April 26, 2025 • 42 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, Zane and Braden from Clegg's Nursery field a few questions from folks who are concerns about their citrus trees. They also give some tips on what signs you can look for to decide if it's worth waiting it out - or time to get another!
The two also talk about weeds, the colors in the Clegg's bedding house, roses, monarch butterfliles and more!
If you would like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, join us Saturday mornings between 8 and 9am! You can call (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! You can also leave us a message if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
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The two also talk about weeds, the colors in the Clegg's bedding house, roses, monarch butterfliles and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Gleg'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 (00:22):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name's Saane Mercer, joined here with Breden Bonadona.
Good morning, How are you good? How are you pretty nice?
It was cool this morning. I got my sweatshirt on
at least for another thirty minutes. Yeah, by the time
we get to work, that's gonna have to come off.
(00:43):
We got to go to work today, so but anyway,
it's wonderful Saturday. The weather's been pretty cooperative. Other than
I mean, we've had some rainfall, which was sorely needed.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yes, well, I guess you could say, like the last
week or so, I've definitely been filled and that humidity
that we give when summer arrives, and it's been not
so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, it's fact life. Spring, spring is really short, summer
is really long down here. But we got a lot
of stuff going on and if you hit any calls
questions just wanted to talk, you could reach us at
four nine nine w JBO. That's four nine nine six.
And so I want to just kind of start out
(01:27):
with I want to talk about all the humming birds
I've been seeing at my house. It's been awesome. You know,
every every time I look out the window, I see
humming birds. Even caught some woodpeckers and stuff I am
back yard, so I was excited to see that. Now
we've got a ton of humming bird attractants. Yeah, like
(01:47):
your salbia that you've got at the bedding house is awesome.
I got a bunch of porter weed. I really like
the porter weed. I know, it's probably one of the
coolest plans because it just kind of there's never a
rest period for it. Yeah, it's just another another cluster
of flowers opens up. So it's really they just bloom
all summer. So I've got a was it the red
(02:09):
or the coral color at the house? Okay, the one
that gets like five foot five six foot and it
just kind of does its thing all year. I was
hoping it was gonna come back from last winter, but
I don't. I don't think that panned out. So yeah,
we have some red porter weed at the house. I
don't think it started popping up yet. Yeah. So but uh,
(02:30):
what else you say been going on at the nursery.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's been uh, I mean spring is our time, yeah,
and it is just going full force.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No. I mean it's been interesting because I'll go in
and Branden manages the bedding area and orders all of
our color for the second lane location. And it's just
kind of interesting because I'll go in, I'll know where
something is and two days later it's gone. It's either
gone or we had to move it. It's usually gone. Yeah.
(03:03):
You know, it's like, oh, I was looking for galardia
or something the other day and I was like, I
swear I couldn't find it. It's like third table, it
was gone. Yeah. So uh but you know, we got
all that stuff going on, and uh, you know, I
kind of talked about the hummingbirds and stuff. But what's
been interesting is, uh, we can't keep milk weedn't stock
(03:26):
at all.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
No, we cannot. That has been like the biggest seller
out of that bedding house.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I'm a little grumpy because my first crop of
milkweed that planned last year they ate it to the ground,
all right, And now I planted some more and I
can't even find I haven't seen a single butterfly, well,
a caterpillar.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Maybe you should talk to some of the customers coming
in for milkweed because they swear and they can't keep
it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's just been it's just been interesting because I go
and I'm like, well, they ate this down, and I
planted these two days later, but where they go? You know? So,
but it looks like we got a caller, so we're
gonna go ahead and jump into it. It's gonna be Kelly, Kelly,
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I'm doing great? How are y'all doing today?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Great?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I have a question about some zoisa grass. I have
a yard that I completely graded, and prior to that
it had centipede grass on there, and I took all
the cinniped grass off, graded everything, and I put some
zoisha down. The issue is is we have some centipede
peeking through the zeus show. What do y'all recommend in
order to get all the centipede outs that doesn't interfere
(04:34):
with the zeiste that we just planning.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So the zousa is going to outcompete the centipede.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, so just let it do its thing basically.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, yeah, I would just let it do its thing
because the centipedes your slowest I don't want to say
desirable turf grass, but it's the slowest one out of
like your Zoisa, your Bermuda, your Saint Augustine, the typical
grasses you'll see. So it'll usually just kind of choke
it down.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Okay, you think it'll be like six months or what
timeframe would you think or would you say before it
can all get removed just because it just you know,
it's actually a customer and they're just ready to just
get rid of the centipede completely, and they're looking at
all treatments and like liquid liquid stuff to treat it
just to get rid of the centipedes. I'm just gonna
tell them to hold all.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I would say just say hold off because the
zoysia will outcompete. It's a much more vigorous growing grass
than the centipede.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Is all right, Well, I appreciate it, thank you, you're welcome,
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That's a good question. Yeah, yeah, no cent ped Like
I had centipede at the yard on one side, of
my yard. And I don't know. I'm I saying, August,
you just killed like essentially just choked it out. I
mean it grows so much faster. And I like centipede,
it's just got to be in the perfect spot. Yeah,
like a dryer area. Like my servitude area is all servitude,
(05:54):
all centipede. And that looks great other than the crab
grass that getting there occasionally. But you know we fight
the crabgrass to anyway. So moving back to all your
fancy color in the bedding house. Uh. Now, we were
talking about monarch butterflies and there's and the reason I'm
bringing up the butterflies is because I saw a good
(06:15):
friend of mine yesterday who's spent his life studying moths
and butterflies. So I was really cool guy, Yeah, really
good cool guy. I just think it's cool. I bought
his book, you know. But anyway, they've got the monarchs
that are out. Uh, swallow tails should be out soon
if they're not already. And uh, I believe you said
(06:37):
you had some fennyl. What else?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What other herbs you got for the swallowtails? I know
we have we have parsley and fennyl. I know, that's
too that they go after. And we don't have any
deal in stock right now, but I'm sure I'll be
able to get some soon.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah in there, No, that's uh. And those are just
good feeder plants, just to attract some swallow tails. I'm
really like having humberbirds and swallowtails at the house because
it makes it look I don't know, it makes me
feel like, feel like my yard's alive, you know, and
we'll plays yeah exactly. And I mean I don't have
(07:13):
a satsuma. That's real sad, so I don't know if
I'll get any uh any butterfly activity from that. Yeah,
but everything else is going pretty well, so go ahead
and move on. I'll quit going on a soap box
about butterflies. Uh. You know, we got a lot of
roses in stock, Yes, we do. Yeah, and that is
(07:36):
one plant that's just been blooming crazy. Yeah right, I
mean we got we do those weeks roses that will grow.
We get them in February, sell them through. Those are
all your fancy like large hybrid tees like cut flowers. Yeah,
but we also carry and this is something we carry
all year as long as we can keep it in stocks.
The Peggy Martin that one.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's been hard to keep in stock lately. And then
it's like that every year when they start blooming, and.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
If y'all aren't familiar with it, it is the quintessential
Southern climbing rose, right it is. I mean when it blooms,
it makes the biggest show it does. I mean, it's
just like a giant math and they can get large,
but it's just a giant mass of pink flowers that
you see from half a mile away. Yeah, you know,
(08:24):
and it's hardy. Uh it'll pull off, pull your trellises
down if they're not if they're not you know, set
in the ground correctly. I mean, it's just a great
little climbing rose. Man. We had, we've got some which
I don't know if they're seven Sisters Katrina, whatever you
want to call it. At this point, I think they're
pretty much all the they're all synonymous. But uh, I
(08:47):
had some at my parents' house and my grandfather had
played it and that thing was awesome because growing up
they had a four foot picket fence and it just
covered the entire picket fence. Nice, you know, one plant
was like ten foot wide. Yeah, so it was just
I mean when it went bloom. I mean you see
it from when you turn on the driveway. You can
(09:08):
see it all the way from the corner. It's real neat.
Sit there, heavy bloomers. Yep. But it looks like we
got another collar, so we're gonna go and jump to it.
I like having these collars. Yeah, it's been pretty nice.
All right, Joe, how are you today? How can we
help you?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
How are you all?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Good morning? Doing all right today? Not bad at all?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Well, I have a question about sad Suma trees.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yes, ma'am, my sad sumer.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Tree doesn't have one leaf yet. Should I just give
up on it and know that it's done for?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Or what? Have you scraped the bark at all to
see if there's anything?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Would it's not green?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But it's a yellow.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay, Yeah, we're gonna wanna. Yeah, just go ahead and
pull that out, get rid of it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
If it's yellow, okay, that means it's it's I.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Mean it's toast. Yeah, it probably didn't make it through
the winner.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Yeah, I'll just have to go by the one, right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's usually how it works, you know. No, I mean
my sat zoom I had to cut I had half
of it leaf out and the other half was dead,
all right, and then I had a lemon that uh yeah,
that lemon was toasted.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
All right. Well, thank you all so much, and you'll
have a wonderful weekend you too.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's a good call. I I hate breaking it to them, though,
but we did just get a new shipment of citrus
in and the sat zoomers are awesome.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The worst is when they come in, when they come
in and say that they see new growth coming from
the bottom and they're excited about that, and then you
have to break the news to them that that's the
root stock.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, it's not actually the citrution, and occasionally it's above
the rootstock, but it's usually never, you know, And it's
just it stinks because I mean, they're they're gorgeous specimen
trees just in general. And then you also get typically
awesome fruit, you know, I mean, not the biggest on grapefruit,
but like every single other CRUs you know. But anyway,
(11:17):
my name's Sane Mercer joined with Braden Badana, didn't it
just roll right off that song? Yeah? At this point
because I have been putting up with you long enough,
so uh, you know, anyway, we answer we take calls,
questions and concerns about plants primarily. Yeah, but you can
(11:37):
reach us at four nine nine nine six. That's four
nine nine w J b O if you want to
use letters. So, uh, anyway, we were talking about I
think we're talking about some roses, was that right? Yeah, yeah,
and we're talking about we talked about Peggy Martin Rose,
which every store got a fresh shipment and they go,
(11:58):
they go quickly every day, Yes, they do, you know,
I mean it was interesting. I mean we were downloading
them Thursday, and it wasn't as bad as it was
a few years back. A couple of years back. I
just I sold like half the order in the parking lot.
There was a couple.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Of years ago where pretty much every Peggy Martin we
sold was off of a waiting list.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, like when that load came in,
Butcher and I were out there, we had somebody with
the waiting list, right, and then we had called them
all when the truck was pulling in. Yeah, and then
we started pulling orders, and then we had other customers
coming up all right, and then so they would go
(12:41):
in to the cash here check out, come get their roses.
After it was like, I mean I think I had
a stock we'd gotten ten racks or twelve racks and
I had to stock three. You know. It was something wild.
So but every store got a new load Thursday, which
was exciting because it's just been they go real real
quick this time years, especially with the blooming. But we
(13:02):
do have more in order. I've got more more in
order I think every week for the next couple of weeks.
So that's been exciting. And then you know, we've got
all the sun Belt series roses, which that's what we've
been growing. Aut er color division is it the sun
Blaze that's like a smaller growing rose. Sun Blaze is
(13:27):
I think it was like the Petite knockout but by star. Yeah,
all right, it's just a they don't get too too big.
It's like an eighteen to twenty inch rose and like
I would qualify it as a miniature. And the colors
are vibrant, Yeah, I mean the catch my eye when
I walk, Like the red is a deep, deep pretty red.
(13:48):
They've got the there's an orange, which is really nice,
and then there's two different pinks. There's that one pink
that's like a it's like a few ship that's just bright.
It's it reminds me of like a boken villa for color,
where it's just a vibrant when some full bloom it's
(14:09):
just I mean vibrant, very it stands out. And then
they're also hardy to like some fungal activity and insect stuff.
Really yeah. Also essentially there's just another you know, you've
got your knockouts and those are all more disease resistant,
right right, and then sun Belt is just another another
(14:30):
company's version of disease resistant roses that perform really well
in our climate.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Doesn't the Peggy Martin also have some kind of natural
disease resistance.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I think that's just a really hearty rose. Like I
mean it's rare. I mean you have to you have
to thin it. Yeah, okay, uh, but it's rare. I
mean it might get some leaf spot if you get
a lot of rainfall, but that's it. I mean, that's
pretty much hit. And that one just kind of I mean,
it grows u if it was not where I wanted
it to be, I would qualify it as weed, you know,
(15:04):
because it's just I mean, it grows, it grows does
very well.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Actually it is a weed closer to the bayou on
the Yeah, we actually we've got a little drainage canal
and somehow or another, I don't remember when, but there
was a Peggy Martin that had fallen down there and
it ended up rooting and it's like a.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Ten foot by ten foot actually up one of the trees.
Yeah there, No, that's wild. So but we've got those,
we've got the Sunbelt. We've even got some patio tree
roses that are really nice, nice and those are just
and then my personal favorites that was at the Sunbelt
horizon where it'll it reminds me of as that small
(15:46):
rose tree that we gain huh No, No, this is
a but this is just a regular bush. But it
gets about three to four foot and it puts on
like three different or three or four different colors. It's
just so it's just a wide range. Reminds me of
the Joseph's coat climbing rose, except this is just a bush. Yeah,
and you'll get like reds, oranges, pinks all on the
(16:08):
same bush. And so I like that because it's like
a nice little color tone change. So but we've been
getting that and got plenty of high biscuits in that
are a full bloom and it's a biscuit, you know,
And I mean that's part for the course this year
or every year. But the American Sweetheart and these are
(16:29):
all Hollywood High biscuits, so it's a I like to
call them the fancy ones. Yeah, but they're proven winter now.
But the Rico Suave and American Sweetheart are just I
mean full of color and looking. I mean they look awesome.
Did we get any of that? I want to say
it's called disco diva. We did. Those are really nice
(16:51):
and that's just a larger bloom, less battle less actual
bud count than most of the other ones. But still
they make a really cool flower. I mean the hours
I mean probably eight inches across, eight or ten inches across,
and it's huge. Yeah, it looks almost like the dinner
of the perennial High biscuits, the dinner plates. So but
we've just been kind of ripping and running with all that,
(17:13):
the tropicals and stuff. I mean, never see sys to
amaze me how much Fern we move just like Boston,
like the I mean we get the Boston baskets, we
get those have been coming in really nice Kimberly Queen,
the Macho ferns, and I mean we just come in,
we move them out, come in, move them out, you know,
(17:34):
in the seven gallon and I go down to Florida
to tour and it's just I mean, it's remarkable to
see like fifty acres of Kimberly queen fern, or fifty
acres of one kind of high high biscus, you know,
or like a couple or a couple of colors of
high biscus or mandavilla. It just kind of it's wild
(17:56):
to see that. So but we you know, we've been
kind of running with that, and you know, we've talked
about roses, we've talked about butterflies or hummingbirds. Again, if
anybody wanted to call and had a question we could answer,
you could reach us at four nine six. And I
(18:19):
think we have a podcast that I haven't mentioned yet.
So if you ever want to listen to an old
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to call, old episode episode that sounds really good, you
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episodes previous. Look, man, you put me on the spot here,
(18:43):
So but you could reach us at the iHeart Radio website.
So and moving on to better and bigger things. If
you hadn't done so already. We need to probably fertilizer lawn,
all right, because all this rainfall is gonna make your
lawn is gonna start really pumping out some growth this
time of year. Yeah, and it's usually the time I
(19:05):
have to cut twice a week, you know, especially around
my I've got rye grass still growing on the side yard,
and I swear just the rainfall of the past two
days made it shoot up like four inches. It's taller
than all the Saint Augustine So but we've just been
you want to go in and get your fertilizer down.
It's we still have some some of the wheat and
(19:30):
feeds which you can put out, all right, but as
it gets hotter, we want to kind of we want
to change our active ingredients away from that acherzine that's
in the fertilum Saint Augustine wheaton feed. So, but it
looks like we got another caller, so we're gonna go
and jump to that. Keith, how are you today?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I'm doing fine, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What can we help you with?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I was just calling to check I have a I've
had fairly good successful set sums, but this after this winter,
I've had one that's out there in the yard and
started to green up and bloom in the spring, but
all the blooms fell off pretty abruptly, and then now
I'm slowly losing limbs or slowly losing foliage where it
(20:18):
just looks like a shrivel up and dying.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
M Yeah, that doesn't sound very good. Is there any
Is there any kind of splitting on the bark?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Not that I have seen. I will certainly look, but
this seems to be just migrating at random areas as
you follow the limb all the way back towards the trunk.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, but because it sounds like there's there's some kind
of damage which could have been freeze damage. Yeah. Uh
during the winter. I mean you'll see that with azaleas
where right, you know, you'll have a little there will
be some kind of damage from the freeze in the
trunk and that whole section will die out. So that's
(21:06):
that's kind of what it sounded like to me.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Okay, well, perfect, well, I'll keep it because when it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Was when it was cooler, all right, if you look
at it, as like a I think it's like a pipe,
like a leaky, like a water pipe, and if there's
any kind of damage, all right, you'll lose water pressure.
So as it gets warmer, you would typically i'll see
you die back and stuff like that occur.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
So is it at this juncture do you just go
ahead and let it, let it go and see what
you get left with or do you just go ahead
and cut it down and start all over?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And it depends what you what you like your time's worth,
you know, Like I mean, if you want to go
ahead and get a head start on another tree, by
all means all right. Otherwise yeah, I would just kind
of wait and see what dies back and what doesn't.
But I mean, like my my sad suma I had,
(22:02):
I had very little leafing out on one side of it,
and I just had a lot of die back just
on that section as well, and I just, I mean,
I cut it all back, so I cut it back
to the wood that was not did not look like
there was any kind of splitting, any kind of damage,
and I just kept that side. So now it's a
(22:23):
lopsided satsuma.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
All right, Well great, well I'll give it. I'll give
it an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Okay, all right, Keith, Well I have a good one.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well we're back to and we're taking I think my
producers having a stroke or something because it didn't sound
You're like, yeah, well yeah, I wasn't that excited, you know.
Thanks appreciate that. Yeah, So we're taking calls from It's
(22:58):
just one of those days. You should try again. You
just try to have a little Welcome to the WJBO
Lawn and Garden Show. Excuse Braden and Jeremy. We just
have a good time here. But you could reach us
at four nine if you had any calls. We're just
talking about things out in the yard and at the
(23:20):
nursery that I'm there where I'm too often, yeah, most
you know. But we were talking about fertilizing the lawn.
I mean, we had just kind of touched up on it,
but there's a few things I wanted to touch up
on as well, like so the this is the perfect
temperature in rainfall conditions for nutgrass and kalinga to start
(23:45):
really vibe, you know, vibing if you want them trying
to sound hip like the kids, you know, I won't. Yeah,
but anyway, the nutsedge is really starting to pop off
right now, right, and so well kind of you kind
of kind of watch that because that just chokes out everything.
And I think that's my most hated plant is just
(24:07):
not grass in general or the sages. I mean, it's
just it spreads. Uh, if you're not a little harder
to get rid of typically and if you're not keeping
an eye on it. I mean to say, last like
last year, for instance, I've I kind of hammered it back.
I got it to isolate it to my little rock bed,
(24:28):
And but if I don't just stay on it, it's
just going to keep it. It'll spread back to where
it was.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, I've noticed from just from from it popping up
on the lot at work.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Uh, it'll reseed fairly quick. Yeah, I mean, and that's
with any of the it's really with any of the
weeds that we have on the I mean, if it's
a weed and it spreads, just know if you see
a seed head, you already lost the battle, like you
literally put out like thousands. Yeah, it's already. I mean
it's like chamber better, it's like chamber bitter. That's a
(25:01):
plant that bugs me because it's like that one starts
like as soon as it comes up in the ground,
it gets like a half inch or like an inch maybe,
and it's got seeds on it. You know, it's like great,
you know, I gotta pull it and I'm gonna spell
the seeds and then the seeds will germinate and then
I'll have five where I pulled that one. You know.
(25:22):
But it's you want we have to start staying on
top of that kind of stuff. I go out and
I just kind of hand pull for the most part.
If somebody's trying to spray for that. Is there a
chemical we have? Yeah, the SOO. For the sedges, you
would use your what is it sedge hammer, there's a
there's four or five products we carry, your sedge hammer,
(25:44):
your image. There's a nutsedge control right. The sedgehammer's been
on the market for the longest. It works great on
the yellow like your purple sedge, your tall sedges. Do
any of those have like pre emergent uh uh not
really not particularly so they wouldn't stop any kind of
seeds now, and there's no real pre emergent for say
(26:07):
your sedges seeds like there's been mixed results, okay, but
the as far as the seeding isn't the issue. It's
the fact that it sends off a runner. Okay, all right,
that's really that's the hard part because if you follow
the root, there will be like a little tiny little
(26:28):
nut and that's just a bunch of carbohydrates. So it's like,
so say you pinch or pull and that that root breaks, well,
then it still has all that energy and that's in
that little nut to send out more roots and just
keep spreading. So it's like the you know, I've heard
the worst thing you could do is hand pull it.
(26:51):
It's like yes and no. Like, if you can follow
the root, how are you supposed to do it then,
like with just a repeated spraying, you know, but like
your sedge hammer works great on it. That burns it
back pretty well down the route. Your image is interesting
because that works from the soil level. So you spray it,
(27:15):
it travels into the soil. The root absorbs it, all right,
and it slowly kills it, so it'll look like you
didn't do it, didn't do anything, and then all of
a sudden you go out there and it's wilted. So uh,
and then that's kind of the It's probably one of
the peskiest little weeds. We have that and another thing
(27:36):
called rag weed where round up doesn't even work on that.
It's like you spray it and it doesn't do anything.
You gotta you just have to pull it. Didn't we
have a customer? Or was it like basket grass or yeah,
there's basket grass the other day. That's another one where
it's it's really just better to pull that, you know.
It's like everybody ever wants to hear that. Yeah, because
(27:58):
your round your round up doesn't really hit real well,
I haven't tried your uh was it the decimate? Yeah,
I haven't tried that to see, but I have always
just been kind of all right, well, I guess I
gotta pull this right, you know. Uh, and in the
lawn we'll have your Virginia button. We'd coming up soon.
(28:18):
I've already found some kind of hanging out, kind of
leafing out, and I was like, great, gotta start pulling this.
But the uh, your MSM is a perfect product for
that this time of year. That and we could probably
still get away with your weed free zone, which will
hit it as well. But your weed free zone once
we go over ninety, we got to kind of be
(28:39):
careful with the temperature because the two four D well
more or less air like it'll lift off the plant
oh and migrate. Yeah, which isn't always desirable. Like if
you were out in a field and there's no plants around,
I could see the argument, well there's nothing around. But
(29:00):
if you've got a bunch of desirable like in your landscape,
exactly any kind of desirable plant. I mean, if you
spray weed free zone on some foliage, it will brown
up that plant. Like. Now it may may not do
it to like a grass, some of your grasses, but
your like azalea, camellia, anything with like a broad leaf,
(29:23):
like a perennial shrub, anything like that. Yeah, to the
two four D and the WAT free zone will just fry.
It's a great product. It's just you know, you just
don't spray when it's hot. Can you still do like
the sedge hammer in the M S M. Year Really
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the only there's two products we carry on the market,
like or carry on our shelves that we kind of
kind of watch with temperature, and that's going to be
your atrazine and your weat free zone. Okay, there's a
few pesticides as well, but as far as lawn cont goes,
it's really just your weed free zone and your atrazine
(30:03):
and your two four D those have your temperature restrictions
on them to where we'd have to be careful spring,
you know, but pretty much everything else doesn't have a
temperature restriction. That's why MSM. We usually kind of push
MSM yeah more of the summertime, because it's just that
it works great on like your spurs, your Virginia button weeds,
(30:24):
just a decent amount of broad leaf weeds, but it
doesn't have that chance to lift off the soil or
lift off the ground and migrate. So moving on now,
you know, we talked about it, not such talked about MSM.
(30:45):
I wanted to ask you, and I know it probably
bugs because I put them all in your bedding house,
but what are your thoughts on on the court line up?
In ordering?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They are very nice, yeah, And even though we usually
get in a lot of them, they don't stay in
there very long.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So it really hasn't been that big of a book there. Okay,
all right, well we're gonna come We're gonna come back
to talking about Cordeline. But I wanted to go ahead
and reach out to We got another caller. It's Dana.
Good morning, Dana. How are you.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
I'm doing great well. Actually I'm out here pulling weeds
out of all my zenias and they are no solid zenius.
Is there anything I can spray on top of that,
like the the nuts edge?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean you can spot spray with the nuts edge
like the sedge hammer, but I would be careful with
anything else, Like is it just sedges that you have
in your genius?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
No, it's everything.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Uh yeah, I'd be careful spraying around them because they're
going to be kind of temperamental to anything.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Okay, and dismiss what does that take care?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Dismisses your kalinga and your sedges? Okay?
Speaker 6 (32:06):
And can you can you use that everywhere?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah? You can spray that out of the lawn, the
flower beds. I try not to spray it over the
top over everything, like as far as the flower beds go.
But if it hits the roots or anything like that,
it's not going to damage the plants.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Okay, Okay, good, So I can't just pray.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
That all over in my yard.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Yep, no temperature, no farments or anything.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Okay, not on you. You're welcome all right, take care.
That's a bummer. Yeah, No, it's just you know, you
want something just and my dad will tell me it's like,
if you could come up with and I'm not even
a chemist, that's the best part. But he's like, if
(32:55):
you could come up with a chemical that you could
just spray and kill all the bad stuff without farm
with a harm and all the what I want to keep.
And it's like, that's so like it's unicorn million that's
unicorn land, you know. So but uh, yeah, that's what
I told him. I was like, well, when I'm not
a chemist, two, it's like I'd probably be a millionaire,
(33:18):
probably better than a millionaireah at this rate, you know.
So anyway, but you know, we're talking about cortline because
I was moving on from weed control because that's how
I do. And uh if that's just like your perfect
little shade plant for like a front porch, you know,
for the whole spring, summerfall.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Everybody always wants to put them in the landscape, though
when they're coming.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
They do, and I'm like, you can, yeah, you can. Yeah,
it's just you got to pull them out the grand
if you want to keep them to the next year.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
You just have to pull them at the ground, and
I mean just replace them. A lot of people do that,
They'll just replace them the next season.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I mean, when I was doing a lot of landscaping work,
would you that was one of the annuals. The same
with the crewtine, like our high biscus. Yeah, where it
was just like this part of the annual budget for
this client, right they liked, they liked too high biscuits
and these pots. You know, it's like I replace him
every year. Yeah, you know, same with the court alone,
(34:17):
same with the ferns.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Now, with that being said, I did it eventually got
so big it was more of a nuisance. But I
did keep one alive in a pot for several years
and it got to be about five or six feet tall,
so big.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That I couldn't keep it upright in the potting. You
gotta cut it, you gotta cut it back. But it
was so pretty, I know, I know, started off rough
at the beginning, and now we're like zooming, all right.
We just had to kind of get a warm up.
It's been a.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
While since we've done this show together, so I get yeah,
I think, who did I do the show with last Scott?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I think that's right. Yeah, it was either Scott or Allen. Yeah.
So uh, but you know we talked about all kinds
of little stuff we'd control fertilizer. Did I mention we
have Peggy Martin's only a few times good? Right? You know?
I mean well Tom usually kind of sends me a
highlight of some things he thinks we should also talk about.
(35:15):
He didn't send me anything anything today, so I had
to freestyle it, you know. But you know, we've got
a lot of good color available, which I think we
kind of touched on that, yeah, and but I want
to touch up on the so you're oh, we've got
kalladiums that have popped up, right, and so we sell
(35:37):
them in four inch cups. I think there are three
fifty nine, is that right? A little bit more expensive
than the rest of our bedding, but that's what you
get for quality, right, right. But the so we've got
those in stock all right, But we still have a
great selection on the actual bulb, like the kaladium bulb itself,
and they're typically vastly cheaper for the most easy to
(35:58):
plan it. They really are. It's like you get a
bag of blood meal. I mean, I was talking to
a lady yesterday and she wanted to get she wanted
to get some roots stimulat or some miracle grows start
startup or it's like the liquid feed, you know. And
I was like, no, just get blood meal, you know,
if they're not that picky, you know, And I mean,
(36:19):
I get it. You want to give your plants the
best start, and that root, that rooting hormone on the
root stimulator would definitely help.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, all right, But honestly, we usually suggest just using
root stimulator with anything that you're newly planting.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, And I mean it will force out root development
on those bulbs, right, helping them bulk up, get at
get a denser size right throughout the year. But the
blood meals the key. It's just you just want to
drop some slow release fertilizer in there because they're pretty
much all foliage anyway, and then it just kind of
(36:55):
feeds them for the year and they pop up and
it keeps the colors very vibrant yep, and their neat
if you just need a little splash of color right right,
And most of your other leafed plants aren't going to
have that same kind of style leaf where it's like
it was like a little her heart shape leaf sometimes
or more round, but they won't kind of have that,
(37:18):
and that's just a good little border plant that you
can plant that I used to further north, you dig
them up to save them for next year. I never
did that here. I was just like, you know, you
plan them. I remember planning them at my she's my
pretend grandma. It was an older lady my mother was
friends with that. I would go, I'd go landscape landscape
(37:40):
for her and she'd have me plant kalladiums, like five
hundred killadiums or something. I don't know. It was like
it was a case. So but she she used to
dig them up up north, but she quit doing it
down here, and then I kind of followed in suit
because it was like you might lose a couple if
it got real. Then they come back, yeah, during the winter,
(38:02):
but they almost always come back. So it's like, you know,
if you wanted to play it safe, yeah, of course
take them up. Yeah, but I used to just replant
a couple, you know, but every year she still wanted
to still wanted a box. So it was like, you know,
by the end, by the end of my time helping her,
it was just Uh she had a lot of cladiums everywhere.
(38:23):
What would you say is your favorite kalladium? Uh, anything
with like a blush pink. Yeah, like the white white
to like blush pink r not the solid pink, but
the like I forget, what a Fiesta that's the one.
There's a Fiesta or Sweetheart or something like.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
That where it has like the pink veining running through
the middle.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah. And I mean you're Carolyn Wharton. I mean that's
like a mainstay. Yeah, I mean that one just that's pink.
It's got different tones of pink into it. I like
the Miss Muffett Yeah, that one as well, or even
the Frog and the Blender, which is just lime green.
You know, it's really they've got a lot of range
of colors. And it's just a neat little plant that
you can just kind of plant a pocket of it
(39:11):
and in a couple of spots just to give a
little a little interest. Whereas like at my house, I've
got a couple plantings of them and they're just kind
of you know, there buy some grasses. They're by the
things where it's like completely different leaf texture, you know,
just to give it a little contrast. To make both
plants stand out more, right, So, but uh, you know, anyway,
(39:35):
I think I knocked out pretty much everything. Did we
talk about, uh that my new citrus crop came in?
We actually well, I think just touched on it. But
we did get a new citrus crop at all locations.
So I just wanted to kind of mention that because
the only thing was we didn't have many kumquats. I
was about to say, do we get any kum quats
(39:56):
this time? No. The only thing we got was I
snacked some tartcom quits from Greenwall and that was it.
Nobody else and we didn't receive anything new. That was
just an old stock, right, you know. And it's just
been kind of hard. Even the Arctic frost at Suma,
it's been hard to come by.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
And for whatever reason, that's the one everybody's been wanting lately.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, yeah, we just had a snow event and a
lot of citrus died. So they want I mean, it
says it in the name artic frost, right, No, I mean,
like I've got I got one from a dad and
we hadn't actually even tried the fruit yet because it
hadn't fruited yet. We're open this year. But it's it's
(40:40):
just a weird citrus. I mean it's a sad Satsumas
are typically thornless that has thorns, all right, Yeah, from
what I've read, the fruit has more has a dark
orange tone to it.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
So Actually, Eric, one of the employees that at Seagan Kleggs,
brought he bought one of the arc frosting. He brought
me some of the fruit from it. I want to
say that was last year, and it was very sweet,
but they were tiny. I don't know if it was
just smaller. Yeah, they were very small, but it was
very efficted early yeah, maybe so so.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
But we do have it. Like I said, we got
a new citrus crop, got plenty of figs, blueberries. The
fig crop we've been growing at the Color Division has
been just phenomenal. I mean it's like good sized, good
sized shrub. Yeah, for like thirty thirty four I believe,
And so it's just a reasonable priced I mean for
(41:40):
something that's like I wouldn't say quite three foot, but
I mean it's gonna be probably five foot once you
put it in the ground because they just I mean
they grow so quickly and the uh there even knew
some blackberries like the Primark Freedom. It is one that
we can't ever really keep in stock. And so he's
been doing that. Yeah. So, but it looks like I'm
(42:00):
in rattling on too much and we've already run out
of time. We got the cut off music. Oh no,
that's when. That's when the producer is telling us to
get out. So but thanks, thank you for all the
calls today. We love to answering all the questions. Please
come see us at the nursery. If y'all have any
more questions, we'll be there all day today, and y'all
(42:23):
have a great Saturday.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Gleg'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
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name's Saane Mercer, joined here with Breden Bonadona.
Good morning, How are you good? How are you pretty nice?
It was cool this morning. I got my sweatshirt on
at least for another thirty minutes. Yeah, by the time
we get to work, that's gonna have to come off.
(00:43):
We got to go to work today, so but anyway,
it's wonderful Saturday. The weather's been pretty cooperative. Other than
I mean, we've had some rainfall, which was sorely needed.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yes, well, I guess you could say, like the last
week or so, I've definitely been filled and that humidity
that we give when summer arrives, and it's been not
so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, it's fact life. Spring, spring is really short, summer
is really long down here. But we got a lot
of stuff going on and if you hit any calls
questions just wanted to talk, you could reach us at
four nine nine w JBO. That's four nine nine six.
And so I want to just kind of start out
(01:27):
with I want to talk about all the humming birds
I've been seeing at my house. It's been awesome. You know,
every every time I look out the window, I see
humming birds. Even caught some woodpeckers and stuff I am
back yard, so I was excited to see that. Now
we've got a ton of humming bird attractants. Yeah, like
(01:47):
your salbia that you've got at the bedding house is awesome.
I got a bunch of porter weed. I really like
the porter weed. I know, it's probably one of the
coolest plans because it just kind of there's never a
rest period for it. Yeah, it's just another another cluster
of flowers opens up. So it's really they just bloom
all summer. So I've got a was it the red
(02:09):
or the coral color at the house? Okay, the one
that gets like five foot five six foot and it
just kind of does its thing all year. I was
hoping it was gonna come back from last winter, but
I don't. I don't think that panned out. So yeah,
we have some red porter weed at the house. I
don't think it started popping up yet. Yeah. So but uh,
(02:30):
what else you say been going on at the nursery.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's been uh, I mean spring is our time, yeah,
and it is just going full force.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No. I mean it's been interesting because I'll go in
and Branden manages the bedding area and orders all of
our color for the second lane location. And it's just
kind of interesting because I'll go in, I'll know where
something is and two days later it's gone. It's either
gone or we had to move it. It's usually gone. Yeah.
(03:03):
You know, it's like, oh, I was looking for galardia
or something the other day and I was like, I
swear I couldn't find it. It's like third table, it
was gone. Yeah. So uh but you know, we got
all that stuff going on, and uh, you know, I
kind of talked about the hummingbirds and stuff. But what's
been interesting is, uh, we can't keep milk weedn't stock
(03:26):
at all.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
No, we cannot. That has been like the biggest seller
out of that bedding house.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I'm a little grumpy because my first crop of
milkweed that planned last year they ate it to the ground,
all right, And now I planted some more and I
can't even find I haven't seen a single butterfly, well,
a caterpillar.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Maybe you should talk to some of the customers coming
in for milkweed because they swear and they can't keep
it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's just been it's just been interesting because I go
and I'm like, well, they ate this down, and I
planted these two days later, but where they go? You know? So,
but it looks like we got a caller, so we're
gonna go ahead and jump into it. It's gonna be Kelly, Kelly,
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I'm doing great? How are y'all doing today?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Great?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I have a question about some zoisa grass. I have
a yard that I completely graded, and prior to that
it had centipede grass on there, and I took all
the cinniped grass off, graded everything, and I put some
zoisha down. The issue is is we have some centipede
peeking through the zeus show. What do y'all recommend in
order to get all the centipede outs that doesn't interfere
(04:34):
with the zeiste that we just planning.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So the zousa is going to outcompete the centipede.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, so just let it do its thing basically.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, yeah, I would just let it do its thing
because the centipedes your slowest I don't want to say
desirable turf grass, but it's the slowest one out of
like your Zoisa, your Bermuda, your Saint Augustine, the typical
grasses you'll see. So it'll usually just kind of choke
it down.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Okay, you think it'll be like six months or what
timeframe would you think or would you say before it
can all get removed just because it just you know,
it's actually a customer and they're just ready to just
get rid of the centipede completely, and they're looking at
all treatments and like liquid liquid stuff to treat it
just to get rid of the centipedes. I'm just gonna
tell them to hold all.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I would say just say hold off because the
zoysia will outcompete. It's a much more vigorous growing grass
than the centipede.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Is all right, Well, I appreciate it, thank you, you're welcome,
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That's a good question. Yeah, yeah, no cent ped Like
I had centipede at the yard on one side, of
my yard. And I don't know. I'm I saying, August,
you just killed like essentially just choked it out. I
mean it grows so much faster. And I like centipede,
it's just got to be in the perfect spot. Yeah,
like a dryer area. Like my servitude area is all servitude,
(05:54):
all centipede. And that looks great other than the crab
grass that getting there occasionally. But you know we fight
the crabgrass to anyway. So moving back to all your
fancy color in the bedding house. Uh. Now, we were
talking about monarch butterflies and there's and the reason I'm
bringing up the butterflies is because I saw a good
(06:15):
friend of mine yesterday who's spent his life studying moths
and butterflies. So I was really cool guy, Yeah, really
good cool guy. I just think it's cool. I bought
his book, you know. But anyway, they've got the monarchs
that are out. Uh, swallow tails should be out soon
if they're not already. And uh, I believe you said
(06:37):
you had some fennyl. What else?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What other herbs you got for the swallowtails? I know
we have we have parsley and fennyl. I know, that's
too that they go after. And we don't have any
deal in stock right now, but I'm sure I'll be
able to get some soon.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah in there, No, that's uh. And those are just
good feeder plants, just to attract some swallow tails. I'm
really like having humberbirds and swallowtails at the house because
it makes it look I don't know, it makes me
feel like, feel like my yard's alive, you know, and
we'll plays yeah exactly. And I mean I don't have
(07:13):
a satsuma. That's real sad, so I don't know if
I'll get any uh any butterfly activity from that. Yeah,
but everything else is going pretty well, so go ahead
and move on. I'll quit going on a soap box
about butterflies. Uh. You know, we got a lot of
roses in stock, Yes, we do. Yeah, and that is
(07:36):
one plant that's just been blooming crazy. Yeah right, I
mean we got we do those weeks roses that will grow.
We get them in February, sell them through. Those are
all your fancy like large hybrid tees like cut flowers. Yeah,
but we also carry and this is something we carry
all year as long as we can keep it in stocks.
The Peggy Martin that one.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's been hard to keep in stock lately. And then
it's like that every year when they start blooming, and.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
If y'all aren't familiar with it, it is the quintessential
Southern climbing rose, right it is. I mean when it blooms,
it makes the biggest show it does. I mean, it's
just like a giant math and they can get large,
but it's just a giant mass of pink flowers that
you see from half a mile away. Yeah, you know,
(08:24):
and it's hardy. Uh it'll pull off, pull your trellises
down if they're not if they're not you know, set
in the ground correctly. I mean, it's just a great
little climbing rose. Man. We had, we've got some which
I don't know if they're seven Sisters Katrina, whatever you
want to call it. At this point, I think they're
pretty much all the they're all synonymous. But uh, I
(08:47):
had some at my parents' house and my grandfather had
played it and that thing was awesome because growing up
they had a four foot picket fence and it just
covered the entire picket fence. Nice, you know, one plant
was like ten foot wide. Yeah, so it was just
I mean when it went bloom. I mean you see
it from when you turn on the driveway. You can
(09:08):
see it all the way from the corner. It's real neat.
Sit there, heavy bloomers. Yep. But it looks like we
got another collar, so we're gonna go and jump to it.
I like having these collars. Yeah, it's been pretty nice.
All right, Joe, how are you today? How can we
help you?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
How are you all?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Good morning? Doing all right today? Not bad at all?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Well, I have a question about sad Suma trees.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yes, ma'am, my sad sumer.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Tree doesn't have one leaf yet. Should I just give
up on it and know that it's done for?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Or what? Have you scraped the bark at all to
see if there's anything?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Would it's not green?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But it's a yellow.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay, Yeah, we're gonna wanna. Yeah, just go ahead and
pull that out, get rid of it.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
If it's yellow, okay, that means it's it's I.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Mean it's toast. Yeah, it probably didn't make it through
the winner.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Yeah, I'll just have to go by the one, right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's usually how it works, you know. No, I mean
my sat zoom I had to cut I had half
of it leaf out and the other half was dead,
all right, and then I had a lemon that uh yeah,
that lemon was toasted.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
All right. Well, thank you all so much, and you'll
have a wonderful weekend you too.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's a good call. I I hate breaking it to them, though,
but we did just get a new shipment of citrus
in and the sat zoomers are awesome.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The worst is when they come in, when they come
in and say that they see new growth coming from
the bottom and they're excited about that, and then you
have to break the news to them that that's the
root stock.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, it's not actually the citrution, and occasionally it's above
the rootstock, but it's usually never, you know, And it's
just it stinks because I mean, they're they're gorgeous specimen
trees just in general. And then you also get typically
awesome fruit, you know, I mean, not the biggest on grapefruit,
but like every single other CRUs you know. But anyway,
(11:17):
my name's Sane Mercer joined with Braden Badana, didn't it
just roll right off that song? Yeah? At this point
because I have been putting up with you long enough,
so uh, you know, anyway, we answer we take calls,
questions and concerns about plants primarily. Yeah, but you can
(11:37):
reach us at four nine nine nine six. That's four
nine nine w J b O if you want to
use letters. So, uh, anyway, we were talking about I
think we're talking about some roses, was that right? Yeah, yeah,
and we're talking about we talked about Peggy Martin Rose,
which every store got a fresh shipment and they go,
(11:58):
they go quickly every day, Yes, they do, you know,
I mean it was interesting. I mean we were downloading
them Thursday, and it wasn't as bad as it was
a few years back. A couple of years back. I
just I sold like half the order in the parking lot.
There was a couple.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Of years ago where pretty much every Peggy Martin we
sold was off of a waiting list.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, like when that load came in,
Butcher and I were out there, we had somebody with
the waiting list, right, and then we had called them
all when the truck was pulling in. Yeah, and then
we started pulling orders, and then we had other customers
coming up all right, and then so they would go
(12:41):
in to the cash here check out, come get their roses.
After it was like, I mean I think I had
a stock we'd gotten ten racks or twelve racks and
I had to stock three. You know. It was something wild.
So but every store got a new load Thursday, which
was exciting because it's just been they go real real
quick this time years, especially with the blooming. But we
(13:02):
do have more in order. I've got more more in
order I think every week for the next couple of weeks.
So that's been exciting. And then you know, we've got
all the sun Belt series roses, which that's what we've
been growing. Aut er color division is it the sun
Blaze that's like a smaller growing rose. Sun Blaze is
(13:27):
I think it was like the Petite knockout but by star. Yeah,
all right, it's just a they don't get too too big.
It's like an eighteen to twenty inch rose and like
I would qualify it as a miniature. And the colors
are vibrant, Yeah, I mean the catch my eye when
I walk, Like the red is a deep, deep pretty red.
(13:48):
They've got the there's an orange, which is really nice,
and then there's two different pinks. There's that one pink
that's like a it's like a few ship that's just bright.
It's it reminds me of like a boken villa for color,
where it's just a vibrant when some full bloom it's
(14:09):
just I mean vibrant, very it stands out. And then
they're also hardy to like some fungal activity and insect stuff.
Really yeah. Also essentially there's just another you know, you've
got your knockouts and those are all more disease resistant,
right right, and then sun Belt is just another another
(14:30):
company's version of disease resistant roses that perform really well
in our climate.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Doesn't the Peggy Martin also have some kind of natural
disease resistance.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I think that's just a really hearty rose. Like I
mean it's rare. I mean you have to you have
to thin it. Yeah, okay, uh, but it's rare. I
mean it might get some leaf spot if you get
a lot of rainfall, but that's it. I mean, that's
pretty much hit. And that one just kind of I mean,
it grows u if it was not where I wanted
it to be, I would qualify it as weed, you know,
(15:04):
because it's just I mean, it grows, it grows does
very well.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Actually it is a weed closer to the bayou on
the Yeah, we actually we've got a little drainage canal
and somehow or another, I don't remember when, but there
was a Peggy Martin that had fallen down there and
it ended up rooting and it's like a.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Ten foot by ten foot actually up one of the trees.
Yeah there, No, that's wild. So but we've got those,
we've got the Sunbelt. We've even got some patio tree
roses that are really nice, nice and those are just
and then my personal favorites that was at the Sunbelt
horizon where it'll it reminds me of as that small
(15:46):
rose tree that we gain huh No, No, this is
a but this is just a regular bush. But it
gets about three to four foot and it puts on
like three different or three or four different colors. It's
just so it's just a wide range. Reminds me of
the Joseph's coat climbing rose, except this is just a bush. Yeah,
and you'll get like reds, oranges, pinks all on the
(16:08):
same bush. And so I like that because it's like
a nice little color tone change. So but we've been
getting that and got plenty of high biscuits in that
are a full bloom and it's a biscuit, you know,
And I mean that's part for the course this year
or every year. But the American Sweetheart and these are
(16:29):
all Hollywood High biscuits, so it's a I like to
call them the fancy ones. Yeah, but they're proven winter now.
But the Rico Suave and American Sweetheart are just I
mean full of color and looking. I mean they look awesome.
Did we get any of that? I want to say
it's called disco diva. We did. Those are really nice
(16:51):
and that's just a larger bloom, less battle less actual
bud count than most of the other ones. But still
they make a really cool flower. I mean the hours
I mean probably eight inches across, eight or ten inches across,
and it's huge. Yeah, it looks almost like the dinner
of the perennial High biscuits, the dinner plates. So but
we've just been kind of ripping and running with all that,
(17:13):
the tropicals and stuff. I mean, never see sys to
amaze me how much Fern we move just like Boston,
like the I mean we get the Boston baskets, we
get those have been coming in really nice Kimberly Queen,
the Macho ferns, and I mean we just come in,
we move them out, come in, move them out, you know,
(17:34):
in the seven gallon and I go down to Florida
to tour and it's just I mean, it's remarkable to
see like fifty acres of Kimberly queen fern, or fifty
acres of one kind of high high biscus, you know,
or like a couple or a couple of colors of
high biscus or mandavilla. It just kind of it's wild
(17:56):
to see that. So but we you know, we've been
kind of running with that, and you know, we've talked
about roses, we've talked about butterflies or hummingbirds. Again, if
anybody wanted to call and had a question we could answer,
you could reach us at four nine six. And I
(18:19):
think we have a podcast that I haven't mentioned yet.
So if you ever want to listen to an old
call all right, or old talk show, whatever you want
to call, old episode episode that sounds really good, you
could reach it on the iHeart radio station or website
episodes previous. Look, man, you put me on the spot here,
(18:43):
So but you could reach us at the iHeart Radio website.
So and moving on to better and bigger things. If
you hadn't done so already. We need to probably fertilizer lawn,
all right, because all this rainfall is gonna make your
lawn is gonna start really pumping out some growth this
time of year. Yeah, and it's usually the time I
(19:05):
have to cut twice a week, you know, especially around
my I've got rye grass still growing on the side yard,
and I swear just the rainfall of the past two
days made it shoot up like four inches. It's taller
than all the Saint Augustine So but we've just been
you want to go in and get your fertilizer down.
It's we still have some some of the wheat and
(19:30):
feeds which you can put out, all right, but as
it gets hotter, we want to kind of we want
to change our active ingredients away from that acherzine that's
in the fertilum Saint Augustine wheaton feed. So, but it
looks like we got another caller, so we're gonna go
and jump to that. Keith, how are you today?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I'm doing fine, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What can we help you with?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I was just calling to check I have a I've
had fairly good successful set sums, but this after this winter,
I've had one that's out there in the yard and
started to green up and bloom in the spring, but
all the blooms fell off pretty abruptly, and then now
I'm slowly losing limbs or slowly losing foliage where it
(20:18):
just looks like a shrivel up and dying.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
M Yeah, that doesn't sound very good. Is there any
Is there any kind of splitting on the bark?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Not that I have seen. I will certainly look, but
this seems to be just migrating at random areas as
you follow the limb all the way back towards the trunk.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, but because it sounds like there's there's some kind
of damage which could have been freeze damage. Yeah. Uh
during the winter. I mean you'll see that with azaleas
where right, you know, you'll have a little there will
be some kind of damage from the freeze in the
trunk and that whole section will die out. So that's
(21:06):
that's kind of what it sounded like to me.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Okay, well, perfect, well, I'll keep it because when it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Was when it was cooler, all right, if you look
at it, as like a I think it's like a pipe,
like a leaky, like a water pipe, and if there's
any kind of damage, all right, you'll lose water pressure.
So as it gets warmer, you would typically i'll see
you die back and stuff like that occur.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
So is it at this juncture do you just go
ahead and let it, let it go and see what
you get left with or do you just go ahead
and cut it down and start all over?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And it depends what you what you like your time's worth,
you know, Like I mean, if you want to go
ahead and get a head start on another tree, by
all means all right. Otherwise yeah, I would just kind
of wait and see what dies back and what doesn't.
But I mean, like my my sad suma I had,
(22:02):
I had very little leafing out on one side of it,
and I just had a lot of die back just
on that section as well, and I just, I mean,
I cut it all back, so I cut it back
to the wood that was not did not look like
there was any kind of splitting, any kind of damage,
and I just kept that side. So now it's a
(22:23):
lopsided satsuma.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
All right, Well great, well I'll give it. I'll give
it an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Okay, all right, Keith, Well I have a good one.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well we're back to and we're taking I think my
producers having a stroke or something because it didn't sound
You're like, yeah, well yeah, I wasn't that excited, you know.
Thanks appreciate that. Yeah, So we're taking calls from It's
(22:58):
just one of those days. You should try again. You
just try to have a little Welcome to the WJBO
Lawn and Garden Show. Excuse Braden and Jeremy. We just
have a good time here. But you could reach us
at four nine if you had any calls. We're just
talking about things out in the yard and at the
(23:20):
nursery that I'm there where I'm too often, yeah, most
you know. But we were talking about fertilizing the lawn.
I mean, we had just kind of touched up on it,
but there's a few things I wanted to touch up
on as well, like so the this is the perfect
temperature in rainfall conditions for nutgrass and kalinga to start
(23:45):
really vibe, you know, vibing if you want them trying
to sound hip like the kids, you know, I won't. Yeah,
but anyway, the nutsedge is really starting to pop off
right now, right, and so well kind of you kind
of kind of watch that because that just chokes out everything.
And I think that's my most hated plant is just
(24:07):
not grass in general or the sages. I mean, it's
just it spreads. Uh, if you're not a little harder
to get rid of typically and if you're not keeping
an eye on it. I mean to say, last like
last year, for instance, I've I kind of hammered it back.
I got it to isolate it to my little rock bed,
(24:28):
And but if I don't just stay on it, it's
just going to keep it. It'll spread back to where
it was.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, I've noticed from just from from it popping up
on the lot at work.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Uh, it'll reseed fairly quick. Yeah, I mean, and that's
with any of the it's really with any of the
weeds that we have on the I mean, if it's
a weed and it spreads, just know if you see
a seed head, you already lost the battle, like you
literally put out like thousands. Yeah, it's already. I mean
it's like chamber better, it's like chamber bitter. That's a
(25:01):
plant that bugs me because it's like that one starts
like as soon as it comes up in the ground,
it gets like a half inch or like an inch maybe,
and it's got seeds on it. You know, it's like great,
you know, I gotta pull it and I'm gonna spell
the seeds and then the seeds will germinate and then
I'll have five where I pulled that one. You know.
(25:22):
But it's you want we have to start staying on
top of that kind of stuff. I go out and
I just kind of hand pull for the most part.
If somebody's trying to spray for that. Is there a
chemical we have? Yeah, the SOO. For the sedges, you
would use your what is it sedge hammer, there's a
there's four or five products we carry, your sedge hammer,
(25:44):
your image. There's a nutsedge control right. The sedgehammer's been
on the market for the longest. It works great on
the yellow like your purple sedge, your tall sedges. Do
any of those have like pre emergent uh uh not
really not particularly so they wouldn't stop any kind of
seeds now, and there's no real pre emergent for say
(26:07):
your sedges seeds like there's been mixed results, okay, but
the as far as the seeding isn't the issue. It's
the fact that it sends off a runner. Okay, all right,
that's really that's the hard part because if you follow
the root, there will be like a little tiny little
(26:28):
nut and that's just a bunch of carbohydrates. So it's like,
so say you pinch or pull and that that root breaks, well,
then it still has all that energy and that's in
that little nut to send out more roots and just
keep spreading. So it's like the you know, I've heard
the worst thing you could do is hand pull it.
(26:51):
It's like yes and no. Like, if you can follow
the root, how are you supposed to do it then,
like with just a repeated spraying, you know, but like
your sedge hammer works great on it. That burns it
back pretty well down the route. Your image is interesting
because that works from the soil level. So you spray it,
(27:15):
it travels into the soil. The root absorbs it, all right,
and it slowly kills it, so it'll look like you
didn't do it, didn't do anything, and then all of
a sudden you go out there and it's wilted. So uh,
and then that's kind of the It's probably one of
the peskiest little weeds. We have that and another thing
(27:36):
called rag weed where round up doesn't even work on that.
It's like you spray it and it doesn't do anything.
You gotta you just have to pull it. Didn't we
have a customer? Or was it like basket grass or yeah,
there's basket grass the other day. That's another one where
it's it's really just better to pull that, you know.
It's like everybody ever wants to hear that. Yeah, because
(27:58):
your round your round up doesn't really hit real well,
I haven't tried your uh was it the decimate? Yeah,
I haven't tried that to see, but I have always
just been kind of all right, well, I guess I
gotta pull this right, you know. Uh, and in the
lawn we'll have your Virginia button. We'd coming up soon.
(28:18):
I've already found some kind of hanging out, kind of
leafing out, and I was like, great, gotta start pulling this.
But the uh, your MSM is a perfect product for
that this time of year. That and we could probably
still get away with your weed free zone, which will
hit it as well. But your weed free zone once
we go over ninety, we got to kind of be
(28:39):
careful with the temperature because the two four D well
more or less air like it'll lift off the plant
oh and migrate. Yeah, which isn't always desirable. Like if
you were out in a field and there's no plants around,
I could see the argument, well there's nothing around. But
(29:00):
if you've got a bunch of desirable like in your landscape,
exactly any kind of desirable plant. I mean, if you
spray weed free zone on some foliage, it will brown
up that plant. Like. Now it may may not do
it to like a grass, some of your grasses, but
your like azalea, camellia, anything with like a broad leaf,
(29:23):
like a perennial shrub, anything like that. Yeah, to the
two four D and the WAT free zone will just fry.
It's a great product. It's just you know, you just
don't spray when it's hot. Can you still do like
the sedge hammer in the M S M. Year Really
(29:43):
the only there's two products we carry on the market,
like or carry on our shelves that we kind of
kind of watch with temperature, and that's going to be
your atrazine and your weat free zone. Okay, there's a
few pesticides as well, but as far as lawn cont goes,
it's really just your weed free zone and your atrazine
(30:03):
and your two four D those have your temperature restrictions
on them to where we'd have to be careful spring,
you know, but pretty much everything else doesn't have a
temperature restriction. That's why MSM. We usually kind of push
MSM yeah more of the summertime, because it's just that
it works great on like your spurs, your Virginia button weeds,
(30:24):
just a decent amount of broad leaf weeds, but it
doesn't have that chance to lift off the soil or
lift off the ground and migrate. So moving on now,
you know, we talked about it, not such talked about MSM.
(30:45):
I wanted to ask you, and I know it probably
bugs because I put them all in your bedding house,
but what are your thoughts on on the court line up?
In ordering?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They are very nice, yeah, And even though we usually
get in a lot of them, they don't stay in
there very long.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So it really hasn't been that big of a book there. Okay,
all right, well we're gonna come We're gonna come back
to talking about Cordeline. But I wanted to go ahead
and reach out to We got another caller. It's Dana.
Good morning, Dana. How are you.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
I'm doing great well. Actually I'm out here pulling weeds
out of all my zenias and they are no solid zenius.
Is there anything I can spray on top of that,
like the the nuts edge?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean you can spot spray with the nuts edge
like the sedge hammer, but I would be careful with
anything else, Like is it just sedges that you have
in your genius?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
No, it's everything.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Uh yeah, I'd be careful spraying around them because they're
going to be kind of temperamental to anything.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Okay, and dismiss what does that take care?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Dismisses your kalinga and your sedges? Okay?
Speaker 6 (32:06):
And can you can you use that everywhere?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah? You can spray that out of the lawn, the
flower beds. I try not to spray it over the
top over everything, like as far as the flower beds go.
But if it hits the roots or anything like that,
it's not going to damage the plants.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Okay, Okay, good, So I can't just pray.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
That all over in my yard.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Yep, no temperature, no farments or anything.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Okay, not on you. You're welcome all right, take care.
That's a bummer. Yeah, No, it's just you know, you
want something just and my dad will tell me it's like,
if you could come up with and I'm not even
a chemist, that's the best part. But he's like, if
(32:55):
you could come up with a chemical that you could
just spray and kill all the bad stuff without farm
with a harm and all the what I want to keep.
And it's like, that's so like it's unicorn million that's
unicorn land, you know. So but uh, yeah, that's what
I told him. I was like, well, when I'm not
a chemist, two, it's like I'd probably be a millionaire,
(33:18):
probably better than a millionaireah at this rate, you know.
So anyway, but you know, we're talking about cortline because
I was moving on from weed control because that's how
I do. And uh if that's just like your perfect
little shade plant for like a front porch, you know,
for the whole spring, summerfall.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Everybody always wants to put them in the landscape, though
when they're coming.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
They do, and I'm like, you can, yeah, you can. Yeah,
it's just you got to pull them out the grand
if you want to keep them to the next year.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
You just have to pull them at the ground, and
I mean just replace them. A lot of people do that,
They'll just replace them the next season.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I mean, when I was doing a lot of landscaping work,
would you that was one of the annuals. The same
with the crewtine, like our high biscus. Yeah, where it
was just like this part of the annual budget for
this client, right they liked, they liked too high biscuits
and these pots. You know, it's like I replace him
every year. Yeah, you know, same with the court alone,
(34:17):
same with the ferns.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Now, with that being said, I did it eventually got
so big it was more of a nuisance. But I
did keep one alive in a pot for several years
and it got to be about five or six feet tall,
so big.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That I couldn't keep it upright in the potting. You
gotta cut it, you gotta cut it back. But it
was so pretty, I know, I know, started off rough
at the beginning, and now we're like zooming, all right.
We just had to kind of get a warm up.
It's been a.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
While since we've done this show together, so I get yeah,
I think, who did I do the show with last Scott?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I think that's right. Yeah, it was either Scott or Allen. Yeah.
So uh, but you know we talked about all kinds
of little stuff we'd control fertilizer. Did I mention we
have Peggy Martin's only a few times good? Right? You know?
I mean well Tom usually kind of sends me a
highlight of some things he thinks we should also talk about.
(35:15):
He didn't send me anything anything today, so I had
to freestyle it, you know. But you know, we've got
a lot of good color available, which I think we
kind of touched on that, yeah, and but I want
to touch up on the so you're oh, we've got
kalladiums that have popped up, right, and so we sell
(35:37):
them in four inch cups. I think there are three
fifty nine, is that right? A little bit more expensive
than the rest of our bedding, but that's what you
get for quality, right, right. But the so we've got
those in stock all right, But we still have a
great selection on the actual bulb, like the kaladium bulb itself,
and they're typically vastly cheaper for the most easy to
(35:58):
plan it. They really are. It's like you get a
bag of blood meal. I mean, I was talking to
a lady yesterday and she wanted to get she wanted
to get some roots stimulat or some miracle grows start
startup or it's like the liquid feed, you know. And
I was like, no, just get blood meal, you know,
if they're not that picky, you know, And I mean,
(36:19):
I get it. You want to give your plants the
best start, and that root, that rooting hormone on the
root stimulator would definitely help.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, all right, But honestly, we usually suggest just using
root stimulator with anything that you're newly planting.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, And I mean it will force out root development
on those bulbs, right, helping them bulk up, get at
get a denser size right throughout the year. But the
blood meals the key. It's just you just want to
drop some slow release fertilizer in there because they're pretty
much all foliage anyway, and then it just kind of
(36:55):
feeds them for the year and they pop up and
it keeps the colors very vibrant yep, and their neat
if you just need a little splash of color right right,
And most of your other leafed plants aren't going to
have that same kind of style leaf where it's like
it was like a little her heart shape leaf sometimes
or more round, but they won't kind of have that,
(37:18):
and that's just a good little border plant that you
can plant that I used to further north, you dig
them up to save them for next year. I never
did that here. I was just like, you know, you
plan them. I remember planning them at my she's my
pretend grandma. It was an older lady my mother was
friends with that. I would go, I'd go landscape landscape
(37:40):
for her and she'd have me plant kalladiums, like five
hundred killadiums or something. I don't know. It was like
it was a case. So but she she used to
dig them up up north, but she quit doing it
down here, and then I kind of followed in suit
because it was like you might lose a couple if
it got real. Then they come back, yeah, during the winter,
(38:02):
but they almost always come back. So it's like, you know,
if you wanted to play it safe, yeah, of course
take them up. Yeah, but I used to just replant
a couple, you know, but every year she still wanted
to still wanted a box. So it was like, you know,
by the end, by the end of my time helping her,
it was just Uh she had a lot of cladiums everywhere.
(38:23):
What would you say is your favorite kalladium? Uh, anything
with like a blush pink. Yeah, like the white white
to like blush pink r not the solid pink, but
the like I forget, what a Fiesta that's the one.
There's a Fiesta or Sweetheart or something like.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
That where it has like the pink veining running through
the middle.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah. And I mean you're Carolyn Wharton. I mean that's
like a mainstay. Yeah, I mean that one just that's pink.
It's got different tones of pink into it. I like
the Miss Muffett Yeah, that one as well, or even
the Frog and the Blender, which is just lime green.
You know, it's really they've got a lot of range
of colors. And it's just a neat little plant that
you can just kind of plant a pocket of it
(39:11):
and in a couple of spots just to give a
little a little interest. Whereas like at my house, I've
got a couple plantings of them and they're just kind
of you know, there buy some grasses. They're by the
things where it's like completely different leaf texture, you know,
just to give it a little contrast. To make both
plants stand out more, right, So, but uh, you know, anyway,
(39:35):
I think I knocked out pretty much everything. Did we
talk about, uh that my new citrus crop came in?
We actually well, I think just touched on it. But
we did get a new citrus crop at all locations.
So I just wanted to kind of mention that because
the only thing was we didn't have many kumquats. I
was about to say, do we get any kum quats
(39:56):
this time? No. The only thing we got was I
snacked some tartcom quits from Greenwall and that was it.
Nobody else and we didn't receive anything new. That was
just an old stock, right, you know. And it's just
been kind of hard. Even the Arctic frost at Suma,
it's been hard to come by.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
And for whatever reason, that's the one everybody's been wanting lately.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, yeah, we just had a snow event and a
lot of citrus died. So they want I mean, it
says it in the name artic frost, right, No, I mean,
like I've got I got one from a dad and
we hadn't actually even tried the fruit yet because it
hadn't fruited yet. We're open this year. But it's it's
(40:40):
just a weird citrus. I mean it's a sad Satsumas
are typically thornless that has thorns, all right, Yeah, from
what I've read, the fruit has more has a dark
orange tone to it.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
So Actually, Eric, one of the employees that at Seagan Kleggs,
brought he bought one of the arc frosting. He brought
me some of the fruit from it. I want to
say that was last year, and it was very sweet,
but they were tiny. I don't know if it was
just smaller. Yeah, they were very small, but it was
very efficted early yeah, maybe so so.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
But we do have it. Like I said, we got
a new citrus crop, got plenty of figs, blueberries. The
fig crop we've been growing at the Color Division has
been just phenomenal. I mean it's like good sized, good
sized shrub. Yeah, for like thirty thirty four I believe,
And so it's just a reasonable priced I mean for
(41:40):
something that's like I wouldn't say quite three foot, but
I mean it's gonna be probably five foot once you
put it in the ground because they just I mean
they grow so quickly and the uh there even knew
some blackberries like the Primark Freedom. It is one that
we can't ever really keep in stock. And so he's
been doing that. Yeah. So, but it looks like I'm
(42:00):
in rattling on too much and we've already run out
of time. We got the cut off music. Oh no,
that's when. That's when the producer is telling us to
get out. So but thanks, thank you for all the
calls today. We love to answering all the questions. Please
come see us at the nursery. If y'all have any
more questions, we'll be there all day today, and y'all
(42:23):
have a great Saturday.
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