GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER

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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jane Phillips and Bartlesville.

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(01:03):
Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome, it's
time over the.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Green Country Gardener. Mister Larry Last, how you've been made?

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Not bad?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, I'm good. We've got a great day today.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Temperatures are behaving so far sixty eight degrees and looks
like we may have a little bit of rain next week.
But in between we've got a little bit of a
longing and gardening to attend to.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Yeah, there is rain coming, and if you've not fertilizer
yard and you really don't want it to rain, you
want went fertilizer yard. However, you can balance that out
by washing the car. There, you go that way, it'll rain,
It will rain. But if you don't fertilize year long
and wash your car, it will rain.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
How many times you got stuck up in that little
number there?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
What's that about fertilizing and then no, oh good golly,
if the sprinkler maw, yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
Look at the radar, and if it's coming your way, yes,
do it. But otherwise you never know. Golly, three inches
in the ring gage last week.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah that it all came down in about an hour
and a half.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
It was yeah, yeah, yeah, So anyway, so drinking it
right up.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Wasn't it like through a big old blue stems for all?

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Exactly? But so things are. This is the I guess,
almost the peak of summer, and it's starting to go
and the days are getting a little shorter, so it's
the peak is it's kind of eroding away. As evidence
for the weather coming up this week, Hopefully it won't
rain too much. I has an open project I got

(02:32):
to finish, so if you could just hold it.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
I have a question. It's purely selfish. My lawn is
right there. It's looking really good right now.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
Oh really okay, you get a water leaky.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I'm wondering should I go ahead and mow it
now and get it done ahead of the big rain?

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Yes? All right, yeah, good guy.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I thought so because I'm thinking, you know, they I've
been mowing in the same spot and offul lot after
after the ring gets done and it grows about five
inches real fast.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Yeah, get that. Knock that crabgrass down.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I got a mean crop of that stuff.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Hey, there's there's some lawns I know in my neighborhood
and the next door and then across the street and
someone that's all that's all they have.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And it looks pretty good when it's cute when it's
cut and it's like, well that's a nice.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Well right, it looks it looks a little bit like
that uh grass they have down south. Yeah, saw, I
can't remember what you call now anyway.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, but it looks like Florida grass.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, Florida grass. Yeah, it's it's uh, well, it's salt resistant.
To remember my parents when they were there, they had
a along like that. It'll come to me in a minute.
But anyway, anyway, he blurts it out, memory like that.
Down there, it's a common grass that you, isn't, I said, Dad,

(03:57):
Your yard is made up completely of crabgrass. Is no, No,
that that's what we use around.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Here, that florid grant I kept.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
God, I can't think of the name of the grass
right now. It'll come to me anyway. Time to divide
your iris, and it's something I gotta do maybe tomorrow,
just go out and take dig the iris up and
split it up a little bit, because really they they've
really just grown and it's just made like an iris groundcover.
So what I have are some dark blue recurring iris

(04:24):
so bloom in the fall too, So I'm waiting for
that to happen. But anyway, I guess the rain coming
on the cooler weather will probably stimulate the fall blooming
iris to bloom. So you better get divide anyway.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Tree trimming can be done right now. Some tree trimming.
You look at your trees and you got the branches
hanging down real low. You can cut them up. Always
cut a better node though, don't don't leave a stub
that just invites insects and diseases if you don't cut
it properly.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I've knowniced something. Some of the younger trees in the
bushes kind of have this tilt from the southwest to
the northeast.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah, uptown, is that normal? A funny thing story about that. Well,
when when my dad he was with Phillips and he
was in the Atlanta office, and then he moved to Bartlesville,
well right in the middle of my college, you know degree.
So I've never been to Oklahoma before. When I first
came here, I mean, he's got this northern tilt. Ye

(05:25):
and not like those tall pine trees in Georgia, but
over here, yeah, it's and we plant trees, we stake
them up, and we probably should have.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Done that because we got stuff that looks like a
blongs and of Popeye cartoons.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
But it's just the wind does that. Just a constant
the wind that blows in Oklahoma just constant and it
changes things around a little bit, which is fine.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
I've just noticed that lean here.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah, some of the even the power poles, if you
go down, they kind of leaves that way. So okay,
that's just what happens here. It's an environmental thing, all right.
So anyway, your true trimming can be done right now.

(06:16):
And now you can stake up a tree and all that.
But in five years it'll it'll have this northern until
to which is that's fine.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Some things you don't want to trim right now are
dog woods. Their buzz are said. I was looking at
mine at the house and it's got little tiny flower
buds on it, So you don't touch them at this point.
If there's some damage on it, you might want to
trim it out or anything like that. But if you
really want a flower sell, you don't want to cut
it out right now. Also, a zellys are the same way.
They're all set in their blooms. The fall blooming zilliys

(06:47):
are setting in the blooms right now. Most people don't
trim their jellious They just kind of let them go anyway.
So they should be cut back on the case just
to make them look better. And also look on your
zealous to look at the leaf size on your azilia.
A natural response for these alias when the soil pH

(07:07):
is higher than it should be is a natural thing
is you have a diminished leaf size. So when you
first got the thing, the leave was like this. But
if they're real tiny at this point right over there,
you might want to consider an A z A type fertilizer.
Now that can be done just about any time, but
you don't really want to spur on a lot of
growth this time of year. So if anything, this time here,

(07:29):
do a light application of iron sulfate which will help
lower that pH and let the plant take up the
nutrients it needs. Because zarias belong to a class of
plant plants that that are called I just had it
just went away. No, well, anyway, they're acid loving plants. Yeah,

(07:55):
I know that happens so colorful the pressure on the air. Anyway,
they require an acid soil so and that happens with
our soil here, as indigenous is of somewhat alfalron because
the parent material typically is a limestone and a treated
you know sandstone that has those lightment it too, and

(08:18):
that tends to raise the PhD a little bit. So
we need to use an AIA A fertilizer three times
a year, very light applications three times a year. Or
if you missed the boat, all that you might want
to do some soil pH correction with some red light
applications of iron sulfate. Aericacious, that's the word.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
On the tip of your tongue, I know.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
But anyway, asaiahs are airicacious and rhotodendrons are the same thing. However,
rhododendrons really not. We had them in Georgia, got big
old things like trees and big old flowers in the spring.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Not so much here.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
But here it's just too hot. I found that out,
and they get a stem virus real bad. So don't
get flickered into buying rohtord endurance. They just don't work here. Yes,
there is one variety of rhododendrons that will probably survive, okay,
if you live in an area where it is shielded
from the hot midday sun. It's called vulcan.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, wouldn't you know live long?

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Yeah, and it's a red one. But still you won't
get very much lifespan out of a out of a
rhododendron here.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
So we got three weeks.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Yeah. Now in Asheville, North Carolina. If I don't know,
if you've ever been to buildmore house.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
And gardens, we've seen it.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
We studied that in school and all that, and we
went there a few times. Rotodendrons are size of trees.
Oh they're two a feet tall, big things. Yeah, and
in the spring when they bloom, golly, it's just show.
But here, because of our soil and our climate, they
just don't do well. Another plant that people really like
around here are hydrangees and uh. Of course, the first

(09:54):
three letters of the word hydrangea is hyd which is water.
But they require a lot of water. So when you
do plant hydrancha, typically I dig a hole that's a
bigger round, there's a bushel basket, and add some peat
moss to that soil. Peat moss does a very good
job of help help retaining water. And they really need

(10:19):
a bit more water than the weather here has, you know,
gives it to them. There are some people have very
very successful highdranches. They have a they keep. The city
will support to do it. But they need to be
planted on the east side of the house or the
north side, in an area that's fairly well drained. In

(10:40):
other words, of the water should be going away from it,
not towards it, so and then they'll do pretty good.
Keep a heavy layer of milt on on the top
of your hydranches. The reason being is you have a
kind of a flywheel effect on the temperature shift in
the soil by having this layer on there. And it

(11:01):
also the flywheel effect also works with moisture and the
soil flywheel meaning you get this big, heavy wheel and
spin it and you cut the power off. It takes
a while to slow down and that. So it said
if you were to do a line chart on the
water content, it would be more flat lines rather than

(11:22):
up wet and dry and wet and dry. So, in
other words, these plants have an intolerance of the variable
solil conditions like that, so we need to try to
keep that moisture level constant with heavy molts, heavy prep
plot of peat, moss and soil. And they do fine.
But they don't like the afternoon sun. They do require

(11:42):
some sun, but not the hot afternoon sun.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Gotcha.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
So they're what we call site specific.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Understood.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
So if they have some tree canopy overhead with some
dappoid light, they'll do just fine depending on the species
of tree. Now, they won't work around maple tree because
of root system, but things like water oaks and red
oaks and English oaks pretty much compatible to have a
deeper root system.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
So very good the more you know, folks, that's why
you're listening to this program. Like I said, you know,
it's hard. It's even harder if you.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Don't know what you're doing. Yeah, a lot we do
this show if you don't have to do trial and
air and spend a lot of money.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yeah. Now, there's a type of fertilizer called osma coat.
It's kind of expensive, but you only put it down
like maybe once every six months, and every time you water,
as the name implies, through osmosis, when the water passes
over the granule, it's porous and some of the fertilizer
is dissolved and he goes into the soil, so it

(12:47):
gets a small does or fertilizer basically every time you water, okay,
or every time it rains and washes it down the hill.
So this should be down below the molts level really
for it to work. Well, you don't want that. I
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Morning, Welcome back to the Green Country Gardener Program with
Larry Glass. I'm Tom David Sidon's taking a call things
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Speaker 6 (15:32):
Angelonia. Huh Angelonia, Oh, there you go. It's an annual plant.
It's one of the best container plants for hot sunny spots.
Angelonia produces really kind of beautiful spikes of mass of mauve, purple,
peak or blue or white flowers basically all summer long.
Mm hm. This is tough and a bluetrol nicely too.

(15:53):
It's very strong performer and containers as well as a
own landscape. You can put in the landscape that's real
well too, and uh, you know, for borders and whatnot.
It works for it to anyway. They're available in a
tall upright or short bush bushy varieties and you can
use them wide variety of garden settings. I just like
to use them just here and there for some vertical

(16:15):
composition in the landscape where you got all these you know,
flat pair of winkles and everything else destrokes upright and
it creates a bit of interest in the landscape too.
And it's extremely durable and I don't think I have
as any s to speak of, and it you can
use about any kind of fertilizer on it. But anyway,
it's it's a little late. I don't think we have any,

(16:36):
but you might. You might write this down. We're something.
The plant in the spring is angelonia, and yeah, and
it's very very easy to grow and very attractive plant
and very low care, very no maintenance cool plant. Yeah,
that and a few other things. The pera winkles are
finally starting to come out of it, and my lantan
in the backyard are finally starting to bloom. I planted

(16:59):
it before Noah's art came through and it was just
too wet for them and finally dried out enough, and
I noticed that this morning, getting some blooms now, so
just some time for it to freeze. I've got lanas
in the backyard. So anyway, we were talking earlier a
little about hydrangeas and if they're not doing very very

(17:20):
well you perhaps here's some reasons why they might not blooming.
They might not be blooming is you've prune them at
the wrong time. Perhaps they're very slow to produce flowers,
so you need to probably right after they bloom, there's
time to prune them back, Okay, or your hydrangea sometimes
just flat out isn't getting enough sun. They do required

(17:42):
at least dappled. Light dappled meaning you can see some
spots of sunlight through it and maybe some good strong
morning sign perhaps or a little window of afternoon sun.
But they do require some sun on there. The flower
boats could have been killed by a late winter freeze,
which is privately case this year maybe and or your
plant just if he doesn't like it there, wow, oh boy,

(18:09):
your high transar maybe hasn't bloomed yet this year, but
it probably will. And I have my my lace cap
finally started blooming again this year. It's when I had
for fourteen years that didn't do a thing, and it
bloomed year before last, and last year it didn't. This
year is putting on some flowers. So it's all shaded
by the gourd plants right now, massive gord the backyard

(18:32):
taking over the whole thing anyway, So High trans is
a little tough around here, so you might consider it
maybe setting out for some blooms. Another alterns for that
might be the Rosa sharon. It blooms in the summertime
and they're bloom right now. And the important thing with

(18:53):
the Rosa sharon is it's a member of Hibiscus family.
Is to keep it prune back. They set their blooms
in late spring early summer, and they keep putting on
blooms as time goes on too, so if they're getting
too leggy, you don't be afraid to cut them back.
They're pretty tough plants. The Rosa sharon is good for

(19:13):
full sun, well drained soil, doesn't tolerate wet feet, and
it gets fairly narrow and upright. So it's a good
to say against the fence or something, but I wouldn't
put two clubs to the front door. But the drawback
is some of them they have little seeds that come
up all over the yard and you have little tiny
heroes everywhere. There are some terrible varieties though that they

(19:36):
don't do that. But I like them for an informal
screen or just a specimen type plant in the landscape.
The important thing is is to keep them after they
bloom so and keep them prune back. They're somewhat weak wooded,
and they can get kind of broken up and all that,
and they have a fairly short life span. You probably

(19:57):
get ten twelve years.

Speaker 14 (19:58):
Out of them before they start having some problems with
m and thrack notes and some other issues, so be
prepared to replace them after ten years or so, get
new it and usually by then there's all new varieties
out anyway.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
So it's different colors. So the for a flowering interest
plant the roses sharing is a good one. It kind
of goes with crape myrtles at the same time. So
but the like I said earlier, the roses, Sharon, they're
kind of sloppy, so keeping away from the swimming pool
maybe far away. And also crack myrtles, try to keep

(20:31):
them sort of away from the swimming pool too.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
It's always good.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Unless of the prevailing wind is such as you know,
the flowers and some kid. I mean, I guess it's
not too bad swimming and flowers floating in the water.
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
She's coming up to breeze also, I guess. So yeah, So.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
Planning your landscape if you want to avoid some troubles,
it's a good idea to have a landscape plan done.
And I have a meeting after this for somebody, and
I've got a meeting after that, and then I got
to go out and lay some brick. So I'm busy today.
But anyway, winter you're not what not busy? Yeah, when
it rains.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Vacation coming up, Larry, I think lane ahead.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Anyway just doesn't does the house kind of look like
you really wanted to. There's a landscape, and I see
a lot of them. There are some houses where you
wonder even if there's a house behind it. Yeah, they
see these big old shrubs and god, there must be
foxes and coyotes behind there somewhere.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, I'll tell you there was a home in my
neighborhood that was like that till another fellow bought the
house and he cleaned it up pretty good. I'm like,
well that's pretty good. Look at the house, too bad
it was hidden there for the first two years.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
And it comes down to the plant selection too. There
are a lot of plants now are are prefaced by
the word dwarf, dwarf fandina dwarf, jopon dwarf, this and that,
and they tend to stay smaller than regular plants. A
lot of people say at the corner of the house,
they'll put something like a Nelly R. Stephens Holly. Well,

(22:12):
they get twenty feet tall and typically a huge So
you don't there's some things you just don't want to
do that. There's a needle point holly, which has a
similar appearance, but it only gets about six to eight
feet tall. So it'll be better, say at the corner
of the house if you will then say nearie r Stephens,

(22:32):
so it'll be there for you know, twenty years and
never out and grow the space. I gota. So there
are some, like I said, some plants that are prefaced
by the word dwarf, which you do really well. One
of the workhorses in the landscape for two of them
actually is a dwarf jopon holly, and the dwarf Nandina. Gotcha.
What I like about these plants are their resistance to

(22:55):
insects and their appearance all year around appearance the dwarf
you up on Hollias is as low trubby. I got
some of my house there about knee high and they're
forty years old. And dwarf Nandine is too. The stacks
of small so and right behind them, I have some
what we're spreading sold as spreading boxwoods. Well they're they're

(23:17):
an upright cone now about seven feet tall, but keith
and clipped to this cone shape with the English two
to time it goes with it, you know whatever, And it.
They have a real nice formal appearance to them. So

(23:38):
and there are some dwarf box woods too that stay small.
So there's a lot of stuff out there that you
can tailor to your landscape. And that's where the artistic
part comes in, where you can show people what it
looks like initially, what's it going to look like in
three years, what's it going to look like in ten years.
All these factors can be put in there, and a

(24:01):
lot of people have these real low windows. The builders
really like to put in these low windows.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
You do.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
And there's a Japanese holiday called Hiller's Holly. It has
a survival rate of about sixty five percent. But oh well,
they like a low pH so you have to add
little iron sulfate to the so you get at the
work for a while and they stay really low growing
all that and there'll be a good plant for that maybe.

(24:26):
Or if you use the dwarf poop on holly, then
you can just do what I do and take the clippers.
I just saw them off. There you go, you said,
Kevin Potter's thirty six cylinder and the eggs clippers, and
they keep them down really.

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Speaker 4 (27:07):
Welcome back to the Green Country Gardener Program.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Is a thirty five seventy degrees beautiful morning today and
once again your phone calls are welcome. We have Larry
Glass our expert today for our Green Country Gardener Program.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
What he'd have rid seven poor nine five nine three six.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Larry this bring We had a lot of mole problems,
Yes we did. I don't seem to have too many
right now, but they tend to get more active. I
guess when the soil is loose when it rains. So
you probably have sith towards the end of the week
coming up too.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, Saturday, be checking for it.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yeah, and they're kind of hard to get rid of too.
So yeah, some guy came in. They had this little
machine you put in there and you put it on
the ground where the mole is. He's flattening their little channel.
It lifts up a lever and it shoots a blank
shotgun shell. They don't like that noise underground that apparently

(27:58):
it kills them by just there's pressure, numbings or whatever.
So however, I'm sure the police got a few calls
when that went off.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
So what are you doing shooting gophers?

Speaker 6 (28:11):
Golfers, no gopers, people come on.

Speaker 7 (28:15):
So the.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
The poisoned earthworms worked pretty well, and you got other
other things that will work too well. But you want
to there's several technologies you can use to control them.
But typically they're they're going after grub worms and earthworms
and whatnot, but in doing so they kind of disrupt
their lawns. They do.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Were curious type.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
So it was one time out there stomping him down,
and and somebody is working by, and it said, what
are you dancing or what?

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Stomping them?

Speaker 6 (28:44):
Stomping out of the.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Do you ever see the mole hill pop up a
little bit after you do that?

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah? That hat would. I came home and oh, there's
a mole hill. While I get out of the truck,
you know, when I get home and it popped up again.
So stomped it again.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Hey what are you doing? Maybe it wasn't.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
I said, okay, I'm tired. You win whatever. Golly. So anyway,
there's several technologies about getting rid of all your problem. Anyway,
we can talk right now a little bit about the
Leyland Cypress. The Leyland Cypress it's a kupresses Leyland is.

(29:26):
It has two separate genre between them, so there's kind
of a crossbreed and this stuff. But it turns out
to be a pretty cool plant. And anyway, it originated
in England in eighteen eighty eight, so many cultsworts have
been selected and they do pretty well here as a
screen plant, if you will. However, they're hardy down to

(29:50):
zero to ten degrees typically, So if you do have
Leyland cypress, and some people do, they really really nice plants,
water of them real well. If it's going to get
cold in it's dry before that, so if it gets
down below zero to ten degrees, then you want to
make sure they have adequate water going into that. This

(30:10):
is the primary reason why a lot of planets don't
make it in the winter because it's just too dry
and they just yeah, so so keep them, you know,
waterdal well in this drought is kind of hard to
do now, so but anyway, it's a good screen plant,
goes grow fast. Their hardiness is own seven and it
would quickly outgrow the space and small landscapes, so plan

(30:31):
ahead on that. See, so you know that little area
between the sidewalk and the front door, let's put Leyland
Cyprus for screening well, you know, in twenty minutes, you
don't have a front door anymore. You can't find it
where to go, So you might pick out something else
for a small area. But this is good for off
in the distance somewhere you can hide that cell tower whatever,

(30:54):
that thing or something else, or maybe the neighbors have
a good view of your kitchen and then come with
a knife and a fork, you know. So, but something
maybe to screen that off a little bit too. So
they're pretty good, but it gets to be a massive plant,
and once they're established to do pretty well. But they're
hardy at two point, and you can circumvent that die

(31:16):
off from the being out of their own little bit
by keeping them well watered. A good mulching around it
too helps also, And if you live in an area
with a shallow soil with a lot of limestone or sandstone,
it's not one you want to use because there's only
a thin layer of soil and it'll freeze up pretty quick.
So it's good in selective parts over here. So a

(31:38):
good screen plant for area it might be somewhat troublesome.
You might consider a foster holly. Foster holly gets up
to twenty feet tall. Or so it's spread up about
ten feet, kind of like the Leaveland Cyprus, but not
quite as big. But it is very hearty here and
it does quite well. A lot of people plants these, say,
because when they come up typically they're sold to shear

(32:00):
and they're just perfect little cone thing. Oh that'll look
good in the corner of the house. Yeah, ten years later,
where's the house? So this is something that you might
want to use for screening. And they're really right, they're good.
They get they just get fairly large over time. Now,
if you have a real big house or something, you
want something big in the corner, give it some room.

(32:24):
Maybe it's gonna look strange being seven eight feet away
from the house planet but it'll get about eight feet wide,
so it'll be about four feet away from the house.
So you got to plan ahead on these things. And
it might look people, why did you plant that big
way out there? Well just wait ten years see why.

Speaker 13 (32:45):
There you go?

Speaker 6 (32:45):
So anyway, so planning ahead on these things is very important.
But we're talking right now about corner plantings per se,
and they do berry well. The dwarf our birds spruce
is one good good one for that too. They do
pretty well.

Speaker 13 (32:59):
Here.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
They good drainage. It seems they can tolerate the drop
pretty well too. So and the door fibers proofs can't
get up to about six feet tall. And it's very
regular when you get up, but over time it can
get kind of irregular. Kind of what happens to all
of us when we get older. We get a little
irregular around the middle. Some of us just kind of

(33:22):
does the same thing. So any irregular, says equator. And
you have about five minutes when you can prune it.
In the spring, it leaves out and it starts to
growth flush just once a year for a very short
taired period of time, and that's the time you can
really keep it under control. But the door fibers proofs

(33:44):
is a good, say corner planting for the house too.
And Boxwood's English. Boxwood's another one. We have a right now.
We have some variegated ones. They're about there's manical there
about one hundred dollars. I think we have something for
two hundred dollars even and they're nicely sculpted and all that,
and these don't get so awful big also, okay, so yeah,

(34:08):
you might run on these corner plantics per se. You're
clear of Nellie R. Seven's holiday and foster. They look
really good initially, you know a few years Oh, I
forgot to term that thing. So you know, the dwarf
perfect holidy might work well also, but it grows globular

(34:31):
bush by nature. You have to you have to maintain
it that way. So there's a certain set of plants
that will work. They don't require a whole lot of
care growing in the corner of the house.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Okay, all right, that's your corner, right, all right, let's
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In say forty five, we had Green Country Gardener program,
and our phone line is open at one eight hundred
and seven four nine five nine three six, where somewhere
between a couple of good mos and and raking up leaves,
we're in that time that that very tail end of summer,
it gets pretty darn hot.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
And hot and dry, and oh dag, I'm going I
wish I should have put a sprinkler system in.

Speaker 10 (37:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Do we still have time to get that done?

Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm booked up, though.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
I'm just gonna say, do you have time to get It's.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Crazy this weather, So we're going so slow it's kind
of hard to keep up.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
About the time you get a good, good run going,
and all of a sudden, you know, here come noa.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
Well, it was this spring it was wet, very and
then then it got then it just turned dry just
overnight and hot, so we got very Oklahoma made a
lot of progress when it's raining cats and dogs every day.
Then he gets hot, and then you got the people
can't work out and all day I come home. I'm

(38:03):
so just tired.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
You was at an emergency last week.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Yes, I did it bad so anyway, drink our systems too, Yeah,
good to have those also, and if they're used properly,
they can really help out in the landscape.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Now, the ones you've got going these days, I understand
that it's so accurate. You you've got it set to
different levels of different areas of the of the of
the yard, and you can operate.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
It off your phone exactly. They have they have several
of these telephone operated applications and I've done a lot
of them here and down. Actually, people really like that
you got in the backyard, right.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I saw you actually fix somebody's uh one off your
phone here.

Speaker 6 (38:53):
Yeah, I've got I got some Some of my clients
are on my phone and they have a question. I can, well,
let me turn it on for you. Number seven. What
do you got? Look at you, it's going upser.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
We'll be out.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
Anyway. That's a good way to do it. On the
audit of your sprinkle system to especially if you have
a larger yard. You don't have to have Mabel in
the garage turned on out, not that one the other
that one. When when you do an irrigation system, it's
a good idea to give the customer a zone map.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Oh yeah, where you got circle.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Number one, two, three or five around there with the
diagram of the house. You know the driveway in the front,
front yard, in the backyard, and color in the area
that does circle number one, trigen number two, umber three someone.
It makes it so much easier to diagnose problems if
you know where this water spout is, what circuit number

(39:58):
it is, well, I think it's number five, or might
be number seven or check.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
And if you have a zone map and they're easy
to do. Basically you can either do a rough a
drawing of your house or to take a satellite image
and overlay it and turn on the thing and pencil
in where cercart number one is and so and so on.
It's says so much time and so much frustration, but
just by having that. So that's one thing we present

(40:28):
as a as a standard is a zone map showing
where what goes where, because it does clear up a
lot of confusion. Another thing is you got to be
able to compensate for alterations and water pressure too. It
can change from one part of the year to the other. Actually,
we did one system where we had the water problem

(40:52):
and then they reduced the pressure. So I took a
reading back, you know, in the wintertime with that pressure
was several readings to get the static pressure reading eighty
five pounds or so. Yeah, sure you designed it, but
the all that then they run out of water, and
then they cut down the pressure to fifty five.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Oh no, what we have here? We have a heart,
we have nothing.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
So I did a set. Oh the other pressure down
to fifty five pounds, So what are we doing? In
the meantime, I had to recalibrate. That's where they all
have different muzzles, dunze damters on them and you have
a smaller nizzle dam or they use less water and
there's more back pressure. You get some distance, but it
takes longer the water I understood. So that happened, and

(41:41):
then all of a sudden, the water pressure I'm sounding
a little gravellyself, anyway, the water pressure went back up,
and it looked like a bunch of spray cans. So
I had to recalibrate again and then got that done.
So I had to do that twice on the project.
This the spring because you think the water pressure would

(42:04):
be really good where it was, but it wasn't, so
I did a static check on it, not eighty pounds
or so, and then you run the water and the
so we had to put a booster pump in to
get the water pressure outboard. It is because the static
pressure as it goes through the pipe was too low.
So somewhere there's a rock in a pipe or something.
But anyway, it's all fixed and working just fine.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
You good, so problem solved.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
But those kinds of things, and they're time. There's still
simple timers out there too, and a lot of people
just want to stick with what they've had for a
simple timer, and you know that they're meant to be outside. Sure,
And it's a lot easier if you call the the
sprinter guy to come out you're out of work or something.
I need you to look at the sprinkle head in
my yard or something. If the timer is mounted out

(42:49):
in the backyard somewhere, or in the back or in
the house somewhere, that way you don't have to go
through all that coming home, or you don't have to
give them the keys to your garage or whatever. At
the timer's outside and they're meant to be outside.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
And it's a lot easier in the case of me
as a as somebody who repairs these things. Yeah, I know,
I say what circuit number is? Well, I don't know.
Here we go and then I'll get out my and
I did the summertime, get out a piece of paper
and do a rough outline of the house and drive away,
and then we go through and it's cuir, this is

(43:29):
this is number one, This is number two, but number
three is way over here. But number four, you know,
the sequence is off. It's weird. So then though that, well,
that's circuit number four, but number three is way over here,
but number five and six in between. So it makes
it easier to know that that's number four, if you will,
there's a lot of confusion. I said, Okay, I can

(43:50):
resequence it. You know, we'll make it easy for everyone. Yeah,
so anyway, Yeah, so things like that just make it
easier for the customer just to kind of let them
know what what's going on where all this other stuff too,
and even even get it onto the wiring connections. They
have to be reliable too. And also when you when

(44:13):
you do when you do a sprinkler system and you
got the wire connection, typically there's how about a foot
of wire on the on the valvetself. You need to
bring your your electric wire up that high too. And
most of the problems people have with their sprinkling systems
or electrical problems, wiring problems. And if the wire neut

(44:34):
is just way down inside there and you can't access it.
You know, most of us landscape people we got.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
You try to you've got man hands.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
Try to get these hands in type of six inch box.
It just doesn't work.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Don't work.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
So typically you want to be able to have the
you can have the wires come out of the box,
you can access them and fix everything, then put them
back in there. And because that's that's that where most
of the problems with sprinkers or is wiring issues. Just
make that as easy as possible. And don't ever attenuate
a wire underground. It should be a steatic constant wire

(45:11):
without any splices. Don't ever do an underground splice on
the sprinkle system. That's where it's going to fail and
you cannot find it impossible impossible to find it. So
you should have an unbroken wire from the timer to
at least the first foul, and then you can have
a network of connections afterwards after that, but you have

(45:33):
to be able to access those connections. Now. I like
to do the wiring alphabumerically. That seems they become different colors.
You got the black, blue, brown, green, red, orange, yellow, someone.
So they're arranged alphabetically by number, so that way it'll
correspond to the sequence going around the yard. So you

(45:55):
can look it up. If you don't have a zone
map or you lost it, you can say, oh, this
is the this is the green wire, so's it's number three.
That kind of thing, and try to keep the wiring
colors the same.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Consistency is a good thing.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
I've seen it where they change the colors on a
Vachfeld'll go They've change then orange to a red and
the red to a blue or something, and then you
go down there and it's just blue at the timer,
but it's red at the valve. You know, it makes
it difficult to diagnose sprinker problems.

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Think your quick break. We'll be right back after this
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(48:21):
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Alrighty, we are back with the Green Country Gardener and
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Speaker 4 (49:29):
Sorry what you got on the list there?

Speaker 6 (49:31):
Oh golly at the nursery, we have all kinds of
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(50:16):
price roses sharing third and yuppies are half price too.
So we all kinds of cool stuff on sale, stuff
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Speaker 4 (50:35):
We're not New York City.

Speaker 6 (50:37):
No, we're not out of New York City though not.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Los Angeles, No, not Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 6 (50:42):
Right here in Bartlesville, right here in Barlosville. Yeah, right,
here's my rain gage. It was negative no, three inches
ahead of mind.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
Oh the other day.

Speaker 6 (50:53):
Yeah, yeah, three yeah. Actually it's it's been around long.
It started leaking, so silicona duct tape. But oh it
doesn't leak anymore. But still anyway, Oh, that was a
big old rain we had.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Well, we're looking for southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. We're
looking at some pretty good sized rains Monday through Wednesday,
maybe even Thursday. There's even a possibility for a brief
shower a little bit later on today, but one to
three inches in some cases, so you might get splashed.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Pretty darn good. Good. I don't mind getting wet. There
you go like that, you know, I come by the nursery,
check us out. We had all kinds of things for
your for your landscape and for your house plants. You know,
kinds of ad decorum too to come look at too.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
So don't forget the waterfall.

Speaker 6 (51:45):
The waterfall, Yeah, that's big and noisy. We like that.
People they kind of look at that and think it's
pretty cool. Anyway, keep your shovel sharp, Tom.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
We'll see you next week, all right, folks, Stay tuned.

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