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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. Oh gosh, what a nice morning. Nice morning
to be out trapesing around the garden, checking things out,
seeing what's happening, and deciding what you need to do.
You know, this is a time of year it's good
to do a walk through in your garden. I've done
this for a number of years. You know, you get
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to the end, toward the end of summer. We're not
there yet, but you start to see plants that are struggling.
Maybe they're in too much sun, or maybe plant's not
getting enough sun. You just see how things are doing
areas of the garden, how they're performing, and make some
notes because fall season is coming and we'll be doing
a lot of different of planning and renovations and stuff
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like that in the fall, and so making those notes
now would be very hopeful in order to kind of
start to prepare your plans for that. Just to tip
for this time of year. Hey, guess what we're going
to do this hour. We're going to talk to Beverly
Welch of the arbor Gate. As I mentioned several times,
this monk Beverly is going to be here to talk
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all kinds of plant topics for this time of the
year and let me head out to the phones here. Hey, Beverly,
do we have you there? You do?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Good morning, Skim, Well.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Good morning. Thank you for calling in. I appreciate that.
I've been looking forward to kind of picking your brain
and talking plants with you this morning, So thanks for
taking some time out. Tell us a little bit first,
what's happening at the arborgate this time of the year.
What kinds of things are going on out there?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, you know, right now it's a good time to
replant that fall garden. So tomatoes have been very popular lately.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
They have good and you guys always have a good
selection of vegetables and herbs there.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Though, Yes, yes, and herbs are thriving right now, especially
the rosemary. The basil. They're loving this weather.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, that is true. A basil is very happy right now.
I just was tending to some Genevie's type basil that
we have. It's so good for pesto. But you know,
I can't get enough basil, Beverly, I'm serious. The African
blue basil is always in the garden. I don't eat it,
and I probably should, it's just a different flavor. But
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I grow it for the bees and a moment, My gosh,
they're lined up down the block to get on that thing.
I love some of the upright types of basil that
are slower to bolt. I love the lemon basils and
all of the ones. It just can't get enough basil.
It's a good herb for summertime, it is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And you know you mentioned the African blue. I like
to use it just as color in the garden. It
does have a bit of a stronger flavor that a
lot of people aren't really attracted to. But you're right
it Texas Gardener named it a few years ago the
number one pollinating plant.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Mm hmm. Well that's a that is a very high
likelihood uh honor for that plant because it is awesome
for that purpose, and so we're always needing to bring
more pollinators in and things. And yeah, you're right, it
does look good. I like the I know we're kind
of off on a basil thing right now, but I
like the tie basils too. They have such attractive blooms
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that really stand out. And then there's some that are
bred just kind of to be ornamental. I think one's
called redbird or something like that that especially ornamental tops
to it, but I think they're all pretty.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They are beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Plan Let's uh, let's talk. I'm sorry, I'm sorry for
this delay. Well, we'll figure our way through it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They'll go ahead, no problem.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So let's talk a little bit about plants that can
take the heat. You know they we think of summertime
it's like too hot to grow anything out there, and
it's altely not. There are plants from parts of the
world where this is just normal, you know, hot, sultry, humid.
They can take it. And do you have any plants
in particular that you think are ones people just you
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really need to have this in your landscape, just because
it's gonna keep going strong during the summertime.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
When I have a long list your scape, I hope
we have enough time to get it all in.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You go for it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
One of my favorites, and you talk about a great pollinator,
is the Molochia tomatosa with that lavender pink bloom against
the silvery foliage. I mean to me, that is probably
one of the greatest superstars in the summer garden. Such
a reliable perennial. We've had it in the garden for years,
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literally years, and it has been through all freezes, all floods,
all droughts and just shines.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah. I like the fact that it's a moderate size too,
so you can use it in a lot of places
where it may be a much larger plant wouldn't fit.
But that's an awesome one.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It is a great one. And then, of course, you
know I love those Heliopsis summer sun little sunflowers that
come up again so reliably year after year, and the
hotter it gets, the more beautiful they are.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, would you give a little bit of a description
of those, because a lot of people when they hear sunflower,
they're picturing this big tall stalk with a bloom on top.
That describe these for us?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, it is a sunflower type bloom. Of course, it's
a lot smaller bloom. I would say, probably more like
a three to four inch diameter bloom. The planet itself
stays very upright, but stops at about thirty inches thirty
to thirty six inches and seeds itself. It has traveled
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all through the Arborgate gardens and I just let it
go anywhere it lands.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yes, it does. I know. I saw a bunch of
them over the toword to the Gift shop across the
little drive through area over there. You had a bunch
of them that were very happy over there. And there's
a little bit of variation in them as they recede too.
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's very cool. And it's such a beautiful combination with
the Henry Dulberg salvia or the myst expires. Again, Savia's
are just incredible in this heat.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
They are they are very very happy in the seat.
Those are good. Do you know a plant that has
really surprised me? It And we're talking about plants that
love to be in the heat and all of that,
but I'm going to just for one second talk about
a plant that survives the heat that I never thought
it would and that that is the daisies. You know,
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the the u some of the beautiful like the colorful
daisies that we have you guys carry the ones that
just have the giant blooms with beautiful pastel colors and
the foliage is pretty disease resistant. Uh, do you know
what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, sure I do. One of my favorites, the Garvinia
Garber daisy. It has just been as superstar.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, you know, we had those and I think I
may have even gotten one from you two three years ago,
and the next year it came back and we had
it in an area where I was getting some care,
but we weren't pampering it. I've had it in containers,
I've had it in beds, and I've got plants. Every
time I buy a plant, it's just a perennial that's
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always there for me and comes back and just a
modern amount of water. And wow, those are gorgeous. They're showstoppers. Anyway,
I kind of got off of the tropicals that are
from areas and love it to plants that can survive
it that we didn't expect. But that is a plant
that really impressed me. How about some of the some
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of the hibiscus that both the perennial and the tropical types,
any thoughts.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
On those, Well, of course they do exceedingly well, and
I think right now I would have to say the
perennial hibiscus really do even better in this heat to
me than some of the tropicals. But you know there's
one in particular that gets overlooked that is another two
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superstar and great color in the garden, more for its
foliage than even the bloom is the mahogany splendor.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Mahogany. I want you to describe that for folks too.
That is a gorgeous plant.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It is beautiful and what a great color combination with
your Heliopsy or even your Rebecca Goldstrom, that golden yellow.
But the leaves are very deep mahogany purple, just just
a deep, luscious color. The leaves are a bit smaller
than your traditional mallows, but you're growing it for that foliage,
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that incredible foliage color. They do bloom later in the season,
and the blooms are not as large as the mallows,
more like the size of the tropicals, but they are
the exact color of that foliage and they look like
burgundy velvet. They're so gorgeous. And I absolutely love that, guy,
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I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's a good description. Well, you've given us our next topic.
We've got to run to a break, but coming back,
I want to talk about foliage for color in the summertime. Folks.
We're talking with Beverly at the arbor Gate and we
are talking about plants that thrive in hot weather. We
got plenty more things to talk about. Go away, we'll
be right back. If you have a question that you
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would like to ask Beverly about some of their plants
or things out there. Feel free to give us a call.
We're going to focus on those kind of questions for
this hour and we'll go back to general questions during
the nine o'clock hour. We'll be right back. I'm your host,
Skip Richard. We are talking with Beverly Welch from the
Arborgate this morning. We're talking about plants and hot weather
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and plants that thrive in hot weather. And Beverly, one
of the things that I always point out to folks
is that in spring everything wants to bloom. It seems
like it's easy to find flowers in spring. We have
some flowers for fall too, and we do have some
for summer, but not as many options as spring. But
summer is a time when foliage can take the front
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burner and break up that sea of green in our
landscapes green grass, green trees, green shrubs, green ground covers,
and come up with some other colors. So, do you
have some foliage plants that are you're especially fond of
for hot weather color?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yes, I do, of course, we talked about it about them,
and you're so right. You're so right to mention foliage
color because blooms do come and go, but the foliage
is a mainstay in the in the summer garden. That
mahogany splendor we were just speaking of. Uh, there's another
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high biscus that gives you great color. That's the snow
queen with the green and white foliage that blooms the
red bloom, or the salsa dancer that has the green,
white and pink in the foliage. Those things are superstars
in your summer garden.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, and I find those to be quite rudeardy as well,
more so than the traditional tropical high biscus.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Okay, uh, and then continuing on that, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well, I was gonna say another another great one is
Cuban gold Duranta. You know that lime green just makes
everything pop.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yes, it is. That is gorgeous, like kind of like
a sunshine lagustrum really makes things show up around it.
It does a couple a couple of gosh, we're one day,
we're going to fix this delay everything.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Go ahead. I'm sorry, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Was just gonna throw a few out that I like, uh,
you know, I'm a uh there's cannas and I know
you've got some gorgeous burgundy cannas options. You may want
to mention those. I like the tropic cana too. You know,
it used to be another name for its phasian, but
it has so many different colors in it, even a
coral color and whatnot. And uh in the ingle tigers
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with the stripe and oh gosh, pratoria, I believe is
another name the green and yellow stripe leaves. When the
sun shines from behind those, it just lights those things up.
And those are really beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
They are. And I'm so glad you mentioned the cannon
is because try it and true toughest boots and the
one I think you were mentioning earlier, the Australas with
that deep burgundy foliage and that bright, vibrant red bloom.
You know, a lot of times people don't like cannons
because this time of year, when the leaf rollers get
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very active, they can look a little bit moraley. I
just cut them back, come back, give them a good
dose of food, and within a couple of weeks you
have a whole new plant, all new foliage and just
a gorgeous tough Texas perennial.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, yeah, that's a good one. Another one that you
don't see it many places, but it's the tapioca plant
that has the yellow and green leaves with the little
red stamens. That's another one that's good. The copper plant
for color, the Joseph's coats for color, the beefsteak plant.
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I mean, there are just so many. Oh gosh, how
could I forget Persian shield with its silver, silvery, purple colors.
Just we could go on and on. But do you
have some other thoughts on some color foliage plants.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, you mentioned the Persian shield. I love this Stromanthes
that has the green and white on the top of
the foliage the burgundy underneath. That's a wonderful one. The
Persecrea red dragon that gives you a variegated foliage that
can almost change in color depending on the sun exposure
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that you give it a great almost more like a groundcover,
a lower growing that's wonderful too.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, those are those are excellent. We're talking about a
lot of perennials and annuals and things like that, and
then there's shrubs and trees and breeders just keep messing
with red buds and coming up with some pretty exciting things.
You guys have a really beautiful one outside the gift
shop there and then you sell some others. We talked
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to us a little bit about some of the red
buds with the color options, not just the burgundy, but
also some of the other options that you're excited about.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well, you're right to mention that flamethrower. That thing is incredible,
and I think the foliage that it gives us, the
color all throughout the summer outshines the bloom, the short
lived blooms in the spring, and so a moderate grower
will take full sun and surprisingly holds its color through
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this summer heat. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah. The newest growth out on the end is a
little bit more towards the orangish red end of the spectrum,
and then as you come back into kind of a
yellowing color, it is.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's a showstopper, you know, it truly is. And red
buds are always a popular plant or tree through here,
and you know, with a lot of the smaller landscapes
now a really good option.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, they are. That's a really good one. How about
some shrubs, some shrubs that you think would be good
for some foliage types of color in the landscape. Or balloons.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, you mentioned earlier the Sunshine lagustrum. I don't know
that you can beat that one. That has just been
a superstar. I think my only thing that I always
warn people about. It can be a quite large shrub
and very very fast grower. So if it's a spot
that you need to stay a bit smaller, you might
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offer like the Eureka gold on.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, that's the new one. I've never I've never grown
that one. That's a gold yopon. That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's beautiful, and it's got the same characteristics as far
as tutiness is your traditional dwarf jopon, same growth habit,
perfect little roundy maundy meatball. But you get that vibrant
lime green color.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Wow, that's nice. That's exciting. Gosh, there's so many, so
many good options out there.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Then we have some plants that you know, they just
they just shine through the summer. They look good. I
think althea is a is a nice one. It's of
course related to our hibiscus and things.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And one that I don't know how show it is.
But I'm beverly lately I've been let around the landscape
by my nose and the almond verbina. I just cannot
get enough of that. It ought to be a control substance.
It's so intoxicating.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It truly is. And it's not just something that you
have to stand right next to that fragrance just as
a oh gosh, I guess a faint almond fragrance you
might describe it. It's not too perfumeing, but it just
like you said, travels and just lightly goes throughout the landscape.
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It is. It is a true superstar. One of my
top favorite fragrance plants. I think. The only thing that
I would put up next to it, which is not
as constant a bloomer, is the sweet olive. I love
the osmanthus oh Oz Memphis.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I know, and that one. It's kind of the mystery
plant people walk by and there going where is that
fragrance coming from? Because it doesn't have these giant blooms
out there grabbing your eyes, demanding attention, But boy, does
it ever have fragrance.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And you know you were mentioning earlier, we're talking about
some of the trees and shrubs. You know, there's a
couple of new vitechs that's such a popular and showy
tree in the summer landscape. There are a couple of
new ones out. One in particular is called Violet Mist
and it's come out from first editions. Do you know
that guy stays three to four feet tall and wide?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Well, I know that's that's unheard of. That's wonderful. Wow.
By techs are so pretty, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Gorgeous, pretty and tough, really small. Isn't that nice? I
mean it's a great substitute for bud Laya.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yes, in fact, that absolutely is well Budleya. Though the
butterflies sure do like that one too, So that's another
good one, good one to have. Well, you know, let's uh,
let's do this. I'm up against that hard half hour break.
As you know from the time when when you were
sitting in the chair here holding things over. I do
appreciate you and Angela doing that all those weeks and
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time between Randy and myself here in the chair, but
thank you for that. But that means we got to
go to that hard break at the thirty minute hour,
and we're going to come right back with Beverly. If
you got a question about some of these plants, give
us a call. Talk to Beverly and I would love
to hear from you. We are visiting with Beverly Welch
from Arborgate today about plants for summer. We got some
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other topics we're going to try to get to here.
It's a lot to talk about. We were visiting about
some foliage plants that do especially well and some plants
that provide just really attractive blooms through the summertime. And
I there's hang on just a second, let me grab
the right there we go, bring Beverly back in here. Beverly,
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I was just thinking about during break, A few plants
went through my head, and it's like, I can't let
this conversation go by without mentioning them. But plumbago with
the light blue, it's a hard color to come by
in the summertime, and yet it's so gorgeous and so
heat tolerant. When I was at the Extension office in
Travis County in Austin, we had a landscape that we'd
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put in and the water went out and in the
middle of summer for forty days, we did not have
water to put on those plants right, and the plumbago
looked bad, but it bounced right back, and I would
have not. It just looks too It looks too soft
and like like it might need pampering, and boy it doesn't.
It's a good tough plant. Another one of my favorites
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is thry Alis. The more you share it, the more
it blooms. And I don't know if I know a
plant that blooms more months of the year than Tryalis does.
It just keeps going all summertime. So and I gotta
throw one more in here, h And that is my
favorite summer plant. And it's says Supenia, well kama. Some
people call it red bird of Paradise. I prefer to
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call it pride of Barbados because there's other things called
bird of Paradise out there. But oh, oh my gosh,
I was just looking at mine yesterday and the tiger
swallowtail butterflies were just going nuts over that thing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know. You were talking about folage earlier too, And
that adds a really nice, light, delicate texture as well.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yes, it sure does. That kind of almost a mimosa
like foliage on that plant. That is such a good one. Beverly.
We had a caller here from We're going to bring
in Jeff from Wharton. I think he has a question
about VI text. Hey Jeff, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Hey, good morning and Angela. We obviously a little bit
Wharton and don't make it west of Tomball very often,
but our son in law now has a medical practice
in Tomball. So we are bound and determined to get
the arborgate because we've heard you many, many times and
your voice is very recognizable. I have a by text
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that's been in a patio for some years and it's
already bloomed, and it's this. You know, the seed pods
are on it. Is it too late or too hot
to dead head those and hope to get some more
blooms before the end.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Absolutely, yeah, okay, thanks, absolutely not. I definitely would dead headed.
And you know I use those sea bids in flower
arrangements too. They're they're really great. They last a long
time in a vase. But yeah, you need to get
that extra bloom out of it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, my wife is listening right now. She's nodding her
head about the flower arrangement, so she knows that's not
good that you're talking about. Anyway, I don't want to
keep you all know that y'all have lots to talk
about but when you started talking about how you like
the vitext, it just made me think should dead headed now. Anyway,
y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Very good. Thank you, Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate that's
that is good to hear. But I'd like to shift
gears a little bit. We have so much to talk
about and I'm watching the clock click by. Isn't it
always that way? But will you talk a little bit
about your tips for establishing plants in hot weather? And
I'm going to set it up this way. A lot
of people feel like I can't plant in the summer,
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it's too hot to plant. But those plants are living
at the arbor gate day by day by day and
they're doing just fine. So what is the secret to
making them come to your house because you can plant
now and having success with them.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I'm so glad you said that, Skip. You know, I
garden every single day, and I think I planted something
almost every single day. I can't help myself. But in
this heat, I think one thing to remember most often
is don't confuse welt from heat with wilt from dry
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and people oftentimes confuse heat with dry. So I always
recommend number one, look at your plants for wilting first
thing in the morning or after the sun has been
off of them for a couple of hours, and see
if they don't just perk back up, because they will
fold their leaves in the sense of that hot sun.
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Make sure that you water deeply. Don't rely on a
sprinkler on a new plant. Lay that hose barely running
lye it on the ground and soak really well. Again,
Sprinkler systems get run too often and too short of time,
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and a lot of times you're just keeping the mult
top of the mult wet or the foliage wet, which
was what we don't want to do in this high humidity.
So make sure when you water that you water well,
and you water deeply. Don't confuse heat but dry. Make
sure that you water. You plant a well watered root ball.
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I like to make sure that root ball is good
in am well soaked prior to planning. It's a lot
easier to keep a moist rootball moist than to try
to get it moist once it's in the ground.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's a good tip. That is a very good tip.
Something that I often will say too, is that if
you will imagine when you planted the plant that you
didn't take it out of the pot, that you just
set the pot in the ground and brought in soil
around it. Folks, I'm not recommending to do that. I'm
just saying this is imagine this. Where would you water
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it if you had planted it in the pot pot
and all in the ground. You would water it right
where the pot was, because that's where all the roots are. Well,
when you take it out of the pot, it's still
where the roots are. That's cylinder. So remember that that
is the most important place to keep moist. Even if
the soil around it is somewhat moist, that rootb all
can pump dry on a hot day. And so just
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you know that it's going to take some time for
the roots to get out in the soil, so especially initially,
keep that moist and as we were saying, without keeping
it soggy wet, because a lack of oxygen due to
drownding of the roots is as deadly as anything.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Exactly. And you know, I always say too, they would
much appreciate being in that cooler ground than that hot
pot in this weather.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They sure would, They absolutely would. All right, Well, there
you go, folks, it's still a good time to get
out there, and we have arranged for a four degree
cooler temperature today, so it'd be a good day to
get out to Arbrogate when we get through talking here
and go check out some of these wonderful plants that
they have out there. We're going to take another quick break, Beverly,
and we got one more segment. Thanks for sticking around.
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It's so appreciative of having you on today. Appreciate you
taking time out to do that. We'll be right back, folks.
We are talking with Beverley from the Arborgate and if
you've not been out to Arbrogate, you need to go.
I don't care where you live. If you hear my
voice right now, this is a destination garden center that
you need to see. And it is just well, I
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don't know how to describe it fully except to say,
I promise you you will see a lot of plants
you've never seen before. You see gorgeous layouts where they've planted,
and some really cool landscape bling. And also, don't just
do plants. You know, it's summertime. It's okay to be
in a little air conditioning too. Go in and check
out the gift shops. There's a gift shop out away
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from the main building and then the gift shop in
the main building. You need to go check those out
because you're going to find some really cool stuff you
can't live without in those as well. So what we're
going to do here is go bring Beverly back in
with us. Beverly, well, we got one more run at
it here, So let's talk about I want to hear
some of your favorite new plants. You guys are always
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ordering new things and bringing in new kinds of plants.
What are some of your favorite ones? And it doesn't
have to be brand new, it could be not so new,
but in general, getting away from just summer plants, what
are some of your favorites that you think people need
to check out.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, we mentioned earlier these new dwarf ipechts. I don't
think you can grow wrong ever planning a fi tech street.
Another really showstopper that's been becoming quite popular is the
dwarf soire vinka. The growth habit of it is low
and mounding. You get that consistent bloom that you're so
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familiar with with vinkas or prairie winkles. It's a smaller flower,
but wow does it make a statement. It is tremendous
in the bad not so new.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yes, and you know what, and let me throw one
come in and about that before you move on. This
worry is so good for using around a container also
because it is more dwarf and its habit and stuff,
and hanging over a container or filling in is almost
like a groundcover through an area. That is a gorgeous plant.
But go ahead, I love that one.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, not so new, but what I think is super underused.
Aside from that Molochia tomentosa we talked about earlier, is
the Coleandra pink powder puff A real superstar. It's a
great pollinating plant, self dead heading. You don't need to
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do anything to it. It just stays in bloom. That
little bud looks like a tiny little raspberry there. And
then of course the flower itself is reminiscent of a
Mimosa bloom and a great great pollinator. I love Justicia
orange flame. I think that's another that's underused. It gives
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you kind of a tropical feel, but it's tough as
a Texas native. And that vibrant, bright orange bloom is incredible.
Another one that I think you would.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You put the sorry Beverly, would you put that Justicia in?
And how much sunlight is this going to want?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I have grown it in all of the above. It
does wonderful and full sun and it does great in
part shade.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Another we go, Oh, that's okay, that's okay. Another thing.
You know, we didn't really touch on vines, but so
many vines are can be almost garden bugs if you will,
they get so large. The mercer blue thumburtia. I grow
it in the garden at the nursery, almost like a
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mounding plant. Put it in a little o'blase, let it
grow up and drape over a nice tidy neat, you know,
four to six foot little vine. But that deep, deep
purple bloom with that bright, short truse eye is again
a showstopper and a constant bloomer, a very very reliable
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of millennial and a great a great vine for a
small space. And on the shade side, yeah, the shade side,
you know, under used to me cat whiskers. They're so
beautiful and a lot of times in the shade we
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have to rely on. As we spoke, about earlier foliage
textures and color. I love the variegated terrace fern. It
almost gives yes, Sir, p t e r. I is
a brake fern. M. I love carissandra.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Those are attractive.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yes, the persian shield that you talked about earlier. And
there's so many gorgeous trade askantious. Now you've got the
like the mint green and white foliage one, the one
that's a tricolor foliage. Bells are great, great color, not
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only in the garden, but any container as well. And
I liked the dremiopsis. Yeah, the dreamiopsis, the African hosta.
It's a great hostas substitute, because you know, sometimes they
weig a little bit when we start getting toward the
end of summer, but the Dremiopsis just shines through all
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the heat. But it's beautiful in a shade garden. Another
under us, Yeah, it is the standing tiger klathium. And
I know you tropical enthusiasts think of the klathia as
a houseplant and a tropical but the standing tiger gives
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you a great upright and a good, good, reliable perennial
in the shade garden.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh my gosh, Okay, So in addition, I just need
to tell Everyboddy I know you're on your way over
to Arborgate, stop at U haul and get your trailer
to hook up, because we got way too many plants
for you. You're going to fit in your car here.
Oh my gosh. These are great, great ideas. Yeah, so
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many exciting things. You know, it's always it's always rough
to ask a plant person what their favorite plant is, right,
I mean, that's like, we can't that. That's what I'm
asking of you here. Okay, any others you'd like to
add to the list.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, if we hop back to the sunny Garden. I
love to sparkle. It as Bronza. Everybody knows the gold star,
but Sparklet is a nice, smaller variety of Espernza that
is equally as showy and reliable. A bloomer.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
With a beautiful orange color blooms instead of just the yellow.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Right right, you've got that and this, and then you've
got the yellow with the little orange throat. They're wonderful.
Another one is the fruity fruity pebbles lantana, So a
very different lantana. It's going to be more of a
shrubby that gives you a lavender bloom, perfect little cottage garden.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Look all right, Well, the music means we've got to
stop with that one. We're just getting started. If you'd
liked more ideas like this, you can continue the conversation
with Beverly at Arborgate after the show hit on over there.
I so appreciate you coming on, Beverly. Lots of good,
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exciting plants, and just another reminder that just because it's
summer doesn't mean we quit planting, or that we quit
having even more beauty in the landscape. I tell you,
Driving down through the neighborhoods, driving down the streets and
just seeing the sea of green, I just want to
knock on every door and go, oh, you're missing a
lot of opportunities for color here, because we have so
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many good opportunities.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Well, thank you so much, Thank you so much, Skip,
and what a wonderful show. Thank you so much for
all you do.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I appreciate that. We'll be right back, folks.
Welcome back. Oh gosh, what a nice morning. Nice morning
to be out trapesing around the garden, checking things out,
seeing what's happening, and deciding what you need to do.
You know, this is a time of year it's good
to do a walk through in your garden. I've done
this for a number of years. You know, you get
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to the end, toward the end of summer. We're not
there yet, but you start to see plants that are struggling.
Maybe they're in too much sun, or maybe plant's not
getting enough sun. You just see how things are doing
areas of the garden, how they're performing, and make some
notes because fall season is coming and we'll be doing
a lot of different of planning and renovations and stuff
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like that in the fall, and so making those notes
now would be very hopeful in order to kind of
start to prepare your plans for that. Just to tip
for this time of year. Hey, guess what we're going
to do this hour. We're going to talk to Beverly
Welch of the arbor Gate. As I mentioned several times,
this monk Beverly is going to be here to talk
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all kinds of plant topics for this time of the
year and let me head out to the phones here. Hey, Beverly,
do we have you there? You do?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Good morning, Skim, Well.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Good morning. Thank you for calling in. I appreciate that.
I've been looking forward to kind of picking your brain
and talking plants with you this morning, So thanks for
taking some time out. Tell us a little bit first,
what's happening at the arborgate this time of the year.
What kinds of things are going on out there?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, you know, right now it's a good time to
replant that fall garden. So tomatoes have been very popular lately.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
They have good and you guys always have a good
selection of vegetables and herbs there.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Though, Yes, yes, and herbs are thriving right now, especially
the rosemary. The basil. They're loving this weather.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, that is true. A basil is very happy right now.
I just was tending to some Genevie's type basil that
we have. It's so good for pesto. But you know,
I can't get enough basil, Beverly, I'm serious. The African
blue basil is always in the garden. I don't eat it,
and I probably should, it's just a different flavor. But
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I grow it for the bees and a moment, My gosh,
they're lined up down the block to get on that thing.
I love some of the upright types of basil that
are slower to bolt. I love the lemon basils and
all of the ones. It just can't get enough basil.
It's a good herb for summertime, it is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And you know you mentioned the African blue. I like
to use it just as color in the garden. It
does have a bit of a stronger flavor that a
lot of people aren't really attracted to. But you're right
it Texas Gardener named it a few years ago the
number one pollinating plant.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Mm hmm. Well that's a that is a very high
likelihood uh honor for that plant because it is awesome
for that purpose, and so we're always needing to bring
more pollinators in and things. And yeah, you're right, it
does look good. I like the I know we're kind
of off on a basil thing right now, but I
like the tie basils too. They have such attractive blooms
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that really stand out. And then there's some that are
bred just kind of to be ornamental. I think one's
called redbird or something like that that especially ornamental tops
to it, but I think they're all pretty.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They are beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Plan Let's uh, let's talk. I'm sorry, I'm sorry for
this delay. Well, we'll figure our way through it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They'll go ahead, no problem.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So let's talk a little bit about plants that can
take the heat. You know they we think of summertime
it's like too hot to grow anything out there, and
it's altely not. There are plants from parts of the
world where this is just normal, you know, hot, sultry, humid.
They can take it. And do you have any plants
in particular that you think are ones people just you
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really need to have this in your landscape, just because
it's gonna keep going strong during the summertime.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
When I have a long list your scape, I hope
we have enough time to get it all in.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You go for it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
One of my favorites, and you talk about a great pollinator,
is the Molochia tomatosa with that lavender pink bloom against
the silvery foliage. I mean to me, that is probably
one of the greatest superstars in the summer garden. Such
a reliable perennial. We've had it in the garden for years,
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literally years, and it has been through all freezes, all floods,
all droughts and just shines.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah. I like the fact that it's a moderate size too,
so you can use it in a lot of places
where it may be a much larger plant wouldn't fit.
But that's an awesome one.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It is a great one. And then, of course, you
know I love those Heliopsis summer sun little sunflowers that
come up again so reliably year after year, and the
hotter it gets, the more beautiful they are.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, would you give a little bit of a description
of those, because a lot of people when they hear sunflower,
they're picturing this big tall stalk with a bloom on top.
That describe these for us?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, it is a sunflower type bloom. Of course, it's
a lot smaller bloom. I would say, probably more like
a three to four inch diameter bloom. The planet itself
stays very upright, but stops at about thirty inches thirty
to thirty six inches and seeds itself. It has traveled
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all through the Arborgate gardens and I just let it
go anywhere it lands.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yes, it does. I know. I saw a bunch of
them over the toword to the Gift shop across the
little drive through area over there. You had a bunch
of them that were very happy over there. And there's
a little bit of variation in them as they recede too.
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's very cool. And it's such a beautiful combination with
the Henry Dulberg salvia or the myst expires. Again, Savia's
are just incredible in this heat.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
They are they are very very happy in the seat.
Those are good. Do you know a plant that has
really surprised me? It And we're talking about plants that
love to be in the heat and all of that,
but I'm going to just for one second talk about
a plant that survives the heat that I never thought
it would and that that is the daisies. You know,
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the the u some of the beautiful like the colorful
daisies that we have you guys carry the ones that
just have the giant blooms with beautiful pastel colors and
the foliage is pretty disease resistant. Uh, do you know
what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, sure I do. One of my favorites, the Garvinia
Garber daisy. It has just been as superstar.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, you know, we had those and I think I
may have even gotten one from you two three years ago,
and the next year it came back and we had
it in an area where I was getting some care,
but we weren't pampering it. I've had it in containers,
I've had it in beds, and I've got plants. Every
time I buy a plant, it's just a perennial that's
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always there for me and comes back and just a
modern amount of water. And wow, those are gorgeous. They're showstoppers. Anyway,
I kind of got off of the tropicals that are
from areas and love it to plants that can survive
it that we didn't expect. But that is a plant
that really impressed me. How about some of the some
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of the hibiscus that both the perennial and the tropical types,
any thoughts.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
On those, Well, of course they do exceedingly well, and
I think right now I would have to say the
perennial hibiscus really do even better in this heat to
me than some of the tropicals. But you know there's
one in particular that gets overlooked that is another two
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superstar and great color in the garden, more for its
foliage than even the bloom is the mahogany splendor.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Mahogany. I want you to describe that for folks too.
That is a gorgeous plant.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It is beautiful and what a great color combination with
your Heliopsy or even your Rebecca Goldstrom, that golden yellow.
But the leaves are very deep mahogany purple, just just
a deep, luscious color. The leaves are a bit smaller
than your traditional mallows, but you're growing it for that foliage,
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that incredible foliage color. They do bloom later in the season,
and the blooms are not as large as the mallows,
more like the size of the tropicals, but they are
the exact color of that foliage and they look like
burgundy velvet. They're so gorgeous. And I absolutely love that, guy,
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I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's a good description. Well, you've given us our next topic.
We've got to run to a break, but coming back,
I want to talk about foliage for color in the summertime. Folks.
We're talking with Beverly at the arbor Gate and we
are talking about plants that thrive in hot weather. We
got plenty more things to talk about. Go away, we'll
be right back. If you have a question that you
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would like to ask Beverly about some of their plants
or things out there. Feel free to give us a call.
We're going to focus on those kind of questions for
this hour and we'll go back to general questions during
the nine o'clock hour. We'll be right back. I'm your host,
Skip Richard. We are talking with Beverly Welch from the
Arborgate this morning. We're talking about plants and hot weather
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and plants that thrive in hot weather. And Beverly, one
of the things that I always point out to folks
is that in spring everything wants to bloom. It seems
like it's easy to find flowers in spring. We have
some flowers for fall too, and we do have some
for summer, but not as many options as spring. But
summer is a time when foliage can take the front
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burner and break up that sea of green in our
landscapes green grass, green trees, green shrubs, green ground covers,
and come up with some other colors. So, do you
have some foliage plants that are you're especially fond of
for hot weather color?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yes, I do, of course, we talked about it about them,
and you're so right. You're so right to mention foliage
color because blooms do come and go, but the foliage
is a mainstay in the in the summer garden. That
mahogany splendor we were just speaking of. Uh, there's another
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high biscus that gives you great color. That's the snow
queen with the green and white foliage that blooms the
red bloom, or the salsa dancer that has the green,
white and pink in the foliage. Those things are superstars
in your summer garden.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, and I find those to be quite rudeardy as well,
more so than the traditional tropical high biscus.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Okay, uh, and then continuing on that, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well, I was gonna say another another great one is
Cuban gold Duranta. You know that lime green just makes
everything pop.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yes, it is. That is gorgeous, like kind of like
a sunshine lagustrum really makes things show up around it.
It does a couple a couple of gosh, we're one day,
we're going to fix this delay everything.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Go ahead. I'm sorry, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Was just gonna throw a few out that I like, uh,
you know, I'm a uh there's cannas and I know
you've got some gorgeous burgundy cannas options. You may want
to mention those. I like the tropic cana too. You know,
it used to be another name for its phasian, but
it has so many different colors in it, even a
coral color and whatnot. And uh in the ingle tigers
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with the stripe and oh gosh, pratoria, I believe is
another name the green and yellow stripe leaves. When the
sun shines from behind those, it just lights those things up.
And those are really beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
They are. And I'm so glad you mentioned the cannon
is because try it and true toughest boots and the
one I think you were mentioning earlier, the Australas with
that deep burgundy foliage and that bright, vibrant red bloom.
You know, a lot of times people don't like cannons
because this time of year, when the leaf rollers get
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very active, they can look a little bit moraley. I
just cut them back, come back, give them a good
dose of food, and within a couple of weeks you
have a whole new plant, all new foliage and just
a gorgeous tough Texas perennial.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, yeah, that's a good one. Another one that you
don't see it many places, but it's the tapioca plant
that has the yellow and green leaves with the little
red stamens. That's another one that's good. The copper plant
for color, the Joseph's coats for color, the beefsteak plant.
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I mean, there are just so many. Oh gosh, how
could I forget Persian shield with its silver, silvery, purple colors.
Just we could go on and on. But do you
have some other thoughts on some color foliage plants.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, you mentioned the Persian shield. I love this Stromanthes
that has the green and white on the top of
the foliage the burgundy underneath. That's a wonderful one. The
Persecrea red dragon that gives you a variegated foliage that
can almost change in color depending on the sun exposure
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that you give it a great almost more like a groundcover,
a lower growing that's wonderful too.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, those are those are excellent. We're talking about a
lot of perennials and annuals and things like that, and
then there's shrubs and trees and breeders just keep messing
with red buds and coming up with some pretty exciting things.
You guys have a really beautiful one outside the gift
shop there and then you sell some others. We talked
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to us a little bit about some of the red
buds with the color options, not just the burgundy, but
also some of the other options that you're excited about.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well, you're right to mention that flamethrower. That thing is incredible,
and I think the foliage that it gives us, the
color all throughout the summer outshines the bloom, the short
lived blooms in the spring, and so a moderate grower
will take full sun and surprisingly holds its color through
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this summer heat. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah. The newest growth out on the end is a
little bit more towards the orangish red end of the spectrum,
and then as you come back into kind of a
yellowing color, it is.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's a showstopper, you know, it truly is. And red
buds are always a popular plant or tree through here,
and you know, with a lot of the smaller landscapes
now a really good option.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, they are. That's a really good one. How about
some shrubs, some shrubs that you think would be good
for some foliage types of color in the landscape. Or balloons.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, you mentioned earlier the Sunshine lagustrum. I don't know
that you can beat that one. That has just been
a superstar. I think my only thing that I always
warn people about. It can be a quite large shrub
and very very fast grower. So if it's a spot
that you need to stay a bit smaller, you might
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offer like the Eureka gold on.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, that's the new one. I've never I've never grown
that one. That's a gold yopon. That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's beautiful, and it's got the same characteristics as far
as tutiness is your traditional dwarf jopon, same growth habit,
perfect little roundy maundy meatball. But you get that vibrant
lime green color.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Wow, that's nice. That's exciting. Gosh, there's so many, so
many good options out there.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Then we have some plants that you know, they just
they just shine through the summer. They look good. I
think althea is a is a nice one. It's of
course related to our hibiscus and things.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And one that I don't know how show it is.
But I'm beverly lately I've been let around the landscape
by my nose and the almond verbina. I just cannot
get enough of that. It ought to be a control substance.
It's so intoxicating.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It truly is. And it's not just something that you
have to stand right next to that fragrance just as
a oh gosh, I guess a faint almond fragrance you
might describe it. It's not too perfumeing, but it just
like you said, travels and just lightly goes throughout the landscape.
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It is. It is a true superstar. One of my
top favorite fragrance plants. I think. The only thing that
I would put up next to it, which is not
as constant a bloomer, is the sweet olive. I love
the osmanthus oh Oz Memphis.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I know, and that one. It's kind of the mystery
plant people walk by and there going where is that
fragrance coming from? Because it doesn't have these giant blooms
out there grabbing your eyes, demanding attention, But boy, does
it ever have fragrance.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And you know you were mentioning earlier, we're talking about
some of the trees and shrubs. You know, there's a
couple of new vitechs that's such a popular and showy
tree in the summer landscape. There are a couple of
new ones out. One in particular is called Violet Mist
and it's come out from first editions. Do you know
that guy stays three to four feet tall and wide?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Well, I know that's that's unheard of. That's wonderful. Wow.
By techs are so pretty, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Gorgeous, pretty and tough, really small. Isn't that nice? I
mean it's a great substitute for bud Laya.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yes, in fact, that absolutely is well Budleya. Though the
butterflies sure do like that one too, So that's another
good one, good one to have. Well, you know, let's uh,
let's do this. I'm up against that hard half hour break.
As you know from the time when when you were
sitting in the chair here holding things over. I do
appreciate you and Angela doing that all those weeks and
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time between Randy and myself here in the chair, but
thank you for that. But that means we got to
go to that hard break at the thirty minute hour,
and we're going to come right back with Beverly. If
you got a question about some of these plants, give
us a call. Talk to Beverly and I would love
to hear from you. We are visiting with Beverly Welch
from Arborgate today about plants for summer. We got some
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other topics we're going to try to get to here.
It's a lot to talk about. We were visiting about
some foliage plants that do especially well and some plants
that provide just really attractive blooms through the summertime. And
I there's hang on just a second, let me grab
the right there we go, bring Beverly back in here. Beverly,
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I was just thinking about during break, A few plants
went through my head, and it's like, I can't let
this conversation go by without mentioning them. But plumbago with
the light blue, it's a hard color to come by
in the summertime, and yet it's so gorgeous and so
heat tolerant. When I was at the Extension office in
Travis County in Austin, we had a landscape that we'd
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put in and the water went out and in the
middle of summer for forty days, we did not have
water to put on those plants right, and the plumbago
looked bad, but it bounced right back, and I would
have not. It just looks too It looks too soft
and like like it might need pampering, and boy it doesn't.
It's a good tough plant. Another one of my favorites
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is thry Alis. The more you share it, the more
it blooms. And I don't know if I know a
plant that blooms more months of the year than Tryalis does.
It just keeps going all summertime. So and I gotta
throw one more in here, h And that is my
favorite summer plant. And it's says Supenia, well kama. Some
people call it red bird of Paradise. I prefer to
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call it pride of Barbados because there's other things called
bird of Paradise out there. But oh, oh my gosh,
I was just looking at mine yesterday and the tiger
swallowtail butterflies were just going nuts over that thing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know. You were talking about folage earlier too, And
that adds a really nice, light, delicate texture as well.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yes, it sure does. That kind of almost a mimosa
like foliage on that plant. That is such a good one. Beverly.
We had a caller here from We're going to bring
in Jeff from Wharton. I think he has a question
about VI text. Hey Jeff, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Hey, good morning and Angela. We obviously a little bit
Wharton and don't make it west of Tomball very often,
but our son in law now has a medical practice
in Tomball. So we are bound and determined to get
the arborgate because we've heard you many, many times and
your voice is very recognizable. I have a by text
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that's been in a patio for some years and it's
already bloomed, and it's this. You know, the seed pods
are on it. Is it too late or too hot
to dead head those and hope to get some more
blooms before the end.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Absolutely, yeah, okay, thanks, absolutely not. I definitely would dead headed.
And you know I use those sea bids in flower
arrangements too. They're they're really great. They last a long
time in a vase. But yeah, you need to get
that extra bloom out of it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, my wife is listening right now. She's nodding her
head about the flower arrangement, so she knows that's not
good that you're talking about. Anyway, I don't want to
keep you all know that y'all have lots to talk
about but when you started talking about how you like
the vitext, it just made me think should dead headed now. Anyway,
y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Very good. Thank you, Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate that's
that is good to hear. But I'd like to shift
gears a little bit. We have so much to talk
about and I'm watching the clock click by. Isn't it
always that way? But will you talk a little bit
about your tips for establishing plants in hot weather? And
I'm going to set it up this way. A lot
of people feel like I can't plant in the summer,
(24:16):
it's too hot to plant. But those plants are living
at the arbor gate day by day by day and
they're doing just fine. So what is the secret to
making them come to your house because you can plant
now and having success with them.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I'm so glad you said that, Skip. You know, I
garden every single day, and I think I planted something
almost every single day. I can't help myself. But in
this heat, I think one thing to remember most often
is don't confuse welt from heat with wilt from dry
(24:53):
and people oftentimes confuse heat with dry. So I always
recommend number one, look at your plants for wilting first
thing in the morning or after the sun has been
off of them for a couple of hours, and see
if they don't just perk back up, because they will
fold their leaves in the sense of that hot sun.
(25:15):
Make sure that you water deeply. Don't rely on a
sprinkler on a new plant. Lay that hose barely running
lye it on the ground and soak really well. Again,
Sprinkler systems get run too often and too short of time,
(25:35):
and a lot of times you're just keeping the mult
top of the mult wet or the foliage wet, which
was what we don't want to do in this high humidity.
So make sure when you water that you water well,
and you water deeply. Don't confuse heat but dry. Make
sure that you water. You plant a well watered root ball.
(25:57):
I like to make sure that root ball is good
in am well soaked prior to planning. It's a lot
easier to keep a moist rootball moist than to try
to get it moist once it's in the ground.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's a good tip. That is a very good tip.
Something that I often will say too, is that if
you will imagine when you planted the plant that you
didn't take it out of the pot, that you just
set the pot in the ground and brought in soil
around it. Folks, I'm not recommending to do that. I'm
just saying this is imagine this. Where would you water
(26:33):
it if you had planted it in the pot pot
and all in the ground. You would water it right
where the pot was, because that's where all the roots are. Well,
when you take it out of the pot, it's still
where the roots are. That's cylinder. So remember that that
is the most important place to keep moist. Even if
the soil around it is somewhat moist, that rootb all
can pump dry on a hot day. And so just
(26:56):
you know that it's going to take some time for
the roots to get out in the soil, so especially initially,
keep that moist and as we were saying, without keeping
it soggy wet, because a lack of oxygen due to
drownding of the roots is as deadly as anything.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Exactly. And you know, I always say too, they would
much appreciate being in that cooler ground than that hot
pot in this weather.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They sure would, They absolutely would. All right, Well, there
you go, folks, it's still a good time to get
out there, and we have arranged for a four degree
cooler temperature today, so it'd be a good day to
get out to Arbrogate when we get through talking here
and go check out some of these wonderful plants that
they have out there. We're going to take another quick break, Beverly,
and we got one more segment. Thanks for sticking around.
(27:44):
It's so appreciative of having you on today. Appreciate you
taking time out to do that. We'll be right back, folks.
We are talking with Beverley from the Arborgate and if
you've not been out to Arbrogate, you need to go.
I don't care where you live. If you hear my
voice right now, this is a destination garden center that
you need to see. And it is just well, I
(28:06):
don't know how to describe it fully except to say,
I promise you you will see a lot of plants
you've never seen before. You see gorgeous layouts where they've planted,
and some really cool landscape bling. And also, don't just
do plants. You know, it's summertime. It's okay to be
in a little air conditioning too. Go in and check
out the gift shops. There's a gift shop out away
(28:27):
from the main building and then the gift shop in
the main building. You need to go check those out
because you're going to find some really cool stuff you
can't live without in those as well. So what we're
going to do here is go bring Beverly back in
with us. Beverly, well, we got one more run at
it here, So let's talk about I want to hear
some of your favorite new plants. You guys are always
(28:49):
ordering new things and bringing in new kinds of plants.
What are some of your favorite ones? And it doesn't
have to be brand new, it could be not so new,
but in general, getting away from just summer plants, what
are some of your favorites that you think people need
to check out.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, we mentioned earlier these new dwarf ipechts. I don't
think you can grow wrong ever planning a fi tech street.
Another really showstopper that's been becoming quite popular is the
dwarf soire vinka. The growth habit of it is low
and mounding. You get that consistent bloom that you're so
(29:28):
familiar with with vinkas or prairie winkles. It's a smaller flower,
but wow does it make a statement. It is tremendous
in the bad not so new.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yes, and you know what, and let me throw one
come in and about that before you move on. This
worry is so good for using around a container also
because it is more dwarf and its habit and stuff,
and hanging over a container or filling in is almost
like a groundcover through an area. That is a gorgeous plant.
But go ahead, I love that one.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, not so new, but what I think is super underused.
Aside from that Molochia tomentosa we talked about earlier, is
the Coleandra pink powder puff A real superstar. It's a
great pollinating plant, self dead heading. You don't need to
(30:23):
do anything to it. It just stays in bloom. That
little bud looks like a tiny little raspberry there. And
then of course the flower itself is reminiscent of a
Mimosa bloom and a great great pollinator. I love Justicia
orange flame. I think that's another that's underused. It gives
(30:43):
you kind of a tropical feel, but it's tough as
a Texas native. And that vibrant, bright orange bloom is incredible.
Another one that I think you would.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You put the sorry Beverly, would you put that Justicia in?
And how much sunlight is this going to want?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I have grown it in all of the above. It
does wonderful and full sun and it does great in
part shade.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Another we go, Oh, that's okay, that's okay. Another thing.
You know, we didn't really touch on vines, but so
many vines are can be almost garden bugs if you will,
they get so large. The mercer blue thumburtia. I grow
it in the garden at the nursery, almost like a
(31:38):
mounding plant. Put it in a little o'blase, let it
grow up and drape over a nice tidy neat, you know,
four to six foot little vine. But that deep, deep
purple bloom with that bright, short truse eye is again
a showstopper and a constant bloomer, a very very reliable
(32:00):
of millennial and a great a great vine for a
small space. And on the shade side, yeah, the shade side,
you know, under used to me cat whiskers. They're so
beautiful and a lot of times in the shade we
(32:20):
have to rely on. As we spoke, about earlier foliage
textures and color. I love the variegated terrace fern. It
almost gives yes, Sir, p t e r. I is
a brake fern. M. I love carissandra.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Those are attractive.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yes, the persian shield that you talked about earlier. And
there's so many gorgeous trade askantious. Now you've got the
like the mint green and white foliage one, the one
that's a tricolor foliage. Bells are great, great color, not
(33:05):
only in the garden, but any container as well. And
I liked the dremiopsis. Yeah, the dreamiopsis, the African hosta.
It's a great hostas substitute, because you know, sometimes they
weig a little bit when we start getting toward the
end of summer, but the Dremiopsis just shines through all
(33:25):
the heat. But it's beautiful in a shade garden. Another
under us, Yeah, it is the standing tiger klathium. And
I know you tropical enthusiasts think of the klathia as
a houseplant and a tropical but the standing tiger gives
(33:47):
you a great upright and a good, good, reliable perennial
in the shade garden.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh my gosh, Okay, So in addition, I just need
to tell Everyboddy I know you're on your way over
to Arborgate, stop at U haul and get your trailer
to hook up, because we got way too many plants
for you. You're going to fit in your car here.
Oh my gosh. These are great, great ideas. Yeah, so
(34:16):
many exciting things. You know, it's always it's always rough
to ask a plant person what their favorite plant is, right,
I mean, that's like, we can't that. That's what I'm
asking of you here. Okay, any others you'd like to
add to the list.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, if we hop back to the sunny Garden. I
love to sparkle. It as Bronza. Everybody knows the gold star,
but Sparklet is a nice, smaller variety of Espernza that
is equally as showy and reliable. A bloomer.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
With a beautiful orange color blooms instead of just the yellow.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Right right, you've got that and this, and then you've
got the yellow with the little orange throat. They're wonderful.
Another one is the fruity fruity pebbles lantana, So a
very different lantana. It's going to be more of a
shrubby that gives you a lavender bloom, perfect little cottage garden.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Look all right, Well, the music means we've got to
stop with that one. We're just getting started. If you'd
liked more ideas like this, you can continue the conversation
with Beverly at Arborgate after the show hit on over there.
I so appreciate you coming on, Beverly. Lots of good,
(35:39):
exciting plants, and just another reminder that just because it's
summer doesn't mean we quit planting, or that we quit
having even more beauty in the landscape. I tell you,
Driving down through the neighborhoods, driving down the streets and
just seeing the sea of green, I just want to
knock on every door and go, oh, you're missing a
lot of opportunities for color here, because we have so
(36:01):
many good opportunities.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Well, thank you so much, Thank you so much, Skip,
and what a wonderful show. Thank you so much for
all you do.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I appreciate that. We'll be right back, folks.
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