The hardy, versatile plant you probably aren't growing

Episode Transcript

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson, and you are
in the garden here on news radiosix' ten WTV in. And as
I promised, yeah, he isback with us this morning. As a
matter of fact, they're gonna puta rumor to bed that's been going around
the Columbus area over the last threeor four weeks. Everybody's been buzzing about
it. Is it a rumor,is it true or whatever. We're gonna

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find out because he is with usthis morning. Who is he? You
say, well, he is aprofessor emeritus of horticulture. He is we
call him now the reverend because henow travels the world preaching the gospel of
horticulture and his passion for plants.He's gotten about every award you could ever
imagine in the horticultural industry is phenomenal. And when he shows up is like

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Ef Hutton. You know, whenhe speaks, everybody listens. His website
is Alan Armidys dot net. Ofcourse he's got all the great books.
His latest one of the Field Guide, the Specialty Cut Flowers. Don't forget
the Herbacious perennial Plants. It isthe Bible for her bacious perennial plants,
and of course the gardening app.It's your back pocket, the gardener right
there on your cell phone. It'sthe Armity s app Is, the Great

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Garden Plants. Absolutely outstanding ladies andgentlemen. To put to bed the rumors
about whether or not he will behere next weekend in Columbus, Ohio,
the one, the Only, Reverend, doctor Alan Apple Armitage. Good morning
sir, well, good morning ronthat was that was you won't do yourself

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every time. Anyway, I amhere. I'm actually back. I've been
traveling a fair amount and I'm backto the well. It's hot everywhere,
and it's certainly hot here. Wewere lacking rain. But yes, I'll
be in Columbus, Ohio next Sundayand Monday. So hopefully you guys weather

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will be a little bit better thanours. Don't count on it, because
we're talking ninety two and dried onby Monday, so we'll probably right right
along with you. So bring ruingyour shorts if we can handle that.
Yeah, well you don't want tosee me in shorts. But nevertheless,
I will be there, and Ihope i'll run into you as well.
We'll see we'll see see what happens, and of course cultivate twenty twenty four.

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We'll be at the convention center.I think that is Saturday, Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, if I'm notmistaken. And of course this brings
in folks from all around the worldliterally that come to this convention. It's
absolutely wonderful to see a lot ofnew plants, a lot of new products
out there as well a lot ofthings that doctor Armidy's has introduced over the
years as well. And of courseyou're gonna are you gonna be speaking this

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year? Yes. In fact,I guess they had a weak moment and
they invited me to do a coupleof things. I'm going to be on
Sunday, and I'm going to betalking about what I consider a big deal,
even though I'm not sure anybody elsedoes, and that is the movement
to not so much what's new,but what I call solution gardening. There's

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people, most people go to gardencenters. Most people who are listening,
you know, they love new plants, don't get me wrong, but they
really want answers to their problems,such as I need something for a good
cut flower, I want something forfragrance. I want something for shade,
something dear, don't eat pollinators,et cetera. So that's I'm gonna be
chatting about how we can make this, you know, more visible, the

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solutions that plants give us rough thanthe plants themselves out stand here. Will
you be stalking people at the tradeshow as well? Oh gosh, I'll
be. You're walking around, probablyhave that silly white hat on, and
so hopefully I won't I won't scaretoo many people away. It's so fun.
It's all fun. It is allabout the hat. Well, yeah,
apparently I take a hat. IfI take the hat off, nobody

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knows who I am, so it'sa great disguise and reverse talk with doctor
Allan Armitage. His website is AlanArmitage dot net. Be sure and check
it out. We'll talk more aboutthat as we go along. Now,
you just got back from Alaska,one of those trips that I've always wanted
to go on. You may getit together. As a matter of fact,
you sent me pictures of one ofthe gardens you were at there in

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Alaska and got me in trouble becauseI had to show my wife and it's
like, how come you don't evertake me to Alaska. So thank you
very much for getting me in trouble, but nevertheless, pleasure. Yeah,
I knew you'd enjoy that. Oneof the pictures I was going to see
you go ahead. One of theplaces that I visited was the Alaska Botanical

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Garden in Anchorage. And you know, it's not one of those gardens that
you think about, but boy,it's a fabinous garden, especially if you
have a chance to go to Alaska, and Ron, I know your wife
will make you go there soon,so I will give you a few hints.
But nevertheless, it's a wonderful place. The garden is beautiful, The
staff and the people there are justreally care and it's a short season obviously,

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but a very long days when you'rethere in the summer, so it
really is lovely and I recommend everybodyto go there. Actually lots of places
here that are beautiful. I've beenhaving her to save the money so we
can go on the Rhine Tour theriver boat tour with you. Wonderful whenever
whenever you start doing those again,I'm counting as in anyway, talk about

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doctor Alan Armitage and was in thelast I did notice that when you took
one of the pictures, the gatewas closed behind you. Did they do
that before you got there? Well, I had to knock a lot of
times before they let me in,and then we walked around a wee bit
chatter with everybody, and when Ileft, the door was shut immediately.
I don't know what they're trying totell me, but it was. It

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was. It was great. Itwas great. All right. Now,
now listen to what I'm saying.I looked at the picture. Uh,
there's a trail and there's there's plantson the right hand side, and there
is a plant that's kind of marooneyscreen leaves. They're huge. They're probably
two feet in diameter. The plant'sabout four feet tall. That is that?

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That was one of the water plants. Us big is that butter burr?
Yeah, it's a great big bird. It's a great big ornamental burr.
Okay, And it's spectacular. Anda plant like that needs moisture and
it needs cool and at that area, of course, you're able to do
both. And so the thing justit was, it was, it was

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immense. It looked like there're twoor three through three types of them in
a row. Right there. Ilove that plant. It can't get it
to grow because I think in themoisture situation and if it's too warm,
it just gets kind of tall andfalls over. But it really needs a
moisture. It absolutely is a moistureplant. And I think I did a
little video when I was there aboutthat that little trail that you talked about.

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So it's probably my website and allthose cool plants that you see,
and of course you can check allthat out alan armitage dot net. That's
Alan armitage dot net. So let'sjump in looking out at your garden right
now. You're in the heat ofthings in hot Atlanta. Anything in particular
that's hanging in there better than others? Oh actually or not. There's quite
a few things. I'm sitting inmy deck looking over the garden, and

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again, I was so excited aboutthings this morning. I actually did another
little Facebook live video which is onmy website about what I'm seeing right now.
And you know, one of theones that I think ron that we
always need to have in a gardenis our summer flocks. And summer flocks
right now here anyway is in fullglory, and there's some tall one short

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ones, et cetera. The factis we haven't had any rain. We're
not droud. It's awful, butit's good because there's no disease either.
But those things have just been fabulous. And even when we were away,
these things did very well. SoI got three or four of them in
the garden. White ones and pinkones, but that's doing really, really
well. And of course I alsouse a lot of annuals at this time
of year because they fill in someof those areas that you know, once

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the perennials kind of get a littletired, it's nice to stick something so
that you have something to look at. Yeah, so I think that's a
good point because a lot of times, you know what you can do all
the homework you want and plan yourperennial garden, but there's still times where
you need those annuals that you cancount on them to give you that extended
all through the summer color when thingsaren't quite as at a peak or where

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you want them to be, especiallywhen it's time to deadhead or do whatever
to clean them up a little bit. Annuals are always going to give you
a little bit of color to carrythrough the whole season. Well, you
know, we sometimes forget it's greatto have a perenial garden or a vegetable
garden or a roadse garden. Whatwe have is a garden, and in
this little garden of mine, I'vegot a little bit of everything. And
so I you know, some peoplelook their nose down at annuals for some

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reason, but I got spectacular coalladiumsand fabulous you know, fancily pagonias and
quite lovely just impatient. So Ihave no problem with this, with this
annual thing. I really like it. And of course there's lots of perennials
that are coming back every year,which I'm happy with. Anshrumps. I
saw a bumper sticker about some friendsdon't let other and your friends by annuals.

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Yeah, friends by annuals. Yeahwhatever. He's to their own.
But I'm looking at hummingbirds right now. Then they're they're after my gerber daisy's,
which are really kind of nice,and that's an annual which I really
do like. So then they're alsoin the flocks right now. Oh,
there's just a ton of cool thinghere. Good. Well, let's take

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a quick break. We got morequestions for doctor Allan Armitage's website Alan armedys
dot net. He's in hot LANDAthis morning, but he's going to be
in Columbus, Ohio next Saturday,Sunday, Monday. So yeah, he'll
be in town. That's why they'reputting the banners up that's got his picture
on it downtown in Columbus. Sowe'll talk a little more about that after
the break here in the garden withRon Wilson on news radio six to ten
WTVN. I guarantee you right now, even though he's on his cell phone,

(09:52):
doctor Alan Armitage is dancing on hispatio or deck right now because he
is a professional dancer. To this, am I am I not correct?
Damn. How'd you know that yougot a little camera or something. I
could just I could just tell themovements that we're going on there right now.
Talking with the Reverend doctor Allen Apple. Armitage, of course, is

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a great book if you if you'reinto perennials. It's The Herbacious Perennial Plants,
fourth Edition. It's the Bible trustme Field Guide to specialty cut flowers.
You're in a growing cut flowers now. It's an unbelievable book. He's
this is a great one for you. And of course the gardening app,
the Armity japp Great Garden Plants,one of the best ones. You can
have. Put it in your backpocket on your cell phone and you've always

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got the answers for yourself right there. Again. Check out his website is
Alan Armity's dot net. As amatter of fact, I get your newsletters
and all that which you go toyour website you can sign up for those.
You brought up a good thing thispast week, which I think is
outstanding, and I agree with youone hundred percent. A couple of years
ago we had on I can't thinkof the guy's name now, but the
grower at Mount Cuba. Oh myguys, I'm drawing a blank. Anyway,

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they did the research the trials forall the different sedges and had them
on talking about that. And youknow, there's a plant that's way way
underused in the perennial gardens and ourlandscape beds and planting islands. I mean,
where there's tough situations, sedges justaren't used any as they should be.
How do we change that? Well, I think I think it is

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changing ron a little bit, andthat this is a great plant. I'm
looking at them right now in mygarden. One called feather falls, for
example. It's a beautiful plant.It's variegated. I see it from my
deck. It's no maintenance. Itcomes through the winter, comes through the
heat, comes through lack of rain. And there are many others. And

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I'm not sure exactly why they haven'tbecome as popular in just regular old gardens
as they should be, And maybebecause sedge sort of thinks of a bog
or something. But they don't needany kind of specific care. And many
of them are natives, so ifyou're into the native thing, you can
get sedges there too, And certainly, without a doubt, the landscape designers

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and all are starting to get thepicture. Here's something that works, give
you color and doesn't require much maintenance. So I think we're gonna see more.
And I sure hope that you keeppushing them around because they are spectacular
plants. Oh they are. Andyou know, you look and you are
seeing more and more of than inthe nurseries and local garden centers. And
you'll find them using in the ornamentalgrass section and with the grasses. But

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the yeah, carricks is the genus. But sedges are just and there's so
many great colors, and some ofthem just stand out. I mean they
glow in their yellows and the variegations, but the greens, I mean,
there's so many great selections. ButI think the thing you hit on there,
and everybody's looking for that the lowto no maintenance, and sedges fall
into that category. Great ground cover, great mass plantings, specimen plant individual

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they fill the bill and container gardening. Well, again, it's a plant,
and I'm glad you brought it up. It's a plant that I loved.
And you know, they get kindof complicated because there's so many of
them. The fact is they work, they work and and and I'm growing
from here in Athens. By theway, I gotta I gotta set you
right here. I'm not in Atlanta. I'm two hours northeast of Atlanta.

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Still hot and crappy right now.But uh, you know, Atlanta,
Atlanta's a big city. We're inAthens. Come on, come and see
me. But nevertheless, the carrickswork here. They work for you,
they work in Minnesota, they workeverywhere, and I just hope we can
see a whole lot more of them. I keep forgetting about that Athens deal.
I keep thinking about Atlanta. It'sokay, it's okay. Everybody knows

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where Atlanta is, right well,yeah, yeah they do. And everybody
now knows where appens because we're goingto tell them, right yeah, so
now they know. Yeah, andnow we start taking the bulldogs and all
that stuff, so you know,I kind of showing us, yeah,
there you go, there go.But but anyway, and of course being
here is the lovely garden area inwhere I am in Athens. It's a

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kind of good gardens here, andso I invite as always everybody to come
visit me whenever they can. Soas we look at your garden right now,
obviously you're going to plant things.It's going to be I would imagine
lower maintenance. Don't going to takea lot of your time as far as
out there and pruning. How muchtime do you think you spend dead heading
in your perennial garden every every summer? You know, I don't. I

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don't find that a particularly difficult job. Dead Heading simply means taking the old
flowers off, and that's a greatidea because you know, if it takes
you. I'm looking at my budliis right now, and uh, you
know, they're finished flowering, butthe old flowers are still on there.
And what happens is that the energyof the plant goes into making seed,
it goes into doing all sorts ofstuff that it should be doing. But

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as a gardener, we should takethose old flowers off and put that energy
into the roots and put the energyinto the foliage. So I don't know
how much time I spend, andI you know, I come around here
with coffee in the morning or onein the evening, and hard to say
what plants or vice versa. Younever quite sure what I'm going to be
cutting back. But no, butI don't. I think that's a good
job to do. It's easy todo. You know, my flocks now

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are just about finishing some of them, so I'll cut those back, and
it just gives the plant the chanceto put the energy to where we want
it. I eat the roots inthe poliage and there are something to do.
Yeah, And there are some perennialsat flower once, but you you
dead had them and cut them back. You get a flush of new growth
and next thing you know, yougot new flowers on there again. Absolutely,
and that gives it, you know, because of plants there for one

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reason, and one reason only,to make a flower, to be pollinated,
to make seed. That's what theplant is there for. So if
a flower, if a flower isno longer working, you know, let's
get rid of it and let theplant make another one. And many of
them do. A lot of peoplethink I'm silly, but I love hostas.
But on the same token, I'mnot a big hostile flower fan.
Now there are a few of themthat are fairly attractive, and the pollinators

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like them, but for the mostpart I would deadhead hostile flowers before they
even come up. Yeah alone,You're not alone, I think some people
you can use hostile foldage and hostileflowers for cut flowers, but in general
we grow hostles for the forwards.That's why we grow them, and the
more energy we can put it inthe foliage, the better it is.

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So just I don't have a problemgetting rid of flowers either, and I
often do the same talking with doctorAllan Armities. Of course this website is
Alan Armedis dot net. Don't forgetall his great books and of course his
garden app which is absolutely outstanding.Great garden plants. I kid them all
the time. It's a very expensiveapp. It's it's five bucks, but

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i'll tell you what. You updatethat on a regular basis. It is
absolutely outstanding. Well, I tellpeople, you know, if you want
to get this, and it's upto you. It's an app, but
it's it's it's less expensive than abad Hamburger. And so you know what's
the bad Hamburger going to do foryou? Well, the app for five
dollars. It's updated all the time. And I don't ask you for a

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membership. I don't really care whoyou are, so just have fun with
it. Put me in your backpocket and you don't believe me or not
if you'd like, But you're notspending a lot of money. And I
think it's I really, I'm reallyproud of it. So I hope you
enjoy it. Do you have ourtime telling people to put you in their
back pocket? Oh jeez, Louise, it's pretty bad. I got it.
They want to put me somewhere else. No, no back pockets.

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Fine, you in your back pocket. That'll be fine with me. Hey,
I appreciate you spending time with usthis morning. I did want to
put to bed the rumors that youwere coming to Columbus. So now everybody
knows. Yes, he will bein Columbus, Ohio next Saturday Sunday,
Yes, Saturday, Sunday and Mondaydown at the Convention Center at the Cultivate.
So if you have to be attending, look him up, find out

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what he's gonna be wor the classesare going to be and you get to
meet the one, the only doctorwe call him now, Reverend doctor Alan
apple arm And each look for thehat. That's all you have to look
for. And the guy kind ofdancing through the aisleways too, you kind
of you do a little fox trotwhen you walk through there. Listen,
Thanks Ron, and thanks everybody forlistening. And hey, life is good
when you can play in the garden, so let's keep playing. You got

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it all right, Thanks spending timewith us. We really appreciate it,
all right, Take care, DoctorAlan apple Armitage. To get his website
is alan Armity's that's two l's alanarmitage dot net. Be sure and check
it out. And a garden app. I'm not kidding. All his books
the same way, but the gardenapp is absolutely outstanding. Sign up for
his newsletter too. His newsletter isinteresting in the fact that he addresses things

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that he says, I remember this, I remember things. That's what it
is. And he goes through andhe says, dresses like five or six
things. I think it's every twoweeks if I'm not mistaken. He'll talk
about a book that he likes.He talks about gardens that he's been to.
He'll talk about particular plant like hebrought up the sedges about the fact
that you know again, which Iagree with him, way underused. But

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it's just a really easy read,kind of a nice little newsletter every couple
weeks. But go to his websitesign up for it. It's a Alan
armitage dot Net quick break. Wecome back, guess what phone lines are
open for you again? A twoto one WTVN eight hundred and six to
ten WTVN. Here on What NewsRadio six to ten WTVN, you know,

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talking with doctor Allen Armidy's there aboutthe cut flowers he's got. That's
his latest book that came out aboutthe field guy to cut growing cut flowers.
Every year. Of course, there'sall kinds of associations that have a
flower of the year. We havethe perennial of the Year has of the
Year day lil wholly. I mean, he goes on and on on,
but and it's good because it recognizesthose particular plants, brings it to the

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attention, get a little marketing behindhim, so you get to know a
little bit more about him as well. And like the National Garden Bureau has
their Year of and each year theyhave five categories of plants that they make
it the year of that to bringit again to your attention. And believe
it or not, there is especiallycut flower growers pick of the Year every
year of their cut Flowers of theYear, and the ones this year are

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all plants that you can grow rightin your own backyard. I mean,
you look at a lot of thecut flowers that are in the florest today
show up in a bouquet or whateveryou're getting. I have no idea what
some of that stuff is. Imean it's brought out from South America and
other countries and whatever, or aregreenhouse grown, so you're not sure exactly
what it is. But nevertheless,what all their choices this year are actually

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those that can be grown in yourbackyard. The twenty twenty four Fresh Cut
Flower of the Year is a potomacapple blossom snapdragon. And I haven't seen
apple blossom. It's absolutely gorgeous.It's a really it's a pink pink center
with white on the outside, heavybloomer. But it is available to grow

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in your own garden if you likegrowing snap dragons. If you know,
I'll tell you don't see snaps asmuch as you used to in the garden
centers. You see more angelonia.Now it's kind of been grown as a
substitute. It's angelonia is tough.I'm telling you that is one annual.
Comes in multiple colors, but thatis one annual. It gives you that
sort of a snap dragon. Look, the flowers are upright, kind of

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a little pyramid, tough and durable. We put them in containers on our
house. It faces the west,and they just do phenomenal. They let
them go dry, they don't wilt, they just keep right on ticking and
they're great. It's called angelonia,but nevertheless it's it's apple blossom snap dragon.

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And then I didn't realize this,but in arrangements they are using thornless
raspberry stems in foliage arrangements. Igo figure, I had no idea but
anyway, there's one called joan jay. It's a burpee production produces long stems
for all season, late spring throughheavy frost for growers cut flowers, and

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you can also cut They say they'llcut it with the green berries on there
and the green berries will last fora while. But you can grow it
in your own garden for cut floweror as a as a producer of berries
as well. But it's just oneof our top foliage producers in the field.
And that's a called joan jay orless raspberry. I had no idea

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daffodil fresh flower of the year.Bulb is cheerfulness and you will find cheerfulness
in the garden centers in the fall. Very popular one. It's a double
flower. It's a yellow and white, heavy bloomer, but a great one
for a cut flower. And thenas far as the woody plant is brandy
wine viburnum, and I know manyof you are familiar with brandy wine viburnum.

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Beautiful glossy green foliage turns out wonderfulorange and red for the fall.
And of course it has the whiteflowers in the spring and the multicolored berries
late summer and fall that you know, they start out green, they turn
ivory, then pink, then blue, and you get all of them at
the same time on the same cluster. Absolutely outstanding. But that's one it's
sold regularly in your local garden centersas well, brandy wine viburnum. So

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all of these specially cut flowers fortwenty twenty four Flowers of the Year are
all also available to grow in yourown yard and garden. Eight two to
one WTVN Cindy, good morning,Hi, Hi, I've got a question
about some knockout roses. Got threeof them have been planted for about three

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years. Well, one of themwas transplanted and it's doing pretty well,
but they all bloom this year.Now two of them have like what looks
like black spot with also some yellowleaves, and the other two are not
growth. There's no new growth atall on them. The one that was

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transplanted, it's got new growth onit, it looks like it's doing pretty
well, but it also has gotsome yellow leaves with black spot on them.
And I'm concerned that the two thataren't even have any new growth,
and there's been no new growth forabout three or four weeks. Yeah,
so say flowered and got rid ofthe old Did you dead ad them,

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get rid of the old flowers?I did? Yeah, and then you've
got nothing since then? Nothing sincethen. The one, the one,
the one that I had transplanted itdeadheaded that and it's got some new growth
on it. I gave it.I've been giving it. Tom probably went
a couple of weeks without fertilizing it, but I went. But it so

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last week, two weeks ago,I gave it some miracle grow and hoping
something. But there's nothing. Thesethese two have nothing, no new growth,
I'll tell you, and I haveYours aren't the only ones. I've
had probably I don't know, tenor fifteen emails from folks saying, what
the heck's going on with my knockouts? Just not performing? They did a

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little bit for the spring, andnow it's just looking just sitting there,
looking pretty pretty bad. Do youcut those back in the springtime? I
did. Yeah, that's good.That's what you want to do. You
want to take them back twelve tofifteen inches above the ground to try to
flush up as much new growth asyou can. What we are seeing on
knockouts, those black spots that you'reseeing on there. We are seeing some

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leaf spot which their disease. Youknow, they show good disease resistance,
but if the weather conditions are right, we will get some leaf spot on
there which we are seeing. We'veactually seen some rose rust and so if
you look on the underside of someof those leaves that may have spots on
the top, you turn it overand it's got the rust on the on

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the underside of the leaf where thosespots were. That's highly unusual and again
why we're seeing it this year,I have no idea. Joe and I
talked about it. I don't know, probably about a month ago, because
we haven't really seen it hardly atall. You rarely deal with rose rust.
We're seeing that on not just theknockouts, it's on roses in general.

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So we are seeing both of those. Obviously, as we get into
the heat, you'll do some yellowingon the bottom, which is natural.
That doesn't that doesn't concern me ifit's just at the bottom. But then
not putting out new growth doesn't makesense. Because they love the warmer weather.
They do really well. It soundslike you're feeding on a regular basis.
Once a month is about all rosesneed every two or three weeks would

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be fine. And I think sometimesknockout roses after three or four years just
kind of sometimes stop performing. Andyou know, I just I've seen it,
and I just again, I don'thave an answer for you besides hang
in there, pick off the onesthat you know that have russ if you

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see that on there, pick offthose leaves. Otherwise, you know,
spraying or whatever for disease at thisstage, I wouldn't I don't think I
would do. I'll tell you whatI would. I would. I go
ahead and send me picture Cindy.If you can take two or three shots
of him, email them to me. You can go to Ron Wilson at
iHeartMedia dot com and let me takeanother look at him real quick, just

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to be sure. But other thanthat, I really don't have any other
suggestions for you besides just hanging inthere and wait to see what's going to
happen. And it may be asituation where by the end of the season
he looks so bad you might wantto take him out and try something different
besides the knockouts. Okay, Unfortunately, will the yellow spot that seems to

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be that it seems to be likemultiplying. Because I pulled some of the
bad leaves off that are it's justkilling. I pulled a lot of them
off yesterday. Will that kind oftransfer over to the plant that it is
growing? It could. The mosteffective thing if it's rust is to literally

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pick those off and throw them away. That is the most effective way to
get rid of it. And likeI said, rarely do we ever see
it sprays. There are a coupleof the funge just sizes that will have
rose rust listed. It's totally differentthan some of the other rusts that we
see out there, but that wouldbe a possibility. But picking them off
of physically removing them is your bestshot. And even if that means taking

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up, you know, a thirdof your leaves off, that's okay.
As a matter of fact, Ihave not I have no problem myself taking
a rose it doesn't look good rightnow, like knockout rose friends, it's
or one of the drift roses orshrub roses. If it doesn't look really
good, I have no problem cuttingit back again like eighteen inches and just
trying to force it back out onemore time to see what happens. And

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if they don't respond, by theend of the season, I'm pulling and
looking at something else to put backin there, whether it be knockouts again
or another type of a shrub rose. To be honest with you, but
do me a favorite, sendy it. Take it two or three good shots
of him. Send me a coupleshots of the yellow leaves up close.
Let me take a look at it. Give you a positive diagnosis as far
as what I think I see,and then we'll take it from there,

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and I'll give you my opinion ofwhat I'd do if they were in my
yard. Okay, and tell methat email address again, Ron Wilson at
iHeartMedia dot com. Okay, great, all right, thank you very much.
I'll watch for him, all right. Thanks Cindy. Quick break,
we come back. Jeff, you'recoming up next. Phone nines are open
for you at eight two to onewtv IN here on news radio six y

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ten WTVN. Talking to you alreadyhere on news radio WTVN. I am
Ron Wilson, of course, ifyou'd like to join us a two to
one wtv IN. Don't forget ourspecial websites, Ron Wilson online dot com.
Plant Pick of the Week this week, just two things when I put
on there. One is if you'relooking to plant memorial colors, red,

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white, and blues sometimes blue ishard to find. Puts a list of
plants on there for you that givesyou good reds, whites, and blues
and annuals for the most part,and not just for Fourth of July weekend,
but anytime you want to do morepatriotic planters, got some good colors
there for you. Second one thatI picked is the because it's the fourth
of July weekend, I put upthere the fourth of July tomato. I

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still think the fourth of July tomatois one of those consistent tomatoes that I
rarely ever, I mean talking,I can't remember the last time somebody told
me that they did not perform wellfor them. It's a medium size,
it's four ounce tomato. It's amedium sized tomato. It's an indeterminatet they
produce and and it's a good tastingtomato. It ripens in about forty nine

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fifty four days something like that.Thus the name fourth of July in the
fact that they have all these clustersand they're very showy, and it usually
comes in about the fourth of Julyand it's a heavy producer and whether it
be in the container, raised beds, in the ground. I have just
always had good success with Fourth ofJuly personally and for folks that I've recommended

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using Fourth of July is just agood again medium sized tomato forests, tomato
or so good flavor, good producer. That one's has always come through for
So I think Burbie came out withFourth of July tomato. Oh geez,
I bet what. We've been promotingthat probably ten years or so, and
so it's been around and it's consistent. Like I say, I always get

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good reviews using it. It's agood one, and so I always bring
it up on the fourth of Julybecause of the name. And if you
had planted it early, you're onin the springtime. There's a good chance
you've gotten some from it already orgetting close to getting some at this stage.
But you're going to check out allof those at Ron Wilson online dot
com and find out what of theplants of the picks of the weeks are

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all right back to the guarding phonelines at eight two to one WTVN.
Jeff, Good morning, Good morning, Ron, Yes, sir, Each
tree question. Attempting to restore andrejuvenate a pretty mature peach tree. I'bly
fifteen and caliber trunk had never beenpruned. Pruned it back pretty significantly last

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fall. Sprayed at Dorman Oil Springpicked about half the new peaches off when
they came out this spring, andof course I'm all excited that I've got
just a whole bunch of peaches.Good for you. The first pick,
the first bushel, set them out, and they're over the course of a

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couple of days, they're just rotting, just I mean just sitting just sitting
in the on the countertop, onthe countertop and the shade, and over
a couple of days they just moldand rot the peaches. And I'm just

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like, what's going on? Haveyou cut any open as you took them
off the tree? I have notdone that. What I would do is
is do that, Uh, nexttime you pick a couple off of there,
just take a knife and let's cutit in half and take a look
at the inside. See if itstill looks normal. I mean, they
get involved with the brown rot.You know. I don't know if you're

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familiar with that, but those arethings that can cause the fruit to start
to decay early. And I that'sthat's the first thing I'd do is you
know, when we're done talking,to go out and pick one or two
off and take a knife and sliceit in half and take a look at
it, see what the inside lookslike. I mean, like I've always
tell folks, feel free to takea couple of pictures of that and the

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tree, but take a couple ofpictures of those peaches. Email it to
me. Let me take a quicklook at it, see if you can
try to diagnose what's going on.But that could be part of the of
the problem, or or it couldbe the issue. It's just something else
that's affected. The fruit and theleaves look good, right, Oh,
leaves tree looks fantastic. Good peacheslook fantastic. Following up, just like

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like all excited. Any any ideawhat kind it is? No, I
have no clue. It's just anold tree that my neighbor has had and
I volunteered to fix it for you. And I mean there are just literally
hundreds of peaches on the probably shouldhave picked more of them off in the

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spring. Now, is there anypreventative spray other than the dor spray?
That could have been applied through thespring that may have been part of the
problem. Well, again, ifwe look and see that it's possibly a
disease. And usually with peaches,you know there are a couple insects that
can cause you problems. There areobviously bores if the plants under stress,

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it can be an issue with peachesdown the road. Usually with peaches,
the biggest thing is a disease issuesand so in many cases it's a matter
of doing the dormant spray, especiallyfor peach leaf curl, which is a
leaf disease which will also affect thefruit. But peach seef curl can only
be corrected by using a dormant sprayingof funge you sides before they leaf out

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or in the fall as the leavesdrop. That's the only time you can
spray for that. But then youget involved with new dormant oils obviously,
but you can get involved in witha funge of cytal application that starts at
bud break, so the green breakingand going on from there, which again
I can kind of brief you onthat if you send me some pictures and

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I'll send you back a little bitof a spring program. There but that's
typically what you're looking at to do. And then you know, as far
as insect if we could detect youhave in sec problems, you can do
that too, but most of thetimes that's quick to correct. But it's
the fund sides that are typically themost important. So do that with the
peaches, slice the sea. Whatyou see, send me a couple of

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shots of it, a couple shotsof the of the tree itself. Let
me take a look at it,and I'll get back to you as quick
as I can and try to giveyou some kind of an update on what
to do if it was mine.All right, good talking to you,
Jeff, and I'll watch for thatemail as well. I do want to
remind folks, by the way,if you're out in the vegetable garden and
you're you know, looking at theplanting more things, you still have time

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to plant beans and cucumbers and squash, and some of the melons is still
time. Pumpkins can still be plantedout there for you. There's a lot
of things that you'll still be plantedout there in the garden. I think
tomatoes and peppers at this stage aregoing to be a pretty late crop.
But if you find some decent lookingplants. I usually use a fourth of

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July is a cutoff dates, soyou're right there, But there is time
to do that. Don't forget aboutyour grub treatment, your pre emergent or
preventative grub treatments. Now's the timeto get those down as well. Make
sure you water them in well,very very important. Keep up with your
watering. Don't let the rain showersthat blow through. Remember, don't let
them fool yet. It's a bonus. Rain showers are a bonus. Keep

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watering as needed, water the soil, not the folish. Thanks to our
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