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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm Ron Wilson. You're in the garden. I'd like to
join us. Love to have you. Our number is seven
four nine fifty five hundred. You can also hit found
five to fifty on that AT and T phone. But
eat away. He's gonna wind up brighting in our studio
as a kid with Joe Strecker's in the house. They'll
take your calls, get your lined up. We'll do our
best coup answer to those gardening questions. Have a TIF
you want to share, look, give us a buzz seven
four nine fifty five hundred here at fifty five KRCD
(00:29):
talk stations. Our total free number eight hundred eight two
three eighty two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy talking about yarding. Don't forget our
website Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page in the
garden with run Wilson. As a matter of fact, this
young man is typically on the Facebook page right now,
going back and forth and chatting with folks because it's
(00:50):
time for whether it's the weather, and of course in
the trees with our he's our hobby meteorologist or amateur
Mediorology's you register can holding arborist. He is a ISA
Board certified Master Arborist. He's got so many arborist titles
I can't keep up with it anymore. But his website
is arbordoctor dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, mister ron Rothis
(01:12):
good morning, sir, Good morning. How are you? I am
doing great? Good to have you on our show again
this morning. We had lots of talk about today.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Have you been enjoying all this rain we've been getting?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
What rain? That's my good point, as.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I've had seven straight days of ninety degree weather. Yeah,
and my total rainfall not only in the seven days,
but in the past eight days is a trace on
one day. Every other day was a two sec. I
had a couple of days of thunder, but trace the
rain over the past eight days. Yeah, last ninety degree temperatures,
so the grass is actually getting a little bit of
(01:52):
a broadcast in spots.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, that's why I told Joey was he said it
was too hot to Mowa's grass. This it's probably a
good thing he just left it shut off. Yes, he's
he's somewhat close to you as well, said the same thing.
Thunder rolls of thunder, but basically no rainfall. Now, I'm,
of course, about fifteen miles north of you, guys, and
yesterday we did get two fronts that came through and
(02:14):
actually dropped rain, just enough to make it humid as
heck when they stopped. Otherwise it really didn't do a
whole lot. But we did get two fronts that came
through real quick and dropped rain. So if that's happening
in your particular area, folks, what Ron's could tell you is,
as we've told you all along, considered anything like that
a bonus. Don't count on it as part of your watering.
(02:37):
It's not part of the watering. Don't let it fool you.
Look at your rain gage and continue to water as needed.
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I have not watered any of my established plants yet. Well,
we've had so much rain this year, right, Yeah, I've
had a foot below in normal this month, at least
in my location. But I've had two point eight seven
inches of rain this month, which is less than the
normal June. But I mean, we have a lot of
moisture coming out of the spring. So for the established plants,
(03:09):
I don't I'm not real concerned with most of them yet,
but certainly I have some new transplants that I have
given some water to, and and that's something to keep
in mind. Uh And and just because I know we
have a wide range of people listening. Uh, most of
the plants in my yard are pretty good when it
(03:31):
comes to, you know, not being real needy when it
comes to water. If you have you know, some of
these yes, actually, but you know there are some plants
that that that are more needy. I don't have any
uh you know, impatience, you know, annuals in the yard,
(03:51):
those that need to be watered more often. I don't
have any of the hydrangees that are really needy in
the water department. All my hydrangeas, I only have a couple,
but they're cendicular to hydrangeas and they just aren't as needy.
So yeah, I am very much in favor of plants
that don't need huge amounts of attention, including my management
(04:16):
area back which is all prairie plants, which is just
beginning to bloom like crazy. I have a compass plant
that sent a couple of flower spikes up. They're about
seven feet tall now, and that's going to get yellow
flowers all over it. My cup plants are just starting
to form buds. They're not blooming yet, but and my
(04:38):
golden rain tree is starting to bloom. You're almost plan
of the week. Your plant of the week. The bottlebrush buckeye.
I have one that's probably a couple decades old. It
is in full bloom right now. It is absolutely spectacular.
And it is on a south fa and slip and
(05:01):
full sun, and it gets baked all day. During some
really bad drafts we've had over the years, the leaves
have scorched a little bit because it's just a really
kind of a bootle location. But it's done well there
for a couple of decades. It looks beautiful right now
and it is in full glorious bloom. And I've shared
(05:24):
some pictures on my Facebook page and people are like,
what is that? That's incredible? It's I guess it is.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So every time you walk by that, do you just
kind of give it an oh or go box.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Or yes, oh yeah, bus good.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Barb Bletcher sent me a picture last week. I know
it was Barbara, one of the three Stingers and their bees.
It was a really hot day. We're out on the
side of the hive and they literally form one of
the most perfect o's that you've ever seen. And I
accidentally deleted the picture off my cell phone and I
have to get them to send it to me again.
I was going to send it to you, but they're
(05:59):
on the side of the and it's a perfect Oh.
It's like, you've got to be kidding me. So I
thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It would be really cool if they formed the perfect
h after that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I know down below d the next time over boh.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Talk talk with Ron roth Is. His website is a
arbordoctor dot com. Great information about trees, the environment, weather,
the whole nine yards. Once you go on there, you
can't stop. You'll be on it for days reading all
the stuff he has posted. Yeah, and I that's why
we posted. Instead of putting the golden rain tree on,
we took yours as well, instead of the bottlebrush buckeye.
(06:35):
So it's a cool plan. It's way underused in the landscape.
Sometimes can be hard to find. I don't know if
you've found that out, but folks, sometimes not every nursery
has it has it available, so and usually when you
buy one when they're small they don't look like a
whole lot, same as the golden rain tree don't look
like a whole lot. But man, once they start to grow,
it's well worth the weight talking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I just shared with someone yesterday that the comment on
how must they like the picture of the golden right,
I'm sorry the bottlebrush buckeye, and I said, you know,
it's one of those plants that when you see it
in a pot in the nursery, it just doesn't do
a whole lot for you. You get it into the
landscape and it knocks your soft socks off. I think
(07:18):
Oakley Hydrangea is another one that's kind of like that.
Never looks like a whole lot in the nursery, but
when you get it get it out in your landscape,
it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oakley Phyra is still just a tremendous show. I mean
that plant, you know, with the oak leaves, the exfoliating bark,
the way it branches, and the you know those way
those flowers just stick out away from the plant. To me,
you know, it's got it's got to show to it
year round. Oakley Phydra is just absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I love them. The only problem I have with
oakly hydrange is. I have seen some deer browsing on
the Oakley phydrangeas. You have to be a little bit
careful with them.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
The neat thing about bottle brush buck guy is deer
just don't touch it. I mean, in the I have
deer like crazy in my yard, and I mean one
one year they rubbed a couple of the branches and
broke a couple of branches. Next year just brought it
right back. But that was the only time in over
two decades that I've deer do anything. They never feed
(08:21):
on it. I mean, I've never seen feeding damage. I mean,
I'm on landscape. I'm on I'm visiting landscapes all the time,
and that's very consistent. I mean, I I've been on
lots and lots of uh properties over the years which
you have a lot of deer browsing, and the bottlebrush
buck guys are untouched. So it's it's a really good
(08:43):
shrub in many ways, but but including for people that
are that are pestered by by deer browsing, it's a
great plant to add deer landscape and the flowers and
knock your socks offt We'll tell you what. The fall
color is really good. I mean gold and yellow collar.
They really shine in the fall as well.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And I like the branching. I mean, you know it's
it's a coarse branching, but I like the way it
looks in the winter time too. I think that's another
plant that gives you, you know, year round something to
look at.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, and just when they're in foliage, I mean really
you know, leafy foliage plant. I mean almost a little
bit of a tropical side, you know, just the way
it looks, just a really neat all around plant. I
mean it's one of those plants that you know, people
plant rhododendrons, and I know in some areas rhododendants thrive
(09:34):
in the Cincinnati area oppland soils, so we really struggle
with rhododendrons. I mean this is the plant gets about
the same size as the rhododendron. It thrives in our soil.
It doesn't mind mind alkaline soils, although I think it'll
it's tolerate acid soils too, So it's really versatile when
(09:55):
it comes to the soil conditions. It's just easy to grow.
I mean it I've never seen any pest problems on it, right, dear, So,
I mean it's one of those you plant it and
maybe a water during during a significant drought, although it's
it's not that meeting in that department either, but otherwise
(10:16):
it just doesn't need anything and it puts on a
huge show for you. So if people want a care
free plant, I mean you can't get one that's much
better than bublebrush buckeye.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
If you want to see what it looks like, go
to our website at Ron Wilson online dot com. We
have one poster there for you as well, and learn
more about it at that website. You take a quick break,
we come back. We'll talk with more with Ron. Roethis
our certified arbist and amateur meteorologist. Here in the Garden
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dot org. Welcome back. You're in the Garden with Ron
Wilson Part two. It's the bifurcation of segments with the
arbor doc Ronrothiss website arbordoctor dot com talking about the
weather and the inconsistencies of the rainfalls and how you
should be sure and check that rain gage physically check
(11:54):
your root balls. I tell you I thought of you
run because this week I finally got to deal with
and this does happen. Because I've had people say, can
you overwater newly planted trees and shrubs this time of
the year with it being so hot, And I said, yeah,
it is possible, especially if your soil doesn't drain very well.
And I had a gentleman that had planted a dogwood,
(12:17):
and he said, you know, we did the right things.
We dug the whole right and the whole nine yards,
and we've kept it watered as needed, and the thing
just stays wilted down. It doesn't do anything. Leaves are
wilted down. So I said, hey, go out check the
root ball. Came on out and said, you know, it
feels wet. Soil around it feels wet. I said, send
me a picture. So you send me a picture. Back
(12:38):
planted right. But also I could see all this grass
coming up in the area where the backfill was, indicating
that it's staying pretty moist. And I said, if I
were you, I would dig down the side of that
root ball, see what's going on. He got about six
inches down, hit water, pulled that thing out of the
hole and it was sitting with water and he hadn't
watered it for a week, which sometimes tells us the
(13:00):
importance of finding out how how the percolation is in
the soil before you plant trees.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean you can definitely over water, you know,
during a drought. I've seen it. I've seen it so
many times, and just because it's hot doesn't necessarily mean
your plants need to be water They certainly don't need
to be watered every day unless it's in a pot
somewhere and it's a really needy plant that that is
(13:29):
really good well drained soil. But I mean, normally, if
it's an established plant, I mean, they can go a
week without water easily, and even familarly planted plants. I
mean I usually tell people, you know, water once a
week and check it in the middle of the week
to see if it needs more water. You know, at
that point I have noticed, I'm sure you have too,
(13:52):
that container bearing plants seem to dry out faster than
bottom bone. Yeah. But and the other thing, by the way,
which is one of my pet topics, is if you
leave the burlap completely on the plant when you plant it,
it will shed water. So you can I've seen it
(14:16):
people that are running the hose on the plant and
I go and I open up the burrow ap and
it's powder dry inside. But there's an oily type substance
that they treat that will burrow up with and it
will just shed water. So the burrow ap needs to
be taken off the top. The root ball and planning time.
(14:39):
I still get landscapers that argue with that, you know,
we'll take it off in a year, leave it on
and the plant stays more stable. All these different arguments,
and it's just like no. The planning standard from American
National Standards Institute is that when you plant a tree,
you take all the packing material, the burrowap, that rope
everything off the top part of the group ball. And
(15:03):
I've just seen so many that the die or really
well down because that burlap is completely left on the plant.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, you're you're too young to remember. You're too young
to remember this, but way back when, you know, we
were always pulling plants out of the healing area, reburlapping
in two or three times a year if it didn't sell,
and they finally came out with a treated burlap and
that you probably did, or a nylon burlap that didn't decay,
didn't rout, and that was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm very very familiar.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I know you are. I was just kidding about being
to young, but but you know, there was a situation
where again, you know, if you didn't take that all
off of there, I don't even if you sliced, it
didn't matter. That stuff stayed on there forever. You know,
you go back ten years later and that thing was
still wrapped in the burlap around it, which.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Was still found that in landscapes, you know, fairly recently,
I mean, and the plants aren't doing very well obviously.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Hey, listen, we're running out of time here. One thing
I did want to talk to you about. Now we're
pretty much done in our area and all the areas
that were affected by the cicadas, and so now I'm
starting to get pictures of folks that didn't realize what
the cicadas did to their trees. And of course that's
the flagging on the tips of a lot of the branches,
which becomes a natural pruning. But you know, when folks
(16:22):
get a hold of you about seeing this and all,
do you give any I mean, do you suggest anything
be done? Obviously, they can't trim all that out. On
larger trees, you let it fall out and do its
own thing. Smaller trees you can go through and clip
that out of there and get rid of it. But
otherwise you don't do anything else. The tree is going
to be fine. It just is a way of natural pruning.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Right, correct, And I mean I saw some oaks yesterday
that it was actually when you first looked at it,
kind of alarming because it was more brown than it
was green. Yeah, but it'll be fine. I mean it's
just at outer branches, the you know, the the trees still,
so it'll be fine. I have seen some smaller trees
(17:05):
where they've been riddled the to the point that I
would give it time. But you might want to go
in and prune some of that out eventually, but I
would see how the tree responds to it first, rather
than you know, being too quick to go out and
you know, kind of micromanage the situation over the years.
(17:26):
I think the worst trees that I've seen for cicada
damage are not responding, while the cicada damage have been
dog some of the dog yeah American holly. And then
I've seen some black or black tiple really get riddled
by the cicadas. Although I remember I planted a black
(17:47):
gum in my yard. I mean it's probably still you know,
college age, and we had cicadas that year and they
riddled that tree and I pruned that thing back. I've
been to over half the branching, you know out because
there's there's some Missicada damage. That thing left out of
(18:08):
the ground after that, and it grew like gangbusters for
years after that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
That's when you knew. That's when you knew you had
the magic touch. Ron Roth is always a pleasure of
the arbordoctor dot com be Shore check out his website.
We will talk to you in the near future. All right,
coming up next, build a Moore here in the garden
with Ron.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm Ron Wilson. You're in the garden. I'd like to
join us. Love to have you. Our number is seven
four nine fifty five hundred. You can also hit found
five to fifty on that AT and T phone. But
eat away. He's gonna wind up brighting in our studio
as a kid with Joe Strecker's in the house. They'll
take your calls, get your lined up. We'll do our
best coup answer to those gardening questions. Have a TIF
you want to share, look, give us a buzz seven
four nine fifty five hundred here at fifty five KRCD
(00:29):
talk stations. Our total free number eight hundred eight two
three eighty two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy talking about yarding. Don't forget our
website Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page in the
garden with run Wilson. As a matter of fact, this
young man is typically on the Facebook page right now,
going back and forth and chatting with folks because it's
(00:50):
time for whether it's the weather, and of course in
the trees with our he's our hobby meteorologist or amateur
Mediorology's you register can holding arborist. He is a ISA
Board certified Master Arborist. He's got so many arborist titles
I can't keep up with it anymore. But his website
is arbordoctor dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, mister ron Rothis
(01:12):
good morning, sir, Good morning. How are you? I am
doing great? Good to have you on our show again
this morning. We had lots of talk about today.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Have you been enjoying all this rain we've been getting?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
What rain? That's my good point, as.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I've had seven straight days of ninety degree weather. Yeah,
and my total rainfall not only in the seven days,
but in the past eight days is a trace on
one day. Every other day was a two sec. I
had a couple of days of thunder, but trace the
rain over the past eight days. Yeah, last ninety degree temperatures,
so the grass is actually getting a little bit of
(01:52):
a broadcast in spots.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, that's why I told Joey was he said it
was too hot to Mowa's grass. This it's probably a
good thing he just left it shut off. Yes, he's
he's somewhat close to you as well, said the same thing.
Thunder rolls of thunder, but basically no rainfall. Now, I'm,
of course, about fifteen miles north of you, guys, and
yesterday we did get two fronts that came through and
(02:14):
actually dropped rain, just enough to make it humid as
heck when they stopped. Otherwise it really didn't do a
whole lot. But we did get two fronts that came
through real quick and dropped rain. So if that's happening
in your particular area, folks, what Ron's could tell you is,
as we've told you all along, considered anything like that
a bonus. Don't count on it as part of your watering.
(02:37):
It's not part of the watering. Don't let it fool you.
Look at your rain gage and continue to water as needed.
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I have not watered any of my established plants yet. Well,
we've had so much rain this year, right, Yeah, I've
had a foot below in normal this month, at least
in my location. But I've had two point eight seven
inches of rain this month, which is less than the
normal June. But I mean, we have a lot of
moisture coming out of the spring. So for the established plants,
(03:09):
I don't I'm not real concerned with most of them yet,
but certainly I have some new transplants that I have
given some water to, and and that's something to keep
in mind. Uh And and just because I know we
have a wide range of people listening. Uh, most of
the plants in my yard are pretty good when it
(03:31):
comes to, you know, not being real needy when it
comes to water. If you have you know, some of
these yes, actually, but you know there are some plants
that that that are more needy. I don't have any
uh you know, impatience, you know, annuals in the yard,
(03:51):
those that need to be watered more often. I don't
have any of the hydrangees that are really needy in
the water department. All my hydrangeas, I only have a couple,
but they're cendicular to hydrangeas and they just aren't as needy.
So yeah, I am very much in favor of plants
that don't need huge amounts of attention, including my management
(04:16):
area back which is all prairie plants, which is just
beginning to bloom like crazy. I have a compass plant
that sent a couple of flower spikes up. They're about
seven feet tall now, and that's going to get yellow
flowers all over it. My cup plants are just starting
to form buds. They're not blooming yet, but and my
(04:38):
golden rain tree is starting to bloom. You're almost plan
of the week. Your plant of the week. The bottlebrush buckeye.
I have one that's probably a couple decades old. It
is in full bloom right now. It is absolutely spectacular.
And it is on a south fa and slip and
(05:01):
full sun, and it gets baked all day. During some
really bad drafts we've had over the years, the leaves
have scorched a little bit because it's just a really
kind of a bootle location. But it's done well there
for a couple of decades. It looks beautiful right now
and it is in full glorious bloom. And I've shared
(05:24):
some pictures on my Facebook page and people are like,
what is that? That's incredible? It's I guess it is.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So every time you walk by that, do you just
kind of give it an oh or go box.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Or yes, oh yeah, bus good.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Barb Bletcher sent me a picture last week. I know
it was Barbara, one of the three Stingers and their bees.
It was a really hot day. We're out on the
side of the hive and they literally form one of
the most perfect o's that you've ever seen. And I
accidentally deleted the picture off my cell phone and I
have to get them to send it to me again.
I was going to send it to you, but they're
(05:59):
on the side of the and it's a perfect Oh.
It's like, you've got to be kidding me. So I
thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It would be really cool if they formed the perfect
h after that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I know down below d the next time over boh.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Talk talk with Ron roth Is. His website is a
arbordoctor dot com. Great information about trees, the environment, weather,
the whole nine yards. Once you go on there, you
can't stop. You'll be on it for days reading all
the stuff he has posted. Yeah, and I that's why
we posted. Instead of putting the golden rain tree on,
we took yours as well, instead of the bottlebrush buckeye.
(06:35):
So it's a cool plan. It's way underused in the landscape.
Sometimes can be hard to find. I don't know if
you've found that out, but folks, sometimes not every nursery
has it has it available, so and usually when you
buy one when they're small they don't look like a
whole lot, same as the golden rain tree don't look
like a whole lot. But man, once they start to grow,
it's well worth the weight talking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I just shared with someone yesterday that the comment on
how must they like the picture of the golden right,
I'm sorry the bottlebrush buckeye, and I said, you know,
it's one of those plants that when you see it
in a pot in the nursery, it just doesn't do
a whole lot for you. You get it into the
landscape and it knocks your soft socks off. I think
(07:18):
Oakley Hydrangea is another one that's kind of like that.
Never looks like a whole lot in the nursery, but
when you get it get it out in your landscape,
it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oakley Phyra is still just a tremendous show. I mean
that plant, you know, with the oak leaves, the exfoliating bark,
the way it branches, and the you know those way
those flowers just stick out away from the plant. To me,
you know, it's got it's got to show to it
year round. Oakley Phydra is just absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I love them. The only problem I have with
oakly hydrange is. I have seen some deer browsing on
the Oakley phydrangeas. You have to be a little bit
careful with them.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
The neat thing about bottle brush buck guy is deer
just don't touch it. I mean, in the I have
deer like crazy in my yard, and I mean one
one year they rubbed a couple of the branches and
broke a couple of branches. Next year just brought it
right back. But that was the only time in over
two decades that I've deer do anything. They never feed
(08:21):
on it. I mean, I've never seen feeding damage. I mean,
I'm on landscape. I'm on I'm visiting landscapes all the time,
and that's very consistent. I mean, I I've been on
lots and lots of uh properties over the years which
you have a lot of deer browsing, and the bottlebrush
buck guys are untouched. So it's it's a really good
(08:43):
shrub in many ways, but but including for people that
are that are pestered by by deer browsing, it's a
great plant to add deer landscape and the flowers and
knock your socks offt We'll tell you what. The fall
color is really good. I mean gold and yellow collar.
They really shine in the fall as well.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And I like the branching. I mean, you know it's
it's a coarse branching, but I like the way it
looks in the winter time too. I think that's another
plant that gives you, you know, year round something to
look at.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, and just when they're in foliage, I mean really
you know, leafy foliage plant. I mean almost a little
bit of a tropical side, you know, just the way
it looks, just a really neat all around plant. I
mean it's one of those plants that you know, people
plant rhododendrons, and I know in some areas rhododendants thrive
(09:34):
in the Cincinnati area oppland soils, so we really struggle
with rhododendrons. I mean this is the plant gets about
the same size as the rhododendron. It thrives in our soil.
It doesn't mind mind alkaline soils, although I think it'll
it's tolerate acid soils too, So it's really versatile when
(09:55):
it comes to the soil conditions. It's just easy to grow.
I mean it I've never seen any pest problems on it, right, dear, So,
I mean it's one of those you plant it and
maybe a water during during a significant drought, although it's
it's not that meeting in that department either, but otherwise
(10:16):
it just doesn't need anything and it puts on a
huge show for you. So if people want a care
free plant, I mean you can't get one that's much
better than bublebrush buckeye.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
If you want to see what it looks like, go
to our website at Ron Wilson online dot com. We
have one poster there for you as well, and learn
more about it at that website. You take a quick break,
we come back. We'll talk with more with Ron. Roethis
our certified arbist and amateur meteorologist. Here in the Garden
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Speaker 2 (10:41):
Is your garden growing? You call Ron now at one
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dot org. Welcome back. You're in the Garden with Ron
Wilson Part two. It's the bifurcation of segments with the
arbor doc Ronrothiss website arbordoctor dot com talking about the
weather and the inconsistencies of the rainfalls and how you
should be sure and check that rain gage physically check
(11:54):
your root balls. I tell you I thought of you
run because this week I finally got to deal with
and this does happen. Because I've had people say, can
you overwater newly planted trees and shrubs this time of
the year with it being so hot, And I said, yeah,
it is possible, especially if your soil doesn't drain very well.
And I had a gentleman that had planted a dogwood,
(12:17):
and he said, you know, we did the right things.
We dug the whole right and the whole nine yards,
and we've kept it watered as needed, and the thing
just stays wilted down. It doesn't do anything. Leaves are
wilted down. So I said, hey, go out check the
root ball. Came on out and said, you know, it
feels wet. Soil around it feels wet. I said, send
me a picture. So you send me a picture. Back
(12:38):
planted right. But also I could see all this grass
coming up in the area where the backfill was, indicating
that it's staying pretty moist. And I said, if I
were you, I would dig down the side of that
root ball, see what's going on. He got about six
inches down, hit water, pulled that thing out of the
hole and it was sitting with water and he hadn't
watered it for a week, which sometimes tells us the
(13:00):
importance of finding out how how the percolation is in
the soil before you plant trees.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean you can definitely over water, you know,
during a drought. I've seen it. I've seen it so
many times, and just because it's hot doesn't necessarily mean
your plants need to be water They certainly don't need
to be watered every day unless it's in a pot
somewhere and it's a really needy plant that that is
(13:29):
really good well drained soil. But I mean, normally, if
it's an established plant, I mean, they can go a
week without water easily, and even familarly planted plants. I
mean I usually tell people, you know, water once a
week and check it in the middle of the week
to see if it needs more water. You know, at
that point I have noticed, I'm sure you have too,
(13:52):
that container bearing plants seem to dry out faster than
bottom bone. Yeah. But and the other thing, by the way,
which is one of my pet topics, is if you
leave the burlap completely on the plant when you plant it,
it will shed water. So you can I've seen it
(14:16):
people that are running the hose on the plant and
I go and I open up the burrow ap and
it's powder dry inside. But there's an oily type substance
that they treat that will burrow up with and it
will just shed water. So the burrow ap needs to
be taken off the top. The root ball and planning time.
(14:39):
I still get landscapers that argue with that, you know,
we'll take it off in a year, leave it on
and the plant stays more stable. All these different arguments,
and it's just like no. The planning standard from American
National Standards Institute is that when you plant a tree,
you take all the packing material, the burrowap, that rope
everything off the top part of the group ball. And
(15:03):
I've just seen so many that the die or really
well down because that burlap is completely left on the plant.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, you're you're too young to remember. You're too young
to remember this, but way back when, you know, we
were always pulling plants out of the healing area, reburlapping
in two or three times a year if it didn't sell,
and they finally came out with a treated burlap and
that you probably did, or a nylon burlap that didn't decay,
didn't rout, and that was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm very very familiar.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I know you are. I was just kidding about being
to young, but but you know, there was a situation
where again, you know, if you didn't take that all
off of there, I don't even if you sliced, it
didn't matter. That stuff stayed on there forever. You know,
you go back ten years later and that thing was
still wrapped in the burlap around it, which.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Was still found that in landscapes, you know, fairly recently,
I mean, and the plants aren't doing very well obviously.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Hey, listen, we're running out of time here. One thing
I did want to talk to you about. Now we're
pretty much done in our area and all the areas
that were affected by the cicadas, and so now I'm
starting to get pictures of folks that didn't realize what
the cicadas did to their trees. And of course that's
the flagging on the tips of a lot of the branches,
which becomes a natural pruning. But you know, when folks
(16:22):
get a hold of you about seeing this and all,
do you give any I mean, do you suggest anything
be done? Obviously, they can't trim all that out. On
larger trees, you let it fall out and do its
own thing. Smaller trees you can go through and clip
that out of there and get rid of it. But
otherwise you don't do anything else. The tree is going
to be fine. It just is a way of natural pruning.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Right, correct, And I mean I saw some oaks yesterday
that it was actually when you first looked at it,
kind of alarming because it was more brown than it
was green. Yeah, but it'll be fine. I mean it's
just at outer branches, the you know, the the trees still,
so it'll be fine. I have seen some smaller trees
(17:05):
where they've been riddled the to the point that I
would give it time. But you might want to go
in and prune some of that out eventually, but I
would see how the tree responds to it first, rather
than you know, being too quick to go out and
you know, kind of micromanage the situation over the years.
(17:26):
I think the worst trees that I've seen for cicada
damage are not responding, while the cicada damage have been
dog some of the dog yeah American holly. And then
I've seen some black or black tiple really get riddled
by the cicadas. Although I remember I planted a black
(17:47):
gum in my yard. I mean it's probably still you know,
college age, and we had cicadas that year and they
riddled that tree and I pruned that thing back. I've
been to over half the branching, you know out because
there's there's some Missicada damage. That thing left out of
(18:08):
the ground after that, and it grew like gangbusters for
years after that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
That's when you knew. That's when you knew you had
the magic touch. Ron Roth is always a pleasure of
the arbordoctor dot com be Shore check out his website.
We will talk to you in the near future. All right,
coming up next, build a Moore here in the garden
with Ron.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Wilson, Green, Tom or not. Ron can help at one
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Garden with Ron Wilson, powering you are prosperous future.
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