May 31, 2025 • 45 mins
We're talking weed control, how to watch your watering and more this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Zane & Braden from Clegg's Nursery! Also it's blueberry and blackberry season!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the Wgbolne and Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you have
a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns or questions.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
About landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine six. Good morning, baton rouge, and
welcome to the WGBO Line and Garden Show. My name
is Zane Mercer, joined here with Braden Bannadonna. Good morning.
We're with Clegg's Nursery at least for the next hour, right, No, so,
but we're both managers at the Seacon Lane location usually
(00:39):
so you can always find us there, sometimes more often
than a I want. But uh, well it's a wonderful
day out. Yeah. I woke up this morning, walked outside
and it wasn't hot. It was nice. Yeah, it's definitely
not here hot here at the station. Yeah, you know
my teeth you're about to start chatter. Yeah, I think
(01:00):
for producers trying to freeze this out. So I didn't
know I was supposed to wear pants. And you know
Long Jones.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
If you can find the thermostat that actually does the
air conditioning on this floor, I think you will. It's
like the golden ticket. We have eighty thousand thermostats on
this floor. We adjust all of them and we can
never quite figure out which one does well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, there's one in the corner side here, but that
looks like it's from the eighties, and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I don't think that's one that works. I think it's
the other one that's on the other wall, that is
the one you just.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
See that looks more updated. But I'm not sure that's
the thing. You just don't know. I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
There's like a twin of that one on the other
side of the wall, the old one, and that one
does does effect.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think that room. So it's it's nuts. It just
add more thermostats.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I just see.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I guess you said y'all are cold. I'm just used
to it. It's because you've got a whole beard, that's right.
I've got an automatic warmth on. Yeah. So but anyway, Yeah,
gorgeous day out. I mean, it's it's nice. It looks
like there's a good breeze, got some flags blown in
the wind. You know, a lot of stuff to talk
about at the nursery and out in the landscape. Though.
(02:10):
Uh so we're gonna go ahead and jump into it.
We wanted to. If you had any calls, questions, or concerns,
you could reach us at four nine to nine w JBO.
That's four nine nine two six. But I want to
talk about weed control. I know we had touched up
on it last time, last time I was here, probably
last week.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I want to say, almost every week, at some point
in this show, we have to we have to talk
about weeds.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's like the most thing. Yeah, people come into well
and you know, I mean to say, I talked about
it last week. Well the weeds didn't stop growing, No,
they didn't, So I mean we got to talked about
it this week. No, Uh, I was, Actually I was.
I had a cup of grass. Was that Tuesday before
the rain or lack of rain? I don't know. It
said it was going to rain, it started sprinkling. H
(02:58):
I still, yeah, what happened to all the rangers and
then just stopped. So, but I've got kalinga exploding in
the yard, same with Virginia button weed, And that's two
pretty heavily actively growing weeds right now that we have
out in the yard. Your crabgrass is kind of blowing
up too, So as soon as it goes to seed.
(03:20):
I mean, those seeds are gonna come up probably in
like two weeks. So it's just a kind of a
constant battle, right now. Yeah, no exactly so. But like
the Kalinga, which that's in the nutsedge family, which anyone
that has probably ever dealt with nutsedge knows it's a hassle. Yeah. Uh,
those products, the products we typically recommend for that it's
(03:40):
gonna be like your nutsedge control or there's a sadhammer. Yeah,
sad shammer doesn't work, is great on the Kalinga. Okay,
you know, but the there's that nuts edge Control by
Fertile Loan that we carry. That's a great product. It's
more affordable than the same active ingredient by itself because
(04:01):
that's usually like you know, you're looking at because they
used to use dismiss and that's just a little bit pricier.
And it caught. I mean you're looking at a pint.
It's like one hundred dollars or something like that. Oh wow,
and this is like this like several years ago. So
I have to look and see how much it costs now,
But it seems like it's kind of become more readily
(04:21):
available and a little bit more affordable. But that's just kalinga.
And we were talking about this before we went on air,
but it's like kalinga is probably the bane of my existence,
you know, I mean, like chamber better, I can at
least see, you know, nut's edge, I can see, yeah,
all right, but kalinga just kind of mats and fills
(04:43):
in through the grass and then you don't see it
till all of a sudden you got a big old patch.
It's like five by five sou But you know, and
button weed, of course, is pretty actively growing right now
as well. I saw some white flowers out, so that's
always exciting. Yeah, you know, and we use that MSM.
(05:03):
That's probably the i'd say, probably the best product that
And there's another product called Celsius that works really well
on it, and that's just a it's an interesting weed, uh,
because it grows by is to say, you cut your
grass and you chop it up and then you spread it.
(05:24):
All those cuttings can root all of them and then
that sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, And then they go
to seed too, and then the seeds come up. Seeds though,
I mean, and the seeds take longer, so they can
stay inactive in the soil for I think up to
it like a year, a year to eighteen months, I
(05:46):
want to say. So it's like it can be a
little it can be a constant battle. Yeah. So all right,
that's all I'm gonna talk about week control. All right,
move on to prettier stuff before it gets too hot
and nobody wants to go out in the yard. So
but uh, you know we mentioned about the weed control.
I wanted to touch up on. You know, we got
a lot of color still at the nursery. Yes, we
(06:08):
do things that are just I mean looking sharp. And
then we've got exciting thing right now is that all
of our high biscus are twenty percent off like davilla.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, and it'll not just like because in past years
when we do the high biscus cell.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It'll be just like the tropical high biscus. But this
year it's a little different. Yeah, and we wanted to
kind of streamline it a little bit. Uh you know,
So it's all tropical high biscus. So that's our cajun hibiscus,
the all of our patented hibiscus, and then the just
irregular tropicals. There's also the perennial. Yeah, the perennials too,
(06:46):
so it's gonna be like your luna hibiscus, and then
we start getting in the neat little proven winter yeah,
the summerrific. Yeah, and those are gorgeous. I mean the
typically people call them like the dinner plate hibiscus. That's
a I mean the flowers like it's huge, like it's
almost twelve inches wide. Yeah, you know, and they open
(07:07):
and then they'll close usually after like a day or so,
and then you get another flower, right, So it's a
real neat hibiscus that just comes back every year. The
only thing I will say about perennial high biscus is
there one thirsty plant. It's weird though, because like an
established tropical doesn't really require as much water as you know,
(07:29):
but it and they show you too, so that's always good. Yeah. No, uh,
I've been real happy. I had one not come back
this year, which I was a little bummed out about.
They usually on my perennial higbiscus will come back. Yeah yeah,
And I mean, as Braden was saying, we normally it's
(07:49):
normally just tropical hibiscus and our mandavilla that we'll put
on sale, but we had extended it. The only thing
it's not on the sial. It's going to be like
your out thea in your Confederate rose. Yeah, those are
I mean, because those are two just like we kind
of consider them just shrubs. You know, shrubs will carry
all year round. So and also we got in some
(08:13):
aphrodite althea, so break dow. Don't know if you've got
a chance to walk out on the lot ever, but
I don't know. Yeah, but we've got those aphrodite in finally,
and that's a neat althea. What color does that? Isn't
that one like a darker it's like a dark pink
di fuchia. Yeah, and that it has an open open
(08:34):
face versus like the double bloom, which a lot of
people want, like a double bloom flower. And because it
gives more color. Yeah, I like that aphrodity though, because
it's a it's a two tone, so you'll have it's
like a dark fuchia pink and then as it ages
it will kind of lighten a little bit. But then
(08:55):
it's got like a dark, dark red throat on the inside.
So it's just a real neat little perennial plant. That
just I mean comes back every year. You trim it,
you can turn them into multi trunk trees. Yeah, it's
just a neat little plant. We had some that were
in tree form. They were really nice. And actually we
may still have some. Yeah, I think it's one or
(09:17):
two left over at the Seacan store. So but we've
got you know, Lantanas, Xenia's angelonia, Yeah, and Xenias. They're
picking back up again because of our color Division growing operation.
They started having them back on availability. So I've been
bringing them in and they look really good. See, I
(09:39):
like senias. I've got a little planting at the house
of I've got some uprights and then I've got some
zesties like tucked in another spot. And it's kind of
it is such a colorful plant when they're growing well
and happy. Yeah, you know, but it's like my zesty orange.
(09:59):
The just like brown up at a point. How how
oftener are you watering them? Because I really find Xenia's
like a little neglect Yeah yeah, water room every two days.
All right, Maybe that's too much. I don't know. I
don't know, but what ends up happening is is they
brown up and then I come back like a month
later or two months later, and I've got they've all
(10:22):
seated in the area, so then those are all pretty.
So it's it's kind of neat because it just kind
of cycles through. Yeah, so but I've got that. And
then I don't know if you carried a lot. I
know you had some, but like the cosmos, oh yeah,
later in the season, Cosmo, we still have some. I
haven't seen any flowers on mine yet, you know, but
(10:42):
I mean I love the foliage because it's just I mean,
it's unique. So we had some cosmos.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Uh, well, we did like a wild flower seed mix
a couple of years ago that we just threw out.
It's probably the same tried to get like four feet
tall before they started.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well that's what yeah, I had last year. We probably
used the same seed mix. I had put some out
and yeah, it was like four foot tall and then
it fell over. Yeah, and then it starts just like
growing up in spikes all over my plants. And I
was like, well, I'll dig it up, I guess, you know.
But we've got and we've got to sail on lantana too,
(11:21):
so that's always good and sun patients, you know, And
I've been I've been real happy with the lantana selection
this year or are there some patients still on? So
I believe? So okay, if you have any left. Yeah,
they've been calling quick. It's because I talked about them
last week on our you know, Plants of the Week discussion.
You know. Now they that's me another plant where it's
(11:42):
just it puts out a ton of color. Yeah, you know.
So yeah, we did those this year around some sunshine lagustrooms. Yeah,
and against that yellow, they just really pop. They look good. Yeah,
I mean your Vinka tables have been looking great. I'm
not a big fan of inca personally, but it does
make an impact.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It does, and I understand why people use that so
much because of how well it does. A lot of
things just really struggle through a heat, and Vinka is
not one of those.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, No, And that's it. I don't know. It's it's
hard because you get so say you plant late, right,
So like if I if I go plant salvia or
a lantana late, like say July, all right, I'm gonna
have a heck of a time getting watered. Yeah, Like,
I mean, it's gonna be hard. Yeah, not venka, you know,
(12:38):
So I mean, every every plant has this little purpose
kind of deal. Good morning, go ahead, thank Jeremy for
your Thank you, Jeremy for my bumper music. Look, I'm
telling you right between that and Lady Gaga perfect like
dishwashing music. All right, that's not where I expected to go.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
No, I mean, I'll ever heard people say I can't
wait to crank up my Lady Gaga and chappel rowan playlist.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
To wash dishes. You know, don't do it often, but
when I do, I definitely play play some music. So wait,
So what you're saying now is you don't wash dishes
that often. I try to get around it. Look, if
(13:25):
I if I got to go cut the grass, I
gotta go cut the grass, you know. So anyway, moving on,
if y'all had any calls or questions concerns, one tell
me I needed to go probably wash dishes more often
you could reach us set four NI. So this next
segment I wanted to talk about we're kind of moving
(13:45):
into uh we want to start talking about a plant
of the Week and spend a whole segment on that,
but I know it isn't exciting. So Plant of the
Week this week is Vitex or a chase tree, or
as I've been hearing a lot in the nursery, that
tree blooming purple everywheres right now exactly exactly now. Gorgeous
(14:11):
little plant. You know, it's typically it's viewed as a
large let's say, a large shrub, small tree. Yeah, I
prefer him as a tree personally, me too, but I've
seen it. I've used him as a hedgerow before, and
that also is a very I mean, it's just attractive plant.
(14:33):
It's a typically they all bloom like a bluish to
a purple. There are some white and pink cultivars out there, yeah,
we get those from time to time. I find they
don't bloom near as well as any of the blues.
But it's an awesome little plant. It's good for really
full sun, but it's it's pretty adaptable, so like full sun,
(14:57):
well draining soil. But I've seen to do well in
like a little bit more moist conditions to a little
bit of shape like afternoon shad where it's still blooms.
It still blooms. Great. Was that I dug up one
years ago at for a customer. I planted it and
then I don't know, five years later, she decided she
(15:17):
wanted a high biscuits there instead, So I cut it
to a stump and dug it up and planted it
in the front yard at my parent's house. Nice, And
it's usually how I was. I think it's like two
or three people that I had never met before that
they just like whipped up on at my parents house.
It was like, what's this plant? You know, Like there's
(15:38):
an older gentleman that comes in shops at the seaking store.
And that's probably my favorite favorite memory of My parents
were just telling me about and some guy drove up
and then I meet the guy because he comes and
finds so but it's a neat I mean, it's a
really cool plant. They typically get, you know, four to
(15:59):
Like there's some semi dwarf varieties like we'll carry the
rock Steady. I like that one. I saw those come
in and those are those get four to six foot.
If you wanted something a little smaller, yeah, then there's
your shoal Creek. That's hug show stopped. Yeah, that's the
that's the one that gets big or I say it big,
(16:20):
it gets pretty big. Eight to fifteen, Yeah, somewhere in
that ball range and it's really cool. Uh. When I
started at Clegg's, the Seagan store had one planet along
the Julia Aubn roade and I mean it was when
it went into bloom. I mean it was just a
giant blue purple shrub. Yeah. I mean it was gorgeous
(16:43):
and uh there you know, like I was saying, they're
adaptable for your planning location typically, all right, I find
there like if you limb them up into like that
multi trunk patio tree kind of thing, kind of like
how you do with a crape myrtle. Yeah, uh it,
I mean it's just it's gorgeous, you know. I mean
(17:04):
it's pristine. It's got character definitely, you know, because the
just the way the branching grows. Yeah. I do have
a question about Vitex. So so in my neighborhood there's
there's a lot of vtext and one of the issues
I've noticed with them, and I think this is the
right terminology, they get a lot of water shoots. Yeah,
(17:27):
the branching that just goes straight up yep. Is there
a way to prevent that from happening? Or do you
just have to go through and prune them back? When
it happened yeah, you're prevent it with clippers. You just
try to catch it early. What still, Yeah, so typically
when you do your you want to do a prune
before they leave out, and so you'll you'll go and
(17:49):
what I'll typically do is I'll go around the all
like the outer exterior of the branching, and I will
do a small trim, just like how you typically do
with a crape marble, where you're tipping the the very
ends of the branches, right, And that's just to help
stimulate new growth. Yeah, And then I.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Go, isn't it like wherever you prune, that's generally somewhere
as close to that area where yeah, you have a
growth note, you have a growth node activate behind that, right,
So typically if you cut a branch all right, there's
going to be a growth node behind typically like just
like six inches whatever it depends on the plant, but
(18:31):
that'll activate and it'll.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Typically it'll fork out there. Yeah. So by tipping the
all the outside, that'll help with the water well, it'll
help promote good flowering. And then any water shoots that
come farther down from the trunk you'll just clean you'll
just clip those out. So but ideally, yes, you just
prune them early so that they don't just grow straight up.
(18:55):
There's a lot of trees in my neighborhood. In my
neighborhood that do that. It's very prominent with text like
crape myrtles, crepe myrtles, it's very prominent with crape myrtles. Yeah. So,
and it's kind of the same deal where you just
trim them. And that's why Vitex is an awesome alternative
to a crepe myrtle. You know, it's like you've got
your small, small, to i'll say medium flowering trees. Yeah.
(19:22):
Typically viewed as like your fringe tree, your vitex, your
crate myrtle. Those are probably your three like biggest winners
as far as that goes. Whereas it like puts on
a huge statement, right and then has really cool branching interest.
Yeah so. But the another thing that's neat about them
(19:45):
is they're deer resistant.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So so I've always and I kind of got this
from Johnny Naylor. Uh, plants are are deer resistant, but
it's only it depends on how hungry the deer is exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Exactly if they got if they've got other food sources
that are more desirable they're going to go for that
right over the vitex. But then if there's nothing, then
they'll go to the exactly exactly so but h and
also it's a good nectar source like you for your
native bees, your honey bees and butterflies. Yeah. Yeah, and
(20:23):
so if you want to see because I usually I mean,
like I have a bunch of butterfly attractants and stuff,
but I get more excited seeing bees because I love, like,
you know, so say I'm out pulling weeds and stuff,
it's it's nice to hear like the buzzing, you know,
and like the flowers and stuff like that. It's like,
I don't know, a nostalgic, you know, me growing up
(20:46):
and you know, I remember my grandmother had a basil
bush planted in like a little pot or something and
it was just always buzzing because she let it go
to flower. So another neat thing about the vite that
we didn't talk about was that it was nominated and
chosen for LSU Super Point Award. Now is that the
(21:08):
just the soul creek, that's it, the Shoal The Shoal
Creek is what they did the study on. Okay, so
and which means it was able to live at they
have in research station and thrive. Nice. That's usually I
mean they've got more criteria than that. But that was
always my understanding was like if it does really because
(21:29):
they just they have these beds out there. Yeah, I've
been there before, and I mean it's neat. I mean
you can really walk around for three hours, yeah, you
know and just be like, oh, they got this out
there and that. You know. So, but it's uh and
one thing I was I'd like to do a little
bit of reading. One thing I thought was really cool
is that it's been cultivated in North America for like
(21:51):
four hundred years. Wow. Yeah, where does that originate from?
Like southern Europe? It's interesting. Yeah. So I thought that
was kind of neat because it was like it was fact,
a little fact I didn't know. Yeah, not that I
ever use it too often, but it was like, you know,
it was it was something I honestly didn't really expect it.
(22:12):
There's a lot of plants, uh, you know, I mean
stuff is imported in right, and then there's culture bars
that are in North America, but like the Fringe Tree
for instance. You know, it's like, yeah, a lot of
our staple landscape plants. It seems like they're like originate
from Asia. Yeah, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff,
(22:34):
you know. And then so it was cool. I was
like I wouldn't have thought Europe, right, you know. And
then I mean, but it's stuff like that where I'm
like kind of tickled because it's like that's super neat actually,
and Molly would call me a nerd about it. So, uh,
but you know, pretty low maintenance, like we talked about,
we talked about all the just like mild pruning just
(22:56):
to cut it back to flesh out, uh, just general
purpose fertilizer on it and just a flush out a
bunch of good growth, and you know, it's just it's
an awesome little alternative if you're tired of looking at
a crepe myrtle. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
So I don't feel like those would be as messy
as a crpe myrtle either.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I feel like it's tomato tomato kind of thing because
like the the seeds or like look like these little
grains almost you know, but I don't find that they're
I mean, they're not gonna stain, they won't stay in
the ground. Yeah, does that makes sense? So but you
know that was the plant of the week plant of
(23:40):
the wheat. I know, doesn't that have a good ring?
So let it make us a little jingle for that man.
We got two more segments. I know, no phone callers
went of all lines. I know, I know, and y'all
can't see on the computer screen, but we've got twelve
phone lines. All right? Oh wait, try I turn the
(24:01):
phones on. You could? You know. All I'm saying is
if Butcher was here, they'd be full. And the Seagan
Lane moment we turn the answer machine off. Dude, this
is a story of my life. I think I haven't.
I think I have waking nightmares about forgetting to turn
the answer machine off, roll over off the side of
(24:21):
the bed, trying to push the answer machine off. No, so, uh, yeah,
we've got to talk about our plant of the week.
The vitex uh talked a little bit about color, some
weed control. One neat things going on right now is
it is blueberry season? Yeah, yeah, and BlackBerry season. But
(24:44):
it's is it like time to start harvesting blueberries? Oh? Yes,
Oh they've been they've been turning. Yeah. So there's several
different varieties, so they'll they'll ripen from like mid to
late April all the way through like June and July.
Oh wow. Yeah, so it just depends on the variety. Yeah.
(25:05):
So like if you were to walk out, so say,
go to the blueberry section, that's segan I've got I
think it's five different these a blueberries, and you can
tell like, okay, this one's finishing up, like Delight. Delight
was early, So Delight's finishing up all right. I don't
think there's anything on there because they ate them all
you know. No, I'm just kidding, but that one's pretty
(25:27):
much finished up. Your Powder Blue is finishing up all right.
But you're you've got like your premiere and like some
of your uh it's either Climax or Bright. Well one
of them that's just like completely loaded, Like the three
gallons have probably seventy five berries on them, like nice,
you know, and that's an I mean, that's just a
interesting plane anyway, because I don't know, do you y'all
(25:49):
have any blueberries at your house? Ah? Yeah, actually we
have two all right. Even if you didn't want to
eat the blueberries. It is a cool like ornamental plant.
I do like the little flowers. Yeah, like the flowers
aneath the kind of bell shapes they remind me of
like the pyrus. Yeah. And then you know, great little
(26:11):
nectar source for the bees. And they do have like
a blue hue to their their foliage. Yeah. And then
I like the actually like the fall interest because the
leaves will start turn turning orange. Yeah. And then during
the winter the stems will be especially once they're because
they will kind of exfoliate their bark kind of like
(26:32):
a great myrtle will. And once they have that fresh bark,
I mean it's like bright, kind of orangeish red, kind
of like a coral bark, yeah, exactly. And so it's
I mean it's still a pretty little plant, and I
don't know, it just it reminds me of childhood. And
they're not very hard to grow, to be able to
(26:54):
not particularly.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Two big things with them is they are big on
They like the soil, real acidic. Yeah. And they like
cross pollination. That's like the two biggest things with them.
They like genetic diversity. So like, so you have one
one blueberry, well that's not gonna get you very many
(27:17):
at all, right, but if you had one of say
a premiere and one of a climax, right, well one
of them all right, those will cross pollinate each other, right,
you end up getting more more blueberry. You get more
blueberries not just because you have two, but because they
kind of going to overdrive because all of a sudden,
(27:38):
all the berries or all the flowers excuse me, are
getting pollinated. And so you'll I mean, and as as
long as your pH is acidic, because they like it
at like a four point nine. They're weird, they like
it really acidic. Yeah, and they'll just I mean, they
will load down. Like if you go to like, say,
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the blueberry farm, So if you've ever been to one
breeding but I mean, there's just covered. It's I remember
going to them with my mom when I was a kid,
but it's been a long time. Yeah, but there were
a lot of blueberries yep. And then blackberries. Those are
probably my top favor favorite. Oh wait till you go
(28:19):
to the crawfish boil tonight. The BlackBerry bushes are full. Yeah. Now,
I've been really excited that this year in particular. We
had some a few last year, but this year our
Color Division department out off of Greenwell Springs Road has
been growing blackberries. Not just they're doing some in ground
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I think are in pots. I think they're well, they
may have some. Yeah, there were some in pots, but
they're in raised beds. Yeah, but we're they were growing
some for sale, and they did. It was like the Freedom,
Primark Freedom, the Primark Traveler. There's taste of heaven and
and cutie pie. But I don't know what qute pie
tastes like, but I do know the Freedom and the
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Traveler or that chef's that's a chef's kiss right there.
I mean that's delicious, especially the Freedom. I mean it's
just a heavy producer. Occasionally, if the weather's right, you
get some get fruit in December, which was kind of neat. Now,
I always remember walking it was. I mean it was
like December tenth or something like that, right after my
(29:23):
birthday and go out by my parents and I'm walking around.
I'm like, oh, there's blackberries on the fruit on the vine.
That's awesome, you know, And I mean they're big, they
taste great. For a while, I wasn't really impressed with
many of the thornless varieties like that, just because like
(29:44):
they didn't seem to produce as well or grow nearly
as vigorously as some of the thorned really yeah, so
like your Brassos has been around forever and that's what
that's what I grew up eating. It's like, yeah, terry
with the thorns. But it was like, I mean, it
put on like five hundred berries, you know. And that
(30:06):
plant of these Freedom when we had I don't know
a time, it just started ordering them, man like they
had just kind of became available, and it's like, outproduce
this plant that's been around for been around forever. Yeah,
and it's thornless, you know. So which one is that?
The Freedom? The Primark Freedom, and so it's just I mean,
(30:28):
like top notch. So I don't know about the taste
of heaven yet, but the plant itself was extremely vigorous.
Is that the Proven Winters one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that
one just looks extremely vigorous, just like the Freedom does.
It did, so I wouldn't be surprised, especially with the
way Proven Winter kind of works their plants, because they
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you know, for them to select something, it's got to
be pretty prolific or successful. So that one I expect
to be just as good as the Freedom. If I
can find if I can find a berry, you know,
I can comment on how good they taste now, but
that again, they've just been doing a great job growing
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stuff over a Color Division. I mean though that the
fact that so we typically will have just a few
variety of figs, but they've been able to come up
with some Magnolia figs, which is an older variety, really
good tasting it, real real sweet. Looks almost like it's
writing with it because it has so much sugar and
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so juicy. When it's ripe, it's like I can't tell
if that's past ripe or perfect. And then there was
a few other ones that they did this year and
I was like, oh, I have to try him. You know,
I think there was a tiger or a Lsu tiger
I forget. And so anyway, you.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Know, one thing that I feel like Color Division is
kind of famous for now is the Bogan villas, and
they have been in.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Just I think I think that is our top growing
or sole plant. I mean, I know, we moved some
out of our location off of seam well. I mean
it's just their baskets. I mean, they come in all
kinds of coppers, but their baskets, especially this year, it's
just been incredible. Yeah, you know, it's like like early
(32:25):
early to what would you say, late spring, We've had
we had the baskets like the entire time. Yeah, right,
And I mean, honest, honestly, I don't think they could
deliver them fast enough to us. They couldn't. I couldn't.
It didn't matter how many I ordered. You get fifty baskets, right,
and by the time you take two buggies out to
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their little sales rack the half goughe yeah exactly, you know.
And then they've actually been doing They did some patio trees,
which I'm weird, pretty well they did well. I don't
don't they look weird to me, if that make sense.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
They need to have more of it, like a cannopy
because they're a vine they kind of just want to
grow up.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
But it's like a patio tree rose to me, where
it's like they just look kind of weird. That's just
I'm not, you know, not that there's anything wrong with it,
because there's not. It just looks kind of out of
place to me. It's like a single trunk crape myrtle
doesn't look natural and it doesn't look natural to me. Yeah,
I like multi trunk.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
So no, they were the especially because all the ones
that we had were the braided trunk.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
They looked really neat. No, I mean they were neat,
they were pretty. And then they've been doing seven gallon
in fifteen galon, which they're short that they are so full. Yeah,
remember the first one we got in the fifteen gallon
at the beginning of this season. It was like a
coral color bloom. We sold in like twenty minutes. Yes,
like I brought it. I brought it out and it
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was gone. You know. No, they just I mean, and
I don't know what they do over there, you know,
but it's like they just know how to grow some
boken villa. Yes, they And if you ever get a
chance to tour, like like a little day trip, you
can go to the green or spring store and I'll
take you over there and walk you around. And I
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mean it's table after table after table, a broken via
and they're all in color so and then they have
them hanging up above the tables because there's not enough room.
Speaking of which, because I did the company Crawfish Bowl
last night, I got a chance to walk around the
Color Division area some of their greenhouses. They had some
(34:33):
fifteen gallon papia trees, that were like up in the rafters. Yeah,
those are the ones from last year. Yeah. Uh now
they're and those are grown pretty much just for the
employees over there. But it's like they got I mean
they got pineapples growing.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, they got they have some blue or some tomato
plants in there that look like they've been in there
for a few years.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
All I'm saying is, I don't I don't think. I
don't think the guy's got to go to the grocery store, now,
you know. And it's a I mean it's just a
kind of cool sight because you go over there and
I mean they got they've got chickens, you got rabbits
or a rabbit and then uh you know, I mean
these raised beds. Yeah, and the raised beds are really nice.
(35:19):
And it's not the most uh it's not the biggest
setup I've ever seen, but because it's it's like four
I think four houses or five houses something like that. Yeah,
but it is, it means just a cool thing to
see because it's like everything is constantly rotating, rotating, rotating, rotating,
and like was it I think it was there last
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week or the week before, and it was kind of
strange because I walk walk into Greenhouse two I think
one or two, and I walk in the corner and
see point sets and it's these little six inch plants
that are going to turn into four half five foot
tall trees right for Christmas season. Yeap, you know. Yes.
(36:05):
Elena was cracking me up about it. She's like, yeah,
those are those are the patio trees. So cool. No,
and it's kind of neat. I mean, it's just they've
got everything planned out on a week basis throughout the year,
so it's like you'll have you know, white Finka, white
polkadon Minco will be ready you know, week thirty three
(36:28):
or whatever, you know, and it's it's just a it's
a neat setup how everything's designed. Yeah, good morning, Linda.
How are you.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
I'm fine, This is Linda.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
So what can we do to help you?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (36:41):
I was wondering if it's terrible to trim my Suscincua
right now. They have some oversprayed paint from a paint
job that I had done, and the leaves are you know, painted,
not painted, but like little droplets. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, oh yeah, you're good to go go ahead and
trim them. Uh. I may in fact, I think that's
on my Tuesday list of my house. You know, typically
we don't want to prune your succinquas till after or
after they blew, all right, because that right, but they're
not gonna set their flowers until usually around July. So
(37:23):
you should be yea, you should be good to just
go in there and give it a little bit of trimming.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, but don't not too drastic as what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, no, I would just do a little mile prune.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, I'm just wondering what if I leave it alone,
and you know, does that hurt the entire plant to
block you know, have paint blocking the.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Sun like that, it's going to block those leaves. So
I would go ahead and trim it.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Okay, all right, I'm kind of debating between you.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Is it severe or is it just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
It's a little bit, but it's how do I put this?
It's not it's like maybe if I hide to estimate opaque,
and but it's quite a lot of leaves, and so
I'm worried about.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, I may not trim all, like get all of it,
but just give it, just give it a little trim
because you'll get another leaf flush, okay, and then those
leaves won't have pain on them.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
So all right, now, okay, thank you, dere You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I just want to say props to Jeremy for trying
to spell susanka, even if it was just a jumble
of letters.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah. Yeah, No, that was a good question, very good question.
Linda definitely wins the award today. Yeah, first caller, she
saved the show. No exactly exactly. So I have a
few four things on my list to talk about, if
that's all right with you, okay, because we only have
nine minutes. So I want to talk about since it
(39:04):
is the time of the year where I roll the
soap box over and talk about watering, we need to
start kind of watching her watering. Yeah, so there is
a proper way to water through the summertime. Yeah, so
you want to water deeply, right, but lower frequency. So
(39:28):
typically I'll set my sprinkler, say forty five minutes, but
then it only runs every two to three days. And
this time of year, like, you do start seeing a
lot of pest issues and stuff on plants. But it
generally seems like when a customer comes in with an
issue that they're concerned about.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
It's it's almost nine times out of ten of a
water issue. Yeah, yeah, it's very common.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I will say that, Like some like my landscape do
forty five minutes every two to three days. Right, those
are almost established plants, all right, So something that's been
in the ground two three months is going to have
a much more developed root system than something that's say
(40:16):
you put on the ground two weeks ago, right, all right,
So like salvia, for instance, I like to plant with
salvia early so then I don't have to fight watering it.
Like yeah, so I'll plan it, you know, And I've
had existing salvia that was planted last year in the
year before, and it's like, well that that stuff's completely fine.
Yeah all right, But it's like the bigger the root system,
(40:39):
the more moisture. Yeah, it's nutrients they're able to pull in.
So it's like something with like a I mean, how
many inches would you say a gallon pot is six closer? Sure?
Five inch six inch something like that, So I mean
you got five inches of root ball to pull in
water from, all right, Versus like if I ripped up
(41:02):
my salvia right now, it's probably like at least a
foot or deeper. Yeah, Well, I wouldn't say it's not
gonna be too deep. Probably, I'd say they're probably ten
inches deep, but they're gonna spread out. Yeah, But the
width though is probably twenty two inches and twenty inches.
You know, it has a good root system. So we
want to just make sure we water a long period
of time, just not often, all right. If we if
(41:25):
we water too often, to say, water every morning, all right,
and only two minutes, that water is not really penetrating
into the soil, right, So if you go long period
of time, it'll actually soak into the soil kind of
help keep the soil from getting hydrophobic, right. And obviously
ideally we would get a rainfall. And I would say
(41:46):
generally when it's hot, you have to water things that
are in pots more often than things that are in
your garden. And that's why I recommend that soil moist
that we sell that little polymer, because it's just I mean,
in the middle of the summer, you're like fighting it,
fight at fighting it, and that just kind of helps
(42:06):
mitigate that. So and you know, I also wanted to
just quickly mention a little shout out they're doing a
they've got a Native Professional Certification program. Now nice, I know,
I know who's this with the Louisiana Native Plant Society. Okay, yeah,
so it's real neat. I've been following kind of following
(42:28):
it because it's like, man, I might if I get
some free time, I might go and take that test.
But it's neat, It's it's real. Some I feel like it,
and I have got to do a little bit more
reading up on it, but it seems like it's very
reminiscent of like the nursery professional course that I took
with Dan Gill. And I don't know who taught your
course because you win as well. I can't remember the
(42:51):
guy's name now, Yeah, but you know, but it's just it.
It's a program designed to kind to immerse you in
the topic. It's like a step up from having just
your horticulture's license because the test for the or for
(43:11):
at least a l n LA exam was like a
supposed to be a little bit harder than if you
were to go get your Horticulture's license. Yeah, and honestly,
it's been so long I couldn't tell you which one
of those was harder. I feel, you know, I think
Dan when Dan taught the course, it was I felt
like it was a little harder, you know. But then
(43:32):
I went during the like the winter months, so everything
I'm trying to id sticks that was me too.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Well, I don't know if it was the winter months,
but if it wasn't, things were like just starting to
come back into season.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah. So I'm like, I'm over here, like you're trying
to get me an idea a stick. And thankfully I
would that part didn't bother me. I was more worried
about the the weed identifications stuff. So and like you
went to the Hammond Research Station fears, Okay, so that's
where I went. And so again it's just I mean,
it's a neat place to go out to. Oh yeah,
(44:09):
you know, because it's it's kind of interesting. They just
get to play with plants all day. Yeah. I like that.
That's their job. You know.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
I'm sure it's a little more labor intensive than playing
with plants.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yeah. So if you're interested in, you know, kind of
immersing more in like native cultivars of plants, check out
that program. I know, I know they're on their Facebook page.
They've been advertising it for it a bunch so, but
a real NEAT program. I think it's a really good
(44:41):
thing to kind of introduce because it kind of expands
because you know, as we talked about, a lot of
stuff comes from like Europe, China, Asia just in general,
and so it's NEAT a lot of a lot of people,
myself included. You know, I don't know as much as
probably should or need to regarding like just different native cultures.
(45:07):
So it's just cool little program. So check it out.
So Jeremy, I would just like to say thank you,
I mean, for all your bumper music and also Linda,
thank you for being our one caller today. Are hero. Yeah,
And if y'all had any calls or questions that you
(45:28):
didn't call, you can find us at the Second Lane
Nursery at least until five thirty. And y'all have a
wonderful Saturday. Take care
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the Wgbolne and Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you have
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About landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine six. Good morning, baton rouge, and
welcome to the WGBO Line and Garden Show. My name
is Zane Mercer, joined here with Braden Bannadonna. Good morning.
We're with Clegg's Nursery at least for the next hour, right, No, so,
but we're both managers at the Seacon Lane location usually
(00:39):
so you can always find us there, sometimes more often
than a I want. But uh, well it's a wonderful
day out. Yeah. I woke up this morning, walked outside
and it wasn't hot. It was nice. Yeah, it's definitely
not here hot here at the station. Yeah, you know
my teeth you're about to start chatter. Yeah, I think
(01:00):
for producers trying to freeze this out. So I didn't
know I was supposed to wear pants. And you know
Long Jones.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
If you can find the thermostat that actually does the
air conditioning on this floor, I think you will. It's
like the golden ticket. We have eighty thousand thermostats on
this floor. We adjust all of them and we can
never quite figure out which one does well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, there's one in the corner side here, but that
looks like it's from the eighties, and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I don't think that's one that works. I think it's
the other one that's on the other wall, that is
the one you just.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
See that looks more updated. But I'm not sure that's
the thing. You just don't know. I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
There's like a twin of that one on the other
side of the wall, the old one, and that one
does does effect.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think that room. So it's it's nuts. It just
add more thermostats.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I just see.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I guess you said y'all are cold. I'm just used
to it. It's because you've got a whole beard, that's right.
I've got an automatic warmth on. Yeah. So but anyway, Yeah,
gorgeous day out. I mean, it's it's nice. It looks
like there's a good breeze, got some flags blown in
the wind. You know, a lot of stuff to talk
about at the nursery and out in the landscape. Though.
(02:10):
Uh so we're gonna go ahead and jump into it.
We wanted to. If you had any calls, questions, or concerns,
you could reach us at four nine to nine w JBO.
That's four nine nine two six. But I want to
talk about weed control. I know we had touched up
on it last time, last time I was here, probably
last week.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I want to say, almost every week, at some point
in this show, we have to we have to talk
about weeds.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's like the most thing. Yeah, people come into well
and you know, I mean to say, I talked about
it last week. Well the weeds didn't stop growing, No,
they didn't, So I mean we got to talked about
it this week. No, Uh, I was, Actually I was.
I had a cup of grass. Was that Tuesday before
the rain or lack of rain? I don't know. It
said it was going to rain, it started sprinkling. H
(02:58):
I still, yeah, what happened to all the rangers and
then just stopped. So, but I've got kalinga exploding in
the yard, same with Virginia button weed, And that's two
pretty heavily actively growing weeds right now that we have
out in the yard. Your crabgrass is kind of blowing
up too, So as soon as it goes to seed.
(03:20):
I mean, those seeds are gonna come up probably in
like two weeks. So it's just a kind of a
constant battle, right now. Yeah, no exactly so. But like
the Kalinga, which that's in the nutsedge family, which anyone
that has probably ever dealt with nutsedge knows it's a hassle. Yeah. Uh,
those products, the products we typically recommend for that it's
(03:40):
gonna be like your nutsedge control or there's a sadhammer. Yeah,
sad shammer doesn't work, is great on the Kalinga. Okay,
you know, but the there's that nuts edge Control by
Fertile Loan that we carry. That's a great product. It's
more affordable than the same active ingredient by itself because
(04:01):
that's usually like you know, you're looking at because they
used to use dismiss and that's just a little bit pricier.
And it caught. I mean you're looking at a pint.
It's like one hundred dollars or something like that. Oh wow,
and this is like this like several years ago. So
I have to look and see how much it costs now,
But it seems like it's kind of become more readily
(04:21):
available and a little bit more affordable. But that's just kalinga.
And we were talking about this before we went on air,
but it's like kalinga is probably the bane of my existence,
you know, I mean, like chamber better, I can at
least see, you know, nut's edge, I can see, yeah,
all right, but kalinga just kind of mats and fills
(04:43):
in through the grass and then you don't see it
till all of a sudden you got a big old patch.
It's like five by five sou But you know, and
button weed, of course, is pretty actively growing right now
as well. I saw some white flowers out, so that's
always exciting. Yeah, you know, and we use that MSM.
(05:03):
That's probably the i'd say, probably the best product that
And there's another product called Celsius that works really well
on it, and that's just a it's an interesting weed, uh,
because it grows by is to say, you cut your
grass and you chop it up and then you spread it.
(05:24):
All those cuttings can root all of them and then
that sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, And then they go
to seed too, and then the seeds come up. Seeds though,
I mean, and the seeds take longer, so they can
stay inactive in the soil for I think up to
it like a year, a year to eighteen months, I
(05:46):
want to say. So it's like it can be a
little it can be a constant battle. Yeah. So all right,
that's all I'm gonna talk about week control. All right,
move on to prettier stuff before it gets too hot
and nobody wants to go out in the yard. So
but uh, you know we mentioned about the weed control.
I wanted to touch up on. You know, we got
a lot of color still at the nursery. Yes, we
(06:08):
do things that are just I mean looking sharp. And
then we've got exciting thing right now is that all
of our high biscus are twenty percent off like davilla.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, and it'll not just like because in past years
when we do the high biscus cell.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It'll be just like the tropical high biscus. But this
year it's a little different. Yeah, and we wanted to
kind of streamline it a little bit. Uh you know,
So it's all tropical high biscus. So that's our cajun hibiscus,
the all of our patented hibiscus, and then the just
irregular tropicals. There's also the perennial. Yeah, the perennials too,
(06:46):
so it's gonna be like your luna hibiscus, and then
we start getting in the neat little proven winter yeah,
the summerrific. Yeah, and those are gorgeous. I mean the
typically people call them like the dinner plate hibiscus. That's
a I mean the flowers like it's huge, like it's
almost twelve inches wide. Yeah, you know, and they open
(07:07):
and then they'll close usually after like a day or so,
and then you get another flower, right, So it's a
real neat hibiscus that just comes back every year. The
only thing I will say about perennial high biscus is
there one thirsty plant. It's weird though, because like an
established tropical doesn't really require as much water as you know,
(07:29):
but it and they show you too, so that's always good. Yeah. No, uh,
I've been real happy. I had one not come back
this year, which I was a little bummed out about.
They usually on my perennial higbiscus will come back. Yeah yeah,
And I mean, as Braden was saying, we normally it's
(07:49):
normally just tropical hibiscus and our mandavilla that we'll put
on sale, but we had extended it. The only thing
it's not on the sial. It's going to be like
your out thea in your Confederate rose. Yeah, those are
I mean, because those are two just like we kind
of consider them just shrubs. You know, shrubs will carry
all year round. So and also we got in some
(08:13):
aphrodite althea, so break dow. Don't know if you've got
a chance to walk out on the lot ever, but
I don't know. Yeah, but we've got those aphrodite in finally,
and that's a neat althea. What color does that? Isn't
that one like a darker it's like a dark pink
di fuchia. Yeah, and that it has an open open
(08:34):
face versus like the double bloom, which a lot of
people want, like a double bloom flower. And because it
gives more color. Yeah, I like that aphrodity though, because
it's a it's a two tone, so you'll have it's
like a dark fuchia pink and then as it ages
it will kind of lighten a little bit. But then
(08:55):
it's got like a dark, dark red throat on the inside.
So it's just a real neat little perennial plant. That
just I mean comes back every year. You trim it,
you can turn them into multi trunk trees. Yeah, it's
just a neat little plant. We had some that were
in tree form. They were really nice. And actually we
may still have some. Yeah, I think it's one or
(09:17):
two left over at the Seacan store. So but we've
got you know, Lantanas, Xenia's angelonia, Yeah, and Xenias. They're
picking back up again because of our color Division growing operation.
They started having them back on availability. So I've been
bringing them in and they look really good. See, I
(09:39):
like senias. I've got a little planting at the house
of I've got some uprights and then I've got some
zesties like tucked in another spot. And it's kind of
it is such a colorful plant when they're growing well
and happy. Yeah, you know, but it's like my zesty orange.
(09:59):
The just like brown up at a point. How how
oftener are you watering them? Because I really find Xenia's
like a little neglect Yeah yeah, water room every two days.
All right, Maybe that's too much. I don't know. I
don't know, but what ends up happening is is they
brown up and then I come back like a month
later or two months later, and I've got they've all
(10:22):
seated in the area, so then those are all pretty.
So it's it's kind of neat because it just kind
of cycles through. Yeah, so but I've got that. And
then I don't know if you carried a lot. I
know you had some, but like the cosmos, oh yeah,
later in the season, Cosmo, we still have some. I
haven't seen any flowers on mine yet, you know, but
(10:42):
I mean I love the foliage because it's just I mean,
it's unique. So we had some cosmos.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Uh, well, we did like a wild flower seed mix
a couple of years ago that we just threw out.
It's probably the same tried to get like four feet
tall before they started.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well that's what yeah, I had last year. We probably
used the same seed mix. I had put some out
and yeah, it was like four foot tall and then
it fell over. Yeah, and then it starts just like
growing up in spikes all over my plants. And I
was like, well, I'll dig it up, I guess, you know.
But we've got and we've got to sail on lantana too,
(11:21):
so that's always good and sun patients, you know, And
I've been I've been real happy with the lantana selection
this year or are there some patients still on? So
I believe? So okay, if you have any left. Yeah,
they've been calling quick. It's because I talked about them
last week on our you know, Plants of the Week discussion.
You know. Now they that's me another plant where it's
(11:42):
just it puts out a ton of color. Yeah, you know.
So yeah, we did those this year around some sunshine lagustrooms. Yeah,
and against that yellow, they just really pop. They look good. Yeah,
I mean your Vinka tables have been looking great. I'm
not a big fan of inca personally, but it does
make an impact.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It does, and I understand why people use that so
much because of how well it does. A lot of
things just really struggle through a heat, and Vinka is
not one of those.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, No, And that's it. I don't know. It's it's
hard because you get so say you plant late, right,
So like if I if I go plant salvia or
a lantana late, like say July, all right, I'm gonna
have a heck of a time getting watered. Yeah, Like,
I mean, it's gonna be hard. Yeah, not venka, you know,
(12:38):
So I mean, every every plant has this little purpose
kind of deal. Good morning, go ahead, thank Jeremy for
your Thank you, Jeremy for my bumper music. Look, I'm
telling you right between that and Lady Gaga perfect like
dishwashing music. All right, that's not where I expected to go.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
No, I mean, I'll ever heard people say I can't
wait to crank up my Lady Gaga and chappel rowan playlist.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
To wash dishes. You know, don't do it often, but
when I do, I definitely play play some music. So wait,
So what you're saying now is you don't wash dishes
that often. I try to get around it. Look, if
(13:25):
I if I got to go cut the grass, I
gotta go cut the grass, you know. So anyway, moving on,
if y'all had any calls or questions concerns, one tell
me I needed to go probably wash dishes more often
you could reach us set four NI. So this next
segment I wanted to talk about we're kind of moving
(13:45):
into uh we want to start talking about a plant
of the Week and spend a whole segment on that,
but I know it isn't exciting. So Plant of the
Week this week is Vitex or a chase tree, or
as I've been hearing a lot in the nursery, that
tree blooming purple everywheres right now exactly exactly now. Gorgeous
(14:11):
little plant. You know, it's typically it's viewed as a
large let's say, a large shrub, small tree. Yeah, I
prefer him as a tree personally, me too, but I've
seen it. I've used him as a hedgerow before, and
that also is a very I mean, it's just attractive plant.
(14:33):
It's a typically they all bloom like a bluish to
a purple. There are some white and pink cultivars out there, yeah,
we get those from time to time. I find they
don't bloom near as well as any of the blues.
But it's an awesome little plant. It's good for really
full sun, but it's it's pretty adaptable, so like full sun,
(14:57):
well draining soil. But I've seen to do well in
like a little bit more moist conditions to a little
bit of shape like afternoon shad where it's still blooms.
It still blooms. Great. Was that I dug up one
years ago at for a customer. I planted it and
then I don't know, five years later, she decided she
(15:17):
wanted a high biscuits there instead, So I cut it
to a stump and dug it up and planted it
in the front yard at my parent's house. Nice, And
it's usually how I was. I think it's like two
or three people that I had never met before that
they just like whipped up on at my parents house.
It was like, what's this plant? You know, Like there's
(15:38):
an older gentleman that comes in shops at the seaking store.
And that's probably my favorite favorite memory of My parents
were just telling me about and some guy drove up
and then I meet the guy because he comes and
finds so but it's a neat I mean, it's a
really cool plant. They typically get, you know, four to
(15:59):
Like there's some semi dwarf varieties like we'll carry the
rock Steady. I like that one. I saw those come
in and those are those get four to six foot.
If you wanted something a little smaller, yeah, then there's
your shoal Creek. That's hug show stopped. Yeah, that's the
that's the one that gets big or I say it big,
(16:20):
it gets pretty big. Eight to fifteen, Yeah, somewhere in
that ball range and it's really cool. Uh. When I
started at Clegg's, the Seagan store had one planet along
the Julia Aubn roade and I mean it was when
it went into bloom. I mean it was just a
giant blue purple shrub. Yeah. I mean it was gorgeous
(16:43):
and uh there you know, like I was saying, they're
adaptable for your planning location typically, all right, I find
there like if you limb them up into like that
multi trunk patio tree kind of thing, kind of like
how you do with a crape myrtle. Yeah, uh it,
I mean it's just it's gorgeous, you know. I mean
(17:04):
it's pristine. It's got character definitely, you know, because the
just the way the branching grows. Yeah. I do have
a question about Vitex. So so in my neighborhood there's
there's a lot of vtext and one of the issues
I've noticed with them, and I think this is the
right terminology, they get a lot of water shoots. Yeah,
(17:27):
the branching that just goes straight up yep. Is there
a way to prevent that from happening? Or do you
just have to go through and prune them back? When
it happened yeah, you're prevent it with clippers. You just
try to catch it early. What still, Yeah, so typically
when you do your you want to do a prune
before they leave out, and so you'll you'll go and
(17:49):
what I'll typically do is I'll go around the all
like the outer exterior of the branching, and I will
do a small trim, just like how you typically do
with a crape marble, where you're tipping the the very
ends of the branches, right, And that's just to help
stimulate new growth. Yeah, And then I.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Go, isn't it like wherever you prune, that's generally somewhere
as close to that area where yeah, you have a
growth note, you have a growth node activate behind that, right,
So typically if you cut a branch all right, there's
going to be a growth node behind typically like just
like six inches whatever it depends on the plant, but
(18:31):
that'll activate and it'll.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Typically it'll fork out there. Yeah. So by tipping the
all the outside, that'll help with the water well, it'll
help promote good flowering. And then any water shoots that
come farther down from the trunk you'll just clean you'll
just clip those out. So but ideally, yes, you just
prune them early so that they don't just grow straight up.
(18:55):
There's a lot of trees in my neighborhood. In my
neighborhood that do that. It's very prominent with text like
crape myrtles, crepe myrtles, it's very prominent with crape myrtles. Yeah. So,
and it's kind of the same deal where you just
trim them. And that's why Vitex is an awesome alternative
to a crepe myrtle. You know, it's like you've got
your small, small, to i'll say medium flowering trees. Yeah.
(19:22):
Typically viewed as like your fringe tree, your vitex, your
crate myrtle. Those are probably your three like biggest winners
as far as that goes. Whereas it like puts on
a huge statement, right and then has really cool branching interest.
Yeah so. But the another thing that's neat about them
(19:45):
is they're deer resistant.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So so I've always and I kind of got this
from Johnny Naylor. Uh, plants are are deer resistant, but
it's only it depends on how hungry the deer is exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Exactly if they got if they've got other food sources
that are more desirable they're going to go for that
right over the vitex. But then if there's nothing, then
they'll go to the exactly exactly so but h and
also it's a good nectar source like you for your
native bees, your honey bees and butterflies. Yeah. Yeah, and
(20:23):
so if you want to see because I usually I mean,
like I have a bunch of butterfly attractants and stuff,
but I get more excited seeing bees because I love, like,
you know, so say I'm out pulling weeds and stuff,
it's it's nice to hear like the buzzing, you know,
and like the flowers and stuff like that. It's like,
I don't know, a nostalgic, you know, me growing up
(20:46):
and you know, I remember my grandmother had a basil
bush planted in like a little pot or something and
it was just always buzzing because she let it go
to flower. So another neat thing about the vite that
we didn't talk about was that it was nominated and
chosen for LSU Super Point Award. Now is that the
(21:08):
just the soul creek, that's it, the Shoal The Shoal
Creek is what they did the study on. Okay, so
and which means it was able to live at they
have in research station and thrive. Nice. That's usually I
mean they've got more criteria than that. But that was
always my understanding was like if it does really because
(21:29):
they just they have these beds out there. Yeah, I've
been there before, and I mean it's neat. I mean
you can really walk around for three hours, yeah, you
know and just be like, oh, they got this out
there and that. You know. So, but it's uh and
one thing I was I'd like to do a little
bit of reading. One thing I thought was really cool
is that it's been cultivated in North America for like
(21:51):
four hundred years. Wow. Yeah, where does that originate from?
Like southern Europe? It's interesting. Yeah. So I thought that
was kind of neat because it was like it was fact,
a little fact I didn't know. Yeah, not that I
ever use it too often, but it was like, you know,
it was it was something I honestly didn't really expect it.
(22:12):
There's a lot of plants, uh, you know, I mean
stuff is imported in right, and then there's culture bars
that are in North America, but like the Fringe Tree
for instance. You know, it's like, yeah, a lot of
our staple landscape plants. It seems like they're like originate
from Asia. Yeah, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff,
(22:34):
you know. And then so it was cool. I was
like I wouldn't have thought Europe, right, you know. And
then I mean, but it's stuff like that where I'm
like kind of tickled because it's like that's super neat actually,
and Molly would call me a nerd about it. So, uh,
but you know, pretty low maintenance, like we talked about,
we talked about all the just like mild pruning just
(22:56):
to cut it back to flesh out, uh, just general
purpose fertilizer on it and just a flush out a
bunch of good growth, and you know, it's just it's
an awesome little alternative if you're tired of looking at
a crepe myrtle. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
So I don't feel like those would be as messy
as a crpe myrtle either.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I feel like it's tomato tomato kind of thing because
like the the seeds or like look like these little
grains almost you know, but I don't find that they're
I mean, they're not gonna stain, they won't stay in
the ground. Yeah, does that makes sense? So but you
know that was the plant of the week plant of
(23:40):
the wheat. I know, doesn't that have a good ring?
So let it make us a little jingle for that man.
We got two more segments. I know, no phone callers
went of all lines. I know, I know, and y'all
can't see on the computer screen, but we've got twelve
phone lines. All right? Oh wait, try I turn the
(24:01):
phones on. You could? You know. All I'm saying is
if Butcher was here, they'd be full. And the Seagan
Lane moment we turn the answer machine off. Dude, this
is a story of my life. I think I haven't.
I think I have waking nightmares about forgetting to turn
the answer machine off, roll over off the side of
(24:21):
the bed, trying to push the answer machine off. No, so, uh, yeah,
we've got to talk about our plant of the week.
The vitex uh talked a little bit about color, some
weed control. One neat things going on right now is
it is blueberry season? Yeah, yeah, and BlackBerry season. But
(24:44):
it's is it like time to start harvesting blueberries? Oh? Yes,
Oh they've been they've been turning. Yeah. So there's several
different varieties, so they'll they'll ripen from like mid to
late April all the way through like June and July.
Oh wow. Yeah, so it just depends on the variety. Yeah.
(25:05):
So like if you were to walk out, so say,
go to the blueberry section, that's segan I've got I
think it's five different these a blueberries, and you can
tell like, okay, this one's finishing up, like Delight. Delight
was early, So Delight's finishing up all right. I don't
think there's anything on there because they ate them all
you know. No, I'm just kidding, but that one's pretty
(25:27):
much finished up. Your Powder Blue is finishing up all right.
But you're you've got like your premiere and like some
of your uh it's either Climax or Bright. Well one
of them that's just like completely loaded, Like the three
gallons have probably seventy five berries on them, like nice,
you know, and that's an I mean, that's just a
interesting plane anyway, because I don't know, do you y'all
(25:49):
have any blueberries at your house? Ah? Yeah, actually we
have two all right. Even if you didn't want to
eat the blueberries. It is a cool like ornamental plant.
I do like the little flowers. Yeah, like the flowers
aneath the kind of bell shapes they remind me of
like the pyrus. Yeah. And then you know, great little
(26:11):
nectar source for the bees. And they do have like
a blue hue to their their foliage. Yeah. And then
I like the actually like the fall interest because the
leaves will start turn turning orange. Yeah. And then during
the winter the stems will be especially once they're because
they will kind of exfoliate their bark kind of like
(26:32):
a great myrtle will. And once they have that fresh bark,
I mean it's like bright, kind of orangeish red, kind
of like a coral bark, yeah, exactly. And so it's
I mean it's still a pretty little plant, and I
don't know, it just it reminds me of childhood. And
they're not very hard to grow, to be able to
(26:54):
not particularly.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Two big things with them is they are big on
They like the soil, real acidic. Yeah. And they like
cross pollination. That's like the two biggest things with them.
They like genetic diversity. So like, so you have one
one blueberry, well that's not gonna get you very many
(27:17):
at all, right, but if you had one of say
a premiere and one of a climax, right, well one
of them all right, those will cross pollinate each other, right,
you end up getting more more blueberry. You get more
blueberries not just because you have two, but because they
kind of going to overdrive because all of a sudden,
(27:38):
all the berries or all the flowers excuse me, are
getting pollinated. And so you'll I mean, and as as
long as your pH is acidic, because they like it
at like a four point nine. They're weird, they like
it really acidic. Yeah, and they'll just I mean, they
will load down. Like if you go to like, say,
(27:58):
the blueberry farm, So if you've ever been to one
breeding but I mean, there's just covered. It's I remember
going to them with my mom when I was a kid,
but it's been a long time. Yeah, but there were
a lot of blueberries yep. And then blackberries. Those are
probably my top favor favorite. Oh wait till you go
(28:19):
to the crawfish boil tonight. The BlackBerry bushes are full. Yeah. Now,
I've been really excited that this year in particular. We
had some a few last year, but this year our
Color Division department out off of Greenwell Springs Road has
been growing blackberries. Not just they're doing some in ground
(28:40):
I think are in pots. I think they're well, they
may have some. Yeah, there were some in pots, but
they're in raised beds. Yeah, but we're they were growing
some for sale, and they did. It was like the Freedom,
Primark Freedom, the Primark Traveler. There's taste of heaven and
and cutie pie. But I don't know what qute pie
tastes like, but I do know the Freedom and the
(29:01):
Traveler or that chef's that's a chef's kiss right there.
I mean that's delicious, especially the Freedom. I mean it's
just a heavy producer. Occasionally, if the weather's right, you
get some get fruit in December, which was kind of neat. Now,
I always remember walking it was. I mean it was
like December tenth or something like that, right after my
(29:23):
birthday and go out by my parents and I'm walking around.
I'm like, oh, there's blackberries on the fruit on the vine.
That's awesome, you know, And I mean they're big, they
taste great. For a while, I wasn't really impressed with
many of the thornless varieties like that, just because like
(29:44):
they didn't seem to produce as well or grow nearly
as vigorously as some of the thorned really yeah, so
like your Brassos has been around forever and that's what
that's what I grew up eating. It's like, yeah, terry
with the thorns. But it was like, I mean, it
put on like five hundred berries, you know. And that
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plant of these Freedom when we had I don't know
a time, it just started ordering them, man like they
had just kind of became available, and it's like, outproduce
this plant that's been around for been around forever. Yeah,
and it's thornless, you know. So which one is that?
The Freedom? The Primark Freedom, and so it's just I mean,
(30:28):
like top notch. So I don't know about the taste
of heaven yet, but the plant itself was extremely vigorous.
Is that the Proven Winters one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that
one just looks extremely vigorous, just like the Freedom does.
It did, so I wouldn't be surprised, especially with the
way Proven Winter kind of works their plants, because they
(30:51):
you know, for them to select something, it's got to
be pretty prolific or successful. So that one I expect
to be just as good as the Freedom. If I
can find if I can find a berry, you know,
I can comment on how good they taste now, but
that again, they've just been doing a great job growing
(31:13):
stuff over a Color Division. I mean though that the
fact that so we typically will have just a few
variety of figs, but they've been able to come up
with some Magnolia figs, which is an older variety, really
good tasting it, real real sweet. Looks almost like it's
writing with it because it has so much sugar and
(31:33):
so juicy. When it's ripe, it's like I can't tell
if that's past ripe or perfect. And then there was
a few other ones that they did this year and
I was like, oh, I have to try him. You know,
I think there was a tiger or a Lsu tiger
I forget. And so anyway, you.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Know, one thing that I feel like Color Division is
kind of famous for now is the Bogan villas, and
they have been in.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Just I think I think that is our top growing
or sole plant. I mean, I know, we moved some
out of our location off of seam well. I mean
it's just their baskets. I mean, they come in all
kinds of coppers, but their baskets, especially this year, it's
just been incredible. Yeah, you know, it's like like early
(32:25):
early to what would you say, late spring, We've had
we had the baskets like the entire time. Yeah, right,
And I mean, honest, honestly, I don't think they could
deliver them fast enough to us. They couldn't. I couldn't.
It didn't matter how many I ordered. You get fifty baskets, right,
and by the time you take two buggies out to
(32:45):
their little sales rack the half goughe yeah exactly, you know.
And then they've actually been doing They did some patio trees,
which I'm weird, pretty well they did well. I don't
don't they look weird to me, if that make sense.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
They need to have more of it, like a cannopy
because they're a vine they kind of just want to
grow up.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
But it's like a patio tree rose to me, where
it's like they just look kind of weird. That's just
I'm not, you know, not that there's anything wrong with it,
because there's not. It just looks kind of out of
place to me. It's like a single trunk crape myrtle
doesn't look natural and it doesn't look natural to me. Yeah,
I like multi trunk.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
So no, they were the especially because all the ones
that we had were the braided trunk.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
They looked really neat. No, I mean they were neat,
they were pretty. And then they've been doing seven gallon
in fifteen galon, which they're short that they are so full. Yeah,
remember the first one we got in the fifteen gallon
at the beginning of this season. It was like a
coral color bloom. We sold in like twenty minutes. Yes,
like I brought it. I brought it out and it
(33:50):
was gone. You know. No, they just I mean, and
I don't know what they do over there, you know,
but it's like they just know how to grow some
boken villa. Yes, they And if you ever get a
chance to tour, like like a little day trip, you
can go to the green or spring store and I'll
take you over there and walk you around. And I
(34:11):
mean it's table after table after table, a broken via
and they're all in color so and then they have
them hanging up above the tables because there's not enough room.
Speaking of which, because I did the company Crawfish Bowl
last night, I got a chance to walk around the
Color Division area some of their greenhouses. They had some
(34:33):
fifteen gallon papia trees, that were like up in the rafters. Yeah,
those are the ones from last year. Yeah. Uh now
they're and those are grown pretty much just for the
employees over there. But it's like they got I mean
they got pineapples growing.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, they got they have some blue or some tomato
plants in there that look like they've been in there
for a few years.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
All I'm saying is, I don't I don't think. I
don't think the guy's got to go to the grocery store, now,
you know. And it's a I mean it's just a
kind of cool sight because you go over there and
I mean they got they've got chickens, you got rabbits
or a rabbit and then uh you know, I mean
these raised beds. Yeah, and the raised beds are really nice.
(35:19):
And it's not the most uh it's not the biggest
setup I've ever seen, but because it's it's like four
I think four houses or five houses something like that. Yeah,
but it is, it means just a cool thing to
see because it's like everything is constantly rotating, rotating, rotating, rotating,
and like was it I think it was there last
(35:42):
week or the week before, and it was kind of
strange because I walk walk into Greenhouse two I think
one or two, and I walk in the corner and
see point sets and it's these little six inch plants
that are going to turn into four half five foot
tall trees right for Christmas season. Yeap, you know. Yes.
(36:05):
Elena was cracking me up about it. She's like, yeah,
those are those are the patio trees. So cool. No,
and it's kind of neat. I mean, it's just they've
got everything planned out on a week basis throughout the year,
so it's like you'll have you know, white Finka, white
polkadon Minco will be ready you know, week thirty three
(36:28):
or whatever, you know, and it's it's just a it's
a neat setup how everything's designed. Yeah, good morning, Linda.
How are you.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
I'm fine, This is Linda.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
So what can we do to help you?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (36:41):
I was wondering if it's terrible to trim my Suscincua
right now. They have some oversprayed paint from a paint
job that I had done, and the leaves are you know, painted,
not painted, but like little droplets. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, oh yeah, you're good to go go ahead and
trim them. Uh. I may in fact, I think that's
on my Tuesday list of my house. You know, typically
we don't want to prune your succinquas till after or
after they blew, all right, because that right, but they're
not gonna set their flowers until usually around July. So
(37:23):
you should be yea, you should be good to just
go in there and give it a little bit of trimming.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, but don't not too drastic as what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, no, I would just do a little mile prune.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, I'm just wondering what if I leave it alone,
and you know, does that hurt the entire plant to
block you know, have paint blocking the.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Sun like that, it's going to block those leaves. So
I would go ahead and trim it.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Okay, all right, I'm kind of debating between you.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Is it severe or is it just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
It's a little bit, but it's how do I put this?
It's not it's like maybe if I hide to estimate opaque,
and but it's quite a lot of leaves, and so
I'm worried about.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, I may not trim all, like get all of it,
but just give it, just give it a little trim
because you'll get another leaf flush, okay, and then those
leaves won't have pain on them.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
So all right, now, okay, thank you, dere You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I just want to say props to Jeremy for trying
to spell susanka, even if it was just a jumble
of letters.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah. Yeah, No, that was a good question, very good question.
Linda definitely wins the award today. Yeah, first caller, she
saved the show. No exactly exactly. So I have a
few four things on my list to talk about, if
that's all right with you, okay, because we only have
nine minutes. So I want to talk about since it
(39:04):
is the time of the year where I roll the
soap box over and talk about watering, we need to
start kind of watching her watering. Yeah, so there is
a proper way to water through the summertime. Yeah, so
you want to water deeply, right, but lower frequency. So
(39:28):
typically I'll set my sprinkler, say forty five minutes, but
then it only runs every two to three days. And
this time of year, like, you do start seeing a
lot of pest issues and stuff on plants. But it
generally seems like when a customer comes in with an
issue that they're concerned about.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
It's it's almost nine times out of ten of a
water issue. Yeah, yeah, it's very common.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I will say that, Like some like my landscape do
forty five minutes every two to three days. Right, those
are almost established plants, all right, So something that's been
in the ground two three months is going to have
a much more developed root system than something that's say
(40:16):
you put on the ground two weeks ago, right, all right,
So like salvia, for instance, I like to plant with
salvia early so then I don't have to fight watering it.
Like yeah, so I'll plan it, you know, And I've
had existing salvia that was planted last year in the
year before, and it's like, well that that stuff's completely fine.
Yeah all right, But it's like the bigger the root system,
(40:39):
the more moisture. Yeah, it's nutrients they're able to pull in.
So it's like something with like a I mean, how
many inches would you say a gallon pot is six closer? Sure?
Five inch six inch something like that, So I mean
you got five inches of root ball to pull in
water from, all right, Versus like if I ripped up
(41:02):
my salvia right now, it's probably like at least a
foot or deeper. Yeah, Well, I wouldn't say it's not
gonna be too deep. Probably, I'd say they're probably ten
inches deep, but they're gonna spread out. Yeah, But the
width though is probably twenty two inches and twenty inches.
You know, it has a good root system. So we
want to just make sure we water a long period
of time, just not often, all right. If we if
(41:25):
we water too often, to say, water every morning, all right,
and only two minutes, that water is not really penetrating
into the soil, right, So if you go long period
of time, it'll actually soak into the soil kind of
help keep the soil from getting hydrophobic, right. And obviously
ideally we would get a rainfall. And I would say
(41:46):
generally when it's hot, you have to water things that
are in pots more often than things that are in
your garden. And that's why I recommend that soil moist
that we sell that little polymer, because it's just I mean,
in the middle of the summer, you're like fighting it,
fight at fighting it, and that just kind of helps
(42:06):
mitigate that. So and you know, I also wanted to
just quickly mention a little shout out they're doing a
they've got a Native Professional Certification program. Now nice, I know,
I know who's this with the Louisiana Native Plant Society. Okay, yeah,
so it's real neat. I've been following kind of following
(42:28):
it because it's like, man, I might if I get
some free time, I might go and take that test.
But it's neat, It's it's real. Some I feel like it,
and I have got to do a little bit more
reading up on it, but it seems like it's very
reminiscent of like the nursery professional course that I took
with Dan Gill. And I don't know who taught your
course because you win as well. I can't remember the
(42:51):
guy's name now, Yeah, but you know, but it's just it.
It's a program designed to kind to immerse you in
the topic. It's like a step up from having just
your horticulture's license because the test for the or for
(43:11):
at least a l n LA exam was like a
supposed to be a little bit harder than if you
were to go get your Horticulture's license. Yeah, and honestly,
it's been so long I couldn't tell you which one
of those was harder. I feel, you know, I think
Dan when Dan taught the course, it was I felt
like it was a little harder, you know. But then
(43:32):
I went during the like the winter months, so everything
I'm trying to id sticks that was me too.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Well, I don't know if it was the winter months,
but if it wasn't, things were like just starting to
come back into season.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah. So I'm like, I'm over here, like you're trying
to get me an idea a stick. And thankfully I
would that part didn't bother me. I was more worried
about the the weed identifications stuff. So and like you
went to the Hammond Research Station fears, Okay, so that's
where I went. And so again it's just I mean,
it's a neat place to go out to. Oh yeah,
(44:09):
you know, because it's it's kind of interesting. They just
get to play with plants all day. Yeah. I like that.
That's their job. You know.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
I'm sure it's a little more labor intensive than playing
with plants.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yeah. So if you're interested in, you know, kind of
immersing more in like native cultivars of plants, check out
that program. I know, I know they're on their Facebook page.
They've been advertising it for it a bunch so, but
a real NEAT program. I think it's a really good
(44:41):
thing to kind of introduce because it kind of expands
because you know, as we talked about, a lot of
stuff comes from like Europe, China, Asia just in general,
and so it's NEAT a lot of a lot of people,
myself included. You know, I don't know as much as
probably should or need to regarding like just different native cultures.
(45:07):
So it's just cool little program. So check it out.
So Jeremy, I would just like to say thank you,
I mean, for all your bumper music and also Linda,
thank you for being our one caller today. Are hero. Yeah,
And if y'all had any calls or questions that you
(45:28):
didn't call, you can find us at the Second Lane
Nursery at least until five thirty. And y'all have a
wonderful Saturday. Take care
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