was that twenty three or twenty two?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah? I think it was twenty two. Yeah, I think
it was the year year of my youngest son’s birth.
Ah yeah, yeah, nightmare, that’s let me get it.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And the fall was brutal and.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
People lost a lot of plants that they had had forever.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I mean, I remember digging because I was I was
playing a citrus tree at the wrong time of year.
But I was just like and I think I dug
a foot and a half down and it was just compacted,
powdered dirt. Yeah, you know, no moisture to it, right,
And so like you know, we hand water and see
I’m putting a hose to a plant, uh huh, Well
(18:24):
I’m only water in that one little square foot Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And not only that, Like with a hose, the amount
that comes out while you’re watering, most of that’s going
to run off the surface and not actually penetrate but
with the micro irrigation, it’s it’s usually misters or droplets
of water which land on the soil surface or in
the mult and have time to percolate down.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
You know they’re not running off the surface of the soil.
They’re going to start to saturate in over time.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
So and you know, let’s just you get so many calls,
like we deal with it every year without fail, as
we go into the summer where it’s just you know,
why is my plant browning up? It’s like just not
quite adequate adequate water. I mean on the nursery. At
the nursery will water every single day, like with the
(19:15):
sprayers overhead, right, and sometimes that’s not even enough, you know, yeah,
like because we’ll be middle of summer and like a
holly tree, which the pots probably two feet by two
and a half foot, all right, Well, our sprinklers only
irrigate you know, four inches maybe yes, more than I thought, yeah,
(19:38):
or two inches, it depends how much, you know, But
stuff like that where it’s just it doesn’t percolate down enough.
So but you know, and I’ve been enjoying mine because
I actually added a liquid feed fertilizer tank. This is
this is the whole reason I wanted to talk about. Well, yeah,
I put fertilizer tanks on both sides of my house
(19:59):
and the my irrigation runs through those for a fish
emulsion my neighbors. I don’t know if he’s happy or not.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Does it smell it?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Does you know? But I mean you can you can
use a dry mix like you can use like Miracle
growkay or like twenty twenty twenty something like that. Yeah,
you can just fill the tanks up. Yeah, we don’t
carry him as end, but I’d wanted to do a
little test drive. You’re hilarious, so I thought it was
super neat.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That’s so cool.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, and that’s how boring I am at home. You
are such a nerding, you know, because it’s just I
see that, and I was like, oh, this is this
will be a cool little add on. And I was
talking to buddy of mine who’s a contractor, and he
was like, can you send me pictures?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, you know, because he was like, let’s see what
that residential I could quote this?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh God, I was like, of course, you the whole
thing now.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But it looks like we’ve got our second caller of
the day. It’s going to be Bob and denim springs.
We’re going to jump to him. Bye. How can we
help you today? Yes?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I have two questions. My main one is I how
though in my lawn. I how those clovers with the
little white flowers. I don’t know what you call them.
I’ve always called them culvers, and I’ve tried everything I
can think of. I’ve tried, God I yield, but I
can’t get rid of them. What is the best thing
(21:25):
to get rid of those things?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Typically we use a product called weed free Zone. That’s
what I use at the house. It’s a mix but
one of the active ingredients and is two four D
and so as long as you get good coverage that
that will usually brand it out within I don’t know,
(21:48):
a couple hours, So we can’t we can’t spray when
it’s too hot, but once it gets ht the clover
usually dies out anyway. So but that would be that
would be the product is weed free Zone, Okay, Yeah,
And I’ll mix that with it’s on contact. So but
I’ll mix that with a uh product called spreadersticker just
(22:09):
to kind of help break the water tension so that
it adheres to the leaf and absorbs.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Okay. And my second question is I have been looking
for almost two years for that little butter beans. I
cannot find them online. I can. I can’t find them anywhere.
The seeds for my guard for.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Some reason, for some reason, I thought we carried that.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Well, the last time I went to your store, I
couldn’t find any Yeah, So so I mean, where can
I order them on line? Do they still have on Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Why don’t you call?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
If you call? Uh, well, we could either check today
or mister Johnny Naylor is in on Monday at the
Seeking store. Okay, all right, if you want to give
him a call, because that’s a that’s the seed guy.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
He’s the seed man.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yeah, he’s gonna be the guy, the contact, all right, Okay, Yeah,
he’s usually until like two o’clock, Like he leaves it
like two ish two or three. So if you just
called before then he’s gonna get you squared away. And
that was mister Bayler, Yeah, mister Naylor Naylor.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Okay, alrighty, I thank you’ all very much.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Absolutely all right, well take care, love to have some
more callers. So if anyone forgot the phone number already,
it’s four nine nine five two six that’s four ninety
nine nine five two six. I swear I’m my record’s
gonna be out. I want to say the phone number
twenty times, all right, go for forty forty. Yeah, I
(23:55):
gota there’s a rookie numbers. Just wanted to follow.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Though you were talking about micro you’re earlier, and Cat
brought up how there was a really bad drought a
few years ago. But I mean, technically most of the
state is in one now, and I was looking at
the state climatologist, Jay Grime sends out some emails and
our area is kind of in between that first and
second grade of droughts, So right now we’re already you know,
(24:20):
it’s I guess you could say some of this plant
the rain has been nice this week, but he’s saying
we’re getting to the point soon where we need about
an inch of rain a week for things to keep up,
and if not, you know you’re going to be behind
the eight ball when it comes to dealing with irrigation.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And watering going forward. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
My brain literally stopped thinking words during that sentence. If
you couldn’t tell I think even like a sip of coffee, Yeah,
I leave the rest of the experts.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And see my problem is I forgot to get a
cup of coffee this morning. Yeah, I couldn’t even tell.
You’re bouncing off the walls. And well I had one
this morning at like four. So but you know, we
were talking about irrigation, and I talked about my neat
little science science experiment that my wife’s usually mad at
me about because the fish emulsion runs by the driveway,
(25:09):
so she’ll smell it a little.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Bit for the stinky.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But it’s only stinky for like that day.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Well, the benefit to it it will help roote development,
and with this little drought that we’re going through, that’s
that’s going to help the plants.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well. And I was talking to Scott Rica the other
day about it, and I told him I was been
running fish emulsion and he was he was like, well,
you know what’s good for It’s really good for the
soil biome. And I was like, oh, fancy.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Scott, Yeah you know that’s so true.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It is true though, yeah, you know, I mean, and
that’s what happened, Like, you know, we kind of harp on,
you know, like you’re if you put triple thirteen out
every single year and don’t actually amend the other ingredients
that make up your soil.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, all right, we kind of.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Run into a little predicament where things will I mean,
you can build up phosphorus toxicity things like that. So
just fun, fun, other stuff. So we’re going to move
on from that because we’re going to run out of time.
And I have such a long list. But again, if
you don’t want to list here what I wrote down
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about my list, you could call us at four nine six.
So I want to talk about cutting back old dead
growth on all of our perennial shrubs and betting plants
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I was out the other day getting rid of all
my dead wood on my lantanas. All right, look, I
had a little bit of debt.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You waited that long.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I’ve been doing other stuff, you know, yeah, like pulling
weeds and plants with.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
This little science project.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah. So but you know, we want to go ahead
and if you hadn’t already done that, go ahead and
do you a little bit of you tip pruning stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well, and probably the majority of your stuff, your perennials
are probably leaving back out at the base or you know.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So go ahead and get that dead wood out of.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Their Yeah, exactly now. I was cracking up because it
was like, well I did on my lantana. I never
got to cutting back my beauty berry, so she’s just
gonna have to be five foot tall all right for
this year, okay, because it was like, it’s too late,
I’m not going to cut it back now.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Do you usually cut your beauty berry down to the ground.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Not quite to the ground, But that’s one of those
plants you can right, you know and get regenerative growth.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, so I know somebody who cuts them back all
the way every year.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I usually I usually do like twelve inches, yeah, something
like that, twelve fourteen inches. And it’s nice though, because
they blew on new wood. So really like you can
really cut it anytime and still get berries.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So, but my mom was bugging me the other day
because he’s like, I’m gonna come harvest all your beauty
berries this year, and it was like, okay, well, I
guess I’m not gonna cut it, so uh, but we’ve
got another collar, so we’re gonna go ahead and jump
to burr Uh. Good morning, how can we help you today?
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Good morning?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What?
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I don’t know what they’re called, but I have those
spiky plants that come up everywhere that they have over
at the main library on Goodwoods, everywhere. And I was
just wondering if they make something like that I can
put in the ground to keep it from spreading into
other beds. And so what you say spiky?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Is it just like the flower spike, like the bloom star.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
There’s no flat, right, there’s no flower. It’s just kind
of like these little pencil long green three foot high.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah, m yeah, and it’s about it’s about pencil thick.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Not even that thick. You have them in the greenhouse
over there, that’s where we.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Got Okay, yeah, I’m having a brain You have to
forgive me. I’m having a brain fart.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
So I don’t know what they’re they’re called. Look them up.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah. Well, and you know, I’m gonna be on the way, uh,
driving to the store, and I’m gonna think about what
it was.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
To I’m wondering if it’s horsetail read, which got pretty popular.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Ten or so years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
People a lot of landscapers started planting with it because
it’s very modern looking. But then you find out, yeah,
and they.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Come up, they come up pretty vertical.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Yeah, And they warned us that you know, be careful
because they’re gonna spread like crazy. And they do, yeah,
they do.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Okay, So if it’s horsetail reads, let’s assume it is.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
How zane, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
How do you control your house? I’m just kidding. There
was a there was a product we used to stock
that was discontinued called and don’t hold me to it,
but I think it was called hellas self uron and
it was horsetail and we sold it for nuts edge
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control and horsetail control. So that would be that would
be the only stuff, because most of the time when
I would when I sell that plant, I’m like, can
we put in a box to where it can’t go anywhere?
But that would be that would be the product to
look for when I get to the store. I’ll look
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to see if I can even still order that, all right,
if you want to, and give my producer to get
your phone number and I can reach out to you
when I get back to the store. All right, But
that’s that’s really the only thing. Like you dig up
as much as you can, all right, and then when
it starts to sprout again, that’s when we start hitting
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it with the herb.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Aside are each trying to get rid of it or
just maintain it in a certain place.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I think it spreads like bamboo, and yeah, it sounds
like a little shoot.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Yeah, it’s that’s gonna Yeah, it’s going to be a
constant thing. If you’re going to keep it, You’re going
to constantly be working on maintaining it where it is.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And it does.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I think it also recedes because yeah, it’ll pop up,
you know, and some cracks away.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, so it comes out from seats.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know a few contractors that
would put in like a steel band, like whether or
not that’s going to prevent it from just going underneath
it or over it would count on you know, that
would be the thing. So, like I said, I’ll get
my Yeah, I’ll get my producer to get that number
(31:56):
from you, and that way I can call you if
I can source it and that for one second, we’ll
go ahead and put you back on a hold so
I can get your number.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
All right, Right, that was good.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I was kind of drawing a blank for a minute.
But we’re gonna Gohea and jump to Terry and bat
and Rouge. Now, Terry, good morning, how can we help you?
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Hello? May be too late. But I’m wondering, is it
too late to plant a satsuma or other citrus trees?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
No, ma’am, okay.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Because I always heard November to February.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And that that is the rule of thumb. All right,
but you can still plant now and you just have
to water, like you’re just gonna have to water and
protect it. Typically we recommend like that time frame so
that the plant has the longest amount of time to
root out right and survive through the summer and to
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make before they make it to the winter. So that’s
usually just the rule of thumb with that.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
But you can what about the selection, I mean, it’s
everything that’s kind of gone now, No, ma’am. You’re a
good selection.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, pretty good selection. Uh. And I don’t know if
I’m allowed to talk about this on radio, but we
did get some seven gallon sweet kumquats. Oh all right,
you know, so that’s that’s uh, that’s kind of a
unicorn right now, if you know, you know, yeah, because
they have about thirty percent success rate, so they can’t
you know, so it’s like I place the order and
(33:35):
they’re like, yeah, we don’t have any for you. And
that that’s been like two and a half years now,
Oh my god. Okay, yeah, but we’ve got plenty of
sad somas, grapefruit lemons.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I would recommend if you’re going to plant now, definitely
using some root stimulator when you after you plant it,
root stimulators this liquid rooting hormone and he just mix
it in the water and can and water in really
well after you plant it and.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Follow it up are probably fourteen days or something.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, yeah, it’s it’s usually like week week and a
half you apply it again. And I mean our our
sales rep recommends going like a month and a half
with it, so like every week a week and a half,
hit it with another dose. Yeah, because we’re just we’re
trying to tell the all that I mean, it’s essentially
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you’re giving the plant notice to grow roots.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, get get your roots together. Yeah, before the summer hits.
That’s the goal.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
All right, okay, yep, sounds good, sons good. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Now.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I heard you say the word fish and molten. I
just turned you on a few minutes ago. Good, And
that reminded me. I have a friend who makes fish
emulsion like from scratch on her own and her plants
are just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It’s the best stuff there. And like, if you’re going
to put a fast acting nitrogen source out, that is
the stuff. It does have an odor, so like, you know,
I treat my houseplants with it, but my houseplants don’t
live inside, you know that kind of thing. Again, what’s
wild to me is it is, for lack of a
(35:22):
better term, de smellified. Uh, deodorized, that’s the word, the
term I’m looking for. Uh. It still has an odor,
but it doesn’t smell nearly as bad as it used to.
So can you use it on vegetables and flower Oh?
You can use it on everything?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
And how have I never heard about this before?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
It’s that it’s one of the best. It’s one of
the best kept secrets.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
But it’s been around.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
It in liquid dot buy it at Clegs in a
liquid form and mix it up kind of like the
root stimulator.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah, it’s so it’s kind of a chunky mix, like
but it’s liquid. It’s just it’s just kind of thick.
So usually I’ll just pour something like I’ll just mix
it up like premix it. Like I put it in
my little fertilizer tanks for my micre irrigation, and so
I’ll just pour some in there. If it’s too thick,
(36:18):
I’ll add a little water just to get it to
move around, to agitate. But it’s neat, you can spray
it on you, yeah, but I just use it to
water it in.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You can mix it. Watering can too, just like.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
We’re just trying to get it on the roots.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
So okay, sounds good too, great tips, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Have a good oneary tick care. I want to just
kind of quickly touch up on some new items we
started carrying, all right, super exciting. There’s one called Honey
Bunny Clear Era. The name, yeah, great name. It’s like
a mango chartruse foliage. It’s fabulos, right and just like
(37:03):
a splash of one or two really would make it pop. Yeah,
you know, but that was one item we just start
We got in last week. It was just like, oh,
what the heck is this? This is kind of cool
and I’m sure, butch are fabulous. Semi retired coworker is
kind of I have to pester him to put in
(37:23):
the UPC codes because we just get all this new
stuff in and I got to keep him busy. So
we’ve just been having fun with that, but the clear
if you’re not familiar, it’s a it’s kind of like
the replacement for red tip fatina all right. Still put
in like the older varieties put on like a reddish tone.
New growth leaf still kind of achieves that same. If
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you’re looking for like a hedge, yeah, like a little
privacy wall. It doesn’t get huge. It’s like usually six
to ten something like that.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Which is perfect, a perfect privacy head.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Sure, you know it’s waiting breakers.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Yeah, it’s like some kind of fence line row. All right.
And then we’ve also got in which our fabulous producer
Jeremy made it sure to print me up pictures because
I hadn’t seen it yet. A light show bottle brush
by Southern Living. It’s a new dwarf bottle brush that’s out, yeah,
four to five foot and there’s supposed to be higher
(38:21):
bloom count than you’re old little John, which if anyone’s
familiar with bottle brush, it was the craze probably like
ten years ago. Yeah, I couldn’t tell you how much
how many we sold. It was like a whole When
I worked at Seagan, it was like we had a
whole bed of bottle brush. Yeah, and it’s it’s super
(38:42):
cool plant.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
It’s like my parents planted a hedge around in their
courtyard area. Yeah, it did well, slightly protected there because
it has been getting cold lately.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, we just get the problem is we could just
get these sharp. You know, it’ll be eighty five degrees
in December and then it you know, we hit January
or February and then all of a sudden it’ll drop
down to like.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Twenty right, you know, and the time acclimates.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Yeah, the plants don’t acclimate to the cold weather, and
it’s a huge shock and it causes some damage.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah. And I have seen them brown out before, m Yeah,
and then they sprout like three weeks later, right, and
come back like little I remember I had hedged I
say hedged. I cut it was like probably two hundred
little John bottle brush to the ground because we had snow.
We had snow. They all browned out and it was
(39:41):
a grand opening for an apartment complex, and I was like, well,
we’ll just cut them to the ground and we’ll replace
them after the grand opening, right, right, And then I
go to get my accounts probably a month later, and
every single one of them had sprouted up. It was
like it was like almost ten inches tall, and it’s like,
(40:02):
oh so I don’t have to replace any of these,
you know. So it’s it’s a neat little plant. It’s
one of those plants where it’s like if we have
a hard freeze, don’t get too nervous because they sprout
up pretty.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Quick, right, so it’ll balance back.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
But it’s like I mean, long, long blooming plant.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Through the summer and hum and birds, yes.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Hum and birds you see it from the road. The
actual flowers, I mean, they’ll hold the little flower stalks
on for quite a while. It’s not like like a
high biscus where the flower opens and then it’s done
that day. You know, like you’ll usually have the same
flower stalks for like a week something like that. So
(40:45):
but yeah, fun stuff. We got just new things coming
in every single day, so you know, I want to
for run out of time, which we’ve probably already have come.
Get your color, all right, we had like every single
day we’re getting more color, all right, Yeah, like all
our venka hopefully every store has enough inca now it
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never seems like we have enough.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I don’t think so.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, I think it is as fast as it all
comes in is as fast as it’s leaving.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
So if you come.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
I had one customer yesterday, tell me he’s coming every day. Yeah,
at this point is so exactly because everything’s moving so fast,
So if you don’t see it one day, the chances
are we’ll get it in.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah, exactly. So as always, Cat, it is a pleasure
to do the show with you. It’s always a blast. Yeah. Yeah,
And Jeremy, you always do a heck of a job.
Thank y’all for all the callers today. I really appreciate it.
I don’t like to hear myself just talk and ramble.
So but and if anybody has any more questions, we’ll
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see y’all at the nursery. Y’all just come and visit.
We’ll get you taken care of as always, take care of.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Happy Easter.
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