GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER 9-16-23

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Episode Transcript

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One is on the air, andwelcome, welcome, welcome into the time
now for the Green Country Gardener Programand a little bit of delayment. It's
okay right now it is eight onine and sixty four degrees, a little
bit of cloud cover. Some ofy'all got rained, most of us didn't
know. And don't go bragging,okay, because it might hurt somebody's feelings.

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One eight hundred seven four nine fivenine three six Larry Glasses, our
expert to hear on Green Country GardenerProgram. Good morning to you, young
man, Hi Tom, good morning. Looks like we got a few more
days to go before it starts torain a little bit. Yep, so
we need that really, how hardis it to get that sharp and shovel

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into the ground these days? Ittakes four jumps store jumps. I know
that first hand. That we're planteda bunch of trees this week. Oh.
Fortunately though it was prefaced by as installing in irrigation system, so
okay, it wasn't that difficult toget in. But the other areas where
there isn't, well, we plantedsome other trade as long as you didn't

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have to use dynamite to bring rockbrothers and sledgehammers. But anyway, so
it falls in the air. Theheat is off, so it's time to
get to work. Yeah, youbet. We have a fall months right
now. Just got some in yesterday. They're growing right here in Oklahoma.
And uh, their color, it'sabout the births. Really really nice looking

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tight plants. They shore. I'mvery happy with them. So they look
very good. And at this pointin time, really the mums shouldn't be
fully open, so because we stillhave a little bit of heat coming on.
Maybe And an important thing with theseplants also is when you get them
in is to maybe apply some mulchon the surface so the ground doesn't dry
out so quickly. Yeah, becausethe ground is so dry right now.

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When you watered these moms or anyother plants such as that, the water
is just going to be absorbed into the dry ground. So yeah,
you can apply water specifically to theplant, but if you were to apply
water in a surrounding area as well, they'll have a less tendency of this
movements of water away from your plants. So yeah. So and a layer

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of mulch helps them awful lot too. But anyway, enjoy them and they're
really really nice and the color isgoing to be popping out here pretty soon.
As to where the cools down thenext coming week, it's supposed to
be what ninety nine instead of onehundred and twenty nine, so that's not
bad. So anyway, those arecoming on too. Also, the monarch

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butterflies are very busy with their littlecaterpillars everywhere so well, I've noticed that
at the nursery too. We've hadseveral of them just on some of the
plants we have out there. Theseare little striped caterpillars. Now, the
monarch caterpillar, as you see onthis illustration has antennae on both ends.
Oh, I guess that's an adaptivestrategy perhaps perhaps, and then curb feelers

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and then it has lateral stripes curbfielers. They have a lateral stripes coming
around of a yellow, white andblack coming around as as on this illustration
is right there, and that's howyou can tell it's a monarch by the
fly. So if you do seesomething like they have a calipuor non on

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your plant and it has those characteristiclateral stripes on it, the yellow,
the white and the black stripes onit and two sets of antenna. That's
a monarch, so leave it alone. Yeah, And then after that happens,
it goes to this crystalists yep formhere, which is an interesting structure

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that attaches itself to a branch andit has all these little gold spots on
it. It was really quite pretty. For about three or four day it's
a crysalists and then then it themonarch butterfly pops out. We have a
monarch tent at It only takes twoor three days to transform from a willing
worm to a butterfly. It's amazing. I mean, well, it takes

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a little war than that at theafter the crystalist stage, after the crystal
okay, yeah, and the metamorphosisthat goes on is just it's incredible.
It's it's a miracle. How howthis worm turns into this butterfly and then
stages of its life life life cycle. It's quite fascinating. It's like it
gets two lives. Well yeah,I guess yeah, it's it's incredible.

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It starts off as a little littletiny egg. If you see, it's
a little green egg black thing that'sstuck to the branch. So don't spray
that, and then this caterpillar hatchesout, it grows, eats up your
valuable plants, and then it formsits crys lists. Then a few days

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later there's butterfly pops out and itflies away. So anyway, that's it's
a fascinating And you do have anice littlearia there where you've got like a
butterfly guard. It is a butterflywe do. We have the first benches
you come in over there is dedicatedto plants that hummingbirds and butterflies like.
So another thing, the hummingbirds aregetting ready to march southward, so make

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sure they're ready. And I'm notsaying pull late the hummingbird featers, but
keep it handy because there's others comingfrom the north that take their place for
a little bit. Oh look,chow, Charlie said, this is a
good place to eat. And theyreally like lantana plants, and lantana plants

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really like our terrible climate. Soyeah, so you might consider that maybe
get some perennial lantann or some evensome annual lantan and next spring for the
butterflies to have and humming birds.I find that they they even like my
castor bean plants. Hummingbirds will gofrom one to another. Maybe they're looking
for something and it's not there.I don't know. But anyway, so

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I've got a whole bunch of hummingbirdsin our backyard. It's incredible and it
make this little noise and chirp aroundand it's kind of fun. They're they're
just fun to watch. You justtell you when you're like that, you
know, it's funny when they're theyand they hover right in front of you,
they look right at you. Yeah, then they go not of you.

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I got them to do things.I don't blame them anyway. I
gotta come burder around here. Sothey're a lot of fun. So anyway,
with that in mind, there's somethings we need to be do in
the garden right now. And you'reyour spring bulbs, your daffodils, your
tulips. We mentioned this in thelast two weeks. This would be almost
the last time you want to fertilizeyour spring bulbs. So the bulb fertilizer

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or say at ten twenty ten orsomething like that, not a lot of
nitrogen, but something with some phosphorusand potassium, and it will help your
bulbs have better blooms. Next drink. There you go. Also, if
you do have some toilip bulbs ordaffodil bulbs or something, you want to
get in the ground. The sooneryou get them in the ground, the
better they're going to be. They'restill dorm but they're not going to bloom.
If you put them in the ground, they're going to develop a root

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system. So you need as soonas you get them, if you order
them in or go to the storeand get them, or we might have
a few of them they shure.I don't know if you're depend on what
the supplier it does, but anyway, you want to get them in as
soon as possible, and that wayyou have bigger daffodil blooms until the blooms.
So you don'sten the ground too,and also your existing boats if you
remember where they were. Yeah,sometimes that happens. You put some garden

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fertilizer, but if you keep yourgarden pretty well fertilized, it should do
okay. Anyway, they don't havevery many demands, so it's time to
do that. Also a great timeto plant trees. We just got a
whole bunch of new trees and alittle forest going on. We have we
have a red bud tree that hasall these different different colors that leaves on
it really fascinating. I can't I'llthink of the name halfway through the show,

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but anyway, it's it has ayellow and or colored leaves on it.
Really kind of interesting plant when atleast out this time of years,
the color isn't as as vibrant asit was earlier in the year, but
you get you start get the balloonsin the spring and then you get the
varying colored leaves on it. Anduh, I'll think of the name in

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a minute. But it's a newangle with over the red red trees,
give it further increases the time linkthat has interest. It's cool, yeah,
in the in the landscape. Sowe've got some and they were really
quiet, rare earlier and rather expensive, but the price is coming down as
as productivity increases on this d redbudtree. So anyway, come check those

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out too. We got some longhand. The color is really not really
extensive right now, but in thespring right at your blooms and for a
long time summer it has a reallygood show on it. So anyway,
also time to plant some shrubs.Also, some I kind of like to
stay away from planting this time ofyear and maybe create myrtle. You really

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need a heavy root system going intothe fallen winter. But if you do
want plants and crepe myrtles, makesure that they're well watered in the summer
and they have a good layer ofmults to help moderate the temperature change.
It's because all the roots are rightthere in this container and if I guess,
really really cold, they could killoff a create merble plant. So
make sure you have a good layerof mults on the surface if you plant

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to create marble this time of theyear. Also, iris, time to
divide those iris if you haven't already. I've got a bunch of my house
I need to divide them too.They get a little clumpy over time,
so you've got to divide. Yougot to divide them over time for them.
Also, the stellodoro delilies need toneed to be divided divide every three

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years for them to bloom real well. A lot of people notice over time
they have a diminished bossom show.That's because there they get crowded. Yeah,
they're competing for the same stuff.It's just like, don't crowd your
mushrooms when you cook them. Youwant to see a little space, a
little space in between, and thesystem will grow and do a lot better,

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do a lot better. You havea better looking stellodoral dela to get
more of them that way too,So they need to be divided also,
So that leads us into lawns.And it's a pretty hot topic right now
because we're in a kind of aseasonal transition. What do I do do
I kind of do I scalp it? Do I just let it hang for

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a little bit till it rains?What do you mind doing? Yeah?
Really, anyway, if you wantto scalp you for me to grass you
a little bit late, because it'snot going to grow very much anymore.
I did that a few weeks ago. Oh good. Just timing is just
right, so you just kind ofmaintains yeah right, Just hope you're sharpen
your own your long word lad toofor you anyway, So it's kind of

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time to I just sort of letbermuter graphs sort of go on its own.
You don't want to emphasize fertilizer onyour bermuter graphs at this point.
The lower nitrogen maybe at ten twentyten on it to help it get it
through the winter, but not heavynitrogen at this point. If you have
a situation where your soil is deficientin nitrogen and nitrogen application wouldn't hurt.

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But you need to know your youryour numbers before you at this point in
time, before you putt to knowthem. I'm hopefully took fertilizer on them.
So something like a ten twenty tenor something like that, or a
quote winterizer winter winter wizer. Yeah, Lily, a winterizer fertilizer would would

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help it develop some good strong stolensgoing into the winter. Good. So
go ahead and yeah, like Isaid earlier, don't scout the bermunigrasson.
You need those runners to help itgo through through the winter. You do
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are right back with the Green CountryGardener program. It is eight twenty four
sixty four degrees and our phone lineis open. If you have a question
for Larry Glass, our garden groomguru here at one eight hundred seven four
nine five nineteen three six. Thatwill get you in anyway. Yeah,
we're talking a little bit about thelawn there. Graphs, Ormuni graphs,

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Burma Shave, we don't do thatnow. No, anyway, getting into
stuff. I actually have bermutia inshade at my house. You do,
Yeah, it looks like the hairon my head kind of from the street,
it looks okay, you're on topspink of it. Larry found out
he's on Google Earth with a longstory. It burned a hole in their

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camera the white hair did so anyway. Bermuda grass, Yeah, I don't
do much to it right now,just kind of maintain its status quo.
Yeah, and kind of the samething. It seems to be toughening up
a little bit. So make surethe lawnmower blade is really quite sharp when
you mow your You're gonna just befrustrated, is all get out after?

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Yeah, because it it's very it'sa very dense growing grass, especially if
it's well fertilized. Yeah, andmake sure the blade is very sharp when
you start on. Otherwise it bruiseson the surface and has these little round
tips on it. It's not veryattractive. So also kind of the same
thing. Fertilizer was always your graphsgrass. However, you could do if

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you do have an efficient situation,you could apply the nitrogen later in the
season because it's more cold, hardythan bermuto grass. Yeah, so it
goes plumb up to past Saint Louisso yeah, well yeah, but bermuto
grass has a hard time going halfwaythrough Kansas, but don't we all have
it. But it's always the grass. It's hardy further north. So fescue

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grass right now, that's kind ofin the limelight. And people want to
establish fescue grass and to go tothese houses and they have to soil this
like a like a rock, anduh, you do need to loosen it
up a bit, so you needto get out or invest in a tiller
before you can do that. Ohyeah, and as some organic step to

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the soil. But the important thingis to get the roots done deep because
next summer it's going to get hotagain, it is, and it'll if
you have good deep roots on it, you can draw that water from down
deep and pull it up and keepitself cool through uh you know the sea.
Yeah that if Apple transporation, yeah, yeah, it can. It

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can help keep it cool. Soit sweats basically, yeah, but it's
a good sweat. So a gooddeep I get deep chilling and if you're
soiled it's heavy. You might addsome chips into it if the caption sulfate
will help break up the clay alittle bit, and maybe some organic material

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to help help it hold water.But you just can't really just put the
seed on the ground and go backto your recliner, and you know,
you just have to put a littlebit of work into it to make it
work. So anyway, fish curegrass is a is what we call it
cool season grass. It performs it'sbest when it's cool, and that time
is it's coming up pretty quickly.What was the temperature last night? I

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think it was right around fifty sixto sixty. Yeah, when it gets
in the lower fifties up or four, it's a good time to establish that
fescue grass. There's no really calendartime you can do that, sure,
but you kind of have to lookat the weather trends and see what's happening
before you can really get be successfulwith it. So when it's in the
fifties at night, good time tooversee if you will or a plant new

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fescue seed. With the weather we'vebeen having, it's a little bit too
early. I get a lot ofquestions about win win win and I said,
I don't know. I don't know, and they go, what,
Yeah, well, yeah, youtalk to the weather man a lot.
There's a lot of factors. It'sa cool season graph, so with nighttime
temperatures in the sixties and seventies,it probably won't do too well. So

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I think that's going to happen afternext week. It looks like we have
a weather weather front coming through andit'll it'll get cool at night, so
it'll be weather more suitable for theestablishment of fescue graphs. So right now
you have the ground floor opportunity toget your ground ready before before the rain
hits and it gets all muddy andikey and you can't do anything about it,

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So get after it, okay,as long as your grass or from
fescure grass has a similar fertilids arecharacteristic as bermuter grass, except the offset
of the seasons. It goes kindof dormant in the summertime and the mowing
height that's a little different on ittoo. It has to be mowed a

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little a little higher than bermuter grass, just a little. Now you can
lower the level of the fescua grassin the fallen in the winter and it's
really in the string, but youhave to raise it backup as a summer
goes up, so you get thatof apple transporation off the leaves. Keep
help keep it cool and when youdo water it, don't don't water it
and keep it wet and water waterwater. You want to have a time

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interval between waterings so the surface ofthe soil has a chance to dry out.
You don't so let's dry out,and that helped keep a fungus under
control. Our biggest problem with fescagrass is phytop thoria, which is a
disease of the vascular system collapses andit turns browned at faults to the gods.

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You do want to let it dryout between the water rings. And
when you do water, you applywater at the rate of one inch per
week with a drying period it's sortof in between it. So depending on
the irrigation system, they're all differenthow they administer a water, whether you
have a rotary head or a sprayhead. That spray heads put out a
whole lot more water given square footthan the rotary heads, so sprinkler heads,

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so you want to make sure puta cup out there. I tell
people put at nine, but thirteenout there, and it cook knows that
the nine of thirteen years, andthen run your sprink safer twenty or thirty
minutes or so. Then measured theamount of water in that and then extrapolate
bat into one inch per week.Got it of water with a time gap

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in between. It'll do fine.Do your mask and you'll be all sad.
And it's also good to water veryearly in the morning if there's usually
on the ground anyway, so youwon't introduce any any additional fungus other than
that which is there already. Anddon't water. Don't just water every single

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day. That's just not intervals intervalsintervals Okay, Yeah, Landscape planning time
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them work in the landscape. Uh. Trees provide shade, color, architectural

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accentuates, provide habitats from wildlife eeet and they look cool and they look
cool. So anyway, there aremany trees that grow here, as anybody
can possibly consider any about any treeshape you want, we'll grow here.
They adapt very well here. Putthat way. By the way, they
name of that tree that you werethinking about a little bit ago, the
red butt, the flame thrower.Come in and ask for a flame thrower,

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red butt. Google it. It'sreally fascinating. That's what we did.
No, actually on a texta centercustomer they want so so yeah,
and that that particularly one, likeI said earlier, like it because it
does have some fullier interest after itdoes bloom regular great myrtle, but it

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has the fully interest the different colorsof Yeah, but it will. It's
kind of like the purple growing redbuds. Stead leaves turn more green as
the summer progresses. And right nowthey look at red buds, look almost
they're worse. They do it anytimethere, give it time. So it's

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fall. It's been a tough summer, a lot of winds and whatnot,
a lot of hate. So theydid look a little tired. It's been
mostly Oklahoma as far as they say, we're in the weather exactly. Back
in Georgia, they beautiful. Yeah, we got rained, you know once
in a while there in summertime.But here we have a we had to
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Oh, by the way, trees, yes, yeah, they make
them work in the landscape, makesthem work in the trees provide shade color,
architectural dada we talked about earlier,and habit has for wildlife. And

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there are about as many trees thatwill grow here as anyone can possibly consider.
So when choosing a tree, however, the first thing that the the
role of the tree it must playis how it will integrate itself into your
landscape. See, some people planttrees in the wrong place and it becomes
a bit of a nuisance. Sothat's how they need to be. You

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need to be very careful in planningits location. In other words, you
look at the tree. Yeah,I want to tree to get some fall
color. Yeah, and I wantto plant three feet away from the house.
Well, you won't be able tosee this fall color that close to
the house. Yeah, A lotof the lot of the fall color and
a closer houts should be incorporated andshrugged tree. But anyway, the tree

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is off in the distance somewhere,and if you're unfortunate that you have a
rather small backyard, you might considermaybe a small tree. Of course,
scale it nicely, it's got tobe done to scale, and then consider
the utilities. There's been many caseswe had to knit the tree in between
utilities. If you will practically knitit in there, I know what you

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mean, because it's just like sixwires going around. What are we gonna
put this thing? Can I interestyou in a seed? So there's hopefully
there's another place on the property thatyou can put a tree. So anyway,
so there are some important factors.Drainage. There's a soil drain will

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enough for this particular species to surviveif it doesn't drain. Are there some
that will grow in a poorly drainedsituation, and there are a few,
and there's some that require a welldrained situation. So one one tree is
say the swamp white oak workers Alba, and it just because it says swamp

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white doesn't necessarily mean it grows ina swamp. No, they're they're highly
adaptable trees, and they're an interestingtree, very sturdy to and they're resistant
to oak rotten some other things.The trees get around here, and it
has a sizeable acorn but not toobad. But it's a kind of an
attractive tree really and very thick leatheryleaves. One to tolerate our climate no

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matter what Oklahoma throws that it thinksto survive anyway. That's just one and
a pin. Okay, it's apropet of tree. They're kind of fast
growing. But you get surface ritson them, yeah, you do.
And people plant them way too closeto the house. Then you get the
day. Yeah, then you getthis dead grass zone and buckling concrete and
so on. So it's not alwayssuited for the right situation. Then the

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northern red oak has a deeper ritsystem and has a growth characteristic similar to
a pin oak, but it doesn'tget the clorosis it's involved with the pin
oak in our lamy soil, andit doesn't tend to buckle out the sidewalk
or the driveway because of its deeperrit system. So there's really different oaks
you can pick for different situations.And I know where pretty much where the

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soil is here in town, justby your address. Yeahs say no,
you can't have a tree out there, or yes. And that's not only
oaks, but there's some elms thatare really nice too, the Chinese,
some the hybrid Chinese elm et e. They tolerate our conditions really well,
and they're use popularly as a streettree downtown too. And there's some in

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locations over there by Walgreens and littlecorner over their CVS pharmacy or something in
front of their place. Yeah,the Chinese elms doing really quite well under
complete neglect, and the concrete aroundthem is still intact. I've noticed that
I'm not going that's a nice tree. Yeah, yeah, I can walk

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under it and I don't over there, so anyway, So on these different
trees have different requirements, different needs, and some of them grow just about
it anywhere. Another one I likeis a Chinese pistache. Yep, it
you've got one. Yeah, inmy argument, yeah you do. It's

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planted and I had to use apick that's just to manage to chip a
hole in the rock. And reallyI find that the pistache that are growing
under just complete neglect seemed to bedoing the best of any of them.
They just want to be left alone, exactly, and they're very tolerant of
our They have a very deep rootsystem, you know, buckles some it
or anything else. You never seesurface roots around the Chinese fistache. So

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they're a good tree for our toughclimate. And the fall color can't be
beat if the weather conditions are right. It seems the colder it isn't night,
and that's up to you guys dothat with the weather. The cooler
it isn't night, the better thecolor is on the Chinese fastache. Some
years it's just a brilliant red color, and some years it's kind of a
yellowish it's kind of there. Yeah, But the Chinese pistache is dioecious,

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so you want to be sure topick out a male plant so you don't
get seeds and stuff from the femaleplants are little messy. So anyway,
that leads us to our tree ofthe week, which is a gyminal Cladus
dioecia if you know what that is. That's known as the Kentucky coffee tree,

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Okay, and they grow kind ofwild around here. And it's a
legume I remember the legume family.And it's a kind of gangly when it's
young, very statuesque as it matures. This uh tree is uh oh.
You want to plant the mail treesof the Kentucky coffee tree too, So

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yeah, yeah, I like itfor its toughness. They have no special
needs in the landscape here in Oklahoma. They do very well here and they
they they're drawt, tolerant, andsturdy. It's kind of an interesting lagoonis
tree. But winter appearance, whenthere's no leaves, it tends to look
somewhat clubby. In other words,when it has fewer sub branches on.

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It's very very dense, not verydensely, very heavy branching characteristics, and
that's because it has bipinnately compound leaves. In other words, that uh leaves
have a on a compound leaf.They have a mainstam and little leaves coming
after it. I got it.This one has a rather large main stem
on it, and then you havea sub stem off of that. Then

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you have a compound leave. Alsoit's got a little extra it's got electra
link. Yeah, the leaf it'sreally quite large. But but it's a
compound leaf. And this one iswhat we're called. It's pinnate. In
other words, the leaves are posedin a in a regular fashion on there,
and it's biponate. So it's prettycool to see it to believe it.

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But anyway, being a legume,it fixes its own nitrogen and it's
fairly deeply ridded. We have hadsome in the past that are available,
you know, to plant, butthey're not they're not a very popular tree
for some odd reason I don't know. But it's an excellent tree to having
the landscape. You don't have toworry about fertilizing it because it fixes its
own nitrogen. You don't have toworry about winter damage because half the tree

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falls off in the fall. Ohno, but fall color is kind of
nondescript, but it's just a goodshade tree that has a good deeper system.
No, won't cause any problems.All right, folks, we're gonna
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at eight forty five where it's sixtyfive degrees and our phone line threw open
at one eight hundred and seven fournine five nine three six, Larry Glass,
Well, we have necks on ouragend shrubs and our shrub the week
it is burning bush, you wantto MESSI late known for its excellent fall
color, and it's a little difficultytime and the heat. It's not as

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heat tolerant as you might think,being a member of the ulanamous family.
Sure, so you might want tomake sure this planet is irrigated throughout the
summer for doul real well, Butanyway, it's grown primarily for it's red,
rather brilliant and one lasting fall color. It's a good, steady,
bright red color. And the moresun, the more red it is.

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But also the more sun, theless taller into our heat it it is
too, So I kind of putmine in a kind of a kind of
a semi shady situation where it's alittle bit of shade and a bit of
sun and it does quite well.So in my particular yard, I've done
have a Haven't used in three differentways. One is a tall hedge okay,

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and another as a specimen interest plant. It's about eight feet tall.
There are varieties they don't get astall too, but anyway, and Galli
you can see it in our denand as it kind of hugs around the
house and the bright red color showsup nice. And also as a as
a low kind of a specimen scrubmass to keep it small like that in

(36:58):
the wintertime, I go in andjust with the electric shears and spend twenty
minutes on it. Just put itoff and then it comes. It grows
about a foot in a year twelveinches or so, so it's easy to
keep it under control in that wayas a smaller shrub. So anyway,
I like it for it's said diseaseresistance. It hasn't really no diseases,

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and it's insect resistance, and haveany buds or anything else. It's just
a well behaved plant that you cancontrol. And if it gets out of
hand, you can still cut itback. It'll come back. I remember
the unanamous family. They're tough.So burning bush is an excellent shrub to
have around the house, but keepin mind it is not overly hate or
drought tolerant. There are were,there were, I don't know if there

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still are, but some interesting ratherlarge burning bush specimens in Woodland Park.
They were planted under the trees andthey make almost like a Japanese maple shape
really, and that's what the waythis one isn't in my backyard close to
the house. It's almost like aJapanese maple in it's in its configuration,
in its form because of an uprightvay shape with a canopy, and it

(38:07):
takes a little bit of pruning todo that, but well, it makes
an attractive specimen. This this onterthough I might cut it back, poor
thing, so to try to gainsome more density. It has kind of
been a shady area. But anyway, so it's a good plant and I
like it for it so ease ofgrowth. No, you don't have to

(38:31):
spray for anything, and uh,you don't really have to worry about furtilizing
it. But if it does getdry, it does require some exs of
water in the winter. So anyway, it's going to be in the limelight
here pretty soon with the onset ofthe fall. Color. So that's that's

(38:52):
the burning bush. You might fertilizeit, say in the spring, just
to help it out a little bitgood, a little jump start, but
really it doesn't require that much.It is also the birds kind of like
the seeds in the winter, soyou have company in your front yard.
Yeah, and then then you gotlittle bernie bushes coming up. Well,
how do you like that? Well, Burton bush far so those could be

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transplanted and planet as weather on theproperty. There you go. Well,
color, Hi, good morning andwelcome. You're on the Green Country Gardener
Program. Your question for Larry,Yes, can I still fertilize my bermuda?
My tree? Ser My long servicewants to do it one more time

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in its middle of September. Yeah, you want to, you want to
do it. Let's emphasis on nitrogenat this point, okay, yeah,
like a level so maybe ten percentin nitrogen max? Oh max. Yeah,
you don't you don't want a lotof tender growth on bermudo graphs going
into the fall, fall and andultimately into the winter. Sonyeah, I

(39:59):
know that you need to develop theroots in the stems and the ten twenty
ten or something like that. Thenthose numbers you did get a number pretty
close to that probably would help emphasizeroots and stolen growth so we can tolerate
the winter better. Okay, allright, thank you, all right,
thanks for calling. And it's thateasy. You can get on too at

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one eight hundred and seven four nine. Now, if you're having an issue
with color and your permutographs at thispoint is probably due to the heat.
But secondarily, if you were todo an iron supplement, it'll help darkn
that color too good without having toput a superfluous amount of nitrogen into it.
A little bit of iron, Yeah, make sure a sidewalk nice and

(40:44):
orange too, So just make surethe leaf blowers out there to blow it
off. There is a form ofiron that doesn't stain, so it's iron
night and it does a pretty goodjob of that too. I use it
on my yard and it's even thoughit's droughty right now. I haven't watered
it all severer line. It screamsat me when it will get the mail.

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It's color when it when it does, when you guys, let it
rain, it does green up realnice. Oh good, we'll soon we
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Green Country Gardener Program. It's eightfifty three. Phone lines are open at
one eight hundred seven four nine fivenine three six. And what do we
have here? Larry also in vogueright now or not in vogue? But
what people are interested in doing stufffor the fall fall planting because it is
going free. What's the day themiddle of September? Yeah, yeah,

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and about forty five days we'll probablyhave our first frosts. Typically around kind
of around Halloween or something we havefirst frosts. So we got six six
weeks, Yeah, of time left. So you really want to get the
get your panzies out pretty soon too, sure, and you really want to
do that when the nighttime temperature getsdown at least in the fifties, So
give it a week or two.Yeah, look at the low temperatures coming
up, it's gotta be right aboutsixty sixty two for a while. Yeah,

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So I wouldn't I wouldn't go toofar this week maybe to plant the
panzeies. Perhaps next week after thisfront comes through with the with the rain
coming on, perhaps it'll be coolerat night for them to do well.
And and so the panzies and theflowering kale. We have a great selection
of flowering kale right now. Andwhat is that, you know? Is

(44:51):
that what you put on a salad? It's valid? Yeah, I saw
that on a Star Trek adventure onetime. Raker was eating kales from a
foreign planet. Okay, I'll comeon, yeuck, you actually ate it?
Kind of bitter it is. Thefacial expression was funny though, something
they just can't hide with anyway.So the panties in the flyer recail you

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can flat just about now. Really. They do like a very easy to
work soil too, So it comesback down to get them that chiller out
and give them round all the soilall ground up and ready to go for
it. Could add some compost toit and it'll help it a whole lot.
Some pete moss will help too.Just so the soil has you can

(45:36):
dig into it and get the plantsin easily. If you have to get
out the sledgehimmer and whatnot, youknow you're not ready for him because the
roots on them are very very fine. On the panties when you when you
take them out of the pot.A lot of times it just looks like
kind of like felt. The rootsare so fine on it, so it
really needs a good loose soil soanyway all comes down the ground prep So

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also perennials are good to put inthe landscape, but they come back every
year. There's something that are realhardy too. I like the echinoitiates the
seams and the hens and chicks andthings like that. They do very well.
And our variable climate here, Dianthusdoes really quite well too. And
Dianthus scratching up Polatanus is our witha name is or tiny rubies is our

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Dianthus of the week, if youwill kind of a double flowering when all
the dianthers do very well in thecool weather, you'll have some flowers sprinkling
on in the winter, and thenin the spring they put in a really
big shoe, yeah, and thenthen after that when he gets hot,
they just kind of pump out afew flowers here and there. But really
I've seen some good response despite theheat this year, and the dians plants

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too, some good flower in hereand there. And with the onset of
the shorter days and the Sun movingto a different latitude or Earth are rotating
in relation to the Sun. TheSun doesn't the Sun doesn't move. Sun
doesn't move. But anyway it they'restarting to pop out and bloom and show
some some interests right now. Soanyway, so diantis is a good perennial

(47:15):
to have in the lantscape too,because it does come back real well.
So there's a lot going on.Hummingbirds are getting ready to migrate, so
you want to have some plants forthem. Your lantn isn't what locked that
they really like too, so keepthat in mind. Also, and we
keep some hommy group feters at thehouse and they like that too. It's

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kind of a jump food for you. You gotta wash those every now and
there so they don't get all sickygummy, right hummingbird feters. Yeah,
yeah, get a good one thatway, that doesn't happen. Good.
So I haven't had my flock withexcited to stick it and dish walked every
now and then. Yeah. Wellyeah, when you want humming group featers,
how you want three of them?You need to get six, yeah,

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and keep them washed. And Imade the mistake of put in the
reservoir and the dishwasher and it melted. No, no, that's part so
I had to get new ones.But anyway, they probably carbonate. It
was too hot for it, justa little distorted a little bit, or
it could have been the heat outside. I don't know, but it's all
bent up, yikes, and itweren't holding water anymore. So I had

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to get new ones. So anyway, so don't forget about those. Also,
the monarchs are migrating, so Ikeep on eye on that, and
that's gonna be pretty it is,really And actually I've known no of some
trees in town where they kind oflike to hang out, so you have
a monarch butterfly party, all right. There's one house, of course,

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sort of close to Bison Road andAdams House in the corner there, and
there's a big old oak tree inthe front yard and I've been out there
numerous occasions and this time of year. Last year out there, monarch just
covered it. Wow. Oh Idecided to cook took some pictures of it,
and it was really really very nice. But that was just cool as
heck. It's very cool. Soanyway, so they're they're migrating right now,

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so keep an eye on them,and you have to make sure you're
your flowers are ready for them,and whether it be month half or monarchs.
And they're still having little babies asthey go along, so watch earlier
to watch out for the little greencolored the green eggs, and then the

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worms the caterpillar stage. Way,how fuzzy were the willie worms? Did
you notice that they're not fuzzy atall? Okay, so we're gonna have
a snow up to up to yourknees. Well, I would be a
good thing for our lakes. Oh, I know, we need it real
bad. Yeah. Yeah, theylifted the water bands and all that,

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so but we still have to bediligent about all water use that you just
don't want to run out, youdon't. So anyway, anyway, come
by the nursery. Check out thedemoms, the kale and the panzees that
we got right now for fall fallsin the air. We've got the fertilizers
and the trees two for some fallcolor. It's a kind of a big

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time of year for color and forconsidering in your landscape and all that.
And I'm just busier on the marchhare and landscaping right now anyway, Tom
Gully, we'll see you next week. Keep your shelvel sharp, all right,
Take care, folks. Larry,thank you once again for an excellent
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