November 1, 2025 • 43 mins
It's a tree spree this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Zane and Braden from Clegg's Nursery!
They'll talk about the Baton Rouge Tree Spree happening at the Clegg's on Siegen Lane with Butch and Sage from Baton Rouge Green! Also, learn why now is the right time to plant a tree - and shrubs too! Zane and Braden also have a rundown of the fall plants at the nursery, discuss fruit trees, and answer questions about timely application of pre-emergent! And yes, Christmas trees are coming....
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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They'll talk about the Baton Rouge Tree Spree happening at the Clegg's on Siegen Lane with Butch and Sage from Baton Rouge Green! Also, learn why now is the right time to plant a tree - and shrubs too! Zane and Braden also have a rundown of the fall plants at the nursery, discuss fruit trees, and answer questions about timely application of pre-emergent! And yes, Christmas trees are coming....
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 LN and
Garden Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting lon and garden concerns
are questions about landscaping called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO one and
Garden Show. My name's Zay Mercer, joined here with Braden Bonadana.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We're with Clegg's Nursery. Uh it is a really nice
day to day.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It is. It's chili.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, you know, it's definitely like pants, you know, pants
and the long sleeve weather.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But it is. I mean it's gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Uh No, and I would note that you probably should
wear pants all matter the conditions.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I mean, you're welcome to truck if you met me.
I mean, I'm almost like Butch, where I'll wear shorts
as long as possible. Same just checking. Yeah, it's all
about like range of movement, you know. So Butch sent
me a picture one time of him in.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
North Carolina in the snow and he was in pants,
and I think that it's the only thing I've ever
seen anytime I've ever seen Butch wear pants.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's probably Ai.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It drew it on.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Speaking of pants, I do believe Butch is joining us
in the second segment for an update from the Baton
Rouge tree Spree.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I know we're calling a teas here in the radio.
I know it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, today is the was it the Baton Rouge green
treesprey over at the Seacon Lane location Clay's Nursery. It's
a real exciting little thing where we pull a lot
of native trees and trees and shrubs in just in general,
and you come out ask questions. They're all licensed to
arborist or horticulturists, right, and just a really neat little thing.
(01:57):
We started doing a few years back. So is this
like the third or fourth year we've done. Yes, I
feel like longer than that, really, I think it's been
like probably five or six.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
But anyway, now I'm feeling a little inquisite today. So
I have a follow up question. Okay, why do the
tree spree?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
What's the benefit of getting the tree at this time
of year? Is it a good time to get it
in the ground.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Or definitely definitely so usually butchering.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Scott will make fun of me, but it's a during
the colder months, just trees and shrubs in general, there's
gonna put on more downstairs growth, like root development, all right,
to better establish them for the springtime and going into
the summer when it's the hottest part of the year
and they need as much root as possible to be
(02:48):
able to pull in moisture and nutrients.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So just in.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
General fall, cooler months, that's the best time to get
your trees and your shrubs in the ground if you're
gonna look at like an optimal planting period for like
more established shrubs, like just a permanent landscape plant.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So it's a real.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Neat little thing we started doing just trying to get
people to get out and plant some trees.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So definitely a good time to put your your fruit
shrubs and trees.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And oh yeah, so and you know, I mean, you
can say it's South Louisiana, you can pretty much plan
anything anytime of the year. But you know, if planning
a planning a one gallon of zela, all right, that
has a root ball the size of your fist, planting
that in the summer months, the plant's going to be
(03:42):
focused on leaf development and flowers, so it spends all
that energy focusing on that versus actual root development. So
that's why we typically recommend the best time to plant
your shrubs and stuff is going to be in the fall.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So but real neat little thing we started putting on.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And uh in good question by the way, Yeah, Jeremy,
you know, thanks for asking the question, you know. Uh.
And if anybody had any calls or questions, like Jeremy,
you could reach us at four nine nine nine five
two six. That's four nine nine nine five two six.
And Jeremy, I'm gonna tell you when if y'all ever
change the phone number, y'all are gonna screw me up.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We'll do our best to make it a simple It's
it's almost like a you know, a wake up in
the morning saying the phone number. You know, does your
wife get concerned when she hears this?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Or I mean I don't know her phone number by heart.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So I just don't you know, I'll tell her to
get one to start four nine.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Nine Yeah, exactly, there you go.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So before we get to the second segment, which is
when we're gonna actually have some call ins for the
tree spree I want to quickly touch up on. We
got a bunch of really nice shrubs and that'd be
great to plant right now, like the Cassius Blendida.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Man and those look amazing right now full of blooms.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And it's a heavy, heavy yellow fall kind of into
the winter bloom plant.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's kind of neat.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, the actual structure of the shrub, it's comparable to
like Ita something like that, where it's it's more sticks,
you know, and the leads. The leaves are neat because
they're they're kind of a round shape and they close
up towards the end of the night. And but it's
a real neat, unique plant. And then when it goes
(05:41):
into bloom, it is just I mean, you'd be a
quarter mile away you can see see a giant mass
of yellow. So it's just a neat little shrub. And
it can it can get a good size. I've seen
something about probably eight foot and they were I mean
they were older, yeah, but it was like eight or
eight or nine foot, but it was like up the
side of the house. But it's just like you make
(06:03):
that turn on that driveway and it's like you see
it from the street. So just very showstopper kind of plant.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
They are very nice.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And then there's a bunch of other stuff that we've
been getting in that's been real nice, like for the fall,
you know, like I was, actually I was, I work
at the Green Spring store nowadays, but we had some
gorgeous for scythia, which if you're not familiar with that,
that's a spring bloomer.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Didn't that one also bloom yellow.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It does bloom yellow. It'll bloom in the springtime, so
it's kind of like the mark of the new year
kind of deal, just like a primrose jasmine where they
bloom kind of early. It's like January to March somewhere
right around there. But I like the forcythia a lot
because it gives you seasonal interest. So like right now
(06:55):
the leaves are turning like this bright bright orangeish red.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, It's like it's the same with like Ita
or Father Gila, where yes, they put on a big
show of flowers, right, but it's not the only selling
point on them, you know. It's just like you know,
you know, if I plant something in the yard, I
typically look for seasonal, like, you know, I don't want
to just be I mean, yes, it'll be sticks when
(07:21):
it's dormant, you know, like a hydrange would, right, right,
But I like a little bit more seasonal interest. So
like even like blueberries for instance, Yeah, they do put
on nice color. Yeah, like the stems will turn like
kind of a reddish tone, right, you know. So it's like, yeah,
just a lot of interest. So I mean between that
(07:43):
and then the like the pcythia, the cassio we just
talked about, even like I'm a big fan of a nie,
which it doesn't bloom right now, but I mean it's
just a gorgeous little evergreen shrub.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Which do you like the the red star or like
the Florida sunshine.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh, A little bit of yellow goes like actual foliage
like yellow, and the foliage is a long way, it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Really does, so, especially if you have something of a
darker color next to it that contrast.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So personally, I like the like the darker green leaves more,
you know, but the Florida sunshines are really pretty plant. Yeah,
you know, it's just a little bit of yellow all
year goes a long ways, right, So it's like I've
got the not to go off on a tangent, but
I've got like the you know, dwarf evergreen hollies, the
(08:40):
touch of gold Yeah at the house, I really like those,
which is a lot of yellow all year.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Or the hooking dorn holly.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So but you know, we got a lot of stuff
going on besides just also stuff in the yard. And
while we're on the subject of fall plants, the Siscincu was,
we're starting to see, uh, some of the varieties start
to put on color, which is nice. And we've gotten
a lot of the sink was in Camellia is just
(09:08):
in general or neat a neat neat plant. Yeah, I
was looking at there's a variety we don't carry anymore
that I had planted in my parents' house, I don't
know ten years ago. But at a lifiera a lif era, yeah,
I've never heard of that. Usually usually bugered. It's the
tea camelle. It's what they it's what they tea oil
(09:31):
to be specific. So there's sentensus, which is for tea
making tea, and then there's a lifera that is for
like the actual oil. So like the sentensus one.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
The I I personally like the blooms, but they don't
really put on a big flower like a regular camellia
wood Is it the same with that one?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Similarly, it's a bigger flower, much bigger flower, but it's
just not the most showy. Yeah, it's like white with
a tinge of pink, all right, But it's just a
very structurally appealing tree. No, I just I think it's real.
It's a real, pretty pretty shrub. I wish we got
it more often. It grows most similarly to like your
(10:20):
maiden's blush camellias, or you like your sets of gekas,
where it gets a good size, you know, eight to ten, right,
I've seen some that were bigger.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Actually, I had a contractor text.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Me the other day asking me the idea, and I
was like, I know exactly what that one is, but
it was I mean it was probably the two he
was looking at.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We're probably like eighteen feet tall. Oh wow, I couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I mean the trunks on them are massive, so it's
like they could be probably I mean thirty years old,
forty years old. And that's another reason why I really
like the camellias, the sanquas and japonicas, is because it's
just it's a long lived plant, so it's like something
it's something you planned and then like you get to enjoy, right,
(11:05):
but then like you know, generations further.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And then once they're in the ground and established, they're
they're not very fussy.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, so but no, it's just been really interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, it looks like we've got our little conference call
going for the Baton Rouge Tree Spree. Should have Butcher
and Sage on air.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Good morning y'all. How are y'all?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Sage, it's great to talk to you. We're speaking with
Sage Folly, director of Baton Rouge Green. I hear you
have a big anniversary coming up pretty soon with Baton
Ridge Green.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
How did you know that.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Research?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, you didn't tell me the way.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
You'll do a little bit with Baton Greens ten years
next year.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
We had ten years pretty much today. Actually, wow, it
went about really fast.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Your anniversary hopefully you're being showered with gifts. But I
agree you have something exciting going on today in conjunction
with Clegg's Nursery. What's going on?
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Not just sound like a used car salesman, But I'm
gonna shower you guys with gifts for my anniversary. No,
we're We're out at Klegg's Seagan for our tree spree today.
We let Batner's Green Loves partnering with Leags. We're super
grateful because we get to say, you know, we'd really
(12:40):
like to put more of these native and fruit fruiting
species out there in yards and Clegg's is kind enough
to go source those and bring those out here and
they are tagged saying Baton Rouge Green Approved. And for
every tree that gets sold that says Batter's going to
prove Cleggs will donate back to Baton Rouge Green, which
is just remark well. We are super grateful.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Explain to the people that might not, for one reason
or another, know what exactly is Baton Rouge Green and
what I mean. It's an awesome organization. Obviously I've been
involved through plegues in other ways for years, but let
people know exactly what you do.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
We are an urban forestry community forestry organization. We've been
planting and taking care of trees all over the city
since nineteen eighty seven, and we also do a bunch
of education. We work in schools with kids. We actually
even have an apprenticeship program this year where we're teaching
people of all ages and walks of life how to
(13:40):
get into the green industry, you know, whether that's our
borer culture or horticulture, urban gardening, things like that. We
also have a fruit program where we try to establish
urban fruit orchards that we had called city Citrus, but
citrus has become a little bit tricky, so we're rebranding
that as Share the Fruit, and we're putting out more
(14:02):
different kinds of fruity species that will kind of provide
things throughout the year and are a little bit heartier
for our climate. So those are just a few of
the things we do.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I had no idea all been around so long. Yeah
I did.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
If I wasn't even born when it started, but it
turns out I was in fact alive, just quite young,
and so yeah it was.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You know, I would think everybody sees the little signs,
you know, on the interstate and all those are corporate
sponsors that will take a certain area. And if somebody's
interested in doing that, how would they go about contacting you?
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Oh, well, they can call the office, so they can
email us at info at Baton Rouge Green to learn
more on our website. We do have a place where
you can investigate the current sites available, and we have
a handful of sites of a ailable and the sponsorship
for those sites. Some of them are you know, like
airline at I twelve, you know, about three thousand dollars
annual gets a year to support that, and that money
(15:09):
goes to help us pay for all the professional contractor
excuse me, to the professional arborists that we have on
our team.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We have five, and.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Then also sometimes we need contractors with big, heavy equipment.
So plus every every tree in our four thousand plus
living Roadways inventory gets a quarterly visit from somebody doing
you know, pest management, pruning, you know, man and monitoring
them to make sure every every one of them is
in pretty good shape.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Do you bring like a picnic, just lay a blanket
and have lunch with them?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Or I mean, as long as I don't have to
have lunch with you, but because I've seen you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Eat, it's just some same.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yeah. Is there any Sage and I've known each other
for a while, so is there any exciting projects on
your board right now?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Well, I want to make sure that everybody knows that
this morning we're here at Cleggs. My whole team, So
five arborists plus plus me not an arborist, definitely the
least qualified person on the staff to talk to you
about what you want to put in your yard this
coming winter, because you know, planning season is starting right now.
So all these wonderful trees that crut legs is brought
(16:25):
out and fruiting and woody species, we are here to
help you pick the right thing for your yard and
talk about the conditions and how to make sure that
it gets established and lives a long.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Healthy life.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
So that's what we're doing today until noon, so don't
miss out. And then in a couple of weeks we
do have our Green Upredstick fundraiser. It is on November
fourteenth at Goodwood Library and this year we are we
have a theme. Okay, so if the best time to
plant a tree was fifty years ago, we're going to
roll back the clock and we're doing a seventies themed
(16:59):
degree that breadstick.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Cool cool, yeah for that one of the.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, one of the exciting things that actually the Independence
Garden Center where that library is, my son and I
planted several of the crpe merles there one day with
helping out a group that may have been part of
Baton Redge Green at the time, but I'm not sure. Yeah,
one question I have is and I don't know if this,
if I'm overstepping, just cut me off. But all you
(17:29):
all have some plans for the ten twelve split replanting.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
We do. I'm so glad you asked. Actually you're not
overstepping because just in the last few weeks we got
kind of a final design. So we are you know,
as you do, a lot of people know, we lost
two hundred and fifty six mature live oaks at the
ten twelve split that were removed in the to make
way for this this latest you know, round of construction,
which is now finally complete, and it is it's a
(17:58):
beautiful new road and we're you know, progress is progress.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It actually works, it actually does work.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
So uh but what we were we're grateful that uh,
the OTD and the contractor Bo brothers willing, we're willing
to come to the table and help fund the replanting
of that interchange.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So we will be.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Planting as of right now. The design that the wonderful
people at Carbo have put together to help us has
four hundred and ten trees going in across that whole interchange. Yes, so,
and it is a mix of we're gonna put some
live oaks back in. Obviously people really resonate with those.
We're going to use some other oak species. We're going
(18:39):
to put in some more a little bit more cypress.
There's already some there. We're gonna hopefully put in some
sweet bab magnolia. And we're looking to put in something.
We're gonna teach people about the swamp tie tie hopefully
if we can get them thrown in time.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Look we're yeah, I uh, yeah, I think I got
people for that, but I don't know. Well, I'll try.
Can I can plant at least two trees.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Oh wow, that's one more than if.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
They're thirty gallons. That's a that's a pretty massive task.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh well, we're talking about thirty gallons.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
My bad.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Wait, hold on, back up. We're seeking, we're.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Saying totally of Baton Rouge Green. She's at Klegg's Nursery
this morning with the Baton Rouge Green Clegg's Nursery trees free.
You said you're gonna be there till noon.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Till noon, so get on out here and we will
be here to provide all the free advice that you
could possibly muster out of our five.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's about what it's worth, right, oh, man with you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
But I'm okay.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
One thing you know before before I let you go,
what plant out of the plants are at Klegg's archery,
do you already have in your wagon to take home
with you?
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Okay, that's not fair, because we do have a we do.
We do all kind of show up and like squirrel
one or two away because we just really, uh, we
want to make our picks, but probably American beauty beery.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Because that's just my favorite.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
And I have some stunning ones already at my house.
But I I actually I've started planting them in other
people's yards because you need that.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
No, they do need that, right, Actually, don't tell anybody,
but I picked up one of those white blooming calige
uh French mulberries also, so I understand that for sure. Again,
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Stage, I said, it's just one of the best plants
that you know, people are starting to hear about and
are certain not starting, but people are starting to pick
up on. I get more and more people wanting to
put that in the yard, and we love that I
mean it checks every box.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
So well, you put that in, you put that in
with the purple berry. Then you get golden rod in there,
and you got your purple and gold. You're set to go.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Go, yeah, exactly all native anyway.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Stage Folly with Baton Ridge Green will be at Clegg's
Nursery till noon today. Clegg's Nursery Tree Spree. Part of
every tree or plant tag for Baton Ridge Green at
Cleg's Nursery will make a donation to Baton Ridge Green.
And one last question stage, Yes, how's the bike lessons going?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Where are you spying on me? They're not good? My
six year old is going to be the only six
year old neighborhood. You just refuses to ride a bike
because I think the scooter. Do you think the scooter
is cooler?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, clearly you haven't met my son because he's in
the same boat.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
All right, let's get great talking with you, Sage. Thank
you so much for all you do for Baton Ridge.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Thank you, guys, we really appreciate thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
All right, all right, Jeremy, you hung up on butch
for me, right, So no, that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Was blocked it and blocked. No, that was very nice.
I was glad.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm always tickled when we get to do little call
ins and stuff. You know, it doesn't happen too often
that we can coordinate things. So but yeah, come out
to the Baton Ruge Green Tree Spree. There'll be out
till noon. And like I said, I mean we got
all kinds of stuff over there.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes we knew.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I know we had been posting like an actual itemized
list of all the stuff, all the stuff we were carrying.
But there's just I mean they talked about the beauty berries,
but the move got pinsed them in.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Uh what was it?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Papaus, the Roselle high Biscus, Texas Star Hibiscus.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
We do still have some of the Texas Star. I'm
not sure about the Roselle.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What y'all been doing over what y'all been doing over there,
We've been selling them. Shoot, I guess I should have
ordered more. That was a good last segment. It was
nice to know speak with stage and but and Jeremy
gets me hyped up with the bumper music every time.
So no, that was a really good segment. Uh, you know,
it's it's a really cool thing that we were able
(23:17):
to kind of put I mean it's multiple steps, but
put back into the community. Yeah, you know, because I
like the batter Edge Green. I mean they beautify the landscape.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And not only are they beautifying the landscape, but they're
they're using natives to do it, which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I mean, it's not all natives, but yeah, they it's
for the most part, you know. But it's just it's
a really neat little thing that we do in the
batter Riage community, and it's just it's kind of paying forward,
you know. It's it's the same thing with the h
Tiger was it Tiger whatever, keep Tiger found clean or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I forget their.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Actual foundations called, but it's it's it's you're paying forward
in dividends to your community, and that's important. So all right,
moving on, So that twenty twenty six, sorry, I had
to get my paper. The twenty twenty six get It
Growing calendars have dropped.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They are in wait. So I even wrote the wrong
year for that. You did you did no funny story?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Before we started this morning, I got a text that
the twenty twenty one get It Growing calendars.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It was two thousand and six. Oh, it was two
thousand and six. That's worse, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And then I'm over here like all right, no, it's
twenty twenty six is next year. So anyway, the calendar, Yeah,
that's how much checked. So the calendars are in So
that's exciting, So come and get them while you want
to get them early, because it makes it less worth
it if we hit twenty twenty six and you hadn't
gotten them yet.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, you don't have your calendar exactly. I not know
what day it is.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So if anyone had any calls or questions, you could
reach us at four nine to nine, please call. I'm
tired of talking to Braden. And then Bush isn't gonna
call again. He's already called once, So I mean, you know,
we got to get some callers in here. So but uh,
you know we got we still have strawberry plants available,
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yes we do. This is like the prime This is
prime time to get those because we get them bear
root right now. And he's twenty five to a bundle,
so well worth your money.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
And just so people know it's we get usually we
get the Camino Royale and real real sorry yeah, and uh,
now you made me lose train of thought Chandler strawberries.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh yeah, and there and so that's a plant that
we plant now and then we'll get fruit going into
the spring.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
That's another I'm real big on doing work early and
we're in getting the benefits later kind of deal.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
So it's like I'm big on fox gloves and delfinium,
you know, and bulbs and things of that nature where
it's just like, Okay, we do our little work now,
then we get to hang out and relax and be lazy,
and then we get to enjoy what the work we
did three months ago.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, you know, in a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
So it's it's you know, it's a little take, a
little getting away from immediate instant gratification. So but you know,
strawberry plants are pretty easy. It's a groundcover. Really. You
can grow them in hanging baskets and growm in pots.
I recommend it. It's just a groundcover. Like if you
want a plant, yeah, and I mean if you want
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to say you're tight on space, just plant them along
the edge of your vegetable garden, all right, because they'll
just kind of creep off the side. You can pick
the strawberries. They'll fill out the bed as a groundcover,
just to help with weed control. Yep, all right, And
it's just I mean it's a cool little plant and
you can keep a keep them going for multiple years too.
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So it's like, say you do it this year, you know,
you may not need to buy strawberries next year, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I know some people just rip out all the strawberries and.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Redo them, but I mean we've had I think this
year was the first year my dad bought strawberries in
probably three four years, because we just kind of kept
going with them.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, that's kind of what we did.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's probably more like two or three where they stayed
filling in nicely.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
This year.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I think there's just like a little little patch underneath
our Japanese magnolia.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But yeah, we just used it as a groundcover.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, And so it's just I mean it's a neat
little fruit, you know, for the kids to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Sometimes the squirrels if you let them, but.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Usually we get what we want out of them, and
then when they're still producing, we're like, all right, well
the squirrels cannot.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Theen yes, you know, but it's one of those things
it's like like when I go out into the yard
and I'm going to we'll say, tour my landscape, check
for things, whether it's insects, pull pull a few weeds,
do some chemical application, whatever, or if i'd just walking
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around looking, drinking coffee, enjoying the morning.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Uh, that's something.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's like, oh, I can just go pick one, go
pick a couple, eat them while I'm walking. It's like
I've got some blueberries playing it at the house that
they never even make it inside the house.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Wait, so you're saying you don't rinse it before you
eat them.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I rint stuff from the grocery store, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I mean I'll wash it off at the s at
the faucet, but I mean usually it's just I'm gonna
pick and eat. You know, maybe I'm gross, who knows so,
But you know, that was just me as a child,
growing up as a child, it was just that's what
you did.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It was like, oh, let me go pick some figs
off the tree. You know, and it's just I don't
know me it reminds me grown up with my grandmother.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's just like all right, you go outside, go pick
some fruit, and then I come back and I skip lunch.
Pretty much because I just like gorgeous bluberries and blueberries
and blackberries and pigs. So but it's one of those
plants where it's like because it's it's cool to have
something like that in the landscape all year, you know.
(29:23):
And yeah, like I have blueberries and I've got i'll
do I'm gonna do a few strawberries in a little area,
all right, and I won't I won't have fruit all year.
But it's like, oh, like come January, February, okay, I'll
probably have a little strawberry fruit and then come you know,
late March, early April, I'll get to pick some blueberries
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while I'm cutting the grass on that side, you know,
And it's just neat, a neat little thing to do.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Even actually got to harvest a couple of peaches from
our peach street.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That was nice. And there's something about growing and obviously
so yeah, you can go to the grocery store and
go buy you know, peaches any time of the year,
right all right, but there's something about picking fruit off
watch tree that you washed grow that it's just like
it it tastes so much sweeter, you know, when it
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comes out perfect, you know, it's like plums, all right,
Like I love the Santa Rosa plum that would carry
all right, that's just I mean it's a tart skin,
sweet flesh on the inside, so it's a perfect contrast.
And like that, it's like something about going and picking
them out or like per simmons right now, it's like,
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you know, you pull up in the driveway and it's like, oh,
that bright, bright orange per semon hanging on the tree.
You know, probably doesn't have a leaf on it yet
or anymore because it ejects them all. But it's just
like there's something about it. It's like a perfect little
snack that I don't know, kind of makes you feel
at home. So all right, Well, it looks like we
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got to go ahead and talk about other stuff other
than fruit, fruit, trees and natives. Uh So, I've been
having a lot of calls and questions about like putting
pre emergent out right and right now is the perfect
time to get that out, especially for the lawn, right
but in the flower bed as well, you know, and
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we want to use to like we push dimension. We
sell a whole lot of a product called Dimension at
the nurseries, and it's like your crab gra your weedy
grass control, and it doesn't cover everything, but like this
is the time of the year where you're gonna get
like your your sticker weed, like your spurweeds starts to
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germinate and starts to brew all the way up untile
it starts to put seed up. And the same thing
with your your crab grass. Like I've got crab grass
coming up right now. Yeah, that's just those are new plants.
Because I do pretty I'm pretty good. I go out
with a hoe and if I see some I try
pop it out, you know. But this is the time
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of the year to start getting that down just to
set you up for success in the springtime so you
don't have such a massive overhaul on doing cleanups, because
I mean, nobody wants to spend twelve hours, you know,
out doing so every little bit of preventative maintenance helps
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sit you up.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Later. Yeah, it just I mean, you put it on this.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I know it's easy to say, just put it on
the calendar, and I've been guilty of I'll put something
on the calendar and forget about it. But if you're
just a little preventative, it's just it's way, it's way simpler, right,
you know, like the I mean like Virginia button weed
for instance, I mean we that has been the bane
of South Louisiana, all right, because it grows by seed
(32:51):
and by cuttings. So like you run it with the mower.
You shoot seeds everywhere, and you shoot cuttings everywhere. Right,
But like now you could use like that winter weed
cocktail will carry since it's cool enough now, and just
hammer go ahead and hammer it back. But that's the
I mean, you're just a little preventative. Just set you
(33:11):
up for success to where you're not I mean pulling
your hair out, you know, come summertime when everything is active,
like essentially you you turn around right and you've got
seeds popping.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Up, so along the lines of lawns. What you should
be doing right now? Is it still or is it
too late at this point to be putting down winter riser?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So I would go ahead and get it down, like
but we're we're almost too late. But I would get
it down because it's the way I look at it is,
just go ahead and get it down. I mean, especially
if say you're doing like a dwarf rye grass or
something like that. I mean you want to you want
to feed that a little bit, but we want to
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get our grass hardened off, right, right, So I forget
what Johnny said. I feel like I feel like his
rule of thumb is like to like November fifth or tenth,
so like that. Yeah, so we're getting really close, right,
But it's like I mean, also, if you.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Use win a rise there there is the winter riser
with weed pervent her any.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yes, yes, but you can't ever use put out grass seed.
If you use that, oh okay, because yeah, because it's yeah,
it'll essentially just sterilize the seeds. So but it looks
like we've got a caller. It's gonna be Susan and
Baton Rouge, so we'll jump to her real quick. Good morning, Susan,
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
I recently brought a professor Sergeant Camellia. And the only
place I have to plan it gets a.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Lot of sun.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Is that good or bad?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You really want some afternoon shade on that one?
Speaker 7 (34:52):
So oh okay, you can have.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, but afternoon shade and it'll okay, and it'll probably
look fine most of the here. It's just once you
get to like your July, August, September time hotter part,
you're gonna start to see like some bronzing and sun
scalding on it. Typically, And I've seen them grow in
full sun, like out in a field in full sun,
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you know. But it's just a rule of thumb for
your Camellia japonicas. You want to try and put those
in a little bit of afternoon shade to just give
them like if there's like a tree line or anything
like that, just okay, okay, just to give them a
little streak.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
The soil is pretty much clay. Well that bad, so.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
They're going to grow into the clay, right, Like there's
a lot of Camellia growers that they'll grow like actual
in ground japonicas and it's just in mainly clay and
uh you know clay in native soil. Yeah, but I
usually amend it a little bit with like some planting
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mix or something like that just to make it a
little easier for the roots to grow.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Okay, I like Clegg's planting mix.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, that'd be perfect. Yeah. Yeah, just make sure you
with the dirt you dig out the hole, make sure
you just incorporate that with the planting mix.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
And you want to try to break it up real fine,
you don't want it to be real clumpy.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
All right, right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You're welcome, Susan.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Take care. It is a good morning.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, I mean look at that son, all right, Well
don't actually look directly look at it, but you know,
look in the general direction. So uh, but you know,
we got one more segment to go through, and I
just you know what, we talked about everything on the list,
so I need to kind of talk about you know,
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so Christmas trees are coming, you know, yes they are,
but more excitingly, uh, Norfolk pines and all of our
you know, holiday house plants and stuff for coming in
Christmas cactus I have, you know, I went and looked
at the Christmas cactus.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
The other day. I have some people ready, so yeah,
they look really nice.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
They're not blooming, or they saw some that looked like
they might be thinking about putting on a flower.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Bud thinking about it. Yeah, yeah, just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
But this is the time of year where we get
all these kind of neat little holiday plants, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Like I really enjoy the Norfolk Island pins.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And then this year we'll be getting a small selection
of lemon cypress too.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Oh so this d Yeah, I didn't tell you.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I like to keep everything hidden, so but no, uh,
and that's a very aromatic plant. I've been told some
of the grocery stores will carry them occasionally.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Yeah, you can fundament call foods sometimes.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
But it's a neat, little, neat little plant. I mean
you can just keep it indoors, like in the Kishen
color and yeah it's weird brightish green, not yellow, sure truce,
but like brightish green. So but we've got that coming
in in the Norfolk pines, which are always exciting, which
is it always kind of threw me off. I remember
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getting those as gifts or to give them to get
for gifts. You know, it's like a foot tall plant pot.
And I go down to Florida and we're on the
interstate and I'm just like, man, what are these plant
trees that are like are like towering over everything else?
The Norfolk pines, They're so cool. Yeah, so it's a
(38:48):
neat little plant. But we've got just a wide range
of just gift house plants and stuff coming in that
are real cool. Like I've got round orchids coming. Been
really happy with the Telansia. Oh yeah, of course that
I don't know if I'm moving to like full dad mode.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
It's like my hobbies are talansia and fixing my lawnmower,
you know. So I've just been hanging driftwood and the
you know, doing all that kind.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Of fun stuff. Yeah, that's dag mode for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
I spent the weekend hanging driftwood. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Well, I'm like turning into my old neighbor. You know,
he had he had stag horns. So it was like
a ten foot rack of driftwood and like it went
up the side of his house and he'd hang it
and take it down and everything. But it was just
like what are you doing. Oh, I'm just putting more
stag horns on it, you know. And it was just
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this wall of stag horns to walk into his house.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah, you know, but it was just I didn't get
it then when I was like eighteen. But then I
was like, well no, I kind of I kind of
get it now. It's just like get me out the
house and you know, out of doing dishes and washing clothes.
But we got a wide range of that stuff coming in,
orchids are coming in there should all come in really
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nice and just some odds and ends that we don't
really carry too often, but you know, try to stock
when we can. So real excited about that. The amarillis
are actually those are about to be be ready pretty soon.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, I went and went and cheated and looked over.
I went and looked at color division. What was that one?
I want to which one did it? It did really
well last year. Well there's the I think a borneo
may I think that? And I think that was the
the and then there was an al fresco I think
it was the white fresco was like that cream white
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that was just pristine, that one.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
You know, it was a show stopper for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
And if not familiar with amarillis, so I don't have
too too much time to go into them, but I
think of agapanthus. But it's a neat little bulb that
just sends up a really pretty bloom spike, Like yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
They would make a flower similar to that, but.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
It's just a neat little bulb that you plant and
get to enjoy. I mean, because it don't just multiply
create a little colony in the spot.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I've seen them put in landscapes, lots.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Where it's just I mean there's a neighbor down the
street from me that's got agapanthus, like blue and white
agapanthus and then red amarillis, and they all bloom different times.
So as the white ones finish, the blue start, you know,
and I think the year starts with the ammis in red.
So it's just a neat little mix. So well as always,
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you know, it's been It was a good radio show.
Didn't have too many callers, you know, but that's okay.
Everybody everybody said treespree, Yeah, you know, that's what's going on,
is everybody's asking sage questions and not us so, but no,
it was very good calls. I appreciate Susan Colin. That
was nice.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I always like talking about Camellia Japonicas because it's again
it's one of those old timy plants.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
But maybe I'm just old fashioned, especially.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
That professor Sergeant Charles, the one that she said she
she has that is.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
One of the coolest Japonica.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah, one time, one day, I'll need to let you
borrow my Camellia book I got.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, so one.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Of our old customers, I mean, he still shops with us,
but he wrote he decided he wanted to write a book.
And he's a like a heart doctor, if I'm not mistaken.
So he wrote a book about Camellia's cool so well
as always is a pleasure. And you know, I guess
everybody's going to enjoy the day to day and I'll
see y'all at the nursery.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Have a good one.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
In estimation, the Damps receis of the nation inst
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO LN and
Garden Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting lon and garden concerns
are questions about landscaping called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO one and
Garden Show. My name's Zay Mercer, joined here with Braden Bonadana.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We're with Clegg's Nursery. Uh it is a really nice
day to day.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It is. It's chili.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, you know, it's definitely like pants, you know, pants
and the long sleeve weather.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But it is. I mean it's gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Uh No, and I would note that you probably should
wear pants all matter the conditions.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I mean, you're welcome to truck if you met me.
I mean, I'm almost like Butch, where I'll wear shorts
as long as possible. Same just checking. Yeah, it's all
about like range of movement, you know. So Butch sent
me a picture one time of him in.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
North Carolina in the snow and he was in pants,
and I think that it's the only thing I've ever
seen anytime I've ever seen Butch wear pants.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's probably Ai.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It drew it on.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Speaking of pants, I do believe Butch is joining us
in the second segment for an update from the Baton
Rouge tree Spree.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I know we're calling a teas here in the radio.
I know it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, today is the was it the Baton Rouge green
treesprey over at the Seacon Lane location Clay's Nursery. It's
a real exciting little thing where we pull a lot
of native trees and trees and shrubs in just in general,
and you come out ask questions. They're all licensed to
arborist or horticulturists, right, and just a really neat little thing.
(01:57):
We started doing a few years back. So is this
like the third or fourth year we've done. Yes, I
feel like longer than that, really, I think it's been
like probably five or six.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
But anyway, now I'm feeling a little inquisite today. So
I have a follow up question. Okay, why do the
tree spree?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
What's the benefit of getting the tree at this time
of year? Is it a good time to get it
in the ground.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Or definitely definitely so usually butchering.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Scott will make fun of me, but it's a during
the colder months, just trees and shrubs in general, there's
gonna put on more downstairs growth, like root development, all right,
to better establish them for the springtime and going into
the summer when it's the hottest part of the year
and they need as much root as possible to be
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able to pull in moisture and nutrients.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So just in.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
General fall, cooler months, that's the best time to get
your trees and your shrubs in the ground if you're
gonna look at like an optimal planting period for like
more established shrubs, like just a permanent landscape plant.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So it's a real.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Neat little thing we started doing just trying to get
people to get out and plant some trees.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So definitely a good time to put your your fruit
shrubs and trees.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And oh yeah, so and you know, I mean, you
can say it's South Louisiana, you can pretty much plan
anything anytime of the year. But you know, if planning
a planning a one gallon of zela, all right, that
has a root ball the size of your fist, planting
that in the summer months, the plant's going to be
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focused on leaf development and flowers, so it spends all
that energy focusing on that versus actual root development. So
that's why we typically recommend the best time to plant
your shrubs and stuff is going to be in the fall.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So but real neat little thing we started putting on.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And uh in good question by the way, Yeah, Jeremy,
you know, thanks for asking the question, you know. Uh.
And if anybody had any calls or questions, like Jeremy,
you could reach us at four nine nine nine five
two six. That's four nine nine nine five two six.
And Jeremy, I'm gonna tell you when if y'all ever
change the phone number, y'all are gonna screw me up.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We'll do our best to make it a simple It's
it's almost like a you know, a wake up in
the morning saying the phone number. You know, does your
wife get concerned when she hears this?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Or I mean I don't know her phone number by heart.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So I just don't you know, I'll tell her to
get one to start four nine.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Nine Yeah, exactly, there you go.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So before we get to the second segment, which is
when we're gonna actually have some call ins for the
tree spree I want to quickly touch up on. We
got a bunch of really nice shrubs and that'd be
great to plant right now, like the Cassius Blendida.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Man and those look amazing right now full of blooms.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And it's a heavy, heavy yellow fall kind of into
the winter bloom plant.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's kind of neat.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, the actual structure of the shrub, it's comparable to
like Ita something like that, where it's it's more sticks,
you know, and the leads. The leaves are neat because
they're they're kind of a round shape and they close
up towards the end of the night. And but it's
a real neat, unique plant. And then when it goes
(05:41):
into bloom, it is just I mean, you'd be a
quarter mile away you can see see a giant mass
of yellow. So it's just a neat little shrub. And
it can it can get a good size. I've seen
something about probably eight foot and they were I mean
they were older, yeah, but it was like eight or
eight or nine foot, but it was like up the
side of the house. But it's just like you make
(06:03):
that turn on that driveway and it's like you see
it from the street. So just very showstopper kind of plant.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
They are very nice.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And then there's a bunch of other stuff that we've
been getting in that's been real nice, like for the fall,
you know, like I was, actually I was, I work
at the Green Spring store nowadays, but we had some
gorgeous for scythia, which if you're not familiar with that,
that's a spring bloomer.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Didn't that one also bloom yellow.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It does bloom yellow. It'll bloom in the springtime, so
it's kind of like the mark of the new year
kind of deal, just like a primrose jasmine where they
bloom kind of early. It's like January to March somewhere
right around there. But I like the forcythia a lot
because it gives you seasonal interest. So like right now
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the leaves are turning like this bright bright orangeish red.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, It's like it's the same with like Ita
or Father Gila, where yes, they put on a big
show of flowers, right, but it's not the only selling
point on them, you know. It's just like you know,
you know, if I plant something in the yard, I
typically look for seasonal, like, you know, I don't want
to just be I mean, yes, it'll be sticks when
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it's dormant, you know, like a hydrange would, right, right,
But I like a little bit more seasonal interest. So
like even like blueberries for instance, Yeah, they do put
on nice color. Yeah, like the stems will turn like
kind of a reddish tone, right, you know. So it's like, yeah,
just a lot of interest. So I mean between that
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and then the like the pcythia, the cassio we just
talked about, even like I'm a big fan of a nie,
which it doesn't bloom right now, but I mean it's
just a gorgeous little evergreen shrub.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Which do you like the the red star or like
the Florida sunshine.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh, A little bit of yellow goes like actual foliage
like yellow, and the foliage is a long way, it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Really does, so, especially if you have something of a
darker color next to it that contrast.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So personally, I like the like the darker green leaves more,
you know, but the Florida sunshines are really pretty plant. Yeah,
you know, it's just a little bit of yellow all
year goes a long ways, right, So it's like I've
got the not to go off on a tangent, but
I've got like the you know, dwarf evergreen hollies, the
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touch of gold Yeah at the house, I really like those,
which is a lot of yellow all year.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Or the hooking dorn holly.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So but you know, we got a lot of stuff
going on besides just also stuff in the yard. And
while we're on the subject of fall plants, the Siscincu was,
we're starting to see, uh, some of the varieties start
to put on color, which is nice. And we've gotten
a lot of the sink was in Camellia is just
(09:08):
in general or neat a neat neat plant. Yeah, I
was looking at there's a variety we don't carry anymore
that I had planted in my parents' house, I don't
know ten years ago. But at a lifiera a lif era, yeah,
I've never heard of that. Usually usually bugered. It's the
tea camelle. It's what they it's what they tea oil
(09:31):
to be specific. So there's sentensus, which is for tea
making tea, and then there's a lifera that is for
like the actual oil. So like the sentensus one.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
The I I personally like the blooms, but they don't
really put on a big flower like a regular camellia
wood Is it the same with that one?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Similarly, it's a bigger flower, much bigger flower, but it's
just not the most showy. Yeah, it's like white with
a tinge of pink, all right, But it's just a
very structurally appealing tree. No, I just I think it's real.
It's a real, pretty pretty shrub. I wish we got
it more often. It grows most similarly to like your
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maiden's blush camellias, or you like your sets of gekas,
where it gets a good size, you know, eight to ten, right,
I've seen some that were bigger.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Actually, I had a contractor text.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Me the other day asking me the idea, and I
was like, I know exactly what that one is, but
it was I mean it was probably the two he
was looking at.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We're probably like eighteen feet tall. Oh wow, I couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I mean the trunks on them are massive, so it's
like they could be probably I mean thirty years old,
forty years old. And that's another reason why I really
like the camellias, the sanquas and japonicas, is because it's
just it's a long lived plant, so it's like something
it's something you planned and then like you get to enjoy, right,
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but then like you know, generations further.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And then once they're in the ground and established, they're
they're not very fussy.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, so but no, it's just been really interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, it looks like we've got our little conference call
going for the Baton Rouge Tree Spree. Should have Butcher
and Sage on air.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Good morning y'all. How are y'all?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Sage, it's great to talk to you. We're speaking with
Sage Folly, director of Baton Rouge Green. I hear you
have a big anniversary coming up pretty soon with Baton
Ridge Green.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
How did you know that.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Research?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, you didn't tell me the way.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
You'll do a little bit with Baton Greens ten years
next year.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
We had ten years pretty much today. Actually, wow, it
went about really fast.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Your anniversary hopefully you're being showered with gifts. But I
agree you have something exciting going on today in conjunction
with Clegg's Nursery. What's going on?
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Not just sound like a used car salesman, But I'm
gonna shower you guys with gifts for my anniversary. No,
we're We're out at Klegg's Seagan for our tree spree today.
We let Batner's Green Loves partnering with Leags. We're super
grateful because we get to say, you know, we'd really
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like to put more of these native and fruit fruiting
species out there in yards and Clegg's is kind enough
to go source those and bring those out here and
they are tagged saying Baton Rouge Green Approved. And for
every tree that gets sold that says Batter's going to
prove Cleggs will donate back to Baton Rouge Green, which
is just remark well. We are super grateful.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Explain to the people that might not, for one reason
or another, know what exactly is Baton Rouge Green and
what I mean. It's an awesome organization. Obviously I've been
involved through plegues in other ways for years, but let
people know exactly what you do.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
We are an urban forestry community forestry organization. We've been
planting and taking care of trees all over the city
since nineteen eighty seven, and we also do a bunch
of education. We work in schools with kids. We actually
even have an apprenticeship program this year where we're teaching
people of all ages and walks of life how to
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get into the green industry, you know, whether that's our
borer culture or horticulture, urban gardening, things like that. We
also have a fruit program where we try to establish
urban fruit orchards that we had called city Citrus, but
citrus has become a little bit tricky, so we're rebranding
that as Share the Fruit, and we're putting out more
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different kinds of fruity species that will kind of provide
things throughout the year and are a little bit heartier
for our climate. So those are just a few of
the things we do.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I had no idea all been around so long. Yeah
I did.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
If I wasn't even born when it started, but it
turns out I was in fact alive, just quite young,
and so yeah it was.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You know, I would think everybody sees the little signs,
you know, on the interstate and all those are corporate
sponsors that will take a certain area. And if somebody's
interested in doing that, how would they go about contacting you?
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Oh, well, they can call the office, so they can
email us at info at Baton Rouge Green to learn
more on our website. We do have a place where
you can investigate the current sites available, and we have
a handful of sites of a ailable and the sponsorship
for those sites. Some of them are you know, like
airline at I twelve, you know, about three thousand dollars
annual gets a year to support that, and that money
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goes to help us pay for all the professional contractor
excuse me, to the professional arborists that we have on
our team.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We have five, and.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Then also sometimes we need contractors with big, heavy equipment.
So plus every every tree in our four thousand plus
living Roadways inventory gets a quarterly visit from somebody doing
you know, pest management, pruning, you know, man and monitoring
them to make sure every every one of them is
in pretty good shape.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Do you bring like a picnic, just lay a blanket
and have lunch with them?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Or I mean, as long as I don't have to
have lunch with you, but because I've seen you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Eat, it's just some same.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yeah. Is there any Sage and I've known each other
for a while, so is there any exciting projects on
your board right now?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Well, I want to make sure that everybody knows that
this morning we're here at Cleggs. My whole team, So
five arborists plus plus me not an arborist, definitely the
least qualified person on the staff to talk to you
about what you want to put in your yard this
coming winter, because you know, planning season is starting right now.
So all these wonderful trees that crut legs is brought
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out and fruiting and woody species, we are here to
help you pick the right thing for your yard and
talk about the conditions and how to make sure that
it gets established and lives a long.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Healthy life.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
So that's what we're doing today until noon, so don't
miss out. And then in a couple of weeks we
do have our Green Upredstick fundraiser. It is on November
fourteenth at Goodwood Library and this year we are we
have a theme. Okay, so if the best time to
plant a tree was fifty years ago, we're going to
roll back the clock and we're doing a seventies themed
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degree that breadstick.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Cool cool, yeah for that one of the.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, one of the exciting things that actually the Independence
Garden Center where that library is, my son and I
planted several of the crpe merles there one day with
helping out a group that may have been part of
Baton Redge Green at the time, but I'm not sure. Yeah,
one question I have is and I don't know if this,
if I'm overstepping, just cut me off. But all you
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all have some plans for the ten twelve split replanting.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
We do. I'm so glad you asked. Actually you're not
overstepping because just in the last few weeks we got
kind of a final design. So we are you know,
as you do, a lot of people know, we lost
two hundred and fifty six mature live oaks at the
ten twelve split that were removed in the to make
way for this this latest you know, round of construction,
which is now finally complete, and it is it's a
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beautiful new road and we're you know, progress is progress.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It actually works, it actually does work.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
So uh but what we were we're grateful that uh,
the OTD and the contractor Bo brothers willing, we're willing
to come to the table and help fund the replanting
of that interchange.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So we will be.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Planting as of right now. The design that the wonderful
people at Carbo have put together to help us has
four hundred and ten trees going in across that whole interchange. Yes, so,
and it is a mix of we're gonna put some
live oaks back in. Obviously people really resonate with those.
We're going to use some other oak species. We're going
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to put in some more a little bit more cypress.
There's already some there. We're gonna hopefully put in some
sweet bab magnolia. And we're looking to put in something.
We're gonna teach people about the swamp tie tie hopefully
if we can get them thrown in time.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Look we're yeah, I uh, yeah, I think I got
people for that, but I don't know. Well, I'll try.
Can I can plant at least two trees.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Oh wow, that's one more than if.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
They're thirty gallons. That's a that's a pretty massive task.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh well, we're talking about thirty gallons.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
My bad.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Wait, hold on, back up. We're seeking, we're.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Saying totally of Baton Rouge Green. She's at Klegg's Nursery
this morning with the Baton Rouge Green Clegg's Nursery trees free.
You said you're gonna be there till noon.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Till noon, so get on out here and we will
be here to provide all the free advice that you
could possibly muster out of our five.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's about what it's worth, right, oh, man with you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
But I'm okay.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
One thing you know before before I let you go,
what plant out of the plants are at Klegg's archery,
do you already have in your wagon to take home
with you?
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Okay, that's not fair, because we do have a we do.
We do all kind of show up and like squirrel
one or two away because we just really, uh, we
want to make our picks, but probably American beauty beery.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Because that's just my favorite.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
And I have some stunning ones already at my house.
But I I actually I've started planting them in other
people's yards because you need that.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
No, they do need that, right, Actually, don't tell anybody,
but I picked up one of those white blooming calige
uh French mulberries also, so I understand that for sure. Again,
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Stage, I said, it's just one of the best plants
that you know, people are starting to hear about and
are certain not starting, but people are starting to pick
up on. I get more and more people wanting to
put that in the yard, and we love that I
mean it checks every box.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
So well, you put that in, you put that in
with the purple berry. Then you get golden rod in there,
and you got your purple and gold. You're set to go.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Go, yeah, exactly all native anyway.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Stage Folly with Baton Ridge Green will be at Clegg's
Nursery till noon today. Clegg's Nursery Tree Spree. Part of
every tree or plant tag for Baton Ridge Green at
Cleg's Nursery will make a donation to Baton Ridge Green.
And one last question stage, Yes, how's the bike lessons going?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Where are you spying on me? They're not good? My
six year old is going to be the only six
year old neighborhood. You just refuses to ride a bike
because I think the scooter. Do you think the scooter
is cooler?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, clearly you haven't met my son because he's in
the same boat.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
All right, let's get great talking with you, Sage. Thank
you so much for all you do for Baton Ridge.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Thank you, guys, we really appreciate thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
All right, all right, Jeremy, you hung up on butch
for me, right, So no, that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Was blocked it and blocked. No, that was very nice.
I was glad.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm always tickled when we get to do little call
ins and stuff. You know, it doesn't happen too often
that we can coordinate things. So but yeah, come out
to the Baton Ruge Green Tree Spree. There'll be out
till noon. And like I said, I mean we got
all kinds of stuff over there.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes we knew.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I know we had been posting like an actual itemized
list of all the stuff, all the stuff we were carrying.
But there's just I mean they talked about the beauty berries,
but the move got pinsed them in.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Uh what was it?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Papaus, the Roselle high Biscus, Texas Star Hibiscus.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
We do still have some of the Texas Star. I'm
not sure about the Roselle.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What y'all been doing over what y'all been doing over there,
We've been selling them. Shoot, I guess I should have
ordered more. That was a good last segment. It was
nice to know speak with stage and but and Jeremy
gets me hyped up with the bumper music every time.
So no, that was a really good segment. Uh, you know,
it's it's a really cool thing that we were able
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to kind of put I mean it's multiple steps, but
put back into the community. Yeah, you know, because I
like the batter Edge Green. I mean they beautify the landscape.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And not only are they beautifying the landscape, but they're
they're using natives to do it, which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I mean, it's not all natives, but yeah, they it's
for the most part, you know. But it's just it's
a really neat little thing that we do in the
batter Riage community, and it's just it's kind of paying forward,
you know. It's it's the same thing with the h
Tiger was it Tiger whatever, keep Tiger found clean or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I forget their.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Actual foundations called, but it's it's it's you're paying forward
in dividends to your community, and that's important. So all right,
moving on, So that twenty twenty six, sorry, I had
to get my paper. The twenty twenty six get It
Growing calendars have dropped.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They are in wait. So I even wrote the wrong
year for that. You did you did no funny story?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Before we started this morning, I got a text that
the twenty twenty one get It Growing calendars.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It was two thousand and six. Oh, it was two
thousand and six. That's worse, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And then I'm over here like all right, no, it's
twenty twenty six is next year. So anyway, the calendar, Yeah,
that's how much checked. So the calendars are in So
that's exciting, So come and get them while you want
to get them early, because it makes it less worth
it if we hit twenty twenty six and you hadn't
gotten them yet.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, you don't have your calendar exactly. I not know
what day it is.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So if anyone had any calls or questions, you could
reach us at four nine to nine, please call. I'm
tired of talking to Braden. And then Bush isn't gonna
call again. He's already called once, So I mean, you know,
we got to get some callers in here. So but uh,
you know we got we still have strawberry plants available,
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yes we do. This is like the prime This is
prime time to get those because we get them bear
root right now. And he's twenty five to a bundle,
so well worth your money.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
And just so people know it's we get usually we
get the Camino Royale and real real sorry yeah, and uh,
now you made me lose train of thought Chandler strawberries.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh yeah, and there and so that's a plant that
we plant now and then we'll get fruit going into
the spring.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
That's another I'm real big on doing work early and
we're in getting the benefits later kind of deal.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
So it's like I'm big on fox gloves and delfinium,
you know, and bulbs and things of that nature where
it's just like, Okay, we do our little work now,
then we get to hang out and relax and be lazy,
and then we get to enjoy what the work we
did three months ago.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, you know, in a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
So it's it's you know, it's a little take, a
little getting away from immediate instant gratification. So but you know,
strawberry plants are pretty easy. It's a groundcover. Really. You
can grow them in hanging baskets and growm in pots.
I recommend it. It's just a groundcover. Like if you
want a plant, yeah, and I mean if you want
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to say you're tight on space, just plant them along
the edge of your vegetable garden, all right, because they'll
just kind of creep off the side. You can pick
the strawberries. They'll fill out the bed as a groundcover,
just to help with weed control. Yep, all right, And
it's just I mean it's a cool little plant and
you can keep a keep them going for multiple years too.
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So it's like, say you do it this year, you know,
you may not need to buy strawberries next year, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I know some people just rip out all the strawberries and.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Redo them, but I mean we've had I think this
year was the first year my dad bought strawberries in
probably three four years, because we just kind of kept
going with them.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, that's kind of what we did.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's probably more like two or three where they stayed
filling in nicely.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
This year.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I think there's just like a little little patch underneath
our Japanese magnolia.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But yeah, we just used it as a groundcover.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, And so it's just I mean it's a neat
little fruit, you know, for the kids to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Sometimes the squirrels if you let them, but.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Usually we get what we want out of them, and
then when they're still producing, we're like, all right, well
the squirrels cannot.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Theen yes, you know, but it's one of those things
it's like like when I go out into the yard
and I'm going to we'll say, tour my landscape, check
for things, whether it's insects, pull pull a few weeds,
do some chemical application, whatever, or if i'd just walking
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around looking, drinking coffee, enjoying the morning.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Uh, that's something.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's like, oh, I can just go pick one, go
pick a couple, eat them while I'm walking. It's like
I've got some blueberries playing it at the house that
they never even make it inside the house.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Wait, so you're saying you don't rinse it before you
eat them.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I rint stuff from the grocery store, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I mean I'll wash it off at the s at
the faucet, but I mean usually it's just I'm gonna
pick and eat. You know, maybe I'm gross, who knows so,
But you know, that was just me as a child,
growing up as a child, it was just that's what
you did.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It was like, oh, let me go pick some figs
off the tree. You know, and it's just I don't
know me it reminds me grown up with my grandmother.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's just like all right, you go outside, go pick
some fruit, and then I come back and I skip lunch.
Pretty much because I just like gorgeous bluberries and blueberries
and blackberries and pigs. So but it's one of those
plants where it's like because it's it's cool to have
something like that in the landscape all year, you know.
(29:23):
And yeah, like I have blueberries and I've got i'll
do I'm gonna do a few strawberries in a little area,
all right, and I won't I won't have fruit all year.
But it's like, oh, like come January, February, okay, I'll
probably have a little strawberry fruit and then come you know,
late March, early April, I'll get to pick some blueberries
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while I'm cutting the grass on that side, you know,
And it's just neat, a neat little thing to do.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Even actually got to harvest a couple of peaches from
our peach street.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That was nice. And there's something about growing and obviously
so yeah, you can go to the grocery store and
go buy you know, peaches any time of the year,
right all right, but there's something about picking fruit off
watch tree that you washed grow that it's just like
it it tastes so much sweeter, you know, when it
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comes out perfect, you know, it's like plums, all right,
Like I love the Santa Rosa plum that would carry
all right, that's just I mean it's a tart skin,
sweet flesh on the inside, so it's a perfect contrast.
And like that, it's like something about going and picking
them out or like per simmons right now, it's like,
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you know, you pull up in the driveway and it's like, oh,
that bright, bright orange per semon hanging on the tree.
You know, probably doesn't have a leaf on it yet
or anymore because it ejects them all. But it's just
like there's something about it. It's like a perfect little
snack that I don't know, kind of makes you feel
at home. So all right, Well, it looks like we
(30:58):
got to go ahead and talk about other stuff other
than fruit, fruit, trees and natives. Uh So, I've been
having a lot of calls and questions about like putting
pre emergent out right and right now is the perfect
time to get that out, especially for the lawn, right
but in the flower bed as well, you know, and
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we want to use to like we push dimension. We
sell a whole lot of a product called Dimension at
the nurseries, and it's like your crab gra your weedy
grass control, and it doesn't cover everything, but like this
is the time of the year where you're gonna get
like your your sticker weed, like your spurweeds starts to
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germinate and starts to brew all the way up untile
it starts to put seed up. And the same thing
with your your crab grass. Like I've got crab grass
coming up right now. Yeah, that's just those are new plants.
Because I do pretty I'm pretty good. I go out
with a hoe and if I see some I try
pop it out, you know. But this is the time
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of the year to start getting that down just to
set you up for success in the springtime so you
don't have such a massive overhaul on doing cleanups, because
I mean, nobody wants to spend twelve hours, you know,
out doing so every little bit of preventative maintenance helps
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sit you up.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Later. Yeah, it just I mean, you put it on this.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I know it's easy to say, just put it on
the calendar, and I've been guilty of I'll put something
on the calendar and forget about it. But if you're
just a little preventative, it's just it's way, it's way simpler, right,
you know, like the I mean like Virginia button weed
for instance, I mean we that has been the bane
of South Louisiana, all right, because it grows by seed
(32:51):
and by cuttings. So like you run it with the mower.
You shoot seeds everywhere, and you shoot cuttings everywhere. Right,
But like now you could use like that winter weed
cocktail will carry since it's cool enough now, and just
hammer go ahead and hammer it back. But that's the
I mean, you're just a little preventative. Just set you
(33:11):
up for success to where you're not I mean pulling
your hair out, you know, come summertime when everything is active,
like essentially you you turn around right and you've got
seeds popping.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Up, so along the lines of lawns. What you should
be doing right now? Is it still or is it
too late at this point to be putting down winter riser?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So I would go ahead and get it down, like
but we're we're almost too late. But I would get
it down because it's the way I look at it is,
just go ahead and get it down. I mean, especially
if say you're doing like a dwarf rye grass or
something like that. I mean you want to you want
to feed that a little bit, but we want to
(33:57):
get our grass hardened off, right, right, So I forget
what Johnny said. I feel like I feel like his
rule of thumb is like to like November fifth or tenth,
so like that. Yeah, so we're getting really close, right,
But it's like I mean, also, if you.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Use win a rise there there is the winter riser
with weed pervent her any.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yes, yes, but you can't ever use put out grass seed.
If you use that, oh okay, because yeah, because it's yeah,
it'll essentially just sterilize the seeds. So but it looks
like we've got a caller. It's gonna be Susan and
Baton Rouge, so we'll jump to her real quick. Good morning, Susan,
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
I recently brought a professor Sergeant Camellia. And the only
place I have to plan it gets a.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Lot of sun.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Is that good or bad?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You really want some afternoon shade on that one?
Speaker 7 (34:52):
So oh okay, you can have.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, but afternoon shade and it'll okay, and it'll probably
look fine most of the here. It's just once you
get to like your July, August, September time hotter part,
you're gonna start to see like some bronzing and sun
scalding on it. Typically, And I've seen them grow in
full sun, like out in a field in full sun,
(35:17):
you know. But it's just a rule of thumb for
your Camellia japonicas. You want to try and put those
in a little bit of afternoon shade to just give
them like if there's like a tree line or anything
like that, just okay, okay, just to give them a
little streak.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
The soil is pretty much clay. Well that bad, so.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
They're going to grow into the clay, right, Like there's
a lot of Camellia growers that they'll grow like actual
in ground japonicas and it's just in mainly clay and
uh you know clay in native soil. Yeah, but I
usually amend it a little bit with like some planting
(36:01):
mix or something like that just to make it a
little easier for the roots to grow.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Okay, I like Clegg's planting mix.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, that'd be perfect. Yeah. Yeah, just make sure you
with the dirt you dig out the hole, make sure
you just incorporate that with the planting mix.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
And you want to try to break it up real fine,
you don't want it to be real clumpy.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
All right, right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You're welcome, Susan.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Take care. It is a good morning.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, I mean look at that son, all right, Well
don't actually look directly look at it, but you know,
look in the general direction. So uh, but you know,
we got one more segment to go through, and I
just you know what, we talked about everything on the list,
so I need to kind of talk about you know,
(36:50):
so Christmas trees are coming, you know, yes they are,
but more excitingly, uh, Norfolk pines and all of our
you know, holiday house plants and stuff for coming in
Christmas cactus I have, you know, I went and looked
at the Christmas cactus.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
The other day. I have some people ready, so yeah,
they look really nice.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
They're not blooming, or they saw some that looked like
they might be thinking about putting on a flower.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Bud thinking about it. Yeah, yeah, just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
But this is the time of year where we get
all these kind of neat little holiday plants, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Like I really enjoy the Norfolk Island pins.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And then this year we'll be getting a small selection
of lemon cypress too.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Oh so this d Yeah, I didn't tell you.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I like to keep everything hidden, so but no, uh,
and that's a very aromatic plant. I've been told some
of the grocery stores will carry them occasionally.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Yeah, you can fundament call foods sometimes.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
But it's a neat, little, neat little plant. I mean
you can just keep it indoors, like in the Kishen
color and yeah it's weird brightish green, not yellow, sure truce,
but like brightish green. So but we've got that coming
in in the Norfolk pines, which are always exciting, which
is it always kind of threw me off. I remember
(38:24):
getting those as gifts or to give them to get
for gifts. You know, it's like a foot tall plant pot.
And I go down to Florida and we're on the
interstate and I'm just like, man, what are these plant
trees that are like are like towering over everything else?
The Norfolk pines, They're so cool. Yeah, so it's a
(38:48):
neat little plant. But we've got just a wide range
of just gift house plants and stuff coming in that
are real cool. Like I've got round orchids coming. Been
really happy with the Telansia. Oh yeah, of course that
I don't know if I'm moving to like full dad mode.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
It's like my hobbies are talansia and fixing my lawnmower,
you know. So I've just been hanging driftwood and the
you know, doing all that kind.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Of fun stuff. Yeah, that's dag mode for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
I spent the weekend hanging driftwood. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Well, I'm like turning into my old neighbor. You know,
he had he had stag horns. So it was like
a ten foot rack of driftwood and like it went
up the side of his house and he'd hang it
and take it down and everything. But it was just
like what are you doing. Oh, I'm just putting more
stag horns on it, you know. And it was just
(39:47):
this wall of stag horns to walk into his house.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah, you know, but it was just I didn't get
it then when I was like eighteen. But then I
was like, well no, I kind of I kind of
get it now. It's just like get me out the
house and you know, out of doing dishes and washing clothes.
But we got a wide range of that stuff coming in,
orchids are coming in there should all come in really
(40:12):
nice and just some odds and ends that we don't
really carry too often, but you know, try to stock
when we can. So real excited about that. The amarillis
are actually those are about to be be ready pretty soon.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, I went and went and cheated and looked over.
I went and looked at color division. What was that one?
I want to which one did it? It did really
well last year. Well there's the I think a borneo
may I think that? And I think that was the
the and then there was an al fresco I think
it was the white fresco was like that cream white
(40:53):
that was just pristine, that one.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
You know, it was a show stopper for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
And if not familiar with amarillis, so I don't have
too too much time to go into them, but I
think of agapanthus. But it's a neat little bulb that
just sends up a really pretty bloom spike, Like yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
They would make a flower similar to that, but.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
It's just a neat little bulb that you plant and
get to enjoy. I mean, because it don't just multiply
create a little colony in the spot.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I've seen them put in landscapes, lots.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Where it's just I mean there's a neighbor down the
street from me that's got agapanthus, like blue and white
agapanthus and then red amarillis, and they all bloom different times.
So as the white ones finish, the blue start, you know,
and I think the year starts with the ammis in red.
So it's just a neat little mix. So well as always,
(41:52):
you know, it's been It was a good radio show.
Didn't have too many callers, you know, but that's okay.
Everybody everybody said treespree, Yeah, you know, that's what's going on,
is everybody's asking sage questions and not us so, but no,
it was very good calls. I appreciate Susan Colin. That
was nice.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I always like talking about Camellia Japonicas because it's again
it's one of those old timy plants.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
But maybe I'm just old fashioned, especially.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
That professor Sergeant Charles, the one that she said she
she has that is.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
One of the coolest Japonica.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah, one time, one day, I'll need to let you
borrow my Camellia book I got.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, so one.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Of our old customers, I mean, he still shops with us,
but he wrote he decided he wanted to write a book.
And he's a like a heart doctor, if I'm not mistaken.
So he wrote a book about Camellia's cool so well
as always is a pleasure. And you know, I guess
everybody's going to enjoy the day to day and I'll
see y'all at the nursery.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Have a good one.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
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