December 13, 2025 • 20 mins
Ron chats with Anthony Need, founder of Flawn Seed Kits, about transforming your lawn into a flowering haven. They discuss the benefits of ditching traditional grass and embracing a low-maintenance, pollinator-friendly alternative. Anthony shares how his company's unique seed mixes can help you create a beautiful and sustainable yard, complete with a bird feeder that disperses seeds for a lush, flowering lawn. They also dive into the importance of connecting with nature and the joy of watching birds and pollinators thrive in your own backyard.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight hundred excuse me, eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Now I'll make it, I hope. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, choking up
here this morning as we go into our third hour
talking about yardening. You know, we've got our next guest
coming up. We've had him on our show many times,
and I think it's a something that you might want
(00:20):
to think about. A lot of folks are thinking about
this and doing it as well. Have you considered turning in,
maybe turning part of your backyard or front yard or
some of it or all of it into a flowering
lawn which cuts down on the mowing and the maintenance
and helps the pollinators at the same time. Well, if
you're thinking about it, you want to learn more about it,
(00:42):
I've got a great website for you, and I've got
the man that knows all about it. His name is
Anthony Need of course, it's called flawn seed Kits. Their
website is flowering lawn dot com and Anthony is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning, sir, Hey, good morning, Ron, Thanks for having
me back.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So what's the weather like this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I believe it's negative five degrees maybe negative thirty or
so with the wind chill pretty pretty harsh out there.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So you've been out jogging and having a good time
this morning already.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh there's a there's actually a marathon here and no Claire,
Wisconsin today. I hope it gets canceled for the sake
of the gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I don't think i'd want to be out running
in that one. We've had Anthony on our show multiple times,
and of course this company has the flawing seed kits
in so if you're not familiar with this whole theory,
kind of walk us through Anthony, what is a what
is a flowering lawn? What is that? Why would we
want to do that? What does that involve? Right?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Absolutely, so you talked about, you know, yarding and where
you know we think about like rewilding or bringing our
yards back to nature. There's a great book Bringing Nature
Home in Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy that really
helped to think about, you know, what is the space
that we need for ourselves, for our kids to play,
(01:57):
our pets to play, and then what space is can
we maybe transition back to what they might have looked
like before we were here. We've disturbed over ninety five
and a half percent of our natural environment in this country,
and we're really losing a lot of habitat for our
pollinators as well as our other friendly animals out there.
So if we can just take some of that green
(02:19):
lawn space that is a desert, it's a blank ecosystem,
add some natural wildflowers into there that are low growing.
These are you know, you can walk on them, you
can mow them. They're not the tall prairie plants. That
does not you know, bring in all the ticks and
all those other creepy critters. This is still your yard,
just only better and you can use it. But it's
(02:40):
also beneficial for our pollinators. It provides a great nectar source,
natural habitat, and it reduces your need for maintenance, you know,
less mowing, less watering, no fertilizing, no weed control. So
it's much safer for the environments as well.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, you know you calculated that out. You talk about,
you know, reduced mowing time, fertilizing, the watering old. I know,
you know you could reduce your costs there by a
fifteen seventy hundred bucks easily each year.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, absolutely, especially if you're hiring a service you know
how expensive they'll get and how many times they come
per year, so you can kiss that one goodbye. But
you you don't need to be out there doing all
this hard work too. A lot of people are injured
every year. My mom and my wife are both in
orthopedics and they know all these injuries that happen out there.
So you know, it's not fun pushing a heavy lawn
(03:29):
more up a hill, so especially on a slope, we
have we have specific kits for slopes, you know, septic mounds,
spaces that lawn really wasn't intended to grow anyway, you know,
in a shade where you're always receiving, always doing that
hard work every spring to try to get it to girl.
And you know, it's it's better just to find a
more permanent natural solution.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, and I like you know, and again go to
flowering lawn dot com flowering lawn dot com to learn
more about it. See all the different flawns that they
have available for you. I know, the one I always
bring up, of course, is the micro clover, which I'm
seeing more and more folks working into their fat tall
escue lawns or whatever stays low helps to feed the lawn,
(04:11):
but that micro clover continuing to gain ground and popularity
more and more.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, that's like our gateway flawn seed. If you will,
I mean, it's the most like grasp lawn. You won't
be able to tell that it's in your lawn if
you're driving by it. It'll just be the darkest green
lawn all summer long. Because micro clover and white clovers
like Dutch white clover as well, are nitrogen fixers, so
(04:37):
they take the atmospheric nitrogen and they fix it into
the soil for you. So that is why we say
that there's no need for any additional fertilizing once you've
established your flawing.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And again you can find all of these different mixes
at their website of flowering lawn dot com. And you
do have a lot of these available in retail independent
garden centers around the country that folks can we'll be
able to find as well.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yep, almost four hundred stores now, So definitely check out
the store locator at the bottom of our website. You
can just go down there and click on that and
then enter your zip code and they'll they'll pop right up.
They do carry different items at different store so make
sure you call ahead first to see if you're looking
for one specific kit, but they will definitely be knowledgeable
(05:24):
and be able to help you out too. And if
we have a little chatbot in our website, you can
reach out to me directly, no AI involved.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, and if you do, if you have a question
about this, Anthony will respond right back to you and
answer your questions. Do whatever you need as far as
because I'm sure there's questions about how you go about
doing this, et cetera, et cetera. He'll have all the
answers and his website covers a lot of it as well.
Again check it out at flowering lawn dot com. Now
the question becomes can we do that this time of
(05:53):
the year? Is it better to do it in spring
or fall? And the next question is what is this
new new product that I am seeing on your new
your your website called flawn seed Feather. We're gonna take
a quick break. When we come back, we'll be with
Anthony need talking about what is this new way to
(06:14):
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Speaker 1 (08:47):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. Special
guest this morning is Anthony. Need you all know Anthony?
His company is Flawing Seed kits yep, turning your lawn
into a flowering lawn. And if you'd like to learn
more about the benefits and all the different flowering lawn
hits that they have, go to their website, uh and
you'll find you'll find out more about it at the
flowering lawn dot is it is it dot com? Yep, ye,
(09:11):
flowering lawn dot com. Okay, So I am on your
website of flowering lawn dot com last week and just
flipping through seeing what's going on, what's new, what's exciting,
and I find out that there is a new category
called flawn seed and feather. Tell me about this new
program you've got.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, we don't want to forget about our friendly backyard birds.
They are, you know, at this time of year, especially
there in desperate need of food because you know, without
open water and open you know, plants that are fruit
bearing in the in the spring, summer, and fall, it's
basically nature's pantry is empty this time of year for them,
(09:53):
so they do rely on on us to some extent
if they're sticking around through the winter, to provide them
with some some food. So you want to make sure
you're finding, you know, high quality premium mixes. So we
took out all the fillers that you normally see in
the big box stores and just provided high fat, high
protein bird seed. But then we're we're adding in our
(10:17):
flawn seed mixes to the seed, so the birds get
their feed. And then in the spring you'll be feeding
the bees and butterflies as well, and you're gonna be
adding those flowers to your your grass lawn, creating the
flawn for you. So you're saving yourself some time and
energy not having to spread it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right, So I put the bird feed in the
in the in the bird feeder, it also contains the
flower seeds, so the birds will also eat the flower
seeds and then distribute those into the lawn. They don't
eat those seeds, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, it's it's fun to it's fun to watch these birds.
I mean, it is pure enjoyment. It's a it's a
known stress reliever, mindfulness and concentration. So if you if
you don't feed the birds now and you never have.
I really highly suggest it. And you get to watch
these birds go through and they pick out the seeds
they like. And that's why it's important to have a mix.
(11:15):
You don't want to you know, some people do want
to attract just cardinals. We have a perfect mix just
for cardinals and finches. But we like to you know,
diversify and have different birds come into your feeder and
you can even have like a checklist of all the
different ones you get. I get up to thirty different
species here in my backyard every every day. Wow with
with a variety of different feeders, a variety of different mixes,
(11:36):
and then having open water for them too, whether you
have a heated bird bass or an aerated you know,
pool of water for them that doesn't freeze over. But yeah,
the birds will go through eat those high fat, high
protein seeds and then they'll flick out the flower seeds
for you, and then you fly off with them and
drop them as well. So you can move your feeder
(11:59):
around to create a different pattern or distribution throughout your
yard if you want to focus on one area or another,
but usually below a bird feeder, you're gonna have, you know,
either just an area that gets kind of kind of bearing.
If you have birds on the ground pecking and kicking
at the at the ground a lot, and this way,
(12:20):
instead of that, you have a beautiful flawn at the
bottom of your bird feeder.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Got it, So they distributed around, So you'd actually put
that bird feeder on a pole that I can move
and have them distribute that seed for me while they're
eating the bird feed and not the not the flower seeds.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, you can do this all year round.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And now do you you sell both of those so
I can buy either the premium the wild bird food
or I can buy the food and the pollinator seed together, correct,
both ways?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, absolutely, So we have two of our most popular
Belong mixes already in there, our Speedy blend, which is
really quick to bloom. So if you do that now
over the snow, the wildflower seeds, and that's if we
go back to what we were talking about before the break,
the flowing seed kits. You can spread those now over
the frozen ground and on a on a light snow.
(13:16):
You don't want to spread it on like a sheen
of ice that it would all just blow away. But
if it has a nice soft snow, or if you're
expecting another snowfall. The seeds will just get worked into
the soil through the winter, and once the soils warm
up in the spring, they'll naturally germinate and you'll get
a head start, you know, as your lawn's coming on
a dormant seed before any weed seeds they're coming in
(13:39):
from you know, down south, or annual weeds that come back.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So we we can do that. So obviously with the
with the combination of the bird feed and the flower seeds,
that would work now obviously on top of the snow
or even if there's snow, snow great, I do like
dormant seeding where the lawn is freezing and thawing the soil,
that works it right into the ground for you. So
basically that that's what's going to happen, ready to go
in the springtime for you, or if you just need
(14:04):
the seed, they've got their own blend as well. All right, now,
here's a question for you. Ready, Is it birds seed
or is it bird feed? Think about this. If you
you can't plant the birds seeds and grow birds.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You got me there, You got me there.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, I always bring that up because it's you know,
it's like you know, and I call it bird seed
as well, but you know, you can't plant that, so
it's bird you know, so we call it bird feed.
We burn bird seed. It doesn't matter. As long as
you're feeding the birds. That's what's important out there, right.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, Well, you can actually dig a little deeper. And
there are other types of bird foods besides seeds, yea
such as you know, suet is a is a great
one that's high in fat too, and you're you're reusing
a product from another industry, the you know, meat market,
So there's a lot of different potentials for doing that.
(15:02):
So birds, you know, there are certain birds that don't
eat seeds so much and they would prefer insects infective
or so feeding with meal worms as well as important,
especially in the springtime when our early arriving birds that
migrated down south come here and then they get caught
in a winter storm, you know, in that April May timeframe.
(15:24):
That's when it's important to get those insects out there
for them to feed them.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Talking with Anthony Need again. Their website is flowering lawn
dot com. One last thing for you, the discovery boxes
you have for kids, the feather finish de Luxe and
the Junior Nationalists tell me about those.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, so these are I mean, I'm always just trying
to take it back to the roots and how I
grew up. My parents took me out to a state
or national park almost every weekend as we were growing up.
We would take day trips or camping trips. And so
having that connection, whether you are able to get out
and go explore in nature or if you're able to
(16:02):
bring that nature back home to your your yard, we
want to feed on that connection and creativity. Uh. It
really just builds character. It builds uh, you know that
education of you know, science as well as just understanding
how nature works and how we are part of it.
We are wholly connected to it, relying on it and
(16:24):
relying on us. Now, so we we include different unique items, uh,
four times a year. So you can either buy it
one time purchase has a perfect gift like this time
of year for the holidays, or you can sign up
for a subscription that will just automatically ship every three months.
And they're they're organized by age as well as how
(16:46):
many you know, different items or how much bird seed
you want in there. So they will include some seed,
but then they'll also include some special items, unique curated
items to help engage in nature.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, you're having a great time, aren't you. This is
what I was born to do. I love it. I
love it too, Anthony need again. It's flawn seed kits.
And now he's got the flawn seed and feather and
of course these boxes as well. And you'll learn about
it more if you go to the Flowering Lawn dot com.
That's Flowering lawn dot com. And if you have any questions,
(17:18):
you can get directly a hold of Anthony and he
will answer all those questions for you as well. Hey man,
stay warm. I appreciate you spending time with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Today.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yep, all right, have a good one, all right, take care,
Anthony need again. It's a Flowering Lawn dot com. To
learn more about this, and you'll find the flawn seed
kits becoming more and more popular out there than a
lot of the independent, locally owned garden centers as well,
and quite an assortment. As a matter of fact, we
always have folks looking for creeping red time and sometimes
(17:51):
you can't find creeping red time or the seeds are
hard to come by. He has that in a pouch
that you and buy direct from them. If your local
garden center doesn't sell it, or tell them they have
it so they can put it in stock as well.
But the Red the Creeping Time seems to be becoming
more and more popular. Get a lot of right write ups.
You see it more in some of the information segments
(18:15):
as well. Maybe you have a hard time finding it, well,
you can find it at flawn seed Kits. That's Flowering
Lawn dot info. So there you go. Don't forget our website,
it's Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page in the
garden with Ron Wilson. Don't forget Rita's got two recipes
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(18:38):
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If you've got that shady garden. You know, sometimes we
have attention to forget about ferns. They're not that hard
to grow. Christmas fern is really cool, probably one of
the most popular because it's evergreen only you know, twenty
four to thirty inches high and wide. Those little leaves
that are on there called pennies. You look like this
(19:00):
Christmas Stocking. That's the name Christmas Fern. All right, quick break,
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Eight hundred excuse me, eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five Now I'll make it, I hope. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, choking up
here this morning as we go into our third hour
talking about yardening. You know, we've got our next guest
coming up. We've had him on our show many times,
and I think it's a something that you might want
(00:20):
to think about. A lot of folks are thinking about
this and doing it as well. Have you considered turning in,
maybe turning part of your backyard or front yard or
some of it or all of it into a flowering
lawn which cuts down on the mowing and the maintenance
and helps the pollinators at the same time. Well, if
you're thinking about it, you want to learn more about it,
(00:42):
I've got a great website for you, and I've got
the man that knows all about it. His name is
Anthony Need of course, it's called flawn seed Kits. Their
website is flowering lawn dot com and Anthony is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning, sir, Hey, good morning, Ron, Thanks for having
me back.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So what's the weather like this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I believe it's negative five degrees maybe negative thirty or
so with the wind chill pretty pretty harsh out there.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So you've been out jogging and having a good time
this morning already.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh there's a there's actually a marathon here and no Claire,
Wisconsin today. I hope it gets canceled for the sake
of the gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I don't think i'd want to be out running
in that one. We've had Anthony on our show multiple times,
and of course this company has the flawing seed kits
in so if you're not familiar with this whole theory,
kind of walk us through Anthony, what is a what
is a flowering lawn? What is that? Why would we
want to do that? What does that involve? Right?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Absolutely, so you talked about, you know, yarding and where
you know we think about like rewilding or bringing our
yards back to nature. There's a great book Bringing Nature
Home in Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy that really
helped to think about, you know, what is the space
that we need for ourselves, for our kids to play,
(01:57):
our pets to play, and then what space is can
we maybe transition back to what they might have looked
like before we were here. We've disturbed over ninety five
and a half percent of our natural environment in this country,
and we're really losing a lot of habitat for our
pollinators as well as our other friendly animals out there.
So if we can just take some of that green
(02:19):
lawn space that is a desert, it's a blank ecosystem,
add some natural wildflowers into there that are low growing.
These are you know, you can walk on them, you
can mow them. They're not the tall prairie plants. That
does not you know, bring in all the ticks and
all those other creepy critters. This is still your yard,
just only better and you can use it. But it's
(02:40):
also beneficial for our pollinators. It provides a great nectar source,
natural habitat, and it reduces your need for maintenance, you know,
less mowing, less watering, no fertilizing, no weed control. So
it's much safer for the environments as well.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, you know you calculated that out. You talk about,
you know, reduced mowing time, fertilizing, the watering old. I know,
you know you could reduce your costs there by a
fifteen seventy hundred bucks easily each year.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, absolutely, especially if you're hiring a service you know
how expensive they'll get and how many times they come
per year, so you can kiss that one goodbye. But
you you don't need to be out there doing all
this hard work too. A lot of people are injured
every year. My mom and my wife are both in
orthopedics and they know all these injuries that happen out there.
So you know, it's not fun pushing a heavy lawn
(03:29):
more up a hill, so especially on a slope, we
have we have specific kits for slopes, you know, septic mounds,
spaces that lawn really wasn't intended to grow anyway, you know,
in a shade where you're always receiving, always doing that
hard work every spring to try to get it to girl.
And you know, it's it's better just to find a
more permanent natural solution.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, and I like you know, and again go to
flowering lawn dot com flowering lawn dot com to learn
more about it. See all the different flawns that they
have available for you. I know, the one I always
bring up, of course, is the micro clover, which I'm
seeing more and more folks working into their fat tall
escue lawns or whatever stays low helps to feed the lawn,
(04:11):
but that micro clover continuing to gain ground and popularity
more and more.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, that's like our gateway flawn seed. If you will,
I mean, it's the most like grasp lawn. You won't
be able to tell that it's in your lawn if
you're driving by it. It'll just be the darkest green
lawn all summer long. Because micro clover and white clovers
like Dutch white clover as well, are nitrogen fixers, so
(04:37):
they take the atmospheric nitrogen and they fix it into
the soil for you. So that is why we say
that there's no need for any additional fertilizing once you've
established your flawing.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And again you can find all of these different mixes
at their website of flowering lawn dot com. And you
do have a lot of these available in retail independent
garden centers around the country that folks can we'll be
able to find as well.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yep, almost four hundred stores now, So definitely check out
the store locator at the bottom of our website. You
can just go down there and click on that and
then enter your zip code and they'll they'll pop right up.
They do carry different items at different store so make
sure you call ahead first to see if you're looking
for one specific kit, but they will definitely be knowledgeable
(05:24):
and be able to help you out too. And if
we have a little chatbot in our website, you can
reach out to me directly, no AI involved.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, and if you do, if you have a question
about this, Anthony will respond right back to you and
answer your questions. Do whatever you need as far as
because I'm sure there's questions about how you go about
doing this, et cetera, et cetera. He'll have all the
answers and his website covers a lot of it as well.
Again check it out at flowering lawn dot com. Now
the question becomes can we do that this time of
(05:53):
the year? Is it better to do it in spring
or fall? And the next question is what is this
new new product that I am seeing on your new
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a quick break. When we come back, we'll be with
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Speaker 1 (08:47):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. Special
guest this morning is Anthony. Need you all know Anthony?
His company is Flawing Seed kits yep, turning your lawn
into a flowering lawn. And if you'd like to learn
more about the benefits and all the different flowering lawn
hits that they have, go to their website, uh and
you'll find you'll find out more about it at the
flowering lawn dot is it is it dot com? Yep, ye,
(09:11):
flowering lawn dot com. Okay, So I am on your
website of flowering lawn dot com last week and just
flipping through seeing what's going on, what's new, what's exciting,
and I find out that there is a new category
called flawn seed and feather. Tell me about this new
program you've got.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, we don't want to forget about our friendly backyard birds.
They are, you know, at this time of year, especially
there in desperate need of food because you know, without
open water and open you know, plants that are fruit
bearing in the in the spring, summer, and fall, it's
basically nature's pantry is empty this time of year for them,
(09:53):
so they do rely on on us to some extent
if they're sticking around through the winter, to provide them
with some some food. So you want to make sure
you're finding, you know, high quality premium mixes. So we
took out all the fillers that you normally see in
the big box stores and just provided high fat, high
protein bird seed. But then we're we're adding in our
(10:17):
flawn seed mixes to the seed, so the birds get
their feed. And then in the spring you'll be feeding
the bees and butterflies as well, and you're gonna be
adding those flowers to your your grass lawn, creating the
flawn for you. So you're saving yourself some time and
energy not having to spread it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right, So I put the bird feed in the
in the in the bird feeder, it also contains the
flower seeds, so the birds will also eat the flower
seeds and then distribute those into the lawn. They don't
eat those seeds, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, it's it's fun to it's fun to watch these birds.
I mean, it is pure enjoyment. It's a it's a
known stress reliever, mindfulness and concentration. So if you if
you don't feed the birds now and you never have.
I really highly suggest it. And you get to watch
these birds go through and they pick out the seeds
they like. And that's why it's important to have a mix.
(11:15):
You don't want to you know, some people do want
to attract just cardinals. We have a perfect mix just
for cardinals and finches. But we like to you know,
diversify and have different birds come into your feeder and
you can even have like a checklist of all the
different ones you get. I get up to thirty different
species here in my backyard every every day. Wow with
with a variety of different feeders, a variety of different mixes,
(11:36):
and then having open water for them too, whether you
have a heated bird bass or an aerated you know,
pool of water for them that doesn't freeze over. But yeah,
the birds will go through eat those high fat, high
protein seeds and then they'll flick out the flower seeds
for you, and then you fly off with them and
drop them as well. So you can move your feeder
(11:59):
around to create a different pattern or distribution throughout your
yard if you want to focus on one area or another,
but usually below a bird feeder, you're gonna have, you know,
either just an area that gets kind of kind of bearing.
If you have birds on the ground pecking and kicking
at the at the ground a lot, and this way,
(12:20):
instead of that, you have a beautiful flawn at the
bottom of your bird feeder.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Got it, So they distributed around, So you'd actually put
that bird feeder on a pole that I can move
and have them distribute that seed for me while they're
eating the bird feed and not the not the flower seeds.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, you can do this all year round.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And now do you you sell both of those so
I can buy either the premium the wild bird food
or I can buy the food and the pollinator seed together, correct,
both ways?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, absolutely, So we have two of our most popular
Belong mixes already in there, our Speedy blend, which is
really quick to bloom. So if you do that now
over the snow, the wildflower seeds, and that's if we
go back to what we were talking about before the break,
the flowing seed kits. You can spread those now over
the frozen ground and on a on a light snow.
(13:16):
You don't want to spread it on like a sheen
of ice that it would all just blow away. But
if it has a nice soft snow, or if you're
expecting another snowfall. The seeds will just get worked into
the soil through the winter, and once the soils warm
up in the spring, they'll naturally germinate and you'll get
a head start, you know, as your lawn's coming on
a dormant seed before any weed seeds they're coming in
(13:39):
from you know, down south, or annual weeds that come back.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So we we can do that. So obviously with the
with the combination of the bird feed and the flower seeds,
that would work now obviously on top of the snow
or even if there's snow, snow great, I do like
dormant seeding where the lawn is freezing and thawing the soil,
that works it right into the ground for you. So
basically that that's what's going to happen, ready to go
in the springtime for you, or if you just need
(14:04):
the seed, they've got their own blend as well. All right, now,
here's a question for you. Ready, Is it birds seed
or is it bird feed? Think about this. If you
you can't plant the birds seeds and grow birds.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You got me there, You got me there.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, I always bring that up because it's you know,
it's like you know, and I call it bird seed
as well, but you know, you can't plant that, so
it's bird you know, so we call it bird feed.
We burn bird seed. It doesn't matter. As long as
you're feeding the birds. That's what's important out there, right.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, Well, you can actually dig a little deeper. And
there are other types of bird foods besides seeds, yea
such as you know, suet is a is a great
one that's high in fat too, and you're you're reusing
a product from another industry, the you know, meat market,
So there's a lot of different potentials for doing that.
(15:02):
So birds, you know, there are certain birds that don't
eat seeds so much and they would prefer insects infective
or so feeding with meal worms as well as important,
especially in the springtime when our early arriving birds that
migrated down south come here and then they get caught
in a winter storm, you know, in that April May timeframe.
(15:24):
That's when it's important to get those insects out there
for them to feed them.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Talking with Anthony Need again. Their website is flowering lawn
dot com. One last thing for you, the discovery boxes
you have for kids, the feather finish de Luxe and
the Junior Nationalists tell me about those.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, so these are I mean, I'm always just trying
to take it back to the roots and how I
grew up. My parents took me out to a state
or national park almost every weekend as we were growing up.
We would take day trips or camping trips. And so
having that connection, whether you are able to get out
and go explore in nature or if you're able to
(16:02):
bring that nature back home to your your yard, we
want to feed on that connection and creativity. Uh. It
really just builds character. It builds uh, you know that
education of you know, science as well as just understanding
how nature works and how we are part of it.
We are wholly connected to it, relying on it and
(16:24):
relying on us. Now, so we we include different unique items, uh,
four times a year. So you can either buy it
one time purchase has a perfect gift like this time
of year for the holidays, or you can sign up
for a subscription that will just automatically ship every three months.
And they're they're organized by age as well as how
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many you know, different items or how much bird seed
you want in there. So they will include some seed,
but then they'll also include some special items, unique curated
items to help engage in nature.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, you're having a great time, aren't you. This is
what I was born to do. I love it. I
love it too, Anthony need again. It's flawn seed kits.
And now he's got the flawn seed and feather and
of course these boxes as well. And you'll learn about
it more if you go to the Flowering Lawn dot com.
That's Flowering lawn dot com. And if you have any questions,
(17:18):
you can get directly a hold of Anthony and he
will answer all those questions for you as well. Hey man,
stay warm. I appreciate you spending time with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Today.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yep, all right, have a good one, all right, take care,
Anthony need again. It's a Flowering Lawn dot com. To
learn more about this, and you'll find the flawn seed
kits becoming more and more popular out there than a
lot of the independent, locally owned garden centers as well,
and quite an assortment. As a matter of fact, we
always have folks looking for creeping red time and sometimes
(17:51):
you can't find creeping red time or the seeds are
hard to come by. He has that in a pouch
that you and buy direct from them. If your local
garden center doesn't sell it, or tell them they have
it so they can put it in stock as well.
But the Red the Creeping Time seems to be becoming
more and more popular. Get a lot of right write ups.
You see it more in some of the information segments
(18:15):
as well. Maybe you have a hard time finding it, well,
you can find it at flawn seed Kits. That's Flowering
Lawn dot info. So there you go. Don't forget our website,
it's Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page in the
garden with Ron Wilson. Don't forget Rita's got two recipes
or peppermint Bark, and of course that brisket as well,
which is absolutely outstanding. Be sure and check that out.
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Our plan of the week this week is Christmas fern.
If you've got that shady garden. You know, sometimes we
have attention to forget about ferns. They're not that hard
to grow. Christmas fern is really cool, probably one of
the most popular because it's evergreen only you know, twenty
four to thirty inches high and wide. Those little leaves
that are on there called pennies. You look like this
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Christmas Stocking. That's the name Christmas Fern. All right, quick break,
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