October 18, 2025 • 39 mins
We're talking fall products and more this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Zane and Jessica from Clegg's Nursery!
Plus your questions on planting strawberries, dealing with weeds, hydrangeas and more! Plus a big thank you to Scott Ricca as he announces a well-earned retirement!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
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Plus your questions on planting strawberries, dealing with weeds, hydrangeas and more! Plus a big thank you to Scott Ricca as he announces a well-earned retirement!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name is Zane Mercer with Clegg's Nursery,
joined here with Jessica Roysy. You got it, I did it.
She's also with Clegg's Nursery. Oh man, it is a
wonderful day today, Jessica, Yes, Sonny. Uh, you know, I'm
(00:43):
not the biggest WSHU fan, so I kind of wish.
I kind of wish the game was later in the
evening or later in the afternoon stead of early.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's the shortest JABO Lawn and Garden showever.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I know. Right now. I'm actually a good fan. It's
just the timing, you know, I never get to actually
go tailgate. You know, I'm always working, and one of
these days I'm just going to schedule off. So but anyway,
moving on, so no one else gets mad at me.
We have a pretty big announcement I wanted to put
(01:14):
on air. We wanted to congratulate Scott Rica on his retirement.
That's right, that's that said the R word, all right.
He's actually he's building a house out in Sant Francisville,
and Tom Fennell, his it was his co owner, is
going to be taken over the company, and we just
(01:37):
kind of want to wish him well and kind of
jealous because now he gets to do all those adventures
he's always talking about he doesn't have time for. So
it's been it's been pretty cool. Like you know, he
dropped off some ginger to me the other day and
he's got all this free time now, Like he found
me an edger one day.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So he's been with the racy for a long long time.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And he's probably going to correct me. I want to
say he's been in the industry for like forty forty
two years or something like that or forty years. So
but and I mean, it's just kind of wild because
I think that entire time was for the most part
with Clegg's, So it's crazy. Yeah, So we just wanted
to congratulate him, wish him well, and hope he still
(02:24):
bugs me. Yeah, but you know, moving on, and if
anyone had any calls, questions or concerned, she could reach
us at four nine to nine WJBO and if your
phone doesn't have the letters on the phone anymore before
nine nine nine five two six. So anyway, you know,
(02:47):
it's nice and cool now for the most part.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
At least in the mornings.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh no, I got to wear jeans the other day.
It was pretty nice until like two in the afternoon
and started getting a little warm. But overall it's been
and the weather's just fabulous. But it's time to go
ahead and start planting your fall color if you haven't already.
So that's one of my favorite times of the year
because that means I rip out all my vinka and
(03:13):
start prepping and planting pansies, snap dragons, dianthus, viola's you know,
all that, your cabbage, your kale, all that stuff. It's
good to get that in the ground now, kind of
get it growing. I've been excited because it's fox gloves season.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, we do have a good bet of fox
gloves in now.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's one of my little favorite little perennial plants. They
what was it the Camelot series. I believe that's the
one that kind of grows, that typically grows the best
down here. And my mother in law usually she calls me.
That's usually my rule of thumb when I need fox
gloves is she calls me and it's like, hey, can
(03:56):
you get me ten fox gloves? It's always ten.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Are those perennials here? Because I was I was.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Reading, so they can so it's like a little biennial plant. Yeah,
But some of them, some varieties prettyalize and then some
you just rip a like most of the time I
just rip them off the ground because it's usually time
for me to replace them with something else because square
(04:22):
footage is important for me. But there's a few varieties
that they've had some success perennializing to rebloom each year.
Actually left there was a variety I had gotten from
DuPont Nursery last year that I had planted at the house.
It's like a kind of orange red bloom, real weird looking, uh,
(04:46):
And that one actually kept kept in the ground this year.
So I'm going to see how that one does. But
it's growing, it's growing well, it's just uh, I'm just
curious how well it'll bloom that kind of thing. So
a little bunch little experiments in my house because I've
been busy with that and like telansia and vermeliands. So,
(05:07):
but you know, a lot of fall color in we've got,
I mean, crotons are pretty much in full form, you know,
and crotons if you're not familiar, and I've always been
a little confused because it's a it's a tropical plant,
but it's kind of solidified its place as a fall annual. Yeah,
(05:30):
like fall color because there's oranges, reds, yellows, that kind
of thing. So, and we'll carry them almost all year.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, I've seen them people plant them in the ground
outside or keep them in pots outside and then bring
them inside whenever it gets cold if they wanted to
keep them.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, And I usually, I mean it's just me. I'll
kind of treat I use crotons and like pointset as
even as an annual. You know, it's just all right,
big old splash of color and then I don't think
I want to keep that till the next year kind
of deal. So if it's a super neat plant and
(06:12):
we grow the vast majority of what will carry in
crowtons at our color division. So if you if you've
ever get a chance to go down to Greenwell Springs Road,
we'll walk you over you can take a look. It's
a I would say it's a smaller operation, but when
you first walk in there, you're kind of blown away
and you think it's huge, you know, but compared to
(06:34):
like some of the nurseries down in Florida, You're you
look at that and it's like, oh, this is like,
you know, kind of small compared. But I mean, man,
they can cram some stuff over there. I mean just mums,
which I didn't talk about those for fall color, but
I mean mums. I mean we grow like eight thousand
(06:54):
moms every year, you know, and it's just again that's
another great little fall plant that it gives a huge
shell of color. I mean. And the neat thing about
them is that actually those are perennial. So I know
several people that will put them in their pots, let
(07:14):
them bloom, and then just dig them up and plant
them somewhere else. Yeah, but it's it's pretty neat. They
run like a pretty tight operation over there on those
because it's just like and same with the point set
is where they have to give them so many daylight hours.
(07:35):
And I mean it's just like I mean, the moms,
they're perfectly round, you know, everything is very nicely shaped.
And then as far as like the color of the bloom,
and the color is just I mean, it pops and
then and at every location when we've probably got three
hundred between you know, at least I'm probably low balling it, honestly,
(07:59):
but again, a really neat annual color that you can
treat it as a perennial if you want, or you
can toss it either way. But it's just something cool
that puts out a ton of color for if you're
doing any tailgate parties anything like that. So and you know, Jeremy,
i'd expected. This is the first time I've been back
(08:22):
in I don't know, a month and a half and
still no phone callers. In the beginning, I think everybody's tailgating.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I mean, I didn't want to say anything, but if
there's maybe maybe we should remind folks that again, if
you have a question or concerned, you can give us
a call at four nine nine nine five two six.
If you prefer to use the letters on your phone,
that's four nine nine w jbo I don't really know
(08:52):
what the four nine nine part is off the top
of my head. We can maybe probably find the letters
for that. If you really want to get crazy, I mean,
give me a few minutes. Also, don't forget. If you
are listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can use our
talkback mic feature.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You can just leave us a message there. You can
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Speaker 5 (09:08):
If you're listening to Jabo on iHeart, you can you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Can you do that live or not live? So not live?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hold on. I will answer that question after I answer
this phone call.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh yeah, you see, all we got to do is
bring it up and people start calling. Yeah. Well, while
we're waiting for this other phone caller, I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Whoever that was give us a call back because apparently, okay, cool,
you were asking if they could do it live.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, so the callback is so the callback message, does
that run back live talkback?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
No, it's it leaves a little It leaves a message
for us.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Basically for the next show.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Oh no, it The way it works is that it
will leave a mark as to what show you were
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can leave a message at any time whenever you're listening,
and I can have a I can have a look
(10:10):
and see, and we don't keep these messages in case
somebody's worried about that.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
They do get deleted fairly.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, I mean, that's a cool little feature. It is.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
It's a great way to reach out to all of
all the hosts here. You know, we can send messages
to everybody, but we would love to hear you know,
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Speaker 2 (10:29):
Awesome. Well, you know, we got a few more minutes
till the till the commercial break, so I want to
talk about we still have hay bales and pumpkins.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, come get them.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And they're not just an orange anymore. You know, there's
all these specialty gourds and I mean, honestly, it's it's
kind of neat, just like all the different cultivars that
they grow. I mean, there will be there'll be gray ones,
green ones. You know, I haven't seen any purple ones,
but you know, but just between that, yeah, and that's
(11:03):
again along with the mums and the crowtons. That's a
perfect little fall display set up. It is just a
couple of hay bales stacked and then some stacks of pumpkins,
you know, just to get everything in the festive mood.
I know, I know, I got a neighbor down the
street from me that I swear she spends like a
month and a half setting up all right, and I'm
(11:26):
over here like I don't know where they keep it,
because they've got pumpkins, they've got inflatables, they've got I mean,
it was just all kind of statues everything. So she's
out there. You see your start to set up and
it just keeps going. So it's awesome. Yep. And really, Jeremy,
I think it just it was you. You You had
(11:47):
the callers call. So let me go ahead and jump
to Rob in Prairieville. Rob, good morning, How can I
help you today?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Hey, So I think it's time to stop playing or
get I'm ready to start doing strawberries. I've never done them.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Before, Yes, sir, it's just about time.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Can you put those? And I have a raised bed
that it's deteriorated, just mults ups. Is that good for
putting strawberries in? How many strawberries can you put in
an area? I just I have no, never done it before,
and I want to try it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, no, for sure. So uh, as far as strawberries go,
usually like a plant, the plugs or like the starts,
I don't know, eight inches apart something like that, all right,
And right right now, we've got little gallon plants all right,
I think of like five ninety nine, but I've got
(12:42):
some they should have shipped. We're just waiting for them
to arrive.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Last I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Are you on the list? All right? Also yeah, yeah,
uh no, so those should be coming in pretty soon.
But usually like eight inches something like that per plant,
all right, and I'll usually i'll kind of checkerboard them.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So and as they make more starts, yeah they little shoot,
I'll plant those two so okay, all right, but now
just loose well draining soil.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I Then my parents one year I had gotten them
a bunch of strawberries as a truck. A truck overturned,
so uh I got a bunch of strawberry plants out
the deal, and uh, I mean we were literally just
used compost, like real aged compost and some busted bags
(13:38):
and filled a bathtub like an old bathtub and just
planted them in there.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Okay, Yeah, so the black plastic is that necessary? Can
you do something besides that?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I mean, you can do that. We don't. We didn't,
you know, I just kind we just kind of weeded,
weeded around them. Yeah, so you can, like you and
you can very easily just do the black plastic if
you want, just to make it a little easier on you.
It's just I typically don't. I just kind of weed
(14:11):
around it. And typically the yeah, as far as fertilizer goes,
as she's a general purpose, you know, they're really not
too picky. And look they're they're pretty cold, hardy, all right,
so if you ever have a freeze, don't cover them
(14:31):
and put a heat lamp to them, right, So, but uh, overall,
they're just really for the most part, real easy. Like
I know, I know one person that uses like these
raised planters and I think my parents actually got a
set this year that uh, I mean, you just plug
them in the little ports on the side. Yeah, so
(14:53):
just a tower and then they'll just fruit on the
off the side. Alright, thank you man, you're we take care.
Love love me some good strawberries. So well, let me
go ahead and jump to Dana. So she's been waiting, Dana,
Good morning, How can we help you? Good morning.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I'm fighting a weed that looks like a short palladium.
It shoots out runners around it up and laughs at me.
I put black plastic on, but it comes out from
under there with some more runners. Is this sometimes just
gonna have to pull all the mulch out and dig
it all up? Or is there anything you could suggest that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Would kill it? It'll probably be digging them digging it out.
Oh so, because if it's so and it's not dollar
read correct.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
No, it is not a leaf.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Okay, yeah, you're probably gonna have to dig it out.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
So all right, I didn't know something like I haven't
tried on there, but for the nut grass or nut
said she knows something like that would work.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Or yeah, I don't think that's going to touch it, like,
because it sounds like it may be dichondra, that's what
you have. H So the I mean like image image
has a pretty broad label, so you could try that.
But the way image works is it's kind of absorb.
(16:20):
You said there was you've got plastic underneath like the fabric.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Well I put it on top of it, just thinking
I could smother it. But that didn't seem to work
any Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, because like the way image works is it travels
through the soil to the root. So the plastic kind
of inhibits the image a little bit. So I would say, yeah,
you're probably just gonna have to kind of pull it
and tackle a little bit at a time.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
All Right, all right, I thought that diagnosed the stock.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So you know, there's you always want it to be
the easiest way, and sometimes it's not.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
No, it's not. Okay, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You're welcome. Take care. Yeah. I hate it when there's
not an easy solution, you know. Well it's like, I mean,
I've got a battle Kalinga in the flower bed.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I've got the little the chamber bitters.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, chamber Bitter's fun. Yeah, that one's easy though, that
you just have to pull every single thing and then
put down. Uh. There's an active active ingredient called zoxaban
in gallery and snap shot and uh, the expreme extended control.
(17:38):
So but that's the only way to really get it
under control is you got to attack the actual seeds germinating,
because I mean I always thought it was crazy. It's
like it's like an inch.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Off the ground and they're already, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's just like oh great, and then you pull it
and then there're you just spread seeds right where you're
pulling weeds.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, so good time.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah. Well, you know, speaking of weeds in the yard,
we still have Virginia button weed out, so we want
to try and knock that back. Same with your your
spur weed should be germinating right now, so that is
your little what do people call it sticker weed sticks? Yeah, yeah,
(18:26):
so typically once it starts to cool off right now,
I switched to that weed free zone that we sell. Yeah,
that just I mean, that does an excellent job hitting
the Virginia button weed, hitting the stickers. We also want
to put out a pre emergent for the stickers, which
you'd use that dimension for that to get that your
(18:48):
crab grass under control for next year. But the actually
sprayed that the other day. I was so excited that
the temp the average temps s been like under ninety yeah,
because it was like, all right, cool, I'm going to
go ahead and spread. Yeah. And the reason I was
talking of bringing up the temperature is because some products
have a temperature restriction. So like the wheat free zone
(19:08):
for instance, has two four D and it can essentially
just lift off the plant over ninety and move. It's
kind of it's kind of crazy, but it's just like
you spread, it's dry well in ninety degree temperature. It
essentially aerosols the two four D to where it can move. Yees.
(19:31):
So that's why you know, we typically will switch to
that MSM product or Celsius, those kinds of things. So
we got another collar man. I'm loving these callers today, Susan.
How can I help you today? Good morning?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I wonder if it's too late to cut back my hydranges?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh what kind of They never?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
They never bloomed all summer long? And I thought it
might be the drought.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I don't know, it could be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh what kind of hydrangea? If you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Well, I call them snowball. You know that's the big
blue or pink okay.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But it's the blue or the pink okay. And is
it a. Do you do have to know if it's
an older variety?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
No, I don't.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Okay, they've been planted about fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, there were a few varieties back then that
a lot of the varieties Now they bloom on the
new wood, so it's not as important on when to
prune them, all right. So but I would go ahead
and do you fertilize them?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
No, I haven't for a while, but that would help.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I'm sure I would. So I wouldn't prune them. I
would just go ahead and we gotta wait till next year.
At this point, all right, you can get out any
dead dead wood anything like that. But I would go
ahead and come springtime, I would give them a really
good fertilizer application, all right, and then they should bloom
(21:13):
all right next year. And then right after they bloom,
you cut them back. So oh, but I just be
afraid if you cut them back right now, you're gonna
be cutting back old wood, which is where we carry
the blooms.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Okay, darn okay, okay, and quickly what you were just
talking about to eliminate the weeds the Virginia button, now sticky,
when do you do that?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So? Now, yes, you could go ahead and start spraying now,
and that's going to be your weed free zone. We sell.
We we recommend a cocktail blend of weed free zone
and atrozine. Uh okay, I wait a little bit longer
on the atrezine. But you could spray the weed free
zone right now. Oh great. Yeah. And that's just a
(22:01):
really good broad leaf weed killer. It's just for the
lawn and it's rated for all of our southern turf.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Okay, all right, we we free zone out a.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Little later, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, thank you, you're welcome that one. We're here to
talk about, you know, lawn garden, that kind of thing. Uh.
And you know, I wanted to quickly just mention have
you seen all the uh butterflies? Lightly? It's been great.
I've been so happy. Yeah. Now that said my uh
(22:42):
what's it called having birds? I think they're kind of
moving on. Yeah, yeah, sat and maybe they you know,
they're a little upset with me because I had to
cut back by Mexican stage. No I was. I forgot
to cut it back in June, and so it got
he gets so big, and then you know, we have
a rainstorm or something and then it breaks a bunch
(23:05):
of branches, and I like things looking pretty and symmetrical,
so I end up just well, I'll just cut it
to the ground. So but you know, anyway, uh, while
we were on commercial break, I had one of my
favorite people that we buy plants from over at DuPont Nursery,
(23:25):
mister Robbie Robbie. Yeah, he texted me all right apparently,
which I really like that he tunes in. It's it's
super neat because I get to talk to him occasionally.
But he's got a new variety of digitalis that's a
fox glove coming out this year called Dottie Dottie. Yeah,
so I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for it,
(23:46):
you know. And then he also wanted me to mention
that the pink panther variety, which that's one of the
ones I've grown at the house, that blooms further into
the summer.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Okay, yeah, yeah, so just.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Food for thought if you like fox gloves like id
So it's just I mean, and it's the same with elfinium. Really,
it's just I love having like these big spikes of
blooms in the springtime, you know. And then another thing
I really liked that I guess we hadn't talked about
at all. Was fallball well for bulbs. Yeah, so we've
(24:20):
all got every location has bulbs. I do the ball
borders for all four stores, and we do a spring
load and a fall load, and so our fall load
that's gonna be your Twu lips. You'r like Chorus or
your Hurricane lily or spider lily, your Hyacinth Narcissus. That's
(24:43):
your paper whites, a few other things like free Asia
things like that. And you know, I remember growing up
it was like bulbs are big thing. You know, it's
like a big deal. You got those in the ground.
When you got those in the ground, you know, so
you get a good showing. And that's just a neat
(25:03):
little selection of plants that if you have a pocket
or something in the flower bed and you're not I
don't know what I really want to put there, but
I want something kind of seasonal. Just put balls, you know,
I mean, like tulips are short lived. Twulips are you
put them in the fridge for six weeks and you
put them out and then they'll go to bloom and
(25:25):
then you toss them after But like you're like Chorus, euphresia,
your daffodils, nursissus, all that stuff. That's all that all
just kind of keeps giving each year, and they'll multiply
overtime and to where you could dig them up and
replant them. I like how we bought our house, I
(25:48):
don't know, five years ago. And when we bought it,
you know, it was like, oh, I got to relandscape
the whole house. There's a crape myrtle and a zelia
in the front guard and that is it, all right,
and then asian jasmine growing up the side of the fence.
So I re landscaped everything. Well. By the time I finished,
I discovered that somebody had planted bulbs everywhere, and so
(26:10):
it's super neat. It's like, I mean I have along
the back of my shit is a whole hedge of narcissus.
It just pops up, you know. And it was like,
and then I've got the red spider lily, the light
horus just in different pockets where it's like, well, I'm
not going to toss those. It's like that's just another
(26:32):
little feature, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
So with all the bulbs, do you have to like
dig them up and replant them every year, you can
just leave them.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You can you just leave them in the ground for
the most part. Like again, like your tulips you pull
because they can get a bacterial infection if I'm not mistaken.
It's like a whole thing with tulips. But all your
other bulbs you pretty much just leave them in the ground.
I mean, like your kalladiums you can dig up. And
I know some people that up like paper whites and
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things like that, but I typically just leave them, you know.
And sometimes I'll get like these little small vases for gifts,
oh yeah, to.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Make little cut flowers.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah yeah, and I'll just drop a paper white sit
out on top so the roots out. And you know,
I'm real big about I don't I don't know. My
wife would tell me I'm cheap, probably, but I'm real
big on and it's not really a regift but a
personal gift. Oh yeah. So like like I was digging
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up kurkuma that's the little ground gingers. I was digging
those up and putting those up to prep them for
a couple of birthday gifts for next year, you know,
and just like stuff like that. It's like it's more
personal because it's like I grew in my yard and
I'm giving it to them. It's the same thing as
like my mom gave me a hydrange of plant from
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my great grand grandmother's house in Morganza. Like got a
little bit of history, which you know makes people a
little attached.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly so.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But the u and bulbs are super neat and they're easy.
You know, we sell a product it's Dutch bulb Food.
It's just a general purpose fertilizer pretty much, but it's
geared on the ratio ideally for just bald plantings. Granted, uh,
plants can't read at least at least for now, so
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if I have a little leftover, I use it in
my flower bits. But uh, usually you just sprinkle that
out once a year just to get them going and
then they just kind of do their thing, so neat
little feature and then in the spring we have a
range of stuff. So like spring, I'll sell much more
asiatic and tiger lilies things like that, because I'm real
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big on those, and like even cattle lilies. I'll carry
a few in this fall time because that's a that'll
kind of grow through the winter. But what about in
the fall, ye would be in the fall, So I
guess I didn't talk about those. Yeah, so we'll get
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amillists are in the fall. There. Typically we'll get this
big like gift box set thing where you can just
buy a Ammarillis. It's got a little plastic pot in there,
a little bit of soil, just so it's ready to go.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Do we get the wax ones no longer?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, the wax. The thing I had an issue with
the wax is like they got customers gotta take the
wax off and then if they want to save it, yeah,
and then it's just I mean it's not as economical, Yes, gimmick.
It's like gluing cactuses on top of you know where
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I just it's a little bit of a gimmick. So
I typically try and go away from that, you know,
because I want, you know, I'm thinking about in the
long term, you know, just plant this out in the
yard someone and it's like you got a little you know.
But the amaryllis, though, they come in a pretty wide
variety of colors. There's like whites, pinks, reds, and we
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grow a bunch. So what we'll do is we'll pot
up anything left over from the year before and then
color division again, they'll just plant. They'll plant a ton,
so they'll have like these cream whites, deep orange, red,
just a wide range of colors and they're neat. You
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can plant them in your agapanthers section for like, essentially
the agapanthers aren't blooming then the then they was come up.
And it's just a real neat little plant. So anyway,
we can go ahead and move on and I can
get off my soapbox about bulbs. But any yeah, please
buy bulbs now. I've just been really happy since taken
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over the bulb ordering and all that, because it's just
it's a neat little thing. I mean, like the tiger lilies,
the stargazer lilies. If you're not familiar with Lily of
the Valley. It's a plant you plant and never get
rid of it. But it's something not to complain too
much about either. So we're talking about the bulbs. I
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wanted to take a quick moment to talk about the batteries.
Tree Spree was supposed to be today, but thankfully they
moved it so it's going to be rescheduled to November
first due to the game time today. That's really why
I was grumpy about the LSU game, but it's rescheduled
to November first. It'll be in the morning at the
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Seagan Lane location. I've got a pretty solid selection of
native plants already out and ready to go. And just
like some odds and ends that we don't typically carry,
like I've got chickasaw plums, service berry. I've been able
to find a few weird things that it was like,
oh cool, I hadn't seen this in years, or something
(32:05):
that typically from our usual suppliers we wouldn't even carry.
But it's just like neat little small shade trees things
like that, always gonna have beauty berry, dwarf Palmadow's even
put up the last few father gilla if you're not
familiar with that plan. It's a neat little perennial shrub.
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I ordered some for the last tree spree. I think
I was the only one that bought them. But it's
a white blooming little flower shrub stays short bloom kinda
is reminiscent of like Grancy gray Beard almost, but it
puts on seasonal interes so like in the fall you
get orange to red leaves, the stems change color in
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the winter. Like ita and blueberries do. So it's like
it's not like it's just like sticks in the ground,
you know, it just gives you a sea no color.
So any who, anyho, this is the last segment only
I think nine minutes left or eight minutes left, depending
on how fast that talk.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You have exactly seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Seven minutes never mind, never mind, we better go, all right,
so real quick, all right. Uh, I don't know if
you've been in the nurseries, but we've got plenty of
super or I said, super genious. Sorry, I've been dealing
with supertudi your orders for like three days. Uh, plenty
of camellias the Sanquis, and we finally started getting all
that all that lived and we probably have uh. I
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mean it's trade secret, but we got the best supplier
ever for camellias to sinquis. I mean, if you want
something that's as mature as you could really find it
without going to dig one up. Uh, and like and
that's a fairly affordable. Yeah, this is the time to
get them. I mean, we'll got we'll have three gallon
she shees, which that's a dwarf that gets on average
(33:59):
four foot takes for ever to get four foot, will
have them probably two and a half to three foot,
you know, for a three gallon for twenty seven to
ninety nine. So overall it's pretty you know, pretty good
pricing and pretty good size. This is the time we
really want to get that kind of stuff in the
ground anyway, just it gets as much root development during
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the winter as we can. And they also have the
biggest range of colors right now. It's like we'll carry
Leslie in. For instance, that's this lsu super plant that
is like it's gorgeous like pink to white or white
to pink bloom. It's just a real showy six foot tall,
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six to eight foot tall growing Camellia susanqua.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
And when do all those bloom?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Those go most of your sussanquas are going to bloom
into the fall or well, excuse sorry, fall into the winter,
and then you're japonicas. That's like your old timey, big
old size of your fist flower, big leaf. They tip.
Those typically groom a little bit more in the shade,
whereas the sancuas are more versatile. Those will bloom kind
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of latish winter. You know, like there's some varieties like
there's a daikagura, which is a variegated double bloom that's
in bloom now, but as a whole, they usually will
start blooming kind of going into the winter a little
bit further and then kind of peter out coming out
(35:32):
of the winter. So but I mean, if you're not
familiar with camellias, I mean that's a some people would
say it's the old timy plant, but I mean been
around a long long time. They're very long lived and
they're overall just real neat. There's just a tidy evergreen
during the year and then they only bloom in the
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fall in the winter, but it's a long bloom time,
so it's like unless we get a freeze that comes
through in damages. But I mean they bloom for like
a month, month and a half, two months even And
again there's just there's certain varieties that bloom late later
than others. Like there's a variety called Spring Festival, which
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blooms going into the spring and that's the last blooming susaqua.
So but they come in whites, pinks, reds, and just
variations of those colors. There's a few I've seen that
I don't know. They advertisement is like a yellow. To me,
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it's more of like a white, you know, But there
are some peaches too. There's like a high fragrance in
the Japanica side that one, which I don't know they
branded a high fragrances. I wouldn't say it's super super fragrant,
but like that one's more of like a peach pink,
whereas like and then there's a variety called she light
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that will carry which we get and very small numbers.
Otherwise my entire hedge front hedge of my yard would
be that we're lucky to get fifteen of them, you know.
But those that's like a little peachey pink. So just
real neat, neat, little evergreen. If you want a glossy
dark green leaf to contrast all that fall color that
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you've been planting or this, you know, just a good sub,
good sub for getting away from like say boxwoods or
Holly's things like that, if you you know, if you
want a little color to go with your dark green hedge.
So well, and while we got three minutes, I just
want to give a quick shout out again to the
(37:45):
and just notify everybody that the point set of open
house is coming up. Very exciting exciting time. That is
November twenty ninth, So that is a Saturday, November twenty ninth.
It'll hopefully be the first time I've ever ever been
able to go since I work at Greenwell now. But
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it's free pictures with Santa, complimentary hot cocoa and cookies.
Kids can make reindier food and write write in mail
letters to Santa. It's from nine am to two pm
and that's off a It's at one oh seven to
one to three Crudinal Springs Road. And again it's a
(38:27):
really neat experience if you haven't been out there, because
you walk in there and it's just I mean it'd
be ten thousand point setus, like you know, it's like
two i mean two rooms full point setus and yeah,
well it's just like something you don't really think about.
You know, you're just like, oh, I'll buy one of
(38:48):
these at the store. Yeah, you know, but you don't
think about walking in and it's just wow, this is impressive.
And so it's it's a real neat thing that Ron
and Elena Fennel put on. That's who runs Colored Divisi
And just if you get a chance, it's great to
take the kids out there, or the grandkids, or if
you even just want to take a tour. You know,
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it's just something that's really neat to see. Well, as always, Jessica,
it's been a pleasure, and apparently we ran out of time,
which what can we do? You know, I guess I
could just go on the radio show next week, you know, so,
but it as always, thank you for all the callers questions,
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and you know, enjoy the weather in the football game.
Apparently it's supposed to rain this afternoon, so if it does,
let's try and stay dry and I'll see at the nursery.
Take care,
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name is Zane Mercer with Clegg's Nursery,
joined here with Jessica Roysy. You got it, I did it.
She's also with Clegg's Nursery. Oh man, it is a
wonderful day today, Jessica, Yes, Sonny. Uh, you know, I'm
(00:43):
not the biggest WSHU fan, so I kind of wish.
I kind of wish the game was later in the
evening or later in the afternoon stead of early.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's the shortest JABO Lawn and Garden showever.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I know. Right now. I'm actually a good fan. It's
just the timing, you know, I never get to actually
go tailgate. You know, I'm always working, and one of
these days I'm just going to schedule off. So but anyway,
moving on, so no one else gets mad at me.
We have a pretty big announcement I wanted to put
(01:14):
on air. We wanted to congratulate Scott Rica on his retirement.
That's right, that's that said the R word, all right.
He's actually he's building a house out in Sant Francisville,
and Tom Fennell, his it was his co owner, is
going to be taken over the company, and we just
(01:37):
kind of want to wish him well and kind of
jealous because now he gets to do all those adventures
he's always talking about he doesn't have time for. So
it's been it's been pretty cool. Like you know, he
dropped off some ginger to me the other day and
he's got all this free time now, Like he found
me an edger one day.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So he's been with the racy for a long long time.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And he's probably going to correct me. I want to
say he's been in the industry for like forty forty
two years or something like that or forty years. So
but and I mean, it's just kind of wild because
I think that entire time was for the most part
with Clegg's, So it's crazy. Yeah, So we just wanted
to congratulate him, wish him well, and hope he still
(02:24):
bugs me. Yeah, but you know, moving on, and if
anyone had any calls, questions or concerned, she could reach
us at four nine to nine WJBO and if your
phone doesn't have the letters on the phone anymore before
nine nine nine five two six. So anyway, you know,
(02:47):
it's nice and cool now for the most part.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
At least in the mornings.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh no, I got to wear jeans the other day.
It was pretty nice until like two in the afternoon
and started getting a little warm. But overall it's been
and the weather's just fabulous. But it's time to go
ahead and start planting your fall color if you haven't already.
So that's one of my favorite times of the year
because that means I rip out all my vinka and
(03:13):
start prepping and planting pansies, snap dragons, dianthus, viola's you know,
all that, your cabbage, your kale, all that stuff. It's
good to get that in the ground now, kind of
get it growing. I've been excited because it's fox gloves season.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, we do have a good bet of fox
gloves in now.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's one of my little favorite little perennial plants. They
what was it the Camelot series. I believe that's the
one that kind of grows, that typically grows the best
down here. And my mother in law usually she calls me.
That's usually my rule of thumb when I need fox
gloves is she calls me and it's like, hey, can
(03:56):
you get me ten fox gloves? It's always ten.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Are those perennials here? Because I was I was.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Reading, so they can so it's like a little biennial plant. Yeah,
But some of them, some varieties prettyalize and then some
you just rip a like most of the time I
just rip them off the ground because it's usually time
for me to replace them with something else because square
(04:22):
footage is important for me. But there's a few varieties
that they've had some success perennializing to rebloom each year.
Actually left there was a variety I had gotten from
DuPont Nursery last year that I had planted at the house.
It's like a kind of orange red bloom, real weird looking, uh,
(04:46):
And that one actually kept kept in the ground this year.
So I'm going to see how that one does. But
it's growing, it's growing well, it's just uh, I'm just
curious how well it'll bloom that kind of thing. So
a little bunch little experiments in my house because I've
been busy with that and like telansia and vermeliands. So,
(05:07):
but you know, a lot of fall color in we've got,
I mean, crotons are pretty much in full form, you know,
and crotons if you're not familiar, and I've always been
a little confused because it's a it's a tropical plant,
but it's kind of solidified its place as a fall annual. Yeah,
(05:30):
like fall color because there's oranges, reds, yellows, that kind
of thing. So, and we'll carry them almost all year.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, I've seen them people plant them in the ground
outside or keep them in pots outside and then bring
them inside whenever it gets cold if they wanted to
keep them.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, And I usually, I mean it's just me. I'll
kind of treat I use crotons and like pointset as
even as an annual. You know, it's just all right,
big old splash of color and then I don't think
I want to keep that till the next year kind
of deal. So if it's a super neat plant and
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we grow the vast majority of what will carry in
crowtons at our color division. So if you if you've
ever get a chance to go down to Greenwell Springs Road,
we'll walk you over you can take a look. It's
a I would say it's a smaller operation, but when
you first walk in there, you're kind of blown away
and you think it's huge, you know, but compared to
(06:34):
like some of the nurseries down in Florida, You're you
look at that and it's like, oh, this is like,
you know, kind of small compared. But I mean, man,
they can cram some stuff over there. I mean just mums,
which I didn't talk about those for fall color, but
I mean mums. I mean we grow like eight thousand
(06:54):
moms every year, you know, and it's just again that's
another great little fall plant that it gives a huge
shell of color. I mean. And the neat thing about
them is that actually those are perennial. So I know
several people that will put them in their pots, let
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them bloom, and then just dig them up and plant
them somewhere else. Yeah, but it's it's pretty neat. They
run like a pretty tight operation over there on those
because it's just like and same with the point set
is where they have to give them so many daylight hours.
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And I mean it's just like I mean, the moms,
they're perfectly round, you know, everything is very nicely shaped.
And then as far as like the color of the bloom,
and the color is just I mean, it pops and
then and at every location when we've probably got three
hundred between you know, at least I'm probably low balling it, honestly,
(07:59):
but again, a really neat annual color that you can
treat it as a perennial if you want, or you
can toss it either way. But it's just something cool
that puts out a ton of color for if you're
doing any tailgate parties anything like that. So and you know, Jeremy,
i'd expected. This is the first time I've been back
(08:22):
in I don't know, a month and a half and
still no phone callers. In the beginning, I think everybody's tailgating.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I mean, I didn't want to say anything, but if
there's maybe maybe we should remind folks that again, if
you have a question or concerned, you can give us
a call at four nine nine nine five two six.
If you prefer to use the letters on your phone,
that's four nine nine w jbo I don't really know
(08:52):
what the four nine nine part is off the top
of my head. We can maybe probably find the letters
for that. If you really want to get crazy, I mean,
give me a few minutes. Also, don't forget. If you
are listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can use our
talkback mic feature.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You can just leave us a message there. You can
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Speaker 5 (09:08):
If you're listening to Jabo on iHeart, you can you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Can you do that live or not live? So not live?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hold on. I will answer that question after I answer
this phone call.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh yeah, you see, all we got to do is
bring it up and people start calling. Yeah. Well, while
we're waiting for this other phone caller, I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Whoever that was give us a call back because apparently, okay, cool,
you were asking if they could do it live.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, so the callback is so the callback message, does
that run back live talkback?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
No, it's it leaves a little It leaves a message
for us.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Basically for the next show.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Oh no, it The way it works is that it
will leave a mark as to what show you were
listening to at the time you sent it, so I
will know that it's Jabo or I know if you
send it right now, it will be you know, we'll say,
like you will sit during the Lawn and Garden show,
so I'll know it's for that. But honestly, if you
can leave a message at any time whenever you're listening,
and I can have a I can have a look
(10:10):
and see, and we don't keep these messages in case
somebody's worried about that.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
They do get deleted fairly.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, I mean, that's a cool little feature. It is.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
It's a great way to reach out to all of
all the hosts here. You know, we can send messages
to everybody, but we would love to hear you know,
your thoughts, especially you know from this angle of what
you're hearing on JBO. So please feel free to leave
a message anytime.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Awesome. Well, you know, we got a few more minutes
till the till the commercial break, so I want to
talk about we still have hay bales and pumpkins.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, come get them.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And they're not just an orange anymore. You know, there's
all these specialty gourds and I mean, honestly, it's it's
kind of neat, just like all the different cultivars that
they grow. I mean, there will be there'll be gray ones,
green ones. You know, I haven't seen any purple ones,
but you know, but just between that, yeah, and that's
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again along with the mums and the crowtons. That's a
perfect little fall display set up. It is just a
couple of hay bales stacked and then some stacks of pumpkins,
you know, just to get everything in the festive mood.
I know, I know, I got a neighbor down the
street from me that I swear she spends like a
month and a half setting up all right, and I'm
(11:26):
over here like I don't know where they keep it,
because they've got pumpkins, they've got inflatables, they've got I mean,
it was just all kind of statues everything. So she's
out there. You see your start to set up and
it just keeps going. So it's awesome. Yep. And really, Jeremy,
I think it just it was you. You You had
(11:47):
the callers call. So let me go ahead and jump
to Rob in Prairieville. Rob, good morning, How can I
help you today?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Hey, So I think it's time to stop playing or
get I'm ready to start doing strawberries. I've never done them.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Before, Yes, sir, it's just about time.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Can you put those? And I have a raised bed
that it's deteriorated, just mults ups. Is that good for
putting strawberries in? How many strawberries can you put in
an area? I just I have no, never done it before,
and I want to try it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, no, for sure. So uh, as far as strawberries go,
usually like a plant, the plugs or like the starts,
I don't know, eight inches apart something like that, all right,
And right right now, we've got little gallon plants all right,
I think of like five ninety nine, but I've got
(12:42):
some they should have shipped. We're just waiting for them
to arrive.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Last I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Are you on the list? All right? Also yeah, yeah,
uh no, so those should be coming in pretty soon.
But usually like eight inches something like that per plant,
all right, and I'll usually i'll kind of checkerboard them.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So and as they make more starts, yeah they little shoot,
I'll plant those two so okay, all right, but now
just loose well draining soil.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I Then my parents one year I had gotten them
a bunch of strawberries as a truck. A truck overturned,
so uh I got a bunch of strawberry plants out
the deal, and uh, I mean we were literally just
used compost, like real aged compost and some busted bags
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and filled a bathtub like an old bathtub and just
planted them in there.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Okay, Yeah, so the black plastic is that necessary? Can
you do something besides that?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I mean, you can do that. We don't. We didn't,
you know, I just kind we just kind of weeded,
weeded around them. Yeah, so you can, like you and
you can very easily just do the black plastic if
you want, just to make it a little easier on you.
It's just I typically don't. I just kind of weed
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around it. And typically the yeah, as far as fertilizer goes,
as she's a general purpose, you know, they're really not
too picky. And look they're they're pretty cold, hardy, all right,
so if you ever have a freeze, don't cover them
(14:31):
and put a heat lamp to them, right, So, but uh, overall,
they're just really for the most part, real easy. Like
I know, I know one person that uses like these
raised planters and I think my parents actually got a
set this year that uh, I mean, you just plug
them in the little ports on the side. Yeah, so
(14:53):
just a tower and then they'll just fruit on the
off the side. Alright, thank you man, you're we take care.
Love love me some good strawberries. So well, let me
go ahead and jump to Dana. So she's been waiting, Dana,
Good morning, How can we help you? Good morning.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I'm fighting a weed that looks like a short palladium.
It shoots out runners around it up and laughs at me.
I put black plastic on, but it comes out from
under there with some more runners. Is this sometimes just
gonna have to pull all the mulch out and dig
it all up? Or is there anything you could suggest that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Would kill it? It'll probably be digging them digging it out.
Oh so, because if it's so and it's not dollar
read correct.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
No, it is not a leaf.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Okay, yeah, you're probably gonna have to dig it out.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
So all right, I didn't know something like I haven't
tried on there, but for the nut grass or nut
said she knows something like that would work.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Or yeah, I don't think that's going to touch it, like,
because it sounds like it may be dichondra, that's what
you have. H So the I mean like image image
has a pretty broad label, so you could try that.
But the way image works is it's kind of absorb.
(16:20):
You said there was you've got plastic underneath like the fabric.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Well I put it on top of it, just thinking
I could smother it. But that didn't seem to work
any Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, because like the way image works is it travels
through the soil to the root. So the plastic kind
of inhibits the image a little bit. So I would say, yeah,
you're probably just gonna have to kind of pull it
and tackle a little bit at a time.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
All Right, all right, I thought that diagnosed the stock.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So you know, there's you always want it to be
the easiest way, and sometimes it's not.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
No, it's not. Okay, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You're welcome. Take care. Yeah. I hate it when there's
not an easy solution, you know. Well it's like, I mean,
I've got a battle Kalinga in the flower bed.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I've got the little the chamber bitters.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, chamber Bitter's fun. Yeah, that one's easy though, that
you just have to pull every single thing and then
put down. Uh. There's an active active ingredient called zoxaban
in gallery and snap shot and uh, the expreme extended control.
(17:38):
So but that's the only way to really get it
under control is you got to attack the actual seeds germinating,
because I mean I always thought it was crazy. It's
like it's like an inch.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Off the ground and they're already, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's just like oh great, and then you pull it
and then there're you just spread seeds right where you're
pulling weeds.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, so good time.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah. Well, you know, speaking of weeds in the yard,
we still have Virginia button weed out, so we want
to try and knock that back. Same with your your
spur weed should be germinating right now, so that is
your little what do people call it sticker weed sticks? Yeah, yeah,
(18:26):
so typically once it starts to cool off right now,
I switched to that weed free zone that we sell. Yeah,
that just I mean, that does an excellent job hitting
the Virginia button weed, hitting the stickers. We also want
to put out a pre emergent for the stickers, which
you'd use that dimension for that to get that your
(18:48):
crab grass under control for next year. But the actually
sprayed that the other day. I was so excited that
the temp the average temps s been like under ninety yeah,
because it was like, all right, cool, I'm going to
go ahead and spread. Yeah. And the reason I was
talking of bringing up the temperature is because some products
have a temperature restriction. So like the wheat free zone
(19:08):
for instance, has two four D and it can essentially
just lift off the plant over ninety and move. It's
kind of it's kind of crazy, but it's just like
you spread, it's dry well in ninety degree temperature. It
essentially aerosols the two four D to where it can move. Yees.
(19:31):
So that's why you know, we typically will switch to
that MSM product or Celsius, those kinds of things. So
we got another collar man. I'm loving these callers today, Susan.
How can I help you today? Good morning?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I wonder if it's too late to cut back my hydranges?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh what kind of They never?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
They never bloomed all summer long? And I thought it
might be the drought.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I don't know, it could be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh what kind of hydrangea? If you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Well, I call them snowball. You know that's the big
blue or pink okay.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But it's the blue or the pink okay. And is
it a. Do you do have to know if it's
an older variety?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
No, I don't.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Okay, they've been planted about fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, there were a few varieties back then that
a lot of the varieties Now they bloom on the
new wood, so it's not as important on when to
prune them, all right. So but I would go ahead
and do you fertilize them?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
No, I haven't for a while, but that would help.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I'm sure I would. So I wouldn't prune them. I
would just go ahead and we gotta wait till next year.
At this point, all right, you can get out any
dead dead wood anything like that. But I would go
ahead and come springtime, I would give them a really
good fertilizer application, all right, and then they should bloom
(21:13):
all right next year. And then right after they bloom,
you cut them back. So oh, but I just be
afraid if you cut them back right now, you're gonna
be cutting back old wood, which is where we carry
the blooms.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Okay, darn okay, okay, and quickly what you were just
talking about to eliminate the weeds the Virginia button, now sticky,
when do you do that?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So? Now, yes, you could go ahead and start spraying now,
and that's going to be your weed free zone. We sell.
We we recommend a cocktail blend of weed free zone
and atrozine. Uh okay, I wait a little bit longer
on the atrezine. But you could spray the weed free
zone right now. Oh great. Yeah. And that's just a
(22:01):
really good broad leaf weed killer. It's just for the
lawn and it's rated for all of our southern turf.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Okay, all right, we we free zone out a.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Little later, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, thank you, you're welcome that one. We're here to
talk about, you know, lawn garden, that kind of thing. Uh.
And you know, I wanted to quickly just mention have
you seen all the uh butterflies? Lightly? It's been great.
I've been so happy. Yeah. Now that said my uh
(22:42):
what's it called having birds? I think they're kind of
moving on. Yeah, yeah, sat and maybe they you know,
they're a little upset with me because I had to
cut back by Mexican stage. No I was. I forgot
to cut it back in June, and so it got
he gets so big, and then you know, we have
a rainstorm or something and then it breaks a bunch
(23:05):
of branches, and I like things looking pretty and symmetrical,
so I end up just well, I'll just cut it
to the ground. So but you know, anyway, uh, while
we were on commercial break, I had one of my
favorite people that we buy plants from over at DuPont Nursery,
(23:25):
mister Robbie Robbie. Yeah, he texted me all right apparently,
which I really like that he tunes in. It's it's
super neat because I get to talk to him occasionally.
But he's got a new variety of digitalis that's a
fox glove coming out this year called Dottie Dottie. Yeah,
so I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for it,
(23:46):
you know. And then he also wanted me to mention
that the pink panther variety, which that's one of the
ones I've grown at the house, that blooms further into
the summer.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Okay, yeah, yeah, so just.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Food for thought if you like fox gloves like id
So it's just I mean, and it's the same with elfinium. Really,
it's just I love having like these big spikes of
blooms in the springtime, you know. And then another thing
I really liked that I guess we hadn't talked about
at all. Was fallball well for bulbs. Yeah, so we've
(24:20):
all got every location has bulbs. I do the ball
borders for all four stores, and we do a spring
load and a fall load, and so our fall load
that's gonna be your Twu lips. You'r like Chorus or
your Hurricane lily or spider lily, your Hyacinth Narcissus. That's
(24:43):
your paper whites, a few other things like free Asia
things like that. And you know, I remember growing up
it was like bulbs are big thing. You know, it's
like a big deal. You got those in the ground.
When you got those in the ground, you know, so
you get a good showing. And that's just a neat
(25:03):
little selection of plants that if you have a pocket
or something in the flower bed and you're not I
don't know what I really want to put there, but
I want something kind of seasonal. Just put balls, you know,
I mean, like tulips are short lived. Twulips are you
put them in the fridge for six weeks and you
put them out and then they'll go to bloom and
(25:25):
then you toss them after But like you're like Chorus, euphresia,
your daffodils, nursissus, all that stuff. That's all that all
just kind of keeps giving each year, and they'll multiply
overtime and to where you could dig them up and
replant them. I like how we bought our house, I
(25:48):
don't know, five years ago. And when we bought it,
you know, it was like, oh, I got to relandscape
the whole house. There's a crape myrtle and a zelia
in the front guard and that is it, all right,
and then asian jasmine growing up the side of the fence.
So I re landscaped everything. Well. By the time I finished,
I discovered that somebody had planted bulbs everywhere, and so
(26:10):
it's super neat. It's like, I mean I have along
the back of my shit is a whole hedge of narcissus.
It just pops up, you know. And it was like,
and then I've got the red spider lily, the light
horus just in different pockets where it's like, well, I'm
not going to toss those. It's like that's just another
(26:32):
little feature, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
So with all the bulbs, do you have to like
dig them up and replant them every year, you can
just leave them.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You can you just leave them in the ground for
the most part. Like again, like your tulips you pull
because they can get a bacterial infection if I'm not mistaken.
It's like a whole thing with tulips. But all your
other bulbs you pretty much just leave them in the ground.
I mean, like your kalladiums you can dig up. And
I know some people that up like paper whites and
(27:01):
things like that, but I typically just leave them, you know.
And sometimes I'll get like these little small vases for gifts,
oh yeah, to.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Make little cut flowers.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah yeah, and I'll just drop a paper white sit
out on top so the roots out. And you know,
I'm real big about I don't I don't know. My
wife would tell me I'm cheap, probably, but I'm real
big on and it's not really a regift but a
personal gift. Oh yeah. So like like I was digging
(27:35):
up kurkuma that's the little ground gingers. I was digging
those up and putting those up to prep them for
a couple of birthday gifts for next year, you know,
and just like stuff like that. It's like it's more
personal because it's like I grew in my yard and
I'm giving it to them. It's the same thing as
like my mom gave me a hydrange of plant from
(27:57):
my great grand grandmother's house in Morganza. Like got a
little bit of history, which you know makes people a
little attached.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly so.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But the u and bulbs are super neat and they're easy.
You know, we sell a product it's Dutch bulb Food.
It's just a general purpose fertilizer pretty much, but it's
geared on the ratio ideally for just bald plantings. Granted, uh,
plants can't read at least at least for now, so
(28:29):
if I have a little leftover, I use it in
my flower bits. But uh, usually you just sprinkle that
out once a year just to get them going and
then they just kind of do their thing, so neat
little feature and then in the spring we have a
range of stuff. So like spring, I'll sell much more
asiatic and tiger lilies things like that, because I'm real
(28:50):
big on those, and like even cattle lilies. I'll carry
a few in this fall time because that's a that'll
kind of grow through the winter. But what about in
the fall, ye would be in the fall, So I
guess I didn't talk about those. Yeah, so we'll get
(29:10):
amillists are in the fall. There. Typically we'll get this
big like gift box set thing where you can just
buy a Ammarillis. It's got a little plastic pot in there,
a little bit of soil, just so it's ready to go.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Do we get the wax ones no longer?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, the wax. The thing I had an issue with
the wax is like they got customers gotta take the
wax off and then if they want to save it, yeah,
and then it's just I mean it's not as economical, Yes, gimmick.
It's like gluing cactuses on top of you know where
(29:48):
I just it's a little bit of a gimmick. So
I typically try and go away from that, you know,
because I want, you know, I'm thinking about in the
long term, you know, just plant this out in the
yard someone and it's like you got a little you know.
But the amaryllis, though, they come in a pretty wide
variety of colors. There's like whites, pinks, reds, and we
(30:09):
grow a bunch. So what we'll do is we'll pot
up anything left over from the year before and then
color division again, they'll just plant. They'll plant a ton,
so they'll have like these cream whites, deep orange, red,
just a wide range of colors and they're neat. You
(30:32):
can plant them in your agapanthers section for like, essentially
the agapanthers aren't blooming then the then they was come up.
And it's just a real neat little plant. So anyway,
we can go ahead and move on and I can
get off my soapbox about bulbs. But any yeah, please
buy bulbs now. I've just been really happy since taken
(30:57):
over the bulb ordering and all that, because it's just
it's a neat little thing. I mean, like the tiger lilies,
the stargazer lilies. If you're not familiar with Lily of
the Valley. It's a plant you plant and never get
rid of it. But it's something not to complain too
much about either. So we're talking about the bulbs. I
(31:20):
wanted to take a quick moment to talk about the batteries.
Tree Spree was supposed to be today, but thankfully they
moved it so it's going to be rescheduled to November
first due to the game time today. That's really why
I was grumpy about the LSU game, but it's rescheduled
to November first. It'll be in the morning at the
(31:43):
Seagan Lane location. I've got a pretty solid selection of
native plants already out and ready to go. And just
like some odds and ends that we don't typically carry,
like I've got chickasaw plums, service berry. I've been able
to find a few weird things that it was like,
oh cool, I hadn't seen this in years, or something
(32:05):
that typically from our usual suppliers we wouldn't even carry.
But it's just like neat little small shade trees things
like that, always gonna have beauty berry, dwarf Palmadow's even
put up the last few father gilla if you're not
familiar with that plan. It's a neat little perennial shrub.
(32:27):
I ordered some for the last tree spree. I think
I was the only one that bought them. But it's
a white blooming little flower shrub stays short bloom kinda
is reminiscent of like Grancy gray Beard almost, but it
puts on seasonal interes so like in the fall you
get orange to red leaves, the stems change color in
(32:51):
the winter. Like ita and blueberries do. So it's like
it's not like it's just like sticks in the ground,
you know, it just gives you a sea no color.
So any who, anyho, this is the last segment only
I think nine minutes left or eight minutes left, depending
on how fast that talk.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You have exactly seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Seven minutes never mind, never mind, we better go, all right,
so real quick, all right. Uh, I don't know if
you've been in the nurseries, but we've got plenty of
super or I said, super genious. Sorry, I've been dealing
with supertudi your orders for like three days. Uh, plenty
of camellias the Sanquis, and we finally started getting all
that all that lived and we probably have uh. I
(33:35):
mean it's trade secret, but we got the best supplier
ever for camellias to sinquis. I mean, if you want
something that's as mature as you could really find it
without going to dig one up. Uh, and like and
that's a fairly affordable. Yeah, this is the time to
get them. I mean, we'll got we'll have three gallon
she shees, which that's a dwarf that gets on average
(33:59):
four foot takes for ever to get four foot, will
have them probably two and a half to three foot,
you know, for a three gallon for twenty seven to
ninety nine. So overall it's pretty you know, pretty good
pricing and pretty good size. This is the time we
really want to get that kind of stuff in the
ground anyway, just it gets as much root development during
(34:19):
the winter as we can. And they also have the
biggest range of colors right now. It's like we'll carry
Leslie in. For instance, that's this lsu super plant that
is like it's gorgeous like pink to white or white
to pink bloom. It's just a real showy six foot tall,
(34:41):
six to eight foot tall growing Camellia susanqua.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
And when do all those bloom?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Those go most of your sussanquas are going to bloom
into the fall or well, excuse sorry, fall into the winter,
and then you're japonicas. That's like your old timey, big
old size of your fist flower, big leaf. They tip.
Those typically groom a little bit more in the shade,
whereas the sancuas are more versatile. Those will bloom kind
(35:11):
of latish winter. You know, like there's some varieties like
there's a daikagura, which is a variegated double bloom that's
in bloom now, but as a whole, they usually will
start blooming kind of going into the winter a little
bit further and then kind of peter out coming out
(35:32):
of the winter. So but I mean, if you're not
familiar with camellias, I mean that's a some people would
say it's the old timy plant, but I mean been
around a long long time. They're very long lived and
they're overall just real neat. There's just a tidy evergreen
during the year and then they only bloom in the
(35:55):
fall in the winter, but it's a long bloom time,
so it's like unless we get a freeze that comes
through in damages. But I mean they bloom for like
a month, month and a half, two months even And
again there's just there's certain varieties that bloom late later
than others. Like there's a variety called Spring Festival, which
(36:16):
blooms going into the spring and that's the last blooming susaqua.
So but they come in whites, pinks, reds, and just
variations of those colors. There's a few I've seen that
I don't know. They advertisement is like a yellow. To me,
(36:36):
it's more of like a white, you know, But there
are some peaches too. There's like a high fragrance in
the Japanica side that one, which I don't know they
branded a high fragrances. I wouldn't say it's super super fragrant,
but like that one's more of like a peach pink,
whereas like and then there's a variety called she light
(36:58):
that will carry which we get and very small numbers.
Otherwise my entire hedge front hedge of my yard would
be that we're lucky to get fifteen of them, you know.
But those that's like a little peachey pink. So just
real neat, neat, little evergreen. If you want a glossy
dark green leaf to contrast all that fall color that
(37:22):
you've been planting or this, you know, just a good sub,
good sub for getting away from like say boxwoods or
Holly's things like that, if you you know, if you
want a little color to go with your dark green hedge.
So well, and while we got three minutes, I just
want to give a quick shout out again to the
(37:45):
and just notify everybody that the point set of open
house is coming up. Very exciting exciting time. That is
November twenty ninth, So that is a Saturday, November twenty ninth.
It'll hopefully be the first time I've ever ever been
able to go since I work at Greenwell now. But
(38:07):
it's free pictures with Santa, complimentary hot cocoa and cookies.
Kids can make reindier food and write write in mail
letters to Santa. It's from nine am to two pm
and that's off a It's at one oh seven to
one to three Crudinal Springs Road. And again it's a
(38:27):
really neat experience if you haven't been out there, because
you walk in there and it's just I mean it'd
be ten thousand point setus, like you know, it's like
two i mean two rooms full point setus and yeah,
well it's just like something you don't really think about.
You know, you're just like, oh, I'll buy one of
(38:48):
these at the store. Yeah, you know, but you don't
think about walking in and it's just wow, this is impressive.
And so it's it's a real neat thing that Ron
and Elena Fennel put on. That's who runs Colored Divisi
And just if you get a chance, it's great to
take the kids out there, or the grandkids, or if
you even just want to take a tour. You know,
(39:09):
it's just something that's really neat to see. Well, as always, Jessica,
it's been a pleasure, and apparently we ran out of time,
which what can we do? You know, I guess I
could just go on the radio show next week, you know, so,
but it as always, thank you for all the callers questions,
(39:31):
and you know, enjoy the weather in the football game.
Apparently it's supposed to rain this afternoon, so if it does,
let's try and stay dry and I'll see at the nursery.
Take care,
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