GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER 9-9-23

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, and welcome to theGreen Country Gardener Program. The Green Country
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First Bank. Green Country Gardener onAM fourteen hundred FM nineteen three point three
to ninety five point one is onthe year bang. Good morning, good

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morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, Welcome to the Green Country
Gardner Program. I am Tom,I just answered the phones around here.
Are our guest, our guru,our man who knows a lot of things
about a lot of things. LarryGlass is our Green Country Gardener. Hey
doing, Larry? I think it'sgonna take me three months to cool down.
You've been out in this this blastedheat for gosh good six weeks straight

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here and now we got we gottemperatures coming up in the seventies here.
Where What are you going to dowith yourself? I don't know. When
the heat index hits about four thousanddegrees. Usually we'll quit the end of
the day. But a portal hathere, it just holds itself up.
All the dried up sweat and mudon it. Well, I can't read
the letters on it. You're luckyit hadn't disintegrated to the bar. I

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think I'm gonna take me in Alaskacruise. I think that's telling bad.
We're in a bit of a yeah, but a bit of a transition time
right now, okay, from theblistering heat of the summer to the cooler
weather. And I guess some peoplehave tried out their irrigation systems. And

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I spent the better part of theday yesterday running around town. What were
you doing getting sprinter systems up andrunning again? I haven't used it all
year. It's it's a timer issuesprimarily. But once they get that solved
in, it's okay. So whatI'm just I guess some overuse it,
just quipped so I told him whatto get. They ordered it, and

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I got it all done up forhim. That's great. Now used their
chef phone to run their their justlike you do. It's so nice it
is anyway, And another one outin Osage County it just blew out just
the timer just it's been in theresince the day code was twenty sixteen.

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Okay, that's so a little bitof time. Yeah, thirteen years.
Yeah. And I asked him,was electricity strange out here? Just?
Oh yeah, it's just it ismore than strange strange. So it's got
a generator. Talk about that evenYeah, so whoops. Anyway, blew
out the secondary switchboard on it,just like it was literally smoking up.

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I bet it was. It's atimer with these modules. And I pulled
out one of the modules to justto check on it. Check the circuit
board. It's fine. And andwhat happened to the switch board underneath there
where it takes to the information fromthe timer and switches it and up scales
it to twenty seven volts? Sodo you like your timer's deep pride or

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extra Christmas? Of course, hesaid, I'm goody, goody goodie,
and get a new one. Ohmy gosh. Anyway, back in the
garden, and actually we can probablynot worry so much about it with the
cool weather the rain, I mean, with the with the rain coming and
the cooler temperatures and all that.Bermuda graphs is pretty a few I haven't

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watered my lawn in three years,I believe that. And it comes back
after the rain that you guys weresupposed to let come down this week.
Well, Sunday night, it'll beback back up and running just fine Sunday
night Monday morning. Yeah, butgreen is green can be so anyway,

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there's some other things I'd rather dowith my water than water permuter grass.
Yeah. So fall is in theair, the heat is off, so
it's time to get to work.There you go right now. Our fall
moms will be here shortly. Don'tget slickered into buying just s anthemums right
now, don't know, because they'regonna usually when they say they're forced to

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bloom this early in the year,and when the time comes for them really
to be a bloom, all allthe flowers will be gone. So you
don't want to really try to makethem bloom too early. Oh, you
can get a few. I'm justfor declaration here and there, but kick
him out when the n put inthe gardens were over with. Anyway,
they're not cars. Athemums are avery tolerant platus wars and the weather is

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concerned. And if you have keptyour mums cut back throughout the summer or
water door through even if they're alive, they should start blosing. Your prisoners
should be able to see some littletiny blooms forming them. Yeah. So
anyway, panzies, we've got twentytwenty two thousand flats of pansies. That's

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a lot, yeah, this year. So we're exporting a lot of them
too. We'll have a whole bunchof really nice pantees coming on too,
going right here in your own backyard, so right now. Also, if
you're annuals looking at a poor someonecould be cut back. I've got some
the going is at my house.You need to be going. It looks

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like they got a attack from somealien or oh zap, you know.
But they can be cut back onthe the sun Collier's also it's really quite
tall. It's been a it's beena winner this year, the sun Collius.
And oh I forgot to turn onmy water front bedge today. I
went and got the mail last night. Everything he was just anyway, and

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your phone's in the truck, yeah, the truck. That's okay, all
right, poor, leave all fortyfive minutes. You'll be fine earlier.
But anyway, that the sun.Colius has done very well and it's one
of the annuals that seems to beable to survive a wide variety of the
weather conditions. And we've planned somein the landscape and they've done really quite

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well so and they can be cutback right now. They have a little
bit of false show if you want, so if they're a little bit tall,
have some in pots. Ever,got leave just about three and a
half. Yeah, pretty good,pretty good size about speaking tall. Cutting
back last weekend. So anyway,so it's just kind of a transition time
like okay, so also a greattime to plant trees. We have some

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new inventory and really nice slicking stuff. I was looking at it yesterday and
we get stuffed this locally grown niceit's just within you know, one hundred
miles down in Tulsa. There's severalfarms down there and that's where we like
to grow to get our stuff from. So that's pretty cool. So they're
acclimated and some of the maple treeslook a little a little tattered, if

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you will. They had some winddown there, as you know, just
a gentle breeze. So the leaveit's like a little a little bit forward,
but when they turn color, they'llbe all brilliant color. So so
a little too early for big baldonbrood trees. I don't like to move
them when it's hot baldon brock trees. I like to move maybe a month

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from now. But if you reallyreally want one, we can get one
for you. We can do it. Boy, better wait till October.
Yeah, it's just a little earlyfor that. Yeah, uh so.
And he also on the tree.So I back the trees. It's time
to do some fertilization on them.Also around not on. Yeah, you

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want to encourage the riots to stretchout. Also, A good rule of
thumb when watering something is uh andthe water doesn't go very fast into the
soil is to run a slow waterfor a long period of time rather than
a fast water in a short periodof time. My neighbor across the street
was on vacation. I guess hemigrated to a cooler climate for a while.

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They went down to the Southern Hemisphere, and it wanted me to water
his tree. So I got fivegallon bucket drive the eight of an inch
hole in and put a rock init and then pour some ut some water
in it. And it slowly goesdown into the ground solutely but surely surely
goes something ground. And that's oneone way to water it. Another way,

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if you do use the hose,make sure you do it in the
morning. Primarily, reason is thewater gets hot in the hose, so
and just let it trickle. Justleave it there and just let it trickle
for a while. But don't forget. Don't forget. But that's the reasoning
behind using a five yallards like overwith a small hole in it. It

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doesn't forget, it just runs out. It does what it does exactly,
and you can several times. Ihad to refill it twice because it was
really really dry, especially in myneck of the woods when we have just
a little bit of dust on topof the rock. The five raptic people

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were in there surveying the land andthey have fun, don't though. They
couldn't get the flags in the groundbending the little metal there. And I
said, but normally the guy justthrows it. It sticks everywhere in the
neighborhood. The whole neighborhood has doneexcept for my street corner. Well,
you know, keeps bound. It'soff like bullets from Superman's chest. You
know, I'd like to see whatthey do there. They said, there's

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sun parts in town where they justsimply couldn't get through. So they just
throw their hands and we'll get backwith the hair. And I said,
well, y'all can just put awireless in ten of somewhere and whatever he's
got to get back come back witha bigger hammer. I don't know how
many driveway, I said, butyou're probably why I'm not replacing line.
I said, these fence posts overhere, I had to use the jackhamer

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to get him in the ground.I had to rent a jackhammer, oh
my, to dig a hole bigenough to put a fence post in.
You know, it's shot a solid, solid rock still is. But the
thing is, when it rains,it's kind of a low spot in the
yard. It's gone. As it'sraining, it'll have water on the surface,
but a few minutes later it's goneright. Only on the way down

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to Marvel Cave Park. Anyway backto the yard, it's time to you
also install fescu seed, okay foryour grass. There you go grass,
right. You want to try toget the moisture levels up pretty good.
In a soil party, they don't. Don't put fescue on dry ground.
It doesn't work. After the birdsget done with their share, the wind

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will blow it away a bag ofgrass. Man. Yeah, so it's
kind of dry right now, soyou might want to wait till end of
the week or some time after we'vehad some rain ly scratch the soil or
do a shallow a shallow till onit so the seed doesn't just blow away.
So you want to integrate it intothe soil pretty good. So I've

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seen that so many times. Andthe river bank is pretty and green feest
grass. Wow, that's a greenlittle river bank there. Have it there?
Well, that's Morty's yard. Andtake a take a shovel and see
if you can dig out a chumpof dirt and see if you can break
it up the begin the roots aren'tgoing to go into that, so you

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might want to just just hold offon it. If you haven't irrigated,
you might just want to hold offa little bit on planting fescue. Seed
material acquisition would be a probably agood thing because it's not as common as
in the past, so that's somedifficulty with it, and the cost is
going up a little bit too.So in order to control the high costs

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the attention, but yeah, thesaw that she's getting her song as only
as you spend And welcome back tothe Green Country Gartner programming. And he's
eight twenty three, And boy,I gotta tell you, it's a beautiful
day today to get out and about. I just don't know what where we're
gonna do out there. It's kindof that tweener period. I really I
went off the back door today,let the dog out and kind of check

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on things from WHOA what happened?It's a nice and cool it hit this,
uh like you know, fifty sixdegree. Yeah, that's a walking
on a hot fry pan. Yeah. Hey, your fist you see probably
about a four inch chilling. It'llbe good. Yeah, you need that.
You really want those roots to getdown in the soil, what to
be established, so and just scatteringon top of the ground, just something

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if you're really serious about it.Just scattering on the ground, it's not
enough unless your soil is really reallyloose. Good luck here. You might
add a little compost maybe up inindependence, it's what you really want on
on the on the good fescue lawnis good deep roots, and because of

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our clay content, a lot oftimes the roots system doesn't go down that
deep and the grass is shallow rootedcan't tolerate these periods of brightness. Not
to say it won't come back whenit cools down. The fescue grass,
we'll look, if we get somegood steady occasional rain there and cooler weather
and some it will really come backand look nice. But if the soil

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is just real heavy, it's justit'll just be difficult for because the roots
just can't simply can't go deep,and it's not as as heat tolerant as
sapermeter grass and so always your forthat matter. So anyway, so it's
a little bit of work involved alsoin picking your grass seed. Look at
the trees you have right now,while the leaves are still on there if

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they're leaves left anyway, Look lookdown, look at the at the amount
of light getting on the ground rightthere too. I know Bermeo grass,
it really doesn't like dappled light toowell. But fesca grass will tolerate dappled
light. Vesta grass is shade tolerant, and the word is tolerant, not
requiring. Yeah, so it willgrow in the sun with some occasional buttering

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occasion with too fine but it butit will tolerate, you know, some
shade to the point. And themore shade you that it's uh that it
encounters, the more the higher thegrass should be too. You really can't
cut it too low in the shadebeneath that surface area for two things,
transporation and photosynthesis for it to grow, so they plants to they're solar powered

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there. Yeah, so you gottayou can't give it a skin job.
You gotta. You gotta let thatthing kind of grow out a little bit.
It don't put your African violence inthe closet, and so it won't
work that way. I don't needthat that light in order for them to
live in a heavy shade situation likethat. It really won't work. So
you might have an arbors come in, maybe thin out the tree canopy a

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little bit, just so some Ican get down there, and once that
crateria is met, then you shouldbe able to grow some some fescue grass.
We did that worked out is fine, yeah, Or you can plant
some fescu seed. It'll do fine. I'll w along them in the summer
hits it will you get five topthoria beared around together and started getting in

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the fall. Maybe this year,maybe next. Maybe it won't get hot
this year, right, yeah,welcome to Oklahoma. Anyway, that's the
nutra. You have some new shrubsin some dwarf yop on holies and mandedas
and and and all that too somemonths of the year shortly a little earlier
for blooms. We do have somefescue seed right now. So anyway,

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just about any fine bladed fescue willdo you know, give the ground and
or course I don't know the ky thirty ones. Okay, but it's
a clump forming. Some of thenew fescues or rice I made us.
In other words, they don't justclump, they send out kind of like
permitter grass. Okay, so theyspread out a little bit of that.
Yeah, they form a clump forming, so Trump checked that out too.

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Also, a good time to dosome planning for your landscape. I know
I've got some plans out. I'vebeen out there suffering, suffering, slaving
away in the heat. Well thattoo, And I haven't had a chance
to get back to him pretty quick. But anyway, so and I got
to meet with somebody today after theshow about some landscaping. So gave you

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some ideas of what to do.We're kind of there's a weather it's kind
of backed up our crew quite abit, and uh so we're a little
behind schedules. Can understand, Yeah, be working outside all day. Things
out there like extreme heat, volatility, things like that, deploy retention to
geez. So it's a good timeto plan and fall and winter and early

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spring or a good time to doyour installations on your landscape. And if
you have a guide to plan youcan follow. It's not that hard to
do. So we can give yousome tips on what to do. And
a lot of people have really gottento shovel and dug in on it and
they've done pretty well with it.So there you go, There you go.

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So don't be afraid to do ityourself. Just don't try to take
the whole thing at once. Yeah, take take take it easy. A
lot of stages in landscaping. Numberone is inventory. What is there on
the site? It's worth anything?Yeah? And can you keep it?
Can it be cut back and tobe retained? Can it be trans transplanted

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yet? Yeah? Can you canyou keep those things? Yeah? So
sometimes there's actually a good bay therewhere some plants can be retained, and
then some of the plants look alittle nicer over there, saying, and
some of them, well, I'lllet it get out of hand, it's
way too tall. Well, dependingon the species, they can be cut
back rather sternly and you just findand thrive. Yes, but you have
to make sure you know what youdo it at A wind is the most

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important thing. Yeah, A realheavy cut back on shrub shouldn't happen until
February because it's a Valentine's Day.Mean, yeah, but if you do
it right now, they really won'tbe tempered well enough for the winter.
No, and you can lose thingslike backwoods and all that. The tender
growth chis gets killed back and sometimesyou can go go further into the plant,

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and the same with dwarf fie uponhollies and whatnot. You just don't
want to trend in back right now, very sternly. So deciduous plants are
okay, crape myrtles and whatnot.They can be cut back a little bit
right now. They're not going togo hardly anymore so so anyway, So
so you have and then you havea hopefully a landscape plan or some ideas

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what you might want the landscape tolook like. One thing you can do
if you want me to do aplan is a site. An example is
something you see you really like,an address, I probably know about it
already anyway, dard in the yardin the area. I've done that so
many Oh I know that house.Yeah they've got this and this and this
and this all up the front.Okay, cool, so brick ranch with

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daffodils. So if you see anexample, you can cite an example and
then something that could be emulated somewhat, depending on your drainage and your exposure
and your social high and your timeframe you have to maintain it, so
on, so on. All thosethings have to be factored, and then
you get to the budget too.Got a crunch the numbers, yea.

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And sometimes we can do the groundprep and get ready. Then you can
put the plants in yourself. Thatpeople have done that all the cart like
that, and the in the expenseit's the same except you know, paying
the labor costs for putting in plants. But it does have less of a
warranty though one you do it yourself. So yeah, I'm at that stage

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in my life for I'm letting thepro do it. Okay. You know
ten years ago might have been different, layer, I'm telling you nowadays a
little extra point. Like a lotof things, you need to start with
a goal. Yes, what doyou want this to look like? That's
what the plan is for ye createyour goal. Okay, all right,

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I think we got a caller here. Let's go ahead and try it right
here and good morning. Welcome tothe Green Country gardener. Good morning,
good morning. What's the best getrid of my moles in my backyard?
Moles? See a dermatologist? Ohno, no, not that one.
There's a Moles do not like castoroil. They're absolutely absolutely repelled by it.

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And it would be a good goodplace to start. Where do you
get cash? Roil. We haveit in a granular farm at the nursery.
At the nursery, other people haveit too. You can put it
in your spreader and spread around andwater it in and when they go through
it irritates her little nose. Andat the nursery we have that. We
also have a little poison worms youcan put in there. And what you

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do is you have to define theirtheir main tunnel on that. In other
words, you go ahead and packthem all down and whatever tunnel comes up,
it's their main tunnel. And thenyou drill in or dig into that
and put the poison worms in that. If you put it in a lateral
chances are they won't get it.So that and and and then there are
physical traps too you can use.Also. Thanks for the tips. Okay,

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so let it. Let them takethe little little worm and kind of
you know, let the grass growlike like a caddyshack, and it's get
a fire hose in there and thewater coming up over the y looking it's
freakley system started. One is amore removent. You got to irrigation says,
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Welcome back to the Green Country GardenerProgram. It is a eight thirty
five sixty two degree. Is awho a warming trendler. And yeah,
our phone lines were open at oneeight hundred and seven, four nine,

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five, nine three six. Whatwe got next year on the old Jim
Oh, let's say tree the week, Let's talk about the saw. Let's
do that. Quercus acutissima. Easyfor you to say. It is a
an unusual leaf shape for a notree. It's right along and narrow and
has little tiny points on it,and the venation is parallel on the leaf,

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and the leaf is somewhat wavy.Okay, appearance. It grows a
very sturdy tree, actually quite heartyand raised sturdy, and he grows a
good straight trunk on it, andit's it's it's a pretty good tree.
It wouldn't probably wouldn't be in ourfirst chalice, no, but wouldn't be
your last. It wouldn't be thelast, no, But but it does

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pretty well here. It it seemsto be taking the drop very well too.
There were some plants along along Madisonover there, just south of No
Water Road, in front of theneighborhood over there south few. I think
it is okay all along there,and they're doing really very well. A
couple of them got frozen out thoughlast year before last or last year,
which I found that unusual. Andit was collisident with a with a shallow

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limes from the soil right there,so I played the big bang a big
pack from that too. It's probablytoo dry there in the wintertime for it,
and it just didn't didn't make itso it wasn't the cold, it
was the dry. Yeah, alot of a lot of plants drive dive
out in that. Big trees died, and a dry cold spell we had
too. So if it's going toget cold on this and other trees,
you might want to consider watering them, but before otherwise it's hard to get

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the water through the hose when it'sfrozen. But keep an eye on the
weather, like it's a little weathercharts. We got here it was like
negative ten. You might want towater your stuff. There's been dry You
know something you and I have livedin Chicago. Yes, we we we
know negative ten without the windshield.Yeah, when we got negative can a

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couple of years ago without the windshieldhere, I'm like, what is going
on here? Yeah? I know. I can remember as a kid we
took the bus to school and itwas a way across the field and I
had all these houses lined up,and you can tell which ones the clothes
drivers are going go warm our handson the on the steam coming out of
a clothes dricker waiting for the bus. Yeah. Yeah, like my dad

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said, I walked ten miles everyday and it's not to school. Yeah,
right, show me a picture.Yeah, I walked up, you
know, five hundred feet in thecold. It was long enough, just
school bus, you know, longenough. See over there, it's it's
snowed on Mother's Day one year thatI believe we're giving them a saddle left
to go to church and there's snoweverywhere. What's going on? So anyway,

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Yeah, it does because it doesgrow and has grown in some limes
foil around here. Sure, itdoes seem to be able to tolerate the
pH differences more so than say ashumart oak, okay, or a pinoak.
Especially pinocs just simply will not toleratetoo high a pH. They get
the colorosis real bad and they justkind of get weak and they sort of

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fall apart, start following under vehiclesand what they do. So in some
parts of the town that if youwant to create the salt tooth might might
be a good, pretty good choice, okay. On a negative aspect of
it is the leaves persists in thewinter. They don't fall off, okay,
And that could be a good thing. That could be a bad thing,

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since they're kind of brown and hangingin the breeze and you know,
it's kind of ugly. Yeah,got a little bit of the ugly in
the wintertime. If you really wanta tough trade that'll grow anywhere, even
on top of asphalt, Chinese helmwould be a good one. Yeah,
they're they're actually, there's some goodones growing downtown in that soil if you

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will, between the sidewalks. Dude, pretty well. So anyway, there
are other other plants, but Ijust thought i'd mentioned this one that if
you're exploring different possibilities, might bea one to explore for its sturdiness.
It's a deep root system and saycompatibility with things. But at least you

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won't have to break up the leavesall at once or pick it up off
your roof. It's kind of aninteresting tree too. So anyway, and
our shop of the week is uhcompact Nandina Impact. Now, people say,
I don't want these Nandina's up allover my guard. How big do

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they get? Well, the compactNandina had some tendency not to spread.
You get some of the old fashionednandinas and uh, you know they they
send out runners, sure, andthe plants come up all over under the
driveway and the next block over andso on, and they sort of form

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a bramble if you will, gotone of those Bible fans where it's just
a big bramble of Nandina. Butthe compacts don't do that. The obsessions
don't do that, and the dwarfNadinas don't do that. Okay, So
get that picture out of your mindwhen coming pick up a Nandina. It's
gone because it's ain't gonna do that. Ain't gonna happen. And what I

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like about the Nandina's their nursery means, ye know, savior. I guess
there is no insect problems, butno disease problems, and evergreen for the
sun part unless it gets really reallycold like this last when you get a
little brownish this last one, andthey defoliated, but they all pop back

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so nicely. Yeah. So thecompact Nandina and the obsession Endiana and all
that, and they don't these thedies don't spread, They don't have any
bugs or anything like that. Sothey're pretty good plants. And uh.
One thing about about the compact oneis it happens to have some berries associated
with it too. They do,and whereas the obsessions don't. Their their

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primary attribute are their leaf color onit, and the moon bays and the
gulf streams, they're a good compactone. Also, I see a little
bit of spread on the on thegulf streams, but the moon based and
a hold that pretty well. ButI think the color of the obsession is
superior to the to the other.Nandina's good. And you can't beat the

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winter color of a dwarf Nandiana either. If you get some afternoon sun on
it turned a bright red color.Oh yeah, nyah, we saw a
lot of in the wintertime. Ibet you do. When the colors are
just like like those buttons over there, that's red red, and the leaves
stay throughout the winter unless it getsreally really cold. Then the sort of

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collapse and fall apart. They theyhave a tolerance level everything else. And
I like to associate those with saybox woods or dwarf Are you up on
hollies? Just so we have somewinter interest, not necessarily the entire composition,
but vignette of that if you will, in the landscape. So you
do have some interest in the winter. But when you're doing designed, don't

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do everything in pernicles. You needsomething in the backdrop. Yet, what
we mentioned in this design thing thereyou think the fourth dimension, fourth fourth
dimension. Stop stop anyway, Yeah, I notice, tell me by that
that's another plant that is a goodworkhorse in the landscape. And here in

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our weather and in our environment overhere, we have just so many things
affecting these plants, field or rapidtemperature changes, moisture variations and you know,
hot sun and insect attacks and someone. If you want to pick out
something that has the least amount ofthat issue with it, some of these

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other plants, they put them inthe ground and they just they're attacked by
spider mics or something like that.And so try to keep it as easy
as possible. And these plants,the door, the nandinas, and the
door nandina is in the box withinthe door. Field plants, they're good
background plants. There's stability plants,anchoring plants, foundation plants, if you
will. And then in front ofthat you plant other things that set it

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off. Yeah, annuals and perennialsor whatever, and maybe some variegated lario
or something like that to give itsome some more interest. Very good.
It's all nice optics. I likethat. So it's all it's all in
the in the composition and height variations, and the tolerance of your schedule I
told you, or the just science. There's art going on here. Your

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schedule of how you can maintain thisstuff. What do you want to maintain?
Yeah, and so on. Allthese factors have to plan today.
Very good. That's why we takethe plan and take it to Larry.
He makes that thing work. Allright, We're gonna take a quick break.
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board at one eight hundred and sevenfour nine five nine three six Larry.
Another shot we talk. I'd liketo use in the landscape for a bit
of seasonal color. Is the burningbush a burning bush uanam atheltum. It's
a member of the Uantamous families.Pretty tough plant, but it doesn't really
tolerate drop very well, so youhave to kind of monitor your planting where
it goes and all that. Weplanted a sum in a project. The

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summer and the heat kind of gotto the all the leaves so long.
Now they're starting to put on newones. Oh good, So you're saying
they're resilient. But watching it,I remember the Juanimous family, which is
tough, but the burning bush Juanimouselata is a excellent fall color, no
bugs or notthing like that. It'sit's easy to grow plant. You can

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cut it back. I have someof my house. Actually they have to
keep about this high, knee highor hip high. I guess you will
want it. It's I got onethat's eight feet high, and some others
that are, you know, sixfoot or hedger kind of things too.
So examples of how you can manageyour your burning bush. And if you

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get tired of it being told,just cut it back, it'll take it,
it'll come back. Yeah, it'sremember that the want of a family.
You can't kill them and good thing. One thing I like about him
is a very few, if anyinsects at all. No bugs, but
it does have a little bit ofdropt intolerance, and it it doesn't like
the heat too well. Oh soother than that, it's a really nice

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plant. Go to the bullet chainreal quick. Hi, good morning,
and we'll welcome to the Green CountryGardener program. Your question to comment for
Larry, Good morning? On mycannons. Do I need to dig up
the ball? You kind of doa one on one kind of thing with
that. I dig up at myhouse. I dig up some of them
and I keep some of them inthe ground, okay. And also also

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when I do my my scalp intothe yard with the grass and all that,
and and the leaves, I chopchop them up with the old snapper,
throw that on top of the boldbed where they are and they survive
very well with a lot of mulchon the surface. There you go,
a little ags or something something there. Appreciate it. Thank you for your
call. But kennibals, yeah,semihardy huh. But like I said,

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to take half of them up.And typically the ones that are in the
ground when I grow the ones thatare over go figure around here. And
the elephant I have elephant ears inmy house that are eight feet tall.
Oh my goodness. That bathwater doespretty good. It does anyway. And

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they've been in the ground too severalyears and so. And one of my
neighbors has one on the south sideof our house. Been in it since
I fifteen years. It's been thereand it comes back up every year.
That's fine. So it kind ofdepends on the situation too, sure,
And if it's way out in theopen, for instance, it's going to

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be subjected to a lot of damagefrom the environment in the wintertime. But
if it's up against the west facingfence or if west or south facade of
the house, it'll it'll have abetter chance of surviving. Okay. And
then you take all those leaves thatyou can shop up stead of throwing them

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away, you can put them onthe ground and it'll keep it warmer.
So mulch very good. Okay.We were talking about burning bush. Burning
bush, yes, it really.It does have some fruit on it.
The birds really like the fruit onit, and as a result, you'll
have burning bush everywhere. It happens. But it's I know, but they

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could be planted, making a hedgerout of it, or just throwing lights
and they pull up easily. Sogoing for you. It's it's primary thing.
It's the extreme fault color. Okay, that's one reason why people really
like it. And it's just distinguishedsome other unanimous species by the wings that

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are on the on the trunk.Wings that in other words, there are
protrusions of the of the bark tocome out, and the term is is
wings. They're kind of quirky intexture and all that. So back at
school we called them the winged Youwant of us, the winged you're want
of us, so instead of aburning bush, you would fail your design

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if you called it burning bush,so we had to be winged. You
want us, there are the genericform of it. We'll get up to
fifteen feet tall. So this wassome trimming will make actually kind of an
arborist. It's a small arborists andspecimen plant in the landscape. And then
the compact ones they maybe maybe getsix feet and then ruby had gets only

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five feet tall. So there's severalof them right now. A lot of
these, most of them come outor dwarf varieties and they don't really get
that tall. But in the wintertime, just take the hedge clippers and I
do that to mind? How hello, can you go as long as you
want? All right? Just checkingasking for a friend. Keep in mind

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they're going to grow about a footand a half to two feet, so
you want to trim it a footand a half or two feet below the
point where you want in the reachand guy in the next summer turned them
back in the in the winter withyou. When you've got that in mind,
you got something to shoot for.Yes, after you get down through
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seized the gun from Roosevelt, tookquick aim and killed the buffalo. Roosevelt
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throughout dinner, when finally mister Phillips, roaring with laughter, admitted they had
loaded the gun with two blanks.That evening, mister Phillips had to leave
the ranch for a meeting in Chicago, but Roosevelt remained behind to try again,
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one eight hundred seven four nine fivedays, three to six. Where are
we here now, hey, Kelly, we were talking about the Brennie bush.
Oh yeah, stuff like that,and fescue seed whatnot, stuff like
that. The burning bush moses nothu. Well yeah it couldn't. It

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could have gotten its name from that, but it it burning bushes because of
its brilliant fall color. It's it'sa truly a maintenance shrub, free shrub.
So big, talk a little bitabout pansies. It's too early to
think about plant and panties. SoI guess what we can just talk about
how to get the soil ready forthe panzee. Let's do that. Get
out work the dirt. Well.First of all, I got a sharp

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in your shovel. That good ideato do that always good, yeah,
but anyway, and it gets soilreally worked up. The root system of
the panze is very fibrous and veryit's difficult to exploit the area, so
lots of organic material would help alot too. Some people put a lot
of blood meal in there and itgives you some essential nitrogen, some iron,

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and the rabbits don't like it toomuch. Too bad for the rabbits
on the deer and the bunnies theyjust love pansies. But if you work
the dirt properly, they don't likethe blood meal though, so so that
something you had to be very carefulhow much you put in. Also,
if it's the norm outside you putit in, the panzies will turn into

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right scriss beats. Oh yeah,so they burned it again, it's when
and how yeah, So you wantto do it when it's cool, and
if you integrate it into the soilinstead, it just don't just don't pour
the blood meal on the ground.It'll it'll have less of a negative effect
on the plants. So just don'tlet it get too dry and don't let
it clump up. And do thisit's fine. You can also just use
a regular you know, annual perennialtype for lights or twenty ten or something

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like that, and it'll help too. They like the phosphorus, it helps
too, So just the blood mealis a good source of readily available nitrogen
and it helps them out a wholelot. So anyway, so viola is
also, and I like the littletiny ones the viola is. They have

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lots of little tiny flowers on them. Huh yeah, yeah, okay,
just fiddling around, Leary, don'tworry about me. It also helps when
you plant them to keep them moisturelevel as constant as possible. And a
good layer of mulch helps a wholelot. So I sort of like to

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get the soil ready, to getthe mulch down and then just put it
inside. It's a soil, it'sreally loose. You can plant a lot
of pansies in a hurry. Whenwe do pansies or something trammercially or in
the residential landscape, we get inthere and prep a soil, turn it
over, put in the composts intothe blood metal and stuff level it out,

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putting the mulch too, and thenyou just take your fingers and plug
it in. Plug it in rightthere. The mulch is already there and
all ready to go. I dolike the milt because the plants are a
little bit floppy when they come in. They're not really sturdy yet, so
they kind of he holds it inplace. Yeah. So so anyway that's

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coming on, you need to thinkabout getting your ground ready for your pansy
plantings. And you'll get blooms onthem all all summer long, summer,
all winter long, and unless hegets down to you know, like six
or seven hundred drinks blow zero andthen then they then they kind of fade
away, but they'll come back up. They'll recover and the flowers on it.

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So get ready for that. Also, get your your yard ready for
for mums. You might want toput some mums, say by the front
door something. Put some good fogcolor. If your landscape is like mine
and everything looks like it's been hitwith a blowtorch, a little color would
be kind of nice. And thosethe pots in front, they can use

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some pansies too, Yeah, andthe pansies, but mums give them some
color. So it's kind of atime when there are a lot of things
going on and you just need tobe aware of what happened this year and
maybe add some extra molts to helpreduce the amount of watering you need to
do next year. And it's beenkind of dry like this for the last

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two years, and I'm kind ofchanges my motives, changing my motives,
operandi on my front beds about whatI plant, and nothing really has done
well. Big Any Winds awards everytime for having a nice shard. But
it times it works, some timesit doesn't. It depends on the plants

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you choose. Anyway, Tom Gollyhas been a good show this week,
and we got a lot going onwith the nursery. Is transition time from
the heat to the more reasonable weatherand looking forward to putting some stuff in
the ground and making your yard niceand pretty. And Golly, just keep
your shovels sharp. We will seeyou next week. Dignity, Compassion,

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excellence, step being home. Crematory, Bartlesville, No lot on Bostall tell
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