July 12, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Glegg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, and welcome back to wjbo's Lon and Garden
Show today. I am here with Butch Drews and Britain
from Glegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good job.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I wouldn't even attempt that last name if it were you.
Good morning, good morning, good morning y'all. Issues.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, if you have a question or concern, please close up.
Four nine nine nine five two success fort nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
That was fun. Let's do that again. Good morning everyone,
Good morning. It has turned into summer.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah it is, and it's brutally hot out there.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
And well I was going to ask Jeremy a question,
but he just got up and left, blaming for doing that.
The something not going right? Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I think he's trying to tell you to speak into
the microphone.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I am speaking into the microphone.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Back where it's starting.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I don't understand what's the difference. Okay, problem, we'll just
go with that.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, your MC just sounds low. I'm trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Should I turn this thing up here? Is that help? No,
that's just for your headphones.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
So if it seems louder to you, it's because it's
well technically it's louder to you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But okay, anyway, I do have a serious question to
start the show with. Okay, great, When I was and
I would watch whatever news station I my parents had on,
which was usually channel two. But we won't plug that
because channel nine is just as good as most people.
Forget about thirty three. But anyway, when the weather came on,
(02:16):
they would actually put a temperature up there, and that
was the temperature it was supposed to be. I was
watching one of the newses the other day and it
said it was going to be one hundred and seven tomorrow,
and I'm thinking one hundred and seven. Then they put
up feels like temperature. Now was that not?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I feel like that was always a thing since I've
been alive, But was that not back in age?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I mean, it was hard enough to you know, if
you had to take your rock tablet with your chisels
or do that math. I mean, it just took too
long anyway. So anyway, we now do feels like temperature.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, I feel like that's a little more accurate because
I disagree. Well, you go work outside in that sun all.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Day, but it just makes you think you're hotter.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Maybe maybe maybe it's a psychological thing.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, So if it tells you it's one hundred and seven,
you're gonna go, oh my goodness, I'm dying out here
where If they say it's ninety eight, it's like, oh,
it's cool. Snap.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I was gonna wigh in with something, but I've got nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
How about you, Anna Claire? You got anything? Not about
the temperature? Now I think we we beat that. They
come up with this feels like temperature.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I know it's humidity. Place a factor in that that,
like the due point, doesn't it due point?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah? You do point over there? No, you just throw
things at me, all right, Well, maybe somebody that's you know,
maybe like a weather man or Pat Shingleton or yeah,
Patch Shingleton does.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Hold on, I'm looking up on the most accurate source
ever known to Mekipedia.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, exactly, I have. When I was there, I waited
on mister Shingleton many times. What a wonderful man. I mean, he.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Is nice, is nice to meet.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The heat index combines air temperature and relative humidity and
shaded areas, so that's it would feel how hot it
would feel that the humidity were some other value in
the shade. So for example, this is from Wikipedia. The
temperature's ninety degrees with seventy percent relative humidity. The heat
index is one oh six. It's meant to describe experienced
(04:42):
temperatures in the shade, but does not take into account
heating from direct sunlight, physical activity, or cooling with wind.
Moful next week, we'll be making clocks out of potatoes.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why would they do it in the shade.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, that's probably the more accurate, Like that's the feeling
outside would be in the shade. You have no other
external forces, like the Sun's not adding additional heat and
all that other stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So but aren't you the actual temperature or the feels
like temperature should be out in the sun because the
sun is adding heat to it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But I'm actually trying to follow this through because I
see what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
But it would make to me, it makes sense to
do it with the idea in the shade, because that's.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The base.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Like there's you're it's going to feel like this no
matter whether you're in the shade or not, or in the.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Sun in the sun. But maybe it you know, this
is why I.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
See, this is why I'm currently pressing buttons on a
Saturday morning and not you know at the National might
we might have somebody with knowledge that to be nice?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Change?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh please?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But anyway, so I don't know. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to get quite this much onto a tangent. But anyway,
it's always learned something new every time I do the show.
Mostly but it is I shouldn't be doing the show
and a Claire does great, I'm just I'm just pop
you or bringing her here. I think that's my job.
(06:28):
Anything new and exciting at the nursery. It's hot. What
is the heat indexed?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Been hearing some things about some diplodenias. You're still getting
some of those neat colored new colors.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And this year it seems like we've gotten more varieties
of them than last year. There's in which this was
my first time ever seeing one like this. There was
a double blooming really yeah, it was, I mean it
had the same novilla or Dipladinia.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Actually, are you being a dip?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Those those are hybrids and they're a cross between the
mandavilin and dipladenia. So I guess whichever way you say it,
you're not saying it wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
There you go. You know what was really cool was
last year when I was there, they brought in But
the only thing that was frustrating to me is they
brought in it was almost an orange and a kind
of a purple ish and it looks just like auburn colors.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, I guess so, but now there's that so the one,
the orange one that's fired up orange, and then there's
an one we got this year called fired up Coral
that has that real bright kind of neon color, but
it's more of a like a pinky coral color. It's
really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Well that's interesting, but that's that kind of a neat plant.
Like you said, it's a cross cross, but it's more
of a shrub than a vine. A lot of people
come in thinking it is a vine, but it's really
nice round a pool. That's the full sun plant put
out a lot of color around the swimming pool, just
some a neat plant to do something with I have
no idea what's going on, So we're going to ask
(08:08):
Annaclair if she had Wait here, we go, all right,
I'm gonna take the call.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Do that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Good morning, Kathleen, Welcome to WJB as London Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Yeah, I need to advice on how to control a
white fly infestation on Minora pinta lantana. They're on just about.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Everything I have.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
White Flies can be extremely difficult because of so many
different species of white flies, and we don't have one
particular spray that knocks out all of them. This is
a tough question answer to your question because normally what
I would suggest is what we call All Seasons oil spray.
(08:57):
It's a newer oil spray that has a much higher
temperature restriction than our old oil sprays. However, we are,
especially this week, I'm going to be hitting some of
those temperatures right now. I would probably I'm going to
(09:18):
suggest if it's a real bad infestation, using that product,
say early in the morning when the temperatures are still
somewhat lower. But if you can't do that, probably would
want to go with eight would be your starting place
and hopefully that's going to hit a majority of these species.
If that doesn't work, there's a new product called not
(09:40):
a new product, but seven also will help. But I
would I think I would go with the oil spray.
Just do it early in the morning when the temperatures
are still somewhat lower.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, okay, And what was the second thing?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
The number eight? E I G H T. Thank you
very much. Hey, thank you for the call. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I kind of have a follow up question that all season?
Is that just horticulture oil?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, okay, I.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Thought that's what you. They keep changing the names on
the A two And at one time, wasn't it mineral oil?
And now it's misstable canola oil.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah. Then they've actually, over the years it has changed
I think four or five times that I know of
actual oil that's in there. It went it was actually
a true petroleum type oil, then it went to paraphernitic,
then I think it was mineral, and I think now
it's canola. And the reason for the changes is to
(10:40):
raise that temperature, because it used to be you couldn't
spray this stuff over about eighty five. Oh. In fact,
that was even pressing when it was more petroleum based.
The canola. I think, and I don't have a label
in front of me, but I think your temperature restriction
is ninety five.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I want to say either ninety or ninety five, so
it's up in that range.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But again, and if you can do it early in
the morning, especially if you have a real bad infestation.
The thing about white flies is the eggs. You want
to try and break that cycle of the eggs. It's
about a three to four day cycle, so you really
want to do a couple sprays three to four days
apart to really try to knock that out.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Also another thing I usually tell people if they're gonna
spray hoticulture this time of year, like you said, to
do it early in the morning when the heat is
and as intense. But also I would usually tell them
wait about fifteen to twenty minutes because by that point
the product should have effect. Yeah, and then go back
(11:39):
and spray it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Oh yeah, that's a great idea what you're doing with
And that's one of the reasons why I it's one
of my more popular things to recommend, especially on some
of the plants she named, And it's going to be
leading to one of the questions we had off air,
is typically those plants that she was mentioning, Kathleen was
mentioning are butterfly and someone hummingbirds. So you don't want
(12:03):
that oil on there when they get back, when those
start feeding later in the day. So rinsing is an
excellent idea. What you're doing with an oil spray as
you're actually suffocating the insect. You coat the insect, he
can't breathe and he dies. The biggest advantage of the
oil spray is you're also coating the eggs right, which
(12:24):
prevents them from hatching. So again you hope you're breaking
that cycle.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
And typically you would find.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
My using my hands because but typically you.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Would find whitefly eggs on the underside of the folios.
So you want to spray really good, try to get
as much of the plant as potible.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And that's one of the things that's occurred. I can't
think of the evolution, but that's not the exact word
I'm looking for. These new ready to spray containers are
the greatest thing they ever invent. I mean, and you sit,
you come. It used to be when we when I was,
you know, back in the stone age, with my rock tablet,
we would have these bottles and then we have these
(13:08):
big old sprayers and you had to read the label
because it was two tablespoons to a gallon of water,
and you never could see the gallon mark on the
on the sprayer even though it was there. You never
knew exactly where the water was with that where Now
all you got to do is hook these things up
to your hose right away, unhook it, put it on
the kit, you know, in your shelf, and you're ready
(13:28):
to go next time you need it. So actually I
was surprised how it's even These ready to spray products
are very much in line if you buy the concentrate.
Now maybe it doesn't go as far as the concentrate,
but again, you know, it's so much easier just to
unscrew and screw that thing on there and go for it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
We could call it four.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Six WGBO. And I have a question that came up
during the break that I thought was very interesting. So
here in Louisiana, I know, we talk about the heat index, right,
if we were in Fairbanks, Alaska will talk about the
cold index.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I would assume there's something like or like the chill
factor or chill factor. So let's all just chill or
wind factor whatever, win Factor.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Well, let's go to the phone lines. Oh wait, he's
doing something. I can't go to the film. Yeah, now
he's not done with them.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Good morning, Wendy. Welcome to WJBSLNA Garden Show. How may
we help you today?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I have, personally, and I don't get to listen to
your show very often.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
But I have two plants and two different.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Locations, and one of them completely died and the other
one is not doing well. It's turning yellow on the
ends of the leaves and I don't know if it's
just plainly too hot.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You said, right, what is happening? You said, Parsley. Yeah, yeah,
Parsley does not make it through our summer heat. It
tends to do what we call go to flour, which
it will actually put a bloom on and at that
point it expires. But yeah, you're not going to be
able to put parly.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Not welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, and that that is strictly heat. Parsley. I know
some people that really really work really hard and do
somehow or other get it through the summer, but typically
it's going to go to bloom or just die off
like yours did. Not. Just in the fall, say September October,
just come grab you another plant. But yeah, that's Wendy.
(15:45):
You're doing nothing wrong. It's strictly heat, strictly the heat. Yep, okay,
thanks very much, thanks, thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Parsley also a swallowtail.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, yes it is. I feel like that would be.
You keep trying to go to our list we run out,
but no. Yeah, that's a and that's one of the
unfortunate things. That is an excellent Larval food plant. But
again it's very very difficult, if not impossible, to get
it through the summer when we have most of our
butterfly activities. Yeah, then you know one thing you could
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do is use phenyl. Yeah, Pentel's another good Larval plant.
And Deal and Deal both very good.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We have another caller.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Why don't we go to it? How did how did
that caller get here?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
They called it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Fort two six w JBO, Good morning, Cody, Welcome to
WJBO is one and Garden Show. How may we all
be today?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Who's talking to.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
I just moved into another house and it's got a
twenty five foot magnolia. The bulbs are falling off before
they bloom, was wondering if this diseased or what.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I have a sneaky suspicion that they're not falling off.
I think they're being cut off. Squirrels love to do that.
They will go in and just squirrel is a rodent.
And if a squirrel doesn't, I'm gonna use the word
sharpen their teeth. Their teeth will actually grow so much
that they will literally kill themselves. They grow back into
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their head. So squirrels will from time to time just
go chew things to sharpen or file their teeth down.
And they love to cut off. May know you blooms.
I don't know what it is. I think it's just
to irritate the heck out of us. But go out
and look and see if they If I'm gonna use
the word cut, if it's real clean, then I'm wrong.
(17:47):
If it's a kind of scratchy or chewy looking, it's
a squirrel. Plants Blooming in plants is the plant's way
of reproducing seen itself. They're going, you know, the flower
turns into seeds or the mayni you pod. Most of
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us look at if a plant and speaking in generalities, here,
if a plant is in stress for some reason or another.
Some plants will hurry to try to reproduce. We see
that a lot in Japanese maynoias that are stressed. They'll
when bloom time comes, they just bloom more prolific than
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anything else, and then they die. Well, they were trying
to reproduced. I could be and I was taking a
long time to get to my point that may know,
you could be in stress. No, you know, you're fine.
I have a tendency to be well, not a tendency.
I tend to be long winded. But so the plant
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is aborting the bloom, and that's going to be where
it literally stops putting energy into it, and it there's
a word for it, and I can't think of it
right now. It just drops the bloom and that'll be
a very very very It almost looks like it's been
cut off by a pair of pruners, a very very
clean cut. So it's one of those two things. Probably
the tree otherwise looks healthy and vigorous. Yeah, it's it's
(19:15):
one of those two things. Either it's just the stress
of the heat index of one hundred and seven, or
it could be some squirrel damage.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
All right, thank you, very much.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Thank you for the cody. That's been three excellent funks.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I actually have another follow up question, what what pollinates
Magnolia bloom?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I think they are basically self fertile.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Are they self pollinate?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
They self pollinate? Interesting, I'm on, but yeah, I'm pretty
sure most of your trees are going to be self pollinators. Okay,
but we've been skimmed over a hummingbird and pollinators and
the whole thing. One of the things that people in
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Baton rouge and we've discussed this before to some extent,
but why all of a sudden we're starting to see
a whole lot of hummingbirds. Where have they been? They've
been here. The thing is, we get an influx of
hummingbirds typically in April with the ruby throats, and most
of those that you see early in April are going
(20:29):
to be adult male hummingbirds. They then the females come
in and they mate, and that's when the population tends
to go down. A female is very territorial, where the
male I don't care where I go. I'm just going somede.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
So it's the female always chasing the other humming birds.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, they all chase each other. I just get so
frustrated with them that you know, it's like, don't chase
each other so much. There's four ports to the feeder,
you know, you can each one can get their own.
But when the female lay their eggs, they shrink their
territory tremendously, so they are not going to venture very
far from the nest to get food or nectar insects
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or the nectar of the plants. A lot of people
don't realize that hunting birds eat insects too, but so
you don't you see a decrease in activity because you
just happen that male ruby throat comes passing by and
stops by your feet or for a few minutes and
then goes on to you know, five doors down whatever,
but the female stays very close. What we're seeing right
(21:31):
now with the increase in hummingbird activity is the females
have fledged their young. So now you have the immatures
that are coming to feed. The females are now venturing
out a little bit further, and you still have that
male that just happens to be passing by. The We
will notice an increase in activity from now through about
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the imist, say the first of September were that time
period maybe into September, but that's when we have our
ruby throat migration come through here. We're we're a flight
path where they go back to South America. They come
right over the pretty much right over the top of us,
so we have a huge and that's when you just see,
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you know, you need to get the feeders out there.
You need to have your plants plant it because that's
the most activity once they've come through. The really cool
or neat thing about hummingbirds is a lot of the
western birds will migrate east to us, so we have
a whole different grouping of hummingbirds. In the winter, there's
not as many of them. But still keep your feeders
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out because a lot of the plant material that hummingbirds
like has, you know as perennial salaries those type things,
has died down. So it's important to have the feeders
out again. Don't fill them up like you do during
August during the migration, where you know it seems like
they're sucking it down twice a day. You know, maybe
fill it a quarter full. Change it out every four
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five days and you'll be surprised. You'll get several different
varieties of hummingbirds come through at that time. A lot
of questions that we have.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Are are plants that attract butterfly and hummingbirds similar.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Actually, there are plants that attract both or both will
come to but typically because of the long beak on
a hummingbird. A hummingbird likes a tubular plant where he
can stick his nose down in there and suck like
a yeah, like a cufia. What's a little vermillionaire, I
love that. That's just things it's fantastic. Or a butterfly,
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if you'll ever watch them, they like to flit right
around the plant, or even a lot of times they'll
walk across the top of the plant. So they want
more of what I'm gonna call a flat blooming plant
like a lantana. You know how they have all those
little flowers that may up the lantana. They're all about
the same height, so the butterfly can walk all over
them and get the nectar that it needs. So, yes,
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there are ones that pentus are attractive to both, and
you know, so yes, there are certain varieties that are.
But that's what's neat about a hummingbird butterfly garden is
you get such a and they're always so colorful. I
know you talk We talked before about the bandana lantanas,
all the coloration with them and the salvias.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I really like using the cone flower.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The cone flower. Yeah, yeah, that's a that's an excellent one,
you know, and that we could just keep a rebecca
Yeah right now. That Rebecca's are.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Just if you plant Rebecci in your yarn, be prepared.
It's going to come back next year, yes, and it
will come back inspire you.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
How is the availability on that? Yeah? The seed O,
my goodness. Some places it's got to be a weed.
But a good supply right now at the nursery.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Right now, I mean I I have a good bit,
but it's mostly of one variety. And the reason for
that being is this one just tends to bloom a
lot heavier than some of the other ones. It's that
little star gold rush or something like that, and.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
It's a little bit shorter, like you said, yeah, some
of them, some of the Rebecca's can get some high.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Oh yeah, there's one in my yard right now that's
probably about three feet tall.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I know people can't see that when, you know, but
still heat.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
One of the things that we had We've discussed the
heat and heat index and cold index and all those
type things, but one of the things, and I saw
this in my neighborhood, and sometimes I just feel like
I need to be the horticultural police and go knock
on someone's door and say, ma'am, excuse me, ma'am, here's
(25:48):
a citation for being not not knowing what you're doing.
Do not with the stress that's out there right now,
scalp your yard right there is nothing I mean the
stress that it causes it when you mow down to
an inch or whatever it is you're mowing to. Oh,
I want to mow it real hard. I'm going on vacation. Well,
(26:10):
you're harming your lawn Saint Augustine grass. Truthfully, you need
to mow it at three inches. You know your mower
has a little gauge over there. Look at three inches
and that's where you want it to be. Through mowing centipede,
you can go down to two two and a half.
That's important because again, if you you know, it's kind
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of like you and I. You know, you've been out
in the sun enough. You know what, if you you
go out for an hour or so, you're probably condition
your skin's conditioned to it, You're not gonna burn. You know,
someone that sits behind a desk like Jeremy all day long,
if he goes out into the sun five minutes later,
he's burnt to a crisp because the skin is not
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adjusted to it or conditioned to it. Your outer blades
of your grass, outer area that's used to it. You know,
it's been like, hey, amen, you know I've been hanging
out here in the sun. I got my suntan lotion.
I'm a dark green color. If you scalp all that down,
you're gonna burn it. You're gonna it's gonna turn crispy.
That's pretty much what Chrissy tell us.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
If we had to prune Azelia's back, right, you wouldn't
want to prune it too far back because that inner
foliage will just burn exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I mean, yeah, exactly. It's the same type thing. So
it's one of the reasons true. Well, actually, chinchbugs was
the main reasons why a lot of people got away
from Saint Augustine grass, because it is a much faster
growing grass. And the truth of the matter is, you
need to mow your Saint Augustine and absent. Most people
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say you should mow it twice a week. You need
to mow it once a week so you don't get
and if you mow it and scatter all this grass
over the top of the grass that grass, cuttings, clippings,
whatever you want to call it, they're going to start
to decay, which actually creates even more heat on the
grass under eth it. So it's it's a double whammy
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if you let it grow too long. Uh, you know,
cut your if you're Saint Augustine, minimum of once a week,
and if you're doing centipedes, you can probably go ten
days between mowings. That's probably pushing it a little bit.
But again, don't scalp your lawn. You know the oh
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I'm going on vacation. I don't want it to look
too bad when I get back. Well, you know what,
if you scalp it down, it might look bad when
you get back. So again, watch your mowing heighte. You
know we've discussed fertilization, your typical NPK fertilizers that you
would be putting out your lawn food plus irons, centipede food,
those type things. Really really really want to hold off
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on that. Well, milorganite. Right, this is the time of
year where I really promote mil organite because it will
green It actually does a very good job of greening
up centipede, which has a tendency to be a little
yellow color anyway, a yellowish color anyway. But yeah, mill
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organite is a very good, slow releasing product to put out.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Curious about that new product we have the moo organize
moo organites.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
That is actually a common or product, I believe, if
I'm not right, they can buy the.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Same That's where the mood comes from exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
But yeah, that and that's more of a you couldn't
you can use its label for use on the lawns,
but that's more of a product to be used in
especially vegetable gardening and flower beds. Again, it's just a
it's from the same company and they use the move
instead of the mill. So yeah, that's a that's an
(29:46):
excellent product that I'm surprised it hadn't moved a little
bit better.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Yes, maybe it's just even caught on you.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, it needs to. It's an excellent, excellent product.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Can plants get too much water?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yes, most definitely.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Most well, I mean, of course, if we have a
flood situation like that, you know, we know what's gonna
happen then.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
But actually this is a good segue to uh, Plant
of the Weak, which I feel like we kind of
forgot about. So Plants of the Week is a perennial
high biscus also known as rose mallow high biscus, which, uh,
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it is very hard to overwater that plant.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's a swamp plant. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Good thing about rose mallow as they are native and
they're perennial, so they come back.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
If you drive to New Orleans, especially once you come
down into that little swampy area by Laplace, you'll see
the white one of those blooming off in that in
that swampy area right around there. So the biggest it's
a great plant. You know, they're hybridizing them to get
these big, big, beautiful blooms on them as opposed to
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the smaller blooms to the true native one. The one
thing that you need to be really careful with, and
I hate to bring up a negative to the Plant
of the Week, but it's very easy to control is
they are white fly magnets. So we have a a
drench that you can actually apply to the base of
the plant. That will prevent the white flies from ever
getting on there. So that's not a bad idea if
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you are and I understand why you would want to
plant one of these rose mallows. They are beautiful.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, they really They make a flower almost like, yeah,
a baser head.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
And if you had like.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
A pond in your yard, that would really be nice
right around the edge.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, that's a great idea. Excellent segue, thank you. Yeah,
most people don't realize that plants actually are actually has
to be oxygen in the soil so that plants can
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take up the moisture that's there. So you have little
oxygen pockets here and there and everywhere. And what happens
is if we get two and a half inches of
rain in an hour or whatever it is, or if
you're running your sprinklers during these thunderstorms, our soils can
become what's called supersaturated. Water fills up all these pockets,
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so all the air pockets, so they're not there anymore.
So the plant literally drowns because it can't absorb the
moisture that is there because the oxygen isn't there. In fact,
many years ago, they used to sell a product called
oxygen Plus, which you would do. Most time. It was
used for houseplants that have been overwatered. Song since gone
(32:51):
away and not available anymore. So I don't even know
why I brought it up, but you do want to
monitor your sprinkler system right now because we are getting
what my wife Shirley always says, is we're getting back
to normal. We're catching these afternoon thundershowers almost every day.
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Some of them are very heavy, some of them are
not so heavy. Typically, if we're getting two to three
inches of moisture a week, that's all you need. Yeah,
that's what we want now. If you have a vegetable garden,
a raised bed, potted plants, forget what I'm saying. You
need to probably water daily or especially on pot plants,
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or every other day for a raised garden, but typically
your lawns, your shrubs. If we're getting two inches of moisture,
you don't need to run your sprinkler system. Does it
irritate you when you're driving along and it's thunderstorm and
you pass the sprinkler system?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
STO I do head.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
But anyway, so yes, you plants can not only you know,
in a flooding situation where they're underwater. But you know,
with some of the brains, if we're if we're supplementing
you know, moisture through a sprinkler system, right now, I'm
probably not really necessary.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
And also this is something I've run across from time
to time at the nursery.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Is it okay after you run across it?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
But anyways, thank you for trying to make me lose
my train of thought.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Does the train run over? It's just about god.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I can tell a lot of a lot of times
people will bring in like samples of their plant and
they will want to know if they're watering correctly or
if damage cause to the plant was from overwatering or underwatering,
which a lot of times the damage caused by either
can look the same because it's causing the same thing
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to happen. Like you were saying a minute ago, they're
not getting oxygen whether they're underwatered or overwater so they
just suffocate.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, after if if they can't pull the moisture that's
there up, they're not getting moisture, or if there's no
moisture there to pull up, they're not getting raster. So
a very good point. But yeah, that's that's very very accurate.
You know, this is really irritating me. They didn't push
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what my drink is on my.
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Speaker 2 (35:36):
We have a caller. Good morning, Good morning Patrick. Welcome
to WJBOS London Garden Show. How may we hope you today?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah, good morning morning. I got a question.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
I have a property that a house was built on
about three years ago. In the back of it, it's
about a I guess sixty feet in the back anyway,
it slopes to a ditch and of course there's some
but weeds and growing up when we got here. And
what I want to try to do is see if
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instead of keeping.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
The weeds.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Is to put something down there that will, you know,
look nice, but also maintain keep it from a roading
down because it's on a slope.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Going down to that ditch in the back.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
What do you suggest you said, from seed?
Speaker 9 (36:27):
No, not necessarily from you mean to plant seeds?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Well right now, you said it's an area that's pretty
weedy and you want to try and weed, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
In other words, yeah, I did cut some of the
weeds down and put actually I put where the ground
starts sloping down. Actually put some flower beds and they
look nice. But I just wanted to see, you know,
eventually what I could put maybe to get rid of
those the tall weeds that's growing, which I tried to identify.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
But as long as how as it's just we's, you know,
just get out there. Whenever you're ready to put something down,
spray the area with round up. You don't want to
cut anything down before you do that because round up
is fully or absorbed, that's going to kill everything off.
Just lay some side or put out some grass seed.
(37:21):
I don't help with the erosion. Yeah, I mean that's what
we're worrying about. If it's not a large area, you know,
I believe Warner Turf. I don't know if Quality side's
still in business or not, but there's several side companies
and truthfully, you know, yeah, it's a little hit run
you first go in there and look. But you know
it's very simple to put out. Just run a sprinkler
out there, run it every day, you know. But yeah,
(37:45):
to clean the area, round up is going to be
your best bet. Just spray everything that you don't want to.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
Live, Okay, And you think someb would be well, I
can see why some would be. You know, the best
is there any where you can plant like going to
the ditch itself because it holds water, you know when
it's especial in rains, but like irins, and.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
There's a whole in fact, our Greenwold Springs location is
specializes in aquatic plants. That's one of their big niches
at the Greenald Springs store. There's lots of there's pickerel, rush, sagittaria,
you mentioned irises. You can actually make a very very
pretty area along there, rose mellow high biscus. I was
(38:31):
hoping you were going to catch uggled with that, but yeah, no,
there's there's a lot of material go by. Like I said,
the Greenwell Springs location asked for Michael. He is our
expert on aquatic material. He's going to love you for that.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
Okay, Well, I mean yeah, because I would like to
do something to kind of you know and not you
know eventually.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah, and Patrick, one of the things that you pointed out,
there is no in that ditch. And this is difficult
for me to put into words, believe it or not
with me, but know what the average or the usual
water level is, and you don't want to do especially
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do not want to do side any lower than that.
That's where a lot of your aquatic plants you would
want to start is. You know you're going to have
you know, a flood that it's going to come way up.
But you know, if you want to know kind of
your normal high water mark and your normal level and
the area between your normal level and your normal high
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water that's where you're going to do your aquatic plants.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
I see, I get it.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I get that.
Speaker 9 (39:39):
Okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
All right? And remember Greenwa Springs location asked for Michael No.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
I appreciate that I wrote it down.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Thank you, Thank you great phone call. You know what
we haven't done, and I'm ashamed because I should have
told us that we hadn't done it. We haven't plugged
the podcast. We haven't so we need mister radio voice
to plug the podcast for what about that? That?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Is it a playback or something like? You can leave yeah,
a message, that's a hat.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
There you go now with a radio voice.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
I if you.
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Speaker 3 (40:56):
That was very well done. Yeah, thank you, almost professional.
Why see around us then, question?
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Nobody else would do it?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I know it's kind of you know, I really don't
want to get out in my yard. I'd try to
get out in it early every morning and do a
little something, but anything really new and exciting. You talked
about the diplodinias earlier, which you know, a lot of
people are out around their swimming pools right now. Still
a decent supply of hibiscus.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I'm guessing I'm not gonna lie because they've been on
cell so we've kind of dwindled down a little bit.
But there's still a good bit out there to look through.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Again, an excellent pool plant blooms all summer long.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Also, we've had the limelight or piniculata hydranges still in bloom.
I think I'm saying that right.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
You know, And that's one of the things that people
come in. And I understand why people them in January
want to buy crape myrtles. I'm not necessarily suggesting go
out and buy your crape myrtles right now, which you can,
and you can plant right now, there's no problem with that.
But look at come into the nursery right now, look
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at their blooming. I imagine for the most part, Wow,
that is an xyz crpe myrtle. And you know, at
least make notes and come back in the fall. If
you don't want a plant right now, baton rouge the
Independence Garden Center. They have a crape myrtle garden walk
through there. They're labeled you know, oh, I want a
muskogee or I want to miss Sandra, or you know,
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now is a great time you can plant right now.
Please don't say, well you said you can't plant. Yes,
you can plant right now. But if you don't want
to go buy the nursery. Take you know, an hour
out of your day. I know weekends are busy for everybody,
but go buy the nursery. Look at the colors right
now down the name, but that's a natchez white. Look
at how it's growing as opposed to an a comba
both white crape myrtles.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
And I do just want to make this really quick.
But something we didn't really bring up. Kakuma ginger. We
have it in stock at I think all locations right now.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Similar to timarek yes, and came from Cambodia at about
twenty inches.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
Talk but excellent for some shade. And we have a
very nice variety in right now with different colors.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
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We're here every Saturday morning from eight to nine to
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, and welcome back to wjbo's Lon and Garden
Show today. I am here with Butch Drews and Britain
from Glegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good job.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I wouldn't even attempt that last name if it were you.
Good morning, good morning, good morning y'all. Issues.
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
That was fun. Let's do that again. Good morning everyone,
Good morning. It has turned into summer.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah it is, and it's brutally hot out there.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
And well I was going to ask Jeremy a question,
but he just got up and left, blaming for doing that.
The something not going right? Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I think he's trying to tell you to speak into
the microphone.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I am speaking into the microphone.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Back where it's starting.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I don't understand what's the difference. Okay, problem, we'll just
go with that.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, your MC just sounds low. I'm trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Should I turn this thing up here? Is that help? No,
that's just for your headphones.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
So if it seems louder to you, it's because it's
well technically it's louder to you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But okay, anyway, I do have a serious question to
start the show with. Okay, great, When I was and
I would watch whatever news station I my parents had on,
which was usually channel two. But we won't plug that
because channel nine is just as good as most people.
Forget about thirty three. But anyway, when the weather came on,
(02:16):
they would actually put a temperature up there, and that
was the temperature it was supposed to be. I was
watching one of the newses the other day and it
said it was going to be one hundred and seven tomorrow,
and I'm thinking one hundred and seven. Then they put
up feels like temperature. Now was that not?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I feel like that was always a thing since I've
been alive, But was that not back in age?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I mean, it was hard enough to you know, if
you had to take your rock tablet with your chisels
or do that math. I mean, it just took too
long anyway. So anyway, we now do feels like temperature.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, I feel like that's a little more accurate because
I disagree. Well, you go work outside in that sun all.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Day, but it just makes you think you're hotter.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Maybe maybe maybe it's a psychological thing.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, So if it tells you it's one hundred and seven,
you're gonna go, oh my goodness, I'm dying out here
where If they say it's ninety eight, it's like, oh,
it's cool. Snap.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I was gonna wigh in with something, but I've got nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
How about you, Anna Claire? You got anything? Not about
the temperature? Now I think we we beat that. They
come up with this feels like temperature.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I know it's humidity. Place a factor in that that,
like the due point, doesn't it due point?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah? You do point over there? No, you just throw
things at me, all right, Well, maybe somebody that's you know,
maybe like a weather man or Pat Shingleton or yeah,
Patch Shingleton does.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Hold on, I'm looking up on the most accurate source
ever known to Mekipedia.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, exactly, I have. When I was there, I waited
on mister Shingleton many times. What a wonderful man. I mean, he.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Is nice, is nice to meet.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The heat index combines air temperature and relative humidity and
shaded areas, so that's it would feel how hot it
would feel that the humidity were some other value in
the shade. So for example, this is from Wikipedia. The
temperature's ninety degrees with seventy percent relative humidity. The heat
index is one oh six. It's meant to describe experienced
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temperatures in the shade, but does not take into account
heating from direct sunlight, physical activity, or cooling with wind.
Moful next week, we'll be making clocks out of potatoes.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why would they do it in the shade.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, that's probably the more accurate, Like that's the feeling
outside would be in the shade. You have no other
external forces, like the Sun's not adding additional heat and
all that other stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So but aren't you the actual temperature or the feels
like temperature should be out in the sun because the
sun is adding heat to it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But I'm actually trying to follow this through because I
see what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
But it would make to me, it makes sense to
do it with the idea in the shade, because that's.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The base.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Like there's you're it's going to feel like this no
matter whether you're in the shade or not, or in the.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Sun in the sun. But maybe it you know, this
is why I.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
See, this is why I'm currently pressing buttons on a
Saturday morning and not you know at the National might
we might have somebody with knowledge that to be nice?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Change?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh please?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But anyway, so I don't know. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to get quite this much onto a tangent. But anyway,
it's always learned something new every time I do the show.
Mostly but it is I shouldn't be doing the show
and a Claire does great, I'm just I'm just pop
you or bringing her here. I think that's my job.
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Anything new and exciting at the nursery. It's hot. What
is the heat indexed?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Been hearing some things about some diplodenias. You're still getting
some of those neat colored new colors.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And this year it seems like we've gotten more varieties
of them than last year. There's in which this was
my first time ever seeing one like this. There was
a double blooming really yeah, it was, I mean it
had the same novilla or Dipladinia.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Actually, are you being a dip?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Those those are hybrids and they're a cross between the
mandavilin and dipladenia. So I guess whichever way you say it,
you're not saying it wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
There you go. You know what was really cool was
last year when I was there, they brought in But
the only thing that was frustrating to me is they
brought in it was almost an orange and a kind
of a purple ish and it looks just like auburn colors.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, I guess so, but now there's that so the one,
the orange one that's fired up orange, and then there's
an one we got this year called fired up Coral
that has that real bright kind of neon color, but
it's more of a like a pinky coral color. It's
really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Well that's interesting, but that's that kind of a neat plant.
Like you said, it's a cross cross, but it's more
of a shrub than a vine. A lot of people
come in thinking it is a vine, but it's really
nice round a pool. That's the full sun plant put
out a lot of color around the swimming pool, just
some a neat plant to do something with I have
no idea what's going on, So we're going to ask
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Annaclair if she had Wait here, we go, all right,
I'm gonna take the call.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Do that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Good morning, Kathleen, Welcome to WJB as London Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Yeah, I need to advice on how to control a
white fly infestation on Minora pinta lantana. They're on just about.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Everything I have.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
White Flies can be extremely difficult because of so many
different species of white flies, and we don't have one
particular spray that knocks out all of them. This is
a tough question answer to your question because normally what
I would suggest is what we call All Seasons oil spray.
(08:57):
It's a newer oil spray that has a much higher
temperature restriction than our old oil sprays. However, we are,
especially this week, I'm going to be hitting some of
those temperatures right now. I would probably I'm going to
(09:18):
suggest if it's a real bad infestation, using that product,
say early in the morning when the temperatures are still
somewhat lower. But if you can't do that, probably would
want to go with eight would be your starting place
and hopefully that's going to hit a majority of these species.
If that doesn't work, there's a new product called not
(09:40):
a new product, but seven also will help. But I
would I think I would go with the oil spray.
Just do it early in the morning when the temperatures
are still somewhat lower.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, okay, And what was the second thing?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
The number eight? E I G H T. Thank you
very much. Hey, thank you for the call. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I kind of have a follow up question that all season?
Is that just horticulture oil?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, okay, I.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Thought that's what you. They keep changing the names on
the A two And at one time, wasn't it mineral oil?
And now it's misstable canola oil.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah. Then they've actually, over the years it has changed
I think four or five times that I know of
actual oil that's in there. It went it was actually
a true petroleum type oil, then it went to paraphernitic,
then I think it was mineral, and I think now
it's canola. And the reason for the changes is to
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raise that temperature, because it used to be you couldn't
spray this stuff over about eighty five. Oh. In fact,
that was even pressing when it was more petroleum based.
The canola. I think, and I don't have a label
in front of me, but I think your temperature restriction
is ninety five.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I want to say either ninety or ninety five, so
it's up in that range.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But again, and if you can do it early in
the morning, especially if you have a real bad infestation.
The thing about white flies is the eggs. You want
to try and break that cycle of the eggs. It's
about a three to four day cycle, so you really
want to do a couple sprays three to four days
apart to really try to knock that out.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Also another thing I usually tell people if they're gonna
spray hoticulture this time of year, like you said, to
do it early in the morning when the heat is
and as intense. But also I would usually tell them
wait about fifteen to twenty minutes because by that point
the product should have effect. Yeah, and then go back
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and spray it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Oh yeah, that's a great idea what you're doing with
And that's one of the reasons why I it's one
of my more popular things to recommend, especially on some
of the plants she named, And it's going to be
leading to one of the questions we had off air,
is typically those plants that she was mentioning, Kathleen was
mentioning are butterfly and someone hummingbirds. So you don't want
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that oil on there when they get back, when those
start feeding later in the day. So rinsing is an
excellent idea. What you're doing with an oil spray as
you're actually suffocating the insect. You coat the insect, he
can't breathe and he dies. The biggest advantage of the
oil spray is you're also coating the eggs right, which
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prevents them from hatching. So again you hope you're breaking
that cycle.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
And typically you would find.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
My using my hands because but typically you.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Would find whitefly eggs on the underside of the folios.
So you want to spray really good, try to get
as much of the plant as potible.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And that's one of the things that's occurred. I can't
think of the evolution, but that's not the exact word
I'm looking for. These new ready to spray containers are
the greatest thing they ever invent. I mean, and you sit,
you come. It used to be when we when I was,
you know, back in the stone age, with my rock tablet,
we would have these bottles and then we have these
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big old sprayers and you had to read the label
because it was two tablespoons to a gallon of water,
and you never could see the gallon mark on the
on the sprayer even though it was there. You never
knew exactly where the water was with that where Now
all you got to do is hook these things up
to your hose right away, unhook it, put it on
the kit, you know, in your shelf, and you're ready
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to go next time you need it. So actually I
was surprised how it's even These ready to spray products
are very much in line if you buy the concentrate.
Now maybe it doesn't go as far as the concentrate,
but again, you know, it's so much easier just to
unscrew and screw that thing on there and go for it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
We could call it four.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Six WGBO. And I have a question that came up
during the break that I thought was very interesting. So
here in Louisiana, I know, we talk about the heat index, right,
if we were in Fairbanks, Alaska will talk about the
cold index.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I would assume there's something like or like the chill
factor or chill factor. So let's all just chill or
wind factor whatever, win Factor.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Well, let's go to the phone lines. Oh wait, he's
doing something. I can't go to the film. Yeah, now
he's not done with them.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Good morning, Wendy. Welcome to WJBSLNA Garden Show. How may
we help you today?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I have, personally, and I don't get to listen to
your show very often.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
But I have two plants and two different.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Locations, and one of them completely died and the other
one is not doing well. It's turning yellow on the
ends of the leaves and I don't know if it's
just plainly too hot.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You said, right, what is happening? You said, Parsley. Yeah, yeah,
Parsley does not make it through our summer heat. It
tends to do what we call go to flour, which
it will actually put a bloom on and at that
point it expires. But yeah, you're not going to be
able to put parly.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Not welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, and that that is strictly heat. Parsley. I know
some people that really really work really hard and do
somehow or other get it through the summer, but typically
it's going to go to bloom or just die off
like yours did. Not. Just in the fall, say September October,
just come grab you another plant. But yeah, that's Wendy.
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You're doing nothing wrong. It's strictly heat, strictly the heat. Yep, okay,
thanks very much, thanks, thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Parsley also a swallowtail.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, yes it is. I feel like that would be.
You keep trying to go to our list we run out,
but no. Yeah, that's a and that's one of the
unfortunate things. That is an excellent Larval food plant. But
again it's very very difficult, if not impossible, to get
it through the summer when we have most of our
butterfly activities. Yeah, then you know one thing you could
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do is use phenyl. Yeah, Pentel's another good Larval plant.
And Deal and Deal both very good.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We have another caller.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Why don't we go to it? How did how did
that caller get here?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
They called it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Fort two six w JBO, Good morning, Cody, Welcome to
WJBO is one and Garden Show. How may we all
be today?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Who's talking to.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
I just moved into another house and it's got a
twenty five foot magnolia. The bulbs are falling off before
they bloom, was wondering if this diseased or what.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I have a sneaky suspicion that they're not falling off.
I think they're being cut off. Squirrels love to do that.
They will go in and just squirrel is a rodent.
And if a squirrel doesn't, I'm gonna use the word
sharpen their teeth. Their teeth will actually grow so much
that they will literally kill themselves. They grow back into
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their head. So squirrels will from time to time just
go chew things to sharpen or file their teeth down.
And they love to cut off. May know you blooms.
I don't know what it is. I think it's just
to irritate the heck out of us. But go out
and look and see if they If I'm gonna use
the word cut, if it's real clean, then I'm wrong.
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If it's a kind of scratchy or chewy looking, it's
a squirrel. Plants Blooming in plants is the plant's way
of reproducing seen itself. They're going, you know, the flower
turns into seeds or the mayni you pod. Most of
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us look at if a plant and speaking in generalities, here,
if a plant is in stress for some reason or another.
Some plants will hurry to try to reproduce. We see
that a lot in Japanese maynoias that are stressed. They'll
when bloom time comes, they just bloom more prolific than
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anything else, and then they die. Well, they were trying
to reproduced. I could be and I was taking a
long time to get to my point that may know,
you could be in stress. No, you know, you're fine.
I have a tendency to be well, not a tendency.
I tend to be long winded. But so the plant
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is aborting the bloom, and that's going to be where
it literally stops putting energy into it, and it there's
a word for it, and I can't think of it
right now. It just drops the bloom and that'll be
a very very very It almost looks like it's been
cut off by a pair of pruners, a very very
clean cut. So it's one of those two things. Probably
the tree otherwise looks healthy and vigorous. Yeah, it's it's
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one of those two things. Either it's just the stress
of the heat index of one hundred and seven, or
it could be some squirrel damage.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
All right, thank you, very much.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Thank you for the cody. That's been three excellent funks.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I actually have another follow up question, what what pollinates
Magnolia bloom?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I think they are basically self fertile.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Are they self pollinate?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
They self pollinate? Interesting, I'm on, but yeah, I'm pretty
sure most of your trees are going to be self pollinators. Okay,
but we've been skimmed over a hummingbird and pollinators and
the whole thing. One of the things that people in
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Baton rouge and we've discussed this before to some extent,
but why all of a sudden we're starting to see
a whole lot of hummingbirds. Where have they been? They've
been here. The thing is, we get an influx of
hummingbirds typically in April with the ruby throats, and most
of those that you see early in April are going
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to be adult male hummingbirds. They then the females come
in and they mate, and that's when the population tends
to go down. A female is very territorial, where the
male I don't care where I go. I'm just going somede.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
So it's the female always chasing the other humming birds.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, they all chase each other. I just get so
frustrated with them that you know, it's like, don't chase
each other so much. There's four ports to the feeder,
you know, you can each one can get their own.
But when the female lay their eggs, they shrink their
territory tremendously, so they are not going to venture very
far from the nest to get food or nectar insects
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or the nectar of the plants. A lot of people
don't realize that hunting birds eat insects too, but so
you don't you see a decrease in activity because you
just happen that male ruby throat comes passing by and
stops by your feet or for a few minutes and
then goes on to you know, five doors down whatever,
but the female stays very close. What we're seeing right
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now with the increase in hummingbird activity is the females
have fledged their young. So now you have the immatures
that are coming to feed. The females are now venturing
out a little bit further, and you still have that
male that just happens to be passing by. The We
will notice an increase in activity from now through about
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the imist, say the first of September were that time
period maybe into September, but that's when we have our
ruby throat migration come through here. We're we're a flight
path where they go back to South America. They come
right over the pretty much right over the top of us,
so we have a huge and that's when you just see,
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you know, you need to get the feeders out there.
You need to have your plants plant it because that's
the most activity once they've come through. The really cool
or neat thing about hummingbirds is a lot of the
western birds will migrate east to us, so we have
a whole different grouping of hummingbirds. In the winter, there's
not as many of them. But still keep your feeders
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out because a lot of the plant material that hummingbirds
like has, you know as perennial salaries those type things,
has died down. So it's important to have the feeders
out again. Don't fill them up like you do during
August during the migration, where you know it seems like
they're sucking it down twice a day. You know, maybe
fill it a quarter full. Change it out every four
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five days and you'll be surprised. You'll get several different
varieties of hummingbirds come through at that time. A lot
of questions that we have.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Are are plants that attract butterfly and hummingbirds similar.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Actually, there are plants that attract both or both will
come to but typically because of the long beak on
a hummingbird. A hummingbird likes a tubular plant where he
can stick his nose down in there and suck like
a yeah, like a cufia. What's a little vermillionaire, I
love that. That's just things it's fantastic. Or a butterfly,
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if you'll ever watch them, they like to flit right
around the plant, or even a lot of times they'll
walk across the top of the plant. So they want
more of what I'm gonna call a flat blooming plant
like a lantana. You know how they have all those
little flowers that may up the lantana. They're all about
the same height, so the butterfly can walk all over
them and get the nectar that it needs. So, yes,
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there are ones that pentus are attractive to both, and
you know, so yes, there are certain varieties that are.
But that's what's neat about a hummingbird butterfly garden is
you get such a and they're always so colorful. I
know you talk We talked before about the bandana lantanas,
all the coloration with them and the salvias.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I really like using the cone flower.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The cone flower. Yeah, yeah, that's a that's an excellent one,
you know, and that we could just keep a rebecca
Yeah right now. That Rebecca's are.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Just if you plant Rebecci in your yarn, be prepared.
It's going to come back next year, yes, and it
will come back inspire you.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
How is the availability on that? Yeah? The seed O,
my goodness. Some places it's got to be a weed.
But a good supply right now at the nursery.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Right now, I mean I I have a good bit,
but it's mostly of one variety. And the reason for
that being is this one just tends to bloom a
lot heavier than some of the other ones. It's that
little star gold rush or something like that, and.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
It's a little bit shorter, like you said, yeah, some
of them, some of the Rebecca's can get some high.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Oh yeah, there's one in my yard right now that's
probably about three feet tall.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I know people can't see that when, you know, but
still heat.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
One of the things that we had We've discussed the
heat and heat index and cold index and all those
type things, but one of the things, and I saw
this in my neighborhood, and sometimes I just feel like
I need to be the horticultural police and go knock
on someone's door and say, ma'am, excuse me, ma'am, here's
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a citation for being not not knowing what you're doing.
Do not with the stress that's out there right now,
scalp your yard right there is nothing I mean the
stress that it causes it when you mow down to
an inch or whatever it is you're mowing to. Oh,
I want to mow it real hard. I'm going on vacation. Well,
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you're harming your lawn Saint Augustine grass. Truthfully, you need
to mow it at three inches. You know your mower
has a little gauge over there. Look at three inches
and that's where you want it to be. Through mowing centipede,
you can go down to two two and a half.
That's important because again, if you you know, it's kind
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of like you and I. You know, you've been out
in the sun enough. You know what, if you you
go out for an hour or so, you're probably condition
your skin's conditioned to it, You're not gonna burn. You know,
someone that sits behind a desk like Jeremy all day long,
if he goes out into the sun five minutes later,
he's burnt to a crisp because the skin is not
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adjusted to it or conditioned to it. Your outer blades
of your grass, outer area that's used to it. You know,
it's been like, hey, amen, you know I've been hanging
out here in the sun. I got my suntan lotion.
I'm a dark green color. If you scalp all that down,
you're gonna burn it. You're gonna it's gonna turn crispy.
That's pretty much what Chrissy tell us.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
If we had to prune Azelia's back, right, you wouldn't
want to prune it too far back because that inner
foliage will just burn exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I mean, yeah, exactly. It's the same type thing. So
it's one of the reasons true. Well, actually, chinchbugs was
the main reasons why a lot of people got away
from Saint Augustine grass, because it is a much faster
growing grass. And the truth of the matter is, you
need to mow your Saint Augustine and absent. Most people
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say you should mow it twice a week. You need
to mow it once a week so you don't get
and if you mow it and scatter all this grass
over the top of the grass that grass, cuttings, clippings,
whatever you want to call it, they're going to start
to decay, which actually creates even more heat on the
grass under eth it. So it's it's a double whammy
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if you let it grow too long. Uh, you know,
cut your if you're Saint Augustine, minimum of once a week,
and if you're doing centipedes, you can probably go ten
days between mowings. That's probably pushing it a little bit.
But again, don't scalp your lawn. You know the oh
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I'm going on vacation. I don't want it to look
too bad when I get back. Well, you know what,
if you scalp it down, it might look bad when
you get back. So again, watch your mowing heighte. You
know we've discussed fertilization, your typical NPK fertilizers that you
would be putting out your lawn food plus irons, centipede food,
those type things. Really really really want to hold off
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on that. Well, milorganite. Right, this is the time of
year where I really promote mil organite because it will
green It actually does a very good job of greening
up centipede, which has a tendency to be a little
yellow color anyway, a yellowish color anyway. But yeah, mill
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organite is a very good, slow releasing product to put out.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Curious about that new product we have the moo organize
moo organites.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
That is actually a common or product, I believe, if
I'm not right, they can buy the.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Same That's where the mood comes from exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
But yeah, that and that's more of a you couldn't
you can use its label for use on the lawns,
but that's more of a product to be used in
especially vegetable gardening and flower beds. Again, it's just a
it's from the same company and they use the move
instead of the mill. So yeah, that's a that's an
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excellent product that I'm surprised it hadn't moved a little
bit better.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Yes, maybe it's just even caught on you.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, it needs to. It's an excellent, excellent product.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Can plants get too much water?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yes, most definitely.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Most well, I mean, of course, if we have a
flood situation like that, you know, we know what's gonna
happen then.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
But actually this is a good segue to uh, Plant
of the Weak, which I feel like we kind of
forgot about. So Plants of the Week is a perennial
high biscus also known as rose mallow high biscus, which, uh,
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it is very hard to overwater that plant.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's a swamp plant. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Good thing about rose mallow as they are native and
they're perennial, so they come back.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
If you drive to New Orleans, especially once you come
down into that little swampy area by Laplace, you'll see
the white one of those blooming off in that in
that swampy area right around there. So the biggest it's
a great plant. You know, they're hybridizing them to get
these big, big, beautiful blooms on them as opposed to
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the smaller blooms to the true native one. The one
thing that you need to be really careful with, and
I hate to bring up a negative to the Plant
of the Week, but it's very easy to control is
they are white fly magnets. So we have a a
drench that you can actually apply to the base of
the plant. That will prevent the white flies from ever
getting on there. So that's not a bad idea if
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you are and I understand why you would want to
plant one of these rose mallows. They are beautiful.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, they really They make a flower almost like, yeah,
a baser head.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
And if you had like.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
A pond in your yard, that would really be nice
right around the edge.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, that's a great idea. Excellent segue, thank you. Yeah,
most people don't realize that plants actually are actually has
to be oxygen in the soil so that plants can
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take up the moisture that's there. So you have little
oxygen pockets here and there and everywhere. And what happens
is if we get two and a half inches of
rain in an hour or whatever it is, or if
you're running your sprinklers during these thunderstorms, our soils can
become what's called supersaturated. Water fills up all these pockets,
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so all the air pockets, so they're not there anymore.
So the plant literally drowns because it can't absorb the
moisture that is there because the oxygen isn't there. In fact,
many years ago, they used to sell a product called
oxygen Plus, which you would do. Most time. It was
used for houseplants that have been overwatered. Song since gone
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away and not available anymore. So I don't even know
why I brought it up, but you do want to
monitor your sprinkler system right now because we are getting
what my wife Shirley always says, is we're getting back
to normal. We're catching these afternoon thundershowers almost every day.
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Some of them are very heavy, some of them are
not so heavy. Typically, if we're getting two to three
inches of moisture a week, that's all you need. Yeah,
that's what we want now. If you have a vegetable garden,
a raised bed, potted plants, forget what I'm saying. You
need to probably water daily or especially on pot plants,
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or every other day for a raised garden, but typically
your lawns, your shrubs. If we're getting two inches of moisture,
you don't need to run your sprinkler system. Does it
irritate you when you're driving along and it's thunderstorm and
you pass the sprinkler system?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
STO I do head.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
But anyway, so yes, you plants can not only you know,
in a flooding situation where they're underwater. But you know,
with some of the brains, if we're if we're supplementing
you know, moisture through a sprinkler system, right now, I'm
probably not really necessary.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
And also this is something I've run across from time
to time at the nursery.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Is it okay after you run across it?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
But anyways, thank you for trying to make me lose
my train of thought.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Does the train run over? It's just about god.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I can tell a lot of a lot of times
people will bring in like samples of their plant and
they will want to know if they're watering correctly or
if damage cause to the plant was from overwatering or underwatering,
which a lot of times the damage caused by either
can look the same because it's causing the same thing
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to happen. Like you were saying a minute ago, they're
not getting oxygen whether they're underwatered or overwater so they
just suffocate.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, after if if they can't pull the moisture that's
there up, they're not getting moisture, or if there's no
moisture there to pull up, they're not getting raster. So
a very good point. But yeah, that's that's very very accurate.
You know, this is really irritating me. They didn't push
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what my drink is on my.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
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Speaker 3 (35:33):
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Speaker 2 (35:36):
We have a caller. Good morning, Good morning Patrick. Welcome
to WJBOS London Garden Show. How may we hope you today?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah, good morning morning. I got a question.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
I have a property that a house was built on
about three years ago. In the back of it, it's
about a I guess sixty feet in the back anyway,
it slopes to a ditch and of course there's some
but weeds and growing up when we got here. And
what I want to try to do is see if
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instead of keeping.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
The weeds.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Is to put something down there that will, you know,
look nice, but also maintain keep it from a roading
down because it's on a slope.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Going down to that ditch in the back.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
What do you suggest you said, from seed?
Speaker 9 (36:27):
No, not necessarily from you mean to plant seeds?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Well right now, you said it's an area that's pretty
weedy and you want to try and weed, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
In other words, yeah, I did cut some of the
weeds down and put actually I put where the ground
starts sloping down. Actually put some flower beds and they
look nice. But I just wanted to see, you know,
eventually what I could put maybe to get rid of
those the tall weeds that's growing, which I tried to identify.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
But as long as how as it's just we's, you know,
just get out there. Whenever you're ready to put something down,
spray the area with round up. You don't want to
cut anything down before you do that because round up
is fully or absorbed, that's going to kill everything off.
Just lay some side or put out some grass seed.
(37:21):
I don't help with the erosion. Yeah, I mean that's what
we're worrying about. If it's not a large area, you know,
I believe Warner Turf. I don't know if Quality side's
still in business or not, but there's several side companies
and truthfully, you know, yeah, it's a little hit run
you first go in there and look. But you know
it's very simple to put out. Just run a sprinkler
out there, run it every day, you know. But yeah,
(37:45):
to clean the area, round up is going to be
your best bet. Just spray everything that you don't want to.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
Live, Okay, And you think someb would be well, I
can see why some would be. You know, the best
is there any where you can plant like going to
the ditch itself because it holds water, you know when
it's especial in rains, but like irins, and.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
There's a whole in fact, our Greenwold Springs location is
specializes in aquatic plants. That's one of their big niches
at the Greenald Springs store. There's lots of there's pickerel, rush, sagittaria,
you mentioned irises. You can actually make a very very
pretty area along there, rose mellow high biscus. I was
(38:31):
hoping you were going to catch uggled with that, but yeah, no,
there's there's a lot of material go by. Like I said,
the Greenwell Springs location asked for Michael. He is our
expert on aquatic material. He's going to love you for that.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
Okay, Well, I mean yeah, because I would like to
do something to kind of you know and not you
know eventually.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah, and Patrick, one of the things that you pointed out,
there is no in that ditch. And this is difficult
for me to put into words, believe it or not
with me, but know what the average or the usual
water level is, and you don't want to do especially
(39:10):
do not want to do side any lower than that.
That's where a lot of your aquatic plants you would
want to start is. You know you're going to have
you know, a flood that it's going to come way up.
But you know, if you want to know kind of
your normal high water mark and your normal level and
the area between your normal level and your normal high
(39:33):
water that's where you're going to do your aquatic plants.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
I see, I get it.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I get that.
Speaker 9 (39:39):
Okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
All right? And remember Greenwa Springs location asked for Michael No.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
I appreciate that I wrote it down.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Thank you, Thank you great phone call. You know what
we haven't done, and I'm ashamed because I should have
told us that we hadn't done it. We haven't plugged
the podcast. We haven't so we need mister radio voice
to plug the podcast for what about that? That?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Is it a playback or something like? You can leave yeah,
a message, that's a hat.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
There you go now with a radio voice.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
I if you.
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Speaker 3 (40:56):
That was very well done. Yeah, thank you, almost professional.
Why see around us then, question?
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Nobody else would do it?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I know it's kind of you know, I really don't
want to get out in my yard. I'd try to
get out in it early every morning and do a
little something, but anything really new and exciting. You talked
about the diplodinias earlier, which you know, a lot of
people are out around their swimming pools right now. Still
a decent supply of hibiscus.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I'm guessing I'm not gonna lie because they've been on
cell so we've kind of dwindled down a little bit.
But there's still a good bit out there to look through.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Again, an excellent pool plant blooms all summer long.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Also, we've had the limelight or piniculata hydranges still in bloom.
I think I'm saying that right.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
You know, And that's one of the things that people
come in. And I understand why people them in January
want to buy crape myrtles. I'm not necessarily suggesting go
out and buy your crape myrtles right now, which you can,
and you can plant right now, there's no problem with that.
But look at come into the nursery right now, look
(42:15):
at their blooming. I imagine for the most part, Wow,
that is an xyz crpe myrtle. And you know, at
least make notes and come back in the fall. If
you don't want a plant right now, baton rouge the
Independence Garden Center. They have a crape myrtle garden walk
through there. They're labeled you know, oh, I want a
muskogee or I want to miss Sandra, or you know,
(42:38):
now is a great time you can plant right now.
Please don't say, well you said you can't plant. Yes,
you can plant right now. But if you don't want
to go buy the nursery. Take you know, an hour
out of your day. I know weekends are busy for everybody,
but go buy the nursery. Look at the colors right
now down the name, but that's a natchez white. Look
at how it's growing as opposed to an a comba
both white crape myrtles.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
And I do just want to make this really quick.
But something we didn't really bring up. Kakuma ginger. We
have it in stock at I think all locations right now.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Similar to timarek yes, and came from Cambodia at about
twenty inches.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
Talk but excellent for some shade. And we have a
very nice variety in right now with different colors.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
We are the Kleg's Nursery. We are the independent garden
center in Baton Ridge. Thank you so much for listening.
We're here every Saturday morning from eight to nine to
take your questions, listen to your comments, and learn a
lot more from y'all than y'all have learned from us.
We have four locations in the greater Baton Rouge area.
Come by and visit one of them. Remember, if you
have aquatic plant questions, go buy Greenwell Springs Store also
(43:47):
Den Im Segan and mid City on don Mar. We
will see you next Saturday morning. You're listening to wjbo's
Lawn and Garden Show.
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