March 14, 2026 • 39 mins
Join garden expert, Teresa Watkins for fun St. Patrick’s Day trivia and her Top Five Green Rose varieties and answering your garden questions. The vernal equinox is on the horizon; hopefully you’re seeing emerging greenery on your shrubs.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good morning, Welcome to Better Lawns and Gardens from the
Summit Responsible Solution Studios. I'm your host, Teresa Watkins. Thank
you for joining us this morning. It is going to
be a good weekend, and I say that because we
are going to get some rain this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good morning, Lizzie. How are you? Oh good?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, we're a Sorrento. We overachievers. We've already gotten some
of that rain. So don't go away.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
No, no, In fact, it's going to be I'm going
to go over the weather in just a few minutes,
but it's going to be a good week for rain
and we desperately need it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's also going to be a busy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Week this week because we have two kind of special
days coming up. One is the seventeenth, which is Saint
Patrick's Day. My son Patrick is named after that day.
And then we're all we've got the spring equinox and
that is going to be on the twentieth, which is
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next Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
All right, So how are we supposed to dress for
that for the spring Equinox?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes, shorts, shorts will do good. We do have I
just don't want to traumatize anybody. We do have cold
fronts coming through. With this rain, there might be some
low forties in the North Panhandle, maybe thirty nine, but
no damage. Okay, So we're not going to get any
freezes this week, but we're getting the rain because the
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cold front is coming through, and we have two cold
fronts coming through, so we just desperately need the rain.
So North Florida, you're gonna have a possibility of forty
percent chance on Sunday, with seventy percent chances on Monday,
so a lot of you are getting rain already. Cold
temperatures are going to be in the seventies and sixties
(01:54):
and even fifties, so again, no chance of a freeze
this weekend, so there's no need to cover anything up.
This is going to be good rain and it's going
to be comfortable. Just stay inside and enjoy it and
be appreciative.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Central Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
We're going to have some rain today, Sunday and Monday,
and even thunderstorms. There is a possibility when we get
these cold fronts for hail and for tornadoes, so we
want everybody to be alert this weekend. When that cold
front hits the warm front of Florida, then always the
possibility of tornadoes, but just keep your eyes out Central Florida.
The loads are going the loads are going to be
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in the fifties. And so I'm just going to turn
my phone off. My lovely, that's been.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
South Florida. You're hitting the jackpot with rain this weekend.
Chances for at.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Least fifty percent of rain every day through Thursday. So
they're going to have rain Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
And what does that mean. That means, oh, you have
to appreciate it. They need the rain so desperately, but
turn the irrigation systems off. We are going to get
a couple of inches in parts of the state, which
means no need for rainfall. Our landscapes only need about
(03:04):
an inch of rain. You've got your rain gage out there,
get an inch. You're doing great. So today I'm very excited, Lizzie.
I am going to go to one of our favorite places,
you and me a lecture at Peterson's Nursery in Lakeland
at eleven thirty. Okay, so I will be talking about
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coloring your world. Come and introduce yourself. I would love
to meet you, and I can even help you select
plants for your landscape. I will be there through about
twelve thirty one o'clock and so just come and see me.
I would love to meet you. Also to March twenty eighth,
twenty twenty six. This is important. This is the Florida
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Wildflower Festival, which is going to take place in the Land,
Florida Main Street.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
De Land is putting it on.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This is kind of like the fifth or sixth year,
maybe even longer than that.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Dana Venrick with Quality Green Specialists is one of the
sponsors of the festival, and it is a celebration of
Florida's native wildflowers and gardening. It's going to feature vendors,
educational presentations, which I'm going to do Florida Pollinator's Gone
Wild and it's gonna be a really fun, fun talk.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm gonna look forward to that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But there's gonna be activities for the whole family, and
so it's just gonna be a great one. This is
again March twenty eighth, and there is also the Outdoor
Art Festival going on that weekend, so you can go
in between the two festivals in DeLand. But DeLand is
such a quaint little city.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Lovely shop, Yes, and last last year was literally the
first time that I remember ever going. Okay, and let
me let me explain this to you. Okay, here's what
you need. Okay, you need to bring a little wagon
with you. Okay. You also need to bring yourself a chair. Okay,
all right, some nice walking shoes that you're able to
walk in comfortably. Okay, because one street, I don't know
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if they're doing it this year, but one street seem
to be.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Where all the vendors are. Yeah, the vendors for these
completely blocked off. It's all walking, right.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But then the next street over is like the art. Yes, yes,
so you get like you get the best of both worlds.
And they have they have a shout out to the
candy shop there. There's a candy shop there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We take our grandchildren there. We get to tell them
they can have whatever they want.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh it's crazy, I mean it's and it's awesome and
it's so make sure you have a little extra pocket
change for you to walk out with about one hundred
dollars worth of candy, because you'll be very happy.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You will find candy from the fifties and sixties, yes,
and then but also all kinds of great chocolate.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, and stuff for like like little kids like yes,
you know so yes, So definitely. The three things that
I suggest is money, a wagon, and a chair.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But they'll be able to take home native plants and
native seeds. You'll be able to get native seeds, but
also talk to the vendors about creating a wildflower meadow
in your yard and how we can help the pollinators.
And so there's gonna be a lot of presentations and activities,
so we want you to come. So the festival is
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going to be held at one twenty three West Indiana
Avenue in the Land, Uh and it's going to run
from nine am to five pm on March twenty eighth,
twenty twenty six. And there's going to be a free
shuttle Lizzie to transport attendees between the Florida Wildflower and
Garden Festival and the Land Outdoor Art Festival.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And that was the thing that I actually loved the
most is that there was ample parking throughout those city blocks. Yeah,
I've been to I've been to festivals before where I
literally was like, I don't even know I came here
because I want to have to walk five hundred miles.
There's no parking, blah blah blah. But I found ample
parking randomly throughout lands.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And they have a lot of great restaurants, so it's
a fun day. I'm going to be bringing our grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh and you get to meet Dana Venrick. Yes, if
you've not got quality green specialist surisery, I'm telling you
if you mount I met him, let me tell you
you're missing something.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We are going to be taking your phone calls in
the next hour. One triple eight four five five two
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eight zero. Thank you for joining us from the Summit
Responsible Solution Studios. It's Saturday morning. You're listening to Better
Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins and this is Florida's Talk.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And Entertainment Network.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Welcome back to Better Lawns and Gardens. I am here
to take your phone calls on your gardening questions. Doesn't
matter if you think it's a silly question. Somebody else
out there is wanting to know the answer. Two, so
there is no silly questions. One triple eight four five
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
Me what you're having for your morning beverage. I'd like
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So, Lizzie, here's some Saint Patrick's state trivia. So how
many leaves does a typical clover plant have?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Ooh okay, I feel this is tricky because they're shaped
like a heart. The one what I would consider one leaf? Yes,
but that could be considered two. So there's either three
or six.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, so the answer is three, you're correct. And so
what do the three leaves of a shamrock represent? So
clover is not shamrocks, and shamrocks are not clover, So
just to let everybody know that, okay. So in Irish tradition,
the three leaves of a shamrock mean the Holy Trinity,
the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And then four leaf
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clovers are considered what Lizzie good luck?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes? Oh yay? And so according to legend, what animal
did Saint Patrick drive out of Ireland?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Ooh, unicorns?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No? No, why would he drive the unicorns? That would
be so mean? But no snakes.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But the actual truth is snakes never came to Ireland
to begin with. There's never there's no signs of snakes
anywhere in Ireland's fossil record. In fact, it's likely for
millennium there weren't any snakes in either Ireland or Britain,
though Britain eventually gained three species, the grass snake, the
adder snake, and the smooth snake.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So what happened is during.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Ice Age, Ireland and England were too frigid to
be suitable habitats for cold blooded reptiles such as snakes.
But then ten thousand years ago, when the glaciers shifted,
land emerged, connecting Europe, England and Ireland, allowing for migration,
and that's when animals that made it to Ireland included
brown bears, lynx and wild bl But when the glaciers
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began melting again, the land between Ireland and England was
covered with water over eighty five hundred years ago and
that stopped the snakes. But Ireland's not the only place
in the world without snakes, so there are no native
species of snakes to be found in Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii,
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New Zealand, parts of Canada, Northern Russia, and not surprisingly Antarctica.
So rather it seems like the snakes This is kind
of a myth because I see in kind of Academia
that it's not true. But then Irish tradition states that
the snakes were supposed to be an allegory for paganism.
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When Saint Patrick banished the Pagans and converted them to
Christian Christianity, then they were no longer pagans. So getting
back to one of the three colors of the Irish flag, Lizzie.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, I'm pretty positive with green, white and orange.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yay, wonderful you win points ding ding ding. According to folklore, Lizzie,
what's a leprechaun's occupation.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh, collecting gold or cereal.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Making cereal or cookies, even cookies, making cookies. No, it
is shoemaking, that is their occupation. And so there was
a movie which I loved. We went to the movies
to see this. What nineteen fifty nine children's movie helped
shape the modern day image of e Leprechaun. I don't
know Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I saw that, Yes,
(11:40):
I saw that. That is Walter Brennan and it's so good.
The gnomemobile is another one, but those are nomes, not
not leprechauns. Here's the one that I want. The first
known Saint Patrick's Day took place in what? Uh the
first nome Saint Patrick's Day occurred in Ireland? Is that
true or false?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
M I want oh you think yes? Okay, No, it's false.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The first recorded parade took place in Saint Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Shut the front door.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh really, isn't it right there up there with river
and fort that's my son's restaurant. Go in and say
hi to them. Yes, sat Mom says, to call her. Okay, So,
uh so why do we wear green on Saint Patrick's.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Day, Lizzie, so we don't get pinched?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, yes, that's a that's a good point, okay, But
that's it's closely associated with Ireland's lush green landscapes and
the country's desired to distinguish itself from the British in
the seventeen hundreds. Oh so that's it. So that's my
Saint Patrick's Day trivia. I did not know that first
Saint Patrick's Day parade was in St.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
August had no clue. No, but MRCA, why wouldn't we exactly?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And so, uh, we just hope everybody has a good
and safe holiday this week. It's going to be a
great week with the rain, it'll be naturally. We went
to Ireland two years ago on our art and bloom
Garden tours and it was just incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, that's on my bucket list one day is to
go to Ireland.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It is.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And you had cousins and stuff that you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
No, no, I knew.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I knew cousins, Okay, to meet them, oh yeah, I
grew up with them, okay, and so but they But
I got to go visit my grandfather's house in Ireland,
and it's on the side of a hill and a
mountain and it had only two walls left. And this
was from the early late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds,
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only two walls left, and the walls were like fifteen
by about twenty five, and they were all kind of
you know, it wasn't a full wall.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was only the four feet three feet tall.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And they they fleppt in one bed in that home
with thirteen of them, and then about ten feet away
from the foundation of the was this little clean waterfall
that came down from one hundred feet up that went
all the way down the mountain side, which was where
they got their water from.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
That's why they had such tiny houses. They didn't need
to be in the house. They had something gorgeous like that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh, it was just incredible.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I saw the school he went to and they walked
to school with bare feet, and so then they put
their shoes on right before they went into the school,
and so it was just it was wonderful. And then
but all the other castles and things we went to,
and Blarney Castle.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And I mean, I know that's not on y'all's tour
this time. However, you have Art and Bloom.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Art Bloom Garden Tours, and we're going to France this year,
going to the villas and the chateaus and just beautiful.
We're going to Paris and doing it's going to be
a wonderful trip. If you'd like to know more about
my garden tours, you can go to Art and Bloomgarden
toours dot com and just travel with us.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Our Revolutionary Garden Tour is full of flower Show to
Chelsea and the Best of English Gardens is full. But
we do have the Newport Flower Show, which is incredible,
and we're going to Martha's Vineyard and we're going to
the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, which is the place the
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museum of the most expensive art heist theft in history. Wow,
they stole thirteen million dollars worth of paintings and there
was only like about seven or eight paintings.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
How do you fit all that in your pocket?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And it was just incredible. So there's a great movie
on Netflix about it. And so we are going to
the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, which is one of my favorites.
And then in July Weary are going to the garden
Walk Buffalo and Canada over to the Niagara Falls in Canada,
and then august Is France. September is the Brandywine Valley,
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which we're going to all these palatial estates she Haticlear, Longwood,
Winter Her visiting my good friend in her garden, north
View Garden, Jenny Rose Carrey, and we're even going to
meet Frank Lloyd Olmsted.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And uh then.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We in October we're going to New Orleans, the Ethereal
Gardens of New Orleans, right just in time for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Okay, I love that. That sounds very exciting. So yeah,
where do they need to go if they want to
find out the cost and get on a waiting list.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, Art and bloomgardentours dot com. So thank you so
much for letting me say that. So what should you
be planting this month? I got just a few seconds here.
Vegetables you should be planting beans and calabasa all the
warm uh you know, spring and summer vegetables. Calabasa, cantalope, casabas, coyotes, corn, cucumbers,
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dashen and eggplant, Jerusalem, artichoke and yakama, lufas and malangas,
New Zealand spinach and okra okra looks wonderful in your landscape.
Beautiful yellow flowers, peppers and pom Go ahead and plant
those now so you can have them for your patio
and pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. Southern peas and squash, temurillos
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and tomatoes and watermelon. Those are the vegetables we need
to plant. Herbs you can be planting annis and basil
and bay, laurel, borage and cardamen, chevelle and chives, coriander
and cost mary, dill and fennel for your butterfly gardens.
Ginger and lemon, palm, sweet Marjoram Mexican tarragon, which you
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can make delicious burne sauce with mint in pots. That's
always the caveat there, mint in pots, and that's Lizzie's recommendation.
Or regano and rosemary, sage, thyme and watercress. So you
have a lot to plant. This morning, we're going to
be talking about what to do in your landscape. Get
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those ornamental grasses cut now, and we should be starting fertilizing.
And I'm going to be talking a little bit about
fertilizing when I come back, because we have some local
lakes that are ceeing phosphorus pollution and algae blooms, and
so I want to tell everybody how we can prevent that.
It is up to everybody who lives around the lake.
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It's the responsibility. So I will be talking about that.
If you'd like to know more about me, you can
go to my website www dot g sh e hyphen
Consulting dot com. You can just even google Teresa Watkins
and she s he that stands for Sustainable Horticultural Environments.
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Who designed your landscape?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
She did? I love that Tony came.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Up with that. He's so smart.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
He is.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
He's so smart, and so we're gonna have a great
day to day. I am so excited about the rain
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Speaker 3 (18:51):
Now for the pumpkins that you were saying to plant,
that's basically for cooking that you're gonna need to plan
on this early. Not no, I will still be okay
for carving.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, for carving, I would say I would put it
out just a little later. But you can start planting
pumpkins now, and they need a ninety depending on the variety,
ninety to one hundred and twenty days.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh my, che's in crackers.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah we're that close. Yeah we are. It's so excited.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That means Christmas is right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Egg dog, Yes, and that will be back.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I just literally closed out my last one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh my goodness. We're going to be right back with
your phone calls. Give me a call. Wake up this
morning with me.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And if it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better Lawns
and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.
This is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network. Welcome back to
(20:03):
Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins. If you have
a gardening question, you can give us a call one
triple eight four five five two nine six seven one
triple eight four five five two nine six seven, or
you can text me two three six eight zero. I
mentioned that some of the lakes we are starting to
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see are getting algae and blooms because of these issues
with phosphorus. And one of the best things that you
can do if you live around a lake is to
be very very careful with your fertilizing. We start to
see it go up, the algae, blooms happen and go
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on longer because of the springtime. And that's because everyone fertilizes.
And when we're having a rain this weekend, I know
there's going to be some of you out there that's
going to say, it's going to rain, I've got to
get that fertilizer down. Have you heard that before, Lizzie, Yes, yes,
have you done that before.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's got a rain, it's gonna rain. We gotta get
the fertilizer.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, that's what we've always been taught.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
You never fertilized before. A rainstorm. Okay, never, never, never,
that's what causes the storm water runoff. And if you've
ever had a a I've experienced where you put down
fertilizer and nothing happened in your lawn, then you go, well,
what happened. I put the fertilizer down and it didn't
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do anything. It didn't kill the weeds, It didn't it
didn't grow. Uh well, that's because when you put it
down before a rainstorm, you lose seventy five percent of
the fertilizer to stormwater runoff. It just washes off and
goes down the drain and goes into these lakes. It
will go down into the shoreline and go into the lakes.
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So you never fertilize before rainstorm. You always fertilize after
the rainstorm, which will help prevent you know, you burning
your plants or your landscape as well. Okay, your ground's
gonna be saturated, your plants are going to be hydrated.
They can handle the fertilizer. So never never fertilized before
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a rainstorm. You'll always fertilize after. And if you're using
if you are fertilizing your turf, then you don't need
any phosphorus whatsoever. Phosphorus is what creates the push, the
encouragement to grow flowers and fruit, and it develops a
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root system. But turf doesn't need to have the phosphorates
because we have enough in our soil already to grow good,
healthy roots. It's only with a soil test that says
you're lacking phosphorus, which I doubt very highly will come
back as but that you need to apply phosphorus. So
you want to do a one zero one ratio on
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your fertilizer for your turf, one zero one ratio that
could be fifteen zero fifteen, you know, ten zero ten.
It's a one zero one ratio because we do need
the nitrogen to grow leaves, and we do need to
have the potassium for a healthy, healthy plant. Then you
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have the micronutrients. So you can get a soil test.
It will tell you exactly how much nitrogen you need
to put down or if you even need to do
it at all. You may have plenty of nitrogen already
in your soil and not need it, So a soil
test is always recommended before fertilizer, and again please never
fertilize before a rain event.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Let's go to Eileen in Polk City. Good morning, Eileen.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. I'd like you to know that
we have the restretched back.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Can I say I'm happy? Eileen?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That was Bob's.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Do you hear him?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yes, I do. It warms the cockles of my heart.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
There was one in my yard and I went over
to Mexicans and I said, please get him out. He did,
and but boy he had a hard time.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh I bet, I bet.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
The hen was the hard time.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
So I want you to know that I opened my
mailbox yesterday and there were two cards in there from
somebody that lives in Toronto, Florida.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
I opened one. It was a great card about how
I make it. Everybody laugh and I'm so.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Do you do exactly?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
And that's that's why we appreciate you calling in.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
And then there's a Snoopy.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Card and we all love Snoopy gift card.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
And Bob was guessing where I was going to spend
it at.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm sure it's either in violets or plants.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It's going to be at Peterson's.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Oh there you go, perfect, perfect, Come see me today.
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I lead, all right, you gotta run all right, happy
Saint Patrick say, let's go to Jim in Cheluto, Cheloda, Juliota, Juliota.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
There you go, all right, Good morning, Jim.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Hello, I am great.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I'm pretty good. It's beautiful out here in Juliota, wonderful.
I had a problem with the last two freezers though,
when they froze back my birds of paradise, and I'm wondering.
Some of them are like about four feet tall and
they're just totally brown. Are they gone? Can they come back?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It just they will come back from the ground. Yes,
but you're they're not going to turn green again. So
those brown fronds will have to go.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Okay, I have some other ones. I have one I'm
looking at right now inside my patio and it's about
ten feet tall.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Okay, so this is a giant bird of paradise right.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Right, and it is like it's a clump of bird
of paradise. And the ones on the outside are brown
all the way, but the ones on the inside have
some green in the bases, you know, But the fronds
are brown. Should I cut back?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
They're not going to the fronds are not going to recover.
That's the hard part about growing giant birds of Paradise
is that they're going to come back from the ground
they are. Those those fronds are never going to recover. So,
you know, I hate to say that, but they do
need to be cut off.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And even if you.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Trim them, they're gonna get brown on the tips. They're
not gonna look good.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
What about I mean the ones in the middle still
have green. You know, they don't have green in the front,
but they have greens in like the bases of them.
Should I cut those back all the way? Also? Yes,
I know I have a mega giant ones that, like,
I know, almost twenty feet tall. Yeah, they're kind of
froze back too.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, it's just one of those things that you know, Jim,
that it's just gonna look bad forever. It's never going
to recover well. So you have to make the decision
to leave them as they are and just cut the
brown portions off.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But they're never.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Gonna do well, but will come back from the base
either way. Thank you for calling, Jim. We certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Jack.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hang on there, you're gonna be in Lakeland, so We're
gonna talk to you in just a mint when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's Saturday morning. You're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm Teresa Watkins and this is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Welcome back up Better Lawns and Gardens. Now Terresa's top five.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And my top five this morning is my top five
green roses. The first one is Rosa chenensis virited flora
viriti flora. And this is a Chinese rose with green
sepals instead of petals. This rose attains a height of
three to five feet, has a sharpy growth habit, making
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it suitable for border plantings or as an ornamental features.
It grows in zones five through ten, and it's tolerant
of shade.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Number four Green Tea.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It is a green hybrid t rose grown in South America.
Showcases a pale green, nearly white double blossoms with a
traditional rose form. It grows to a height of three
to four feet. Number three is Green Romantica. This hybrid
has a variety bread for distinct green hues. Is noted
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for its subtle fragrance and gentle green coloration. It's available
at Heirloom Roses dot Com. Number two, number four Lemonade,
which is a chartreuse cabbage rose featuring large chartruse green,
ruffled blooms and sturdy heads. Ideal for centerpieces. It also
grows three to four feet tall. And my number five
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is or number one, that's it. Number one is my
Saint Patrick Hybrid t rose. I have grown this lovely
yellow rose. It is tinged with green, displaying striking chartruse
buds and large five inch flowers with more than thirty
five petals. Its bushy form blooms continuously, and the gray
green leaves provide a perfect contrast to the blossoms. So
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Saint Patrick's Rose hybrid tea. You can get it at
Heirloom Roses dot com. And all of these roses can
be gotten at specialty rowers.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
There that is.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And they're beautiful, and so you're going to have them
on the website better launch dot com later today.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Thank you so much. Let's go to Jack in Lakeland.
Good morning, Jack. How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Yes, I'm so happy my little t rows pop to
rose today?
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Yay?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What kind is it? What variety?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
I'm not sure. It's a little red pink rose that's
real small, okay, And I've got a couple of those,
but they're doing good. But the problem is my mango,
my papaya, they all fell over unfortunately summer eight ten
foot tall, and my mango it totally browned out, and
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my avocados starting to pop leaves. So what can I
do with my poor little mango tree to bring it
back to life? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, Well, I would want you to kind of scrape
it back, see where it's still alive. If it is
still alive, and I think it is, I think you
may be able just to cut the brown off and
it will flush out new leaves over the next over
the next few months in summertime. You may not get
any fruit this year, but it will recover.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Yeah, that cold really hurt man, Unfortunately it did.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But you want to go ahead and fertilize it too.
So cut it back, cut it back to where you
see the green, and even just scraping that cambium, you
want to see if there's any moisture underneath the skin.
Find that because it may still be brown, but it
may be just a light tan. And but if it's
moist you can see that it has moisture in it,
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It'll be okay and it'll recover well.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
I put heat lamps underneath all the trees and they
helped a little bit. But I puff eye totally went down.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, now we got too cold even for the heat lambs.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Thanks a lot, Thank you Jack for listening.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I appreciate that. Let's go to Dick in Polk City.
Good morning, Dick, how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Good morning? We're a dedicated listener. My wife plans on
to be in this with you at Peterson's this morning.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh, I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
I have I have two acres okay and behaya grass,
but I have a lot of weeds. I've been advised
to spray it with two four d H with this drought.
Uh should I go ahead and spray the two four
d the front half that where it's got irrigation. I
plan on and sodden the sandy spots the back half
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I was going to seede. When do I need to
wait till it starts raining because I don't have irrigation.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Right, Okay, So here's here's the thing is, don't do
don't spray before this rainfall, wait till next week.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Wait till you haven't the five days of no rain.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Okay, so wait till after these these rains happen this
weekend beginning of next week, and then following the label,
don't put down more than it's necessary. And you have
Behea grass out there, right, yesam, okay, Behea grass is good.
So that's that's all I would do, is follow the instructions.
You can wait until after the weeds are dead. You
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can wait about ten days, two weeks. Look at it
on the label to make sure I'm correct, and then
you can put down behay a seed.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Now is a good time of the year to do it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
We have all the temperatures is gonna be in the
eighties the rest of the summer, so it's fine time
to put down behay a seed. But wait until after
the weed killer has done its work.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Okay. How long after the weed killer should I saw
it or seed?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Either way? You can do it either way.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So I would saw it myself, okay, because that's just
gonna be quicker. And when you seed, you're gonna have
to cover with a kind of a topping, a mulch
or hay or some straws something to you know, keep
the keep the ground covered because you don't more want
more weeds coming in. And anytime you have bare, bare ground,
the weeds are going to come back. So I would
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saw it myself.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Okay, So wait about ten days after our spray before
I saw it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Right, But read the label on your two four D
label okay, in case they've changed it, all right, but
it'll tell you when you can start the plant. Thank
you so much, Dick. Thank you for listening. And I
can't wait to see your wife.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
What's her name?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
What's what's Brenda? Okay, can't wait to see Brenda. Let's
go to h Jeene in Ovido. Good morning, Geene, How
can I help you?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Good morning Teresa, love your show.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
I have one question.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
My question is I have a nor Fork Island pine
and I have this now for forty years. It's about
four stories high. My question is some of its branches
are turning brown. Does that mean that was hit by
the frost? Or can I revive this pine fertilize it?
Speaker 5 (35:04):
What should I do?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Geene?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I have been waiting two months to have somebody call
me about a Norfolk Island pine. I have been seeing them,
so Norfolk Island pines cannot take freezes at all. They
don't take temperatures below thirty five degrees, So you're lucky
that you have a lot of it left. And that's
what takes out a lot of our tall and older
Norfolk Island pines is the friezes that we get every
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five to ten fifteen years. So those brown branches are
not going to come back, so you might want to
cut those off and just fertilize it and hope it
keeps growing.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Okay. And a question about fertilizing, what type of fertilizer
do I use? And how often?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I would just go ahead, so I would just use
a general fertilizer A six sixty six ten ten ten
eight eight eight, so just a balanced fertilizer. And follow
the label. If it's slow released, it'll say, you know,
use every three months. If it's quick release, it may
be using every six weeks to eight weeks. So follow
the label on your fertilizer. It'll tell you how often
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to use it.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Okay. And do you have a chance a time for
one more question?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Okay, I have.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I'm thinking of residing a part of my yard and
I've been looking at this product called Citrus Blue Saint
Augustine grass that the University of Florida just came up
with it. Do you suggest using that type of grass?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It is a it is a great grasp. It's great
for shady areas.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It grows in it takes an extreme amount of shade
and does well in it.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
It's a shorter grass.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
It's called citru blue, and yeah, I do recommend it
if that's what you would like to use.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's a great grass. It is good.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
It's a little bit disease resistant too, so it's got
some really good traits on it.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And it's a great grass. I install it all the time.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Oh perfect. Thank you very much, and I love you show.
Keep it up.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Thank you very much, and have a good weekend you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Too, Jean, thank you so much. I appreciate it. I
have been waiting. I've been watching all the Norfolk Island pines.
And you know, when you hear no Norfolk Island, what
do you think.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Of New England? And it can't grow here?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But it's Virginia, you know, Norfolk Virginia. You know that.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But it's actually from New Zealand and it can't take
freezes at all. It's a tropical plant. Oh and here
we have all these eighty foot ninety foot tropical you know,
Norfolk Island pines and they get damaged when we get freezes.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Oh, so I love them.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
They're gorgeous. I just want to go out hug.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I know they're great.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So we want to have everybody come to Peterson's Nursery today.
I'll be there at eleven thirty. Brenda's going to be there.
Brenda's going to meet me and and I'm looking forward
to meeting everyone. And I'll help you buy some plants
for your yard and answer your gardening questions. Bring me
photographs of your your landscape. You need any help, I'll
be talking about coloring your world, adding color to your landscape.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You won't help them purchase, you'll want them make a selection.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I will, I will. You're on your own for paying
for them. Tony will be so much so relieved to
hear that. Yes, you know, So that'll be great. And
so we want to thank all of our sponsors, you know,
Quality Green Specialist Nursery Summit, Responsible Solutions, and then also
Black Cow Manure.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
They're so important.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They're great products and that's why we have them on
the show here and we should be adding it to it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And and a happy birthday, well pre birthday because Peterson's
Nursery they're gonna be celebrating their ninety fourth birthday on St.
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Isn't that amazing? Nearly one hundred years old. It's just amazing.
That is wonderful. Thank you so much, Lizzie. We're gonna
be back with more of your phone calls in the
second hour of Better Lawns and Gardens from the Summit
Responsible Solutions Studios. If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to
Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins and this is
Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network,
Good morning, Welcome to Better Lawns and Gardens from the
Summit Responsible Solution Studios. I'm your host, Teresa Watkins. Thank
you for joining us this morning. It is going to
be a good weekend, and I say that because we
are going to get some rain this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good morning, Lizzie. How are you? Oh good?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, we're a Sorrento. We overachievers. We've already gotten some
of that rain. So don't go away.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
No, no, In fact, it's going to be I'm going
to go over the weather in just a few minutes,
but it's going to be a good week for rain
and we desperately need it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's also going to be a busy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Week this week because we have two kind of special
days coming up. One is the seventeenth, which is Saint
Patrick's Day. My son Patrick is named after that day.
And then we're all we've got the spring equinox and
that is going to be on the twentieth, which is
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next Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
All right, So how are we supposed to dress for
that for the spring Equinox?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes, shorts, shorts will do good. We do have I
just don't want to traumatize anybody. We do have cold
fronts coming through. With this rain, there might be some
low forties in the North Panhandle, maybe thirty nine, but
no damage. Okay, So we're not going to get any
freezes this week, but we're getting the rain because the
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cold front is coming through, and we have two cold
fronts coming through, so we just desperately need the rain.
So North Florida, you're gonna have a possibility of forty
percent chance on Sunday, with seventy percent chances on Monday,
so a lot of you are getting rain already. Cold
temperatures are going to be in the seventies and sixties
(01:54):
and even fifties, so again, no chance of a freeze
this weekend, so there's no need to cover anything up.
This is going to be good rain and it's going
to be comfortable. Just stay inside and enjoy it and
be appreciative.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Central Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
We're going to have some rain today, Sunday and Monday,
and even thunderstorms. There is a possibility when we get
these cold fronts for hail and for tornadoes, so we
want everybody to be alert this weekend. When that cold
front hits the warm front of Florida, then always the
possibility of tornadoes, but just keep your eyes out Central Florida.
The loads are going the loads are going to be
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in the fifties. And so I'm just going to turn
my phone off. My lovely, that's been.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
South Florida. You're hitting the jackpot with rain this weekend.
Chances for at.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Least fifty percent of rain every day through Thursday. So
they're going to have rain Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
And what does that mean. That means, oh, you have
to appreciate it. They need the rain so desperately, but
turn the irrigation systems off. We are going to get
a couple of inches in parts of the state, which
means no need for rainfall. Our landscapes only need about
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an inch of rain. You've got your rain gage out there,
get an inch. You're doing great. So today I'm very excited, Lizzie.
I am going to go to one of our favorite places,
you and me a lecture at Peterson's Nursery in Lakeland
at eleven thirty. Okay, so I will be talking about
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coloring your world. Come and introduce yourself. I would love
to meet you, and I can even help you select
plants for your landscape. I will be there through about
twelve thirty one o'clock and so just come and see me.
I would love to meet you. Also to March twenty eighth,
twenty twenty six. This is important. This is the Florida
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Wildflower Festival, which is going to take place in the Land,
Florida Main Street.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
De Land is putting it on.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This is kind of like the fifth or sixth year,
maybe even longer than that.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Dana Venrick with Quality Green Specialists is one of the
sponsors of the festival, and it is a celebration of
Florida's native wildflowers and gardening. It's going to feature vendors,
educational presentations, which I'm going to do Florida Pollinator's Gone
Wild and it's gonna be a really fun, fun talk.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm gonna look forward to that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But there's gonna be activities for the whole family, and
so it's just gonna be a great one. This is
again March twenty eighth, and there is also the Outdoor
Art Festival going on that weekend, so you can go
in between the two festivals in DeLand. But DeLand is
such a quaint little city.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Lovely shop, Yes, and last last year was literally the
first time that I remember ever going. Okay, and let
me let me explain this to you. Okay, here's what
you need. Okay, you need to bring a little wagon
with you. Okay. You also need to bring yourself a chair. Okay,
all right, some nice walking shoes that you're able to
walk in comfortably. Okay, because one street, I don't know
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if they're doing it this year, but one street seem
to be.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Where all the vendors are. Yeah, the vendors for these
completely blocked off. It's all walking, right.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But then the next street over is like the art. Yes, yes,
so you get like you get the best of both worlds.
And they have they have a shout out to the
candy shop there. There's a candy shop there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We take our grandchildren there. We get to tell them
they can have whatever they want.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh it's crazy, I mean it's and it's awesome and
it's so make sure you have a little extra pocket
change for you to walk out with about one hundred
dollars worth of candy, because you'll be very happy.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You will find candy from the fifties and sixties, yes,
and then but also all kinds of great chocolate.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, and stuff for like like little kids like yes,
you know so yes, So definitely. The three things that
I suggest is money, a wagon, and a chair.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But they'll be able to take home native plants and
native seeds. You'll be able to get native seeds, but
also talk to the vendors about creating a wildflower meadow
in your yard and how we can help the pollinators.
And so there's gonna be a lot of presentations and activities,
so we want you to come. So the festival is
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going to be held at one twenty three West Indiana
Avenue in the Land, Uh and it's going to run
from nine am to five pm on March twenty eighth,
twenty twenty six. And there's going to be a free
shuttle Lizzie to transport attendees between the Florida Wildflower and
Garden Festival and the Land Outdoor Art Festival.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And that was the thing that I actually loved the
most is that there was ample parking throughout those city blocks. Yeah,
I've been to I've been to festivals before where I
literally was like, I don't even know I came here
because I want to have to walk five hundred miles.
There's no parking, blah blah blah. But I found ample
parking randomly throughout lands.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And they have a lot of great restaurants, so it's
a fun day. I'm going to be bringing our grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh and you get to meet Dana Venrick. Yes, if
you've not got quality green specialist surisery, I'm telling you
if you mount I met him, let me tell you
you're missing something.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
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Speaker 2 (07:28):
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Speaker 1 (07:49):
Welcome back to Better Lawns and Gardens. I am here
to take your phone calls on your gardening questions. Doesn't
matter if you think it's a silly question. Somebody else
out there is wanting to know the answer. Two, so
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
Me what you're having for your morning beverage. I'd like
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So, Lizzie, here's some Saint Patrick's state trivia. So how
many leaves does a typical clover plant have?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Ooh okay, I feel this is tricky because they're shaped
like a heart. The one what I would consider one leaf? Yes,
but that could be considered two. So there's either three
or six.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, so the answer is three, you're correct. And so
what do the three leaves of a shamrock represent? So
clover is not shamrocks, and shamrocks are not clover, So
just to let everybody know that, okay. So in Irish tradition,
the three leaves of a shamrock mean the Holy Trinity,
the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And then four leaf
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clovers are considered what Lizzie good luck?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes? Oh yay? And so according to legend, what animal
did Saint Patrick drive out of Ireland?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Ooh, unicorns?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No? No, why would he drive the unicorns? That would
be so mean? But no snakes.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But the actual truth is snakes never came to Ireland
to begin with. There's never there's no signs of snakes
anywhere in Ireland's fossil record. In fact, it's likely for
millennium there weren't any snakes in either Ireland or Britain,
though Britain eventually gained three species, the grass snake, the
adder snake, and the smooth snake.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So what happened is during.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Ice Age, Ireland and England were too frigid to
be suitable habitats for cold blooded reptiles such as snakes.
But then ten thousand years ago, when the glaciers shifted,
land emerged, connecting Europe, England and Ireland, allowing for migration,
and that's when animals that made it to Ireland included
brown bears, lynx and wild bl But when the glaciers
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began melting again, the land between Ireland and England was
covered with water over eighty five hundred years ago and
that stopped the snakes. But Ireland's not the only place
in the world without snakes, so there are no native
species of snakes to be found in Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii,
(10:22):
New Zealand, parts of Canada, Northern Russia, and not surprisingly Antarctica.
So rather it seems like the snakes This is kind
of a myth because I see in kind of Academia
that it's not true. But then Irish tradition states that
the snakes were supposed to be an allegory for paganism.
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When Saint Patrick banished the Pagans and converted them to
Christian Christianity, then they were no longer pagans. So getting
back to one of the three colors of the Irish flag, Lizzie.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, I'm pretty positive with green, white and orange.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yay, wonderful you win points ding ding ding. According to folklore, Lizzie,
what's a leprechaun's occupation.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh, collecting gold or cereal.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Making cereal or cookies, even cookies, making cookies. No, it
is shoemaking, that is their occupation. And so there was
a movie which I loved. We went to the movies
to see this. What nineteen fifty nine children's movie helped
shape the modern day image of e Leprechaun. I don't
know Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I saw that, Yes,
(11:40):
I saw that. That is Walter Brennan and it's so good.
The gnomemobile is another one, but those are nomes, not
not leprechauns. Here's the one that I want. The first
known Saint Patrick's Day took place in what? Uh the
first nome Saint Patrick's Day occurred in Ireland? Is that
true or false?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
M I want oh you think yes? Okay, No, it's false.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The first recorded parade took place in Saint Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Shut the front door.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh really, isn't it right there up there with river
and fort that's my son's restaurant. Go in and say
hi to them. Yes, sat Mom says, to call her. Okay, So,
uh so why do we wear green on Saint Patrick's.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Day, Lizzie, so we don't get pinched?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, yes, that's a that's a good point, okay, But
that's it's closely associated with Ireland's lush green landscapes and
the country's desired to distinguish itself from the British in
the seventeen hundreds. Oh so that's it. So that's my
Saint Patrick's Day trivia. I did not know that first
Saint Patrick's Day parade was in St.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
August had no clue. No, but MRCA, why wouldn't we exactly?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And so, uh, we just hope everybody has a good
and safe holiday this week. It's going to be a
great week with the rain, it'll be naturally. We went
to Ireland two years ago on our art and bloom
Garden tours and it was just incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, that's on my bucket list one day is to
go to Ireland.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It is.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And you had cousins and stuff that you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
No, no, I knew.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I knew cousins, Okay, to meet them, oh yeah, I
grew up with them, okay, and so but they But
I got to go visit my grandfather's house in Ireland,
and it's on the side of a hill and a
mountain and it had only two walls left. And this
was from the early late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds,
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only two walls left, and the walls were like fifteen
by about twenty five, and they were all kind of
you know, it wasn't a full wall.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was only the four feet three feet tall.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And they they fleppt in one bed in that home
with thirteen of them, and then about ten feet away
from the foundation of the was this little clean waterfall
that came down from one hundred feet up that went
all the way down the mountain side, which was where
they got their water from.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
That's why they had such tiny houses. They didn't need
to be in the house. They had something gorgeous like that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh, it was just incredible.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I saw the school he went to and they walked
to school with bare feet, and so then they put
their shoes on right before they went into the school,
and so it was just it was wonderful. And then
but all the other castles and things we went to,
and Blarney Castle.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And I mean, I know that's not on y'all's tour
this time. However, you have Art and Bloom.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Art Bloom Garden Tours, and we're going to France this year,
going to the villas and the chateaus and just beautiful.
We're going to Paris and doing it's going to be
a wonderful trip. If you'd like to know more about
my garden tours, you can go to Art and Bloomgarden
toours dot com and just travel with us.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Our Revolutionary Garden Tour is full of flower Show to
Chelsea and the Best of English Gardens is full. But
we do have the Newport Flower Show, which is incredible,
and we're going to Martha's Vineyard and we're going to
the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, which is the place the
(15:19):
museum of the most expensive art heist theft in history. Wow,
they stole thirteen million dollars worth of paintings and there
was only like about seven or eight paintings.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
How do you fit all that in your pocket?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And it was just incredible. So there's a great movie
on Netflix about it. And so we are going to
the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, which is one of my favorites.
And then in July Weary are going to the garden
Walk Buffalo and Canada over to the Niagara Falls in Canada,
and then august Is France. September is the Brandywine Valley,
(15:55):
which we're going to all these palatial estates she Haticlear, Longwood,
Winter Her visiting my good friend in her garden, north
View Garden, Jenny Rose Carrey, and we're even going to
meet Frank Lloyd Olmsted.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And uh then.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We in October we're going to New Orleans, the Ethereal
Gardens of New Orleans, right just in time for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Okay, I love that. That sounds very exciting. So yeah,
where do they need to go if they want to
find out the cost and get on a waiting list.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, Art and bloomgardentours dot com. So thank you so
much for letting me say that. So what should you
be planting this month? I got just a few seconds here.
Vegetables you should be planting beans and calabasa all the
warm uh you know, spring and summer vegetables. Calabasa, cantalope, casabas, coyotes, corn, cucumbers,
(16:45):
dashen and eggplant, Jerusalem, artichoke and yakama, lufas and malangas,
New Zealand spinach and okra okra looks wonderful in your landscape.
Beautiful yellow flowers, peppers and pom Go ahead and plant
those now so you can have them for your patio
and pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. Southern peas and squash, temurillos
(17:09):
and tomatoes and watermelon. Those are the vegetables we need
to plant. Herbs you can be planting annis and basil
and bay, laurel, borage and cardamen, chevelle and chives, coriander
and cost mary, dill and fennel for your butterfly gardens.
Ginger and lemon, palm, sweet Marjoram Mexican tarragon, which you
(17:32):
can make delicious burne sauce with mint in pots. That's
always the caveat there, mint in pots, and that's Lizzie's recommendation.
Or regano and rosemary, sage, thyme and watercress. So you
have a lot to plant. This morning, we're going to
be talking about what to do in your landscape. Get
(17:52):
those ornamental grasses cut now, and we should be starting fertilizing.
And I'm going to be talking a little bit about
fertilizing when I come back, because we have some local
lakes that are ceeing phosphorus pollution and algae blooms, and
so I want to tell everybody how we can prevent that.
It is up to everybody who lives around the lake.
(18:14):
It's the responsibility. So I will be talking about that.
If you'd like to know more about me, you can
go to my website www dot g sh e hyphen
Consulting dot com. You can just even google Teresa Watkins
and she s he that stands for Sustainable Horticultural Environments.
(18:34):
Who designed your landscape?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
She did? I love that Tony came.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Up with that. He's so smart.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
He is.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
He's so smart, and so we're gonna have a great
day to day. I am so excited about the rain
one triple eight four five five two nine sixty seven,
or you can text two three six eight zero.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Now for the pumpkins that you were saying to plant,
that's basically for cooking that you're gonna need to plan
on this early. Not no, I will still be okay
for carving.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, for carving, I would say I would put it
out just a little later. But you can start planting
pumpkins now, and they need a ninety depending on the variety,
ninety to one hundred and twenty days.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh my, che's in crackers.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah we're that close. Yeah we are. It's so excited.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That means Christmas is right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Egg dog, Yes, and that will be back.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I just literally closed out my last one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh my goodness. We're going to be right back with
your phone calls. Give me a call. Wake up this
morning with me.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And if it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better Lawns
and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.
This is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network. Welcome back to
(20:03):
Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins. If you have
a gardening question, you can give us a call one
triple eight four five five two nine six seven one
triple eight four five five two nine six seven, or
you can text me two three six eight zero. I
mentioned that some of the lakes we are starting to
(20:23):
see are getting algae and blooms because of these issues
with phosphorus. And one of the best things that you
can do if you live around a lake is to
be very very careful with your fertilizing. We start to
see it go up, the algae, blooms happen and go
(20:44):
on longer because of the springtime. And that's because everyone fertilizes.
And when we're having a rain this weekend, I know
there's going to be some of you out there that's
going to say, it's going to rain, I've got to
get that fertilizer down. Have you heard that before, Lizzie, Yes, yes,
have you done that before.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's got a rain, it's gonna rain. We gotta get
the fertilizer.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, that's what we've always been taught.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
You never fertilized before. A rainstorm. Okay, never, never, never,
that's what causes the storm water runoff. And if you've
ever had a a I've experienced where you put down
fertilizer and nothing happened in your lawn, then you go, well,
what happened. I put the fertilizer down and it didn't
(21:31):
do anything. It didn't kill the weeds, It didn't it
didn't grow. Uh well, that's because when you put it
down before a rainstorm, you lose seventy five percent of
the fertilizer to stormwater runoff. It just washes off and
goes down the drain and goes into these lakes. It
will go down into the shoreline and go into the lakes.
(21:53):
So you never fertilize before rainstorm. You always fertilize after
the rainstorm, which will help prevent you know, you burning
your plants or your landscape as well. Okay, your ground's
gonna be saturated, your plants are going to be hydrated.
They can handle the fertilizer. So never never fertilized before
(22:14):
a rainstorm. You'll always fertilize after. And if you're using
if you are fertilizing your turf, then you don't need
any phosphorus whatsoever. Phosphorus is what creates the push, the
encouragement to grow flowers and fruit, and it develops a
(22:35):
root system. But turf doesn't need to have the phosphorates
because we have enough in our soil already to grow good,
healthy roots. It's only with a soil test that says
you're lacking phosphorus, which I doubt very highly will come
back as but that you need to apply phosphorus. So
you want to do a one zero one ratio on
(22:59):
your fertilizer for your turf, one zero one ratio that
could be fifteen zero fifteen, you know, ten zero ten.
It's a one zero one ratio because we do need
the nitrogen to grow leaves, and we do need to
have the potassium for a healthy, healthy plant. Then you
(23:21):
have the micronutrients. So you can get a soil test.
It will tell you exactly how much nitrogen you need
to put down or if you even need to do
it at all. You may have plenty of nitrogen already
in your soil and not need it, So a soil
test is always recommended before fertilizer, and again please never
fertilize before a rain event.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Let's go to Eileen in Polk City. Good morning, Eileen.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. I'd like you to know that
we have the restretched back.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Can I say I'm happy? Eileen?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That was Bob's.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Do you hear him?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yes, I do. It warms the cockles of my heart.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
There was one in my yard and I went over
to Mexicans and I said, please get him out. He did,
and but boy he had a hard time.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh I bet, I bet.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
The hen was the hard time.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
So I want you to know that I opened my
mailbox yesterday and there were two cards in there from
somebody that lives in Toronto, Florida.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
I opened one. It was a great card about how
I make it. Everybody laugh and I'm so.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Do you do exactly?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
And that's that's why we appreciate you calling in.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
And then there's a Snoopy.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Card and we all love Snoopy gift card.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
And Bob was guessing where I was going to spend
it at.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm sure it's either in violets or plants.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It's going to be at Peterson's.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Oh there you go, perfect, perfect, Come see me today.
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I lead, all right, you gotta run all right, happy
Saint Patrick say, let's go to Jim in Cheluto, Cheloda, Juliota, Juliota.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
There you go, all right, Good morning, Jim.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Hello, I am great.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I'm pretty good. It's beautiful out here in Juliota, wonderful.
I had a problem with the last two freezers though,
when they froze back my birds of paradise, and I'm wondering.
Some of them are like about four feet tall and
they're just totally brown. Are they gone? Can they come back?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It just they will come back from the ground. Yes,
but you're they're not going to turn green again. So
those brown fronds will have to go.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Okay, I have some other ones. I have one I'm
looking at right now inside my patio and it's about
ten feet tall.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Okay, so this is a giant bird of paradise right.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Right, and it is like it's a clump of bird
of paradise. And the ones on the outside are brown
all the way, but the ones on the inside have
some green in the bases, you know, But the fronds
are brown. Should I cut back?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
They're not going to the fronds are not going to recover.
That's the hard part about growing giant birds of Paradise
is that they're going to come back from the ground
they are. Those those fronds are never going to recover. So,
you know, I hate to say that, but they do
need to be cut off.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And even if you.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Trim them, they're gonna get brown on the tips. They're
not gonna look good.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
What about I mean the ones in the middle still
have green. You know, they don't have green in the front,
but they have greens in like the bases of them.
Should I cut those back all the way? Also? Yes,
I know I have a mega giant ones that, like,
I know, almost twenty feet tall. Yeah, they're kind of
froze back too.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, it's just one of those things that you know, Jim,
that it's just gonna look bad forever. It's never going
to recover well. So you have to make the decision
to leave them as they are and just cut the
brown portions off.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But they're never.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Gonna do well, but will come back from the base
either way. Thank you for calling, Jim. We certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Jack.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hang on there, you're gonna be in Lakeland, so We're
gonna talk to you in just a mint when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's Saturday morning. You're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm Teresa Watkins and this is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Welcome back up Better Lawns and Gardens. Now Terresa's top five.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And my top five this morning is my top five
green roses. The first one is Rosa chenensis virited flora
viriti flora. And this is a Chinese rose with green
sepals instead of petals. This rose attains a height of
three to five feet, has a sharpy growth habit, making
(28:43):
it suitable for border plantings or as an ornamental features.
It grows in zones five through ten, and it's tolerant
of shade.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Number four Green Tea.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It is a green hybrid t rose grown in South America.
Showcases a pale green, nearly white double blossoms with a
traditional rose form. It grows to a height of three
to four feet. Number three is Green Romantica. This hybrid
has a variety bread for distinct green hues. Is noted
(29:15):
for its subtle fragrance and gentle green coloration. It's available
at Heirloom Roses dot Com. Number two, number four Lemonade,
which is a chartreuse cabbage rose featuring large chartruse green,
ruffled blooms and sturdy heads. Ideal for centerpieces. It also
grows three to four feet tall. And my number five
(29:37):
is or number one, that's it. Number one is my
Saint Patrick Hybrid t rose. I have grown this lovely
yellow rose. It is tinged with green, displaying striking chartruse
buds and large five inch flowers with more than thirty
five petals. Its bushy form blooms continuously, and the gray
green leaves provide a perfect contrast to the blossoms. So
(30:01):
Saint Patrick's Rose hybrid tea. You can get it at
Heirloom Roses dot com. And all of these roses can
be gotten at specialty rowers.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
There that is.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And they're beautiful, and so you're going to have them
on the website better launch dot com later today.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Thank you so much. Let's go to Jack in Lakeland.
Good morning, Jack. How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Yes, I'm so happy my little t rows pop to
rose today?
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Yay?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What kind is it? What variety?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
I'm not sure. It's a little red pink rose that's
real small, okay, And I've got a couple of those,
but they're doing good. But the problem is my mango,
my papaya, they all fell over unfortunately summer eight ten
foot tall, and my mango it totally browned out, and
(30:55):
my avocados starting to pop leaves. So what can I
do with my poor little mango tree to bring it
back to life? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, Well, I would want you to kind of scrape
it back, see where it's still alive. If it is
still alive, and I think it is, I think you
may be able just to cut the brown off and
it will flush out new leaves over the next over
the next few months in summertime. You may not get
any fruit this year, but it will recover.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Yeah, that cold really hurt man, Unfortunately it did.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But you want to go ahead and fertilize it too.
So cut it back, cut it back to where you
see the green, and even just scraping that cambium, you
want to see if there's any moisture underneath the skin.
Find that because it may still be brown, but it
may be just a light tan. And but if it's
moist you can see that it has moisture in it,
(31:50):
It'll be okay and it'll recover well.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
I put heat lamps underneath all the trees and they
helped a little bit. But I puff eye totally went down.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, now we got too cold even for the heat lambs.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Thanks a lot, Thank you Jack for listening.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I appreciate that. Let's go to Dick in Polk City.
Good morning, Dick, how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Good morning? We're a dedicated listener. My wife plans on
to be in this with you at Peterson's this morning.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh, I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
I have I have two acres okay and behaya grass,
but I have a lot of weeds. I've been advised
to spray it with two four d H with this drought.
Uh should I go ahead and spray the two four
d the front half that where it's got irrigation. I
plan on and sodden the sandy spots the back half
(32:46):
I was going to seede. When do I need to
wait till it starts raining because I don't have irrigation.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Right, Okay, So here's here's the thing is, don't do
don't spray before this rainfall, wait till next week.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Wait till you haven't the five days of no rain.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Okay, so wait till after these these rains happen this
weekend beginning of next week, and then following the label,
don't put down more than it's necessary. And you have
Behea grass out there, right, yesam, okay, Behea grass is good.
So that's that's all I would do, is follow the instructions.
You can wait until after the weeds are dead. You
(33:23):
can wait about ten days, two weeks. Look at it
on the label to make sure I'm correct, and then
you can put down behay a seed.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Now is a good time of the year to do it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
We have all the temperatures is gonna be in the
eighties the rest of the summer, so it's fine time
to put down behay a seed. But wait until after
the weed killer has done its work.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Okay. How long after the weed killer should I saw
it or seed?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Either way? You can do it either way.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So I would saw it myself, okay, because that's just
gonna be quicker. And when you seed, you're gonna have
to cover with a kind of a topping, a mulch
or hay or some straws something to you know, keep
the keep the ground covered because you don't more want
more weeds coming in. And anytime you have bare, bare ground,
the weeds are going to come back. So I would
(34:11):
saw it myself.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Okay, So wait about ten days after our spray before
I saw it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Right, But read the label on your two four D
label okay, in case they've changed it, all right, but
it'll tell you when you can start the plant. Thank
you so much, Dick. Thank you for listening. And I
can't wait to see your wife.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
What's her name?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
What's what's Brenda? Okay, can't wait to see Brenda. Let's
go to h Jeene in Ovido. Good morning, Geene, How
can I help you?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Good morning Teresa, love your show.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
I have one question.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
My question is I have a nor Fork Island pine
and I have this now for forty years. It's about
four stories high. My question is some of its branches
are turning brown. Does that mean that was hit by
the frost? Or can I revive this pine fertilize it?
Speaker 5 (35:04):
What should I do?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Geene?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I have been waiting two months to have somebody call
me about a Norfolk Island pine. I have been seeing them,
so Norfolk Island pines cannot take freezes at all. They
don't take temperatures below thirty five degrees, So you're lucky
that you have a lot of it left. And that's
what takes out a lot of our tall and older
Norfolk Island pines is the friezes that we get every
(35:29):
five to ten fifteen years. So those brown branches are
not going to come back, so you might want to
cut those off and just fertilize it and hope it
keeps growing.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Okay. And a question about fertilizing, what type of fertilizer
do I use? And how often?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I would just go ahead, so I would just use
a general fertilizer A six sixty six ten ten ten
eight eight eight, so just a balanced fertilizer. And follow
the label. If it's slow released, it'll say, you know,
use every three months. If it's quick release, it may
be using every six weeks to eight weeks. So follow
the label on your fertilizer. It'll tell you how often
(36:09):
to use it.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Okay. And do you have a chance a time for
one more question?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Okay, I have.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I'm thinking of residing a part of my yard and
I've been looking at this product called Citrus Blue Saint
Augustine grass that the University of Florida just came up
with it. Do you suggest using that type of grass?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It is a it is a great grasp. It's great
for shady areas.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It grows in it takes an extreme amount of shade
and does well in it.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
It's a shorter grass.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
It's called citru blue, and yeah, I do recommend it
if that's what you would like to use.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's a great grass. It is good.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
It's a little bit disease resistant too, so it's got
some really good traits on it.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And it's a great grass. I install it all the time.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Oh perfect. Thank you very much, and I love you show.
Keep it up.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Thank you very much, and have a good weekend you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Too, Jean, thank you so much. I appreciate it. I
have been waiting. I've been watching all the Norfolk Island pines.
And you know, when you hear no Norfolk Island, what
do you think.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Of New England? And it can't grow here?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But it's Virginia, you know, Norfolk Virginia. You know that.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But it's actually from New Zealand and it can't take
freezes at all. It's a tropical plant. Oh and here
we have all these eighty foot ninety foot tropical you know,
Norfolk Island pines and they get damaged when we get freezes.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Oh, so I love them.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
They're gorgeous. I just want to go out hug.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I know they're great.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So we want to have everybody come to Peterson's Nursery today.
I'll be there at eleven thirty. Brenda's going to be there.
Brenda's going to meet me and and I'm looking forward
to meeting everyone. And I'll help you buy some plants
for your yard and answer your gardening questions. Bring me
photographs of your your landscape. You need any help, I'll
be talking about coloring your world, adding color to your landscape.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You won't help them purchase, you'll want them make a selection.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I will, I will. You're on your own for paying
for them. Tony will be so much so relieved to
hear that. Yes, you know, So that'll be great. And
so we want to thank all of our sponsors, you know,
Quality Green Specialist Nursery Summit, Responsible Solutions, and then also
Black Cow Manure.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
They're so important.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They're great products and that's why we have them on
the show here and we should be adding it to it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And and a happy birthday, well pre birthday because Peterson's
Nursery they're gonna be celebrating their ninety fourth birthday on St.
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Isn't that amazing? Nearly one hundred years old. It's just amazing.
That is wonderful. Thank you so much, Lizzie. We're gonna
be back with more of your phone calls in the
second hour of Better Lawns and Gardens from the Summit
Responsible Solutions Studios. If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to
Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins and this is
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.