Tree Talk with David Williamson

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

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And I don't treat.

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Speaker 1 (00:49):
Sometimes I just sit here listening to the music and
suddenly realize I got a radio show. Good morning person.
I hope you got a cup of coffee at least
one eye open. I'm talking gardening today. How about that?
Glad you are with us, and here is that number
you'll need if you would like to call in seven

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one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. I
got a couple of folks been emailing already this morning
looking forward to getting their calls in here, and we
will be happy to help you. As I like to
put it, have a beautiful garden, a bountiful garden, a
bountiful landscape, and more fun in the process. How about that?

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Our goal is for you to get your gardening questions
answered so you can enjoy gardening. You know, you go
out there and you dig in the dirt and you
go buy plants, and you come home and you plan them.
And it's not just to get exercise, although it's good
for that. Back one time I was talking to a
group and I said, you know, gardening is good exercise,

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and if you don't do it right, it's great exercise.
What that means is you didn't molt, so now you
get to pull weeds too. See what I'm saying. So
gardening is good exercise. It not just for that. It's
for you to actually enjoy it, to be able to
sit back and just feel good about it instead of like, yeah,
everything I plant dies, everything I touch die. I got
a brown thumb. All that. You hear me say it

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all the time. You do not have a brown thumb.
You have an uninformed thumb, or you're not listening to
your thumb and your bum's telling you to do something different.
I don't know. The bottom line is you give a
plant what it wants and that plant performs well. Now,
nature throws us, curves, it rains, it doesn't rain, it
gets cold, it gets hot. Who knows what pest outbreaks
occur that don't normally occur in a particular season. It

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doesn't matter. The bottom line is you can have success
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you can bring in samples to asking questions about, or

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you can just go in and go look, I want
to how about this. I want to have a skip
talks about we got to have more containers and beautiful
colored containers on the patio. I don't know how to
put together a container. Can you give me some ideas well?
Number one, they got beautiful containers there, but they also
can help you pick the plants that make it look good,
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sixteen forty six. That is a fact coming up. Let's see,
this is going to not this weekend, but it's coming
up soon. I know, actually it is. It's tomorrow. We
are going to have someone from Quality Home Products here

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in the studio tomorrow morning at eight o'clock hour, and
not just talk about quality home but I'm going to
talk about the whole generator thing. Maybe even thinking about generators.
What is a process that you go through when you're
looking There's a lot of companies out there sell generators.
What are you looking for? What kind of questions might
you want to ask? I think you'll find it very

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interesting some of the information just on that whole thing.
This is I remember I used to think a generator
was something that you rolled out and pulled the cord on,
put gas in, pull the cord on, and fired up
and you could hear it running all over the neighborhood
to you know, give a little power to a certain

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part of your home. Now these things are really different.
Quality home has the whole home generators. They automatic start
whenever you have problems and stuff. And so we're going
to talk about the generator world. What's out there and
everything has pros and you know what you need, what
your neighbor needs may be different, but they'll walk you
through all that. Quality home products. They're experts at that.
And the reason that this company is successful, the reason

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I talk about them here on guarden Line, is because
they take care of their customers. They make sure that
you are happy twenty four seven three sixty five. When
you get this set up, it's good to go. It's
kind of like I'll say, it's a set it and
forget it, and that they're there to help you. They
set it up so you're not having to lug generation around.

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You're not having to do all the kinds of things
that I've always done with that little drag around generator.
They put gasoline in. They can really just make sure
that you have the security you need. Or in storm season.
Here we go another hurricane season, and whether it's a
hurricane or not, we lose power. We lost power once

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last summer that wasn't a hurricane. Quality Home Products of
Texas Quality TX dot com. That's the website QUALITYTX dot
com or you can give them a call seven one
three Quality. But anyway, I want to get in there
kind of dig down in that a little bit, uh
and find out what do you need to know? And
I think you'll find it very interesting. It is it

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is not the world that we used to live in
terms of generators availability, what they can do, and how
this all works. For sure. Well, if you have a
question you'd like to visit about this morning, seven one
three two one two k T al right, just give
me a call seven one three two one two k
T R H. Glad to visit with you and make

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sure that we get you pointed in the right direction.
If you have not thought about, uh doing some sort
of a container color on the driveway our driveway, well
I could be driveway on the back patios. What I
was trying to say, you really ought to think about that.
I there was a time when I just didn't do

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many containers, and one of the reasons was I just,
I don't know, never entered into my real gardening thinking.
For me, a garden was in the ground, and all
my flower beds and vegetable garden and things in the
ground and then began to experiment with containers and gosh,
there's so their containers so beautiful. They didn't have a
plan in them, it would still be worth putting out

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there on the patio. And so I've encouraged it before
on this. But uh, a nice container can be expensive.
And you know, I've done the plastic nursery buckets I grew.
I grew kale one year and those big old plastic
nursery buckets that like you buy a tree in or
a shrub in, you know, those kind of things. And

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it was ugly bucket. But it's your produce, good kale.
So you can do that. Plants. A fellow name fell
to Rushing for Mississippi, friend of mine. He says, you
can't embarrass a plant with a pot, and that's true.
That's no care. Uh, they'll grow in anything. But if
you want something beautiful, why I'd invest in one in
a year or one in the spring, wonderful, whatever the

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budget allows, but spend a little bit on a quality container.
I bought cheap terracotta before and it just isn't made
to hold up, and it doesn't. It's splits, the cracks
and all these kinds of things. But a quality container,
a quality terracotta, a quality glaze pottery. I like the
glaze especially. It just lasts. It lasts and lasts, and

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you just have years of enjoyment from it. So just
a thought, let's try that out now. If you get
a bunch of them. This may have been part of
my hesitation. You can wear yourself out trying to water
all your containers every day, if they're too small, twice
a day. But you can also set up an automatic system.
And I set one of those up act mind's actually

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hooked to a hose end timer and I can tell
it each day of the week. I want you to
come on at this time, run for this long or whatever.
And then there's a little buried drip line. You can
get drip lines a lot of places. It's not that hard.
It's like playing with tinker toys. For those of you
remember them and you look it up. You got a
little spaghetti tube comes up into the pot to provide

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the water. There the little bubbler or some type of emitter,
and they water that. They water themselves, the system waters
them for you. How about that? So think about that.
I'm gonna take a little break here. We'll be back
with your calls in just a moment. Seven three two
one two KTRH. Hey, good morning, welcome back to garden Line.

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We are glad to have you with us this morning
talking about gardening. What are your questions? Vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees, shrubs, lawns,
three teas, trees, turf and tomatoes. That's what usually makes
a phone ring. Anybody got a question about Cole Robbie,
let's do that. That'd be a break, especially for the
middle of summer. We're glad to have you with us though.

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Southwest Fertilizer, down on the corner of Bisonett and Renwick
in Southwest Houston is a company that has been around
for seventy years, literally seventy years, serving the greater Houston area.
And there's a reason for that, and the reasons are service.
The great service. I mean, you can walk in there
with a sample or a plant or a picture of
something and you want to you know, what's wrong with this?

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What do I do? Does it put their eyes on
and take a look and points you at the right
direction in order to deal with it if it needs
a product in order to control it or whatever. They
can do that. The selection is unbelievable. I mean, when
you walk in there with a plant problem, if it's
going to require you know, some insecticide, fungicide, herbicide, if

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it's if you want to do it strictly organically. Fertilizers too.
By the way, if you want to do it strictly organically,
they're going to have the best selection you're going to
find for doing that. Either way, you want to go
Southwest Fertilizer corner bitt Bisinet and Renwick in Southwest Houston.
It's worth the drive from wherever you live to go
by there and see the selection because it's a one
stop shop. You're not going to go in there and

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they go, yeah, we don't have any of that, we've
been out for a while. They're going to have it.
That's how they that's how they roll there. Southwest Fertilized.
The other yesterday morning, I was sitting we were actually
inside the house early in the morning, and my wife said,
listen to that bird. There's a bird out just singing

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its head off. And it was still barely light outside.
In fact, it wasn't quite light yet, but this bird
was going at it. And I think I figured out
what it was saying. It was saying, skip, the feeders
are empty, get your rear end out here and feed me, man.
Because I walked outside and my feeders were cleaned out.
I used the Wallbirds Unlimited. Right now, I'm using Nesting

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Super Blend. That's the one for the season. We still
have birds that have been going through all of that.
It's a great blend. I mean, you know, you use
it whenever you want to use it, but it's primarily
when we think of during the nesting season. The Cardinal
Confetti is another one that was new to me. Came
out last year when I discovered it. I don't know

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if it's newer than that or older than that or not,
but boy, it's a good one. And they line up
at the feeder for both of those. You know, no
matter what kind of bird seed, bird feed you want
to split out, what kind of birds you want to attract,
you walk into a Wildbird's Unlimited store and they are
going to point you right at the products options that

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you have. You can buy loose seed, you can buy
the little seed cylinders that are compacted make them last
a little bit longer. Sa Hey, By the way, if
you're going on vacation. Those seed cylinders are a great
way because the birds have to sit there and kind
of peck the seeds out, and so it slows them
down just a little bit, and it lasts a good
way to hold over until you get back from your vacation.
Six Wallbirds Unlimited stores here in the Greater Houston area.

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There's one in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, and clear Lake
on Eldorado Boulevard. Down in Paarland you got yours on
East Broadway. For those of you in West Houston, you've
got one on Memorial Drive, and then also in Southwest
Houston on bel Air, and then up in Cypress on
Barker Cypress. Go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston

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and you can see all the Wallbirds Unlimited store And
this is a great store. You gotta go. You got
to experience the knowledge and the variety of what they
have and the quality of what they have. You will
be as enthusiastic as I am, because I'm telling you,
I love those love going to those stores, and I
just find them so helpful for me. By the way,

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if you are looking to get a gift for anybody,
you cannot go wrong. With going to Walbirds Unlimited and
whether it's a book or whether it's a feeder, or
whether it's a feeder packed with some bird seed to
put out directly, that's the store, that's where you go.
It's a great gift for the someone who you don't
know what to get because they seem to have everything.

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Wallbird's Unlimited joy going there. I was while back, I
was visiting with Danny down at Enchanted Forest. We were
just talking about some of the things that they've been
doing around there. You know, they recently kind of revamped
the vegetable and herb area I say recently within the

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last year, and it is just huge and so stocked
full of all kinds of things. When you walk around there,
you got big old giant shade trees and Enchanted Forest.
By the way, Chanted Forest is on FM twenty seven
fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg and let's
say you're gonna go up fifty nine or I sixty
nine now to sugar Land, it's off to the right

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before you get there, FM twenty seven to fifty nine.
The website, you got to write this down because it's
got a lot of good information on it. Enchanted Forest, Richmond,
TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. You
are going to find all kinds of supplies and all
kinds of plants and anything you need, from containers to

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just gorgeous trees and shrubs and vines. They've got it all.
And if you're looking to create a butterfly garden or
a pollinator garden, oh my gosh, they are stocked up
on not just the things to attract the adult butterflies,
but also the larval food. You know, if you've got
the food that feeds the babies, the butterflies are gonna
show up. Legs on those caterpillars will hatch, and next

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thing you know, you've raised your own set butterflies there
in the garden and channel for us. Their plants support
local bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Their plants thrive in our
climate without excessive needs for water and fertilizer and all
that kind of thing. It's a good place, it's a
fun place to go. Let's see, I believe we've got

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to go out to the phones. Now we've got a
Stephen and Dayton. Welcome to garden Line. Stephen, thank you, Skip,
I've got.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
A come quot tree that I inherited from my dad.
It's probably, I'm going to guess, to make over fifty
years old. It stands about four foot talks in the ground,
and last year of the years before that put out
real nice, semi sweet cum quats. As two years my

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kun quats are riding on the very bottom of the
kum quote itself. I'll just turn Could you suggest what
that problem is?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
That's a good, good question. The first thought that comes
to mind is, you know, whenever you get things wet wet,
it can cause more decay than normal. Now why it
didn't happen before now you got so much of it,
I don't know. But like, think about this, if it
rains or if you sprinkle the bush, either way, the

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water's going to run underneath that fruit and sit there
for longer, and that that spot's going to stay wet
and be more likely to get a decay. So that
that's just me thinking logically on that.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, am I online? Am I on the radio?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah? Sure?

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Okay, Yeah, that that really doesn't make sense, I would think,
because uh, it's you know, it's done that for years.
I mean, it's put out beatle. It's just the last
I would think maybe with a vitamin deficiency or something. Well, now,
on tomatoes, I walk by it and shake it. You

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don't get any kind of water off of it.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
But that's well, you know, I don't think I don't
think that's necessary. And I'm just trying to figure out
why is it riting down there? Some fruit like tomatoes
and squash and watermelons will get the right on the
end opposite where it attaches, and that's a calcium deficiency.
To my knowledge, I've never seen a calcium deficiency on

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kum quats, but I won't eliminate it, but I really
doubt that's what it is.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
How about citrus fertilizer.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I know they have to ask, well, you you could
do that, but I don't know that it I don't
know that you'd have to read the label. I don't
know that it's going to have extra calcium. Usually it's
not a lack. It's not a lack of calcium in
the soil that causes the blossom indrot thing I was
just discussing. It's it's the fluctuation and sol moisture that

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prevents the calcium flow to reach the end of the
fruit properly. So yeah, you know, you could try that, Stephen,
you could give that a try. You could also try
a spray for it. Let me let me do this.
I'm gonna in a break. I'm gonna go look and
see if I can find anything that elaborates on come

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quiet with that particular condition. But you're saying the rot
is on the bottom of the fruit, right.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
That's exactly on almost everyone. It's only then for the
last couple of years.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Though.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm not satisfied with any of the answers that
I gave you. You know, I was thinking logically initially, well,
that stays wet longer, but I'm not. I don't think
that's it. Let's let me let me work on this one,
and I'll say something on the air if I come up.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
With need to thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
But right now, listen, hey, I tell you what.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Also, I had a hard time coming up with the
numbers on K T R H. I wouldn't wearing my
glass for five eight seven. Tell us that.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
I'll do that. You're the second person that's told me
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key t r H. You can do it that way
as well. Let's head out now, we're going to go
to League City and talk to Linda this morning. Hello Linda,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Hi, Skip, good morning. I sent you more pictures. I
sent you some pictures yesterday after known and then later
least not because you said you couldn't see them very well.
So I did a close up up. Oh yeah, out
of the grip. Yeah, did you get those pictures?

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I did, okay, yes, and I studied them. And what
you're dealing with there. There's a weed called artillery weed,
and that's what that is the funny thing about it.
Some people blend it on purpose in pots because it's
like a little nice, little succulent, you know, growing in
a pot. But it's also a weed that is very

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difficult to control. Whenever you know, we're dealing with things
like the artillery weed, it's just you can't spray it
in the midst of the vinding groundcover that it's growing
in without killing the groundcover too. But if you can
get as much of it either as you can, you're

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not going to pull it out because it breaks off.
It comes back from the roots from little sections that
fall on the ground and root and everything else. But
if you will do an application of barricade that I
talk about for long week control and stuff, the barricade,
the ingredient itself will is listed as being pretty good

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at preventing germination of those seeds. The weeds is an annual,
it's not a perennial, and so you should be able
with the combination of those unless we just have a
really mild winter and it survives over from some of
the last the previous year seeds. Yeah, but the down

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you could I think if it were me right now,
as you look at that, you can see how it's
loaded with little flowers and seed pods and things, and
I would just be most interested in stopping one hundred
thousand more seed getting on the ground first if you
can get it out of there. But if you do that,
then follow with an application of the barricade. It's gonna

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be a little bit of a challenge. To get it done.
But that's kind of the options that you go for
because again, you know, a lot can't spray round up
on it because it'll kill it kills everything you sprayed on.
So this is a case where we have to do
the pre emergent.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
Yeah, okay, I can pull it out and then I'll
make sure that I use the barricade, especially in the
spring before they start germinating.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Right, yes, well, yeah, in spring, and I would reapply
the barricade probably about sixty days later than the first application,
because it doesn't last forever. It does break down over time.
Just stay with the label rate and everything like that.
Don't put too much of that on.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
Okay, well that sounds good. Thank you so much for
your help.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I appreciate it. Yes, and the last thing, Linda's you
need to water the barricade in with about a third
to a half inch of water after you apply it,
so it moves down the ground and goes to work.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
Okay, I'll get some and i'll read the rugions. All right,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
There you go, you bet, Thank thank you for the call.
Appreciate that. That's an unusual weed. By the way, it's
called artillery artillery weed because the pollen spores are exploded
out of the flower. It's like they're fired out like
a cannon out of the flower. Isn't that interesting? I
think it is. It's not interesting though, if it's pestering

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your garden, that's for sure. Hey. The folks that Nelson
Plant Food have a product called Slow and Easy. It's
part of their turf Star line, and Slow and Easy
describes it well. It is a gradual release of nitrogen
and Chris has lots of nutrients in it, but a
gradual release over a very long time, so you're going
to get months out of that application is slow and easy.

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You can put it on now. It's really simple. It's easy.
It's put it out and you're done. The next time
you need to think about fertilizing is if you look
at my schedule when we get to fall for and
we use a little bit different blend in the fall
to help prepare those plants for not only going into
the winter strong, but coming out of the winter strong.
But for now, Slow and Easy is that it's got

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an acidic type ingredient in it that slowly, gradually is
acidifying the soil, making nutrients more available. That yellowing we
get in our grass from lack of iron is partially
caused by a high pH and the soil and slow
and easy is helpful in that way as well. We're
going to take now we're going to go out to

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Santa Fe and talk to Joe. Hey, Joe, welcome to
guarden line.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Hey, thank you, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
So the last I have a new home.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Three for three years.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
I saw it at Saint Augustine when we built the home.
And three out of three years, I've had to call
you in the.

Speaker 5 (25:51):
Fall and.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
I've gett gray patch or these big dead circles in
the yard, and I've gone, I've gotten that silver the
silver bag, silver eagles. That what's called I think a
super turn super turb Yeah, you told me three years
and it stops it this year. I would like to
get ahead of the game and put something down to

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keep my grass from getting those big patches of dead
stuff in them. And I was wondering, as now the
time and to what would you put down?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
That's good? Uh so for the for preventing the large
patch or people have always called it brown patch, so
it goes by either name, I guess. But the time
to put that down on my schedule is it starts
at the beginning of October. When we try to control them.
You're a little bit further south for the whole listening area.

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You're a little toward the southern part of the listening area.
So it wouldn't hurt if you even did it at
the end of September. But just just know that those patches,
once you see the rotting occurring and the patch is forming,
you're a little late for the application. You can stop
it from getting much worse. But it's better, as you're saying,

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to do a preventative. Yeah, it's better to do a preventative.
And I would get there's a product that Nitrofoss sells
and it's it's called PCNB p C N the it's
called Nitrofoss Total brown Patch Control nulta Foss Total brown

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Patch Control, and you're going to find it, you know,
everywhere Nitrofoss products are sold. So for example, you know
you're down down south in the Santa Fe you got
a number of places, there's a number of ase hardware
stores that will sell nito Foss products in there, so
it's not going to be hard to find.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
So that's different than the eagles that I've been doing.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
After the fact, I guess.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
It is different. The eagle is a good fungicide, but
for the brown patch specifically, I think the PCNB, uh,
the Nitrofoss Total brown Patch Control will do a little
better job for you.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Uh you got a wait a little bit.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, there's no sense in applying it now. Yeah, you
need to. You want to catch it right before it starts.
And it typically starts when we get a cold front
and some rain and the temperatures drop in October. Uh,
and certainly it can it'll occur in November and on too,
but uh, it just get ahead of it. And so
i'd say very early October. And if you were to

(28:29):
if we were to have let's say, something that drops
the temperature sooner than that and it's wet and cool,
you got to get it down pretty quick because well,
the ingredient is PCNB, like Paul, Yeah, Paul, Charlie, Nancy,

(28:50):
what boy? I can't think of a beat. But but
here's but the name of the product is Nitrofoss Total
brown Patch Control. So that's easy. That's exactly what you're
going after.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
Okay, Okay, thank you for your clients.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Sir, we appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
You bet take care. Thanks for the call. I appreciate
that Nelson Nursery and water gardens out there, and Katie
is it's a destination garden center. First of all, they
have plants from house plants, beautiful, beautiful house plants, indoor
plants inside the store. Do you step out into the annuals,

(29:26):
the flowers and the vegetables, the herbs, the perennials, the shrubs,
the trees, the fruit and the roses. I mean, they
are a complete nursery, including products to help your plants grow. Now,
they also have the water gardens, which is one of
my favorite parts. When you go by there, take a
child with you, your children, your grandchildren, whatever, take them

(29:49):
out there with you and ask the folks at Nelson
could we get a handful of food. They'll be happy
to do that. To feed the koi in the back.
They got these big, beautiful, multicolored koi, and the little
kids can go back there and feed them. These quick
come up to the surface and open their mouth. I
mean it's like you're hand feeding these fish. Kids will
love it. They will love that place, and so will you.

(30:10):
Nelson Nursery and Watergardens Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens
dot com. They're just north of y ten on Katie
Fort Benroad. We head now let's see. Oh no, gosh,
I got a low clock staring me in the face.
Let me take a quick break. When we come back,
Walter and sugar Land and David and Laporte you'll be
our first two up. All righty, we're back. Good to

(30:32):
have you back with us talking all things gardening this morning,
that is for sure. And uh, first of all, if
you are wanting to just perform magic on your landscape,
I mean you want you know, it's kind of like, look,
we need to redo the yard, we need to redo
the back. I want a patio, I want hardescape. How

(30:53):
about some landscape, lighting, irrigation systems not working? All of
that and lots or Piercecapes is a company, and do
you call Pierscapes dot com. That's a website. Go check
them out, Piercescapes dot com. Look at the work they
do it. What do you need? Do you need just
a little revamping of a bed? Do you want to
complete redesign? I mean they do it all, They absolutely

(31:15):
do it. All just go to Piercescapes dot com and
check their business out. You'll be very impressed with the
work they do. And I'll tell you this, Suddenly, the
outside won't just be something you walk past to get
in the house. It'll be something you want to linger
in and enjoy, because you'll love the look of your
home from the street, and you'll certainly love those outdoor

(31:35):
private areas in the back. We gather with friends peerscapes
dot com. They're the ones. We're going to head out
to the phones now and talk to Walter in Sugarland.
Hey Walter, welcome to garden Line. Hey Marskip, how are
you doing doing well? Thanks? Good?

Speaker 9 (31:52):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (31:54):
I'm trying to reclaim a garden area at church that
has really been let go. And I've gotten rid of
the weeds with different weed killers, but then I have
a problem. I think it's nutgrass. That's what the picture
I sent you of is, uh, and I've been treating

(32:17):
it with this sedge ender bow nine. Yeah, and I've
done four to five treatments. I started like in April,
and you know, a goo a few weeks it looked
like it was starting to work. And yeah, you know,
I know it takes a few weeks for it to
turn yellow and whatever start go away. But then that

(32:40):
picture just looked like I haven't done anything? So what
am I doing wrong?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Got you? All? Right? Well, first of all, if you
will go to the web, my website gardening with skip
dot com, I have publications on there, and there's a
publication called nutsedge and in depth look and you need
to read it. It'll tell you what you're up against.

(33:05):
It'll explain it. And if you look at the bottom,
Boneyde's sedge ender is on the list of controls, but
it's only fair against yellow nuts edge and poured a
fair against purple nuts edge. The top of the list
is an ingredient. It's called halo sulfur on methyl. But
all the brands are listed there. It's good to excellent

(33:27):
against both of them. It's the best product on the market,
the best ingredient on the market for nutsedge control. But
you need to read the publication because it tells you
about when to spray and other things that are very important.
It's more than just getting the right products. It's understanding
how that weed works and what you need to do.
But examples would be sedge hammer. There's another one called

(33:51):
yeah sedge hammer, that would be the one that I
would go for. There are others that have that ingredient,
but yeah, that's it and thought, but read that thing
first because knowing how and when the spray is very important.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
Sounds like give me the gardening with.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
With skip with skip, gardening with that's me gardening with
skip dot com dot com. All right, all right, good luck,
appreciate you co. Thanks a lot. Take care pardon all right,
you take care, appreciate that. Oh gosh. Uh. Spring Creek

(34:31):
Feed uh is up in just northwest of tom Ball
that direction. You you know, when you go into Spring
Creek Feed, you see everything that you would need for
your loan and garden. Yes, it's a feed store and
it's also a beautiful home decorations inside to some really
cool stuff. But turn right and there's the gardening section.
Do you need to control weeds or past or diseases?

(34:53):
It's all there, quality dog foods too for your pets,
and and it's all there at Spring Creek Feed just
minutes away from Grand park Way. But Spring Creek Feed
is the place that you need to go when you
first You can't miss it. Driving you're heading up there
and it's all of a sudden you look to the side,
is like this big, beautiful building just all kinds of

(35:13):
cool stuff outside. I mean, the store spills out almost
into the front porch of the place. And I love going.
I love the way that they treat you. I love
the fact that they have special discounts for senior citizens,
for military folks. I like the way they work with
youth for four h projects. For the feed, they take
care of you. They can do special orders and delivery

(35:34):
is also available Spring Creek Feed. Let's head out to Laporte.
We're going to talk to David. Hey David, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 8 (35:42):
Good morning here.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Are y'all doing well? How can we help?

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Got it?

Speaker 10 (35:48):
Kind of an oddball question here. I'm a high school
baseball coach and i have this King Ranch infistraighting on
my infield and a lot of my outfield. I've heard
of a chemical called Pastora that can somewhat do something,
you know, and help it out. You got any suggestions

(36:10):
because it's really taken my outfield over.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, David, what county are you in? Downe there? What
uh is that is that? Harris?

Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, well you could, you could call your Harris County
Extension office and talk to the agriculture agent. KR bluestem
is a very difficult thing to control, and killing a
grass and a grass is a oftentimes impossible, if not challenging. Uh.
But also the Brazoria County and the Galveston County also
have agriculture agents in the offices there, and those guys

(36:47):
they deal with that stuff that's pasture grass basically from
from our standpoint, not yard grass. And so rather rather
than me shooting from the help on something on that,
I I would talk to them and may come down
to a little bit of a strategy on how to
how to go about it. But king ranch bluestem is
a perennial, so it's you know, you can't stop it

(37:09):
with a pre emergent. So but it's it's a mess.
It may require yeah, you know in some yards, when
something like that's in a yard, I would just go
out and just dab you know, something that kills everything
on it, whether it's a grass killer or a glyphos
aid round up kind of product, just dab it on
that and you're gonna you can have a little dead

(37:29):
spot in the yard that'll fill back in. But in
the style that you're dealing with there, that's that's not practical.
So let me refer you to your Agri County Extension
agriculture agent. Not the horticultures, but the agriculture agents. They're
going to be best able to help you perfect.

Speaker 10 (37:46):
I'll get a call.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Thank you, yes, sir, thank you very much. I appreciate
your call very much. Arburgate Garden Center outstanding place twenty
nine to twenty west of Tombol. You go in there,
they they greet you, they help you. They don't point
across the nursery and say yeah, there may be one
over there. They walk with you, they talk with you,

(38:07):
they help you have success. That's the kind of service
that they do at arbor Gate, and that's why they're
so successful. I mean, it is a wonderful place to visit,
and I can promise you this. You're going to see
plants you've never seen before that you can't live without.
That's the arbor Gate twenty nine to twenty just a
couple of miles west of the Tomboi area, right there,

(38:30):
and just go out there, say hey to them and
just watch what they can do. First, of all, the
place is fun to visit. Take your friends by the way.
Park in the back. Parking lots in the back. That
is safest, easiest access right into the arbor gate. All right, folks,
we're about to hear some music here, which means I
got to quit talking, and we're going to come back
for the next hour with your colts. If you would

(38:52):
like to be first up, we've got an open bord
right now. You can go ahead and get on the line.
Call my prettucier Elejandro, and he'll get you set up
to start us off in the seven o'clock hour seven
one three two one two kt r H seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Makes it simple.

(39:14):
I'm gonna go get me a cup of coffee. Try
to stay coherent.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
This morning.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
I had trouble getting both eyes to open at the
same time. All right, folks, welcome back to guard Line.
Good to have you with us. Hey Stephen from Dayton,

(39:42):
if you're still listening, you win the Stump the Chump
Award Today. I still haven't been able to figure out
what's going on with your com quods. I've searched through
all the extension services and research institutions that do citrus
like Florida and whatnot, and I am not finding anything
that fits that description. So let me make a suggestion

(40:02):
if you will call back in talk to my producer.
You know, we don't need to talk right now, but
call my producer and get an email and send him
a picture of what you're seeing on your coumquats. Pick
a few, uh, get a good close up, sharp focus,
send them to me, and I will keep pursuing that
because I don't like to say I don't know. I also,

(40:22):
you know what I hate worse than saying I don't
know giving you an answer to the trong. So let's just, uh,
let's just take this further. I need I need to
learn about this one, but I couldn't believe it company
or you know, universities that do research on all this
kind of stuff. I don't see anything that fits the description.
So anyway, let's let's try it. That's my offer to you.
I'll go to work, we'll get some work done this

(40:44):
week and see if we can help you out on that.
For the rest of you. Seven one three two one
two k t r H seven one three two one
two k t r H RCW. RCW Garden Center is
it's this. This is an out standing place. When you go there,
you're going to find everything you need to have success

(41:05):
with what you're going to grow. I mean they have
the supplies and containers and things like that. But I
tell you, when it comes to plants, you're not going
to find a better spot the good selection and shrubs
and trees. And do you know they grow their own
trees up there in Plantersville area at Williamson Tree Farm.
So they grow things that want to grow here. They
want to grow here, not something that like a blue spruce,

(41:28):
for crying out loud, leave it in Colorado, don't bring
it down here. Now. They grow things that want to
grow here, and they can advise you and help you.
They can come out and plant them for you too.
If you got a small tree, we can plant it yourself.
But at some point it's kind of like you have
to make a decision. Do I want to hire somebody
to plant this or do I want to give my
chiropractor all the money in the world so they can
put their kids through college because I messed up my

(41:51):
back trying to plant it myself. RCW Nurseries can come
out and do a good job for you on that.
By the way, later today at the eight o'clock hour,
I'm going to have David Williamson from RCW and we
are going to pick his brain on trees. If you've
planted a tree in the last year, if you're thinking
about planting a tree, how do you water a tree,
how do you take care of trees? What are some
of the best species for our area. Just all kinds

(42:12):
of things trees. And if you've got a tree question,
save it for the eight o'clock hour and call in
and you can pick mine and David's brain on all
things related to trees. Anyway. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch
RCW Nurseries dot com corner of Tombaugh Parkway and belt
Way eight, they will get you set up with the

(42:33):
right kind of plants and advice so that you can
have success. That I know for a fact, ACE hardware
stores are it's just a fun place to shop. I
was in a couple of ACE stores earlier in the
week visiting. I always like to stop buy sponsors and
see what's going on. What's there. You know, you go

(42:54):
into an a store and each one's different. They are
all a's and they got some standard similarities, of course,
but the owner of the store gets to create the
kind of environment and store and product line that they
choose that fits the community that they're in. And so
when you go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com, you're
going to find the stores near you. My garden line

(43:17):
group of ACE Hardware stores from Rockport all the way
to Orange, there is a ACE Hardware store near you
that you can find at Acehardware Texas dot Com. We're
talking about stores like All Star, Ace and Magnolia K
and M Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, Kilgore's Clear Lake Lumber
on East Maine, Katie Hardware on Penoak Road and Oldtown

(43:38):
Katie and down in Port Levaka on Calhoun Plaza. ACE
Hardware is the place no matter what you're looking for,
quality tools, quality outdoor living supplies, and certainly fertilizers, past disease,
weed control and everything you need to have success in
your lawn and garden. ACE is the place. I like that.

(44:02):
I like that model. Oh by the way, when you're
at ACE, you got to sign up for ACE Rewards.
In fact, you don't have to go into ACE to
do it. You can do it online. Sign up online
for ACE Rewards. You're going to get discounts and special
offers only available to ACE Rewards customer. They'll email them
directly to you. Just go in and take advantage of
a good deal. I'm a member of ACE Rewards, have

(44:24):
been for a long long before I started doing garden Line.
I was a member of ACE Rewards. When I was
checking out some of our flower beds earlier, I had
some nutsedge that came in. I had a call earlier
talking about nuts edge, and anyway I was dealing with

(44:46):
it had gotten away from me a little bit. I
didn't do what I said, you know, do as I say,
not as I do, and it had gotten away from me,
and it started to grow in. And I used the product,
the Halo sulfur on product that's on my website, hardening
with Skip dot Com, and took off on an eight
day trip away out of town. A boy. When I
came back, Oh, it was so beautiful. Seeing nuts edge

(45:08):
turn yellow and brown and dye just kind of does
my heart good. Anyway, it's working really well. I guess what,
when it pops back out, I'm not gonna let it
up for air. By the time it gets three to
five leaves. It's gonna get this, And I said when,
because you never get it all in one spray. When
it does, I'll take it out again and it cannot survive.

(45:30):
You do two of those at the very most, you
may have a third one pop up you know later,
but you don't let it up for air and you win.
That's how it works with nuts Edge, and that is
for sure. Let's go out now to Bakeliff area and
we're going to talk to Joan. Hey, Joan, welcome to
garden Line. Hey, Joan, alright, I'm gonna put Joan up lost, Joan, Well,

(46:00):
callback we'll catch up with you there. You've heard me
talk about Arctic Insulation before. Artic Insulation is the company
you need to know. If you don't like paying electric bills.
Let me just put it that way, if you like
being comfortable in your home, Arctic Insulation comes out and
they do everything that's needed to help your home hold

(46:23):
that you paid for it cool ayer that you have
in your home to enjoy it. Arctic Insulation for the website,
first of all, is Arctic Houston dot com. Arctic Houston
dot com. By the way, Arctic has a two seas
Arctic Houston dot Com eight three two five eight six
twenty eight ninety three. They're a one stop shop for

(46:44):
all your customized insulation needs. Do you need radiant barrier
in the roof, I mean a little ower temperatures about
thirty degrees, just having that up in the attic, fiberglass insulation,
all types, making sure you have the top quality insulation,
a solar ap to move hot air out of the attic.
Boy that helps a lot too, and then making sure

(47:05):
to seal up all those places in the walls or
attic attic specific les should and say, well, where you're
getting exchange of air between your room and the incredibly
one hundred and fifty degree attic temperatures up there in there?
They can do it all. Arctic Houston dot Com eight
three two five eight six twenty eight ninety three. If

(47:27):
you're listening to me and you live anywhere from Berkshire,
across the Baytown or up in Willistown to Galveston, there
they you were in their service area, So give them
a call. At Arctic. I hate spending money and having
coal air go outside. That is for sure. You probably

(47:48):
do too. The folks at Medina have so many great products.
I had Andy Chidester on I just the other day.
We were talking about some of the products and things
that they have. And Medina products had been around for
a long time, since the nineteen fifties. I mean they
were a sponsored garden line before it was called garden line.
Been around a long long time. I love many of

(48:08):
their products. I talk about different ones, but one I
don't talk about is their humate product. The humates a
high quality product that is made with the final decomposition
stage of organic matter. It's got some natural acids that
are in nature fulvic acid for example, humic acid for example,

(48:30):
and these are all part of what makes soil so good.
It's what nature does to build soil. And that you
can find many of their other products the Medina has
to grow. The Medina Plus Medina Plus especially is just
chock full of all kinds of things good for plants.
You use it and you see the results. I use
some on a struggling houseplant that was sitting outside. It

(48:53):
looked horrible because I was neglecting it. Don't tell anybody.
And when I went away for eight days and I
came back and it's on its way back already it's
already looking really, really good thanks to Medina plus applied
to that house plant. I'm gonna take a little quick
break and i'll be back with your calls. Hey, good morning,
Welcome to garden Line. Good to have you with us

(49:14):
this morning. Here's the number you don't want you want
to write this one down so you can use it.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two on two ktr H. Give me
a call. We'll talk about the things that interest you
regarding gardening. I I, uh, had somebody asked me a
question the other day and they said something they let

(49:36):
off with. I know this is a stupid question, but
then here they go, and I just interrupted him. I said,
I used to say this on Guardline. I should say
it again more. I said, wait, there are no stupid questions,
just stupid answers. And they kind of sat up like huh,
because I know, yes, they're stupid questions. But on garden Line,
there are no stupid questions, just stupid answer. You asked

(49:57):
your question. I'll treach you with the respect and we
will get you an answer to your question. Because it's
your question. I don't expect you to know how to garden,
to call in garden Line. I don't expect you to
be an expertise and uh to have expertise, and the
thing we're talking about that that's why we're here. We
want you to get better. We want you to have
fun and expertise. So if you've been shy, and I

(50:19):
know I talk about people all the time. I listen
to gard line all the time, but I just don't
want to call in. Okay, all right, well call in.
Don't worry about it. We'd love to hear from you.
Love to help you have success with your garden, downtiful garden,
beautiful landscape and fun in the process. That's what we do.
Let's do it. You give me a call seven one three, right,

(50:40):
all right? There, no stupid questions, desk, stupid answers. I
know what y'all y'all are thinking. Yeah, I've heard some
stupid questions in life many times. Okay, well, I don't
look at it that way. Hey, the pressure's on me,
not you. You call, I'll try not to give a
stupid answer and we'll be good to go about that.
There you go in Chenny Gardens is the garden center

(51:04):
down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area on the Katie
Fullsher side. If you are down in Richmond and you
head north toward Katie or Fulsher, they're your garden center
and they're on three fifty nine Highway three fifty nine.
The website is Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Been around
since nineteen ninety five when it first opened. It's an

(51:26):
unforgettable experience when you go there. They have a very
enthusiastic team. They're about as enthusiastic and helpful as they come.
You can bring photos and samples to get some expert advice.
When you go in there, plants wall to wall, from
horizon to horizon almost it's a nice, spread out, beautiful place.
Lots of plant options, but not just plants. We're talking

(51:48):
about fountains and chimes and whimsical garden art. We're talking
about an incredible selection of seeds and antique and hybrid
roses and herbs and vegetables, anything you could possibly want.
And when you're there, they know that brown stuff comes
before green stuff, and they'll they'll provide you with microlife
and nitrofoss and Nelson plant food and Medina products. They

(52:11):
have soil products from Nature's Way and heirloom source quality
high quality products. You can't get better than Nature's Way
and airlom soils when it comes to high quality products. Now,
they're open Monday through Saturday and also on Sunday, and
you just need to swing out there and check them out.
But here's the website one more time, Enchanted Gardensrechmond dot

(52:33):
com in Chennygardensrichmond dot com. Take a friend. When you
go by the way, you will both enjoy it. And
that way you can watch. You can watch each other
off to make sure that you're getting good plants and
good advice. Hey, we're gonna go to Danbury now and
talk to Phyllis. Hey, Phyllis, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (52:55):
Good morning.

Speaker 12 (52:56):
I listen to you all the time. Never ever thought
I'd call in mind. Has been has been using round
up for a month trying to kill these weeds that
are kind of taking over all my nice pretty things
that I've set up to try to prevent grass growing
and whatnot. And it's not killing it. So he went
online and he found a I don't know a home

(53:19):
remedy which consists of heavy duty or industrial vinegar, dawn
and salt, and like I told the gentlemen, I didn't
know whether or not roundups changed this formula or the
weeds just got stronger.

Speaker 13 (53:35):
But it's not working.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Okay, Well, vinegar will burn the tops of plants, but
not control perennials because they just come back out of
the ground. Salt will kill plants, including plants that are
in the bed. And basically it also is just burning,
whether it's in the soil, burning the roots on the top,
burning the plant, and the dish soap just makes it

(54:00):
stick to the just stick to the leaves better. And
so you know that that's fine. I don't know why
round up's not working. What we need to do, Phllas
is you need to when this gets daylight? Is it
already daylight outside? I got the curtains drawn here in
the studio. Anyway it is you need okay, all right,

(54:21):
you need to get some of those weeds, take pictures
of them. And if they're in a bunch of weeds,
sometimes it's hard in a picture for me to re
see the weed. You could pull one up and set
it on like the table kitchen table, where you can
get above it and take a really nice, good quality
sharp photo. Up close. Let me look at what the
weeds are because there are not many weeds that will

(54:41):
not be controlled by round up now. You said something
about round up changing, and it has. It actually has.
When you go into a garden center type supply, not
ag supply, but just you know, home gardening supply place,
whether it's a garden center, an ace hardware store, a
feed store, whatever, what's sold is round up now is
not the old round up. It is a combination of

(55:03):
several different weed killers that they each have their pros
and cons, but it's not the same as the original.
The original you would have to go you know, special
purchase that you can go over to Southwest Fertilizer. They
could could say the original one. But let me look
at the weeds first. Let's take a look at it.
Maybe there's a better way to do this, because you

(55:25):
don't need to be wasting your time or your husband's
time out there trying to deal with with those things.
If it's not working.

Speaker 12 (55:33):
Okay, okay, okay, I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Let's do this. I'm going to put you on hold
Alhndro pick up and he'll give you an email and
if you can get some weed pictures to me here
or too long, I'll talk about them on the air
if you want to keep listening. Okay, thank you, thanks
a lot, Bye bye. You know, there's so many weeds

(56:00):
out there, and you know, we talk about products, good
products that work. You know, for example, I talk about
barricade from nitroposs as a pre emergent, talk about it
all the time. And barricade's great. It works on grassy weeds,
it works on broad leaf weeds. But it doesn't work
on every weed that's out there. No product does, no product,

(56:21):
there are products. There are weeds you're not going to
kill with roundup. They just you're not and it kills
everything right well, So just understand that whether it's a past,
a disease, or a weed, one size does not fit all.
And that's why diagn identifying or diagnosing is so so important.

(56:42):
Otherwise you're wasting time and money. And we don't want
you to waste your time and money. Neither do you
so a good identity. That's why people email me pictures
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I'm just reminding you again that I'm not able to
just chat on email back and forth with people and
a lot of questions. They take them back and forth

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It looks like you had a little miniature dog convention,
if you know what I'm talking about on the front
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That's one good thing that they do. But primarily they
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joining us to say, hey, Buchanans needed plants in the Heights.

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If you've not been there, you got to go. You
really need to go. And if you have been there,
you know, I tell people they got to go. There
is an unbelievable supply of all kinds of plants and Buchanans,
you know. For example, they have a greenhouse that is
chock full of houseplants and succulents and tropical you know,
all those kinds of plants. I mean, it is huge

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and it is full whatever kind of houseplant you like.
How about Chinese evergreen aglo andemo. It's one of my
favorite house plants. They probably have I don't know six
eight different kinds of agulinema there. I mean, you just
walked down the road looking at Oh my gosh, they
more than that. But it's an excellent selection. If it's
herbs you want, if it's vegetables or certainly flowers, if

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it's shade loving plants, but they really are. Nobody matches them.
When it comes to native plants. That's part of the name.
Buchanan's Native Plants on Eleventh Street and the Heights. The
website is Buchanansplants dot com. You should go there and
you should sign up because that website is in and
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They feature native plants all the time on there. And
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the Peat Free containerx Tropicoor, great selection of pottery and
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it really is. There's so many cool things. Buchanan to
Nady Plants. But it's on eleven Street in the Heights.
But write this down Buchanan's Plants dot com and go
bookmark that spot. You're that website. You're gonna need it.

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We're gonna head now out to Bayliffe and talk to Joan. Hey, Joan,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (01:01:27):
Good morning, good morning. I'm I sent you a picture.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
I hope you have it by now. I do I do.
Your grass is not happy? No, it's your grass is
very unhappy. Yeah, so what's what's going.

Speaker 13 (01:01:44):
It's a small that's a very small twenty by twenty
area that's a little a little garden area in front
of the house. And in the spring it was healthy.
I haven't watered it, but because I've almost overwatered it before,
I don't live there, and I had an automatic watering
on it, and we've had so much rain, so I

(01:02:07):
was kind of being cautious with that. I hope I'm
not just killing it. But well, this has been over
a couple of months.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Yeah, let me tell you what I see. And for
those who are listening on radio, which we all are, right,
what I'm seeing is grass that there's some green spots
in it, but more and more it's just declining. It's
good shriveling. It's just turning tan brown. And I think
you have a disease called take all root rot. Now,

(01:02:37):
that's a fungus that is an opportunist. It's not like
it flew over the fence and landed and is attacking
your yard. It's everywhere. Everybody's got take All in their property.
But when the grass gets weak and stressed, take All
moves in. So a drought condition for a while. Stressing
them that way can cause it. Some herbicides we put

(01:02:58):
on our lawn can struct the grass and can open
the door for take all to come. In compaction can
open the door for take all. There's a lot of
stresses that can cause it the opportunity to get in.
At this point, you really need to go to my
website because on there I have Skip Richter's Lawn Past
Disease and weed management schedule, and on that we will

(01:03:21):
see that. In the fall. There's two times when we
treat for take all, one after another tells you what
product to you use. It's on the schedule, and then
in the spring you can do it again. For now,
because the grass has lost so much roots, which is
why it's dying, you do need to water more. Unfortunately,
you're just going to have to because it's like it

(01:03:44):
has very little root left, so that root doesn't need
to dry out, right, You see what I'm saying, And
you're going to see the decline continue it just as
far as it's gone this way, you're going to lose.

Speaker 13 (01:03:55):
More careful with overwatering, I mean, well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
The more often, Yeah, keeping grass constantly wet opens the
door to diseases. Especially the brown patch circles we see
in the fall that that is caused, that is promoted
by overwatering. But now we're trying to keep the grass alive,
so I don't I'm not telling you to overwater. I'm
just saying, you know, normally a good soaking once a

(01:04:20):
week is enough. I might do a half inch twice
a week on this rather than one inch once a week,
which is how I normally want a water grass. And
then if you there are things you can do that
that help fight against it. Getting some Sphagnum pete moss.
It comes in compressed bales there rectangular like a brick,

(01:04:43):
but it's compressed peat moss. Putting it out there, breaking
it up and having somebody spread it all over the
yard about only a third of an inch deep, so
a bale covers one thousand square feet, and you can
put it deeper if you want. But and then water
that in. That helps. That helps, and there are other
things that can help. But ultimately the stress you could

(01:05:06):
do that. Now, yeah, the problem is the grass has
already lost a lot of roots. It's dying, and it's
going to die more no matter what you do at
this point, and it's summer and the demands are high,
so it's just a tough time to turn take all around.
But those are the things you can do. But mainly,
take a look at my schedule gardening with skip dot

(01:05:29):
com and you can. That'll give you some advice on
what product you use and when to get it applied.
You may end up having to reside some areas or
plug some soil in and saw it in at least, okay,
and I will do that.

Speaker 13 (01:05:46):
And I was going to say, I have called you before.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
I have the same little place.

Speaker 13 (01:05:52):
My maintenance there is hard to keep up with because
I don't live there. I go there weekends and holidays.
And I had a horrible stick abirr problem and I
had treated with the products you recommended. And there was
actually a great, a great article on your site. I'm
sure it's still there. If anybody is fighting stick of burrs,

(01:06:16):
they should go take a look at it, because it's
been the only helpful thing I've really come across.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Well, good, thank you, thank you. I'm gonna run, but
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now to Tomball and talk to Matt. Hello, Matt, Welcome

(01:07:26):
to garden Line ship.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
I have a few roses. I've sent you pictures that
are in decline. The leaves have they're turning yellows and
they've got little spots and then they've fallen off and yeah,
and you have some pictures of these.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
I did see those. That's the one where I ask
you what varieties they were, correct? Is that the okay? Yeah,
what I'm seeing is I'm seeing roses and containers that
are not very large, and as long as you keep
the soil moist and it drains well and you put

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bloody and nutrients in it, they'll be okay. But the
symptoms on those are stress symptoms, older leaves dropping off,
turning yellow, falling off, and things. That's the primary symptom
that I'm seeing on your plants, and so I think
at some point it just got too dry or too wet. Also,

(01:08:26):
if there aren't drain holes and the roots are underwater,
that will also cause stresses. So I don't know which
of those that you know occurred with yours, but that's
what i'm seeing, and so my recommendation to you would
be number one, consider moving them to a little bit
larger container. Some of those have been in the container

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for a while. You can tell about how far down
the potting soil has sunken as it's decomposed away in
the container. So a good fresh repotting you've w a
wait till fall to do that. That's fine. In the meantime,
just just keep them adequately moist. I don't see signs
of a lot of disease on them. I do see
signs of a lack of nitrogen though, also so a

(01:09:11):
good quality rose food to provide them with a boost.
The folks at Nelson Plant Food make little canisters of
rose fertilizer that you can use. It's part of their
nutri Star line that that would work well for that.
Just take a little tea spoon and sprinkle it there
in the containers periodically. Okay, all right, yeah, but I

(01:09:34):
think a little invigorating and whatnot. All right, okay, thanks
so much. By the way, you have a beautiful place.
I have a beautiful place. I love. That looks like
a fun patio to hang out. You take care. Oh well,
there you go. There you go. I'm going to quote
you on that. Thanks a lot, mad, I appreciate it.

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We gotta go to a quick break here. Mark in
Lake Charles will be our first up when we come back.
All right, welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have
you with us. Hey, if you would like to give
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it on fruit trees and all kinds of plants. It's
just a good fertilizer. It's not going to burn. It's
not a salt based fertilizer. It is chock full of microbes,
which that's what makes the world go round. That's what

(01:10:40):
makes plants happy, is having a very healthy soil condition.
You know, brown stuff before green stuff, and just it
helps the rooch to thrive in the plants to thrive.
Micro Life sixty four will help your lawn. I've used
it on mine. Uh E. You want to combine it
with humates plus the purple bag MIC sixty two four
is a green bag you makes. Plus is a purple

(01:11:01):
bag he makes. Plus is a final decomposing stage of
organic matter, and it is what has all the ingredients
in it that help not only build soil and make
microbes happy, but helps splints to thrive as well. You're
gonna find micro life products all over the place. You
can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find out
where to get the ones that you're looking for in

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your area wherever you live. We're going to go to
Lake Charles now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Skip.

Speaker 14 (01:11:32):
My question is I want a nice ornamental tree for
my yard because I've lost so many oaks through the
storms in every Okay, so I'm like something in red.
If you could come up with something from my area.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Uh are you talking about red all the time or
just red blooms when it blooms or what are you
what are you thinking? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:11:55):
Yeah, bloom blooms red now also blooms. Also want the
best red crpe myrtle that you could come up with?

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Also? Okay, Well, first of all, I would we use
the word red if you've heard of red buds, which
I don't think are red. I think they're kind of
a hot pink color. But anyway, red.

Speaker 14 (01:12:17):
Buds I don't I don't want. Okay, it's got to
be in the red.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Okay, Well, what I was going to say about red
buds is there are red bud varieties that have a
deep burgundy foliage, which if that's not red enough, you know,
I understand, but I would consider that because you get
the spring blooms and then and then you get the red.
As far as crate myrtles are concerned, they are a
number of excellent crpe myrtle choices. If you go into

(01:12:47):
Google search or whatever and you type in crate myrtle
and my name Skip Richter, it will pop up a
list of crate myrtles that that you can see. And
put this list together a long time ago, so it's
a little bit it's a little bit old of a list.
I need to update it, but it lists them according

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to the height, and according to the bloom color, and
according to disease resistance. And when you're buying a crape myrtle,
there are some good red ones out there. There's one
called oh my gosh, I just went blank as I
was starting to say the name of it. It's a
watermelon red named after a Houston nurserman. Oh, I'll think

(01:13:30):
of it in just a second here. But anyway, when
when you're looking at a crape murdle, you want to
number one, buy crape myrtles that are going to be
disease resistant. Number two, by the crape myrtle that's going
to be the size you want, so you're not having
to prune it all the time, you know, trying to
trying to keep it, keep it going. And you know,

(01:13:51):
then just make sure it gets plenty of sunlight and
it'll do well for you. I'm trying to find that
list of crapes that I have online. I'm having trouble
finding it. Uh huh, Bashians, No, that's not that's the
wrong one, Bashoms, it's too pink for you. Well, anyway,
if you can go online and search for that list,
it'll give you that way, and that way you can look,

(01:14:12):
because you know, one may be said to be red,
but it may be a little different color. There's one
called Dynamite that was bred recently by doctor Carl Wickham
up in Oklahoma that has beautiful red blooms and the
foliage is even a dark dark color as well. So
that's another another option that you might want to consider.

Speaker 14 (01:14:33):
Okay, and you said the red bud has some red varieties.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
Yes, if you go to a red bud, there is
one called murlow m E R l ot. But think
of a burgundy as the color. Now, what you're going
to find in red bud foliage, it's not the blooms.
It's the foliage that I'm talking about. The blooms. Some
of them are darker pink than others, but they're all pink.
Just when you buy a red bud, make sure that

(01:14:58):
uh look into it little bit, because some of them
are red in a little bit of a cooler climate.
But we get hot here in the summer and the
red kind of fades out into green. They look better
in cool weather. There's another one called Burgundy Hearts I
mentioned low. There's another one called forest Pansy that has
a dark burgundy blooms that you might want to consider.

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Those are just a few. All right, Well, thank you,
you bet, thank you very much. I can't believe I
can't find that list here. Find that during break. Get
back with you, all right, folks, put another hour in
the books if you'd like to be up first when
we come back. Seven one three, two, one two fifty

(01:15:42):
eight seventy four. Well, well, welcome back, welcome back to
guarden Line. Good to have you with us, right, we
love talking to you about gardening. What kind of questions
do you have? Here's what we're going to do this hour.

(01:16:03):
I have asked David Williamson from RCW Nurseries and Williamson
Tree Farm to come on and talk trees with us,
and we are going to just kind of go through
all the things. If you have questions about trees, especially
proper planting, how do you care for them in the summer,
you know, those sort of things, feel free to give

(01:16:25):
us a call. All of their calls. I'm going to
ask that you hold it until the nine o'clock hour
and we will tackle the other things at that time,
but we're going to really focus on trees. Maybe you
put in a new tree and you know, you want
to know how do I water it? How often do
I water it? Maybe you're looking to put in a
tree and you want to know what's some good trees
to plant. Well, we've got an expert right here with us,

(01:16:46):
and I'm going to go straight over here to the
phones and see if I can get David live. Hey,
David are you there? Hey, I'm great, I'm great. Welcome
to Guardline and thanks so much for coming on. Let
us pick your brain to day on trees. Appreciate that. Yeah,
happy to do it. Thank you for inviting me. You
bet you bet well, I say. Back when I was

(01:17:10):
a horticulture extension we used to say that things that
made the phone ring at the extension office were the
three t's, trees, turf, and tomatoes. And it's certainly true
on garden line, especially trees and turf. People always have questions,
what's wrong with my tree? What's a good tree to plant?
You know, all those sort of things. But trees are
such I guess the single most valuable plant in your landscape,

(01:17:33):
or potentially could be in terms of value to your
home and value to you sitting outside on a hot
summer day. We got to take care of them. Disappro
it is? It is? I'd like to start off just
by you grow a lot of different trees, and I
know you guys select trees that do well. Here. Do

(01:17:55):
you have a few favorites? We kind of go through
a list of some of the trees and I'll throw
them maybe a your mine in too. But what are
some of your favorite types of trees for the greater
Houston area. Let's start with some things that might be
good for shade.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
I like the San Flea Bay drum and red maple.
I like the fall oaks and the Schuemart oaks. I
like the white oak Cucus bike uh parcas alba. That's
one of my favorite white oaks. A good fall color,
no matter what time it, what kind of weather we get.

(01:18:30):
I'm like the bicolor white oak as well. I like
the lace park elms and the drake elms. And drake
elms are pressing an improved variety of the lace park
but they're both great.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well that's quite a few go ahead.
Like the Mexicans, I like the Mexican white oak as well.
That's Mexican white oak. Yeah, stays evergreen here.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
I mean the first the first couple of years might
drop his least, but once it gets established, it's an ever.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
Green tree for a year. Well let me let me
go back into the list of the ones you've thrown
out already. And one thing I like about the Mexican
white oak is also I think called Monterey oak. Another
name for it is that it does hold its leaves
for quite a while, but it grows fast for an oak.

(01:19:22):
You know, normally I say grow fast, die young. When
we're dealing with trees because a lot of the trash
trees grow fast and don't have the wood structure to
hold up. But Mexican white oaks an exception to that.
It does grow I say, almost two foot a year
on average. Yeah, I've seen it just depends on the conditions.

(01:19:42):
It's where it's planted. But now I was just taking
care of but it's in a pot.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
I's to growth, you know, two foot and more a
year from continuing to continuous.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
We shipped them to bigger sizes. Yeah. You mentioned the
drake elm and a Chinese alm, the variety drake, and
it is a great tree. Things I like about drake
elms are it makes a very large open I don't

(01:20:12):
know how to describe it, but light gets through pretty
well compared to sub trees, and so you can grow
stuff underneath them.

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
One thing I do know is that tree has still
pretty bark. The bark peel orangey exploding like an orange background.

Speaker 1 (01:20:29):
It's really pretty. Yeah. Yeah. They kind of almost a
like like rust rust with gray patches all along it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Exactly it does it does when it gets big, it
needs to be thinned out because it can get top heavy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
I've seen him blow over in hurricanes, but they are
used to watch out for that. Yeah, okay, it's good. Good.
You see these a lot in parking lots, folks say,
you know, they just get planted in esplanades and through
the city and different places like that. The tough tree.
The The other thing I like about that particular elm

(01:21:04):
is I just think that the trunk and structure is attractive.
It's almost a muscular looking structure, you know how like
a body of weightlifters got all the the muscles sticking
out and bolted in that trunk. The way it forms,
it's it's just a I describe it as a muscular
looking trunk. I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
That's that's a good description because it's not a perfectly
round trunk.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
It's it's got a little right character to it. But
it's yeah, that's cool. That is a pretty It is
a pretty chrunk. You mentioned the nut tall oak and
the shumard oak, and uh. I've always told people that
the schumart, if you got real good soil, that's probably

(01:21:50):
a good one to go with. The nutthle will even
put up with some soggy wet and I be and
I know that you provided a nutthle that we planted
out there or was planted out there, and brookwood and
memory of Randy. Uh, that's an excellent tree.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
It's a fast growing tree as well, and and pretty good.
The fall color can change depends on our weather, but
it's it's pretty solid yellow with the orange red ball color.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
Same thing with the smart oak. Well, those are those
are a lot of really good trees. I got about
a minute here before I have to go to a break,
but just to just to uh kind of summarize those
that that David just went over. Those are all really
good treasures. You know, there's a lot of other good
trees out there, But then there are a lot of
trees that we love. They just kind of have some

(01:22:40):
of their issues.

Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Pecan for me, is one of those. You're not going
to get pecans. The scrolls are going to get the pecans.
You have an orchard and the shotgun. But but but
they drop limbs and they're just not the best yard tree.

Speaker 3 (01:22:56):
No, it's a it's a state tree for us, but
it's it is anna have a lot of space and
as at the right conditions to grow. I was down
the Richmond last week and I could there's a lot
of pretty ones down there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
Yeah, Richmond, that's true. It's well, it's just yep. And
and then the diseases of voltage in the shock is
another issue. And it rains over here, so we have
a lot more diseases than they do in West Texas.
But nobody wants to run a sprayer and be squirting
something up in the air, drifting onto your neighbors who

(01:23:30):
are not fond of you doing that. So it's probably
one that would be best left to somebody who's got
a little piece of property. They can put it on,
but I don't take it. I don't take a break. David. Thanks,
We're gonna come back and pick your brain some more.
The rest of you just hang on a little bit again.
If you have a tree question, feel free to call
in when we come back. I've got two questions here.
We've got a question from Danny and Cyprus and Bill

(01:23:52):
and Seeley that will pick up. Alrighty, welcome back to
guard Line. We are visiting this hour with David Williamson
from RCW Nurseries and Williamson Tree Farm, and we're talking trees.
It's all about trees. If you've got a question, about trees.
We will be happy to try to put our heads
together and come up with a good answer for you

(01:24:13):
on that. By the way, David, welcome back to garden Line.
I've got a caller here, Danny and Cyprus that has
a question, so I'm going to go to that one.
And hey, Danny, welcome to garden Line. Good to have
you with us.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
Yes, thank you for having me. I have two live
oak trees in a seven year old neighborhood in front
of my house, and they bloom out beautifully. They don't
stay live oak. It seems like I start losing leaves.
I'm losing leaves right now, and I'm sitting in my

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driveway and leaves are falling on me. Okay, and I'll
lose almost all my leaves, but they're in the I
guess late or enter or early spring. The trees blew
them out beautifully and they stay that way until about now.

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And now I'm losing leaves so much that I have
to rake them up.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
That's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:25:18):
Hey, my neighbors, their trees are perfect, nothing's wrong with them.
Nobody's loving leaves losing leaves except me and spring.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
Spring leaf drop, spring leaftop Danny is normal, and but
you're dealing with the leaf drop at a different time
of the year. Let me let me pull David in here. David,
do you have any thoughts on why alive oak would
be dropping leaves this this far into the season.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
It's time I see them drop leaves, if they're if
they're in shock, if there's too much water or not
enough water, usually drying out you need to is when
I'll start dropping leaves. Usually when they have too much water,
they'll they'll just turn brown on all.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
Yeah, but how big is the yard.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
It's in a new subdivision, so the yard is not big.
It's you know, these new subdivisions, they'll put two live
oaks in a very small and I've had a bility
out here before and he's looked at it and I
started some service with him. But you know, financially, I
just could not do that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
And how long how long, Danny did you say you've
had it in the ground, these live oaks, these two trees.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
The house is about six years old, and so they're
about six years old ser put in by the builder.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
Yes, you know, David. One thing I was thinking is
with some kinds of trees, especially something fast growing, like
a Bradford pear. You get a root that's circling early
in the tree's development and growth when the container is
still small, and then it gets big and the root
strangles the tree and you start to see stress factors.
But not a six year old, a six year planet

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live oak shouldn't be at that stage, should we.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Well, I've seen I've seen trees that have been you know, fire,
that have been overgrown. They didn't get planted properly, whereas
they basically they basically suffocate themselves out and they can
take six to ten years.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
I've seen a slow death. Yeah, cut the roots the.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
You don't know if these are container grown trees or
if there are trees that were brought in by Balden
Burlap or state or they.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
I'm not sure, sir, but you know, course it was
from the builder, you know, and so you know, one
day I don't have trees, and the next day I
have two trees in the front yard. You know, while
they're doing the.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
I don't want to I don't want to throw shade
on builders here, but sometimes you know, when you're just
trying to put in a division, you need a bunch
of trees and they're not trained in horticulture and things,
and so they may pick up a really good deal
and it's a good deal for a reason, you know
what I'm saying. And so it could be trees, like
David was saying, and they spend too much, too much

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time in the bucket.

Speaker 4 (01:28:03):
Yeah. Well, one one thing that I do have is
my neighbor's house is the same builder, and she has
two trees. Also, we both closed on the same day.
They were built at the same time, and hers are perfect.
She don't have any leaves at all on the ground
and in my leaves for going into her yard.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
Have you put any David, You're going to say something,
Have you put.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Any weeding feet on your yard at all? It's like
on a sass or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
Quit doing that after I visited with Lewis Flohoridi.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Okay, okay, that stuff. That's a good thing. You quit that.
I'm thinking, I don't know if it were mine. If
it were mine, I might, you know, get a water
hose and kind of a little bit of a maybe
get a little handspade or something, dig around what you
thought was the original root ball and just just look
at what you see. Blass some water out of there

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by bless some soil out where try to see as
much of the riots as you can't can be easy
at this stage. But if you've got a bunch, if
you've got a tree that was really pop bound that
got stuck in the ground, uh it, I don't know it.
Trees aren't cheap, but it may be better just to
pull it and put a put a new one in
that is gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:29:16):
Years ago I bought one of them deep root feeders
that you can buy it like ace and and I've
used that a couple of times to trying to get
some deep root feeding. You know, Uh what are you?
What you think is that good or bad?

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
In different well, if you don't go if you don't
go too deep. Most most of the live oak tree's
roots are in the top foot of soil roughly, and
so going down real deep, it's the most of the
feeding roots are up where the roots can get oxygen.
But what I'm talking about is a structural issue with them.
I'm gonna we're gonna have to move on. But David,
do you have any other thoughts before we go here?

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
I think you know any type of area with it all,
like a small Augur would help as well, if you
can go through there and see how compact this all is,
and you can see what the roots you're doing. But
and then you know, okay, ocean harvest, ocean harvest. Are
some composts on those holes to help you know the
soil and the roots.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Yeah, okay, there you go. All right, guys, Well that's
that's about the best.

Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
A list to Thank you very much, Skill, all right, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
You for being a listener. I I really appreciate that. Alrighty,
So Alejandro, if you can reconnect, we're gonna have you
connect me now if you will with Bill, and seely
I'm having some trouble getting turned loose here there we go,
all right, Uh, let's connect over with Bill. Hey, Bill,

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we are going to get you on here. Got a
little problem with the phones here, David, just to hang
on a second. All right, Okay, you what let's uh,
let's uh let's do this. Let's uh there we go.
We got Bill? All right, Bill, uh, welcome to garden Line.
How can we help?

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (01:31:03):
Me and my wife we both love palm trees, so
we've got three different types in our backyard. When we
moved out to Sea, Lee we got Mexican palm windmill
palm and the Silver Queen that we bought, which is
a giant two thousand dollars palm tree. And we always

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get that token freeze every year that goes down to
like fifteen degrees. And they originally told us it was
guaranteed to eighteen degrees, but they said, oh, you didn't
factor in the wind chill factor, and it kills it
every year. So, I mean, it looks real beautiful when

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they installed it, and every year we blocked all the palms.
And last year was a double whammy with Hurricane Barrel
because it ripped all the palms off when they were
coming back. And I've been told try Christmas lights, which
I think made it worse because it burnt it. You know,
the old style of Christmas lights. And I just was

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they call them fronds that fall off.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
Yeah, and well maybe you get some secret bullet.

Speaker 15 (01:32:17):
I did the windmill and not the windmills of Mexican
pops are the most hearty, but the Silver Queens. I mean,
they'll get looking beautiful and then we'll lose them all.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
Then by October they'll start all right, let's give David
a let's give David a chance to respond to that.
Go ahead, David.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Yeah, since the twenty one, since the twenty one freezes
on queens, I don't even sell them anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
I'll bring them in for a customer.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
I tell them playing them like a perennial or playing
them like an annual, because we've been having freezes every
year that kill them. And sometimes most time they'll come back.
It's if it's not you know, five days low freezing.
But I you know, the Mexican fan, the wind meal,
the mediterrane fan palms, even the mule palms. It's across

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the pindo and a and a queen which is looks
longer queen pomp but that's even it's a little bit
harder than the regular queens. But they're just they're tough,
and you're it's it's hard to predict our winners. Yeah,
I hate just want to invest a lot of money
in those things and and not to get to enjoy

(01:33:27):
them until you know, later in the year, and so
they you know, they fell back out.

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
That's good. Yeah, that I didn't know the meal palm
had that Pendo parentage. That pendo is a pretty hardy
palm and itself yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:33:43):
Yeah, I know it's some of these free some of
the Mexican poems all over town are dead.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
Yeah, true too. Yeah, those.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
Windmills survived, the Mexican sables survived, and.

Speaker 1 (01:33:59):
The well Bill, It's palms are we're you know, we're
we're borderline for a lot of palms. And so I
think just trying to stay with the heart of your
maybe stay away from the queen going forward. Sover Queen,
I appreciate your paul, thank you, and I sprayed it
that didn't yeah help. You know, when when palm trees

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have that experience that kind of cold, a lot of
things that may provide a tiny bit of help for
some plants, it's just not going to cut it. You
got one bud that's alive at the top of the
trunk on those palms, and if it dies, it's a
dead It might as well be a telephone pole. It's
dead and it's not going to ever come back or
reach sprout or anything like that. And so the only
thing that would help would be protecting the whole trunk

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and then the top bud, which is just not practical,
especially on a larger palm like that. But I got
to run folks, we are coming up on a break
here in a little bit, David, but I wanted to
I wanted to shift a little bit. You were talking
about shade trees that are among your favorite. Do you

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have some comments on magnolia's. In about forty five seconds,
we're going to a break, but I want you to
think about some of your favorite magnolia trees. The old
southern magnolias are so popular. And boy, recently we lost
a lot of magnolias around town. It really caught me
off guard. And you probably experienced that, yeah, the drought.

(01:35:28):
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All right, we're back. Welcome back to our line. We
have got David Williamson from r CW nurseries and Williamson
Tree Farm with us today and we are talking trees,
all kinds of things trees. If you got a tree
question specifically to like shade trees, ornamental trees, flowering trees,

(01:36:14):
give us a call. We'd be glad to visit with
you about it. David, Before before we went to break,
I was talking about the magnolias, and I think you
probably observed the significant die back of southern magnolias.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Freeze and you know, even sub division homes that had
lost a lot during that drought we had ten years ago. Ye,
they struggled big time. Yeah, I don't know if it's
a matter of the big ones that died. If it
was you know, stress over time, the hurricane, you know,

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who knows what calls calls the death, but they did
accomplished the things.

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
But yeah, well, you know, southern magnolia is a huge, huge,
beautiful tree. We love them. But there's some new, newer
varieties that have been out some for a good while.
Do you have any favorites of the southern magnolias for
somebody maybe that's looking for something maybe not quite as big,
but that just would be beautiful and do well. On

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the landscape here.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Yes, the little gin is probably my favorite small magnolia.
You know, it's it's twenty five thirty feet tall by
max fight, but it blomes the best.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
Is a smaller leaf.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
It's got the brownish back and a really dark green leaf,
and it's it seems to be the most profuse rumor
of them all that it gets a little bit bigger.
It's another good ones. It gets a little bit bigger.
It's a it's a larger magnolia, bigger leaf round.

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
Back as well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:51):
And yeah, it's probably one of the more popular lands
heap for what we sell here.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
And we also you don't grow at the farm.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
But we we we brought in some Claudia wannamakers, brack
and brown beauty. So there's some teddy bearers. Teddy Bear's
supposed to be a dollar supposed to teddy bear. Yeah,
I haven't seen a full sized rawn one yet, but
the they say they get only twenty feet tall. But
it's a it's got a bigger leaf in a little gym.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
But it's pretty. It's a pretty plant. It's a very
pretty plant. I saw some in a in a parking
planting the other day and maybe this was just you know,
the way that it had been grown or something. But
they seemed a little squattier to me in their shape. Yeah,
and like a little gem. I don't know if that's
accurate or not, but that's what they look like to me.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
That's that's a good that's a good ex I mean description,
because they they are squatires, very compact soul wish.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
Yeah, well they know. Nothing says the South like a
beautiful magnolia for sure. Mississippi. I think, uh, they were
switching out their flag and they put they put magnolia
on their flag. Uh state trail for them. I don't
know if go ahead. I think it's a sweet babe

(01:39:08):
may noise or state tree, but I'm not positive. Oh
is it okay? Yeah, well we love them. Let's let's uh,
let's talk about tree planting. I see so many problems
that happen and by the time we see the problem
on the tree were way past when it could have
been prevented. You were talking earlier about like circling roots. Uh,

(01:39:32):
there's planting depth. There's there's a lot of issues people
that want to put compassed in the planting hole, in
a clay planting hole, or are maybe assault based immediate
release fertilizer of things. Could you go over a little
bit about some of the common problems that we see
and what proper tree planting should look like for someone
wanting to have that long term success.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Well, we've been playing this way since my dad started
this company in seventy nine. But the plant six inches
wider than the root ball, and we add we have
black humous with the naked soil. We don't take all
the need of soul out. We want the tree to
get acclimated to the area. And then the break up
root ball and then we add micro Life organic fertiliser

(01:40:15):
in the hole with it, and then we bake the
tree and then we we put we put a Carl
Fool root ectivator or another organic products that that's they
can be applied monthly for the first year, but the
first you're drenching.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
With the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Plant after we plant, Yeah, and it's it seems to
really help the roots take off if you're consistent with
it monthly. When the when you have a new tree,
it really helps the roots get established. And there's all
kinds of food, but we just we really become We
really have liked that with the last you know, thirty
four years.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
A couple of problems that I've noticed on tree planning
is like people will dig a deep hole and then
they'll put on in the bottom to try to get
the tree up to the right hype, and then that's
all they put under it sinks and the tree ends
up sinking. Oh. I also see people plant too deep
a lot, and so could you comme in about how
to know how deep the plant a tree. We'll dig

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the hole and.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
We'll probably leave two to two We average about two inches.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
Bro The root balls above the ground level, and we'll
break down.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
We'll break up the the bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
But we don't add soal.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
We don't dig out below an add soil off the
We don't add salt to the base.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
We don't dig out the base and add soal. We
don't have to treat to sink.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
The roots grow prozolily mostly, and that's where we can
make concentrate our where our soil is. And then we
we when we raise it up, we put a little
mode around the outside so it has a little water
retention area.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
So one people take a host to it, they can.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
You know, water stays in that little retention uh, circle,
and we don't bring up the dirt higher then.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
Yeah, yeah, well I didn't mean to cut you off.
That's a good We don't cut this soil.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
We don't cover up any higher than where the soil
that was on the tree already.

Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
We don't want to bury the trunk, right. I think
when you walk away from planting a tree, you should
be able to see the topmost root there at the surface,
at least of the surface of the And and something
I'll point out. And you know a lot of people
grow trees. Some do it well and some don't do

(01:42:34):
it so well. And so I've had trees before that
when they bumped them up from one sized spot to
another to another, it's like they keep getting buried more
and more. So when you buy the tree, there's no
root flare at the top of the soil, and that's
not really the soil line. You dig all that away
and you go way down and suddenly down below there
you find the topmost root that's just been buried in

(01:42:56):
the process. And so don't assume that soil line in
the pot necessarily is the is the depth that it
should be planted at. Look for that top you want
to see some taper. Yeah, for sure. You want to
see that tapered root zone. I see that landscapes. Yeah,
I see that landscapes too, David, where maybe they planted it,

(01:43:19):
maybe it was planted at the right level, but then
they bring soil in to bring up the soil level
or something, and the trees and the landscape look like
telephone poles going straight into the ground rather than that
routulary you mentioned.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
Uh, people have people molt and they bury it and
then put that like volcano type molting around the top
of the trunk and it's you know, self a tree.
Over time, the calls probably around around the base because yes,
that's all I do. Not You're not supposed to cover
that much.

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
Trunk, right, you know we I know Randy harped about
that for years and I feel the same way. It's,
you know, don't don't do that. Nature does not do that.
Go into the forest. You'll see root flares and you'll
see pine needles and leaves and things laying around. But
nature does not bury its trees. Now let's talk about

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one other. Well, you know what, I've got to go
to another break here. Boy, time flies when you're having fun.
When we come back. I want to talk about when
you pull a tree out of the container and you
see circling roots, what do you do and what happens
if you don't do that? Okay, so we'll be right back,
folks with David Williamson from RCW Nurseries and we're talking

(01:44:30):
trees today. All right, welcome back to the garden Line.
Good have you with us. Hey, guess what we're visiting
with David Williamson from RCW Nurseries and Williamson Tree Farm
today about all things trees. And if you got a
tree question, feel free to give us a call, especially
things like shade trees and flowering trees and ornamentals. Basically

(01:44:51):
give us a call at seven one three two one
two KTRH and we'll be glad to help you with that.
So David went when we went to break there, I
was talking about proper planting and you know the issue
we have with circling roots and whatnot. Could you make
some comments on that. What do you do when you
pull a planet out of a container and you look

(01:45:13):
at the roots and you've got these things going in
circles around the around the container.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
If it's if it's too bad, we're trying to sell
overgrown tree. But it happens, and we we were really
good about breaking the roots system, spread it out and
then making sure it's not circling as we and when
we when it's when we finished planet in the ground.
But it's it does happen when we get an overgrown tree.

(01:45:40):
You know, something cut you know, didn't get shifted right
away or gets stuck in that bob and and it's
it can't you can't hurt a tree, especially if you
don't fix it or when you plant it. So if
you don't cut the bottom roofs off and cut the
side roots a little bit, so it's it's not circling anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
But uh, you seem to.

Speaker 16 (01:46:01):
Do it more than any of them.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
The maples you.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Said, Yeah, that's one we had the most because they
grow so fast.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Yeah. Well, and I seen a lot on on like
Bradford pear kind of things too. They grow fast and
they spend a little too much time in that pot.
It's it's a mass when you cut them. Yeah, go ahead,
but no, so we grow it and sell. It's it's
just not my favorite tree, no kidding. I I one

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of my one of my favorite things to say on
the air is is uh. The printing of Bradford pear
is real easy. You just do it about a one
inch above the ground and then make sure you treat
the stump so that doesn't respread. Okay, well, enough of
that dissing Bradford's. But one time I was at a

(01:46:56):
nursery and they had surfling roots in some of the trees.
This was a retail center and got permission. But just
pull the tree up and just cut those roots a
little hamprinters, just cut some circling roots, put it back in,
they set it aside. I came back in two weeks, David,
and there were fresh white roots already coming out of
that fresh cut surface. So people who think, oh, I'm

(01:47:17):
cutting off all my roots, don't worry when you do that.
That just like you cut a branch off above ground, folks,
you cut a root below ground and it's going to
re sprout out near the cut end, and it'll be
so much better in the long run than planning that
thing with the roots all wrapped up underground. So anyway,
we got a collar.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
Say it again, that's the same thing with your plants,
circling roots on your plants you buy and you type.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
Of shrub, you go, yes, that that is true. Azaleas
and blueberries have that. They don't have root hairs, but
they have hair like roots and it's just this wad
like a mass of hair. And I saw I was
at a blueberry orchard, I guess patch one time, and
the bluebers were struggling and we grabbed a plant and

(01:48:08):
pulled on it and it's like the cylinder came right
out of the ground like it had been planted, and
up at the top there's a couple of roots that
were reaching out to get established. It was the weirdest
looking thing. And getting cutting into those and tearing them
up and getting them to open up a little bit
and grow. It sure does help. But I'll never forget that.

(01:48:28):
Just pulling them out of the pot and sticking them
in the ground when they're all watered up tight in
there good not a good thing. We're gonna go over
to Galveston now. We got a call from Michael. Hey, Michael,
welcome to garden Line. You're on with me and David
Williamson from RCW. How can we help?

Speaker 17 (01:48:44):
Hey, thanks, I'm curious what kind of native trees existed
both on Galveston Island and in the Houston area before
the settlers came.

Speaker 11 (01:48:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Oh, David, do you know the answer that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
I would assume live oaks did and post oaks and uh,
I'm sure there's a lot of you know, other oak trees.

Speaker 1 (01:49:11):
That's a good question. I don't know that is an answer.
That is a good question, Michael. I would have to
I'd have to do some research on that. I don't know.
I know there are a lot of trees that do
well in that kind of soil and environment and and
and so some of those certainly are going to be natives,
but some some are not natives, but they are they

(01:49:32):
are very well adapted to that. But that's a good question.
I think you stumped the jumps today on that one.

Speaker 17 (01:49:37):
Well, I'm a I'm a regular listener, so with but
not early in the morning. So if you come up
with an answer the next week, we'll be I'll be
listening a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
Okay, I'm making a note here, Michael uh comment on
native trees to Galveston after Michael Wakes starts listening to
the garden. Yeah, yeah, before sunrise.

Speaker 18 (01:50:04):
Yeah, I'm trying to go as much native in my
yard as I can, and so I was thinking of
that relates to trees still, well.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
You know there, Yeah, we we have a Native Plant Society,
uh that serves there's groups in various regions of Texas,
but we have one that is in our area around
here that would be good to reach out. You might
try the Native Plant Society of Texas that I don't
know the website, but my first guest would be n

(01:50:36):
P s O T maybe dot org or something, but
either the website or someone from that might could help
you with that. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:50:48):
I know that Galaston was really swampy and there may
not have been any any trees at all, but I
don't think that would be well, that's I'm just.

Speaker 1 (01:50:58):
If it was swampy that that may be the case.
We don't have mangroves up here, so I don't know.
Not too many trees are gonna like to live in
a swamp. Probably all right, Well, thank you, thank you
for the say it again, David. You know black gum
or hickory, you know maples? Yeah, what about mulberry.

Speaker 17 (01:51:18):
I've got some mulberry that comes up naturally.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
That's birds, that's probably birds. Yeah, but would they have
been here in the eighteen hundreds. Stab Mulberry, I don't
think so. Okay, thanks yeah, let me let me research it.

Speaker 11 (01:51:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:51:36):
If I find anything, I'll talk about it on garden
Line sometime after the sun comes up. Michael, thanks for
your call, man. I appreciate Thank you, Bye bye. Appreciate
appreciate it a lot. You take care all right, David. So, gosh,
we've been talking about proper tree planting and care and whatnot.
I wanna let's see here. Oh, I wanted to talk

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a little bit about some flowering trees that you like.
And we can continue that some next hour. But uh,
what are what are some trees that would be among
your top five or so recommending for people that want
a flowering tree for the greater Houston area here.

Speaker 3 (01:52:19):
I mean I I like, I mean I like the
springmirle th another over youths. But there's more and more
varieties and new colors that are coming out that they're
pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
I like that. The Chinese fringe tree.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
It is probably my favorite when I have a big
one in my front yard.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
It's what I.

Speaker 3 (01:52:35):
Call the the best white blooming spring.

Speaker 1 (01:52:40):
Tree.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
That's just a showstopper and it's really good and then
I like the red berr and peach too. It's a
really good blimmer peach.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
Well, you're giving me lots. You're giving me a lot
of fodder there for us to discuss when we come back.
The music means I have to quit talking here pretty quick,
but I want to come back. I love that Chinese fringe,
at least for right now. It's my favorite flowering tree.
And I vary a lot. You know, I'm fickle. Next thing,

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I'll be back on Craik Myrtles again, but I love
that tree. We had one at the Bear Creek Extension
Office here in Harris County before it finally flooded twice
and they got rid of it. But it was the
second biggest, they said, in the state of Texas. And
I had never noticed the fragrance of Chinese fringe, and
oh my gosh, with that many billowy white balloons, the

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honey like fragrance was wonderful. Kind of a bey off. Hey,
hang around if you will, please, sir. We will be
right back after the break. All right, folks, we're back.
Welcome back, Sankey Garden Line. Good to have you with us.

(01:53:59):
Where does with David Williamson from RCW Nurseries and Williamson
Tree Farm today about trees, all kinds of questions about trees,
things related to trees. You know, if you are looking
to have success, it's important to take care of them
and do the kinds of things that you need. You know,
just like you know with a lawn, I'm always telling

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you you got to mow, water and fertilize properly for
the lawn to be successful. I always talk about nitrofoss,
the silver bag Nitrofoss superturf. You put it on the
summer and it goes for months, feeding gradually over time,
just the way grass takes up nutrients. So that's why
we like the slow releases like superturf. They provide exactly

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the ratio of nutrients grass wants, but they also provide
it gradually over time. And so when you do the superturf,
now you're not going to be needing to fertilize again
until the fall fertilization, where we'll switch to a fall
special fertilizer from nitrifile. But night foss products like the superturf,
you know, I leave David even carries those over at

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RCW Nursery they're available in the number of place. You
go down to Angleton in Clute, Lake Hardware and Angleton
and Lake Hardware and Clute they've got them down there.
Go to Plantation Ash Hardware on three point fifty nine
down the Richmond Rosenberg area. They carry night FoST products
there as well.

Speaker 5 (01:55:20):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:55:20):
David, welcome back. It's thanks so much for being able
to hang around for the second hour. I mean we
could talk trees till the cows come home. So this
is this is good information that I know people people
want to know about. But we were I opened the
door to flowering trees, and you mentioned the Chinese fringe,
which is my favorite now spring flowering tree just gorgeous.

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And another thing I like about Chinese fringe, David, is
it doesn't get too terribly big. So modern lot sizes
have gotten smaller over the decades, and Chinese fringe is
still a manageable sized tree. Someone talked about having two
live oaks put in their front yard earlier to and
I was just thinking one life volk would take care
of your yard and the neighbor on each side. I

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live in a.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
Small lot and they had they played three live books
in my neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
I took them all out in my front yard. Don't
don't say that on the air. Don't say that on
the air. And then I put it Mountain Morels. So
that's my two trees. There you go. Well that was wise. Yeah,
I will I will avoid referring to you, to you

(01:56:34):
as David Williamson who kills trees. David Williamson plants quality trees. Yeah,
I took I took them out and saved them, but
I didn't kill. Oh, you liberated them. You liberated them
from a bad situation. Well that was that was big
of you. We got we got a phone call from

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Teresa out in bel Air. We're going to go now, Hey, Teresa,
Welcome to Garden Line with Skip Richter and David Williamson
from RCW Nursia and Williamson Tree Farm. How can we help?

Speaker 19 (01:57:06):
Good morning guys. I love the show, and I appreciate
David being on because I'm looking for a tree in
my backyard. I had a Bradford hare I know you
love that, Skip, and then I have a magnolia on
the other corner. I used to have palm trees and
they die for the freeze. So I saw I've seen
this very small tree. I guess it's the ornamental. The

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leaves are green, and it's shaped as a triangle. And
I want to come out to RCW and try to
get one of those trees. By any chance, they might
have a little berry on it, but they're just a
cute little tree that you see them a lot of
round bel air, And so I'm just wondering if you

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know what that would be, or maybe I should just
come out and try to find it on your lot.

Speaker 1 (01:57:55):
You know what you could do is you could if
you can take a picture of it and email it
to me. Uh, We've gotten a whole hour left in
the show today and we can take a look at it.
I can send it to David if I need to, uh,
and then we can tell you what it is because
the description you gave. Unless David has a crystal ball,
I can't even begin to guess based on the description, David,

(01:58:20):
do you have thoughts on that part? But can you
get us all connected? There we go? Thank you. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Most likely an Eagleston holly tree or some type of
holly tree that's been shaped. They've grown actually upright pyramidal,
but they sometimes they get trimmed hither or where they
have really tight shaped and formed and they do get
a red berry and it makes it very tough. They're
very tough, and they're very use for privacy or accent trees.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
You guys carry those, I know, yes, yes, you have
them there at RCW, don't you. Yes, we sure do.

Speaker 19 (01:59:06):
Okay, right, Well, I'll want to come out to RCW,
but that's what it is. I will take a picture
and try to send that to you. Skip it. It'll
probably be this week, but I'll just come off to
find that tree on the lot.

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
Well, yeah, or just take a picture and print it
out or have it on your phone, and when you
go to RCW, show them the picture and take take
a picture of the whole tree and then get up
real close so they can see the leaves, like even
the points on the leaves and things like that. Uh,
and that'll help them identify it better.

Speaker 19 (01:59:35):
Okay, excellent, excellent, Thank Scotts.

Speaker 20 (01:59:38):
I appreciate it, all right, thank you appreciate shop that
very much, you know, David Holly's that's a good that's
a good question.

Speaker 1 (01:59:49):
What are what are some of your favorite hollies? There
are so many kinds of hollies, you know, Japanese hollies,
Chinese hollies and that that's whole groups of holly's, American
native hollies and what what are some of the ones
like if someone wanted to do a holly, what would
you recommend and what would you say about them in
terms of how big did they get or why do
you like them? Or something along those.

Speaker 3 (02:00:10):
I mean, I guess I go to the eagleson a
lot because it grows so fast and it can provide
privacy quick. If people lost a lot of trees, a
lot of plants and freezes and they went back with
the eaglesons, they could get pretty good coverage pretty quick,
and you can get a tree form and that's got
you know, a clear base and you have some of
the fulls of the ground. I've also liked the Oakland Hollys,

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the Robin Hollies. Those are new spurts off of L.
E rs that don't quite as big as L. R. Stevens,
but they make a good privacy accent only as well.

Speaker 1 (02:00:44):
I like this L. R.

Speaker 3 (02:00:45):
Stevens as a tree form too, which is uh, you know,
we're starting to grow those more and now. But whether
they have a clear base and there's just one stalk
and it makes a nice it's it's a store going holly.
But it's just a dark, dark or green big leaf.
It's really pretty tree as well.

Speaker 1 (02:01:02):
But Stevens, Yeah, and that boy, that's a one of
the most famous ones.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
Right and it's uh and they have you know, like
I think the Oakland and the Robin Holly's. Of course,
I think that the spurt, the file, the their spurts
off of the nelly are Stevens.

Speaker 1 (02:01:23):
I'm not mistaken. Okay, okay, those are those are all good.
You know. Holly's I get I get questions on Holly's
a lot, especially early on, you know, where the leaves
will just turn chocolate brown and or the plant starts
to die. And then I ask people are you waternet
and they go, well, I got a watering system. And

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I always think about, well, you know, something with stiff
leaves like a holly spraying can hit those leaves and
it doesn't necessarily mean you get a good wedding all
the way around. And Neil Sperry, you probably know Neil
up in the Dallas area. He says that you need
hand water your hollies for the first two or three years,
meaning make sure you're water and where the roots are

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and things like that, because early once they get established,
they're great and tough, but early on it's a little
touch and go with that. Have you had that experience.

Speaker 3 (02:02:16):
It's critical to water, you know, or anything, especially this
time of year. It's a new planet, you know, two
to three times a year and we're not.

Speaker 1 (02:02:23):
Uh you know.

Speaker 3 (02:02:23):
I drip, A slow drip is best if you you
can run a hose and run run, you know, for
a little bit on these tree. If you have a
lot of hollis, you can get it, does it? You know,
get an irrigation system where you know, its own its
own drip zone for the hollies. That's even better to
get those established. But I've had think a plant, that's

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good advice. Down thirty four down a fence line, you know,
and run the drip line on those and they stay
nice and moist and they're not they're not drying out,
you know.

Speaker 1 (02:02:57):
They they can be affected by too much water or
not enough. I've I've seen them five Yeah, those freezings.
But hey, that's that's great advice. I'm up against a
heartbreak here. We're going to take a break. We'll come
back with David Williamson from RCW Nurse and Williamson Tree
Farm and your questions on trees. Give us a call.
Seven one three, two fifty eight seventy four. All right, folks,

(02:03:21):
welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you
with us. We're visiting with David Williamson, Williamson Tree Farm
and rcybut nursries today about all kinds of things trees. David,
I can't remember what I was talking about for I
went to break. We were well, we had oh, you
were talking about Holly's and proper, proper watering and care
of Holly's. That that was our topic. We started off

(02:03:44):
on some nice blooming trees and I kind of went
off about the Chinese fringe tree and how much I
love that tree. By the way, there is a native
fringe tree too for folks that want strictly native. It's
not nearly a showy as a Chinese fringe, but that
that is available out there.

Speaker 4 (02:04:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:04:03):
Let's talk about crepe myrtles a little bit. Everybody's got them,
and you know they have their goods and their bads.
I I guess that with crate myrtles for me, Number one,
I love the tree. I mean, what can you have
that the blooms for three months during the summer for you?
I mean that's that's asking a lot of any plant
and crate myrtles can pull that off. They come in

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all sizes, and people forget that creat myrtles that are
three feet tall. They're creat myrtles that are thirty five
feet tall. And uh, I just think if people would
buy them according to the color, and according to the size,
and hopefully according to disease resistance those three characteristics, it
would sure make life a lot better. I don't think
you guys give away a free saw when you sell

(02:04:45):
a crape myrtle. Do you That ought to be? That
ought to be a message if you if you want to,
if you want a twelve foot crate myrtle, don't buy
a Natches. I love Natches. It gets thirty five feet tall.
You ought to see him on the river walk in
San Antonio. But by a beautiful one that's the size

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you want. And I think Natchez is a great shade
tree even I mean, they are beautiful trees. But you
want to comment a little bit about grape myrtles, any
thoughts on that or somethingorites.

Speaker 3 (02:05:18):
You know, my in laws have two big muscogies that
shade their whole patio backyard.

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
And it's another big, growing, large, growing and really pretty bark.
Yes it is muscogi cinnamon colored like yeah, like the.

Speaker 3 (02:05:38):
Natches Skoge is not quite as cinnamon as the Natcher,
but it's still real pretty bark okay when they get mature.

Speaker 4 (02:05:48):
But I like.

Speaker 3 (02:05:48):
The the Miss Francis and Miss Sandra that there's some
uh Miss Sandras of purplelish color, really good disease resistant
and real pretty foliage. Francis is the red. Someones we
grow in the last few years that we really like.
Another one of 're started to grow. Its called it

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a Tagoville A U T A U G A.

Speaker 1 (02:06:13):
I think it's.

Speaker 3 (02:06:13):
A county or somewhere in Alabama. I'm not bound there,
but it's a purple and it's it's another vigorous throwing one,
probably about fifteen to twenty feet tall max.

Speaker 1 (02:06:23):
But it's a real pretty cool okay. And then nice
we're going some.

Speaker 3 (02:06:29):
Of the the Thunderstruck series, which you're all reddish, dark
maroon leaves and they have a white flash. That one
it's called coral lavender blast. Rumbling red. Rumbling red is
probably my favorite. It's red on red.

Speaker 4 (02:06:42):
It is.

Speaker 1 (02:06:43):
It's stunning. Wow, I have not heard it. I need
to go check that one out. And then the scarlar
scarlet Colorama. Uh, there's another good red. Probably gets They
say twenty feet tall, but I think it might be
a little bit bigger than antic. And it's another good

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one as well.

Speaker 3 (02:07:04):
Of course they grow Sue is a good pink, and
we grow another one called raps the in pink.

Speaker 1 (02:07:10):
It doesn't get a seed, so does it blooms? You
see the blends a lot longer on that one.

Speaker 3 (02:07:16):
Unless you trim them back nice once.

Speaker 1 (02:07:19):
They have seed, you can once they see out, you
can trim them the rebloom. It's not too late m hm.
But there that's another good pink one. Those are all
really really good. Uh suggestions. Uh, you know, we talk
about crpe murder all the time because you know, it's
just become a standard, just kind of like volcano melting. Uh,

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just do you do it? Because people do it and
it shouldn't be done. But when you hack the crape
myrtles back, you get nice vigorous re growth and big blooms,
but it sure does destroy the natural beauty that that
tree can have. And and uh, I like to try
to stay out of people's business. It's your tree, your yard.
I'm not going to tell you how you have to live.
But it would be nicer to have a nice, beautiful

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form than to hack them back like that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:08):
Yeah, they get that knuckling on the where you could
cut them back too deep into heavy wood.

Speaker 1 (02:08:13):
They get that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:14):
Yeah, real ugly knuckling look on the trunk and little.

Speaker 1 (02:08:18):
Steins come out of it. It's not pretty, you know,
you know it's not, and it hasn't. There is a
horticulture practice. It's pretty common in Europe. I was in
Europe not too long ago in Germany, and they had
sycamore trees that they were pollarding, which is basically what
people do to crape murders myrtles, and these trees were

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it was just strange looking but they had those knuckles,
but it was a sycamore and they were they were
pollarding all kinds of things over there, and that was
just kind of weird. I felt like, we need to
not let people over here know that they do that,
because it's we can't get them to quit doing it
to crape myrtles, which was everything else practice. So is

(02:09:02):
it uh pretty? The sycamore is pose well, I mean
it was pretty. It's just as a horticulturalists, you know,
it's just structurally butchered and so it bugs me. But
you know that that's that's like looking at an espalier
fruit tree trained against a wall in England or something,

(02:09:24):
you know. I mean it's a whole different way of
going about doing it. Uh. And the way they had
lined them up, you know, down down like a roadway
or down a pathway through a city, you know, or
something like that, a walkway. It was interesting, but I
just uh have trouble. It bugs me. I mean, if

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we're going to sit here and complain about things, uh,
yellow plants are an acquired taste for me. Plants that
look like they need an iron treatment. And I know
we have some beautiful shrub Yeah, yes, sunshine. The gustrom
is what you're yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I see it.
It's pretty. I get it. I just want to go

(02:10:08):
put iron on it. It's like we need to not digress.
But you get the idea. It just it's my own
personal plant prejudice. There. You go yeah, all right, yeah,
So let's talk a little bit about uh, go ahead,

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the old golden Euonymous.

Speaker 3 (02:10:30):
I can't you know growing up in the in the
eighties and seeing that plant sold.

Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
Yes, it's just yes, exactly exactly. Even the plant hates it.
That's why uonymous, Yeah, revert back to green because they
can't stand being yellow either. All right, all right, well
I'll quit that. I'll quit that. We got garden centers
listening in there, going, hey, wait, I saw that plant.

(02:10:56):
I get it. I know why people like it. I
get it. I understand it, just you know, for we
have our opinion bits. All right, So enough of that silliness. Uh,
let's talk a little bit about proper fertilizing and how
do you get trees to grow at the best rate
that that their genetics will do. Uh, what do you

(02:11:17):
recommend for that, David? In terms of people have got
a new tree and they're they're wanting to get it moving.
You mentioned already a couple of things. You're drenching on
a root stimulator and putting microlife mixed into the planting hole.
But but what else in an ongoing basis.

Speaker 3 (02:11:32):
So we we tell the customers after they to continue
to reduct better once a month and then also every
three months reapply to microlife around the base just you know,
for the first year. Then you know, after the year
after you know, after the year it's been on the ground,
you can use you know, uh, you know, slowly fertilizer
like something by Nutrient code or multi code or Osbond

(02:11:54):
code that can give you you know, six to nine
month you know feeding period. That's a good flow release
is fine too if you don't want to try to
be on top of with you know, Mike's a great product.

Speaker 1 (02:12:08):
You do have to repeat it more often than like.

Speaker 3 (02:12:10):
A synthetic fort riser like Osman code or in newiser
code and multi code.

Speaker 1 (02:12:16):
But they do they do with slow release for you know,
you know, you can get up to twelve months or
even longer than that. I've seen. I just don't think
you can get that here. But because we have such
a long growing season, so yeah, our warm, wet conditions
cause those things to wind up faster than they would
further north.

Speaker 3 (02:12:35):
Maybe the one thing I found out, like the I
try to tell people on the holly trees is like,
you know, if you're trying to get a lot of growth,
as the first year a nine month fertilizer. It's like
any three one two ratio and it's it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:12:50):
What kind of throws you get on those. Yeah, that's
a good point. That is a good point. Yeah, well
we're going to go to a break here in just
under a minute. I did want to mention, as they say,
we've got to pay the bills and Ace Hardware. You
hear me talk about Ace Hardware all the time. Ace
Hardware stores are all over the Greater Houston area. I

(02:13:12):
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(02:13:36):
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for beauty, both on the patio and all around the home.
We'll be right back, folks, All right, welcome back to
Garden Line. We're here with David Williamson Williamson Tree Farm

(02:13:59):
and RCW Nurseries, and we're talking about all kinds of
things trees. If you got a call and you would
like to ask something about trees, here is your chance.
I've already bumped the regular calls a little bit today.
I'm gonna ask for other calls other topics. Just cl
us back tomorrow. I'd be glad to visit with you
about that. I just want to take advantage of having

(02:14:20):
the expert here with us and being able to kind
of pick his brain on all kinds of things that
are trees. So, David, we're talking about crepe myrtles and
creat myrtle pruning and things like that and proper tree care.
Are there some other flowering trees that we haven't covered
that you think deserve a good mention? They're blooms.

Speaker 3 (02:14:46):
We grow one called montrose and it's just a really
pretty bluish purple color and they bloom, you know, starting
to i'd say June and if you just had those
old bloom as well.

Speaker 1 (02:15:00):
But there it's another good summer bloomer black David David, Yeah,
can you hear them? Yeah? Excuse me, Yeah we missed
the first part. I think you're talking about Vitex. But
could you yes, could you? Uh yeah, okay, all right,
so go ahead about a vitex.

Speaker 3 (02:15:18):
The Mantro's project is the one we grow, and it's
just seems to be a really good bluish purple color,
a good ornamental tree that blooms in the summer as well.

Speaker 1 (02:15:27):
And you can also when they.

Speaker 16 (02:15:29):
Set out, you can someone back and they'll read bloom
as well, and you know they'll get up to you know,
fifteen eighteen feet tall probably and then probably about the same white,
same as same wid as theirs as their height.

Speaker 1 (02:15:41):
They get really wide. Okay, but it's another good ornamental
tree there. They're very tough and blooming all summer is
a feat not many plants can do. Right. And then
I like for spring bloomers. I like the red buzz.
There's quite a red by varieties that I like. Okay,

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the darkly ones. We got one called Black Pearl, the
Rising Sun.

Speaker 3 (02:16:13):
There's a new one called Rise and shine that's got
more of a short true new folders that comes out.

Speaker 1 (02:16:17):
This does really well.

Speaker 3 (02:16:20):
And they had that, you know, that's the early spring
bloom on the stems way attractive. Okay, that's really And
they keep on keep they keep on coming up with
the new riisees of that plant. So I get surprised
of you.

Speaker 1 (02:16:37):
Yeah. Also, and then they improve on it, right.

Speaker 3 (02:16:41):
I like the flowering magnolias too, the you know, the Jains,
the saucer magnolia of the Jains.

Speaker 1 (02:16:45):
When we grow up, primarily we have one called ann.

Speaker 3 (02:16:49):
There's lots of varieties of the deciduous magnoity that bloom
early spring that do really well.

Speaker 1 (02:16:54):
Here. Boy, if you want to extend your bloom time,
that's about as early as you can get in the
season with with such good blooms that that's a great one.
We don't grow up. We sell well. We sell the
the Desert Museum as well.

Speaker 3 (02:17:11):
Okay, Palaverti tree and that's a that's a more of
a dry, dry scape.

Speaker 1 (02:17:17):
And they do well in Houston, they do. There's a
bunch of them down there's a bunch of them down
at the gardens downtown, the Centennial Gardens, and the parking
lot as you enter the building down there, they're just
beautiful with the green green bark.

Speaker 3 (02:17:34):
Right, yeah, either beauty beautiful even when they're not blooming,
because the bark in the foliage is just scially attractive.

Speaker 1 (02:17:44):
And that's another one. The Palaverti Desert Museum is another
one that casts a light shade. And so you know,
it's not like it. It's not like a magnolia tree
where you can't grow anything but monkey grass underneath them.
The the Palaverti, they cast a nice bright shade. You
can grow a lot of things underneath that. That's right,

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alrighty well, I wanted to mention we're talking about night
foss products while to go folks. The night Fast Fiant
product is it just works. You put it on the
mound and watered in, you get rid of that mound fast. Now.
Baits are all good. I like baits. That should be
a part of your fiant control is baits very important part.

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But when you got a party coming up and you
need to get rid of that mound because people are
gonna be out there walking around the yard, night to
Fast Fiant works very very well, and you're going to
find night foss products at places like allspaws Ace up
in the Woodlands. You go to Katie Hardware on Penoak
and they've got night foss products there, or perhaps head
over to the d and Defeat which is up there

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just on the west side of Tomball. They carry night
foss products here as well. David, we're talking all kinds
of things trees and stuff here today. What what are
some of the more common mistakes And we may have
already talked about these as we've gone through, but what
are some of the more common mistakes you see people

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make when it comes to trees. And it could be
the way they plant them, the way they prune them,
the choices of which tree they pick for what spot
or what What are some of the things that you
kind of wish man, I wish I could go back
in time and have them redo that.

Speaker 3 (02:19:29):
We always try to educate people on how to plant
or where to plant, you know, and what the plant.
But you know, it's it's amazing with you know, builders
plant and you know, the planning too big, too many
trees in the small spot, or or even putting you know, yes,
like Magnolia, like Little Jim, Magnolia's slant up against the house.

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It's just some of those things I see and they
over twenty years down the road and they're you got
an eight inch cow for little Jim magnolia, that's you know,
two foot from the foundation. It's just it's it's just
not good. Yeah, I think it's most it's just they're
not they're not knowledgeable how big they got in it,
and a proper spacing.

Speaker 1 (02:20:10):
All those things, right, But yeah, I was. I was
at a friend's house in Conroe, not a good while back,
but uh, and he had just purchased a house and
planted trees in the front yard, and it looked like
the broomsticks. They were little, tiny trees, but they were
like four or five of them in the front yard,

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and I just was thinking, the only reason to do
this is if you want a forest or you need
to hang a hammock somewhere. Because these trunks are so
close together, it's just about like you spaced them for hammocks,
and it's just too crowded. Someday he's not going to
have a lawn, that's for sure, because they'll be all
shaded out. But spacing is is important, especially when it's

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something valuable like your your home foundation, your driveways and
things like that. Sidewalks, Yeah, definitely, you want to you
want to want.

Speaker 3 (02:21:02):
To keep stres to get too big away from your
you know, especially you know, fifteen feet from your foundations.
You don't have issues down the road because that's expensive
to there's your foundation.

Speaker 1 (02:21:14):
So our sidewalks are driveways.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
That's fun thing about the last park and Traytown, they
plant those in the street trees and they don't have it.

Speaker 1 (02:21:23):
They don't have an invasive fruit system. Right, that's right. Uh,
let's uh, let me shift. We're talking about all kinds
of types of trees and things. I want to talk
about fall color. Fall color is not easy to come
by here in our area. And well, there are trees
that have good fall color, but you don't want to

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plant them, like a tallow tree, for example. That's great
fall color, but probably not not something you need to plant.
But there you mentioned earlier white oak and liking the
fall color of white oak. And then I'm gonna I
want to have you give me some of the trees
you would like best for fall color. And it doesn't
have to it could be any color than fall that's attractive.
But I'm gonna start it off with a tree we've

(02:22:05):
already talked about, and that's crape myrtles. People usually don't
think about crape myrtles as a fall colored tree, but wow,
they are and you get many colors. I always say
they're a great tree for a mixed marriage, a mixed
marriage being where you have an egg and a long
horn living in the same house, because they'll have orange
and maroon on the same tree as long as well

(02:22:25):
as yellow. But they're pretty. So what are some other
trees that you like for fall color? Yeah, I agree
with the crate myrtle. They do a really good fall color.

Speaker 3 (02:22:36):
I like the elms to the elms get really good
yellow color. The maples will get some yellow to orange.
That depends on our winters will give you some good
good fall color. I like the the ball cypress color
in the fall. Okay, yeah, sort of bronzie looking. It's pretty.

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And I for yeah, like I like the ginkos. We're
going ginkos now and it seems that they're a slow grower,
but they well, yeah, they get you know, sort of
yellowish gold little color and they're.

Speaker 1 (02:23:14):
Pretty as well. Yes, oh, yeall are growing gekos. That's
that's good. That's a that's an amazing tree. Yeah, it's
been around forever. Yeah, as they say it's prehistoric. Well
those are Those are a few to get us started.
Got one more break here before we're done, So let's

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go ahead and take care of that and we'll be
right back with David Williamson when we do. Come back.
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Southwest Fertilizer dot Com corner of Businet and Renwick. We'll
be right back, all right, Welcome back to Guardenline. I'm
your host, Skip Ricker, and we're here with David Williamson
from RCW Nursery and Williamson Tree Farm talking trees. I've
been doing it for two hours now and you guys
have a lot of questions. Judging from the phone calls.
It's good to have you with us. We're glad to

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hear that. And I'm going to tell you people have
tree questions. It's just it's one of the most common
questions that we deal with here. You know, you hear
me talk about affordable tree service all the time. Affordable
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a long long time. It's a family business and a
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(02:25:22):
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and have your trees looked at in getting ready for
storm season. A properly pruned and trained tree is more
resistant to damage when high winds come, and they do come.
We're in hurricane season now, but you don't have to

(02:25:43):
have a hurricane to have high winds. When you trim
a tree right, it's going to help prevent property damage.
You know, an overgrown a weak branch snaps off and
it's an issue. I mean, it's a problem, definitely a
threat to life and property. It'll protect when you're dealing
with power lines and you to you know, the power
line company will trim your trees for you, but trust me,
you don't want them to. You want somebody who's in

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it as an arborist to take care of those trees.
It'll help also keep your trees healthier and more stable.
Proper pruning and training improves this tree structure. It's more eerodynamic,
it's less likely to break or even blow over, not
root in the wind, and just peace of mind when
the storms come. You need to give Martin a call

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can come and take care of your trees for. You
he'll be glad to do. That give a good consultation
and do the treatments or the pruning that might be.

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Necessary we're going to now go to the calls. Here
i've Got david Wims and with me and we're going
to head To cypress and talk TO. Kd, Hey, katie
what is your question For?

Speaker 6 (02:26:59):
David AND? I, hi thank you for the. CALL i
have A Ginko bloba tree THAT i bought about seven
six years ago or, so and it's been in a
thirty gallon pot because it's they're so hard to. FIND
i just wanted to kind of baby. It SO i
need to know if IF i should take it, out

(02:27:21):
if it's going To CAN i keep it in just
get a larger, pot or SHOULD i go ahead and
plan it because it's the top was cut off or
broken off WHEN i bought. It it looks it was
kind of A Charlie brown. Tree so it's kind of
a short that's but. Wide so the diameter the trunk
is about an inch and a, half so it's it's getting.

Speaker 1 (02:27:42):
Bigger, Okay, WELL i don't know If david is an
expert on bun's, eye but it's sounds like that's what's going.

Speaker 6 (02:27:49):
On it's a, yeah it's a GINK i.

Speaker 1 (02:27:55):
KNOW i know it was to be seventy feet tall
and it's in a. Pot, david what are your thoughts
on what should you do with this? Tree you have
a spot for. IT i would plant it in the.

Speaker 3 (02:28:06):
GROUND i wouldn't keep it apart because it'll do. Better
it'll do better in the. Ground you, know they are slow,
growing but you know they can get huge unless you
have a. Dwarf there's several dwarf fridays that they have
now they only get three or four from the tall.

Speaker 4 (02:28:26):
Now but.

Speaker 1 (02:28:28):
But, REALLY i would, DEFINITELY i would definitely install it
in the.

Speaker 3 (02:28:32):
Ground and then you make sure that make sure that,
root that root's not circling in there and break up
that root ball and used some printy cheers to cut the.

Speaker 1 (02:28:40):
Roots you, Know so it's the roots spread. Out could
probably wait to if you're want.

Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
To wait till, fall do. It then we pint year.
Round but the best time of planet is the, fall.
Wintertime fall in winter.

Speaker 6 (02:28:51):
Time, okay and would it need full sun full, son, yes, okay,
Yeah i'll have to cut some trees back, then, okay, okay, great, all,
well thank.

Speaker 4 (02:29:04):
YOU i appreciate.

Speaker 15 (02:29:06):
It love the.

Speaker 1 (02:29:06):
Show, well thank. YOU i appreciate. That we're gonna now
go to talk to to. Us susan In. Sugarland, Hey,
susan welcome to Guarden.

Speaker 11 (02:29:18):
Line, hey good, morning good, morning and make this. QUICK
i have a. MAPLE i, Mean i'm. SORRY i have
a oak tree in my backyard that got hit by
the drocha a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (02:29:27):
Ago it's.

Speaker 11 (02:29:29):
UGLY i thought it was going to change.

Speaker 1 (02:29:30):
Color it.

Speaker 6 (02:29:31):
Didn't it's.

Speaker 19 (02:29:32):
Huge IT'S i want to replace.

Speaker 11 (02:29:34):
It and In sugarland they have these little trees that
have maple shaped leads that turn they bloom and then
they have a maple shaped leaf and then they turn
colors in the. Fall And i'm thinking it might be
a strong tongue maple because it doesn't get very. Tall
is that a good?

Speaker 3 (02:29:51):
Tree, Yeah shane t is a good tree and also
could have tried it maple as. Well it doesn't get
as big as the Drummond shange tongue and that tried
in are smaller maple trees that do really well.

Speaker 1 (02:30:04):
Here and good, okay, yeah and do.

Speaker 11 (02:30:09):
That i'm sure they do need full, sun, right, Yes,
okay that's for.

Speaker 7 (02:30:14):
Sure, okay Because.

Speaker 6 (02:30:16):
I've been, Wanting i've been trying to figure out.

Speaker 11 (02:30:18):
What is this?

Speaker 5 (02:30:18):
Tree what is this?

Speaker 11 (02:30:19):
Tree AND i just looked it up online AND i
think it's a shantungue maple because it doesn't get very
tall and it kind of has an umbrella shape as it.

Speaker 1 (02:30:27):
Grows that sounds almost like A japanese. Maple, David, yeah
jeffany how big is?

Speaker 11 (02:30:36):
It these trees That i've seen in the esplanads are
probably about twenty feet.

Speaker 19 (02:30:42):
Tall, ye.

Speaker 4 (02:30:45):
So, yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:30:49):
It could be it could be a drum red, maple
but who knows what they've planned in The esclana's but you,
know try to maple's is what they should.

Speaker 1 (02:30:54):
Plan are the shame tongue because they don't get as,
big but both are how.

Speaker 3 (02:31:02):
Like the SET i think The shane tong gets about
twenty five thirty feet tall to look that.

Speaker 11 (02:31:07):
Up, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:31:11):
Gets we've got a lot of it. All, yeah and
a lot of it depends on growing conditions and care and.
Stuff but, well good good. Luck thanks for the, Question.
SUSAN i appreciate.

Speaker 11 (02:31:21):
That thank.

Speaker 19 (02:31:22):
YOU i enjoy your.

Speaker 1 (02:31:23):
Show well, thanks that's kind of you to. Say, Hey,
david you were earlier on you were talking about a
maple that was one of your favorite that you guys grow.

Speaker 3 (02:31:34):
There, uh it's just it's simply it's a it's a
drummer red. Maple that's, uh it's it's A asier. Drummond
but it's one That Lenn lowry found off Of Stanfley
pete a road years ago and we it's a female
and we cloned. It that's it grows Just i'm going

(02:31:57):
it side by side by nis. Rubra but it's so much, Better.
OKAY i thank got really good early balloons in the,
spring little.

Speaker 1 (02:32:07):
Seed pods that come, out and then the good fall
collor as. Well, wow so much. INFORMATION i can't believe
you've been here two. Hours it feels like we just got. Started,
david thank you so. Much we've been talking With David
williamson And Williamson Tree farm AND. Rcw NURSERES rcw is
The Garden center there Where Tumball park went About way
eight come, together real easy access and you'll find a

(02:32:30):
lot of cool stuff. THERE i always love visiting the. Place, David,
hey thank. You thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (02:32:37):
All.

Speaker 1 (02:32:37):
RIGHT i appreciate. That, well there you, go. Folks, now
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