October 10, 2024 • 20 mins
Janey is welcoming her favorite guest of all - her husband, Jason Santos! Together, they’ll answer questions from Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat subscribers and fans. Does Jason love his new gig at Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat? Are Janey’s plant preferences shifting now that they live on a much larger property? Hear Janey and Jason these questions and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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your next favorite plant today Callarogashawk Media. Hi everyone, Janie here,
(00:54):
welcome back to my garden and welcome back to the
Dig Plant Water Repeat Podcast. Before I introduce you all
to a very special guest today, I wanted to take
care of some housekeeping for the Dig Plant Water Peat podcast.
We do have a down season, a slow time of year,
and that is from now October through December, which is
(01:16):
basically the slow time in gardening. So what we're going
to do in response to that for the Dig Plant
Water Repeat podcast is we're going to decrease. We normally
have episodes every Monday and Thursday. We are going to
slow down just for a little bit and We're only
going to have one episode a week on Thursdays, but
don't worry. Once the gardening system excuse me, once the
(01:38):
gardening season ramps up again in January, we will be
right back to every Mondays and Thursdays. All right, everyone,
So you probably saw the title. Now I want to
introduce you to a very special guest. We're sitting in
our living room on our couches, very comfortable. My husband,
Jason Santos. Hi, how's it going, I should say, my
(02:01):
husband and partner, business partner. So, for those of you
who don't know, Jason and I have a YouTube channel
called Dick, Plant Water Repeat. It started off as my channel.
I did all of the filming and the editing and everything,
and it ended up it ended up doing well.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, Yeah, it's going great.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It's going great. So Jason last year was able to
quit his job and come and work for the channel
full time, which has been absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you say last year, but it's been less than
six months, has it? I know, isn't that crazy? Well,
it's just end of April.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is that a bad thing that it feels like it's been?
Is that a bad thing? We've just been super, super busy,
so that's that's probably what's going on. So I thought, well,
I've had a lot of people asked to have Jason
on the podcast, so now I finally got him on
the podcast. Welcome Jason, thank you, and I posted on
YouTube and Instagram some questions. Jason and I were doing
(03:01):
Q and A videos every Saturday, kind of like a
coffee chat video, and then things got really busy.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Go hard to keep up with it, it hard to
keep up.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And then soccer started for our daughters. We have a
nine year old and an eleven year old, and it
just got just got a little crazy, so we put
a pause on that. We'll probably start that again in
the future, but for right now on the podcast, I
thought we could do a fun Q and A session
just to answer some questions that a lot of you have,
and some of them are for you, Bim, so I
(03:33):
figured you might as well be a guest on this episode,
right all right, all right, So the very first one
I have it, I'm scrolling down here trying to find
it from mSv three four zero two. Here she says,
how is Jason feeling about not having to go off
to work anymore and getting to work with you every day.
(03:53):
You meaning me. So, Jason, how do you feel about
not having to go to work anymore? It's really really
nice tell everybody what your last job was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So I was a physical therapist in my past life,
past career, and it was good. It was a good job.
I enjoyed it. And but you know, you're leaving the
house every day. You're spending a lot of time and
energy away from home. You're spending a lot of kind
of mental bandwidth sort of thinking about and taking care
(04:22):
of patients. And so it's nice to be able to
just shift back to or shift to being home and
just focusing on family and you know, working together with
Janie and running a business. Yeah, running a business and
starting learning all sorts of new things and just yeah,
it's a whole new adventure. So but it's it's it
(04:43):
is really nice to be home more often. I have
a lot more freedom to do you know, kids, field
trips if I need to, and you know, I don't
miss I used to have to work weekends, so I
don't have to miss any soccer games anymore on the weekends.
Stuff like that is really nice.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, You're doing a lot more kids.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot of market stuff, which is great. Yeah, I
like it. I think the kids like it too.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
They love it, they love it. So let me ask you, Jason,
is this job harder or physical therapy harder? Be honest, this.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Job is way harder.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I know.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's not even close.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I know, but I tell people that they think I'm crazy,
but no, no, no, this job this is hard.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah. Yeah, this is a lot of work. It's it's
way more than you think it is from the outside. Yeah, Like,
there's just there's a lot to it, and we have
a lot going on. I mean, I guess if we
simply just did YouTube and that's all we did, then
it would be not so hard. But we have lots
of other stuff going on, which is all good. All
these positive sort of opportunities that we continue to have
cropping up that keep us busy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, and Jason and I were talking. We just moved
into this property a year ago, a little over a
year ago, and we're not gardening right now. No, we're landscaping.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's like a landscape project.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What are you what are you doing today? What are
we doing today?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We are planting what five trees?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Five trees?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Five trees.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's not gardening. That's landscaping.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's like it's like heavy duty.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, you know, it's not like pruning roses. It's landscaping.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So the part of that question that we didn't answer, though,
is how we like working together? How do you like
having me home every day?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, now, it's so Jason and I actually we met
in physical therapy. I used to be a physical therapist
as well, so we have people ask us all the time,
how can you work with your husband? We've been working together, yeah, forever,
for ever since we've known each other, so we're completely
used to working with each other.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And we traveled for physical therapy, which we were like
together all the time with that. I mean, it's just
I don't know, we've done a lot of it at
this point.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're just kind of just used to it. So it's
nice to work together. I wish I had a little
more alone time. I think so does everybody, right, But no,
it's great to have him home. It's great to have
a partner, especially if like I'm having a bad day,
it's I can go cry your shoulder instead of Monty's.
(07:03):
Monty is my dog. Next question that we have has
to do back with the garden. This question is from
she loves flora. She asks, now that you have such
(07:24):
a large property to garden in, do you think you're
moving into more of a perennial preference in gardening or
do you think you're sticking with your previous preference towards annuals.
You had mentioned you need to learn patients in gardening.
Perennials require a lot of patients, but I think the
reward received from them year in and year out is huge.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I saw this question. Yeah, this is a good question.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What's your answer?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
My answer is I still love annuals.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, I thought I thought that your answer.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I like, I get the benefit of perennials and shrubs.
I completely get it. It's plant it once and you're done.
You don't have to worry about it. It's a lot
less work. But there is just something about an annual
that blooms its head off all season long. I just
it brings me so much joy to see that much color,
and for me, it's worth it to put a little time, money,
(08:16):
effort into planting your annuals in the early season and
then you get to see them for the rest of
the year. I mean, perennials are wonderful, and I do
have some gorgeous perennials, But the trade off for perennials
that will continue blooming year after year is that they
only bloom for a certain period during the gardening season.
Like look at our Shasta daisies out there, right, Yeah,
(08:37):
we love them for like what two months if that?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If that so, you know, and then other than that,
they're just a green bush, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And then look at the super tunas in front of
the office right now, know, I mean, they've looked beautiful
since what the end of March, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And they're going strong now at this point, you know.
I just like, I completely get the question, and I
definitely see the reward for being patient for your plants.
But I just I'm an annual ser I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You have to have, especially a yard size of ours. Now,
you have to have the perennials and the shrubs to
sort of fill in structure and permanence of just foliage
and stuff like that. But like the I mean the
super tunias and the superbina that they just bloom all
(09:31):
the time and they just constantly have color and beauty.
It's really nice.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then because we live in a mild climate. We
live in zone nine. A lot of the annuals, what
we consider annuals, are our perennials for us, So superbinas
are perennials for us, right, And it's just the type
of thing that I could leave it in the ground
and it would start blooming its head off next year
(09:55):
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So I do just trim it back a little bit,
it would come right. I mean, we'd have maybe a
period with not as much balloom as you trim it
so it doesn't get leggy, and they'd come right back
and it'd be so quick.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And it would bloom all season long.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So I mean we're kind of spoiled with that. I
guess if we lived in, you know, a culture climate,
we wouldn't have that to that option.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And some people who live in really cold climates they
only get what two months.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Right, So then so then perennials make a way more sense.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Right, absolutely, because that's a lot of work just for
two months. But if we're planting March through November.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Right, that's a lot we have a solid eight months.
That's a long and sometimes more.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, but thank you for the question,
and I get it. Perennials and shrubs. They're fabulous. I'm
slowly making my way into them, but you will definitely
notice I will still be planting mostly annuals in my card.
That's a question I get a ton is what are
you doing for evergreen? What are you doing for for
(10:55):
winter interest? What about all the bushes and what about.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All the shrubs?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And it's like, yeah, I know, I get, I'm working
on it, but I'm always going.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
To Also this year there was the aspect of like,
we had absolutely nothing here and so if we planted
all perennials that weren't mature yet, we would just have
a bunch of small, little kind of green bushes with
color and so like, the quick way to have some
beauty right away in our yard was to just get
a bunch of annuals in the ground. Especially this first.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Year, absolutely and it made a huge day, made a
big difference. And I'm going to do it again next year.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I know, totally, yeah, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
If you all are watching the YouTube channel, we are
consistently planting perennials and shrubs, you know, week in and
week out now in the fall because we're trying to
establish the garden. But those annuals. They just really good
bang for your buck. All right. Next question we have
is from Kitland, and this kind of has to do
with the last question. Kitland asked, what are your favorite
(11:48):
evergreen flowering perennials for Zone nine? So it's not really
a perennial, it's more of a shrub, but uh, Camillias
camellia are gorgeous. And one of the reasons why they're
my favorite flowering shrub evergreen shrub is because they bloom
at a time when nothing else is blooming. There's barely
(12:11):
anything else blooming.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Right, yep, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
They're really incredible. So if you go with like a
Camellia japonica, it has a beautiful, glossy evergreen foliage that
is going to look amazing all season long, and then
whenever everything else kind of dies out and there's not
really anything to look at, all of a sudden, the
shrub comes out with these gorgeous, gorgeous blooms that are
absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, those are really pretty. Yeah, I like those a lot.
I can't think of another good option that I would
pick alongside that. Yeah, do we have that?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well? I really like? I mean, a vine is the
evergreen climatis.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, those are pretty.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, the evergreen climatus is absolutely beautiful. And then why
am I blanking on the name Plumbago's.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Oh yeah, Plumbago's really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Plumbago. That's true, it's just blanking on the name. Yeah,
Plumbago's another again, it's another shrub.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But Plumbago's bloom what a lot of other stuff is blooming.
And the camellias are special because they bloom when hardly
anything else is blooming.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
As soon as I read this question, I thought, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's the easy answer.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's the easy answer. It's kind of a cheater answer
because it's not perennial to shrub, but it's a perennial shrub. Okay.
Next question is from Sarah Christine five or six. Sarah
Christine five or six, She asks, is there a garden
(13:42):
style or even certain plants that you love to see
but don't have because you don't enjoy taking care of
it in your own garden? And then she asked, would
you consider doing an event in the Midwest next year?
I would love to do an event in the Midwest
Garden Center call me, But Sarah, I, well, do you
have an answer for this, Jason?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Do you know? I don't know. No, I mean, I
know you you like it. I don't know if it's
that you don't want to take care of, but like
you like a lot of the plants that like they
grow in England and like the cottage look and all that,
it's not that you don't want to take care of.
You just can't grow it, right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, it's funny you say that because that was my
thought was roses and boxwoods, right, two things. And I
have roses in the garden I just don't take very
good care of. I don't deadhead them a ton, and
I'm not like super on it with taking care of roses.
I love the look of roses when they're blooming. But
(14:40):
for me, roses aren't a lot of work for a
very short payoff a fabulous payoff, don't get me wrong,
but that's one that it's it's hard for me to
get motivation too.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
But that's why you like iceberg roses so much, right,
because like we have you're learning. I know because I'm
looking over your shoulder and there's like this beautiful like
iceberg standard.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Do you want to tell you want to tell everybody
about your pruning technique.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm really good punting roses. So we have these two
Iceberg standards on either side of our greenhouse, and I
was just walking around, just trying to be helpful and
do some dead heading. I saw that there was a
bunch of, you know, kind of blooms that had to
(15:23):
be dead headed off of the one iceberg standard. So
I deadheaded him and was good and kind of tried
to shape it into a nice shape, and then you
went good. And then I went and looked at the
other one, and there weren't any blooms that had to
really be dead headed, and there was like one or
two new ones, and I thought that we're good, and
so I walked away. And now we have one beautiful
(15:47):
standard with like tons of looms on it, and the
other one that's recently pruned in just a little green ball.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, the problem was we were out there in the
backyard looking at the greenhouse and I went, I have
no idea why this rose is blooming beautiful and this
rose has not a single bud on it, And Jason goes, oh,
I might have I might have deadheaded that one and
not the other one. So it's just it's just off
(16:12):
schedule now.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
So yeah, now they're just all yeah, and I don't know.
I mean, they were off schedule already, but I just
made it worse. I think I just exaggerated the issue.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But we'll just prune those at the same time next time. Yeah,
it'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We're almost at these kind of funny but the one
looks really pretty. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So yeah, So roses, I would say for Sarah Christina
to answer your question, I would say, Roses, I love
the look. I would love to have a rose garden.
My grandmother has a rose garden. It's absolutely beautiful, but
I just don't have the patience for it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
What do you say about the ivy Because we had
the ivys Pallly at the last house, and so you
loved it, But it was a ton of work.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
When we go out every single week and take it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I know, so like, would you do that again? Or
is that too much work?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I wouldn't do it again.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, too much work.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I have this garden is too big now that I.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Can't it's too much of a high maintenance.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Then yeah, I can't have as much high maintenance plants
in my garden because they won't get taken care of,
so I have to have lower maintenance plants. I love
the at our old Jason's talking about. At our old house,
we had an ivy aspolier, a diamond doespolier on the wall,
and if I let it go, the ivy would just
crawl over and it would look like a wall of ivy.
But if I took care of it, it was this gorgeous,
(17:23):
gorgeous lattice look that was absolutely beautiful. But it was
I'm serious, every single week I would be out there.
If I was sick, I would be out there taking
care of it because I knew that it would get
it would get out of hand very very quickly. So
you have to know what you're getting into. I kind
of feel the same way about boxwoods. I know they're
probably not as big of a deal as I have
(17:44):
it in my head, but I just don't want to
go around and hedge box woods, Like I can't imagine hedging.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, we never tried that before.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, so that's something. I love the look of boxwoods,
but I just don't see myself with hedging shears.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know, you have to have a place to put
them too. I don't know where they would go I
don't know, maybe.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
In the Center Island or something like that. But yeah,
so that's something not saying I don't want box woods.
I think that they'd be beautiful. I even think that
rosemary hedges would look really, really beautiful in some places
in our garden. But it just seems like a lot
of work. And I'm sure a lot of you who
have those are like, it's not that bad. But it's
just one of those things I've just built it up
(18:21):
in my mind, kind of like pruning fruit trees. It's
just it's just something that, you know, we all have
our things, all right, everyone, Well, that is going to
be it for part one of Jason and My question
and answer session. Stay tuned for part two next Thursday.
We'll go over a couple more questions in the garden
(18:42):
from all of you. So huge thank you to Jason
for being here today.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You're so good at this.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
This is really weird.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
We're sitting on the couch, We've got Monty chewing on
a bone in front of us. This is our life now.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's so weird to be a guest on the podcast.
I'm very strange.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's weird to host a podcast all right, everyone, I
hope you enjoyed this, and I hope you all have
a chance to get in your garden today. Thank you
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(19:22):
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(00:22):
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your next favorite plant today Callarogashawk Media. Hi everyone, Janie here,
(00:54):
welcome back to my garden and welcome back to the
Dig Plant Water Repeat Podcast. Before I introduce you all
to a very special guest today, I wanted to take
care of some housekeeping for the Dig Plant Water Peat podcast.
We do have a down season, a slow time of year,
and that is from now October through December, which is
(01:16):
basically the slow time in gardening. So what we're going
to do in response to that for the Dig Plant
Water Repeat podcast is we're going to decrease. We normally
have episodes every Monday and Thursday. We are going to
slow down just for a little bit and We're only
going to have one episode a week on Thursdays, but
don't worry. Once the gardening system excuse me, once the
(01:38):
gardening season ramps up again in January, we will be
right back to every Mondays and Thursdays. All right, everyone,
So you probably saw the title. Now I want to
introduce you to a very special guest. We're sitting in
our living room on our couches, very comfortable. My husband,
Jason Santos. Hi, how's it going, I should say, my
(02:01):
husband and partner, business partner. So, for those of you
who don't know, Jason and I have a YouTube channel
called Dick, Plant Water Repeat. It started off as my channel.
I did all of the filming and the editing and everything,
and it ended up it ended up doing well.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, Yeah, it's going great.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It's going great. So Jason last year was able to
quit his job and come and work for the channel
full time, which has been absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you say last year, but it's been less than
six months, has it? I know, isn't that crazy? Well,
it's just end of April.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is that a bad thing that it feels like it's been?
Is that a bad thing? We've just been super, super busy,
so that's that's probably what's going on. So I thought, well,
I've had a lot of people asked to have Jason
on the podcast, so now I finally got him on
the podcast. Welcome Jason, thank you, and I posted on
YouTube and Instagram some questions. Jason and I were doing
(03:01):
Q and A videos every Saturday, kind of like a
coffee chat video, and then things got really busy.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Go hard to keep up with it, it hard to
keep up.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And then soccer started for our daughters. We have a
nine year old and an eleven year old, and it
just got just got a little crazy, so we put
a pause on that. We'll probably start that again in
the future, but for right now on the podcast, I
thought we could do a fun Q and A session
just to answer some questions that a lot of you have,
and some of them are for you, Bim, so I
(03:33):
figured you might as well be a guest on this episode,
right all right, all right, So the very first one
I have it, I'm scrolling down here trying to find
it from mSv three four zero two. Here she says,
how is Jason feeling about not having to go off
to work anymore and getting to work with you every day.
(03:53):
You meaning me. So, Jason, how do you feel about
not having to go to work anymore? It's really really
nice tell everybody what your last job was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So I was a physical therapist in my past life,
past career, and it was good. It was a good job.
I enjoyed it. And but you know, you're leaving the
house every day. You're spending a lot of time and
energy away from home. You're spending a lot of kind
of mental bandwidth sort of thinking about and taking care
(04:22):
of patients. And so it's nice to be able to
just shift back to or shift to being home and
just focusing on family and you know, working together with
Janie and running a business. Yeah, running a business and
starting learning all sorts of new things and just yeah,
it's a whole new adventure. So but it's it's it
(04:43):
is really nice to be home more often. I have
a lot more freedom to do you know, kids, field
trips if I need to, and you know, I don't
miss I used to have to work weekends, so I
don't have to miss any soccer games anymore on the weekends.
Stuff like that is really nice.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, You're doing a lot more kids.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot of market stuff, which is great. Yeah, I
like it. I think the kids like it too.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
They love it, they love it. So let me ask you, Jason,
is this job harder or physical therapy harder? Be honest, this.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Job is way harder.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I know.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's not even close.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I know, but I tell people that they think I'm crazy,
but no, no, no, this job this is hard.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah. Yeah, this is a lot of work. It's it's
way more than you think it is from the outside. Yeah, Like,
there's just there's a lot to it, and we have
a lot going on. I mean, I guess if we
simply just did YouTube and that's all we did, then
it would be not so hard. But we have lots
of other stuff going on, which is all good. All
these positive sort of opportunities that we continue to have
cropping up that keep us busy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, and Jason and I were talking. We just moved
into this property a year ago, a little over a
year ago, and we're not gardening right now. No, we're landscaping.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's like a landscape project.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What are you what are you doing today? What are
we doing today?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We are planting what five trees?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Five trees?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Five trees.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's not gardening. That's landscaping.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's like it's like heavy duty.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, you know, it's not like pruning roses. It's landscaping.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So the part of that question that we didn't answer, though,
is how we like working together? How do you like
having me home every day?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, now, it's so Jason and I actually we met
in physical therapy. I used to be a physical therapist
as well, so we have people ask us all the time,
how can you work with your husband? We've been working together, yeah, forever,
for ever since we've known each other, so we're completely
used to working with each other.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And we traveled for physical therapy, which we were like
together all the time with that. I mean, it's just
I don't know, we've done a lot of it at
this point.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're just kind of just used to it. So it's
nice to work together. I wish I had a little
more alone time. I think so does everybody, right, But no,
it's great to have him home. It's great to have
a partner, especially if like I'm having a bad day,
it's I can go cry your shoulder instead of Monty's.
(07:03):
Monty is my dog. Next question that we have has
to do back with the garden. This question is from
she loves flora. She asks, now that you have such
(07:24):
a large property to garden in, do you think you're
moving into more of a perennial preference in gardening or
do you think you're sticking with your previous preference towards annuals.
You had mentioned you need to learn patients in gardening.
Perennials require a lot of patients, but I think the
reward received from them year in and year out is huge.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I saw this question. Yeah, this is a good question.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What's your answer?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
My answer is I still love annuals.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, I thought I thought that your answer.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I like, I get the benefit of perennials and shrubs.
I completely get it. It's plant it once and you're done.
You don't have to worry about it. It's a lot
less work. But there is just something about an annual
that blooms its head off all season long. I just
it brings me so much joy to see that much color,
and for me, it's worth it to put a little time, money,
(08:16):
effort into planting your annuals in the early season and
then you get to see them for the rest of
the year. I mean, perennials are wonderful, and I do
have some gorgeous perennials, But the trade off for perennials
that will continue blooming year after year is that they
only bloom for a certain period during the gardening season.
Like look at our Shasta daisies out there, right, Yeah,
(08:37):
we love them for like what two months if that?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If that so, you know, and then other than that,
they're just a green bush, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And then look at the super tunas in front of
the office right now, know, I mean, they've looked beautiful
since what the end of March, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And they're going strong now at this point, you know.
I just like, I completely get the question, and I
definitely see the reward for being patient for your plants.
But I just I'm an annual ser I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You have to have, especially a yard size of ours. Now,
you have to have the perennials and the shrubs to
sort of fill in structure and permanence of just foliage
and stuff like that. But like the I mean the
super tunias and the superbina that they just bloom all
(09:31):
the time and they just constantly have color and beauty.
It's really nice.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then because we live in a mild climate. We
live in zone nine. A lot of the annuals, what
we consider annuals, are our perennials for us, So superbinas
are perennials for us, right, And it's just the type
of thing that I could leave it in the ground
and it would start blooming its head off next year
(09:55):
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So I do just trim it back a little bit,
it would come right. I mean, we'd have maybe a
period with not as much balloom as you trim it
so it doesn't get leggy, and they'd come right back
and it'd be so quick.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And it would bloom all season long.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So I mean we're kind of spoiled with that. I
guess if we lived in, you know, a culture climate,
we wouldn't have that to that option.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And some people who live in really cold climates they
only get what two months.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Right, So then so then perennials make a way more sense.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Right, absolutely, because that's a lot of work just for
two months. But if we're planting March through November.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Right, that's a lot we have a solid eight months.
That's a long and sometimes more.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, but thank you for the question,
and I get it. Perennials and shrubs. They're fabulous. I'm
slowly making my way into them, but you will definitely
notice I will still be planting mostly annuals in my card.
That's a question I get a ton is what are
you doing for evergreen? What are you doing for for
(10:55):
winter interest? What about all the bushes and what about.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All the shrubs?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And it's like, yeah, I know, I get, I'm working
on it, but I'm always going.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
To Also this year there was the aspect of like,
we had absolutely nothing here and so if we planted
all perennials that weren't mature yet, we would just have
a bunch of small, little kind of green bushes with
color and so like, the quick way to have some
beauty right away in our yard was to just get
a bunch of annuals in the ground. Especially this first.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Year, absolutely and it made a huge day, made a
big difference. And I'm going to do it again next year.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I know, totally, yeah, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
If you all are watching the YouTube channel, we are
consistently planting perennials and shrubs, you know, week in and
week out now in the fall because we're trying to
establish the garden. But those annuals. They just really good
bang for your buck. All right. Next question we have
is from Kitland, and this kind of has to do
with the last question. Kitland asked, what are your favorite
(11:48):
evergreen flowering perennials for Zone nine? So it's not really
a perennial, it's more of a shrub, but uh, Camillias
camellia are gorgeous. And one of the reasons why they're
my favorite flowering shrub evergreen shrub is because they bloom
at a time when nothing else is blooming. There's barely
(12:11):
anything else blooming.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Right, yep, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
They're really incredible. So if you go with like a
Camellia japonica, it has a beautiful, glossy evergreen foliage that
is going to look amazing all season long, and then
whenever everything else kind of dies out and there's not
really anything to look at, all of a sudden, the
shrub comes out with these gorgeous, gorgeous blooms that are
absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, those are really pretty. Yeah, I like those a lot.
I can't think of another good option that I would
pick alongside that. Yeah, do we have that?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well? I really like? I mean, a vine is the
evergreen climatis.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, those are pretty.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, the evergreen climatus is absolutely beautiful. And then why
am I blanking on the name Plumbago's.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Oh yeah, Plumbago's really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Plumbago. That's true, it's just blanking on the name. Yeah,
Plumbago's another again, it's another shrub.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But Plumbago's bloom what a lot of other stuff is blooming.
And the camellias are special because they bloom when hardly
anything else is blooming.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
As soon as I read this question, I thought, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's the easy answer.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's the easy answer. It's kind of a cheater answer
because it's not perennial to shrub, but it's a perennial shrub. Okay.
Next question is from Sarah Christine five or six. Sarah
Christine five or six, She asks, is there a garden
(13:42):
style or even certain plants that you love to see
but don't have because you don't enjoy taking care of
it in your own garden? And then she asked, would
you consider doing an event in the Midwest next year?
I would love to do an event in the Midwest
Garden Center call me, But Sarah, I, well, do you
have an answer for this, Jason?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Do you know? I don't know. No, I mean, I
know you you like it. I don't know if it's
that you don't want to take care of, but like
you like a lot of the plants that like they
grow in England and like the cottage look and all that,
it's not that you don't want to take care of.
You just can't grow it, right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, it's funny you say that because that was my
thought was roses and boxwoods, right, two things. And I
have roses in the garden I just don't take very
good care of. I don't deadhead them a ton, and
I'm not like super on it with taking care of roses.
I love the look of roses when they're blooming. But
(14:40):
for me, roses aren't a lot of work for a
very short payoff a fabulous payoff, don't get me wrong,
but that's one that it's it's hard for me to
get motivation too.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
But that's why you like iceberg roses so much, right,
because like we have you're learning. I know because I'm
looking over your shoulder and there's like this beautiful like
iceberg standard.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Do you want to tell you want to tell everybody
about your pruning technique.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm really good punting roses. So we have these two
Iceberg standards on either side of our greenhouse, and I
was just walking around, just trying to be helpful and
do some dead heading. I saw that there was a
bunch of, you know, kind of blooms that had to
(15:23):
be dead headed off of the one iceberg standard. So
I deadheaded him and was good and kind of tried
to shape it into a nice shape, and then you
went good. And then I went and looked at the
other one, and there weren't any blooms that had to
really be dead headed, and there was like one or
two new ones, and I thought that we're good, and
so I walked away. And now we have one beautiful
(15:47):
standard with like tons of looms on it, and the
other one that's recently pruned in just a little green ball.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, the problem was we were out there in the
backyard looking at the greenhouse and I went, I have
no idea why this rose is blooming beautiful and this
rose has not a single bud on it, And Jason goes, oh,
I might have I might have deadheaded that one and
not the other one. So it's just it's just off
(16:12):
schedule now.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
So yeah, now they're just all yeah, and I don't know.
I mean, they were off schedule already, but I just
made it worse. I think I just exaggerated the issue.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But we'll just prune those at the same time next time. Yeah,
it'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We're almost at these kind of funny but the one
looks really pretty. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So yeah, So roses, I would say for Sarah Christina
to answer your question, I would say, Roses, I love
the look. I would love to have a rose garden.
My grandmother has a rose garden. It's absolutely beautiful, but
I just don't have the patience for it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
What do you say about the ivy Because we had
the ivys Pallly at the last house, and so you
loved it, But it was a ton of work.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
When we go out every single week and take it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I know, so like, would you do that again? Or
is that too much work?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I wouldn't do it again.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, too much work.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I have this garden is too big now that I.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Can't it's too much of a high maintenance.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Then yeah, I can't have as much high maintenance plants
in my garden because they won't get taken care of,
so I have to have lower maintenance plants. I love
the at our old Jason's talking about. At our old house,
we had an ivy aspolier, a diamond doespolier on the wall,
and if I let it go, the ivy would just
crawl over and it would look like a wall of ivy.
But if I took care of it, it was this gorgeous,
(17:23):
gorgeous lattice look that was absolutely beautiful. But it was
I'm serious, every single week I would be out there.
If I was sick, I would be out there taking
care of it because I knew that it would get
it would get out of hand very very quickly. So
you have to know what you're getting into. I kind
of feel the same way about boxwoods. I know they're
probably not as big of a deal as I have
(17:44):
it in my head, but I just don't want to
go around and hedge box woods, Like I can't imagine hedging.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, we never tried that before.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, so that's something. I love the look of boxwoods,
but I just don't see myself with hedging shears.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know, you have to have a place to put
them too. I don't know where they would go I
don't know, maybe.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
In the Center Island or something like that. But yeah,
so that's something not saying I don't want box woods.
I think that they'd be beautiful. I even think that
rosemary hedges would look really, really beautiful in some places
in our garden. But it just seems like a lot
of work. And I'm sure a lot of you who
have those are like, it's not that bad. But it's
just one of those things I've just built it up
(18:21):
in my mind, kind of like pruning fruit trees. It's
just it's just something that, you know, we all have
our things, all right, everyone, Well, that is going to
be it for part one of Jason and My question
and answer session. Stay tuned for part two next Thursday.
We'll go over a couple more questions in the garden
(18:42):
from all of you. So huge thank you to Jason
for being here today.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You're so good at this.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
This is really weird.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
We're sitting on the couch, We've got Monty chewing on
a bone in front of us. This is our life now.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's so weird to be a guest on the podcast.
I'm very strange.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's weird to host a podcast all right, everyone, I
hope you enjoyed this, and I hope you all have
a chance to get in your garden today. Thank you
so much to my podcast sponsor, Proven Winners. Visit your
local garden center today and look for the white containers
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(19:22):
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me Janie Santos, with marketing and production assistance from Courtney Clark.
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