GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, good morning, goodmorning, Welcome, welcome, Welcome's time
now for the Green Country Gardener Programand you can be a part of it.
Here at one eight hundred seven pointnine five, dying at three six.
Hey, Larry, it rained.Yeah, what's the deal? What'd
y'all do? Kevin? Did youturn the switch on now? Yesterday?
Yesterday, yrst, I had twentyseven hundreds all day long, and then

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this morning so far today about fiftytwo hundreds. There you go. So
that's uh, that's like three quartersof it. Yeah, almost about eight
tenths. Yeah, down of yourhouse, in my house probably had more.
It did, look like. Ichecked the lake, Yeah, we

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did, and there's some inflow.Yeah, a lot of quite a bit.
So instead of like five feet below, we're like four and a half
or less than four and a halffour, be honest with you. I
went and looked at the lake lastweek. There's a lot of water up.
Yeah. Well, see, they'relaying caution to the wind because of
what happened in the past. Ican understand they're what to do because it

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got to the point where were gurglingback then. So we don't we don't
want to gurggle this year. We'renot gonna gurgle a army. We're a
non gurgling bunch. We don't gurgle. You gurgle over there. We won't
be having any of that. So, Kevin, how all your trees are

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growing? Good? I know,but I have a question for you.
Yeah, I've got my magnolias.About the top third it just looks dead.
Are they dead? Well, we'vehad a little bit of lightning.
Actually that that's sort of a commonthing I've seen with magnolia's around the town.
I think it's related to the drought. So will they come back?

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So leave it alone, don't cutit off. Plants have a way of
adapt to weather conditions. When willthey start putting leaves back on it?
Uh? Maybe this summer, youknow, if they can do it before
the equinox fall. No, thesolstice, yeah, summer, which is
next week, so they probably won'tcome two weeks. They probably won't come

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back this year. But it's notdead. No, No, the bottom
two thirds is green and you havesome blooms. I know they're blooming right
now. But anyway, when you'redriving around, just look at the magnolias
in general. The magnolia salt,yeah, southern magnalia and okay, they're

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all about the same. It's allright, so I'll leave it alone.
It's a survival tactic. I meanthey'll be all right. But I've lost
several trees out there. I losta silver leaf maple that just well,
they're good for not more than firewoodanyway. I lost actually a pine tree,
about half of it was, soI just took it down. Yeah.

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Um my English walnuts. Why Englishwalnuts? Yeah, I think the
deer got some of them, well, the deer. And actually had a
customer whose trees were kind of adamage question during the rut and yeah,
ro and actually he put some adrain pipe on it, you know that

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flexible black pipe, put it aroundand use zip tis hold in place.
And h didn't happen anymore. SoI shouldn't. I'm too late. Yeah,
yeah, you want to probably dosomething about that this winter sometime before
the rut hits put them all onthere. Well, just the ones are
damaging. Yeah, they like itseems like they go to maples. And

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I was really shocked about the walnuts. Yeah, it was just surprising if
they only go to younger trees.So don't think. Yeah, walnuts have
a jug a chemical called juggling inthem, and uh, animals don't like
that very well. But they don'tgo to bigger trees, do they know,
well, they do, but theydon't damage them as much as a

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little tree. So oh, anyway, welcome to bartles villicle. I don't
know the deer eating our trees andthe rare rainstorms. But anyway, I
don't know. You're live oaks doingit? Right? Are they pretty good?
Good? We've had it's kind ofa cold winter for them. Actually,

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this last one of them is thetops kind of didn't but the ones
that were really good, they're they'refine. This is not the the their
home. I don't know they're growing. Yeah, my water oaks in the
backyard died in that freeze. Htwo years ago? Three years ago.

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I guess that freeze we had inDecember. Really it got cold fast for
about a week. Yeah, Andof course I didn't water my plants in
the winter, and I think Idon't have any soil. You've got it
all, but I know, andI guess we need to water right out
real quickly. And it didn't haveenough water to keep it going with waters

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and something most part of the towndid pretty good. Yeah, and actually
some of the pinots, some ofthe older pinots, got adversely affected by
that cold spell. We had toactually what causes it is it's really really
cold, the sun shines on itand it warms it up in the vascular
tissue just kind of explodes, explodes. Explosion for them, an explosion inside

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the Yeah, the vascular veins ofa yeah, of a tree. But
I've learned, just don't put amaple up anymore. Forget it. Just
put a hoax and they'll survive.Well, we're talking today about the Freeman
I maples, which is a kindof hybrid maple, and they the attractive
color. Forget it. In thefall. I'm not gonna put them up.

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I want all those oaks survive.Yeah, we look at the indigenous
species here, what hackberries, Johnson, grass johnson that's our three indigenous species

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here. Anything should be a probablya good time to fertilize the grass too,
if you've done it lately on youryard. Really Yeah, we got
you want to fertilize while there's moisturein the ground and there's a chance to
rain. I think on Monday,there's chances rain every day next week,

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so probably a good idea to goahead and while there's moisture in the ground
to fertilize the grass. And wegot a call here, get him a
call. Alrighty, good morning,and welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program.
Your comment a question for Larry,Yes, thank you. Yeah,
here's my concern. I purchased someround up that says extended control and didn't

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pay a lot of potential when Ipurchased it and got to looking at it
later, and it says we'll killthe weeds and then keep stuff from growing
for up to four months. I'ma little concerned about that because stuff I've
had in the path that kills longterm. It should not go over the

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roots of trees and these sorts ofthings because it can affect the trees.
And I was spraying this long fencesunder trees and around the edge of my
vegetable garden and these kind of things. And so my question is this extended

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control round up is that going tohave residual effect there that's going to work
its way down and and affect otherplants. Right, you need to read
the read the label very carefully.And they'll say that you don't want to
use X amount of it in agiven time frame. Well, I think

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I think the chemical in that ispro diamine, which is a well I've
got two chemicals here went and gotto got the deal and it's glyphosphate of
course for the first one, andthen him a zampie Okay, I don't
know if I'm saying that right ornot among the assault and then a die
quat diabromide. Yeah. Yeah,die quat is a parallel to paraquat,

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okay, And it's a quick kill, and then a round up kind of
follows through to kill the entire plant. So yeah, I don't I don't
use that stuff personally. If Iwant to kill I just use the round
up if I don't want to killthe weeds, right, Yeah, Well,
at the time I picked it upit said round up. I didn't

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read it real close. Yeah,And well it was on sale for you
know, nine bucks for thirty twoounces or something, so how could that
go wrong? Really? But yeah, I'll try to be judicious about this

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then, especially around the around theedge of the garden, because I'm concerned
of migration there or something causing.Right, Well, vegetables vegetables die easy
anyway, so it has a cumulativeeffect. And you know, some people's
lawns, you know, after awhile of repeated pre emergent and fertilizing and
pre emergent putting it down on aregular basis like that. A pre emergent

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herb site is kind of a formof a sterilant as well. Okay.
And if you don't let it washthrough it to the water table and you
know, so we can drink it. It gets thought, it builds up,
and especially in our clay soil hasa tendency to build up and it
makes it difficult to grow anything inthere. Okay, all right, Well

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I will be a little more carefulabout where I'm putting it off. I
will still use it along the fenses, but not around me, around the
edge of the gardener there. Yeah, anything ornamental and especially around tomatoes are
very sensitive, right and can fusssome problems. So yeah, I'd be
very careful with its usage. Andyou know, put it on the Johnson
graft or something. Yeah, it'snot gonna die. You can after you

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spray then poison ivy. All right, I appreciate it, all right,
thank you very much. All right, thanks for calling me every good day.
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Greek Hendry Gardener Program. A twentyone sixty five degrees plenty of wet.

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It looks like we might get alittle bit more rain before it decides to
dissipate. Here and our phone linesare open here at the Green Country Gardener
Program. You can talk to ourexpert, Larry Glass, and the phone
number is one eight hundred and sevenfour nine five nine three six. Hey,
the hemmer callous is in bloom rightnow. Yeah, one of my
favorite plants. There you go.If it's a very hearty perennial plant to

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bloom, otherwise known as day lilies. And they're called daylilies because the stalks
typically have seven blooms on them andyou get one bloom per day on them.
Oh well, I see, thereyou go. And there's some pride
that the stelladoro it's kind of adoor fish variety of that, and it's
it's uh, it's did okay thisyear. It's just too hot and dry.

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Maybe they'll make her come back withthe on set of the rain,
but the regular dailylies. It isstarting to bloom. Also trying to fertilize
that bermuda and that zoysia grass.And you have a ground floor opportunity right
now with moisture in the soil andsome rain on the way hopefully Monday or
Tuesday rather, it's still time toplant annuals and create decord of pots.

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And uh and I noticed some bagworms. They're girl, they're on the prowl
right now. Yeah, they are. They seem to be attacking everything,
so you want to get ahead ofthe game. There's a chemical called the
spinazad, which is a combination ofspinez at A and spinshead B called spinazad.
And if the chemical was discovered ina run factory in Puerto Rico,

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the bugs kept jumping into this vapowho who knows what you know, and
they died, So it would bethe first time somebody died. Yeah,
that's the story behind it. Butanyways, I use it on a project
yesterday. I don't know if thereare some bagworms forming on an oak tree

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and it was gone overnight. Knockedhim out. And it's safe to even
get safe to use. You canon it you know, it's a very
safe chemical to use for back worms. Another one is, of course BT
Bachelor's their genesis. It's a diseasethat the backworms get and it kills them
off for paralysis. They're they're good. Oh well, not a good way

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to go. But if you abag wormmate, do you care? Well,
they just don't get hungry and theyjust clip so anyway, so you
have to you really want to dosome control right now, go out and
look at your juniper species. Letyour Japanese maples, you know, look
at the bumper on your car tobe there. I mean the indiscriminately go

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around. I've seen them actually oncar in Tennis too, come to think
about it, I am so rightnow you want to get them other young
if if they're older, saying anothertwo or three weeks or now, they're
not feeding anymore and you don't haveany control. So it's just time to

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do that. I know there's rainon the way, but the Spina's ad
worked very very effectively against it,and we have it in a in a
spray bottle. You hook on thehose and it has two different settings on
it, one for up close,the one goes way on out there,
depending on your pressure, of course, and it knocks them out pretty quick.
So those are coming on too.I'm seeing a little bit of spider

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mites too on junipers and boxwoods aregetting kind of mighty, if you will.
So you want to use a mitecontrol for that, and there are
several opportunities for that. One.You can use a wallet's not so sunny
right now. You can use thedormant oil or summer oil a summer yeah,

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and that does a good job tocontrol. So that works pretty well
to control them too, and that'llthat will stop that smell that the boxwoods
tab. So you want to dothat, So m about it for big
pest right now. The azelia isthe um the bugs they get, they

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attract them, don't It's a littletiny fly they get. Okay, it's
lace wings and they're about the sizeof a fruit fly, if you will.
There kind of hard to see,but they're there. And look at
look at the leaves on your zeliarook close. They look on the under
side of the leaves of the leavesand if you have a little tiny brown
spots on there, you have lacewings on them. And the aforementioned insecticide

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to spin his ad take care ofthat pretty well. BT won't work on
them, though, but the otherone will. So those are the insects
to watch out for right now.So I'm sure there are others out there,
but those are the big damaging getyou. The boards are already in
the in the trunk, so ifyou do have a case of boars in

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there at the medical oprid application,you mix it in a bucket and poured
it on the ground. I've seenseveral people who had bad problems with boars
on their trees, and that doesa pretty good job. I had.
I had mine my maple tree tothe north actually was about made of Swiss
cheese. I cut a branch offthat was overhanging the road and I didn't

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want to fall in the middle ofthe road and get a phone call one
I'm up and in a dewy orsomething. Doing lafcape had become that sure,
but anyway, and I noticed itwas somewhat Swiss cheesy looking. I
put it on last year in thetree. It's just flourishing this year.
Nice. It was under a lotof stress, so so look carefully look

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for unpatterned holes in the stamp.I say unpatterns. If you have a
patterned hole series of holes, Let'ssay a bird a sap sucker going there
trying to get the sap out ofthe tree, and they drill their little
hole is furtty close to each other, and the scar tissue doesn't transmit juices
as well as regular floam does,and it causes issues weakness issues with the

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tree yellow bellies exactly, So watchfor watch for those. And if you
do see some holes in the treeand there's no pattern to it and it's
specifically on the southwest side of thetree, chances are that's a boar intrusion
at that point and you probably havethem in the tree. What I do

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is rub my fingernails backwards over thetrump of the tree and listen to it,
and you do like this, andif it sounds like that kind of
a hollow sound where there's there's agap between the bark and the floam layer
of the tree, and that's what'stypically where the boards go. But if
it's if it's solid and it doesn'tresonate like that, then it's it's okay.

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That's why I have to have theselong fingernails so I can diagnose people's
tree problems. I wasn't gonna ask. Okay, So anyway, at the
nursery right now we have a containerand bald burd that trees. It can
be planted at anytime. You justcan't transplant them right now. It's just
too hot. The hassas are beginningto bloom a little bit and endless summer

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hydrangees are full. We got hydragesjust color covered and blooms right now.
Really good. Take note of wherewhere they are at the nursery. They're
in a shade house with thirty percentI think it's thirty percent shade, so
they don't really like a whole lotof hot sun. And of course they're
watering on a daily basis. Ican't wait to get a water bill,

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Larry. You're gonna be paying,I know. But anyway, the hydrages
are blooming right now. The encoreage guys are popping out a few flowers
here and there. They'll put onsome big show in the fall. The
cold flowers are starting to show somecolor. Hardhead biscuits are growing. We
had a big old line of hardyhowbiscuits out there, and they are pretty
well suited for the weather. Wehave here and they just bloomed the Gangbuster

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blooms on them in the summertime.They're really attractive. So you might consider
some of that in a sunny,well drained part of the garden somewhere.
Okay. And of course we dohave a good assortment of annuals and perennials.
We do have. The second perennialtable is covered in plants that butterflies
and honeybirds light. So it's agood place to go and we get some

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butterflies, I guess you do.That's one thing. It's kind of cool
about taking a visit out there.It's like, hey, look at that
kind of butterflies. Actually it's apretty cool watch. Okay, Yeah,
so that's kind of what's going on. Couple whites at the nursery. All
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green Country gardener program. It's eightthirty three wire telephone line. It's really
easy to exist. Larry here atone eight hundred seven four nine five,
nine thirty six. Questions, comments, they're all welcome. I like a
good challenge, so give me call. We've had a few over the years.
Anyway, anyway, True the weekis Freeman I maples. Freeman I

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maples are a genre of maples whichis a cross between a red maple and
a silver maple. And it hasthe attributes of both, actually the somewhat
the strength and the fall color ofa red maple and the root system,
if you will, the silver maple. And they do pretty well the average
moisture. They can take, drynessor wetness doesn't matter. The USDA zone

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five to nine of which we're inthe middle, yep. And so it's
as good as a large shade tree. Give up lots of room though when
you plant it. Oh yeah,I like follow the fifteen foot rule better
and then they'll do you just findfifteen feet away from the house, fifteen
feet away from the driveway concrete,and fifteen feet away from the sewer line

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especially. Yeah, you don't wantthat kind of trouble. Yeah, this
one. I don't like to useit on slopes because it doesn't have a
tendency to be somewhat shallow ritted,and it can cause an issue at some
point in time with erosion, primarilybecause people don't trim it up and it
shades the ground around the root systemand the soiler roads, and it appears

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as other roots are popping up,so it can over time on a slope
situation can cause problems with erosion andso on. So you have to be
kind of careful where you plant alot of these plants too, and be
conscious of the irrigation system too.All the irrigation contractors, including myself,

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we have UH wire trackers. Wecan find where you're system is, so
you don't find a tree on topof your main line. How many times
if you had to pull that thingout and say, wait a second,
let's this take a look, Takea look. Yeah. Yeah, we
were going to plant a tree forsomebody at one of these and uh,
oh, I want to planet overthere. And I said, okay,
she said, can you do ittomorrow? Well, let me call the

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utility companies first. Well it wasa network of a whole bunch, so
we had to rethink. Yeah,exactly, so we moved to the backyard.
It's fine, good so anyway,So that's one thing you have to
watch out when you when your planta tree, try to keep it away
from utilities. And most people's houseshad a ue or utility easement in the

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backyard, and if you do plantit in the utility easement, will be
prepared to lose it if they hadto put a new gas line in or
something of utility easement. Yeah,I mean it's yours, but it's also
being used by someone else. Accordingto the city rigs, you had to
put a shed or something nine feetaway from the property line the house and

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all that too, just so theycan get the equipment in there too,
repair repair of some kind of linethat goes out, so take care of
what needs to be taken care of. That happed to me my other house
too. They came in when theydid the sewer smoke thing. They found
the broken lines in the backyard niceand h Actually, when I built the

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fence, I designed it with boltsso you can take out a pound.
They really like that, and theywere because the backyard is really nice landscapes
and all that. So well,I said, do what you gotta do.
Guys, you know, he justdig it out. Don't worry.
They had their tractors and stuff partof the backyard. It look like heck
for a while. Get her back. I said, come on it,

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no problem good, you know you'reyou know it's it's your right away,
you dude, do what you haveto do. And a year later everything
was back in the whole again.So it wasn't that big a deal.
So I did get I get didget some good dirt. Though, I'll
make a deal. I won't getnasty if you'll holdway all this nasty old
rock. It's some good dirt.And you said you got it. That

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was an easy deal. So anyway, so that's that's one thing you want
to be careful of is is theright of ways and stuff. Try not
to do it in the in there. Now, that's that. That doesn't
mean they're gonna take up the wholearea. And uh, this my situation

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over there. It was a atthe beginning of the neighborhood, more or
less everything went. It was apopular spot. Yeah, it grew back
just fine. So anyway, sothat's kind of a story on the freeman
I made. But I really likethis for the fall color, it can

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be very intense. And I sayit can be. And that's the weather
related to the fall color isn't alwaysit's not guaranteed. Oh no, no,
it has to get fairly cooled andactually a little bit on the dry
side coming into the fall and coolweather, and they'll they'll color up nicely.
Not not not leaning like bone drylike we've had, but you know,

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average average moisture and average cool weather. We should have some great color
on these two on these trees.So they make good shade trees. I
like the platum, say on thewest side of the house. They do
give you some afternoon shade against thehouse save a little bit on the heating
bills. So so we might considera maple, and that's say the Autumn
Blaze maple, the Autumn fantasy maple. Those are two popular ones. There's

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an autumn flame maple two. Typicallythe Freemen High maples are the name of
which is generally prefaced by the wordautumn, so they don't need a lot
the lit look at the air,good show. I'm looking at the screen
the reservoir. Yeah, so we'renow back to four point six below instead

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of four point four nine. Thatwas quick. Yeah, the hiring goes
the more surface area. So it'snot exactly a Yeah, it felt like
it's not a straight line. It'sno, it's it's almost exponential. Yeah,
because you're the quantity of water onthe depth is it's not like you're

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pouring it into a cup. You'vegot something that's kind of rounded bowl shapes
exactly, almost an exponential curve.Yes, So we're good. Or would
be the logarithmic No, I thinkit'd be exponential. Yeah, So anyway,
I know what I'm talking about.That's what you will what you what

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your what you what your investments todo? Go back. But anyway,
Sharp of the week is Hydrangea.Hydrangeas don't do well in Oklahoma. They
don't except for this year. No, No, this is not a well
anyway. Look at the first threeletters of hydrangea hyd water water. Yeah,

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so does you're right there platum ingood soil. What I tell people
it's do your arms in a circlearound there. And that's about how big
a hole you need to dig upyour hydroget that's pretty big hole. No,
you can't just pop these in theclay. You really need to prepare
the soil something. That number oneretains water real well, and the number

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two doesn't stay soggy wet all thetime. They do like moisture, but
they don't like soggy wet moisture.So I said, when you get a
hydrangea, get a small bag ofpeat moss and a bag of composts and
mix that in with the soil andtake as big a hole that you can
possibly muster up, and they'll domuch better. That kind of concoction will

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work exactly. That's kind of theway we plant them. When we do
landscapes, and it's a big wedo a jelius, we plant somebody to
use its left same way. Yeah, that's some new people working for me.
And so what is all this stuffyou got to bring to plant a
celius. We got the bucket andactually some surfactant and an injector. Well
you don't want to come back andreplant them, dude. So anyway,

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after planting, added added a mixedsoil to form a mound about two three
is above the surrounding ground level andsoak it well with a trickle garden or
a spray. And I liked Ido like to add a spread er sticker
to the water because because it helpsit soak up and retain the water a
little better. And we use aheavy layer of mulch over the ground too.
And what the multch does is helpsretain the most you're in the ground

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and it helps moderate the temperature toomoderate me, it's still going to go
up and down, but the sinewave is going to be yeah, you
know those it won't it won't haveas a as as rapid a increase in
temperature or decrease for that matter.So cladiman, very organic, well drained

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soil and multional word, they shoulddo just fine. They're also they're heavy
feeders too. Those blooms take alot of energy and be prepared to fertilize
I'm on a regular basis too.I do like to use the save the
Miracle grow or something like that,or a liquid for lights or really well
it's immediately available, gives a littlebit of fright away. Yeah, and

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then perhaps you might want to usean awesome coat on them too, Asoma
coat FURTI lights as every time youwater, Okay, And it costs a
little bit more money, but reallyin the long run, it's about the
same cost. Yeah, because itdoes more, it lasts longer. It's
a nice little bit of insurance,I guess. So anyway, there's several
kinds of hydranges. One of myfavorites is the oak leaf hydrangea. I

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like it because back in college weused to use the flowers to make architectural
mammals trees, you know. SoBut anyway, the oak leaf hydras whole
life in the seventies, wasn't itfun? But anyway, leaves back then,
I remember the seventies sort of.But anyway, oak leaf hydrange just

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uh, they're they're a little hardierthan regular hydrages. And there's they're the
white. The blooms typically are white, with the exception of ruby slippers,
which which is red I don't thinkwe have any ruby slippers right now,
but people, but we did.People get a kick out of the name
when I say, well, thisplanet of ruby slippers hydrangees of what.

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But what I like about that somethingyou get into tiki bar. But what
I like about the the locally hydrangea. It seems to be more tolerant of
the conditions here, okay than thanthe PG or the big the big blue
and pink ones, and a littlemore reliable blooming and the leaf is kind
of interesting. The very coarse textureplant too, so it could add some

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depth to the garden that they're plantedcloser and then you find textured stuff in
the back. You can play aroundwith the textures a little bit, create
an illusion of depth if you will. But anyway, they're pretty good plants.
They are. Also there's one calledbobo Hydrangen and it blooms in the
summer and it's somewhat suntolerant too.It doesn't doesn't have as much upkeep and

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initial requirement as say the the PGhydrangea or the big blue hydrangea. Its
drawback is it's ugly for the firstyear. Well, it has to establish
a root system for it to tolerateor weather here. So this this one,

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you have to tolerate it's adolescence,if you will, until he gets
the rittism going and can actually generatethe energy to produce all these blooms on
it. So there are all kindsof varieties of hydrangeus out there so you
can use, and they all havedifferent requirements. So so depending on the
situation, you might you know,let us know that you want to planet

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in a certain part of the yardthat maybe doesn't retain water very well or
something, and you might want toswitch to an oak leaf preps or a
mobile hydronche. We're gonna take alittle bit of a break. We're gonna
be right back with more the GreenCountry Gardener program. And you know you're
free to call in and ask yourquestions of Larry, after all, he
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right, Welcome back to the GreenCountry Gardener Program. And it's eight forty

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seven and your phone calls are welcomeright now at one eight hundred seven before
nine five, nine three six.Here he is the healthiest man alive,
Lurry Glass. Didn't your doctor tellyou you could probably go out for the
football team and make it because you'rein such excellent health. I guess so,
yeah he did. He's really sothe blessed. Yeah, well this

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week I walked a total of twentyfive miles. Yeah, just around town,
just puttering around on this one projectwe're doing, which is a rather
large piece of property. And it'swhen you're when you're tuning up in irrigation
system, you put a lot ofmiles in and get you all the way
to the timer and all the wayover here. So your boots were made

(39:20):
for walking. I've that's just what'sgone through this It's the second pair I've
gone through this spring. That's alot. You know something, folks,
if you want to get in shape, just ask Larry for a job.
He'll get you a walking twenty fivemiles. Oh yeah, I'm out doing
all the eighteen year olds got workingfor me, but we're tired. Larry,

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do you have to do? It'shot? I know it's hot.
What are you gonna do about it? It's summer. Take the hose and
spray them down and your ash.Okay, anyway, that leads us to
the annual of the league. Okay, Salvia, okay, annual quote unquote.

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Salvia is a tender tropical it's considereda perennial, but it's a tropical
plant. It's typically growing in awarm weather annual bedding plant situation, if
you will. It has long beena garden standard, reliably blooming over extended
period, and even more varieties havebeen developed, giving a wide range of
colors, including white, salmon andpurple. It's one of those traditional bright

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red. There's several varieties of Salbia, and I like it comes into perennial
for him too. I like thepurple blooms on the perennial Salviia's and there's
some light blues too and so on, and they bloom for a specific period
of time. So you might wantto have more than one variety of,
say, perennial Sabia in the yard, just so you have something to look

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at the whole year. Anyway,they're they're characterized by a square stem.
To remember the mint family and ohyeah, and they have a square stem.
I always said, you probably crossone of these of the pine tree
and stave a lot of money.Got a quick call here for it.
Okay, Hi, welcome to Boyne. You're on with the Green Country Gardener.
Your question to come it? Please? Yes, good morning, you

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do. I'm all right, Hey, I've got a question. I've got
a large sunflower patch about ten byten. They are these giant sunflowers that
Joe grow, I don't know,twelve feet tall, wonderful right now,
they're about foot and a half.I noticed in the mornings these things faced

(41:34):
the east and they kind of followedthe sun. I think, because that
of my imagination. Do these littlesunflowers follow the sun? And if they
do, are there other plants thatdo that? A lot of plants do
that, actually, But the sunflowersHelianthus is the genus for sunflower, and
that kind of explains why they followthe sun. The Greek or Helios,

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you know. Anyway, and theydo that until the flowers get really dards.
Didn't they get too heavy to dothat? But well, I thought
it was my imagination. I don'tjust sit out there and watch them.
But early in the morning it lookslike they're facing east, and then the
evening they're kind of facing west.It would be a real fun to get
a time lights camera. It wouldbe and watching going back and forth and

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back and forth. Let's go toDale's house and play. No, I
don't do that, Thank you verymuch. Enjoy you guys show. All
right, thanks thanks for calling.But anyway, to salvia, it would
be a good way to kill themafternoon exactly. Yeah. Anyways, they've
been bloomed during the heat of thesummer. There's a good plant for this

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area right in here, and theyare characterized by this. Of course,
tim there's some pretty ones too thatthey do well. So consider that as
an annual. It likes a wholelot of sun, looks like well drained
soil. It u does performing verywell. With maybe some additional fertilizer here
there and some mulch on the groundto try to moderate our extremes of you

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know, sixty five at night andtwo hundred and three degrees during the day,
so that does help moderate the temperturea little bit too. So anyway,
culture They like average or rich soiland fertilizas needed. They boom over
a very long season. Actually,the fernials do too, and the flowers
that kind of draw puffs, evena bit of a ragged spike on them,
so you might want to slip thema little bit just for appearance.

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So anyway, new growth emerges,have you cut them back, and a
lot of times they bloom again,just just for revenge. But full sun.
Maybe a little bit of shade,but full sun, especially in the
afternoon. Average to slightly dry,well drained soil. They do very well.
They are kind of a summer annual, and they will get zinged by

(43:52):
a freeze, but they might survivea very light breeze. It's a good
vertical accent in a container, andit's meat. All varieties can be surrounded
by other annuals, kind of towersabove. You can plant some million bells
or something around it too. Ilike to combine the Salbia and the colias
million bells and even the colias inwith a flower pot. The Colias is

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kind of a parallel to the Saalbyin that it shares the same genus,
well family, if you will,and it's characterized by a square stem too.
Yeah, there you go. Sothat's how you can tell members of
the Sabia family is the square stemtell you what we're gonna have to take

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A right, a riding. Itis eight fifty seven. It is the
Green Country Gardener programmed and we mightbe able to get a call in here.
We'll see one eight hundred seven fournine five nine three six. What's
happening. Another plant that's coming intovogue is a hardy hibiscus, of which
we have a whole lot of mintthe nursery. We do and they bloom,

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They get fairly tall, and they'rewriting out well not quite yet now,
but they will be in bloom shortly. But anyway, at the nursery,
we have a sail going on thisweek. You can save twenty five
cents twenty five cents, twenty fivepercent there on the clematis and the tropical
blooming plants like Mandobilla's tropical hibiscus andjasmine, or thirty percent off roses,

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a thirty percent of houses, andthe large decorative journiums are there quarter twenty
five percent off. We still havesome cladium pobs and some memorial pots.
They're twenty percent off twenty five percentoff in your bulbs. They've got these
elephant your bulbs. They're just well, the ground temperatures warm right now,

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so they need to go into theground. Yes, and they make a
really nice tropical look background. Sothey're pretty cool. Plants I've got some
of them are finally coming up.I've been using the bathwater to warm them
up cheap a bucket in the shower. A lot of people have been doing
that. And then so they're they'rethey I don't know if they like a

(49:27):
soaper weapons. They're really taking offand doing very nicely. I hear they're
partial to palm olives appoints to thelow life boy, but I don't know.
I don't think they had that anymore. And we also have a dollar
off on your prentials too, Soanyway, come by and check out the
items on sale. It's still agood time to plant all this stuff too.
Hey, you had a big dealgoing on not too long ago with

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the puppies and petals you get,Oh yeah, that would buy really well.
Yeah, and the puppies are peoplejust enjoy petting the dollars. It
was pretty cool. Let's go forone last call. Good morning, you're
on the air with a Green Countrygardener a question please? Oh yeah,
hey Larry um, Yeah, youryour store is there or your business?
You're out of Bartlesville, right,and now what's the name of that if

(50:10):
I wanted to stop by address andphone number? Green Thown Nursery. We're
on the nursery. Yeah, yougo, you go up Highway seventy five
and and go east when you whenyou hit Limestone corner over there and over
the Sonic and then you go ahalf mile. We're on the right,
big old scientists, green Thown.Maybe what's your phone number there? Three

(50:31):
three three four zero nine one.Okay, So it's a too late to
plant sunflower, just to seed.I got a packet of sunflower seeds right
now, not at all. Gaveme a week ago. Yeah, there's
still time to plant. Still timefor that. You're you're a good shape
on that. They'll grow and developedand have a light bloom. But they'll
do, they'll do. Okay,Oh, already to tell you what.

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