Trees Trees and Trees Galore

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
You just watch him as well?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Go basis gas.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
That are so many bird takes the soup upas.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
In the bay, the bassis and gassy can you day
boss back acad Sorry the glasses and gas and the
sun bemon of tweeting the basis and gas?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Baby?

Speaker 6 (00:41):
Can you.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Starting and.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Game you did?

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Everything is.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Seeing Sunday.

Speaker 7 (00:56):
This is actually Skip Lize.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's not like.

Speaker 7 (01:01):
We uh we jumped the wire tangles and the gremlins
and everything, and we're back with you now. If you've
got a gardening question, be happy to help you with
you seven one three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Today at eight o'clock, I'm gonna have David Williamson from
r CW nurseres and I'm really looking forward to visiting
with David. We're gonna talk trees. Have you had any

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kinds of tree questions or other general plant kinds of
things that relate to how do you plant and how
do you water? How do you take care of things?
We're gonna kind of pick his brain on a number
of those different topics. But he'll be during the eight
o'clock hour. And for those of you who are not
familiar with r CW, well, you need to crawl out
from under a rock because it's been around since the

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nineteen seventies.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
R CW.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
Nurseres right, there were a Beltway eight and tom Ball
Parkway come together, and uh it is just they're they're going,
I mean they're rare to go. Still there the boogavella
still look good. So many they got some cool milk
weeds in and a lot of other nice plants and
some stunning trees and shrubs. And we're going to talk
about summer planting on trees and shrubs and stuff with

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David Williamson during the eight o'clock hour. So just letting
you know that that is coming up. If you have
not fertilized your lawn during the summer, maybe you went
on vacation, you got busy, didn't you just see get
it done. You can still put on your Superturf nineteen
four to ten Superturf that is the silver bag widely
available like all nine Fass products here in the Greater

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Houston area. You're going to find it at Bearings Hardware
on Bisinet as well as the Bearings on Westtheimer is
just two examples of places where you'll find it. You'll
also find it down at Enchanted Gardens on FM three
point fifty nine, done in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It
gives you a gradual feeding on your lawn day by day.
I've got I actually have some of it on my

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front yard. You know, I have four different yards divided
by driveways and sidewalks and walkways and things like that,
and I'm always trying different fertilizers. And I tell you
that the yard has looked really good all year because
it's been getting month. But I would say all year
since probably it's about the spring late spring, maybe put

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it down and it just looks great. Super Turf nineteen
four ten, simple as that.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
So I.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
Was talking with Randall from Pestpros the other day. We're
just visiting about different kinds of pass and occasionally, you know,
we'll sit down and just talk about what's going on
and stuff. And they I'd had them.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Spray a.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
The herbal oil spray for mosquitos, and okay, so if
you're looking for a weighted control mosquitos that is less
toxic and that is very effective. Pestpros has two options.
One is the buckets. I talk about them all the time.
The buckets attract the mosquitos in the mama mosquito lands

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on a little screen inside the bucket and picks up
these little particles that electrostatically jump onto her legs. Isn't
that cool? They're just you know, like static electricity kind
of thing. And she lays her eggs in the bucket
because she smells the stuff in the bucket and thinks
this is a good spot to lay my eggs the
larva hatch. But they never become adult mosquitoes. So when

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they die and while they're in there, it just makes
it more of a you know, word goes out. This
is the mosquito breeding place here, and so it works.
But the mama mosquito, because that stuff that sticks to her,
two things happen. Number One, she's just got a few
days to live and it's going to take her out.
But during those few days when she stops, and little
nooks and crannies, you know, mosquitos can reproduce in a

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bottle cap of water. That's amazing to me, but it's true.
So wherever she goes and sets down, that water is
not going to hatch a mosquito. And it really works.
The second thing is what I was talking about the
herbal oil. We sprayed it and it's supposed to They
say it last up to a month, and I thought,
you know, not really, no herbal oil sprayed on bushes

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and walls and eves and wherever is gonna shut down
mosquitoes for a month.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
It did for me.

Speaker 7 (05:12):
And now I'm not saying that you would expect that,
but we even had a pretty good rain in there.
It just haven't had a mosquito problem this year, and
so you might want to call pest Pros. Pest Bros.
Is an outstanding company. You know, whenever you whenever we
talk about these companies, there are companies that I've researched
myself that I believe in, that I know are going

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to give you the results you want. And that's pest
Pros two eight one, two oh six, forty six seventy
Anything with four legs, six legs or eight legs called Pestbros.
That means the raccoons and the rats, that means the
insects that means the spiders they handle it all. Two
eight one two o six forty six seventy.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
We're gonna go.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Out to La Conroe now and talk to guitar Dave. Hey,
Dave morning, Welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 8 (06:00):
Hey, thanks you what hey, man, this I grew. I've
grown cactus, you know, for a long time, and I
normally grow it in a small container and.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
And this is I grow.

Speaker 8 (06:10):
I'm growing an old one, you know, kind of and small.

Speaker 9 (06:13):
And man, I've grown some and.

Speaker 8 (06:15):
They different shape. They go into different shape, maybe like
a baseball glove.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You use your imagination.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
But this time I've got this one growing, uh in
kind of in my band room office, and uh, this
time they're growing out at the top of the oval.
And one of those growing up looking like just straight
up like a pencil or a toothtick. And what's causing
that they're not growing in.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Back of the light.

Speaker 7 (06:41):
Yeah, they're stretching. They're trying to you know, like if
you put a pental bean and a dixie cup and
grow it, and it would grow normally in the sun,
you put it in the closet and it gets tall
and lanky and pale looking. Yeah, cactus once full sun,
and so I mean we we can grow some types
and less sinful soun but that's the response. You just

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have to give it a little more light.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (07:05):
What I'll do is I'll just thank it out where
I know, okay, beautiful. What I'll do is I've got
some of it's going to go into full light and
then it'll probably I started acting light and hey that
kind of rhyme. Got it in full light and I
started acting right, So okay, there you go.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
You might want to jot that. You might want to
drop that down for lyrics to the next song you're write.

Speaker 8 (07:28):
Okay, I got you all. Hey, thanks a lot.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Now, I heard a lot on the show and I
appreciate Okay, well, thank you, appreciate your call. You take care.
That is it?

Speaker 7 (07:39):
That for those of you who like nerdy things. The
cliff Craven's remember the Postman of Tears. The Cliff Craven's
out there. That's called etealation. That's a fancy word for it. Attehalation.
It's just getting lanky and stretching. That's the not fancy
word for it. All right, Well, if you got a
gardening question, give me a call. Seven months read two

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You need to.

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(08:57):
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of great ACE Hardware stores all over the place. Just
find the ones near you. All right, folks, where are
we here? I got to take a little break, and
when I come back, we are going to go first
to Don in West Houston, then Charles and Coldspring. Welcome
back to Guardline. You know Medina products, I talk about
those all the time. I use them myself. They are

(10:45):
excellent products, or so many of them that do well.
I like the Medina hast Grow standard regular old Medina
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a very long time. It is the ingredient that's also
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Medina has to Grow provides you, provides your turf the

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things that it needs. It provides the plants you're planting,
you're starting, It provides the plants you've already got going.
Medina Hastro comes in so many different forms. There is
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(11:27):
in the hash to Grow Lawn, the twelve four to
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out there and get you know, you don't have to
do the whole lawn, even if if you got some
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folks of Medina and widely available. You're going to find
them in your area easy. So many different places carry
Medina products. We're going to go now to West Houston

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and uh let's see on just one second. There we
go West Houston and talk to Don this morning. Hey, Don,
welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
Morning. How can we help.

Speaker 10 (12:25):
I have a couple of very old oak trees in
my front yard. The Saint Augustine grass around the trees
is dead, and there's basically a large circle around the
base of each of these trees.

Speaker 9 (12:42):
Where the grass is gone. Outside the circles.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
The grass is the grass is reasonably healthy.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Okay, well, don with without a photo. I'm going to
give you my best shot on this one. I Number one,
the closer you get to a tree, the more of
the soil is not soil, but it's filled up with wood,
which is tree roots, and and it's very difficult for
grass to get access to the water and nutrients that need.

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So there is that effect. But the fact that it's
a circle is curious to me. I don't know anything
that would create a circle around that tree other than
spring herbicide around it. So you may wanna let me.
I'm gonna put you on hold as we as we
wind up here, but you may want to send me
some photos and let's take a better look. Because my

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generic answer there based on what you told me, there
may be more to it than that, and I'd be
happy to take a look at some photos and take
it to the next step. Theaks, the oaks are not
releasing anything that's causing that. So all right, sir, okay,

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hang on, I'm gonna put you on hold me those photos,
those photos, let's take a deeper look at it.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
You bet uh.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
We're going to go out now to Charles in cold Spring. Hey, Charles,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (14:09):
Good morning, skip.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Right.

Speaker 9 (14:15):
Did you get my pictures last week?

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I got did you were back to.

Speaker 11 (14:22):
My email and told me to call.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Anyway, Charles, go ahead, Well I got.

Speaker 11 (14:34):
Some Issilia's and uh, we're getting some black spots on
the leaves and then they turned yellow and fall off.
And I was just curious as too, is it fungle
or or.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
What is it? All? Right?

Speaker 7 (14:51):
I think I found your photos here. Now I don't
see the photos. Describe to me a little more detail
what you're seeing.

Speaker 11 (15:04):
Well, they they get a black spots and then they
turn yellow and then they fall.

Speaker 9 (15:13):
Off, just die.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
And this is on this is on azalea's right, Yes, okay,
I found your I found the right email. I didn't.
I didn't. I don't see that I got the photos.
But either way, when azaleas, there are fungal diseases that
can affect the leaves. But generally it could be that

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which is then leading to the death of the leaf,
which would mean turning yellow and falling off, but it
also could be a water problems. They have a very
hair like roots system. And okay, I found the photo. Uh,
the the plant can get stressed very easily with a

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lack of moisture or with poor drainage, which means the
roots are staying oversaturated and can't get oxygen. As I
look at your azella, as I see a little bit
of iron deficiency on the foliage. So a kelated iron
product would be a good idea. Be careful not to
mult it too deep up into the stems of the plant,

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you know, kind of pull it back right at the
planet itself, so you don't don't You're not putting those
stems into soggy, wet conditions because they want to be
up in the air breathing. And then dig down a
few inches and feel the soil and see what you
think it ought to feel moist But it shouldn't. You
shouldn't able to ring water out of the soil, you know,
I'll say two to four inches down. You shouldn't be

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able to ring water out when you squeeze the soil.
So kind of check the soil moisture levels. Do a
keylated iron, and I think, I think that's your best bet.
This is not a disease you need to spray for.

Speaker 11 (16:55):
Oh okay, so you think it's keylated iron, well, keena.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
Iron I hope with the yellowing that you're seeing and
where you see some leaves where the veins are green,
but the leaves are not as green as the vanes.
That's that is an iron deficiency on the particular ones
that you're seeing there. Typically the new growth is showing that. Okay,
But I think water is going to be one. Water
in getting you know, keeping soggy away from the bottom

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of the stems coming out of the ground. I think
those are both important. All right, well, good luck, thank you,
you bet, thank you for your call. All right, there
we go. We just put that half hour in the books.
We're going to be right back. You got a gardening
question after the top of the hour. News seven to one, three,

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two one, two five, eight seven four. Welcome back to
the garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor. We're here
to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful
landscape and more fun in the process. That is an
important thing not to forget. Gardening should be fun, and
it is. It is fun. It's fun when you do
it right. It's fun when you start off right. Whether

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whatever you are building, whether it is your home or
a garden, you start with a foundation the foundation. You
might as well not waste your time if you're not
gonna have a good foundation, right, I mean you're gonna
go lay two by fours on the ground and build
a house. No, You're gonna build a foundation first in
a garden. That's called preparing the soil. It means the

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drainage is good, it's got good compost in the soil,
organic matter, microbial activity, it's got the nutrients that plants need.
You know where you can go to get all of that.
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Let's head now to Kingwood, Texas. We're going to talk
to be this morning. Hello b Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (19:37):
Hey, hey, Scipe, I sent you a picture of an
oak tree that's in my front yard. It's an older
oak tree and there's some i'm gonna call it damage,
although it's not close to the bottom of the tree
where like a weed eater would get to it, so

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it's midway up the tree. There's no lightning strike that
we have known about. There's no bugs around it, no
other holes. If you kind of push around that outer
rim of the injury or whatever it is, that barkle
flake off, although it's getting a little harder to flake off,
like I only did it a couple of times, and

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I don't know.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
I don't want to lose this tree.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
The whitish, the whitish brown looking stuff that's underneath that
outer bark that's flaked off. Is that firm or is
that still soft there?

Speaker 12 (20:40):
It's pretty firm. I didn't notice that it was mushy
or soft.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
Okay, well, it's very irregular, and you know, it could
be a number of things, just as a quick what
it could be, because what it could be is it
could be like a stress crack, or the tree moved.
It could be something that bumped the tree there. It
could be a some sort of a wound. I don't know,

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some woodpecker kind of pecking on her, some kind of
thing that created a wound that got a little bit
of an infection. It looks to me like the tree
is trying to close that over and be just fine.
I wouldn't worry about it. I'll tell you this. There's
nothing you can do about it. There's not like a
fungicide you put on, or in secticide you put on,
or any fertilizer product that fixes the tree. Keep the

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tree well hydrated, and it gives it its best chance
of closing over any wounded area. What I see in
the photo is not the inner wood of the tree,
but it's part of the outer bark still. So the
inner wood is even deeper than what we're seeing here.
I think your tree is going to be fine. But
the one thing that's in your power is to keep

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it healthy and growing, which means that it doesn't lack
for water. And I feel good about the prognosis for
the Treeka okay.

Speaker 12 (22:01):
We have a lot of squirrels. Would that have anything
to do with it? By chance?

Speaker 9 (22:06):
I mean they run up and down all this time.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Yeah, not like that, not on that thickness of bark.
And one of the squirrels that get up on the
young branches, especially in things like pecone trees and where
there's a little v in the branch that these are
branches that don't have thick bark. They'll chew the bark
in those areas. And you see little brown sections of
leaves through the tree where we call those flags, where

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they've girdled a small branch, not on the trunk like this.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 12 (22:40):
Well, keep it well hydrated. Thank you for the whole
appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
You bet, thank you appreciate your call. That is a
lot of things like that can happen out there. Nature's
a lot of organisms that are working out there in nature.
So anyway, bucansnated Plants is having a class today. Public
service announcement. It's on desert roses. One oh one. Daniel

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Guerrero will be talking. Desert roses are kind of like, uh,
they're kind of like the thing. You know, people are
really into those these days, have been for a while now.
Desert roses are not that difficult to grow. But if
you give them a few things they need and go
to this class. It's free and it's today and it
starts when I quit talking. That's ten am ten am

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today to eleven. Free class at Buchanan's Native Plants. Now,
if you're looking for natives, you know this is the
place that has more natives and you know what to
do with I mean it just really nobody in the
region carries many natives, good natives, adapted natives as Buchanan's
Native Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Right now,
they're featuring the blue misted flower. Blue mist flower blooms

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in summer and especially in fall. And I mean it
is a butterfly and pollinator magnet. Is a great plant.
You go to the website and check them out out
about this plant. They got a lot of good information
on the website, but it's one if you've got some
semi shady areas, very bright shade or dapple sun, those
kinds of spots, It'll do just fine in those spots

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and it fills in really well. Also, I'm telling you
this ahead of time, but you want to get this
on your calendar. On August eighth is another free class
that is creating a fall cut flower garden. And cut
flowers are so much fun. I just cut some flowers
yesterday to bring in the house. Creating a fall cut

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flower Garden. It's a free class at Buchanans ten to
eleven on August eighth on eleven Street in the Heights.
You need to go check them out. That is so cool.
I love these classes. They are so helpful and just
you will enjoy them. It's a very good time. Plus

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you get shop when you're done there. If you're looking
for a fertilizer to give you a real quick boost
in your garden, sweet green sweet green from nitrofoss dissolves away.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Just think of it.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
Just think of it like, is it a dried molasses
type product. It's based on something like that eleven percent
nitrogen and it'll give your lawn a little boost. That
it needs. You can do sweet green and small doses
through the season, or you can just do it occasionally
as you wish. However your lawn is doing accordingly, you fertilize.

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Sweet green is an excellent product from night Foss. You
can find it at Enchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberg
on FM twenty seven fifty nine, just a few miles
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on South Maine, you will find Nitrofoss products there as well.
And Langham Creek Ace Hardware on five twenty nine F
five twenty nine over by Copperfield carries night Foss products also,

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so you want to check all of those out. If
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gotta call Pierscapes. Peerscapes is our go to landscaper. You
can go to their website peerscapes dot com. You can
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to offer. But let me just tell you this, it's
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They're professionals. You can trust them with your landscape. Two
eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three
seven five zero six zero. Let's take a little break.
When we come back, Charles and Dickinson, you'll be our
first up. I'm telling you, I've gotten so many questions
about take a a root rot. Oh my gosh. Every

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year is this way, but sure have gotten a bunch
this year people dealing with it. Take all this stress
related disease and your lawn gets stressed, and take all
which was already there but not hurt. Anything really moves
in And what do you do about it? Well, there's
a lot of things you do about I got a
fact sheet on my website, Gardening with skip dot com.

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By the way, if you haven't been to the website,
check it out. We are building it and it just
keeps getting better. I just put something else I'll talk
about later up there this week gardening with Skip dot Com.
But one thing that I suggest people do when you're
dealing with that is take all root rot likes high
pH conditions, and it gets on the runners and the
roots up there and it kills them. Is to use

(27:40):
acidifying fertilizers in your lawn. This would be outside the normal.
You know, for example, with Microlife, we would recommend the
green bag Microlife green bag that is the standard fertilizer
from the folks at Microlife works very well. But if
I was dealing with a little take all root rot,
or if certainly if you have an azalea or a

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camellia or a rosebush or anything that might like it
a little bit more acidic. Microlife Acidifier six two four
that is a reddish orange bag, just a red bag.
It's got extra sulfur that brings pH down. It's got
extra humates too, which you know is the final decomposed
stage of organic matter that builds the soil. It has

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special biinoculants that are in it. This is called microbes.
Microbes that really help plants roots to thrive. Microlife Acidifier.
I know you're thinking it's for azaleas and stuff. It
is as acid loving plants, But when you're dealing with
a thing like take called root rot, I would switch
to the Microlife Acidifier six two four. I think that

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it has the same nutrients as a green bag six
two four, but I think it's going to give you
a little extra boost. So that's in my recommendations to folks.
Just one of those great microlife products that are out
there on the market. Let's head over to Dickinson now
and talk to Charles this morning. Hey, Charles, welcome to.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Garden Line page. Good value doing this morning, doing good?
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Can I help my question real quick? I've got up
a contry in my backyard and about three and a
half or four foot up, I've got some branches that
are coming off, and uh, they're about inches got of
inch the inch and have thick but just scratching my
truck up when I dropped in my backyard. So what
I'm trying to do is, uh, what's a good time.

(29:27):
I could kind of trim those us and like I said,
they're about an inch and a half and I think
you even shake the tree up better. But I just
want to know what's a good time I can cut that?

Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yeah, definitely, every everything that is if you were to
stand there beside the tree and lift your hand as
high as you can reach, no limb below the tip
of your top finger is gonna be permanent on that tree. Uh,
And and even above your hand a little bit. Uh,
so those are going to come off in time.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
If you were to take them all off right now,
what p percentage of the foliage of the tree do
you think you would be removing if you took them
all off, would the tree be left half its foliage
or what?

Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Well, I've got three of them that are in that
area around the tree, so I want to keep it shape,
so I only need to do three of them. It's
it's a very healthy tree.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
If you remove those three. Okay, if you remove those three,
what swine, it has plenty of other leaves, you're sam, Yes.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Sir, it's it's a really it's a really beautiful tree.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Okay, Yeah, so I'm just I just want to make
sure I.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Don't damage your tree by cutting it too earlier.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
You take them all off. Now, take them all off now,
it's five if you want to, If you can wait,
if you can wait a little bit, you can. You
can cut back the ones so your truck doesn't get
scratched for now. But then when we get into late summer,
go ahead and take them all off. Because the tree,
the tree healing kicks up a little bit in the

(31:07):
fall and you start to get closure. Those are small
enough branches, those are basically golf ball size or smaller,
and and so you can take them all off now.
But I would wait probably until fall, just because because
you're not going to get much wound healing until we
get into fall.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Okay, okay, that's that's my thing.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
I don't want to I want to make sure that
you met Bran.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
All right, Charles, thank you, sir. Appreciate your call very much.
Uh that is the case. Uh, get my producer to
remind me to talk about Nurse Limbs, Nurse Slims. I
get going here and I forget things I wanted to
talk about. Nurse slimsu Hey, Horay. Hitting gardens down in Alvin,

(31:49):
great place, Horay, great family. You go out there and
the kid probably go out on a weekend. You may
have the kids greet you at the car when you're
when you're coming up. It is a family operation where
he his wife, I have really created a nice place.
And it just keeps getting better every time I go
out there. It just keeps getting better. Right now, he's

(32:09):
got plenty of cool stuff, mangoes even back in stock Now.
I know it's a cold tender thing, but people down
far south like to try stuff. And you know he's horay,
got some mangoes in there in stock. He's got a
really nice selection of all kinds of trees and shrubs,
lots of good crape myrtles and all sizes. And I'm
telling you they grow good quality plants. And you just

(32:33):
got to stop in at Jorge Sidden Gardens. It's on
Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas. Elizabeth Road kind of in
between Alvin and Santa Fe. Here's the number seven to
one three six three two fifty two ninety. Seven to
one three six three two fifty two ninety. Go down
and see Jorge. Tell him you heard about him on

(32:53):
garden Line. Check out the cool shrubs, the plants, the
fruit trees, all kinds of fruit trees there. Uh, just
gorgeous things. You know, you're looking for something to block
a view, to create a screen. How about some of
his eagles and hollies. They look awesome. Just a good
just a good idea good tip. Jorge Sitting Gardens seven
to win three six three two fifty two ninety. I

(33:16):
always like to go out and see Ory and the
family out there. I was in my backyard the other
day and had been away for a little bit, and
I looked in my water. I have a little ball,
a giant like dog bowl sized thing of water, and
it's for it's for the dogs, but they have water inside.
It's for the birds.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (33:37):
And it was dry, and so I filled it up.
I'm telling you birds right now need water. It's getting
hot and it's gonna get hotter. They need water. You
know what brings birds in well, certain kinds of plants,
do bird feeders do? Yes, those are all important. But
water water, water, that's the secret sauce for summer. Make

(33:57):
sure they have water. Now, you go to your local
water bird store and you're gonna find quality bird seeds.
They have excellent blends products that are made so that
everything in that bag, except for maybe sunflower shells for example,
everything is going to go in a bird's stomach. It's

(34:17):
not junk. They don't want to eat like the red
bebies you find in a lot of bird seeds. So
you just need to get by there and check them out.
They've got some really good blends for every season that
you might be going through. We just finished the nesting
season now we're in the molting season, so you want
to get some of their feather pro. Feather Pro comes
in bags, comes in compacted cylinders, and even has cylinders

(34:40):
with hot pepper and to keep the squirrels out of
the bird seed. Wildbirds Unlimited go to WBU dot com
forward slash Houston and find the Wildbird's Unlimited store near you. Yeah,
my birds were fussing at me when I had let
their water go dry. Very important, very important, and it's

(35:02):
so much fun. I went out yesterday morning and it
was just I mean it was a cacophony of birds
singing going on early early in the morning.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
I just love that. That is so so cool.

Speaker 7 (35:13):
Really enjoy that. Hey, what was the last time you
went out to Arburgate? Arborgate up in tom Ball, Texas.
Awesome garden center. You're not going to find a place
so cool. And it doesn't matter what you're looking for.
I mean, you could be you can be looking at
the fruit trees which they carry year round, their vegetables,

(35:36):
their herbs, they're always there. You could be looking for
plants that fit a spot you can't find something else for.
You know, it's shady and it's dry, and what would
go there for example, Well, just go to Arborgate and
ask them. When you walk in, you find somebody with
the purple shirt on and you ask them a question
and they walk you around. They help you find the

(35:57):
plants you need. They take the time with you you
for you to find success. And listen, there's so much
more at Arburgate than just plants. The bling, the landscape, art.
The gift shops are unbelievable. You got to walk through
the gift shops and see the stuff they have there.
You will see something and you'll see all these items

(36:19):
and you'll go, I know, oh, my grandmother would love that,
or my next door neighbor who you know I wanted
to give a gift to, or or my daughter and
son in law or whatever. Arborgate is the place FM
twenty nine twenty. They're west of tom Ball, just outside town,
a little bit on the left end side. Remember to
turn down Trishel Road. You can do that either before

(36:42):
Arburgate or after Arburgate as you're traveling down twenty nine
to twenty. Park in the back. Awesome, safe, easy, easy
all weather access parking lot right there in the back
of the arbor Gate. Main thing is just get out
there and enjoy yourselves. It is really cool that place.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Every time I go.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
For those of you done in League City, You've got
one of the coolest feed stores. It's that old time
feed store that I grew up with, and I just
love to go into. I like the smell of a
feed store. I just love to go in. Just that fresh,
earthy smell is so cool. And when you go into
League City Feed, of course it's the feed store. You're
gonna find feed. You're gonna find quality pet food too.

(37:23):
I was checking out their dog food brands. It's like,
oh Wow, they carry this, and then oh wow they
carry that, and it's good stuff for your pets. They
also have everything you need for success in your garden
and landscape, every kind of fertilizer. You hear me talk
about pest control products. They have a really nice selection
of airloom soils by the bag, not just one product,

(37:44):
but more than one product. If you're trying to have
a beautiful, gorgeous landscape and you're done in that area,
you gotta go buy League City Feed two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve. They're on Highway a few blocks south
of Having ninety six. So all of you out there
in Olkamino, Reale and Clare Lake City and Baycliffe and

(38:05):
Webster and San Leon and Lamark and Dickenson, Santa Fe
of course, League City, this is your hometown feed Stort
League City Feed two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.
We're going to take a little break here and we'll
be right back with your calls at seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Good to have
you with us this morning on garden Line. Thanks for

(38:28):
being a listener if you got a question. Seven one
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So many great products from the turf Star line, like
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(38:50):
Star Genesis that I talked about that they did the
research at tex A and m on found it to
be so helpful on a trial they did on Mexican
sig more trees out there on the Katie Campus of
Houston Community College. I've seen the results of it myself
when I was growing transplants and using it to get

(39:11):
a faster boost on transplants. It really did work. Another
nutri star is Plumeria high phosphorus content supplements those nutrients
that stimulate the bloom and the root production in a
plumeria plant. But you can it's not just for plumeria,
And they couldn't list every plan on the name of
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(39:31):
we're talking about those before. If you were looking at
maybe you have a nicksura, a Mexican fire bush, a plumbago,
it's good on all of those kinds of things as well.
God sulfur keeps the soil a little bit more on
the acidic side, and that's very helpful. And then finally
Nature Star. They're all purpose organic. This is an organic blend,

(39:51):
certified organic by the folks, well by the certifying agency.
But I'm saying that the Null Wilson Nature Star, which
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gradually over time and naturally over time. It's got a
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(40:14):
use it on any plant you won't put it on
basically very kind, it doesn't matter. It's a very good
quality product from the folks there at Nelson Plant Food.
I was stuck with Joey from in the no I'm
sorry the Danny so talking about Danny. Sorry, Danny was

(40:35):
on the radio just oh gosh, it wasn't too long ago.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
When was that.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
I think it was Sunday, a couple sundays ago, and
we were talking about, you know, the Enchanty Forest and
all the different things that they have going on there.
They've revamped the whole thing. I mean, it really looks good,
Enchanted Forest just it always looks good there, but the
revamping is really a nice, nice, cool a set of
changes that they put on. And when I was there

(41:04):
the last time, I was so impressed with the gift
shops that they had, but also with the pollinator plants.
There's so many. Do you want to bring in beneficial
insects that pollinate? Stop buying Chanted Forest in Richmond Rosenberg area.
They have such an excellent selection. Now they are on

(41:25):
FM twenty seven fifty nine about three miles south of
great wood there just outside of the Richmond area. But
when it comes to butterflies, for example, plants for the adults,
and plants for the larva themselves, and whatever you're looking
for from gift ideas in the gift shop to just
learning about plants. They have so many good products there,

(41:50):
including the books. And then the staff is so well
trained and so knowledgeable and so helpful when you go
in and with the giant shade trees and beautiful oaks
and pecans I believe actually that are around the place,
even in hot summer weather. It's a pleasant place to
get out there and shop at Enchanted Forest. You need

(42:12):
to check it out, alrighty here the phone number seven
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give
me a call. We will talk about the things that
are of interest to you so you can have success.
You know, gardening is not that difficulty. I used to say,

(42:35):
it's not rocket science. But you know, if you're a
rocket scientist, rocket science isn't rocket science. It's just what
you know and do, and that's how it is. Been gardening.
You learn how to keep a plant happy. That's the
secret to success give a plant what they want, and
we do that by learning to think like a plant. Well,
I wanna tell you something. If you're a plant right

(42:56):
now and it feels like it's one hundred and thirty
agrees outside, but it's going to actually hit one hundred
here before we know it. I mean, that's just part
of summer here. What does a plant want? Plant wants
a good root system and moist soil. That's what it wants.
And if you want to, if you want to build
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(43:18):
we talked a while back. We brought them on as sponsors.
I looked at the product, I looked at the ingredients,
and with each ingredient I could tell you, yes that
that's good, it does this, that's good, it does this.
I've never seen them all put together run package like
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(43:41):
and proliferate and grow. It helps plants defend against diseases
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like the B vitamins, all in it to have success.
And I'm not just telling you this because I know
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(44:02):
research texts and them did a research trial where they
took Madagascar prairiewinkles we call them vinka here, the summer flowers,
and they let a flat go to almost death dry,
and the flat that had MITA grow versus the flat
that had didn't was night and day. Almost every MITA
grow treated plant lived. Almost every not treated plant died
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(44:25):
the ground, drench it with MITA grow, get it off
to a good start. Even if you bring plants home
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and mitogrove before you get ready to go out there
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(44:50):
that plant hits the ground running and can deal with
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Speaker 3 (44:57):
It's not did yet.

Speaker 7 (45:00):
Let's go out to Houston now and talk to Dede. Hello, Dede,
Welcome to garden line.

Speaker 13 (45:07):
Yes, Hi, So I was coming to see if I
can get some recommendations on what I can plant. There's
a cemetery that where's here in Houston And there's a
cemetery of three rivers, which is roughly I think about
a three hour drive, and so.

Speaker 7 (45:27):
It's down by George West.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Yes, and so.

Speaker 13 (45:33):
Before she passed away, she had wanted some roses.

Speaker 14 (45:36):
So we have planted some roses, you know, over in
her area.

Speaker 13 (45:40):
But let's just say, because we don't go very often,
they dried up.

Speaker 14 (45:44):
They didn't read it all.

Speaker 13 (45:46):
So my question is what can I plant that is.

Speaker 14 (45:51):
Very low maintenance. We go maybe once every four months,
and so we don't have anybody there to waderate or
to take care of it, but to put something shade
as well, because it's there's no it's n in the
direct of the sun.

Speaker 7 (46:11):
Well, DDI, here's here's here's the kind of here's there's
two kinds of plants. One kind of plant looks good
whether it's watered or not. And that would be like
a gave a gave. You could dig it up, throw
it in the back of the pickup truck, drive around
all month in July, don't water it, stick it in
the ground, and it'll root and pop up and take

(46:31):
off growing again. It is like bulletproof. But then there
are plants that can go without water, but they kind
of shrink up, pull back and look horrible, and then
when they get water they bounce back again. That's another
kind of plant that's you're kind of wanting the first kind,
and so you're gonna have to go with some some
succulents like Agave's and yukkas and other things like that

(46:54):
to get that effect. If you're willing to have a
plant that can look a little bad but it gets water,
but it survives later, then that opens the door to
some other things. But those kind of plants, all kinds
of plants, you need to get them established before they're
able to take on the drought. I like to say
that John Wayne was a tough old ombre, but when

(47:17):
he was a baby, his mama had had to feed
him several times a day and change his diaper. Right,
And these plants, even though they're tough plant species, when
they're babies. You got to help them get started. So
somebody's got to be around for six weeks or so
to help that plant get off to at least a
decent start, if not a little bit longer. So those

(47:39):
are some things to think in mind. Here's what I
want you to do. I want you to go online
and I want you to do a search. Can you
write this down for me?

Speaker 4 (47:47):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Yes, got a pint?

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (47:50):
I want you to search for the grow Grow Green,
Native and Adapted Landscape Plants. Grow Green, Native and Adapted
Landscape Plants. It's a booklet that I created with the

(48:11):
City of Austin Watershed Department. But it's not just plants
for Austin, the whole Central Texas region and even our here.
There's a lot of good plants in it. Grow Green,
Native and Adapted Landscape Plants. There's hundreds of plants in there,
and it describes them and tells you and it answers
your question way better than I can, because I'm actually

(48:32):
having to stop talking here. We're up against a hard break.
But grow green, Native and Adapted landscape plants. Good pictures,
good information. That's where I would start, Dedie, and I
do appreciate your call. Thank you very much. Alrighty, we're
gonna have to run, folks. I went over a little bit,
but we'll be right back. All righty, welcome back. Good

(48:52):
to have you with us this morning. Got a lot
of things to talk about, including your questions. And here
is how you ask a question. Or if you want
to call and brag about tomatoes you grew, we'll tolerate
that for about fifteen six.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
I may.

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Speaker 7 (51:53):
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(53:01):
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(55:31):
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We're going to start off with a lot about trees
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(55:52):
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and you may have planted a tree in the wintertime
or last fall, or maybe you're platinum. Now how do
you water it and keep it alive?

Speaker 10 (56:06):
You know?

Speaker 7 (56:06):
What is the what are the secrets to success and
getting off to a good start with trees. So we're
going to head out here and pull David in.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Hey, David, are you there, I'm here? Can you hear me? Okay,
I can, I can here.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
Welcome to Garby.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Good good to have you with us. Oh, good morning,
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
You bet well. So I was just talking about we're
going to have you on and and i'd like you
to start off. Would you just tell us a little
bit about Williamson Tree Farm. I know the history goes
back into the seventies I believe, And then I'm sorry
the RCW nursery, but also I want to hear a
little bit about the tree farm if you don't mind
talking about those sure.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
ARSIW started by three guys, My father and two of
the friends of his Robinson and Cox. That's where the
Arsynie comes from. They all work to show all together
and it was working out of their backyards doing landscaping
for people on the weekends while they were not in
the regular nine to five jobs. And then they found

(57:06):
a place to UH shore Plants and it turned into
where RCW is now and UH early the the the Robinson,
the Cocks, they got out early. One got transferred and
the other one got was the just didn't.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Want to be involved anymore and got out of it.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
And my dad took earlier in time in eighty three,
and then he also opened a tree farm in eighty three,
which it really it really got going probably i'd say
late eighties, early nineties. It really started going to sell
into the nursery and then also sell into the landscape
reas of the nurseries through Texas. And we're pretty diversified

(57:44):
as far as products as at the tree farm. A
lot of ornamental shave trees, some large shrubs, quite a.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Quite a variety.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Okay, we're starting to grow more fruit trees and bigger sizes.

Speaker 7 (57:59):
So I didn't I didn't realize.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
Okay, yeah, we're starting. You've got some growing and fifty
we got those going now in fifteen, so we're gonna
try to produce some thirties. I don't know if I'll
go to forty five gallon size. We keep on getting
requests for them so for bigger, bigger fruit trees. So
I think we'll we'll try it out and then uh, okay,

(58:24):
But yeah, the pizza been going since seventy nine, that's
when it started.

Speaker 7 (58:30):
Good good, well, I always enjoyed going by there. One
thing I always noticed when I drive up to RCW
is there's just there's just color that just jumps out
at you. And I know you know here we are
in summertime, like booga and villas are always looking good.
They have been for a long time there, uh and
looking great. But you guys have a lot of really

(58:51):
nice color plants for manuals and perennials to Booga villas
and and uh one of my favorite hibiscus uh is
your Cajun series, And I know you grow a number
of those. I have two different cages in hibiscus myself, Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
That I just love.

Speaker 7 (59:05):
But that's a that's such an easy plant to grow.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Do you you talked a.

Speaker 7 (59:10):
Little bit about hibiscus.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
There's a hundred there's a hundreds of rides of changes.
The people on DuPont Nursery growths and moving on and
they hybrid and you mean, I mean it's like two
pages of varieties. It's like, you know, it's it's a
little overwhelming.

Speaker 7 (59:27):
And I'd have to buy my neighbor. I'd have to
buy my neighbor's house. Bulldoze the house a way to
have room to plants.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
Like the Booging Baby is probably my favorite one of.

Speaker 15 (59:40):
That series, but it's it's hard to find. We had
some men they baby, Yeah, well I've got some.

Speaker 7 (59:49):
The thing that caught my caught my eye about them
was just the the colors. That's like, oh, I haven't
seen that color before, you know, kind of thing in hibiscus,
and they're pretty stunning. But they want to have hibiscus success.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
Well, those high biscuits are traffic by biscus, so you
have to put them in pots or you get to
make sure you protect them so they like, you know,
occasions seem to be a little bit better. A little
bit of parts shade. They don't you don't dry out
as fast and they can do okay, the regular traffic
by business. But you just got to make sure, you know,
you keep me keep them in the pods. You got

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a water, you know, it depends on the side of
the pond. You get a water, you know, in this
daily h and then also make sure that you protect
them in the winter time. And you got you know
the I like there's new hybrid, I guess their perennial
perennial high biscus. And there's the Texas Star I basically

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that's that's a staple that that comes back every year.
And the every D series called Head over Heels, and
there's another series I'm not kidding, but they make these
huge like freeze besides flowers and they die and even
come back.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
I like those a lot. I like the ones you
don't and are great for tropical.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Go ahead, Yeah, the Bogom videos are great too, but
that's another tropical that you have to protect.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
And so we we we get some dignas.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Then and you know, some people buy them and then
if they freeze the freeze they come back and replace them.
Sometimes they just they wheel them in the garage and
protect them. But that's we've had some huge specimens. They
still have some less some big specimens or bugam videos
that are patio tree shaped and then some they're on trollses.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Yeah, I mean they.

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
Provide a lot of color and they like to be
they like to be dried out between the waterings.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
And uh.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
Yeah, the brackets on.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Those is what you use. What your color is where
you usuld color.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
There's not that's not the real bloom.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
But they call the bracket it's the color part. Mm
hmmmm hmm.

Speaker 7 (01:02:04):
Yeah, they're they're so gorgeous and uh i uh when
they're when they're looking their best, it's just it's just
amazing the amount of color, the amount of bracts that
they put on. It's just it's just stunning. Well, i'll
tell you what.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Let's do this.

Speaker 7 (01:02:20):
I got to take a little break here, and when
we come back, I would like to talk about us
some tips for tree planting success, tree and shrub for
that matter. But we're talking with David Williamson from RCW
Nursries and Williamson Tree Farm and we're going to be
right back, folks, don't go away. Well, let's head back
out here. We're we're visiting with David Williamson from RCW

(01:02:42):
nurses and Williamson Tree Farm this morning. And if you
have a question that's related to our conversation, David's and
my conversation right here, or about RCW or the tree farm,
I feel free to give me a call. Otherwise, hold
your calls until nine o'clock and I'll be taking general
guard questions as we always do, starting in the nine
o'clock hour. So David, uh, let's talk a little bit

(01:03:05):
about what would you what would you suggest, what would
you tell someone would be? Uh, how you go about
planting properly? What are some tips for success, whether it's
planning any time of the year, but especially planning in
warm weather.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Yeah, we play year round, you know, as long as
you can maintain water and you're you're okay. But you know,
if you go on vacation for a month and don't,
don't do it in the summertime, just you better off
wait until it's cooler.

Speaker 16 (01:03:39):
But we when we.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
Plant, people will tell you the plant. But we've been
in it for this way for a while, so we
we dig the whole about six inches wider. We had
native soil, NAT mix up pinatas soil with black humus
to decomposed pine mults and then we mix that into.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
A hole packet type. We had microwife into.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
The hole as well, and then we the rootboll a
little bit exposed, and then we create a moat around
the outside coming up to the top of the roof
all but not over the root all. And then we
stake it and then we water in with root activator.
And we recommend you know, in the summer when we're dry,
which we have not been dry this summer, but watering

(01:04:19):
on a new tree in the summertime two three times
a week with you know, either slow trickle hose or
get a gator bag and fill that up, you know,
and just moderate balls are different throughout Houston, you know
the area and can you can arrange from staying to
clay soils. So you just got to dig down to
see what your water moitures like to determine whether you
need you know, how much you need to water it

(01:04:41):
next time you do that, you know, for a couple
of weeks, check it each time you water that, SI
gets you an idea on off in your tree and
eat it. But until they get round out into their soil,
they're gonna need you know, the hand watering it depends
on the size tree you have.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
You know how much, but.

Speaker 7 (01:05:04):
You know that that is good advice, And a lot
of times I think folks are thinking, well, it's hot.
You can't plant when it's hot. And mine it's not
an analogy, it's just a fact that I always say
about that is so there's a tree sitting at RCW
Nursery right now, and you're going to either planet it
now or planet in the fall. How is that tree

(01:05:26):
living if it can't make it? I mean, it's not
going to be alive now, but it's alive all the
way into a fall. So when you put it in
the ground, if it gets what it would have gotten
at RCW, and that is watered every day. I don't
know if y'all water once or twice a day, but
you're keeping the rootball moist. If you put it in
the ground and do that, it's going to be fine,

(01:05:47):
in fact even better because it's going to start getting
roots in the ground and getting established. And I think
the trick is that keeping it moist without just totally
making it like an underground bathtub full of water that
where roots can't get oxygen. And someone gave me a
tip one time I don't know if you've ever tried
this or not, David, but they put a like a

(01:06:10):
inch and a half or whatever PVC pipe straight down
to the bottom of the root ball, uh and had
I think they drill some holes in it so water
could come in from on the bottom or from the sides.
But they didn't use it to water. That's where you
see that a lot of times. And they didn't use
it to water. They used it to check the water.

(01:06:30):
And they would take a dry like a yard stick
or one of those little one inch square yard sticks
or a dowl or a dowt and stick it down
in the pipe to hit the bottom and then pull
it back up and they could see like if there
was standing water, if there was a water table in there,
well then you know, well let's not drown the roots.
I don't know if what you think about that, but

(01:06:51):
that's that made a lot of sense to me, Like
if you're not sure.

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
You know, we have not we don't even do that.
There's to so you put them in there so you
can check your mons, your water, you know, but they're
you definitely, I mean, if you're a way to mods
the water at the bottom and make sure it's not
sitting in the water because you know that's that's a
big issue in clay soles.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Yes, so it is.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
It is a good idea, but we don't we don't
do that only install trees.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
But it is a good idea to do.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
I think actually that if you especially I.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
Can find a lot of them.

Speaker 7 (01:07:27):
And and you guys carry some of the stuff that
you recommend. Some of the stuff you mentioned, uh you
know as far as like root stimulator or you mentioned
micro Life fertilizers and things, tell a little bit about
what you guys have on hand. Then when someone gets
a tree, if they need, if they wanted, they could
get some supplies to go with that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
Yeah, So what we we use the Landscaper's Pride black Humus.
We we've been using it for years and it's just
a really good amendment to the soul. And then we
had the Microlife the green label. And then we use
a product by Carlpool called Carlpool Goad and we sell
it from him schools, gowns to and ap ballons and

(01:08:06):
we also let people know that they can come back
and refill those at a cheaper price. So we recommend
doing that dactor once a month for the first year
encourage the root growth. So that's pretty much our tree kid.
And we also have a large pole tree, large pools
for use a strapping to state trees if it's necessary.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Yes, and.

Speaker 7 (01:08:36):
I'm sorry, go ahead, we've got a delay that's making
it hard for us to talk. But let's just fight
through it. Go ahead and finish what you were saying.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Please.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Now we sell a kid for the homeowner to if
we want to plant themselves, to give them complete destructions
on how to planet out of water, not to uh
take care of it and uh when courage what they
have issues with trees, you know, just email us, you know,
and so you know, we can look at it seat
so we can diagnose what's going on, try to catch

(01:09:05):
it before it's too late. So okay, but not okay,
but nine percent of the trees that that do die
because of either too much or die of water. And
that's the biggest cause.

Speaker 7 (01:09:19):
Yeah, okay, very good.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:09:22):
Now you mentioned something. You mentioned the term gator bag,
and for those of you listening that aren't familiar with
what is that, just think of a bag almost kind
of a tall, triangular kind of thing that goes around
the trunk but you fill it with water, but it
leaks out of the bottom like a little drip irrigation system.
And so the nice thing about that is if you

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try to put a hose on the ground, it tends
to run off the surface, and with a gator bag
you get a nice low soak end that goes right
down into that root zone. And one one final tip
too is remember where the tree roots are when you plan.
They're still in the cylinder you put in the ground
cylinder of roots that came out of the pot and

(01:10:04):
they're going to be pretty much there for a while.
And so while they do venture out and you'll widen
your watering area, the primary spot is that cylinder, especially
in the first few weeks that you're taking care of
the tree. And I don't know if you want to
add anything to that, David or not.

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
Yeah, they make so much of those those water bags.
They're just one of the tree they catered, the tree
bag that catered for the called gator bag. They goes
up on the tree. Then they have also had low
profile gat water bags and uh, our flat spinner we
were buying from to quit sewing them. So I've got
to find new swords. But I've been telling people go
to Amazon and get the twenty gallon bags to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Get the.

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
To get the ones I like the low profile versus
the ones go on the trunk up so high on
the trunk.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
But the good is that the.

Speaker 7 (01:10:58):
Is that the one that looks like a little flat,
don't laying on the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, okay, well good.

Speaker 7 (01:11:07):
All right, there's some tips there on planting the tree. Uh,
that's excellent. And we we've been talking trees, but the
same is true with shrubs or both wooding ornamentals, and
they both need to be to be kept moist in
the root system and you can plant them now. Now's
a fine time to go ahead and get that done too. So, uh,

(01:11:30):
when you're when you are looking at established trees, do
you have any tips on like watering. Let's say someone's
had a tree and it's been in for a year
or two or three or five. Uh, any tips on
general watering of those trees, because the roots aren't all
in that cylinder still.

Speaker 5 (01:11:49):
No, they definitely broaden out. So I tell people to
try to water you know, the drip line. It's you know,
especially for a drought and we're not getting adequate water
you know, with the with the rain, and you're you
might have to go something that would you know, the
hose trip around the tree, you know, but you put
on a slow trip and move it around the drip
line to give it, you know, five ten minutes, you know,

(01:12:10):
moving around the whole perimeter to so that tree getting
some water depends on how big it is. Okay, going
around a trip fine? And something in any water them
we're not the irrigation systems not providing are the rain?

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
So okay?

Speaker 7 (01:12:25):
But you guys have been I've got about David, I've
got about two minutes here before I have an absolute
hard break. But you guys have been planning and growing
trees for many, many years, and I'd like to hear
what are some of your favorite trees? Like if someone
your neighbor walks over and says, I'm wanting to put
a new tree in, can you give me three that

(01:12:45):
you think they ought to consider? What we'll continue on
after the break, But what are what are three that
I think would be top choices?

Speaker 5 (01:12:53):
The German red naples, one of wegro of sancilite. It's
probably one of my favorites. I like the more than
not all oaks a lot, and I like the white
oaks one of my favorites as well.

Speaker 7 (01:13:08):
Okay I I.

Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
Uh yeah, also for smaller.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
Okay, good I am.

Speaker 7 (01:13:23):
I'm so sorry about this delay. We are still trying
to figure out how to fix it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:13:27):
You mentioned the sam Felipe. Tell me some things about
sam Felipe that you like better than other red maples
that are out there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
It's a drumming red maple that was found off of
San Filapia.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Road and they just just ben plunging it, propagating.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
It hits a female and they come out with those
little samaras in the early spring break bright red and
then all football color, and.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
They grow probably two or three foot a year.

Speaker 7 (01:13:54):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
I like because they're fast growing and they and they
add some a little bit of color to your yard
as well, and they'll get fifty feet tall and then
provide a lot of shit.

Speaker 7 (01:14:06):
Wow, that's a good, good size, good sized tree. That's nice,
good shade tree. Well, thank you for that. As usual,
we just get going. Time flies when you're having fun,
and I've got to go to a hard break right here.
We're going to come back with David Williamson from RCW
Nursery and Williamson Tree Farm. If you've got a question

(01:14:27):
regarding planting trees or some of the things we're talking about,
feel free. We'll get David involved here on it. If
it's a general gardening question, just hang on and at
nine o'clock I'll be back answering general gardening questions. But
don't go away. We've got plenty of interesting things to
talk about with David Williamson. Good to have you with us.
We are talking with David Williamson of RCW nurseres and
Williamson Tree Farm this morning talking about plants, basically summer

(01:14:51):
planting and some of the favorite trees and species and
things I want to bring David back on now. David,
good to be back with you. You have some shrubs
that you think people ought to consider more, uh in
the planting options. You know, what are some maybe some
favorites of yours or some things that you think maybe
ought to be utilized a little bit more. And when

(01:15:12):
it comes to shrubs, whether it's for screening or just
for a beautiful flowering shrub or kind of wide open,
what are some favorites of yours?

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
I mean for privacy, I like I like the hollys,
the Eagleston hollies, the Hopeland hollies, the Robin hollies. Those
are all good for probably cr accent.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
Trees as well.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
I really like the sunshiny gushum. I know it's used
a lot, but I mean when I like, when you
you let that go naturally, it's really a good yellow
gets you know, six foot tall if you let it.
I also like illy agnesses some of the shrubs. I
like the Martini olive illyagnists a lot. It's got a
yellowish green irrigation to it. I think it's it's I

(01:15:58):
think it's easy low maintenace plant that's uh add some
contrasts in color to the yard. And I like the
pineapple guabas still and you know the twenty one freeze
did damage them a little bit, but they still a
great plant. Yeah, I got that gray spree and foliage.
I like wax spiles too. What else like I like?

(01:16:19):
I like sweet dollars, not a lot of them, just
sporadically for for blooms, for the smell, because it's just
so much for your free yard is incredible, and.

Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
I know, and you know, the funny the funny thing
about it is you you're trying to look around and
see where is that smell coming from? Because the blooms
are so tiny, you know, I know.

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
That, but they they're small, but they they produce a
powerful punch of blood fragrance and that's pretty amazing. I
also like the uh, the different viburnums to some some
of the viburnams sleet vibronum. Uh it is a good evergreen,

(01:17:01):
a large leaf one. Sandango is another good one little
bit thick your leaf. And then there's a spring ocage
more a dwarf variety. It's another good Burnham.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Good let's see. I like the stages.

Speaker 5 (01:17:15):
I still call it yeah green leaf and a different
companies keep on coming up with a new variety of
stage Desperado, and then they had another one that's a
white woman when they just came out to remember the
name of that one. That's really cool. San Antonio stage
is really pretty a lot of great.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Types of stage.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
They like, you know, don't do well in a dry area,
but they also do regular and do well in a
redar flower bed.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Mh okay.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
And I also like this. There's good drainage, right, that's
the main thing their training. They don't like wet seed.
And then there's a growth du pond that we're growing
called that we've been buying and growing, but it's called
Taylor Rudolph jelpon. It's a dwarf fel pond. It gets
red berries, look similar to dr field has a little

(01:18:04):
bit a little bit different look, but they get red
berries in winter.

Speaker 15 (01:18:12):
Uh Taylor Rudolph, I have not seen them. Okay, yeah,
I love that plan. Yeah, okay, well I like all
those ideas.

Speaker 7 (01:18:22):
Those are those are wonderful and uh, you know, you
get a good foundation of shrubs, especially a lot of
those you mentioned are evergreens, and they give you that
year round foundation that then you can create around, uh
to build that beautiful, beautiful uh property that everybody wants
to have. We all want to have, right, So that's

(01:18:44):
kind of cool, can can you?

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:18:46):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:18:47):
When when it comes to woody ornamentals, trees and shrubs
and things, well, actually, let me let me broaden it
a little bit. I don't want to limit to just that.
What are some some new things that when I say new,
you know, the last five years is a legit or ten.
What are some new plants that are out there in
the Garden Center. And I'm gonna throw one out that

(01:19:09):
I have seen and it's just like a showstopper, and
that's Hearts of Fire red bud. Would you discuss that one?
But also any other kinds of fairly new things on
the market that people may not be aware of.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Yeah, the red Bud markets on crazy, but the Hearts
of Fire.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
It's got that sort of a yellowish green to an
orange color variegation when it comes out in new growth,
and the color stays pretty good to the summer.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
It stays a little bit. And also.

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
You know the Rising Sun another good s truth yellow flower,
yellow foliage. It comes out and brings up in the summertime.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Another one called Rising Shine.

Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
And then they have several of red varieties, more low
Burger arts. I can't think of vision the another one.
There's so many red butts out there that have come
out with Yeah, black pearl, black curls, and my favorite,
my favorite ones.

Speaker 7 (01:20:09):
So oh it is okay, and it does it hold
the color pretty well in the heat.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
It holds its color really well in the heat.

Speaker 5 (01:20:17):
Surprise, we got a bunch of them growing and as
the farm in fiftees and thirties and it's uh, I'm
surprised how well it's done compared to the other red
ones like them are low the earlier ones in the
what's the other one that came out?

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
But yeah, you got me.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
I think I'm thinking about red buds now what.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
I so well?

Speaker 7 (01:20:38):
Those are all those are great?

Speaker 5 (01:20:41):
Yeah, Forest pand is the original red lead point of
it's to me how much they hold that red color
really well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
In the Hearts of Fire.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
There's also one flamethrower, but the flamethroist would have got
I can't find it. That really isn't that much more.
It's been kicked out because the Hearts.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Of Fire it does better.

Speaker 7 (01:21:00):
Okay, Well, our landscapes become a sea of green in
the summer, green grass, green trees, green ground covers, green shrubs,
and it greens a pretty color. But it's so nice
to have color other than what blooms in summer. We
do have blooms for summer, but not like spring. But
when you have something like these red buds, even the

(01:21:23):
even the rising sun that the color is kind of
a yellow short treuse looking orange, yellow short trees looking colors,
it's still a color that's outside that sea of green.
And I think those are really cool to add. Keeps
your good even when blooms are harder to come by.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
Yeah, as well as the understory tree and the rising
sun seems to take more sun. You know, they all
take sun, but the right and sun just really holds
up in the heat the first two years than the
other red buds.

Speaker 7 (01:21:58):
Okay, well that's good to know too. Hey, Well, hash
time flies, We gotta go to another break. We'll come back.
Got David Williamson from r CW Nurseries and Williamson Tree
Farm with us. We're talking all kinds of things. We're
gonna talk some other new plants as we come back here.
Stay tuned, don't go away. Welcome back to Guardenline. We
have you with us, and we are visiting with David

(01:22:19):
Williamson from Williamson Tree Farm and r c W Nurseries. Now,
I've been talking to all kinds of things, plants, new plants,
how to take care of trees, all sorts of things.
Let's head back here and get David back on the
line with us. Hey, David, uh so, uh are there
are there? Could you tell us anything about new or

(01:22:42):
upcoming things. Maybe it's some new materials that you have
there on site, plants or things that you just want
to mention, or upcoming plans and activities are at RCW Nursery.

Speaker 9 (01:22:55):
Well r c W.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
We we get a new stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
I know for us, we've been focused on getting our
We're going to create a nursery called Wigginson Family Gardens
in front of the tree Farm. But it's gonna be tathy.
My wife has done most of this, but she's got
a house into to be a sales office, kiss shop,
and then we're going to set up a retail up there,
an event center. That's the biggest thing we've been working

(01:23:23):
on recently. Hopefully by November will be open. We already
sell retail up there, but it's got the word of mouth.
So that's our biggest, uh biggest thing going on with us.
As far as plants and trees, I'm always trying new
things I don't know about. You know that's El Nino
or El Nino the desert willow. I gu it's a combo,

(01:23:47):
but it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
Have you seen that? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:23:52):
Is that the is that the cross or is it
just strictly desert willow? Does that Chatapa in it? Or
is it just desert willow.

Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
It's I think it's the cross. But it's the only post.

Speaker 7 (01:24:02):
Could you know, I haven't seen it. I keep hearing
about it though.

Speaker 5 (01:24:06):
It's the miniature hybrid tree desert will to top across
and it blooms profusely. And I had I had a
handful I brought in and and two gallons. They are
probably eight foot tall for a two gallon And I said,
what did you huge? And they bloomed beautifully. But I'm
trying to get some of those so I can grow
up more of those at the tree farmers. I mean,

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it's gonna be a good tree, small medium.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
Tree for our yards.

Speaker 7 (01:24:31):
I gotta I gotta try that out. I'm gonna have
to go the line and look at it, you said,
and you called it, Uh, tell me again.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Please Elmino desert orchid tree.

Speaker 7 (01:24:42):
Yeah, I'm gonna be at at T N L A
U and I bet I'll see some there.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
Yeah, definitely, will. I think it's I can't remember who
brought it out.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
I can't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:24:54):
Uh, there's so many different people that hiberdis proven winners
to prove.

Speaker 7 (01:24:59):
Oh, oh, proven winters with a woody ornamental. Okay cool, yeah, yeah, okay, David,
we've got a question. We've got a caller with a
question here that maybe it may stump us, but we're
gonna we're going to give it a shot here. Uh,
this is Martha from Kingwood. Hey, Martha, welcome to Garden Line.
You're with me and David Williamson.

Speaker 9 (01:25:18):
Hi, Well, thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:25:20):
I have been looking and I think I bought the
tree at Mercer during their sale in the spring, and
it's called a pomp palm orchid and it's white and
the butterflies absolutely love it. So I'm wondering if you

(01:25:43):
carry that. I understand it's you know, a lot of
places do, but I haven't been able to find one.

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
I assume at the ball ball honey of It. Yeah,
all right, we've we've carried some of those, but whilst
I've not, I've gotten in any recently.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
There is a uh would have them.

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
Besides Barbara, I mean Mercer, I read them, Arborgate.

Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
Might have them. And then yeah, mm hmm, you have
to check around it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
At nursery what's what's the nurse what's in nursery thing?

Speaker 7 (01:26:22):
What they may have some there too, Warren Southern Gardens. Yeah,
maybe talking about the anacacha, the anacaca archit try but
any literites that sounds a little bit like that, that's
our best shot. Martha. Rotha's still there with us.

Speaker 16 (01:26:45):
When I look on the uh leaps to identify it,
calls it a pom pom orchids.

Speaker 7 (01:26:57):
Well it is, that's a trade trade name. Yeah, let
me ask you this, Martha. To the leaves, are the
leaves like two leaves that are fused together, kind of
two ovals that you put together, kind of like a
cow's hoof would look like, or something like that.

Speaker 16 (01:27:17):
They remind me a little bit of a red bug leaf,
but not as sick, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
All right, yeah, all.

Speaker 7 (01:27:30):
Right, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on hold. I
want you to get my email from my producer and
send me some pictures up close of the blooms and
the leaves, and I'll help you going forward from that.
But thank you very much for your call, So, David,
any closing thoughts. But by the way, I'm really excited
to hear about you guys doing the Williamson family gardens

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up there in the Plannersville area. Do you want to
talk about availability of the tree farm for folks to
stop in. Do you have some you know, certain days
or hours that you're doing it, because I know you're
primarily wholesale up there, but I think you mentioned just
a minute ago that you'll you'll do some sales from there.

Speaker 5 (01:28:11):
I'm doing my appoinment only in the springtime.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
But no, come up.

Speaker 5 (01:28:15):
We're open seven and six days a week there, money
through Saturday and then the guys through good Luck.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
From twelve to one.

Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
So I'm going to show you around, you know, fifty
acres in production and lots to look at.

Speaker 7 (01:28:29):
Wow, fifty acres of trees. Okay, I may need to
let you go so you can get back to work.
Fifty acre tree. Well that's good. Well, uh, by the way,
I just have to throw I have to give you
a little bit of a hard time here. You said
that your wife was working on getting the Willims and

(01:28:52):
family gardens up and going. I thought your wife was
who did all the work at RCW Nurseries too, am
I right?

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
Yeah, that she does that too, But she's she's been
trying to get this sh at.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
The farm going. Yeah. Hm, well that's that's cool. She
has been pushing it.

Speaker 7 (01:29:13):
That's exciting. All right. Well, uh so before we before
we run here. I just wanted to throw out any
other particular plants or things, you know. I know you
guys really focus in the spring on roses, but you
have roses year round and you have such a great
selection of them. Any you know, come in any about

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about the roses and.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Number of road too. They're they're all on sale too
right now, the all the highbrid t for bundans, all
the ones that we have from the spring that are left.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
I still like the first prize Double Delights and probably
my favorite favorite roses, Fragrant Cloud another one. I like
those older ones, my my favorite roses. Roses take a
lot of work. You gotta have. You gotta have patients
for them.

Speaker 7 (01:30:06):
Yes they do, but I'm telling you it's a cult.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
And this one five lady came to see from rosa
Ide and I think she had over one hundred and
fifty two hundred, maybe it's closer to two hundred variety
of roses on our property. Incredible, Holy cow, that preparation alone.

Speaker 7 (01:30:30):
I want to I want to go see that, but
I don't want to be put to work because that
is something well, you know, that's how it is with plants,
you know, we we we find plants and there's a
whole plant society created about them, whether it's Plumeria Society
or the Rose Society or all kinds of plants like that.
That's one of the fun things about plants is you

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can you can really get into the deep end.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:30:55):
It's a it's a lot of fun. That's good. Well,
it has been great, you know, having you And thanks
so much David for spending time with us on the
phone today. If you guys are interested, we tell a
little bit about your hours there and location for RCW
nurseries before we go.

Speaker 5 (01:31:16):
Hey, urch W is open seven days a week right now.
We're at seven to four money through Friday, eight to
five on Saturday, and ten to five on Sunday.

Speaker 7 (01:31:27):
All right, there you go something to do there every day.
Thank you so much, David. I appreciate you being on. Well,
that was fun, a lot of cool. I learned a
couple of things to myself there as we went through. Well,
we're going to put this one into the news here
in just a second, and I will be back for
the nine o'clock hour. If you've got gardening questions, I

(01:31:49):
see we got some folks coming up here. Jim in
a Task Casita. You're gonna be our first up when
we come back, and we will continue on here with
garden Line. Here looks like we're going to hit the

(01:32:11):
ground running here. We got the boards lighting up, so
we're going to start off going to Jim in a
Task Casita. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
I've been hit with leak hoppers and all the other
bugs like that. Uh, there're in the lawn there and
the plants there flying around. I bought Dominion two l
and the whole deal is this gout in the corporate
in it and.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
They say that this goes to the root system. Correct,
it's it's systemic, correct, yes, yes, okay. Now my question
is does this.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
Effect if you go through the roots and spray down
below around the ground and spray, does that go up
through the plant to the pollen and will scare away
the bees?

Speaker 7 (01:33:09):
It won't scare them away, they'll pick it up and
it can have a negative effect on them. Is this
a rosebush or what's the plant that we're talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
Well, uh, the canilies and different flowing plants that have
got like that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
Ah these Yeah, if you've.

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
Got plants, yeah, if you've got plants that are going
to have insects coming in with them coming into to
the pollen and nectar. I would not use the Amida
corporate on the roots. It's just better to stay away
from that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Okay. Uh, well yeah, okay, I've got I've got so.

Speaker 7 (01:33:47):
I would I would get I would get a You
got a couple of options. You could get a pyrethern
pirethern uh the it's a natural insecticide. There are artificial
versions of it, but the regular natural priretherm breaks down
pretty fast, and you would just spray it and knock
down everything that's there. Go out in the morning when
it's cool and the insects aren't just everywhere flying around,

(01:34:10):
and do the treatments. Then you may have to do
it again a week later, but it doesn't last on
the plant, and you're gonna have the you know what,
I'm gonna change my opinion on this. Jump do it
in the evening, late in the day. That way it
has time to dry off and everything before the bees
come out the next morning. That's my best shot on it.
I hate to have to have to rush on you,

(01:34:31):
but I've got a whole bunch of folks that are waiting,
so I want to try to not keep them too long.
But that's everything I know to tell you on it,
but i'd avoid the systemic.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
Okay, okay, thank you, sir, Thank you, Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:34:44):
Sir, Sorry, I have to run you take care. Let's
see here. We're going to go to Mike and Tomball. Hey, Mike,
welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
Hey, Skip, thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:34:53):
I appreciate you. Hey, you saw you a few months
ago in Conrad. That was an interesting little in the
eating that you gave so that we really enjoyed that.
I don't got the picture.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
I'm going to be back there, but Jim, by the way,
I'm going to be back there on August twenty ninth
for the Montgomery County Fall Home Show, So I hope there.
You go go ahead, and I cut in. You were
telling me about a tree.

Speaker 17 (01:35:19):
Yeah, there's a tree in our backyard. We've only been
in this house a little over five years, so it
was planted by the builder. And I think it's a
it's a version of an oak. I don't know if
it's a live oak or whatever, but it's, you know,
about five years old. The leaves look really good and healthy,
but on the trunk is a really nasty looking scar hole.
And I do notice like some ants, little ants crawling

(01:35:41):
up and down, and I've sprayed for that. I don't
know if it's it's it's okay image, if it's going
to kill the tree, or what's going on.

Speaker 7 (01:35:49):
No, those those wounds in the photo you sent me,
Thanks for the photo. They are closing over quickly and
they will completely close over those areas and be fine.
Initially it could have been damaged from the sun. If
those holes are on the southwest side of the tree,

(01:36:09):
that's sun damage, but it doesn't matter what initially caused it.
The good news is the tree is healing over and
it's going to be fine. The only thing that concerns me.
First of all, the tree looks good, but it's going
into the ground like a telephone pole wood. There's not
a natural flare, and that tells me it was either
planted or mulched too deep. So it still looks pretty

(01:36:33):
good though, but in general we should see a flare
at the base of the tree, but nothing to worry
about on those holes. A tree is taking okay.

Speaker 17 (01:36:41):
And I don't know if you can see in that
picture or not. I can't remember the way I took it.
But there's white rock we have all around it because
it's up against a putting grain that we have in
our backyard. And I don't know if that rock is
maybe damaging the roots.

Speaker 7 (01:36:57):
The rock is not. I see a fabric. Is that
a fabric under the rock?

Speaker 17 (01:37:01):
Yeah, there's a black fabric that's underneath that for weed
there here?

Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
You Yeah, you might cut it back a little bit,
just so that it doesn't end up kind of choking
the tree. It looks like it's kind of tight around
the trunk there, but but you could do that, pull
it back a little bit. Yeah, And I think that's
that's about all I can tell you on it. But
the good news is your tree is taking care of
the problem itself.

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
Very good luck with it, all right. I appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:28):
Skip all right, you bet, thank you for the call.
I appreciate that very much. Listen, Affordable Tree Service I
was telling you about them earlier. They can come out
and check out trees. They can do the pruning on
trees and everything. You just need to give them a
call if you want to have Martin Spoon Moore come
out and look at your trees. Seven to one three

(01:37:49):
six nine nine two six six three. One other thing
I wanted to mention is the foundations on our houses.
We have been getting hot and dry, and the soil
is shrinking and it's moving, and that is so powerful.
It it heaves up your sidewalks and your driveways and
it cracks foundations on your house. That's the bottom line.

(01:38:10):
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to call. Fix my slabs. Ti Strickland's company. He's been
doing this a very long time. He's a native Ustonian,
fifth generation Texan. Listen, the guy knows our soils, he
knows his business, he shoots straight, he shows up on time,
he charges fair prices, and he fixes it right. What
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(01:38:33):
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Give Tie a call. If you're seeing cracks in the brick,
cracks in the sheet rock, doors sticking, any sign of
foundation moving, don't put it off. Have a professional take
a look at it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:52):
Let's do this.

Speaker 7 (01:38:53):
Let's run out to Porter Texas and talk to Ron. Now, hey, Ron,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Can you hear me? I can yep. Okay.

Speaker 18 (01:39:05):
All of a sudden, I'm being these plants coming up
and then when you grab them, they sting you. Near
as I can figure, they call stinging nettles, and I
cannot figure out where they came from or other than
pulling them up by the roots, how to get rid
of them? Any suggestions, well, pulling them up by the roots.

(01:39:26):
It depends on which nettle. If I had a picture
of it, I could tell better. But there's different kinds
of nettle. There's bull netle. There's a little stinging nettle
weed that's small, but it gets in your grass. And
is that what we're talking about, or are we talking
about something that's up knee high or waist high? It
can grow up to knee high out of the We

(01:39:47):
have plumbagos and some other in there that have taken
over the garden. They come up beyond the plumbagos.

Speaker 7 (01:39:56):
So okay, yeah, pulling the roots out. Those kinds you're
describing probably have a tap root, and so you got
to get down and get down, pull up like a dandelion.
Get some of that root up out of there too.
That would be the best bet. You can put a
post emergent weed killer on them that will kill them.

(01:40:18):
Products that contain two four D products that contain trimeac
T not TRIMEC excuse me, triclop here t R I
C l O p y R. But both of those
will severely damage ornamental plants that are broad leaves and
vegetable plants that are broad leafs. So you want if

(01:40:40):
you've got that kind of situation, I would use a
triclop heer and I would use my weed wiper. If
you go to my website gardening with skip dot com,
once you see a picture of it, you're going to
know exactly how to build it. But I put instructions
on there how to put one together. It's very simple,
take you fifteen minutes, and that way you can wipe
the herbs on the leaves of that and not hurt

(01:41:02):
a plant nearby that might get spray on it if
you tried to spray the weed.

Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. I just wanted to
know if there was anything you could.

Speaker 18 (01:41:12):
Just throw all over the garden and only kill that
and that doesn't exist apparently.

Speaker 7 (01:41:19):
Probably probably not. All right, Ron, thanks a lot, you
take care, all right? We got to go to a
break here. When we come back, Rooster and Brunham, you're
our first up. Hey, Southwest Fertilizer is the place to
go to get anything you need period. I mean, do
you need fertilizers, Do you need insect control, disease controls,

(01:41:41):
spider control? Do you need weed control to prevent weeds
or kill existing weeds? Do you need a tool to
chop them out? Do you need to get your small
engines repaired or get you a new one new tool,
a gardening tool. Southwest Fertilized, I mean, and I'm not
even scratching the surface of everything that they carry there.
They're in the corner of bisin Net and Runwick in

(01:42:02):
Southwest Houston, and it's the to go place. I don't
think I've ever said the name of a product that
they didn't have it Southwest Fertilizer on the air, I
mean just because they have it all. Actually, there was
one one time that is like, I didn't think anybody
in town would carry it, and well, yeah, Bob just
ordered it. He could get it. Southwest Fertilizer, corner of

(01:42:24):
Bisonet and Runwick. Save yourself time and trouble running all
over Town Southwest Fertilizer. That's who you need to go to.
If you haven't put your super turf out the nineteen
four to ten the silver bag from Nitroposs. Now would
be a good time to get that done. It's going
to give you several months of feeding of your turf.
It's going to keep a nice even feeding so you're

(01:42:46):
not getting this flesh and mowing like an immediate release
releases all that nidrogen causes a flush of mowing. An
immediate release over applied like that also can cause a
lack of good root development on your turf, which is
not what you want when we're going into one hundred
degree temperatures. Superturf gradual feeding, it just makes sense. You're
going to find it at d and De Feed up

(01:43:07):
there in Tomball, Texas. You're going to find it its
plans for all seasons on Highway to forty nine. We
were just talking to to David from RCW Nursery. They
carry it there on Tomwil park Way Belt Wait eight
Heating and feed over on Stupent Airline. They carry superturf
and night foss products as well. Simple as that. Let's
head out to Brenham now we're going to talk to

(01:43:29):
Rooster this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
Hey Rooster, good morning. I got two items that we
have time. One is pecans and one is tomato plants.

Speaker 5 (01:43:38):
I got one huge pecan tree.

Speaker 6 (01:43:41):
It's probably thirty years old, and we're growing in black
gumbo dents and it's hard to get pecans off of it.
But I had probably two months ago, just lots of
pecans going on. I was excited and watch them grow.

(01:44:03):
And then about approximately two weeks ago, they start falling
off like crazy all.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
Over the ground, and I said, well, what am I
doing wrong?

Speaker 6 (01:44:12):
Is that water I'm not watering.

Speaker 5 (01:44:14):
It en up or there's too many on there.

Speaker 6 (01:44:17):
I need to trim back because the limbs are about
twenty five or thirty feet out from the tree even
grow when you have rain that they drop down through
the grounds.

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
They're so heavy.

Speaker 6 (01:44:29):
So I'm at an age I don't think it's worth
me trimming having somebody to come out and trim the tree,
but that might be the only thing to make them healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:44:39):
And fertilizer.

Speaker 6 (01:44:41):
There's a fertilizer that's good for keeping pecans on trees.

Speaker 7 (01:44:48):
Yeah, there's not. There's not a fertilizer that's the problems.
It can be due to pecans will drop young pecans
when they go into a water deficiency, but by now
they should be stuck on the tree enough to not
drop off. Uh, cass, it's possible, but that would take

(01:45:09):
a drought. And you probably have gotten enough rain. You know,
big o pecan tree with roots everywhere, it's probably not
under any kind of drought stress. So I don't think
that's it for those two reasons.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Uh, there's sometimes there's hundreds up on the ground.

Speaker 7 (01:45:26):
Yeah, and they're not chewed up by squirrels. They're just whole.
They're not chewed up by squirrels. The pecans on the
ground just or whole pecans just laying there.

Speaker 6 (01:45:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
But they're real small. They're ammateur, you know, they're just
dropping all.

Speaker 7 (01:45:41):
How how long would you say? Are they an inch long?

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
Not quite an inch?

Speaker 16 (01:45:48):
Probably?

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
Well that is really small. Is this a yah?

Speaker 7 (01:45:56):
Is this a native pecan?

Speaker 5 (01:45:59):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:45:59):
I don't always here when I bought the house, and okay,
it's pretty big, and like I said, these just guessing
just looking at it, look like at least twenty five
feet long.

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
Limbs on it and they reach out and then they
drove down.

Speaker 7 (01:46:19):
A pecan ought to be bigger than that. Here's what
a pecan does, just to be real quick about it.
A pecan grows in size up until about August first,
and we are almost there, and then the shell hardens
and then it fills the pecan from August first up
until October or whenever you know, it drops off. And
so if you've got pecans that aren't even an inch

(01:46:42):
long at the end of July, that's either a real
tiny native pecan or something else is wrong stressing that
tree because they ought to be much bigger than that.
You know, think about what a normal sized pecan would be.
It ought to be that size by now close to it. Uh,
And so rest I don't I don't know what to

(01:47:04):
think on this.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:47:05):
It could be a stress.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
But my neighbor of mine has what they call it.

Speaker 6 (01:47:11):
A native pecan that that is small, and I don't know,
maybe that's what I've got also, uh And so the good.

Speaker 7 (01:47:23):
Well, they do taste, but you spend a lot of
time shelling them for for not a lot of pecan.

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
Yeah, they're they're not hardly worth it.

Speaker 7 (01:47:30):
They well, my best shot at this, based on everything
we've talked about, I'll just get cut to the chase.
I think you got a native pecan, and I think
that it overset pecans, and when it does that, it
will abort a bunch of them. And it maybe it
just started getting really hot here and the tree decided

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I can't, I cannot feed all these children. They got
to go, and it started dropping them, and it ought
to leave you with some on the tree. Pecans are
bad about alternate bearing. One year they bear heavy, the
next year they don't bear it all. So if you
didn't get many last year, then it used all those
energies to create a whole lot of pecans more than
it needed to carry this year. And so that's a

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natural process on pecans. We you know, commercial growers, we'll
even try to thin out a little bit sometimes to
kind of balance it out, so a medium crop each
year as opposed to feast and famine. But I think
that's what we're looking at, Rooster. That's my best shot
at it right there by the way. You know, you
know who first noticed the pecan alternate bearing cycle. A

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guy named Cabasa Devaka. When they landed in the Gulf Coast,
Indians captured him and they tied him to a tree
for I think he kept him for two years and
he was enough time sitting there to notice the alternate
bearing cycled pecans, and he wrote, that's a hard way

(01:48:57):
to learn, but I had to throw that fun fact
in the richter. Thank you for your call. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
Tomatoes.

Speaker 5 (01:49:03):
I got red questions on tomatoes, all right, real quick?

Speaker 6 (01:49:08):
Huh, beef steak tomatoes is my favorite. And I've been
getting these small tomatoes which I think there I don't
even know if they're a beef steak, but always ask
for indeterminate because I can grow in for a tough
till Christmas and they're huge. But the last three years

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I've gotten small tomatoes as many as fifteen at a time,
so I think they are determinate tomatoes rather than and
that might not be Can you get beef steak in
determinate and indeterminate pipes?

Speaker 7 (01:49:45):
There's not a determinant beef steak to my knowledge.

Speaker 6 (01:49:49):
Oh okay, so they're giving me the wrong tomatoes.

Speaker 7 (01:49:55):
Well, and it may be that the grower, you know,
a tag fell off and someone put a tag back in.
They put the wrong tag, and then they sold them
to the guy who you bought the tomatoes from. And
there's a lot of ways we can end up with
something that's not what it's supposed to be. Uh that's
my mose. I don't know beyond that. Okay, well they
still taste all you just have you just have to

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slice the same sandwich. Okay, all right, thank you for.

Speaker 5 (01:50:25):
You.

Speaker 7 (01:50:25):
Take care.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
There we go.

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All right.

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left in US about a half hour gardening in fact,
if you had a question seven one three two one
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been out to intended gardens, you need to get out there.
And here is why they have got all kinds of
stuff going on. The plants or their perennials are just gorgeous.
I mean I can go and just spend a half
hour just looking at all the salvias and you know,
learning about what's going on with them and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:53:32):
They are stocked up on all the fertilizers that you love,
including microlife. The six two four and the eight four six,
both by the jar also are available there. If you
are looking for. You know, you're one of these people
that has ever plant, but you need something you don't have.
You know, you know how that is.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
I get it.

Speaker 7 (01:53:51):
There is a compact dwarf version of Snizo called Texas Sage, right,
the sage in blooms most like perfume. Okay, I won't
keep seeing. That's my gift to you. But anyway, this
is a great plant. You give it good drainage. It
will not grow in a swamp. Give it good drainage
and it'll do well. But this is a compact version.

(01:54:12):
Some of those Texas stage get huge. Just one stays
about three three and a half feet tall. Really really nice,
really nice. There's another one specifically bread microburst bout three
feet tall and wide. Those are excellent. They got their
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if you have never been there before, first of all,
you need to go to the website, the Enchanted Gardens website.
But I would recommend that you just spend this afternoon
and get out there there on FM three fifty nine
on the Katie Follsher side of Rechmond. And while you're there,
check out their fall events. Lots of good fall events

(01:54:54):
coming up. You don't want to miss those at Enchanted
Gardens Garden Center. All right, let's head out now to
the phones. We're going to go to a Tasca Seeda
now and talk to David this morning. Hey, David, welcome
to garden line.

Speaker 9 (01:55:09):
Bye. I've got oak trees with sucker roots. I've used
sucker punch a few times, but it only lasts a
few weeks. What can I do?

Speaker 7 (01:55:20):
Well, there are these live oaks. Yes, uh, there's two
things that happen when you see things coming up out
of the ground like that. One of them is suckers
coming off the roots, and live oaks that are from
seed sources more like Central Texas tend to have more
of those suckers. The other thing is is just live

(01:55:42):
oak acorns that are popping up under the trees. When
you look at your tree, as you get closer to
the trunk or there are a lot more suckers, and
as you get out as far as the branch bread
there's not as many. Or are you seeing kind of
suckers all over the place.

Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
It's uniform?

Speaker 7 (01:56:02):
Okay, Well, it could well be acorns that are coming up,
and the only way to know would be you know,
to get you a little hand trowel and dig down
from a sucker going following it down and seeing if
it attaches to a root or not. You would only
have to go about six inches deep to see that.

(01:56:22):
But or get a water hose and blast some water out.
If it's acorns, then the sucker punch or sucker stopper,
either one is not gonna stop that. If it's coming
from the roots. That there's things you can do that
make it worse. Not a whole lot you can do
that makes it better. Things we do that make it
worse that we want to avoid, or rototilling or spading

(01:56:46):
the soil up, disturbing the soil around the tree like
a flower bed, or watering a lot around the base
of the tree. Those both can encourage suckering. More there
is does the grass grow up to your tree or
do you have a flower bed around it?

Speaker 9 (01:57:02):
Or what I do have about a four foot ring
around it, just a small mayer molt.

Speaker 7 (01:57:08):
Okay, But are the suckers coming up primarily and that
more or are they coming up outside of it just.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
As much.

Speaker 9 (01:57:18):
It is outside that that ring also, you know, to
the perimeter of the tree.

Speaker 7 (01:57:25):
Yeah, I don't know, David, other than you know, let's
dig down. Let's look at some of those and see
if you can figure out or these seedlings or these suckers.
If they're suckers, the only thing you can do. The
sucker punch does hold them back, but it is not permanent.
And if you can go back where you would cut
that thing off where it attaches to a root, apply
leaving that hole open and then cutting off the sucker

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and treating with that product right there at the wound
on the root would be best because at the base
you're going to have little buds that pop back up.
And even though sucker punch are supposed to a sucker
stopper are supposed to avoid that, in time, it breaks
down and you're gonna have to do it again. Now,
the more you do it, the less resuckering is going

(01:58:10):
to happen at that location. Uh So that that is
an option for you. Some people will put a very
heavy ground cloth fabric down that not the cheap stuff
that you can stick your finger through and break, but
the stuff that is woven felt type based wo interwoven
fabric that is tough as tough as a boot. Lay

(01:58:34):
it down and then cover it with heavier molts. Some
people use a rock creed or rock maltster like a
stone's are around it. There a river rock or something
along those lines, and that literally just holds the suckers
down and they don't pop up underneath there because they
can't push through that. If you've got to weight on
it like that, that may not be.

Speaker 9 (01:58:56):
Is that okay?

Speaker 7 (01:58:57):
First, fabrics do allow Yeah, the fabrics do allow water through,
but you really don't need water around the base of
the tree. In fact, having less would probably help discourage
some of the sprouting and stuff, but you'd lose your
flower bed. But anyway, those are your two options.

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:59:16):
There's no flowers, it's just mold, so that's not a
bad thing.

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
Okay, okay, well, okay, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:59:22):
I would try that. Then create a big ring around it.
You could even set some containers of shade loving plants
around it if you wanted to decorate that area, or
just have a nice, a nice riverstone rock around it.
Good luck with that, David, Thank you, sir for your call.
Appreciate that very much. Let's go now to Sandy in
Southwest Houston. Hey, Sandy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:59:43):
Oh hi, I'm just looking for a recommendation for a
starless flackberry.

Speaker 7 (01:59:52):
Okay, there is one called Prime RC P R I
M A R Okay, like Prime, the number one number one.
Prime and ARC is in Arkansas. Ark. Prime RC Freedom
Freedom and prim Ark Traveler are two that are good choices.

(02:00:17):
There's others, but those would be two good ones. And
then there's one more called ponka p O n c
A p O n c A there would be an
excellent choice c A.

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (02:00:33):
Yes, you may have to mail order them, you know,
call around see what you can find, but those would
be the ones i'd recommend. Thank you for your call, Sanny,
good luck. Naji said this, and half the blackberries when
you grow them. Okay, there you go. I understand you
take care. That's that's good. Hey, D Defeed and Tomball
D and D Feed on twenty nine to twenty west

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of Tombol. That's the place you go to get all
the supplies and things that you need to have success.
You know, you go out to D and D feed
and you are going to find the feeds for your
pets and for your livestock, of course, but you're going
to find in their Gardens intersection good products to control
problems from pest weeds and diseases and to stimulate good

(02:01:19):
growth of your plants. Fertilizers for microlife and nitrofoss and
Nelson Plant Food and Medina does say microlife anyway, they've
got them all there at D and D Feed. It's
easy to get to out west to Tumbule on twenty
nine to twenty. They also have some plants from time
to time there and a great selection of soils and

(02:01:39):
other things as well at D and D Feed right
there outside of tumble Let's take a little break when
we come back, John and Lufkin, you'll be our first stup. Hey,
if you've been out to Nelson Water Gardens lately, if not,
you need to get out there. You need to see
the many things that they have to create a beautiful

(02:02:03):
water garden, even if it's just a disappearing container, you know,
the kind that the water goes over the top of
the container and then recirculates and stuff. They've got gorgeous pottery.
They If you're doing a little ponds, they've got even
a small pond kit where you get the little container
for the pond, you get a fish to go in it,
you get a plant to go in it. You see

(02:02:24):
what I'm saying. I mean, you can do it any
way you want to go about it. They are ready
to go. They've got the supplies, and boy do they
ever have the expertise. Expertise like nobody in this state,
to be honest, has They know their stuff out at
Nelson Water Gardens. And I would recommend that you run

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out there and have some fun. Take your family, take
your friends with you, take the kids with you. While
you're out there, check out the swamp milkweed that they've got.
They do keep supplies of milkweed on hand, and they're
always getting something new in there. You just need to
get out there and check them out. And they still
have the ding dang sale going on, which means something
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Really good quality stuff for a very very good price.
Nelson Water Gardens and Katie is on Katie Fort Bend Road.
You go north from my town on Katie Fort Ben Road.
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Let's go now and talk to John in Lufkin. Hello, John,
how can we have today yet?

Speaker 9 (02:03:40):
A long time listener since eighty one. My son recently
bought a.

Speaker 6 (02:03:46):
House in Austin Wooden area, and he's got about a
third of an acre and most of that's in the backyard.
But the backyard also has a utility, electric utility. And
his yard is basically rocky, and it has the most
amount of snails I've ever seen anywhere. It's like I

(02:04:10):
was the first thinking that they had shipped them in
or something, but you know, dead snails.

Speaker 9 (02:04:16):
And but he's not a big yard guy and what
have you. And I'm trying to encourage him to go
like zero scape type or whatever, native plants and what
have you and get rid. He basically doesn't hardly have
any grass back there. It's just kind of overgrown trash.

(02:04:39):
And but I would I thought about like clover as
a groundcover and then you know, getting the ideal as
a landscape escape plan from somebody in the Austin area.

Speaker 7 (02:04:52):
What's your thoughts, John, Let me let me one, let
me cut to the chase on this. It's going to
be real simple. I want to give you two things.
I'm going to give you a garden center that he
needs to go to that can advise and show him
plants and point him to the best plants for that area.
And it's called the Natural Gardener. Natural Gardener is on
the west side over in oh Gosh, oh Kill, a

(02:05:15):
community outside on the southwest side of Austin. Natural Gardener
hands down. They they know their stuff and they've got
native and adapted plants very good. Second thing is if
you will write this down, if you'll go, if you'll
go online, because this will answer a thousand questions and

(02:05:35):
I'm short of time to try to do more than
one or two. But native and adapted landscape plants, the
grow green, Native and adapted landscape plants. You gotta right
grow green and then native and adapted landscape plants. It's
a guide that's online that you can do as a
as a search like I need a plant that's this

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big and has this color flower and all that, or
you can just see the whole guide. It's a lots
and lots of pages of tons of plants with pictures
and descriptions. It tells you how big they get, whether
they're native or not. And has comments. I helped develop
it when I was in Austin years ago. It is awesome.
The Grow Green, Native and Adapted Landscape Guide. He'll put

(02:06:19):
that in his hands, and I bet they even have
copies a Natural Gardener. But go to Natural Gardener and
talk to John Dromgill's team over there, and those guys
know their stuff and that way, whether it's what do
I do instead of a lawn, what's a good flower,
What's a good drub, what's a good tree? It's got
it all? You got covered on all this, Okay.

Speaker 9 (02:06:37):
Right, sound like a plan on your You've been talking
about water and I always I always talk about or
try to water around the area that I'm trying to
get initially to so it'll soak it in as it
runs towards it, just because.

Speaker 7 (02:06:53):
It okay, sounds like yeah, all right, thank you, and
uh you take care up there in Lufkin. Thank you
for Colin. I appreciate that you take care. Hey, you
guys have heard me so many times talk about Nature's way.
Nature's way is where so many things were born that

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we talk about all the time. Just like they're like
saying Coca cola, you know, everybody's Oh, that's everywhere. Nature's
Way is where you have things like rose soil being born.
Nature's Way is where you have things like the screened
leaf mole compost being born. Nature's Way off also, though,

(02:07:36):
is where you can get great native plants. You know,
it's say, some awesome plants, and not just natives. They
have non natives too, but an excellent selection of all
kinds of plants. No, Nature's Way is up there on
Sherbrook's Circle in Conroe address. So if you're heading up
forty five from the Houston area or coming down forty
five right where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five,

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which would go off to Magnet, Oh, you go the
other way, cross over the railroad tracks and that you'll
hit Sherbrooke Circle where Nature's Way is. Nature's Way Resources
dot Com quality products. You can go out there and
pick them up. You can call them and have them deliver.
Of course there's a delivery fee for that. The bottom
line is you just need to go out there and

(02:08:18):
do some plant shopping. It is okay to plant now,
even in this heat, and Nature's Way has got some great,
great selections and all the products to create that foundation
for success. That is so very very important in Nature's Way.
Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Alrighty, there you go. You know,

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I'm such a broken record on bronze stuff before greens up.
It is so important. It's a number one mistake people make.
It is the number one secret to success. Take care
of the soil first. Nature's will help you get going
doing just that. If you're dealing with mosquitoes, someone is
calling earlier, were talking about mosquito dunks. Just the other day.

(02:09:01):
I went on a vacation and I get a little
kiddie pool, put my plants in it, and I took
a mosquito dunk that's a little tiny doughnut looking thing.
I broke it into like four pieces and I threw
a quarter of it in there. A whole dunk will
float and control mosquitos for a month on a hundred
square foot of surface area of water. So you could

(02:09:22):
just break them up if you want to. You can
use the whole thing. They also have mosquito beds if
you just want to throw some up and like underneath
the catch basins under your plants, where mosquitos will breed
in not standing water. The mosquito dunks available everywhere. Feed stores,
garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer, you name it.
Mosquito dunks always have money. I've got some right now

(02:09:44):
hanging in the pantry. In there, I just keep them
in there. When I need them, run grab them. No
danger of me munching on them when I'm looking for
chips or something. Anyway, Mosquita dunks very safe. Won't hurt
hats that drink out of the water, won't hurt beneficials
or bees or birds that are coming to the water.
Just hurts mosquitoes in a big way. Don't be a

(02:10:08):
skeeter breeder. All right, Well, the music means I got
quit talking. It's been a full day. We started with
arm wrestling Gremlins, and somehow we managed to make at
the end of the show today. It's good to hear
from you. We'll be back tomorrow morning. If you have
ever talk, hang around six am to ten am. I'll

(02:10:29):
be there.

Speaker 3 (02:10:30):
Will you