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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Globe from the fifty five KRC News Center.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
A new ruling from the Supreme Court will limit the
ability of district judges to issue nationwide injunctions. In a
six to three vote, conservative members of the Court ruled
Friday that nationwide injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that
Congress is granted to federal courts. The ruling was in
regards to President Trump's ban on automatic birthright citizenship to
(00:24):
children born in the US to undocumented immigrants. The Trump
administration is rescinding the layoff notices and to Voice of
America employees. Jim Forbes has more.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's according to The New York Times, which reports that
the move comes after employees for the broadcast network discovered
errors in their layoff documents. An official with the Federal
Workers Union says the administration rescinded the layoff notices because
those errors could allow the union to take legal action.
Senior advisor to Voice of America, Carrie Lake, says the
(00:54):
employees aren't being called back to work and the administration
still plans to layoff much of the network's employees.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The best way to wake up in the morning, a
hot cup of coffee and Brian Thomas. Monday morning at
five on fifty five KRC, the talk Station.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Here is your ninth first yardening forecast. This morning party
cloudy love around seventy three today, possible thunderstorms after three o'clock.
High of eighty six tonight, seventy two on Sunday, most
of cloudy eighty eight on Monday, thunderstorms are possible. High
of eighty six degrees seven four nine, fifty five hundred
Here at fifty five KRC, the talk Station. Good morning,
(01:35):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. You
know a lot of talk out there obviously about planting
native plants out there. It can be very confusing. What
are the native plants? Who's got what? You go to
your local independent garden center. Sometimes they have a nice supply,
sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's hard to find some of
these local native or these yeah, native plants for planting
in our yards and gardens. Will to help us walk
through that, to learn more about these native plants, especially
(01:59):
for the If you're looking for hot native plant colors
for the summer, you know which ones you're talking about. Well,
we've got a top ten list for you. As a
matter of fact, has posted on our website at Ron
Wilson online dot com. He is our native plant expert
from a Woody Warehouse or website Woody Warehouse dot com.
He is Humanity's native solution man. He's the pride of
(02:20):
the boilermakers, ladies and gentlemen. Mister Bill Racus de boor,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Sir, Good morning, mister Wilson.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Have we had our coffee. We've had our coffee.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
We've switched to something that's hydrating, so surliness is on
the way.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Let me ask you. Let me ask you a question
here real quick. Talking about native plants. A couple things
so people understand, first of all, a lot of push
out there to plant native plants, and of course native
selections or native VARs as well. But native plants sometimes
can be difficult to find, even in well known, locally
owned independent garden centers. Why is that, Well, the.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Supply of native plants has just been kind of a
coming of ages the past probably ten years or so,
and so the big boy growers didn't have them because
it was just kind of a niche. Maybe something will
dabble in and lately with consumer demand, it keeps increasing increasing,
(03:24):
and so there's kind of been a lag in that
supply chain as people have, you know, garnered more of
an interest to plant natives, and so to that end,
we're working diligently to kind of show up that supply
chain issue and start getting these native plants where people are.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, your plant list is amazing how that's increased over
the recent years.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Much to the chagrin of our production Steff. Yeah, I
think we're at two hundred and fifty some species.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Listen. Listen to that. As a matter of fact, if
you happen to go to your locally owned independent garden
center and they don't have a great supply of native plants,
give them this website woodiwarehouse dot com. It's pretty simple,
woodiwaarhouse dot com. Tell them to go on the website,
look at what's available that they can buy to bring
into their to their garden center. They have it, and
they've got a complete selection, trust me. But there's a
(04:22):
source for them. So if they tell you they can't
find them, uh uh uh, go to Woody warehouse dot com.
You'll find out more. But by the way, Bill, I
want to do, I do want to thank you guys,
uh and Woody Wearehouse for giving away four hundred and
fifty TUPLO trees black coms here in the Cincinnati area
a couple of weeks ago that those and those weren't
just little seedlings. We're talking trees that were four to
(04:43):
five feet tall.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Well, it was a fun engagement. Uh. They even got me,
you know, unloading plants from the box trailer, which was
It's unfortunate the production staff wasn't there because they think
I'm just a keyboard king. So I actually did labor there.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I want to know who was on Who's Steve Foltz's
table or whose tab he was on because.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I stay away from the Woody Warehouse tab.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I loved it. We had a good time. But
that was a really nice thing to do. And there's
hopefully four hundred and fifty two plows in our area now,
which is an absolutely wonderful native tree that will continue
to grow and planning that forward, So we do thank
you for doing that. So you were gracious enough to
come up with a list for us to go through
today during this segment and that we've titled it Hot
(05:32):
Native Plant Colors for Summer, and we have this list
also posted on our website at ron Wilson online dot com.
So would you like to kick us off. What's our
first one we want to take a look at. Yeah,
I mean, real quickly.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
A lot of these selections I did based on size,
and so these are shrubs or herbaceous natives that stay
relatively small and give you a summer color. So with that,
I started with New Jersey tea. I know I've talked
about it a nauseum with you over the years. One
(06:09):
of my favorites, a true prairie, only gets three by
three right now, I'm staring at it out my window blooming.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's one of those it's like sci fi movie where
you look at this city and you have all these
cars flying everywhere. That's what you see with pollinators. It
is just amazing how many are just buzzing and flying
around this thing. And fairly it gives you several weeks
of flowering or shuts down. So really unassuming, drought tolerant.
(06:46):
Once established, it's got a thick tap root and so
it's really not a lot of maintenance. You are going
to have some rabbits and other things nip on it.
I actually find it improves the form because they kind
of take care of the late winter cleanup that you
would otherwise do pruning it back.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I was gonna say, rabbits can do a nice They
do nice shaping when they you know, shrubs back, sometimes
kind of round it off and they do a pretty
good job.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, I got a lot of plans to care for
it ron, so I appreciate when the rabbits help me out.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
All right. So that's called New Jersey Tea, And you're right,
you've pushed that one for a long time. It is
absolutely outstanding. Again, way under used in the landscape. And
this is one that you know has real good landscape desirability,
if that's such a word, because it's absolutely gorgeous and
it's a little bit of fragrance to it. You will
smell it, but tough and durable natives. So again, keep
(07:39):
that one in my New Jersey Tea.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Next one on the list is one that's relatively obscure
out there is lead plant.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I had to look at this.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
A prairie sub shrub is kind of how I categorize it.
Sometimes it just kind of creeps one to two feet
tall and wide. Fixes nitrogen very drought tolerant. The leaves
tend to have kind of a hairy fuzziness, kind of
a gray overture with the green, and kind of hence
(08:13):
the lead and the common name is kind of gives
a very attractive color to the leaves. And then it's
replaced right now by these gorgeous conical like purple flowers
that have just like a hint of orange to them.
And once again, bees butterflies just to flock to this one.
(08:37):
So it's a really good plant. It get it established
and you don't have to do much of anything other
than a little late winter pruiting.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, and I wasn't familiar with this one at all,
so I did to have to look this and do
a little research a little more familiar with that that
flowers outstanding and that you're right, it's just on the
tips a little bit of a tinge of blue, which
was or orange on that lavender that's purple. That's pretty dark.
I love the foliage absolutely outstanding. It's called lead plant,
so be sure and check that out out. Let's go
(09:07):
to our next one, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Next one on the list is smooth Hydrangea, also you know,
affectionately referred to as wild hydrange terrible marketing term. A
lot of your listeners are probably familiar with this one,
even though they don't know they are. If you look
at the cult of ours out in the marketplace, Annabelle
or Incredible is derived from our native Hydrangea. So this
(09:34):
is a great one that is highly versatile. Full sun
to full shade. Obviously, in full shade you're gonna have
a little less flowering. In full sun, you're gonna have
to baby it a little bit. You might get some
leaf scorch, you might have to get some supplemental irrigation,
but it gives you a lot of flower power the
more you give it sunlight, and once again you get established.
(09:58):
And it's just it's very durable. The flowering time period
isn't all that long. You get a week or two ish,
but it has the infertile flower bracts that are persistent
for months really even into winter, and so that kind
(10:19):
of gives you a much longer seasonal interest. But if
you're looking for a splash of color in you know,
a part shade to full.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Shade, it's a great one. There's a new selection now
called Flowerful. We just started growing at this spring and
it's what that thing is proving. It's more compact days,
very tight lots of flowers. That's so far proven out
to be a really good one. But again, Hydrada arborescents
are smooth Hydrangea or wild Hydrangea, which you're right, that's
(10:49):
hard to market a wild hydraanja, but absolutely wonderful. Let's
go for one more before we take the break. And
I love this one, Summer Sweet, yep.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I would say my biggest criticism with this one is
how I see it planted commercially in the landscape.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I see it.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Planted in medians, on the road and other places. This
really does prefer even moisture. If it's in a full sun, hot, dry,
poor condition, it's not going to perform well for you.
But if you give it kind of a part sun
and even moisture, man, this one is like a July
(11:26):
bloomer and just wonderful fragrance and really a pollinator magnet.
And I love anything that is a good fragrance. So
if you get into the shadier areas and you can
have fragrance and showy flowers, that's a real winter and.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's called summer sweet. And I think the deer have
a testy to stay away from that one as well.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, I haven't observed them. They'll sample it, but I
haven't seen a mow it now.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, I haven't really gotten into it. Talking with Bill
Racus the Boor. He's from Woody Warehouse. Their website is
Woody Warehouse dot com. We're talking about hot native plant
colors for summer, some really nice shrubs that are very
much landscape desirable. We've got this list on our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com. Be sure and check
it out. Quick break, we come back. We'll continue with
(12:12):
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this morning, our native plant expert Bill Racis Debor. He
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Be sure and check it out again. If your local
garden center doesn't sell a lot of native plants, they
say they can't find a source, try just hand that
out to them Woody Warehouse dot com and uh, mister
Debor will take care of them all right. So we're
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working our way through some really cool summer flowering native plants.
We just talked about Clethra. Our next one is Saint
John's Wart, and this particular one does it get the berries?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Now, it doesn't get the kind of showy berries that
you think of some of the non native Saint John's wart. Okay,
but this one. I love this one because I haven't
planned outside the office. When you enter and it is
just buzzing with activity. You can't go past it any
time of the day and not see European honey bees,
(14:06):
bumble bees, native bees, beetles, you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Know, butterflies.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
This is really truly the firework summer flowering native shrub.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's a little bit cheeky.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
In that it provides pollen, but it lures them in,
suckers them in. There's no nectar and so they're really
not getting much outside of that pollen to take back.
But a really great one. The reason why I picked
this one versus the other native one that we have
is shrubby Saint John's Wart. The leaves kind of have
(14:40):
this glaucous bloom that kind of gives it this bluish
gray tint, and I just always found that a little
bit more ornamental and interesting than just kind of a
straight green color.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, that's a go. And the flowers are there's a
ton of them on there as well. It's called Calm's
Saint John's Wart. It's a moutful. Yes, it is purple
prairie clover, so kind of switching gears away from woody.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I got some herbaceous things that I think work well.
This is a relatively obscure one out there but it
just what a great accent. Plant stays relatively small, you know,
the literature says can get to be three feet. I
don't really see that. It's more like foot and a half,
but you want to put that around the border. Planting
(15:30):
just really gives you this great purple color. Bees and
other things other pollinators love it. I have found that
rabbits love it too. Just about when our plants were
about to flower, they all got moed back down to
the ground, so I guess it's delayed gratification there.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So you will get some flowers out of eventually, but
the rabbits will enjoy it as well.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Hey, that's they got to eat too, right, That's right,
all right. Royal catch fly. I love this plant. We've
been growing it more and more all the time.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
So I picked this one because there's just not a
lot of red color out there, and that's where red
really really pops. Hummingbirds are attracted to it, swallowtail butterflies
are attracted to it. In my opinion, it's better planted
in masks. So get three, four or five specimens, play
(16:28):
them closely, and I think it'll be a little bit
more substantial because an individual specimen is just kind of
so so if it's not in flower.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And that's called royal catch fly. And then our next
one is appams the bee, believe it or not, our
plan of the week on our website as well. Butterfly weed.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I don't believe in coincidences, but there you go. This
one is a little bit challenging for me because I've
always told people it's not my favorite. Asclepius, I prefer
swamp milk weed, which has a terrible name, because it's
a lot more adaptable, and I see monarchs feeding on
that one sure more than butterfly weed. But this one
(17:11):
one to three foot tall, very drought tolerant once established.
The caveat to this one is if you're in a
subdivision where you got compact clay doesn't drain well, this
is probably not the right plant for you unless you
mend the soil because it does not like to sit
in water, and if you do that, you're gonna watch
(17:33):
your investment shrivel up.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Hmm. Interesting butterfly weed. Of course, you know anything you
read now we were talking about this morning that has
anything to do with pollinators whatsoever. The one plant that's
at the top of the list is butterflyweed.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
And the fun little fact that I found out I
don't know, a couple of years ago was that these
flowers are act like little tiny traps. And I know
this smart entomologists to probably tell me this is the
wrong terminology. But the legs of butterflies and other things
get trapped in them, and so if you ever watch
them on the flowers, you'll see them kind of struggle
(18:11):
to move. And that's the plant's response to really get
a good pollination, to kind of say, hey, stay here
a minute so you can get move that pollen around.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I was, I was doing some research on that, and
I don't want to hold up on this, but on
sometimes why the larvae, the caterpillars have a tendency to
you know, sometimes die as they're on the plant or whatever.
And they were talking about the sap that you know,
even in the leaf, being at a point sometimes where
they have to be careful how they eat that because
it can actually kind of sap their mouth together. Whatever.
So kind of interesting, all right, Corey.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
And I read on a I can't remember what book
it is, run, but the sap is actually toxic to
milkwheed caterpillars. And so what they will do is they
will find the vein of the leaf and they'll snip it. Yep,
They'll let the sap bleed out, and then they'll feed
from the sapless leaf.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
So it's quite remarkable when you think about it.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, and if they don't do that, there's a good
chance that they may get killed as well. And that
does happen Sometimesreopsis, you know, a big one in the landscape.
But this is lace leaf choreopsis.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, and so there's just a tremendous amount of Choreopsis
cultivars out there. This is a straight species, really better
for poor soils, dry well drained, but another just long
lasting pollinator.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Magnet I find this one.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
If it gets the soils are too rich too much nitrogen,
they get leggy and flop over, and so it's really
better to not you know, go crazy with the fertilizer.
They can be planted with smaller grasses like little blue
stem sideoats gramma and it kind of helps keep them upright.
(20:00):
But just a real great long flowering plant.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You know. One of my favorite cultivars would be jethro.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Tooll Yep, that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I love that one, not only because of the I
like the group too. And last but not least, mountain mint.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yeah, this one is cool, kind of like New Jersey tea.
This is the herbaceous one where if you like watching
insects flying.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
In and out.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Man, this one packs a punch. It's part of the
mint family, so it's going to have that wonderful mint fragrance.
But a really great one to plan.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Bill Debor always a pleasure. He is our native plant expert.
Go to their website Woodiwarehouse dot com. You'll also find
this list that Bill came up with us on our
website at ron Wilson online dot com. Appreciate it, sir,
stay cool. We will talk to you in the future.
Sounds good, Thanks ron I, Thank you Woody Warehouse dot com.
And again, if your local garden center says, hey, we
(20:57):
can't we have a source. These folks are in thea
and they do it. They know their native plants that
need to do a great job growing and supplying garden center.
So again, just throw it at a Woody Warehouse dot com.
Quick break, we come back. Phone lines you're open for
you at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Here in the garden with Ron.
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This is fifty five krc an iHeartRadio station.
From the Globe from the fifty five KRC News Center.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
A new ruling from the Supreme Court will limit the
ability of district judges to issue nationwide injunctions. In a
six to three vote, conservative members of the Court ruled
Friday that nationwide injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that
Congress is granted to federal courts. The ruling was in
regards to President Trump's ban on automatic birthright citizenship to
(00:24):
children born in the US to undocumented immigrants. The Trump
administration is rescinding the layoff notices and to Voice of
America employees. Jim Forbes has more.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's according to The New York Times, which reports that
the move comes after employees for the broadcast network discovered
errors in their layoff documents. An official with the Federal
Workers Union says the administration rescinded the layoff notices because
those errors could allow the union to take legal action.
Senior advisor to Voice of America, Carrie Lake, says the
(00:54):
employees aren't being called back to work and the administration
still plans to layoff much of the network's employees.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The best way to wake up in the morning, a
hot cup of coffee and Brian Thomas. Monday morning at
five on fifty five KRC, the talk Station.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Here is your ninth first yardening forecast. This morning party
cloudy love around seventy three today, possible thunderstorms after three o'clock.
High of eighty six tonight, seventy two on Sunday, most
of cloudy eighty eight on Monday, thunderstorms are possible. High
of eighty six degrees seven four nine, fifty five hundred
Here at fifty five KRC, the talk Station. Good morning,
(01:35):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. You
know a lot of talk out there obviously about planting
native plants out there. It can be very confusing. What
are the native plants? Who's got what? You go to
your local independent garden center. Sometimes they have a nice supply,
sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's hard to find some of
these local native or these yeah, native plants for planting
in our yards and gardens. Will to help us walk
through that, to learn more about these native plants, especially
(01:59):
for the If you're looking for hot native plant colors
for the summer, you know which ones you're talking about. Well,
we've got a top ten list for you. As a
matter of fact, has posted on our website at Ron
Wilson online dot com. He is our native plant expert
from a Woody Warehouse or website Woody Warehouse dot com.
He is Humanity's native solution man. He's the pride of
(02:20):
the boilermakers, ladies and gentlemen. Mister Bill Racus de boor,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Sir, Good morning, mister Wilson.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Have we had our coffee. We've had our coffee.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
We've switched to something that's hydrating, so surliness is on
the way.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Let me ask you. Let me ask you a question
here real quick. Talking about native plants. A couple things
so people understand, first of all, a lot of push
out there to plant native plants, and of course native
selections or native VARs as well. But native plants sometimes
can be difficult to find, even in well known, locally
owned independent garden centers. Why is that, Well, the.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Supply of native plants has just been kind of a
coming of ages the past probably ten years or so,
and so the big boy growers didn't have them because
it was just kind of a niche. Maybe something will
dabble in and lately with consumer demand, it keeps increasing increasing,
(03:24):
and so there's kind of been a lag in that
supply chain as people have, you know, garnered more of
an interest to plant natives, and so to that end,
we're working diligently to kind of show up that supply
chain issue and start getting these native plants where people are.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, your plant list is amazing how that's increased over
the recent years.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Much to the chagrin of our production Steff. Yeah, I
think we're at two hundred and fifty some species.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Listen. Listen to that. As a matter of fact, if
you happen to go to your locally owned independent garden
center and they don't have a great supply of native plants,
give them this website woodiwarehouse dot com. It's pretty simple,
woodiwaarhouse dot com. Tell them to go on the website,
look at what's available that they can buy to bring
into their to their garden center. They have it, and
they've got a complete selection, trust me. But there's a
(04:22):
source for them. So if they tell you they can't
find them, uh uh uh, go to Woody warehouse dot com.
You'll find out more. But by the way, Bill, I
want to do, I do want to thank you guys,
uh and Woody Wearehouse for giving away four hundred and
fifty TUPLO trees black coms here in the Cincinnati area
a couple of weeks ago that those and those weren't
just little seedlings. We're talking trees that were four to
(04:43):
five feet tall.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Well, it was a fun engagement. Uh. They even got me,
you know, unloading plants from the box trailer, which was
It's unfortunate the production staff wasn't there because they think
I'm just a keyboard king. So I actually did labor there.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I want to know who was on Who's Steve Foltz's
table or whose tab he was on because.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I stay away from the Woody Warehouse tab.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I loved it. We had a good time. But
that was a really nice thing to do. And there's
hopefully four hundred and fifty two plows in our area now,
which is an absolutely wonderful native tree that will continue
to grow and planning that forward, So we do thank
you for doing that. So you were gracious enough to
come up with a list for us to go through
today during this segment and that we've titled it Hot
(05:32):
Native Plant Colors for Summer, and we have this list
also posted on our website at ron Wilson online dot com.
So would you like to kick us off. What's our
first one we want to take a look at. Yeah,
I mean, real quickly.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
A lot of these selections I did based on size,
and so these are shrubs or herbaceous natives that stay
relatively small and give you a summer color. So with that,
I started with New Jersey tea. I know I've talked
about it a nauseum with you over the years. One
(06:09):
of my favorites, a true prairie, only gets three by
three right now, I'm staring at it out my window blooming.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's one of those it's like sci fi movie where
you look at this city and you have all these
cars flying everywhere. That's what you see with pollinators. It
is just amazing how many are just buzzing and flying
around this thing. And fairly it gives you several weeks
of flowering or shuts down. So really unassuming, drought tolerant.
(06:46):
Once established, it's got a thick tap root and so
it's really not a lot of maintenance. You are going
to have some rabbits and other things nip on it.
I actually find it improves the form because they kind
of take care of the late winter cleanup that you
would otherwise do pruning it back.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I was gonna say, rabbits can do a nice They
do nice shaping when they you know, shrubs back, sometimes
kind of round it off and they do a pretty
good job.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, I got a lot of plans to care for
it ron, so I appreciate when the rabbits help me out.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
All right. So that's called New Jersey Tea, And you're right,
you've pushed that one for a long time. It is
absolutely outstanding. Again, way under used in the landscape. And
this is one that you know has real good landscape desirability,
if that's such a word, because it's absolutely gorgeous and
it's a little bit of fragrance to it. You will
smell it, but tough and durable natives. So again, keep
(07:39):
that one in my New Jersey Tea.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Next one on the list is one that's relatively obscure
out there is lead plant.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I had to look at this.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
A prairie sub shrub is kind of how I categorize it.
Sometimes it just kind of creeps one to two feet
tall and wide. Fixes nitrogen very drought tolerant. The leaves
tend to have kind of a hairy fuzziness, kind of
a gray overture with the green, and kind of hence
(08:13):
the lead and the common name is kind of gives
a very attractive color to the leaves. And then it's
replaced right now by these gorgeous conical like purple flowers
that have just like a hint of orange to them.
And once again, bees butterflies just to flock to this one.
(08:37):
So it's a really good plant. It get it established
and you don't have to do much of anything other
than a little late winter pruiting.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, and I wasn't familiar with this one at all,
so I did to have to look this and do
a little research a little more familiar with that that
flowers outstanding and that you're right, it's just on the
tips a little bit of a tinge of blue, which
was or orange on that lavender that's purple. That's pretty dark.
I love the foliage absolutely outstanding. It's called lead plant,
so be sure and check that out out. Let's go
(09:07):
to our next one, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Next one on the list is smooth Hydrangea, also you know,
affectionately referred to as wild hydrange terrible marketing term. A
lot of your listeners are probably familiar with this one,
even though they don't know they are. If you look
at the cult of ours out in the marketplace, Annabelle
or Incredible is derived from our native Hydrangea. So this
(09:34):
is a great one that is highly versatile. Full sun
to full shade. Obviously, in full shade you're gonna have
a little less flowering. In full sun, you're gonna have
to baby it a little bit. You might get some
leaf scorch, you might have to get some supplemental irrigation,
but it gives you a lot of flower power the
more you give it sunlight, and once again you get established.
(09:58):
And it's just it's very durable. The flowering time period
isn't all that long. You get a week or two ish,
but it has the infertile flower bracts that are persistent
for months really even into winter, and so that kind
(10:19):
of gives you a much longer seasonal interest. But if
you're looking for a splash of color in you know,
a part shade to full.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Shade, it's a great one. There's a new selection now
called Flowerful. We just started growing at this spring and
it's what that thing is proving. It's more compact days,
very tight lots of flowers. That's so far proven out
to be a really good one. But again, Hydrada arborescents
are smooth Hydrangea or wild Hydrangea, which you're right, that's
(10:49):
hard to market a wild hydraanja, but absolutely wonderful. Let's
go for one more before we take the break. And
I love this one, Summer Sweet, yep.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I would say my biggest criticism with this one is
how I see it planted commercially in the landscape.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I see it.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Planted in medians, on the road and other places. This
really does prefer even moisture. If it's in a full sun, hot, dry,
poor condition, it's not going to perform well for you.
But if you give it kind of a part sun
and even moisture, man, this one is like a July
(11:26):
bloomer and just wonderful fragrance and really a pollinator magnet.
And I love anything that is a good fragrance. So
if you get into the shadier areas and you can
have fragrance and showy flowers, that's a real winter and.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's called summer sweet. And I think the deer have
a testy to stay away from that one as well.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, I haven't observed them. They'll sample it, but I
haven't seen a mow it now.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, I haven't really gotten into it. Talking with Bill
Racus the Boor. He's from Woody Warehouse. Their website is
Woody Warehouse dot com. We're talking about hot native plant
colors for summer, some really nice shrubs that are very
much landscape desirable. We've got this list on our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com. Be sure and check
it out. Quick break, we come back. We'll continue with
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this morning, our native plant expert Bill Racis Debor. He
is from Woody Warehouse, our website Woody warehouse dot com.
Be sure and check it out again. If your local
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Debor will take care of them all right. So we're
(13:32):
working our way through some really cool summer flowering native plants.
We just talked about Clethra. Our next one is Saint
John's Wart, and this particular one does it get the berries?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Now, it doesn't get the kind of showy berries that
you think of some of the non native Saint John's wart. Okay,
but this one. I love this one because I haven't
planned outside the office. When you enter and it is
just buzzing with activity. You can't go past it any
time of the day and not see European honey bees,
(14:06):
bumble bees, native bees, beetles, you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Know, butterflies.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
This is really truly the firework summer flowering native shrub.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's a little bit cheeky.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
In that it provides pollen, but it lures them in,
suckers them in. There's no nectar and so they're really
not getting much outside of that pollen to take back.
But a really great one. The reason why I picked
this one versus the other native one that we have
is shrubby Saint John's Wart. The leaves kind of have
(14:40):
this glaucous bloom that kind of gives it this bluish
gray tint, and I just always found that a little
bit more ornamental and interesting than just kind of a
straight green color.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, that's a go. And the flowers are there's a
ton of them on there as well. It's called Calm's
Saint John's Wart. It's a moutful. Yes, it is purple
prairie clover, so kind of switching gears away from woody.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I got some herbaceous things that I think work well.
This is a relatively obscure one out there but it
just what a great accent. Plant stays relatively small, you know,
the literature says can get to be three feet. I
don't really see that. It's more like foot and a half,
but you want to put that around the border. Planting
(15:30):
just really gives you this great purple color. Bees and
other things other pollinators love it. I have found that
rabbits love it too. Just about when our plants were
about to flower, they all got moed back down to
the ground, so I guess it's delayed gratification there.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So you will get some flowers out of eventually, but
the rabbits will enjoy it as well.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Hey, that's they got to eat too, right, That's right,
all right. Royal catch fly. I love this plant. We've
been growing it more and more all the time.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
So I picked this one because there's just not a
lot of red color out there, and that's where red
really really pops. Hummingbirds are attracted to it, swallowtail butterflies
are attracted to it. In my opinion, it's better planted
in masks. So get three, four or five specimens, play
(16:28):
them closely, and I think it'll be a little bit
more substantial because an individual specimen is just kind of
so so if it's not in flower.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And that's called royal catch fly. And then our next
one is appams the bee, believe it or not, our
plan of the week on our website as well. Butterfly weed.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I don't believe in coincidences, but there you go. This
one is a little bit challenging for me because I've
always told people it's not my favorite. Asclepius, I prefer
swamp milk weed, which has a terrible name, because it's
a lot more adaptable, and I see monarchs feeding on
that one sure more than butterfly weed. But this one
(17:11):
one to three foot tall, very drought tolerant once established.
The caveat to this one is if you're in a
subdivision where you got compact clay doesn't drain well, this
is probably not the right plant for you unless you
mend the soil because it does not like to sit
in water, and if you do that, you're gonna watch
(17:33):
your investment shrivel up.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Hmm. Interesting butterfly weed. Of course, you know anything you
read now we were talking about this morning that has
anything to do with pollinators whatsoever. The one plant that's
at the top of the list is butterflyweed.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
And the fun little fact that I found out I
don't know, a couple of years ago was that these
flowers are act like little tiny traps. And I know
this smart entomologists to probably tell me this is the
wrong terminology. But the legs of butterflies and other things
get trapped in them, and so if you ever watch
them on the flowers, you'll see them kind of struggle
(18:11):
to move. And that's the plant's response to really get
a good pollination, to kind of say, hey, stay here
a minute so you can get move that pollen around.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I was, I was doing some research on that, and
I don't want to hold up on this, but on
sometimes why the larvae, the caterpillars have a tendency to
you know, sometimes die as they're on the plant or whatever.
And they were talking about the sap that you know,
even in the leaf, being at a point sometimes where
they have to be careful how they eat that because
it can actually kind of sap their mouth together. Whatever.
So kind of interesting, all right, Corey.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
And I read on a I can't remember what book
it is, run, but the sap is actually toxic to
milkwheed caterpillars. And so what they will do is they
will find the vein of the leaf and they'll snip it. Yep,
They'll let the sap bleed out, and then they'll feed
from the sapless leaf.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
So it's quite remarkable when you think about it.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, and if they don't do that, there's a good
chance that they may get killed as well. And that
does happen Sometimesreopsis, you know, a big one in the landscape.
But this is lace leaf choreopsis.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, and so there's just a tremendous amount of Choreopsis
cultivars out there. This is a straight species, really better
for poor soils, dry well drained, but another just long
lasting pollinator.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Magnet I find this one.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
If it gets the soils are too rich too much nitrogen,
they get leggy and flop over, and so it's really
better to not you know, go crazy with the fertilizer.
They can be planted with smaller grasses like little blue
stem sideoats gramma and it kind of helps keep them upright.
(20:00):
But just a real great long flowering plant.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You know. One of my favorite cultivars would be jethro.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Tooll Yep, that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I love that one, not only because of the I
like the group too. And last but not least, mountain mint.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yeah, this one is cool, kind of like New Jersey tea.
This is the herbaceous one where if you like watching
insects flying.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
In and out.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Man, this one packs a punch. It's part of the
mint family, so it's going to have that wonderful mint fragrance.
But a really great one to plan.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Bill Debor always a pleasure. He is our native plant expert.
Go to their website Woodiwarehouse dot com. You'll also find
this list that Bill came up with us on our
website at ron Wilson online dot com. Appreciate it, sir,
stay cool. We will talk to you in the future.
Sounds good, Thanks ron I, Thank you Woody Warehouse dot com.
And again, if your local garden center says, hey, we
(20:57):
can't we have a source. These folks are in thea
and they do it. They know their native plants that
need to do a great job growing and supplying garden center.
So again, just throw it at a Woody Warehouse dot com.
Quick break, we come back. Phone lines you're open for
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