October 25, 2025 • 43 mins
Let's set you up for success in fighting weeds this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Zane and Kat from Clegg's Nursery!
In addition to those weed-fighting tips, the two talk about what's coming in to the nursery - including potential gift ideas for the upcoming holidays! And, why it's time to cut back your perennial summer plants - plus much more!
Also, we note the passing of Marshall Clegg, the retired owner of Clegg's Nursery.
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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In addition to those weed-fighting tips, the two talk about what's coming in to the nursery - including potential gift ideas for the upcoming holidays! And, why it's time to cut back your perennial summer plants - plus much more!
Also, we note the passing of Marshall Clegg, the retired owner of Clegg's Nursery.
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!
Don't forget to make sure you've updated to the latest version of the iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset, just like in your car! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too! And now, presets work on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto too!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
If you have a question about seasonal planting, lon and
garden concerns, all our questions about landscaping called four nine
nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name's Zaane Mercer. Joined here with Cad Daggerpont.
Good morning. We're with Clegg's Nursery at least for the
next hour until somebody tunes in. So busy morning today.
It's nice and cool. Looks up we might it some rainfall.
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But I wanted to take a quick moment to have
a little paper here. I have to read out we
lost a really big important part of the Louisiana Nursery Association.
Mister Marshall Klegg passed away, so I like to read
something on air about him. So Baton Ridge Gardeners in
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the Louisiana nursery industry lost a dear friend when Marshall Clegg,
retired owner of Clegg's Nursery, passed away on October twentieth
at the age of eighty two. Marshall was passionate about
the nursery business and continued the legacy of providing the
Baton Ridge gardening and landscape community with friendly service and
a large selection of quality plant materials that started with
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his parents Sam E. Fie in nineteen fifty five with
plants on a bear loight and a cash box in
the back of a car or four to four to
one one Florida Boulevard. As Baton Rouge was growing eastward,
in nineteen sixty eight, Marshall's parents moved the nursery to
two seventy four North don Moore, where one of the
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stores still operates today. Marshall purchased the business from his
parents in nineteen eighty one. One year later he opened
a second location at fifty six ninety six Seagan Lane,
Foll lived by a third location at one of six
four to five Greenwald Springs Road in nineteen eighty three.
In nineteen ninety one he opened C and I Wholesale Nursery,
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which is currently operated by his son, Brian Klegg. This
offered Baton Rouge landscaper contractors a local source for quality
plant material and supplies in nineteen ninety nine, Marshall sold
the retail business to two managers who had been with
him since nineteen eighty three, Scott Rica and Tom Tom Fennel.
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Retiring from the retail stores allowed Marshall to spend more
time doing what he loved, growing plants. Whether it was
collecting day lilies, growing crape myrtles, or planting a vegetable garden,
Marshall always had a project going on. He liked to
stay busy and was always willing to give his friends
and family a helping hand. Marshall grew up in the
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nursery business and loved watching it grow and change. He
was named Louisiana Nursery Man the Year in nineteen ninety
four by the Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Association, and in
twenty ten he was also the recipient recipient of the
Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Associations James A. Four A Award
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for recognition of lifetime service, dedication and outstanding contributions to
Louisiana nursery and landscape industry. The nursery business was his passion.
The batony Jerry is more beautiful because of Marshall's dedication
to provide his customers with a large selection of quality
plans and thank you. No, mister Marshall is a really
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interesting man, you know. It was. I remember there was
one time Tom sent me over there to go just
essentially just lay out gallon flats for him. It was like,
this man's like seventy five and retired. What are you
doing working? You know? But he was just like always working.
Like he'd come through the store and just be in
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and out getting a bunch of stuff like oh, I'm
going to go plant this at somebody's house. Yeah, and
it's just like you just can't stand still.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, it was obviously his passion, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You know. And then then I you know, I always
thought it was cool he was in the movies, you know,
and like you ask him, he's like, oh, I'm just
an extra. It's like, well, I mean I'll watch gun
Smoke sometimes, you know with my folks. So it's like,
let me look and see if I can find him,
you know. But anyway, I just wanted to say a
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few words about him because he was a really big
part in the nursery industry. So moving on, We've got
lots of things to talk about because it's fall. Unfortunately
I am not in fall decor not that anyone.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Can tell, but I will point it out. He was
wearing a Flamingos shirt today.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, I was going to
go to the corn Maze. I didn't want, you know,
people not to be able to find me.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, But if anyone had any calls, questions, concerns, you
could reach us at four nine nine nine five two six.
That's four nine nine nine five two six, And you
can always tune in after the fact to the iHeartRadio station.
We post pretty quickly. Jeremy's pretty good usually, like I'm
gonna say, forty five minutes to an hour later, he's
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got it up online if you miss something. So but
moving on, We've got a few things we want to
talk about. Uh some really big and bulbs. So bulbs
are in and now's the time to plant your fall
bulbs that bloom in the springtime or some of your
stuff that blooms in the fall. But like your tulips,
we get now and that takes a little bit of
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prep time. We used to refrigerate them at the store.
We don't we don't do that anymore. It's new room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We couldn't fit our lunches in the refrigerator with all.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The toolips exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So yeah, now you've got to you got to bring
them to your refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, and you just put them in the fridge for
I think it's like six weeks somewhere right around there,
and that just preps them to go on the ground
to bloom for you.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So but we've got amarillish, probably too some some people
would say too many ambarellas and paper whites. Just a
pretty decent variety of stuff. Some stargazer lilies. Uh, the
story should have some kala lilies, which there's actually you
plant those now and they'll grow and you'll they'll be
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in blooming in the spring time. So uh, but you
know we've got that going on. We also have it's
a false fall, so it's cool season planting time. That's
gonna be like your pansies, your snab dragons, ornamental kale
and cabbage, fox gloves, delfinium, anything else you wanted to
chime in on with.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, we've got we've got the basic stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Dianthus I always forget about dianthas are great though, because
they I feel like they bloom pretty consistently throughout the season.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Do you like the shorter grower with a flat leaf
or like the jolt? I'm all about the jewelt Now.
The jolt's just cool because I mean it's a bloom
spike that comes out, it comes up, so it's elevated
a little bit off so you could plant something, say
in front of it, like pansies, or I really like
some of those shorter growing kale and cabbages. And then
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you know, fox gloves are always neat because they pop
up and that'll be like your tallest plant typically, and
it's like that in your delfinium get the most.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Height and those those really bloom in the springs.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yes, right, so you plant them now, but then the
show is in the spring, and that's fine. That's that's
why bulbs are fun too. I think it's like plant
it now and then it's going to pop up later.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah. I mean it's not instant gratification per se, but
it's just I mean, you get you plant it. I
don't know, would you say three months, two months, you know, early,
and then they just start growing and eventually you know,
and it's the beginning of spring, or like almost to
the cusp of spring, everything starts blooming, right.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And we have columbine too, which is similar to the
fox glove.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And that's just another really neat and those are typically
like two tone colors for some of them. Yeah, you know,
and that's a neat little perennial as well. I know
the gentleman who does the McDonald's the McDonald's landscapes, he's
a big fan of I believe it's a song bird series.
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If I want to say that's the one he says
just performs the best overall, well, he would know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He seems to grow them the best.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, No, that's usually if I need something to direct
someone to. Hey, you want to see something in the landscape,
like a specific plant, just go to the McDonald's McDonald's. Yeah,
exactly exactly, So then you know your fall plantings, say,
your pansies and stuff like that. We don't want to
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plan on when they're hot, like too hot, because like
snap dragons are fine, but like your pansies will typically suffer. Yeah,
but now, I mean I would say everything's pretty much
good to go. I mean, yeah, I mean, for the
most part. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Being here in Louisiana, like there's only so far that
you can push it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Wait, you know so now now we're we're probably in
the safe so oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And you know you talked about petunias, and I really
like the I used to plant the dreams. Yeah, but
now it's it's just like strictly supertunia.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, supers are so good.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's just I mean, the best bang for your buck,
right going with like the you forget. I mean there's
the bubble gum, and there's like the two varieties of
white and the jazzbery that those are just like I
mean they get twenty four inches wide.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, you can buy like a small amount of plants
and fill in a good bit of garden space with
just a few.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah. Whereas, like I mean the dreams, I play on
them like one every like eight inches, just so they'd
fill in. This is like one every twice, like twice
that yeah, so really neat little personally, I think the
other than like Lantana and somebody like your summer annuals
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or perennials. I love the fall colors. Oh yeah, it's
just like your pansies you see from the street. Right,
you know, not the biggest fan of snap dragons either.
I just I mean you got to trim them to
keep them nice and tight. Yeah, and I just never
get around to.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
That, and they kind of go I feel like they
go a little dormant in the wintertime, like they don't
they bloom really nice in the fall, and then they
kind of go to sleep, and then they bloom really
nice again in the spring.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, and then like them really like fox gloves. My
mother in laws makes me usually get some for you know,
but they, uh, the Camelot series on the fox Gloves
is just like a shoe in that one. And then
there's a believe it's Dalmation series. Robbie DuPont may may
call to correct me, but I think it's Dalmation. Peach
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is the one I got from them that they just
I mean, they bloomed all the way into the summer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think I remember having those in gallon pots glass
spring and they were awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, I mean they just kept blooming. I mean they
bloomed all the way into the summer, whereas I had
already cut back most of my fox gloves and ripped
out the rest. Yeah, it was just like they were
still going strong. So it was like, all right, well,
I guess I'm not planting geraniums over here this year,
you know. So we talked about, you know, our fall
season plantings, talked about balls, you know, that kind of
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all ties in together. But I wanted to talk about
weed control in the lawn and in the flower bed
because this is the time to kind of set you
up for success in the future, especially with like your
stick weed and crabs and a few other things. So again,
if anyone wanted to call and I wanted to hear us,
just talk to ourselves. It's going to be four nine
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two six. Not trying to twist anybody's arms or anything.
So anyway, so we control in the lawn and the
flower bed. So now that's cooler. We can use the
weed free zone in winter weed cocktail mix right now,
which is a really good product, just kind of catch
all for most things. We've got a lot of things
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that are germinating right now. For instance, your crab grass
is going to be germinating pretty soon. I already have
new new seats popping up in my yard. So we
need to go ahead and put down like typically what
like we'll carry dimension in the stores. I think it's
called turf and ornamental weat and grass stopper containing dimension.
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But you want to get that down now, all right,
to set you up for success in the springtime, because
crabgrass is in a neat little plant that it's really
easy to kill when it's young, and then once it
gets bigger and more mature, you might as well just
use a shovel and round up to get rid of it.
So I want to go ahead and get that dimension
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down now because it's just it's easier to spread out
a granular product than to go out in the summer
with the shovel.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, nobody wants to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And that's a lot of what gardening is is just
doing And we talked about bulbs and planting stuff early.
It's the same with putting down like your pre emergence
and just general weed control is like you don't want
to fight the problem once it's a problem. Once it's
a problem, you want to get ahead of it. So
that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, that's what a pre emergon is. It means pre
before it's pre bef it emerges, emerges, or germinates, so
you're catching it before it's even a problem.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah exactly. And like the weed free zone and the
winter weed cocktail mix that we add atrezene too, that's
gonna be more post emerchant. So that's for stuff that's
already up iran. So, but like your your spur weed,
that's your sticker weed. Typically if you just spray a
couple of times in the cooler months, because that's when
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your your spur weed germinates in the fall and then
it just kind of bruise and bruise and then it
puts seed out. And the seed is what you step on.
So if we can spray it before it ever puts
on seed and knock it back, uh, you won't get
those pesky little spurs in your feet. Yeah. So, and
I always forget my back I do the front yard,
but I always forget about the backyard. So I get
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fussed at Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I bet that's where the kids play well, And.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'm just like, well, growing up, I just had to
tough it out me.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I know, Yeah, we'll put some shoes on, deal with it.
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
So, but there and you know there's a few other
like you're say, you're and you want to use a
different prayer merchant for this but like your chamber bitter,
which that typically grows bring summer into the fall, that
you would use a product called Gallery or the preen
extended control. Uh, those would prevent those that stuff. But
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you want to get that down around this time as well,
just because it'll start germinating once it starts getting warm.
So that'll be you know, I don't want to say
late February, because you never really know in South Louisiana, Yeah,
but somewhere right around there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
So wait, you're telling me that the high old product
containing dimension is not going to work, not.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
For chamber better better, not on chamber better does a
ton of other things, darn, but that one specifically.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And that's a big one.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That's that's a big actual active ingredients called a zoxaban. Sure, yeah, exactly.
You know, you can just confirm me. I'm pretty sure
I'm right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Nobody's going to check it's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So but no, the that product that lasts in the
soil for about six months, so if you get that
down early, it'll kind of it'll last all the way
through until they start getting ready to start germinating. But anyway,
we got to pause for a minute cat before because
I got a customer on the phone, so we're gonna
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go and jump to Neil. Hopefully he's a customer. Neil,
good morning, how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Good morning, guys and young lady. My name is kind
of question about sledgehammer bought. Yes, I'm a customer.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Okay, cool, all right, just make sure you know.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oh I understand, I understand.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
So what we got treated my.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Nut grass in my flower bed and it did work,
I mean after what took a little while, but I
got rid of it. But it's coming back and I'm
about I want to mix up another batch. But since
that stuff is costly, what else in the yard back
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there and we cannot put that on it might be effective.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So sedge hammer is just pretty much just yellow and
purple nuts edge. That's the only thing that product touches.
So there's there's a there's like two other products that
touch nuts edge that you can spray in the in
the lawn and some would some in the flower bed
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that have a broader label, but that product specifically is
just yellow and purple nuts set. So unfortunately, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
That's what I wanted to know. All right, Thank you
very much for your time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
You're very welcome. Good morning, Hey you too. Take care.
That is another band of my existence, sage or kalinga
for instance, you know, but he brought up a good topic.
It was just I mean, that product only hits those
two weeks. It's just the yellow, the purple nuts edge
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which those are more upright, They put on more of
an if you ever see them go to bloom, it's
like more of a spike bloom. There's another plant that
has a little ball for a seed head that stays
lower prostrates in the ground called kalinga. It's in the
same family. That requires a different product altogether because that
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on that one's tough to get rid of. But we
started carrying a product called Vexus recently that does a
number on it, and that's actually need. It's a granular product.
It's like the first sedge killer. That's a granular product
of all things, you know, improvement. Yeah, yeah, but it's neat,
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it doesn't go out, it doesn't cover that much square footage,
but I mean it it works on Virginia, button weed,
dollar weed, pretty much all those really hard to get
rid of stuff that put on like a rhizome runner,
stuff that spreads by cutting that kind of thing. Okay,
I can't use it in the flower bed, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And it's new, it's a new product, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, so like Seeking carries it. Yeah, and then I
pulled it in for a gentleman a few years back,
and then we'd sell one or two bags. And then
we had this little lady come in, which I think
she's bought me out. Like every other week.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
She's onto something.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I mean, she got her neighbors to buy it. She
don't she doesn't want kalinga or sedge in her yard anywhere, yeah,
anywhere near her. It's just been a really I mean,
she posted a really nice post on louisyan our Gardener's
about it, you know, essentially just commending us for carrying it,
which is, you know, it's nice. It's just like, yeah,
I mean, we want to sell products that help you out.
(19:44):
Yeah's your problem.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So But anyway, moving on to we were talking about
weed controlling the lawn. We just need to you know,
you want to be preemptive, all right. We don't want
to go out spraying in the summertime and not if
you can help it.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Anyway, there's a lot of limitations. It's what you can.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Spire in exactly because there's temperature restrictions. I didn't talk
about this. So Virginia, Virginia button weeds still growing in
the yard, so we want to go ahead and that
weed free zone will actually kill that. So you could
spray in that area with that. That's what I did
that What was it Wednesday? I think I was off
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Wednesday and I was I mean, I was trying to
use up all my chemicals in the yard, like you know,
so I was spraying that. I put out the last
of my fertilizers I needed, just trying to whittle everything down. Yeah.
So and we were talking about weed control and it's
a little late, but we still have winter riser in
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the it's the stores. You want to go ahead and
get that down as soon as you can, not only
for the existing grass that you have, like your existing turf,
but if you're going to do like a rye, like
a dwarf rye right in the yard, if you want
to lawn. I used to use that a lot when
I was a contractor. I'd had a know, it was
like ten maintenance accounts. I'd go put out to fry yeah,
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because essentially they they had lawn contracts, so they didn't
want us to just cut.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Nothing nothing right. There's gonna be something there to make it. Now,
let me make a point real quick. If you're going
to get wind riser, mate, and you're going to do rye,
make sure that you're getting the green bag which is
strictly the fertilizer, not the blue bag that has the
pre emergent herbicide in it, because that will not that
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will stop your rye grass from sprouting.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I appreciate you bringing that up. I had to my
dad spread some spread something out for me one time, huh,
And I had got him the blue bag and I
had got the green bag. I was like, why is
my rye grass not sprouting? There you go? And then
I realized that I see the blue bag in the
trash can. I was like, wow, appreciate you, but I
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just wasted money on rye grass, you know. But and
the blue bag dimension or excuse me, the win a
riser that is that's just the exact same thing as
that green bag of wind riser we carry plus dimension,
is it? Yeah? So, I mean it helps take care
of your crab grass when they're young, and it just
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helps with setting you up for success coming into the springtime. Yeah,
so sort having a good day today, it's a little chilly.
I should have wear pants, you know, instead of wear shorts,
you know.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Okay, yeah, we're at that time of year. It's time
for pants. You can still wear sandals. Sandals are okay,
all right, but the fact that you're not wearing a
Halloween shirt you got flamingos on.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like, I just I didn't get the memmo, you know,
okay yourself. I took the dog out this morning and
I was like, well, it's not that cold today.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, it's not. It's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But you know, speaking of cooler weather and stuff, this
is the time to cut back all of our perennial
summer plants, you know, or start looking at cutting them back.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Time to think about it.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, so, and I'm selective. I cut like I cut
my lantana back already. I mean I left. I've got
two plantings I left for the the bees. Ok. But
I've started cutting back stuff. Yeah. So it's like my
Mexican sage I plant that almost I think every single
flower bed except for one in my yard has Mexican
(23:35):
sage planted throughout it. And so it's like those it's
like all right, we're just gonna we're gonna cut you
back now. So those are all cut back. Yeah, And
I cut back one section of my lantana and I
cut every single milk weed to the ground. Wow, because milkweed.
It's time for the monarchs to move on.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
The need to you know, they need to go south.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yep. Then, and there's some other reasonings to cut back
milk weed. I won't get into all that, but just
rull the thumb. You just always cut your milkweed September
October in the ground, right, because we don't want the
existing monarchs that haven't migrated to continue Lanex. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
If they think that there's a food source here, they
will attempt to stick around. And then they're susceptible to
the freezes and the cold weather.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So they're susceptible to that, and they're just they're really tender,
not tough caterpillars, you know. Where it's just like okay,
you know, because they have to make this huge migration path,
this whole big trip, and so you want to cut
them back just so that they get they have enough
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time to make that trip. Yeah. So really neat thing though,
is just like you know, you don't expect them to
when you hear, like the first time I heard, oh,
they fly all the way to Mexico, yeah, is like,
what do you mean? Yeah, well, that little tiny bug, yeah,
flies all the way to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
It's the longest insect migratory path of all the insects.
Like monarchs, they're the winners.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, they're at the time. I just always thought that
was crazy. I was just like, this little bug gets
you know, do you know? Right's the winds all the way.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
So in Mexico, they so the monarchs kind of start
to arrive around November first, which is the day Lost.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Day of the Dead. So they.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
They culturally they see the monarchs as the returning spirits
of their ancestors.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That's super cool, and.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They celebrate it. Yes, they celebrate the return one day.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I'd love to go down there for around that time
and see it, yeah, because it'd be neat. I mean here,
you know, I'm at the house or I'm at the
nurser and i mean we'll be loaded with butterflies. Yeah,
you know, but it's just, uh, it'd be interesting to
go down there and see what with actual the trip
to looks like. But you know, cut back your milk weed.
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I mean, I cut back most of my stuff because
like humming birds, like masalvia is mainly for the humming
birds because I usually like watching Typically it's like these
two humming birds, which I'm convinced all year they've been
the same ones. Yeah them, Yeah, but they they'll fight
over my feeders and masalvia, and so it's cute, Like
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I'll get the kids to come out to the window.
It's like, look, look they're fighting. You know, one's buzzing
the other one away. It's just a neat little thing
to see. So uh, but you know we've got that
still want to put out regular old bird seed for
the rest of the birds, you know, but there's gonna
be like the hummers are all pretty much gone, and
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then we just want to start cutting back all that
summer perennial stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, so it's not too early, you're not concerned about
it leafing back out with some.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Of the warm weather, or I'll probably just cut it again. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Even if it does leaf back out, it's like not
that big of a.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Dedea like my Mexican sage that's already sending up spikes
like coming back like they're probably six inches tall. Yeah,
but now they're just silvery and pretty. Yeah. So I'll
just leave them and then once we get closer to
the coal to a hard freeze, I'll just cut them
back the rest of the way. Okay, you know. I
usually I'll do like a june prune on the salvias,
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just to keep them not so heavy, yeah that they
just snap. Yeah. So but whether or not I get
to that or not, like, I'll do some of my
plantings and then I forget about the rest of them.
So it's easy to do. Look, I'm a lazy gardener, alright.
I go when I Pola's at like eight nine o'clock
at night. Yeah, you know, after I put the kids
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to bed, winding down. Yeah, and then oh, let me
go out with the clippers. I'll cut this or you know,
oh let me trim this one little limb off that
kind of thing. So we also have strawberries in a
lot of strawberries. So this is the time to get
your bare root strawberries if you want to buy them
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from us.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, Camino reels came in, and then Chandler.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Chandlers came in to a couple of days after so,
and so we sell through those. We sell them twenty
five to a bundle. Couldn't tell you the price point.
I think it's thirte yeah, somewhere right around there, yeh.
But you get twenty five plants per bundle and you
plant them and they'll fruit in the springtime. You'll get
your fruit right around springtime. And that is the gift
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that kind of will keep giving because you can take
the new strawberries are kind of neat. They'll send off
pups or runners, and you can plant those. So it's
the gift that you can kind of perennialize them essentially
and keep them to the next year. One year, we
had an overturned eighteen wheeler and of bear rood strawberries
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of all things, and it wasn't for us, but we
got a call, so we went and got some.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
OK.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
So I ended up kind of overloaded with strawberries and
so we're still running on pups from that betch.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And then so that was like four years ago. Wow,
you know, and my dad wanted I think we're I
owe him like one bundle of strawberries, but that's only
once because he was starting a new section. But it's
it's super neat and I mean it's it's great for
kids and the birds if you want them.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
To eat those, yeah, or little if you have rabbits,
little rabbits things like neighbor they might un on them
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
But strawberries they're neat. I mean I've done them in
little planters to raise them off the ground because the
strawberries will just send the runners off the side and
the and that's where the fruit will actually set and
so you can just pick them off the side. I
think my parents did a it's a tower thing like
a planter tower, yeah, mid thing, Yeah, I think they did.
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They did that this year. So that's kind of neat
because it's like a little self watering system. But I
mean I've seen him used as a groundcover where you
just use it as a groundcover. There's a my co manager, Michael,
they did literally just groundcover and the citrus bed and
so they just you know, and it's it's a pretty
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groundcover to begin with.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
You know, the leaves have a really nice texture, nice
dark green color and.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Then when they fruit, you get red. So you know,
it's a cool little plant. If you've never grown up before,
and you know, just check them out and Honestly, they
don't take too much room either. So m hmm. Yeah,
all right, So let's see what else I had. What
else did I add on my list for us to
talk about today? Do you have anything else on this
I think we may have gone through what so, but
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I wanted to quickly talk about. So this is the
time of the year, Well, I say this time of
the year. Uh, in like two weeks, we're going to
get our Norfolk pines and some more house plants and stuff.
If anybody's wanted to start looking at gift ideas, things
like that point settas are coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Christmas cactus, Yep, that's a great gift.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, that's a that's a neat plant too.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It's one of those like kind of legacy plants. Also,
like people will be like I have mine from my grandmother.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Every time, you know, every time anybody ever talks about them,
it's like, you know, it'll be, oh, this is eighty
year old Christmas Christmas cactus. Yeah, yeah, and so it's
like a neat little I don't know holiday gifts ideas
because like the north and this year I should be
getting I got a confirmation for him the other day.
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But some women cypress. Oh I love those. So those
are super neat. That's just a little alternative to a
little Christmas y houseplant.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Okay, those look so good if you pot them up
with like red cyclomen around them or make a puffs,
make a little you know, Christmasy.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Arrangement, and they're so fragrant. Yeah, they smell great.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Put one on the kitchen counter and make the kitchen
smell nice, you know. So, But we've got those coming in.
That's probably gonna bean like November tenth hopefully. But they
just a lot of other gift ideas right now. At
the Seeking location probably has the best range of house
plants usually just in general because I usually order for them.
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But you know, just large range of stuff. We also
don't ask me to wrap plants. We do wrap plants too,
in case you didn't know so. But just a lot
of gift ideas things like that coming on. We talked
about points set, I say I talked about them. I
just mentioned them for like a quarter second. But we
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do have the point set of open house coming up soon.
So that's November twenty ninth from nine to two, and
that's at the Greenwold Springs location. Okay, so, and I
talked about this last time I was on the radio,
But if you've never been to the green Wold Spring Store,
it's kind of got a farm vibe. But then next
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door is the Color Division, right, that's where we just
grow everything all right, or as much as we can.
But that is kind of neat because it's like, I
don't know, twenty thousand square feet yeah of space and yeah,
of just point sets. It's a very yeah, awesome production.
It's cool. So it's a neat, a neat thing to
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see if you've never gone.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
So the open house, they can go into Color Division,
they get to go and oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
And you can honestly, like I can to it like me,
or if you just go to the Greenwold section the
retail side, we can just take you over there if
you want to tour it on a different day. But
on the twenty ninth, it's just a whole open house,
so everything's terrible, so you just go over.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's a cool opportunity to get to.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
No, and it's your kind of a neat thing. Like
I've gone down to Florida and toured different nurseries down there. Yeah,
and it's like small potatoes compared to down there, right,
that's huge, hundreds of acres of Kimberly Queen Firm or
Boston Baskets like Boston fer and Baskets, and it's just like, well,
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this is like eighty thousand plants, you know, you know,
and our section it's pretty daunting. Like the first time
I went there for a product knowledge meeting probably fourteen
years ago, a long time ago, I was just like, wait,
what is this place? This is huge, you know, And
so it's super neat because I mean, like moms, for instance,
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we'll do eight hundred thousand moms.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yes, you know, and we have moms and they're blooming now.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
So yeah, but it's the same with the point said
is where you walk in and it's just color as
far as you know, I mean a huge amount of color,
and it's just a neat thing to see because it's
you don't always think about it, at least I know
I didn't in the olden days. Where where do these
plants come from? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, So last segment of the hour. So if you
want to get your calls in, you could reach us
at four nine nine nine five two six. It's four
nine nine nine five two six. Okay, is there a
game today? I'm not the person's asking.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You're literally calling me out on right now.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I'm just I mean, we had Neil this morning earlier,
which is great, you know, but not a single caller.
This is kind of interesting. Yeah, it doesn't usually happen.
I think that they at least sneak me in.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
You know, we're so entertaining. That must be people are
loving listening to us.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
But you know, I wanted to we talked about the
points at a open house. Also wanted to talk about
what was it. Today's the twenty fifth, so next Saturday
it should be November first is going to be the
Baton Rooge tree spree over at the Seagan Lane Clegg's Nursery.
(36:24):
A really interesting little thing if you've never been, because
fall is the time of the plant trees. Because you
didn't get the memo or trees and shrubs.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Do it ye?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Do it now? Do it now? Not? And the reason
summer reason rule of thumb for planting in the fall
is going to be root development. Plants tend to have
more growth happen. Sometimes they'll use the term phrase downstairs
versus upstairs because it's the cooler month months, the plants
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usually go dormant, like with the leaves, and just in general,
they'll be dormant. There's no active new growth popping out,
but root development still occurs. But as it gets hotter
and hotter, plants spend more energy on leaf growth and
grown upstairs than actual root development. That's why we typically
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recommend like a root stimulator during the hotter months if
you've got to do a planting just to force out
root development, because wouldn't you believe it. Plants need roots
to take in water, take in nutrition, So that's why
you want to plant in the fall. So we do
this tree spree where we donate proceeds to batter Roache Green,
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which if you're not familiar with Baton Rouge Green, they
do a lot of the plantings out like the boulevards,
entrance ways alongs some of the roads and Baton Rouge
sometimes you'll see signs of donations. They do all those
plantings and maintenance. So anytime you see a plant plant
(38:02):
in a boulevard or like in a uh, you know,
an island along the road, chances are they probably did it. Yeah,
so and if they didn't, I'll give them credit forward.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, we'll just say they did it because we love them.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I love it. I mean, it's a great little program.
It's a nonprofit, you know, if you ever want to
make a donation to something like, that's a good one.
Between that and the Burden Center, that's usually where I donate.
But the uh, the tree Spree, we pull in like
a wide range of stuff, so it'll be like your
bread and butter, like your oak trees, your cypress trees,
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those kinds of things. But then I'll also order in
we'll get some native things that I don't typically carry
all year, Like I'm just selective about what I carry.
So like right now, we've got chickasaw plum, We've got
some Texas star hibiscus. We actually got some Roselle hibiscus,
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which that's the the medicinal tea cultivar. Really neat don't
get that very often. They usually just have to grow
because you can't usually don't find a source for those.
And there's just there's red penstemen that we got in
which I don't know if you saw those at Seagan,
but those are gorgeous little three gallons like full full
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plant just ready to get get in the ground also
got some neat plants like Gordlinia beauty berries at this
point is standard in the landscape and just a wide
range of stuff, you know, pal meadows. So, like I said,
so next week and I believe it's nine to I
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believe it's no. Eight thirty to twelve is the time frame.
Over at the Seagan store, Betteredge Green will be there
to answer any questions, give you any tips on planting.
They usually bring like little planting guides like that kind
of stuff, just to information. It's just information, say up
for success.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Absolutely, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's pretty neat. They're they're all landscape horticulturest or ourborist.
It's a great source for information. Yeah, and this and
the staff at the Segin Lane locations extremely knowledgeable as well. So,
but we just like to bring in the little extra
help too, just to get everybody kind of rolling. But
don't be free to come out. It's a neat, little,
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neat little trip. Usually I'll have a tent right outside
the back of the building and if you come early,
somebody may have donuts there. You can try to snitch
one off of here, yeah, because they usually I'll have them.
But uh, it's pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I was.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
I was really intrigued the first time we did it
because I mean I think I think I cleared like
four of the beds behind the building. Yeah, and then
we had trees running down the center aisle and it
wasn't that busy, but I mean, it was just it
was a neat thing to see because it's just like
all of a sudden, it's like a complete shift. Yeah,
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because it's either stores. You know, we'll have our plants
but in the beds, but we don't typically move them
too much. But it's a cool little transition period where
we move all that stuff in, we sell them, and
then we get ready for Christmas trees because it's it's
already upon us. It's so close.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Speaking of trees, Christmas trees will.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Be here no time. Am I excited, I don't know,
you know, yeah, I'm excited to set up the trees,
you know. But it's just it's a very hustle, bustle hustle,
you know, because we got our trees in before. Was
it before Thanksgiving? Yeah, so I guess I think it's
like a week and a half before Thanksgiving. And I
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know the dates never changed for Thanksgiving, but it sure
seems like it just gets sooner and sooner for me
every year, where it's like, oh, I got to get
my tree. Oh great, now it's Thanksgiving time. Now I
got to get gifts, you know. But it's a cool,
cool little time of the year where just in the
nursery we transition multiple time changes.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Because we're doing pumpkins and hay bales and corn right now,
and then in no time it's going to be Christmas
plants like you were talking about earlier, and then the
Christmas Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Well, as always, Cat, it's a pleasure. Looks like we
have run out of time, so you know, as always,
it's a it's fun going on the radio. I was
really I was really sorry to hear mister Marshall passing,
but I thought it was really nice that I was
able to say something on the air about him because
he was I didn't know him the best, but every
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time I saw him on the ner, like over at
the second Lane location, I always stopped to go talk
to him because he was just a wealth and knowledge,
and so I really appreciate being able to say that
on air. And thank you, Neil, You're the number one
caller today. I appreciate well. I guess i'll see y'all
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at the nursery, and y'all have a good Saturday.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
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That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name's Zaane Mercer. Joined here with Cad Daggerpont.
Good morning. We're with Clegg's Nursery at least for the
next hour until somebody tunes in. So busy morning today.
It's nice and cool. Looks up we might it some rainfall.
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But I wanted to take a quick moment to have
a little paper here. I have to read out we
lost a really big important part of the Louisiana Nursery Association.
Mister Marshall Klegg passed away, so I like to read
something on air about him. So Baton Ridge Gardeners in
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the Louisiana nursery industry lost a dear friend when Marshall Clegg,
retired owner of Clegg's Nursery, passed away on October twentieth
at the age of eighty two. Marshall was passionate about
the nursery business and continued the legacy of providing the
Baton Ridge gardening and landscape community with friendly service and
a large selection of quality plant materials that started with
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his parents Sam E. Fie in nineteen fifty five with
plants on a bear loight and a cash box in
the back of a car or four to four to
one one Florida Boulevard. As Baton Rouge was growing eastward,
in nineteen sixty eight, Marshall's parents moved the nursery to
two seventy four North don Moore, where one of the
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stores still operates today. Marshall purchased the business from his
parents in nineteen eighty one. One year later he opened
a second location at fifty six ninety six Seagan Lane,
Foll lived by a third location at one of six
four to five Greenwald Springs Road in nineteen eighty three.
In nineteen ninety one he opened C and I Wholesale Nursery,
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which is currently operated by his son, Brian Klegg. This
offered Baton Rouge landscaper contractors a local source for quality
plant material and supplies in nineteen ninety nine, Marshall sold
the retail business to two managers who had been with
him since nineteen eighty three, Scott Rica and Tom Tom Fennel.
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Retiring from the retail stores allowed Marshall to spend more
time doing what he loved, growing plants. Whether it was
collecting day lilies, growing crape myrtles, or planting a vegetable garden,
Marshall always had a project going on. He liked to
stay busy and was always willing to give his friends
and family a helping hand. Marshall grew up in the
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nursery business and loved watching it grow and change. He
was named Louisiana Nursery Man the Year in nineteen ninety
four by the Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Association, and in
twenty ten he was also the recipient recipient of the
Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Associations James A. Four A Award
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for recognition of lifetime service, dedication and outstanding contributions to
Louisiana nursery and landscape industry. The nursery business was his passion.
The batony Jerry is more beautiful because of Marshall's dedication
to provide his customers with a large selection of quality
plans and thank you. No, mister Marshall is a really
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interesting man, you know. It was. I remember there was
one time Tom sent me over there to go just
essentially just lay out gallon flats for him. It was like,
this man's like seventy five and retired. What are you
doing working? You know? But he was just like always working.
Like he'd come through the store and just be in
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and out getting a bunch of stuff like oh, I'm
going to go plant this at somebody's house. Yeah, and
it's just like you just can't stand still.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, it was obviously his passion, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You know. And then then I you know, I always
thought it was cool he was in the movies, you know,
and like you ask him, he's like, oh, I'm just
an extra. It's like, well, I mean I'll watch gun
Smoke sometimes, you know with my folks. So it's like,
let me look and see if I can find him,
you know. But anyway, I just wanted to say a
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few words about him because he was a really big
part in the nursery industry. So moving on, We've got
lots of things to talk about because it's fall. Unfortunately
I am not in fall decor not that anyone.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Can tell, but I will point it out. He was
wearing a Flamingos shirt today.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, I was going to
go to the corn Maze. I didn't want, you know,
people not to be able to find me.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, But if anyone had any calls, questions, concerns, you
could reach us at four nine nine nine five two six.
That's four nine nine nine five two six, And you
can always tune in after the fact to the iHeartRadio station.
We post pretty quickly. Jeremy's pretty good usually, like I'm
gonna say, forty five minutes to an hour later, he's
(05:17):
got it up online if you miss something. So but
moving on, We've got a few things we want to
talk about. Uh some really big and bulbs. So bulbs
are in and now's the time to plant your fall
bulbs that bloom in the springtime or some of your
stuff that blooms in the fall. But like your tulips,
we get now and that takes a little bit of
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prep time. We used to refrigerate them at the store.
We don't we don't do that anymore. It's new room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We couldn't fit our lunches in the refrigerator with all.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The toolips exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So yeah, now you've got to you got to bring
them to your refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, and you just put them in the fridge for
I think it's like six weeks somewhere right around there,
and that just preps them to go on the ground
to bloom for you.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So but we've got amarillish, probably too some some people
would say too many ambarellas and paper whites. Just a
pretty decent variety of stuff. Some stargazer lilies. Uh, the
story should have some kala lilies, which there's actually you
plant those now and they'll grow and you'll they'll be
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in blooming in the spring time. So uh, but you
know we've got that going on. We also have it's
a false fall, so it's cool season planting time. That's
gonna be like your pansies, your snab dragons, ornamental kale
and cabbage, fox gloves, delfinium, anything else you wanted to
chime in on with.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, we've got we've got the basic stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Dianthus I always forget about dianthas are great though, because
they I feel like they bloom pretty consistently throughout the season.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Do you like the shorter grower with a flat leaf
or like the jolt? I'm all about the jewelt Now.
The jolt's just cool because I mean it's a bloom
spike that comes out, it comes up, so it's elevated
a little bit off so you could plant something, say
in front of it, like pansies, or I really like
some of those shorter growing kale and cabbages. And then
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you know, fox gloves are always neat because they pop
up and that'll be like your tallest plant typically, and
it's like that in your delfinium get the most.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Height and those those really bloom in the springs.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yes, right, so you plant them now, but then the
show is in the spring, and that's fine. That's that's
why bulbs are fun too. I think it's like plant
it now and then it's going to pop up later.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah. I mean it's not instant gratification per se, but
it's just I mean, you get you plant it. I
don't know, would you say three months, two months, you know, early,
and then they just start growing and eventually you know,
and it's the beginning of spring, or like almost to
the cusp of spring, everything starts blooming, right.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And we have columbine too, which is similar to the
fox glove.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And that's just another really neat and those are typically
like two tone colors for some of them. Yeah, you know,
and that's a neat little perennial as well. I know
the gentleman who does the McDonald's the McDonald's landscapes, he's
a big fan of I believe it's a song bird series.
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If I want to say that's the one he says
just performs the best overall, well, he would know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He seems to grow them the best.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, No, that's usually if I need something to direct
someone to. Hey, you want to see something in the landscape,
like a specific plant, just go to the McDonald's McDonald's. Yeah,
exactly exactly, So then you know your fall plantings, say,
your pansies and stuff like that. We don't want to
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plan on when they're hot, like too hot, because like
snap dragons are fine, but like your pansies will typically suffer. Yeah,
but now, I mean I would say everything's pretty much
good to go. I mean, yeah, I mean, for the
most part. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Being here in Louisiana, like there's only so far that
you can push it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Wait, you know so now now we're we're probably in
the safe so oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And you know you talked about petunias, and I really
like the I used to plant the dreams. Yeah, but
now it's it's just like strictly supertunia.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, supers are so good.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's just I mean, the best bang for your buck,
right going with like the you forget. I mean there's
the bubble gum, and there's like the two varieties of
white and the jazzbery that those are just like I
mean they get twenty four inches wide.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, you can buy like a small amount of plants
and fill in a good bit of garden space with
just a few.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah. Whereas, like I mean the dreams, I play on
them like one every like eight inches, just so they'd
fill in. This is like one every twice, like twice
that yeah, so really neat little personally, I think the
other than like Lantana and somebody like your summer annuals
(10:22):
or perennials. I love the fall colors. Oh yeah, it's
just like your pansies you see from the street. Right,
you know, not the biggest fan of snap dragons either.
I just I mean you got to trim them to
keep them nice and tight. Yeah, and I just never
get around to.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
That, and they kind of go I feel like they
go a little dormant in the wintertime, like they don't
they bloom really nice in the fall, and then they
kind of go to sleep, and then they bloom really
nice again in the spring.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, and then like them really like fox gloves. My
mother in laws makes me usually get some for you know,
but they, uh, the Camelot series on the fox Gloves
is just like a shoe in that one. And then
there's a believe it's Dalmation series. Robbie DuPont may may
call to correct me, but I think it's Dalmation. Peach
(11:12):
is the one I got from them that they just
I mean, they bloomed all the way into the summer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think I remember having those in gallon pots glass
spring and they were awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, I mean they just kept blooming. I mean they
bloomed all the way into the summer, whereas I had
already cut back most of my fox gloves and ripped
out the rest. Yeah, it was just like they were
still going strong. So it was like, all right, well,
I guess I'm not planting geraniums over here this year,
you know. So we talked about, you know, our fall
season plantings, talked about balls, you know, that kind of
(11:46):
all ties in together. But I wanted to talk about
weed control in the lawn and in the flower bed
because this is the time to kind of set you
up for success in the future, especially with like your
stick weed and crabs and a few other things. So again,
if anyone wanted to call and I wanted to hear us,
just talk to ourselves. It's going to be four nine
(12:08):
two six. Not trying to twist anybody's arms or anything.
So anyway, so we control in the lawn and the
flower bed. So now that's cooler. We can use the
weed free zone in winter weed cocktail mix right now,
which is a really good product, just kind of catch
all for most things. We've got a lot of things
(12:30):
that are germinating right now. For instance, your crab grass
is going to be germinating pretty soon. I already have
new new seats popping up in my yard. So we
need to go ahead and put down like typically what
like we'll carry dimension in the stores. I think it's
called turf and ornamental weat and grass stopper containing dimension.
(12:53):
But you want to get that down now, all right,
to set you up for success in the springtime, because
crabgrass is in a neat little plant that it's really
easy to kill when it's young, and then once it
gets bigger and more mature, you might as well just
use a shovel and round up to get rid of it.
So I want to go ahead and get that dimension
(13:14):
down now because it's just it's easier to spread out
a granular product than to go out in the summer
with the shovel.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, nobody wants to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And that's a lot of what gardening is is just
doing And we talked about bulbs and planting stuff early.
It's the same with putting down like your pre emergence
and just general weed control is like you don't want
to fight the problem once it's a problem. Once it's
a problem, you want to get ahead of it. So
that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, that's what a pre emergon is. It means pre
before it's pre bef it emerges, emerges, or germinates, so
you're catching it before it's even a problem.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah exactly. And like the weed free zone and the
winter weed cocktail mix that we add atrezene too, that's
gonna be more post emerchant. So that's for stuff that's
already up iran. So, but like your your spur weed,
that's your sticker weed. Typically if you just spray a
couple of times in the cooler months, because that's when
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your your spur weed germinates in the fall and then
it just kind of bruise and bruise and then it
puts seed out. And the seed is what you step on.
So if we can spray it before it ever puts
on seed and knock it back, uh, you won't get
those pesky little spurs in your feet. Yeah. So, and
I always forget my back I do the front yard,
but I always forget about the backyard. So I get
(14:37):
fussed at Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I bet that's where the kids play well, And.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'm just like, well, growing up, I just had to
tough it out me.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I know, Yeah, we'll put some shoes on, deal with it.
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
So, but there and you know there's a few other
like you're say, you're and you want to use a
different prayer merchant for this but like your chamber bitter,
which that typically grows bring summer into the fall, that
you would use a product called Gallery or the preen
extended control. Uh, those would prevent those that stuff. But
(15:11):
you want to get that down around this time as well,
just because it'll start germinating once it starts getting warm.
So that'll be you know, I don't want to say
late February, because you never really know in South Louisiana, Yeah,
but somewhere right around there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
So wait, you're telling me that the high old product
containing dimension is not going to work, not.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
For chamber better better, not on chamber better does a
ton of other things, darn, but that one specifically.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And that's a big one.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That's that's a big actual active ingredients called a zoxaban. Sure, yeah, exactly.
You know, you can just confirm me. I'm pretty sure
I'm right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Nobody's going to check it's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So but no, the that product that lasts in the
soil for about six months, so if you get that
down early, it'll kind of it'll last all the way
through until they start getting ready to start germinating. But anyway,
we got to pause for a minute cat before because
I got a customer on the phone, so we're gonna
(16:13):
go and jump to Neil. Hopefully he's a customer. Neil,
good morning, how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Good morning, guys and young lady. My name is kind
of question about sledgehammer bought. Yes, I'm a customer.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Okay, cool, all right, just make sure you know.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oh I understand, I understand.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
So what we got treated my.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Nut grass in my flower bed and it did work,
I mean after what took a little while, but I
got rid of it. But it's coming back and I'm
about I want to mix up another batch. But since
that stuff is costly, what else in the yard back
(16:59):
there and we cannot put that on it might be effective.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So sedge hammer is just pretty much just yellow and
purple nuts edge. That's the only thing that product touches.
So there's there's a there's like two other products that
touch nuts edge that you can spray in the in
the lawn and some would some in the flower bed
(17:25):
that have a broader label, but that product specifically is
just yellow and purple nuts set. So unfortunately, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
That's what I wanted to know. All right, Thank you
very much for your time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
You're very welcome. Good morning, Hey you too. Take care.
That is another band of my existence, sage or kalinga
for instance, you know, but he brought up a good topic.
It was just I mean, that product only hits those
two weeks. It's just the yellow, the purple nuts edge
(18:01):
which those are more upright, They put on more of
an if you ever see them go to bloom, it's
like more of a spike bloom. There's another plant that
has a little ball for a seed head that stays
lower prostrates in the ground called kalinga. It's in the
same family. That requires a different product altogether because that
(18:23):
on that one's tough to get rid of. But we
started carrying a product called Vexus recently that does a
number on it, and that's actually need. It's a granular product.
It's like the first sedge killer. That's a granular product
of all things, you know, improvement. Yeah, yeah, but it's neat,
(18:43):
it doesn't go out, it doesn't cover that much square footage,
but I mean it it works on Virginia, button weed,
dollar weed, pretty much all those really hard to get
rid of stuff that put on like a rhizome runner,
stuff that spreads by cutting that kind of thing. Okay,
I can't use it in the flower bed, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And it's new, it's a new product, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, so like Seeking carries it. Yeah, and then I
pulled it in for a gentleman a few years back,
and then we'd sell one or two bags. And then
we had this little lady come in, which I think
she's bought me out. Like every other week.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
She's onto something.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I mean, she got her neighbors to buy it. She
don't she doesn't want kalinga or sedge in her yard anywhere, yeah,
anywhere near her. It's just been a really I mean,
she posted a really nice post on louisyan our Gardener's
about it, you know, essentially just commending us for carrying it,
which is, you know, it's nice. It's just like, yeah,
I mean, we want to sell products that help you out.
(19:44):
Yeah's your problem.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So But anyway, moving on to we were talking about
weed controlling the lawn. We just need to you know,
you want to be preemptive, all right. We don't want
to go out spraying in the summertime and not if
you can help it.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Anyway, there's a lot of limitations. It's what you can.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Spire in exactly because there's temperature restrictions. I didn't talk
about this. So Virginia, Virginia button weeds still growing in
the yard, so we want to go ahead and that
weed free zone will actually kill that. So you could
spray in that area with that. That's what I did
that What was it Wednesday? I think I was off
(20:22):
Wednesday and I was I mean, I was trying to
use up all my chemicals in the yard, like you know,
so I was spraying that. I put out the last
of my fertilizers I needed, just trying to whittle everything down. Yeah.
So and we were talking about weed control and it's
a little late, but we still have winter riser in
(20:45):
the it's the stores. You want to go ahead and
get that down as soon as you can, not only
for the existing grass that you have, like your existing turf,
but if you're going to do like a rye, like
a dwarf rye right in the yard, if you want
to lawn. I used to use that a lot when
I was a contractor. I'd had a know, it was
like ten maintenance accounts. I'd go put out to fry yeah,
(21:08):
because essentially they they had lawn contracts, so they didn't
want us to just cut.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Nothing nothing right. There's gonna be something there to make it. Now,
let me make a point real quick. If you're going
to get wind riser, mate, and you're going to do rye,
make sure that you're getting the green bag which is
strictly the fertilizer, not the blue bag that has the
pre emergent herbicide in it, because that will not that
(21:35):
will stop your rye grass from sprouting.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I appreciate you bringing that up. I had to my
dad spread some spread something out for me one time, huh,
And I had got him the blue bag and I
had got the green bag. I was like, why is
my rye grass not sprouting? There you go? And then
I realized that I see the blue bag in the
trash can. I was like, wow, appreciate you, but I
(22:02):
just wasted money on rye grass, you know. But and
the blue bag dimension or excuse me, the win a
riser that is that's just the exact same thing as
that green bag of wind riser we carry plus dimension,
is it? Yeah? So, I mean it helps take care
of your crab grass when they're young, and it just
(22:24):
helps with setting you up for success coming into the springtime. Yeah,
so sort having a good day today, it's a little chilly.
I should have wear pants, you know, instead of wear shorts,
you know.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Okay, yeah, we're at that time of year. It's time
for pants. You can still wear sandals. Sandals are okay,
all right, but the fact that you're not wearing a
Halloween shirt you got flamingos on.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like, I just I didn't get the memmo, you know,
okay yourself. I took the dog out this morning and
I was like, well, it's not that cold today.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, it's not. It's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But you know, speaking of cooler weather and stuff, this
is the time to cut back all of our perennial
summer plants, you know, or start looking at cutting them back.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Time to think about it.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, so, and I'm selective. I cut like I cut
my lantana back already. I mean I left. I've got
two plantings I left for the the bees. Ok. But
I've started cutting back stuff. Yeah. So it's like my
Mexican sage I plant that almost I think every single
flower bed except for one in my yard has Mexican
(23:35):
sage planted throughout it. And so it's like those it's
like all right, we're just gonna we're gonna cut you
back now. So those are all cut back. Yeah, And
I cut back one section of my lantana and I
cut every single milk weed to the ground. Wow, because milkweed.
It's time for the monarchs to move on.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
The need to you know, they need to go south.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yep. Then, and there's some other reasonings to cut back
milk weed. I won't get into all that, but just
rull the thumb. You just always cut your milkweed September
October in the ground, right, because we don't want the
existing monarchs that haven't migrated to continue Lanex. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
If they think that there's a food source here, they
will attempt to stick around. And then they're susceptible to
the freezes and the cold weather.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So they're susceptible to that, and they're just they're really tender,
not tough caterpillars, you know. Where it's just like okay,
you know, because they have to make this huge migration path,
this whole big trip, and so you want to cut
them back just so that they get they have enough
(24:46):
time to make that trip. Yeah. So really neat thing though,
is just like you know, you don't expect them to
when you hear, like the first time I heard, oh,
they fly all the way to Mexico, yeah, is like,
what do you mean? Yeah, well, that little tiny bug, yeah,
flies all the way to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
It's the longest insect migratory path of all the insects.
Like monarchs, they're the winners.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, they're at the time. I just always thought that
was crazy. I was just like, this little bug gets
you know, do you know? Right's the winds all the way.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
So in Mexico, they so the monarchs kind of start
to arrive around November first, which is the day Lost.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Day of the Dead. So they.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
They culturally they see the monarchs as the returning spirits
of their ancestors.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That's super cool, and.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They celebrate it. Yes, they celebrate the return one day.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I'd love to go down there for around that time
and see it, yeah, because it'd be neat. I mean here,
you know, I'm at the house or I'm at the
nurser and i mean we'll be loaded with butterflies. Yeah,
you know, but it's just, uh, it'd be interesting to
go down there and see what with actual the trip
to looks like. But you know, cut back your milk weed.
(26:14):
I mean, I cut back most of my stuff because
like humming birds, like masalvia is mainly for the humming
birds because I usually like watching Typically it's like these
two humming birds, which I'm convinced all year they've been
the same ones. Yeah them, Yeah, but they they'll fight
over my feeders and masalvia, and so it's cute, Like
(26:37):
I'll get the kids to come out to the window.
It's like, look, look they're fighting. You know, one's buzzing
the other one away. It's just a neat little thing
to see. So uh, but you know we've got that
still want to put out regular old bird seed for
the rest of the birds, you know, but there's gonna
be like the hummers are all pretty much gone, and
(26:59):
then we just want to start cutting back all that
summer perennial stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, so it's not too early, you're not concerned about
it leafing back out with some.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Of the warm weather, or I'll probably just cut it again. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Even if it does leaf back out, it's like not
that big of a.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Dedea like my Mexican sage that's already sending up spikes
like coming back like they're probably six inches tall. Yeah,
but now they're just silvery and pretty. Yeah. So I'll
just leave them and then once we get closer to
the coal to a hard freeze, I'll just cut them
back the rest of the way. Okay, you know. I
usually I'll do like a june prune on the salvias,
(27:36):
just to keep them not so heavy, yeah that they
just snap. Yeah. So but whether or not I get
to that or not, like, I'll do some of my
plantings and then I forget about the rest of them.
So it's easy to do. Look, I'm a lazy gardener, alright.
I go when I Pola's at like eight nine o'clock
at night. Yeah, you know, after I put the kids
(27:57):
to bed, winding down. Yeah, and then oh, let me
go out with the clippers. I'll cut this or you know,
oh let me trim this one little limb off that
kind of thing. So we also have strawberries in a
lot of strawberries. So this is the time to get
your bare root strawberries if you want to buy them
(28:18):
from us.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, Camino reels came in, and then Chandler.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Chandlers came in to a couple of days after so,
and so we sell through those. We sell them twenty
five to a bundle. Couldn't tell you the price point.
I think it's thirte yeah, somewhere right around there, yeh.
But you get twenty five plants per bundle and you
plant them and they'll fruit in the springtime. You'll get
your fruit right around springtime. And that is the gift
(28:45):
that kind of will keep giving because you can take
the new strawberries are kind of neat. They'll send off
pups or runners, and you can plant those. So it's
the gift that you can kind of perennialize them essentially
and keep them to the next year. One year, we
had an overturned eighteen wheeler and of bear rood strawberries
(29:07):
of all things, and it wasn't for us, but we
got a call, so we went and got some.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
OK.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
So I ended up kind of overloaded with strawberries and
so we're still running on pups from that betch.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And then so that was like four years ago. Wow,
you know, and my dad wanted I think we're I
owe him like one bundle of strawberries, but that's only
once because he was starting a new section. But it's
it's super neat and I mean it's it's great for
kids and the birds if you want them.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
To eat those, yeah, or little if you have rabbits,
little rabbits things like neighbor they might un on them
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
But strawberries they're neat. I mean I've done them in
little planters to raise them off the ground because the
strawberries will just send the runners off the side and
the and that's where the fruit will actually set and
so you can just pick them off the side. I
think my parents did a it's a tower thing like
a planter tower, yeah, mid thing, Yeah, I think they did.
(30:12):
They did that this year. So that's kind of neat
because it's like a little self watering system. But I
mean I've seen him used as a groundcover where you
just use it as a groundcover. There's a my co manager, Michael,
they did literally just groundcover and the citrus bed and
so they just you know, and it's it's a pretty
(30:33):
groundcover to begin with.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
You know, the leaves have a really nice texture, nice
dark green color and.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Then when they fruit, you get red. So you know,
it's a cool little plant. If you've never grown up before,
and you know, just check them out and Honestly, they
don't take too much room either. So m hmm. Yeah,
all right, So let's see what else I had. What
else did I add on my list for us to
talk about today? Do you have anything else on this
I think we may have gone through what so, but
(31:02):
I wanted to quickly talk about. So this is the
time of the year, Well, I say this time of
the year. Uh, in like two weeks, we're going to
get our Norfolk pines and some more house plants and stuff.
If anybody's wanted to start looking at gift ideas, things
like that point settas are coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Christmas cactus, Yep, that's a great gift.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, that's a that's a neat plant too.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It's one of those like kind of legacy plants. Also,
like people will be like I have mine from my grandmother.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Every time, you know, every time anybody ever talks about them,
it's like, you know, it'll be, oh, this is eighty
year old Christmas Christmas cactus. Yeah, yeah, and so it's
like a neat little I don't know holiday gifts ideas
because like the north and this year I should be
getting I got a confirmation for him the other day.
(31:56):
But some women cypress. Oh I love those. So those
are super neat. That's just a little alternative to a
little Christmas y houseplant.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Okay, those look so good if you pot them up
with like red cyclomen around them or make a puffs,
make a little you know, Christmasy.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Arrangement, and they're so fragrant. Yeah, they smell great.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Put one on the kitchen counter and make the kitchen
smell nice, you know. So, But we've got those coming in.
That's probably gonna bean like November tenth hopefully. But they
just a lot of other gift ideas right now. At
the Seeking location probably has the best range of house
plants usually just in general because I usually order for them.
(32:40):
But you know, just large range of stuff. We also
don't ask me to wrap plants. We do wrap plants too,
in case you didn't know so. But just a lot
of gift ideas things like that coming on. We talked
about points set, I say I talked about them. I
just mentioned them for like a quarter second. But we
(33:00):
do have the point set of open house coming up soon.
So that's November twenty ninth from nine to two, and
that's at the Greenwold Springs location. Okay, so, and I
talked about this last time I was on the radio,
But if you've never been to the green Wold Spring Store,
it's kind of got a farm vibe. But then next
(33:22):
door is the Color Division, right, that's where we just
grow everything all right, or as much as we can.
But that is kind of neat because it's like, I
don't know, twenty thousand square feet yeah of space and yeah,
of just point sets. It's a very yeah, awesome production.
It's cool. So it's a neat, a neat thing to
(33:43):
see if you've never gone.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
So the open house, they can go into Color Division,
they get to go and oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
And you can honestly, like I can to it like me,
or if you just go to the Greenwold section the
retail side, we can just take you over there if
you want to tour it on a different day. But
on the twenty ninth, it's just a whole open house,
so everything's terrible, so you just go over.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's a cool opportunity to get to.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
No, and it's your kind of a neat thing. Like
I've gone down to Florida and toured different nurseries down there. Yeah,
and it's like small potatoes compared to down there, right,
that's huge, hundreds of acres of Kimberly Queen Firm or
Boston Baskets like Boston fer and Baskets, and it's just like, well,
(34:32):
this is like eighty thousand plants, you know, you know,
and our section it's pretty daunting. Like the first time
I went there for a product knowledge meeting probably fourteen
years ago, a long time ago, I was just like, wait,
what is this place? This is huge, you know, And
so it's super neat because I mean, like moms, for instance,
(34:55):
we'll do eight hundred thousand moms.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yes, you know, and we have moms and they're blooming now.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
So yeah, but it's the same with the point said
is where you walk in and it's just color as
far as you know, I mean a huge amount of color,
and it's just a neat thing to see because it's
you don't always think about it, at least I know
I didn't in the olden days. Where where do these
plants come from? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, So last segment of the hour. So if you
want to get your calls in, you could reach us
at four nine nine nine five two six. It's four
nine nine nine five two six. Okay, is there a
game today? I'm not the person's asking.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You're literally calling me out on right now.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I'm just I mean, we had Neil this morning earlier,
which is great, you know, but not a single caller.
This is kind of interesting. Yeah, it doesn't usually happen.
I think that they at least sneak me in.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
You know, we're so entertaining. That must be people are
loving listening to us.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
But you know, I wanted to we talked about the
points at a open house. Also wanted to talk about
what was it. Today's the twenty fifth, so next Saturday
it should be November first is going to be the
Baton Rooge tree spree over at the Seagan Lane Clegg's Nursery.
(36:24):
A really interesting little thing if you've never been, because
fall is the time of the plant trees. Because you
didn't get the memo or trees and shrubs.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Do it ye?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Do it now? Do it now? Not? And the reason
summer reason rule of thumb for planting in the fall
is going to be root development. Plants tend to have
more growth happen. Sometimes they'll use the term phrase downstairs
versus upstairs because it's the cooler month months, the plants
(36:55):
usually go dormant, like with the leaves, and just in general,
they'll be dormant. There's no active new growth popping out,
but root development still occurs. But as it gets hotter
and hotter, plants spend more energy on leaf growth and
grown upstairs than actual root development. That's why we typically
(37:17):
recommend like a root stimulator during the hotter months if
you've got to do a planting just to force out
root development, because wouldn't you believe it. Plants need roots
to take in water, take in nutrition, So that's why
you want to plant in the fall. So we do
this tree spree where we donate proceeds to batter Roache Green,
(37:41):
which if you're not familiar with Baton Rouge Green, they
do a lot of the plantings out like the boulevards,
entrance ways alongs some of the roads and Baton Rouge
sometimes you'll see signs of donations. They do all those
plantings and maintenance. So anytime you see a plant plant
(38:02):
in a boulevard or like in a uh, you know,
an island along the road, chances are they probably did it. Yeah,
so and if they didn't, I'll give them credit forward.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, we'll just say they did it because we love them.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I love it. I mean, it's a great little program.
It's a nonprofit, you know, if you ever want to
make a donation to something like, that's a good one.
Between that and the Burden Center, that's usually where I donate.
But the uh, the tree Spree, we pull in like
a wide range of stuff, so it'll be like your
bread and butter, like your oak trees, your cypress trees,
(38:38):
those kinds of things. But then I'll also order in
we'll get some native things that I don't typically carry
all year, Like I'm just selective about what I carry.
So like right now, we've got chickasaw plum, We've got
some Texas star hibiscus. We actually got some Roselle hibiscus,
(38:58):
which that's the the medicinal tea cultivar. Really neat don't
get that very often. They usually just have to grow
because you can't usually don't find a source for those.
And there's just there's red penstemen that we got in
which I don't know if you saw those at Seagan,
but those are gorgeous little three gallons like full full
(39:21):
plant just ready to get get in the ground also
got some neat plants like Gordlinia beauty berries at this
point is standard in the landscape and just a wide
range of stuff, you know, pal meadows. So, like I said,
so next week and I believe it's nine to I
(39:44):
believe it's no. Eight thirty to twelve is the time frame.
Over at the Seagan store, Betteredge Green will be there
to answer any questions, give you any tips on planting.
They usually bring like little planting guides like that kind
of stuff, just to information. It's just information, say up
for success.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Absolutely, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's pretty neat. They're they're all landscape horticulturest or ourborist.
It's a great source for information. Yeah, and this and
the staff at the Segin Lane locations extremely knowledgeable as well. So,
but we just like to bring in the little extra
help too, just to get everybody kind of rolling. But
don't be free to come out. It's a neat, little,
(40:27):
neat little trip. Usually I'll have a tent right outside
the back of the building and if you come early,
somebody may have donuts there. You can try to snitch
one off of here, yeah, because they usually I'll have them.
But uh, it's pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I was.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
I was really intrigued the first time we did it
because I mean I think I think I cleared like
four of the beds behind the building. Yeah, and then
we had trees running down the center aisle and it
wasn't that busy, but I mean, it was just it
was a neat thing to see because it's just like
all of a sudden, it's like a complete shift. Yeah,
(41:09):
because it's either stores. You know, we'll have our plants
but in the beds, but we don't typically move them
too much. But it's a cool little transition period where
we move all that stuff in, we sell them, and
then we get ready for Christmas trees because it's it's
already upon us. It's so close.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Speaking of trees, Christmas trees will.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Be here no time. Am I excited, I don't know,
you know, yeah, I'm excited to set up the trees,
you know. But it's just it's a very hustle, bustle hustle,
you know, because we got our trees in before. Was
it before Thanksgiving? Yeah, so I guess I think it's
like a week and a half before Thanksgiving. And I
(41:52):
know the dates never changed for Thanksgiving, but it sure
seems like it just gets sooner and sooner for me
every year, where it's like, oh, I got to get
my tree. Oh great, now it's Thanksgiving time. Now I
got to get gifts, you know. But it's a cool,
cool little time of the year where just in the
nursery we transition multiple time changes.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Because we're doing pumpkins and hay bales and corn right now,
and then in no time it's going to be Christmas
plants like you were talking about earlier, and then the
Christmas Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Well, as always, Cat, it's a pleasure. Looks like we
have run out of time, so you know, as always,
it's a it's fun going on the radio. I was
really I was really sorry to hear mister Marshall passing,
but I thought it was really nice that I was
able to say something on the air about him because
he was I didn't know him the best, but every
(42:45):
time I saw him on the ner, like over at
the second Lane location, I always stopped to go talk
to him because he was just a wealth and knowledge,
and so I really appreciate being able to say that
on air. And thank you, Neil, You're the number one
caller today. I appreciate well. I guess i'll see y'all
(43:06):
at the nursery, and y'all have a good Saturday.
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