Danny Lenderman Enchanted Forrest Interview

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Hey, guess what.
Guess what we're gonna do this hour. We are going
to visit with Danny Linderman from and Chanted for us
down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area and talk about
all kinds of things related to plants. You don't want
to miss this, so stay tuned for that. If you
have not done a summer fertilization for your lawn, now

(00:21):
would be a good time to put sweet green down.
Sweet green is eleven percent nitrogen from the folks at
night foss. Sweet green will dissolve away into the soil,
make the microbes real happy with all that molasses in it,
and your long term green. And I told my neighbor
about it a few years ago, and remember keep walking

(00:41):
across the yard talking about, man, that stuff works. My
lawn's really green, looks real pretty. You really liked it,
and then you will too. Sweet green smells nice, a
nice sweet smell, and again being made from that molasses,
it's a very stimulating for microbial populations because every organic
gardener knows that molasses down in the soil helps with

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a lot of those beneficial microbes from night foss. You
can find it at a number of places around town.
You know, if you're down there in Angleton in Clute,
both the Lake Hardware and Angleton on Blasco and the
Lake Hardware on Dixie Driving Clute, Carrie Sweet Green and
other night Foss products. We're going to go now to

(01:22):
the phones and head out here to visit with Danny Linderman.
Danny are you.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
There, yes, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, good morning. How are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Good good? How about you?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm doing well, Thank you. I appreciate you taking some
time out to come on on a visit with you
a number of different things. Tell me about some of
the stuff you got going on right now down there
at Enchanted Forest, some of the plants and things that
are hot items for this time of the year for
you guys and that your customers enjoy.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, let me start off with this skip. Today is
my dad's birthday. So he's eighty eighty seven year old old,
and just wanted to put that out there for for
him and everybody else. So happy birthday, dad.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well express my happy birthday to him when you talk
to him.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's I sure will, I sure will. So, Yeah, everything's
doing doing good out here. If you if you've been
watching the social media, we had a little bit of
a reshake out here, so we've moved a lot of
things around, and uh, people seem to enjoy it, so
it's uh hopefully that's working good. The lantana and Salvius

(02:42):
as usual, we're on fire, you know. The butterflies everywhere, unbelievable.
So yeah, everything is looking good. The weather's been great,
getting some rain, not too much, just just enough so
it's not not real bad.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Mm hmm. You got all those nice trees out there too,
and and it makes it you know, even on a
hot day, you get out there underneath the shade of
those trees and a little breeze and it's just so
pleasant to get out and shop and and enjoy it
out there. I can I uh uh, you know, talking
about the Lantannahs and the the Salvi's, you guys carry
a lot of those. I don't know how many. I

(03:22):
wrote the number down one time, but it's literally dozens
and dozens and dozens of Salvias that you have out there.
That happens to be my favorite genus of plants, so
I'm a fan.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, it's a great plant for sure. For sure.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's good. Uh and a lot of
them attract beneficial insects. Some of them attrack hummingbirds in
uh this spring, my Salvia garnitica the sometime called a
niche sage, but uh boy, the hummingbirds just they they
were lined up. They love that plant really really nice.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's a lot of fun to watch watch all the
bugs and the birds, you know, get the nectar from
those flowers. It's it's pretty pretty calming when you're sitting
out there after after closing or before opening and just
watching watching nature happen. It's pretty pretty dang neat it is.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. And you guys, I think I think words got
not in the butterfly world, and they all fly to
your place because between the larval food sources and the
flowers that you have, every time I go out there,
I mean, it's where I get a lot of my
best caterpillar pictures and everything else because they're always there.
Will you talk a little bit about some of your
plants that you have that people might want to add

(04:43):
to build that kind of a butterfly paradise in the garden,
you knows, as a baseball movie says, if you build it,
they will come.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I think one plant that gets left off a lot
of lists is pentas. Pentas are a really really good
host plant. That's and they come in a bunch of
different colors. I know some people are picky about their
color palette, so it comes in a bunch of different colors.
And the great great choice. Gregg's mist is one thing

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that's that gets kind of left off too, in my opinion.
Gregg's Mist is a really really good plant for the
For the butterflies, of course, Lantana. Lantana is always a
no brainer. All the salve is there's so many taxes
natives like the turks cap for the hummingbirds that I

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think kind of gets, you know, pushed on the back burner.
Great plant can get a little spready, as I like
to say, because it don't kind of multiply. But sometimes
that's great. And that's, like I said, one of the
best humming bird tractors for the shade, and it's Texas natives,
so tough as nails.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good plan. I had one in
my yard that I moved this spring, and I actually
moved it later than I should have. You know, I know,
to move these things at the end of winter and
fall or thing. But uh, it had already begun growing
and everything. But I needed that spot for something else. So, uh,
tuxicap can take a little bit of shade, And so
I moved it a little off to the side, uh

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and stuck it in the ground and watered it. And
it looked like it is going to die, I mean
because I moved it when I shouldn't have and dug
it up. But after a little while it perked back up.
And now it's like you never knew I moved it.
I mean it is it is going to town. That's
a good Texas native I like that one.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, for sure, you meant you were.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
You were talking about some of these these other plants, uh,
that are attractive, and you know each all the different
kinds of butterflies we have. There's so many plants, so
many good native plants, and I know you guys carry
a lot of those out there. I've got some pentas,
and the butterflies they loved that plant. Some people may
be wondering what a pent is. You may have heard
it called Egyptian starflower. That's another name. But those are

(07:01):
those are really really good choices. I just want to
comment though on Danny on one you mentioned the Greg's Missflower.
I think that is a plant that doesn't get planted
a lot. And you know, we have some of these
plants that maybe in a container, they don't look as
good as other plants might in a container. But you
take Gregg's Missflower and you put it in the ground

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as just kind of a just kind of a cover,
a groundcover over an area, maybe in even a little
bit of shade, it'll do okay. And I don't know
if it's the Queen or the monarchs or both, but
when fall comes, it is like it's like a flock
of blackbirds that descend on that plant. They love it,

(07:45):
absolutely love.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
It, Yeah, for sure. And it's a that's a that's
a that's a Texas native too, but you know, very
very resilient plant. So it does well. People come in
and they're worried about, you know, taking care of a plant.
Well Greg's missed, you know it is. It is a
darn good plant right there with the turks cap.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, and then you've got the tables there that have
all your your larval food sources and a lot of
folks don't think about when it comes to butterfly gardens,
it's not just the flowers that attract the adults, but
the babies have got to have something to eat, and
oftentimes the flowering plant does not necessarily produce something that

(08:30):
the caterpillars from that butterfly are going to be able
to eat. So it's good to have a mix of
all that. Will you talk a little bit about some
of the food sources for larvae that you have on
your tables out there.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, So one of one of my favorite and again
probably overlooked. I don't know why. I like all the
overlooked plants, but the cassi, which is the host plant
for the sulfur butterfly, or now it's called senna. I
keep on forgetting the they changed it. But the sina
is a great plant and several different varieties of it.

(09:05):
But the sulfur butterflies are a little smaller yellow butterflies,
and they usually bloom in the fall, and boy, them
sulfur butterflies will move in. I'll have a thousand of them,
and it's just it's crazy to watch the bright yellow
butterflies just go crazy. It's really really a neat One

(09:29):
citrus is another one people don't really think about it,
and that's the swallowtail, giant swallowtail, and that's a very
neat caterpillar and a very neat chrystalist. It's very unusual
compared to a monarch, very very unusual.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, you know, the seven year old boy on me
really likes going out and sticking your finger at something
that looks like bird poop, that that orange horns come
out of, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Exactly, Yeah, it is, it is. I don't I don't.
I don't encourage everybody to do that, but it is
neat to do it. I agree with you. But yeah,
you got to know that mother nature doesn't want you
to do that, but it is hard to resist. I
guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
There you go. Well, Danny, we're gonna take a little
break here for for some spots and we'll be right
back with you. Thank you, appreciate you folks. We've got
Danny Linderman from Enchened Forest down in Richmond Rosenberg area.
We're gonna be talking all kinds of wonderful pledge. You
can't live without this whole hour. We're here to help
you have success. That's the bottom line. The way I
like to put it is. I want you to have

(10:43):
a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun in
the process. And don't forget that last one that is
so important. Gardening is a fun, relaxing hobby. It is.
It is just a pleasure, you know. I would contend
that gardening is something we were made to do. You know,
if you think about it, I don't believe that the

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Biblical story is called the cubicle of Eden or the
Office of Eden. I think it's called the garden of Eden,
and that's where we belong. We belong out there in
nature enjoying plants. Danny and I've been visiting about, you know,
the benefits of bringing in different kinds of plants for
attracting butterflies and hummingbirds and different things like that, and

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that's just a that's a happy place to be. And
you know, for success with plants, you got to start
with the soil. It's my mantra that brown stuff before
green stuff. Don't PLoP a poor plant into an unprepared plot.
Give it a good soil and it'll make you look good.
Everybody's going to say you have green thumb, and what
you really have is the sense to start with good soil,
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it's a great place to get that done down there.
Let's head back out here. We're visiting with Danny this morning.
Hey Danny, welcome back and thanks for hanging around for
this segment. We're looking to continue our visit about some
of the wonderful things that we can attract to our

(12:54):
gardens and landscapes, like butterflies and whatnot. But I wanted
to go backwards a little bit since it was your
dad's birthday. Uh, will you tell us a little bit
of the story of this uh uh the enchanted story
with your dad and mom and and I know I
think you guys are working on what the third generation?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now?

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Uh, let's see here, I don't have Dann here we Okay, Dan,
did you hear my question?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Okay, yes, sir, I did not. Nope, nope, okay.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Uh. So I would like to hear more since with
it being your dad's birthday, I would like you to
tell folks a little bit about the enchanted story. You know,
you guys are on I believe in third generation now,
uh that has been in this business. And uh you
know where where did this get started?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
This got started a long time ago in Missouri City, Texas.
My parents had a had a part time nursery on
on Highway six there and so growing up as kids,
you know, this is this is what we did. We
this is what we knew. We went to wholetel nurseries

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and grew different plants and had plants, you know, African
violets all over the house and it was you know,
we thought it was normal, but apparently it wasn't. But yeah,
my parents did the nursery on the weekends and that's
they both had full time jobs, but they enjoyed, you know,

(14:32):
dealing with plants and people. And so that's where it
all started. We moved out of there in eighty four
or so and then moved out to Richmond. As me
and Joey got a little older than we started the
Enchanted Gardens over there, and that was in ninety five
or so, and then in two thousand and one we

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started the Enchanted Forest. So this will be our twenty
fifth anniversary this year, so we're gonna we're gonna have
a to do this fall. I think in October we'll
have a you know, do do a couple of different
things for the twenty fifth anniversary of then Channet Forest.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wow. I know, before that, I didn't realize we were
coming up on that milestone.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
That has been a while strut.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, it has well and obviously, uh, you guys
have done an awesome job of creating just a wonderful
experience for shoppers. And having the plant selections and just
the overall setting. I love it. I was like driving
up to Jenney Forest and seeing to me it looks
like almost an old Western storefront, you know, the town

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where they got all the storefronts and things like that.
I just walking around and it's got that that feel
to it, and and then of course there's all the
plants and things. Hey, before I forget, I do, I
do want to mention that you guys have a program
coming up part of your Hot Nights series that you
guys do occasionally in the summertime, but on July twenty fifth, folks,

(16:09):
from five pm, yes, I said pm to eight pm. Uh,
they're gonna have a program called Hot Nights and Cool Herbs,
And do you will you tell us a little bit
about that and what's involved in your in this series
of programs, but especially this.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
One, I think the I don't Luckily, I don't have
to keep up with everything because that's Aaron Mills that
kind of heads that up. But she's she's really into
the herbs, and she's gonna do a couple of fun
events over there with the herbs. So that ought to
be good. If you're in the herbs. She's, like I said,

(16:45):
she really really likes you know, organics in the herbs.
She is, she's an entomologist, and she is a pro bug.
You see a bad bug and she will tell you
it's a good bug.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, get in touch, get in touch with the good bugs. Well.
The thing that caught my eye too, in addition to
Aaron's talk and she's going to talk about a number
of different kinds of herbs and how to use them
and things, uh, is you can kind of stroll around
and shop in the evening hours when things start to
cool down a little bit. I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
And then you got carry you got carry snowballs there,
which my gosh, that that right there is worth price
of admission, which by the way, price of admission is free.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
For I think the snowballs hit the spot. I can
tell you that snow are definitely, definitely a bonus.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
As the temperatures, as the temperatures get hotter and whatnot. Well,
that's good. Well. One of the things I like about
the place that you have there is the vegetable and
herb section. Uh. It is is very extensive. And you know,
I've been there more once this year shopping myself and looking.
And you know, when you think about all of the options,

(18:06):
you know, it's not like do you carry basil? It's
how many kinds of basil do you carry? Because you
guys have so many different options. And I was encouraging
people a little bit earlier on the show to why
not grow some more herbs? I mean, herbs are ornamental.
You know. Herbs can fit ever bill from lining a bed,
to a groundcover, to a container, to you name it.

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Many of them attract beneficials. As you were talking about
your little beneficial wasps that go to the flowers of
time and things. The first time I ever saw any
a potter wasp. It's a kind of a mud for
those people listening, it's like a mud dabb er type
of wasp. But it doesn't build those little cigar shaped
mud nests under your eaves. This is the one that

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makes those little marble sized round balls. People often will
encounter them on a window screen or something like that.
And I was in a garden in Montgomery, Canty at
the extension of it, we had a garden and there
was a wasp visiting the herb blooms. And when it
flew away. I went and looked, and it flew into
a passion vine on a chainling fence, and I went

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in there and looked, and it was building a mud
nest like that, and I thought, well, that's interesting. And
I saw one that it had just built. And in
the name of science, I'm sure the wasp didn't appreciate this.
I broke that nest off the chainling fence wire and
I broke it open and there were a dozen little
looper caterpillars inside that nest. Then it had laid its
babies inside the cafeteria there and filled it with caterpillars.

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And I just fascinated me. And I realized, here's a
wasp visiting my herb garden and it is basically out
there doing caterpillar control for me in the garden. And
so I just found that very interesting. But I really
think that herbs are way more versatile than we give
them credit for, and they can be beautiful and there's

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nothing fresher. You know, we probably got some herbs in
our pantry that have been there for two years. I
don't know if they're worth eating anymore. But you get
some fresh ones from your garden, and you can't beat that.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
No, they are I think again, they are under used
as a landscape plant. There's so many good ones out there. Rosemary.
Rosemary is one of my favorites. And pretty much everybody
uses or eats rosemary and they're cooking and it's a
plant that people go out and buy. But it's very
easy to grow. Its flowers very very fragrant when you

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brush against it. I mean, there's no reason not to
have a rosemary in your yard.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
It is good. And the trailing kind flowers so well.
We used to have a rosemary bush at the house
and one of my daughters would hug it. She would
hug it. You know, rosemary, you gotta have that for
Italian food. She'd come running through the house and I
thought Mussolini had invaded or something. I mean, smell like rosemary.
But we got to go to another hard break here. Danny,
thanks so much for being on. We're going to come

(20:58):
right back to you when this break is over. Appreciate that.
All right, Welcome back to Guardline folks. Just a reminder,
we were talking with Danny Linderman from Enchanted Forest down
in Richmond Rosenberg area, and we're talking all kinds of things,
the plants and whatnot. Here a little bit about the
history of the place. If you have a question regarding
enchanted forest that you would like to discuss with Danny,

(21:20):
feel free to give us a call. Is if it's
just general gardening questions and things like that, we're gonna
hold those over until nine o'clock and then we'll spend
our last hour with our regular Q and A time. Okay,
that's how I'd like to do this, Danny, good to
have you back again. I wanted to just have you
tell us a little bit about the renovation that you

(21:41):
guys did out there, and I mean it was it
was a major renovation. I mean you really cleaned out
everything and just got it rearranged and looking real nice.
We tell us a little bit about all what all
y'all did.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, you know, every every year we do something right
like you hate to sit still, so you just change
things up. This year, what we did is we we
moved all of our seasonal color and perennials together, so
now they're all the tables are together right behind the
building for those, and now all the edibles are all together,

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all the fruit trees, all the vegetables, all the herbs.
Those are all in the same place. So if you're
into the gardening and you like growing vegetables and fruits
and herbs, you've got the one side of the nursery
is dedicated just to that. So I think it's I
think it's gonna work out pretty darn good. Yeah, it

(22:41):
makes sense, So we'll see, we'll see how it works.
But I like it.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Now. I'm seeing the video and the people go to
your Facebook or Instagram, You're gonna see Clay out there,
your son, uh, talking about all their arrangements and changes.
When this work was going on, was Clay working in
the sun and we're you in the shade with a
glass of iced tea and a lounge chair or how
did that go down? I just have to poke you

(23:06):
a little bit with.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
That one, you know, to be it to be honest,
how it went down? This was all Clay's idea. Well,
so we started, we started doing it, and of course
Clay Clay got busy in the office and oh, well
I would but I gotta I gotta do this, and
I have to do that. So now, yeah, pretty much
everything got done without him. But but his grandyma, oh.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, well I'm gonna tell him you said that. No,
I'm just kidding with you, but uh it really it
always looks good out there, but it was this was
kind of exciting to see, you know, all the changes
and stuff. I think that that sounds like a good
idea too, by the way, Uh the things I enjoyed
when Yeah, at the time seemed like a good idea

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at the time. Uh well, uh, I'm always interested in
that tree you've got if you walk out the back door,
it's around the left where you got the little Ferry
gardens And would you tell us tell people that aren't
maybe familiar with a little fairy Garden about that, because
it's it's this great scene. You know, you just walk around.

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People need to bring kids and see this. But you
walk around the whole tree and you got all the
different scenes and things. We talked a little bit about
that unique little twist on gardening.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
You bet, that's what we call the Faerry Garden tree.
That it's been that way for years and years, big
opacon tree. So it's nice to nice and shady. So
you're gonna walk around that and visit all the little
different scenes from fairy Land. And we have a bunch
of different miniature plants and ground covers and different things

(24:44):
in there. So it gives everybody the ideas what they
can do at their home. The kids love it. The
kids love them. You know, look at the fairies and
think about the little fairy houses, and there's bridges and
you know, blue rocks to imitate water and different things
like that. So I'd say it's a lot of fun.

(25:04):
There's probably ive were so different vignettes over there that
give you plenty of different ideas.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, well, I think it's a great idea for kids.
And I guess you guys have some of the supplies
and things.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
That oh yeah, we have a whole a whole hunt
for that for that type of stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay, Well, it's a great thing to do at the
bottom of a tree because you know, what do you
do at the bottom of a tree? Grastling will grow
up there and uh, you know, you can create a
little bed. That is just a fun scene. I think
it's a great idea. I read extensive, extensive examples of
it around there. Uh. One of the things I do

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enjoy when I'm out there visiting you guys is the
uh all of the shrubs and plants and trees and
stuff you have off to the right when you when
you drive up and you're coming in the front. There
off to the right, lots of good options. And one
of my favorite trees of the spring is the Chinese
fringe tree. And you guys have some nice ones out there.

(26:12):
I don't know how that is in terms of popularity
with customers, but it ought to be about one of
the number one things they buy in the spring because
it's such a gorgeous plant. Do you have any Do
you have any favorites of some of the flowering trees
and stuff you carry?

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, the Chinese fringe tree is a great tree. I
really really love it. They do well. They're small enough
for our small yards. They do great. So Chinese friends
are great. Desert willow. Desert willow is one of my
favorite trees. Blooms all summer long. Looks kind of maybe

(26:48):
not real classy in the winter time, but very very
pretty the rest of the year. The Mexican all of
is another another favorite.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Oh yeah, that's a that's a good one, very very unique.
You're mentioning some smaller trees there, you know, the desert willow.
The thing I like about it too, any is it
casts a somewhat light shade. So if you want to
grow some stuff underneath that that needs a little sunlight
getting through there, it does pretty good kind of like
a mesquite tree or a ratama or one of those

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kind of plants that the shade is bright enough to
still have some flowers around the patio.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
It is. It is. Yeah, it's not real real dance
and a smaller, smaller growing tree, but the flowers are
great that. Like I said, the Mexican olive, I love
the white flowers on that. That is a great smaller
growing tree too. The hummingbirds seem to really enjoy it
as well, So that's another another good good reason the

(27:49):
plant that.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's a that's a good point, and you know, the
the idea of gardening. I'm it's a significant point to
me at least that a lot of times when we
think about a garden are flowers and things we think
about just the visual. You know, you want pretty flowers,
you look out and visually your eyes are getting a

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treat with what you've created that they're in the landscape.
But there's also we have other senses, you know, there's
the textures of flowers from big old elephant ears to
fine textured you know, fountain grasses and other things. There's
a movement in the wind of like what I know
you guys carry gara one variety I don't know if

(28:35):
it's still around called whirling butterflies, where it looks like
little butterflies are just fluttering over the top of the plant.
And the sounds of gardening, you know here in the
wind go through like a clumping bamboo. It sounds like
it's raining when the breeze blows through there. But then
there's the smell the fragrances. Where I've set outside my patio,

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I've planted a bunch of things that I freak because
the southwest breeze blows through there. Uh. And there's a
lot of wonderful fragrant plants. And I don't know if
you have any favorites when it comes to the fragrant plants,
but I'm a I'm a fan of a number of
the of the of the gingers that have a nice
fragrance to them, the white butterfly ginger specifically, my gosh,

(29:19):
that is that ought to be a controlled substance. It
smells so good.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah. There, there's there's several good ones that I that
I that I usually recommend Banana shrub if you're familiar
with that one. That one is a unique one. Smells
like a truckload of bananas crash when that thing is
in flour. Uh and a good small yeah it is.

(29:45):
It is cool. Uh. The sweet almond verbina is another
favorite of mine. Pretty pretty big bush, but very durable
plant and does very well. And the fragrance is is great.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
It is unbelievable, that's true. I love that plan. In fact,
I've got one that I just planted this year back
in the corner of a garden.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
It's not the I wish they could take that plan
and make it smaller, you know, where it's a little more.
You could fit it into more places. But you can
prune the heck out of it, and it just keeps
blooming all the more. But oh gosh, the fragrance on
that is unbelievable. Confederate jasmine is another good one. I
love that one.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah. The Jason is just a short yeah. Yeah, the
jasmine just a short window of bloom. That's the problem.
Like the sweet almond verbina, that thing will bloom all
summer long. So it is that's great for that reason
because the bloom.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Time, yeah, just gives you a lot of and it
attracts a lot of beneficial pollinators too. I've noticed it
being busy with the pollinators that are on it. All right, well,
let me take a quick break again. Time flies. When
you're having fun, Danny, We're going to come back and

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have another short a little time here, and just hang on, folks,
We'll be right back. We are visiting with Danny Linderman
from the Angenity Forest down there in Richmond Rosenberg area
and talking about all kinds of plants, favorites and ideas
and stuff going on there at the Gardens Center. So
let me see here if I can find the right button,

(31:27):
there we go. Hey, Danny, welcome back. I often say
that in the summertime, while in spring there's a lot
of things that have flowers, in summer there's a lot too,
but not as many. And in summertime I often turn
to foliage plants for color, because you know, bright beautiful
foliage is just as pretty as a bright beautiful flower.

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And I know you guys carry a red bud down
there called Hearts of Fire that is just stunning. It's
got the red newest growth that then the next leaves
back or kind of yellow, and eventually it gets back
to green. But it's a show stopper. And I was
wondering if you had any favorite plants for foliage color
when we get into these warmer seasons.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You know, there's so many fun things. Really. The red
buds are totally unique and there's a new one every year,
so there's so many different ones now, you know, shade
is probably your best example of all the different foliage
colors that will come out. Persian shield is Persian shield

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is one of my favorites. It's a really really unique
purple shiny color. It's a kind of a crazy looking plant. Tricolored.
Gender is a very good plant for the shade. You know, sunshine.
Lugustrum is a great plant. It's turned out to be
a really really good plant, and that is for the sun.

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And that's got that yellow yellow foliage which is really nice.
The Texas say, you know, it is a gray foliage,
which gray is a is a color, and so that
that that brings a man interest to the garden in
a full sun setting. Uh, then you turn the purpleish
pink flowers on on the Texas sage, and it's a

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showstopper when it's when it's when it's really in full bloom.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
That is that is gorgeous. There's a there's so many,
uh color plants like that that we can choose from.
You know, Cannas are familiar, and they they say familiarity
breeds contempt, meaning you see it everywhere and then suddenly
you lose interest. But canna is the phasion or the
tropicana that came out many years ago. That thing has

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so many colors in it, you know, you just kind
of stare at it. And I like to use that
one by the way, where the sunlight comes from behind
the plant, because when it goes through the leaves, it
just lights them up. And that's just another another aspect
of it. But I really like that plant too. I
think that's another.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, cans, Cannons are good. I mean, my my problem,
my problem with cannas is once you once you have them,
you will always have them. They are they can be
a little much sometimes you know they are again.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
And then they have they have their issues. I know that,
but uh uh yeah, but they'll grow in water. I mean,
if you got a poor drake well, stick a canon
in there, and I mean it'll it'll grow at the
edge of underwater practically. Uh. Well, that's a good one.
Uh well, those are those are all some some some
great ideas. I'd like to have you tell us a

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little bit about. Uh. I know, you've got some wonderful
house plants and a nice little gift shop too. Could
you could you talk to us folks that haven't been
out there yet, uh about your gift shop and and
some of the house plants.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, the house plant we have, we have a pretty
pretty large selection of indoor plants. Uh. This time of
the year, we kind of pare it down just a
smidge because it's so dorn hot. But uh yeah, the
house plants, Uh, I think we probably had one of
the one of the better selections in the area. It's
a lot of fun. Uh. My son Clay is really

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into the house plants, so he's kind of the the
leader of the house plant area. So that's it's his baby.
I don't try. I try to stay outside so I
don't I don't need to worry about the houseplants. The
gift shop is nice, it's a it's a good little
area to actually cool off in so it's uh air

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conditioned part of the building there, and uh it is
kind of nice. And you know, when some of the
folks come in they look a little weathered. I will
always recommend them to go in there because it is
nice and cool in there, and it does does change
your attitude real fast. And of course the popsicles outside,
uh change your attitude real fast too. It is always

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a handy hand.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
We have a we have a deep freeze out there
with with pobstacles in it. We try to keep that
stocked up for the for the kids and for the adults.
And uh, that's something that we've always done since we've opened.
And the kids really love it, and there's quite a
few adults come to find out that like popsticles a
lot too. So those are free. We usually you try

(36:24):
to try to give one per person, but that they
are free and then and the parents seem to use
it as leverage for the children, which works out pretty good.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
That is good. But I got to tell you, I
think I think my feelings are hurt. I've been to
enchanted for as many times and I've never won. I
didn't even know the popsicles were out there, No one
ever offered me. Were you afraid I'm gonna clean you
out or something? I mean, come on, man, yes, you gotta.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
You gotta be able to read. You gotta be able
to read where it says one.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Please, that's right, throw me under the bus. All right,
we're good. That's all wonderful. Well, oh my gosh, Well
the music means our talk time is up. This hour
flew by. I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much
for coming on. We've covered a number of things, from

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all the plants you guys have, to the events going on.
Don't forget, folks what they call it, the Hot Nights
the Herb program coming up. That's July twenty fifth, from
five pm to eight pm, and we're gonna be getting
to talk there from Aaron Aaron Mills talking about some

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really cool herbs that you need to know about and
you need to grow. Plus you get to walk around,
need to snow cone and enjoy yourself. So Danny thinks
a lot. Tell us a little bit about where you're located,
so people will know who aren't from the area, how
to get to you real quick.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Out near Richmond, just just south of sugar Lands. As
the bird flies

Speaker 1 (38:04):
All right, just south of great about three miles I
believe H.