December 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Ron Wilson also explains how it became a holiday flour and he has a great and simple recipe for a holiday dip!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you want to spend a moment on a legacy
retirement group dot com phone line and a rare Tuesday
appearance from none other than Ron Wilson, host of In
the Garden with Ron Wilson, Saturday Mornings at ten.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm great? You know. The word is that Bob's gonna
start out with the hang on sloopy, haang on sloopy.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That would be the way that would be worth the
price admission to loan right there.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I would love to go see him, though.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Eighty four years old, man's that's amazing still. I was
gonna say, eighty four years old. He's still on stage
every other night. It's pretty impressive. Yes, it is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So were your ears burning? Yesterday?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We were talking about you and we had a little chuckle,
not necessarily at your expense, but we're somehow camping and
I were talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Point settas point settias.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we had remembered at this point last year you
gave us a third pronunciation, some sort of alternate probably
accurate pronunciation for a point setia, and we couldn't come
come up with it. So you and I were texting
a little bit last night about it. I'm like, you
know what, just come on and tell us how how
do we pronounce point setia.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know, it's if you if you just pronounced it
the way it's spelled, it actually works out right because
there's no T in the middle of that thing. It's
pawn p o I N or coin or pawn setia
se t t I eight, so pawn setia or porn setia.
Either way, it's fine. Point setia. I don't care as
long as you buy them and use them in your house.
(01:32):
To pronounce them however you want to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Them pawn setia.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And just think of Robert Joel pond set He was
the guy they named them after. He was the fad dude,
you know, for the United States Ambassador to Mexico. He
discovered those down there, brought them back to the United States.
You know, you think about that. Here's the guy found
this thing down there that turns red. It's kind it's
a native plant there grows everywhere, brought some cuttings back.
(01:58):
He was a botanist himself and started grown a few
of these, handed them off to a friend, and the
next thing you know, it's the second most recognizable holiday
plant in the United States and used to be the
number one plant grown in a container in the world.
They grew more pond setias than they did any other
plant and containers because they use those for landscaping plants
(02:18):
in the South. So it's more than just for the
holiday season. But Joel pond set So it's pond SETI.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I feel so much smarter now. I'm ready to go
on Jeopardy and with that one.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So how do ponn setis for one hundred?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
How did it become a holiday plant?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
If it's you know, used in the South as you
know everyday, you know, landscaping flower, how did it become
associated with the holidays?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's a it's a it's a daylight sensitive plant. So
as the days start to get shorter, those bracts, those
are actually leaves that start to turn red or pink
or whatever, the white at the very tops. So as
the days start to get shorter, right around Christmas, they're
in their full display. So there was a story about,
you know, in Mexico, about a kid that was you know,
didn't have anything to take to the major scene, et cetera,
(03:06):
et cetera, and wound up picking this plant that was
turning red, and therefore it's the floor is they know
jay Boyina or flowers of the of the Holy Night,
and that's where it all started. But it changes color
right now naturally, so it's right at the holiday season,
and with those pointed leaves, looks like the star. Therefore
it became a very popular player for the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They're beautiful. We've got some white ones. We had the
kid's holiday plant sale, and the white picked up some.
So how should we care for these ones?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I think the thing he remember is they don't let
them dry out. That's an evergreen. So when those leaves fall,
they're done. They won't come back. But it's an evergreen,
So the one thing you don't want to do is
let it totally dry out. Always keep it evenly moist.
Don't leave water in the saucer down below, but keep
it evenly moist. Keep it away from the cold drafts,
the hot drafts, et cetera, et cetera. It does not
need direct sunlight, so if you've got it in a
(03:57):
bright area, it'll do just fine. And I think the
thing to remember too is a lot of times we
lose those green leaves on the bottom a little bit
just through the transition from wherever you bought it to
your house and whatever. And they're not cold hard he
so don't leave in the car while you're shopping. But
you know, if you do the red and pink and
the white bracts on the top, they stay there all
winter long. They won't drop off, so you still get
(04:20):
that color all winter long. I just think people get
tired after a point and finally throw them away. But
you can regrow those. They grow like a weed if
you can keep it over the winter time. You pop
that up outside in the springtime, it'll get three or
four feet tall.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And then you bring it back in the house and
you have to limit it to eight hours of daylight
every day starting their not the first of September, so
you've got to cover it every day, you know, like
at four o'clock, five o'clock in the afternoon, totally dark
until the morning. Take a cover back off. But it
can be done, and folks will do it. And I've
done it once or twice just to say I've done it.
(04:54):
But it could be fun. But again, those bracts will
stay out all winter long and give me great color.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's kind of funny. It's very similar to Johnny Hill.
He's limited to eight hours of daylight as well. He's
got the hard cap there.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Hey, what you said earlier you count on Johnny Hill
keeping you straight. It was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, I'm not. I mean he's the best in the business.
And when it comes when.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It comes to traffic, yeah, anything else, throw that out
the window. Speaking with Ron Wilson, hosts and host of
In the Guard with Ron Saturday Mornings at ten. So
I mentioned, you know, we bought some stuff from the
kids' school and the holiday plants aale and I've got
a couple of lavender plants too, and they smell wonderful
and they're kind of in the shape of a Christmas
(05:38):
tree and they're really pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
How do I care for those?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Can I just throw those on the kitchen counter near
the kitchen window, get a little bit of sunshine.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is it lavender or is it rosemary?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's lavender.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Wow, that's pretty cool. If it's a hardy variety, don't
forget you can overwinter those like in an unheated garage
or unheated shed. If you keep him in the house,
you better put him where it's a lot of So
that's the big thing. You may even have to supplement
with the grow light. And I think the other thing
is they like humidity, so if you don't have, you know,
if the community is low in your home, try to
(06:09):
increase that little bit more. Rotate it every day and
watch it. The big thing that rosemary and lavender and
holiday plants have to have is air moving around them
at all times. So this is a really nice plant.
If you've got one of those desk, little desk fans
that you can set off to the side and just
have air blowing around it keeps the air moving. You
(06:30):
don't get powdery mildew inside, which they can get which
usually takes them out. But they're a little bit tougher
to do indoors, but it can be done. Splots of sunlight,
let them dry, water dry, water dry, keep the air
moving around them. You should be okay. Then you think
about out the springtime.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That seems like a lot of work. It's a lot
of work. I may have to take an issue up
with the boss on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know, you can always bail out by just cutting
it all off and then using it in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I don't want to. I don't want to do that.
It's it's too pretty at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So well, I will have a sidebar conversation on how
to how to figure out the lavender plants in the
in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Hey, what about mold on Christmas trees? You hear about this?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Uh, this time of year, we go out and get
that fresh cut tree bringing in the house and it
starts to warm up and it activates a bunch of
don't know, is it pine mold or something that can
trigger people's allergies.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, sometimes that can happen. It doesn't happen that often.
But I'll tell you what if you you hear we
talk about a product called will Stop and will Proof
and these are anti transparents that that helps to seal
moisture in the lea, in the needles and in the branches.
And it seems like if you use that before you
bring it inside and it helps to keep them pressure longer.
It helps to reduce that as well. Now I'm not
(07:44):
saying it's a cure for it, but it does help
to reduce that down. You don't seem to have that
allergy situation by using the will stop or will proof
kind of late to do that. Now you have to
do it before you take it inside, let it dry
on there. But that's a possibility to help you out.
That is one reason I give people. You know, I'm
always harping about using a live tree, but there are
some folks that are allergic to live Christmas trees that
(08:08):
happened to be one of the things that could be
allergic to, and I get it. And that's a case
where sometimes you just have to go artificial rather than
going live. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I hate to see that, but you know I understand.
So it's called wil get, wilt stop.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Wilt stop, or wilt prove, and it's used out. It's
pine resident is all it is. But it kind of
steals that all up. And it really does keep your
fresh greens fresher indoors longer. So you know, they used
to label that for as a fireproofing product for Christmas trees.
They took that off, but it doesn't It really does
a nice job.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's a good tip there. All right, Ron, I need
a holiday dip recipe from you this morning that we
can share with our audience.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, there are so many that I like. This
time of the year is crazy, but let me give
you the one that's so simple. Even camp you can
do this one, Okay, he said he likes the French
onion dip.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Just make garlic dip, cream cheese, a little bit of milk,
make it source consistent as a dip, and use garlic
powder and flavor it to the garlic level that you
like it. I guarantee you. We've been doing this for
my entire life since I was a kid. If you
take that to a party with a bag of rip
the wavy chips or whatever lays chips, I guarantee you
(09:18):
that will be the first dip to go to Guarantee
Do you want to spend a moment on a legacy
retirement group dot com phone line and a rare Tuesday
appearance from none other than Ron Wilson, host of In
the Garden with Ron Wilson, Saturday Mornings at ten.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm great? You know. The word is that Bob's gonna
start out with the hang on sloopy, haang on sloopy.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That would be the way that would be worth the
price admission to loan right there.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I would love to go see him, though.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Eighty four years old, man's that's amazing still. I was
gonna say, eighty four years old. He's still on stage
every other night. It's pretty impressive. Yes, it is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So were your ears burning? Yesterday?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We were talking about you and we had a little chuckle,
not necessarily at your expense, but we're somehow camping and
I were talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Point settas point settias.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we had remembered at this point last year you
gave us a third pronunciation, some sort of alternate probably
accurate pronunciation for a point setia, and we couldn't come
come up with it. So you and I were texting
a little bit last night about it. I'm like, you
know what, just come on and tell us how how
do we pronounce point setia.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know, it's if you if you just pronounced it
the way it's spelled, it actually works out right because
there's no T in the middle of that thing. It's
pawn p o I N or coin or pawn setia
se t t I eight, so pawn setia or porn setia.
Either way, it's fine. Point setia. I don't care as
long as you buy them and use them in your house.
(01:32):
To pronounce them however you want to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Them pawn setia.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And just think of Robert Joel pond set He was
the guy they named them after. He was the fad dude,
you know, for the United States Ambassador to Mexico. He
discovered those down there, brought them back to the United States.
You know, you think about that. Here's the guy found
this thing down there that turns red. It's kind it's
a native plant there grows everywhere, brought some cuttings back.
(01:58):
He was a botanist himself and started grown a few
of these, handed them off to a friend, and the
next thing you know, it's the second most recognizable holiday
plant in the United States and used to be the
number one plant grown in a container in the world.
They grew more pond setias than they did any other
plant and containers because they use those for landscaping plants
(02:18):
in the South. So it's more than just for the
holiday season. But Joel pond set So it's pond SETI.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I feel so much smarter now. I'm ready to go
on Jeopardy and with that one.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So how do ponn setis for one hundred?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
How did it become a holiday plant?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
If it's you know, used in the South as you
know everyday, you know, landscaping flower, how did it become
associated with the holidays?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's a it's a it's a daylight sensitive plant. So
as the days start to get shorter, those bracts, those
are actually leaves that start to turn red or pink
or whatever, the white at the very tops. So as
the days start to get shorter, right around Christmas, they're
in their full display. So there was a story about,
you know, in Mexico, about a kid that was you know,
didn't have anything to take to the major scene, et cetera,
(03:06):
et cetera, and wound up picking this plant that was
turning red, and therefore it's the floor is they know
jay Boyina or flowers of the of the Holy Night,
and that's where it all started. But it changes color
right now naturally, so it's right at the holiday season,
and with those pointed leaves, looks like the star. Therefore
it became a very popular player for the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They're beautiful. We've got some white ones. We had the
kid's holiday plant sale, and the white picked up some.
So how should we care for these ones?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I think the thing he remember is they don't let
them dry out. That's an evergreen. So when those leaves fall,
they're done. They won't come back. But it's an evergreen,
So the one thing you don't want to do is
let it totally dry out. Always keep it evenly moist.
Don't leave water in the saucer down below, but keep
it evenly moist. Keep it away from the cold drafts,
the hot drafts, et cetera, et cetera. It does not
need direct sunlight, so if you've got it in a
(03:57):
bright area, it'll do just fine. And I think the
thing to remember too is a lot of times we
lose those green leaves on the bottom a little bit
just through the transition from wherever you bought it to
your house and whatever. And they're not cold hard he
so don't leave in the car while you're shopping. But
you know, if you do the red and pink and
the white bracts on the top, they stay there all
winter long. They won't drop off, so you still get
(04:20):
that color all winter long. I just think people get
tired after a point and finally throw them away. But
you can regrow those. They grow like a weed if
you can keep it over the winter time. You pop
that up outside in the springtime, it'll get three or
four feet tall.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And then you bring it back in the house and
you have to limit it to eight hours of daylight
every day starting their not the first of September, so
you've got to cover it every day, you know, like
at four o'clock, five o'clock in the afternoon, totally dark
until the morning. Take a cover back off. But it
can be done, and folks will do it. And I've
done it once or twice just to say I've done it.
(04:54):
But it could be fun. But again, those bracts will
stay out all winter long and give me great color.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's kind of funny. It's very similar to Johnny Hill.
He's limited to eight hours of daylight as well. He's
got the hard cap there.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Hey, what you said earlier you count on Johnny Hill
keeping you straight. It was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, I'm not. I mean he's the best in the business.
And when it comes when.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It comes to traffic, yeah, anything else, throw that out
the window. Speaking with Ron Wilson, hosts and host of
In the Guard with Ron Saturday Mornings at ten. So
I mentioned, you know, we bought some stuff from the
kids' school and the holiday plants aale and I've got
a couple of lavender plants too, and they smell wonderful
and they're kind of in the shape of a Christmas
(05:38):
tree and they're really pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
How do I care for those?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Can I just throw those on the kitchen counter near
the kitchen window, get a little bit of sunshine.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is it lavender or is it rosemary?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's lavender.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Wow, that's pretty cool. If it's a hardy variety, don't
forget you can overwinter those like in an unheated garage
or unheated shed. If you keep him in the house,
you better put him where it's a lot of So
that's the big thing. You may even have to supplement
with the grow light. And I think the other thing
is they like humidity, so if you don't have, you know,
if the community is low in your home, try to
(06:09):
increase that little bit more. Rotate it every day and
watch it. The big thing that rosemary and lavender and
holiday plants have to have is air moving around them
at all times. So this is a really nice plant.
If you've got one of those desk, little desk fans
that you can set off to the side and just
have air blowing around it keeps the air moving. You
(06:30):
don't get powdery mildew inside, which they can get which
usually takes them out. But they're a little bit tougher
to do indoors, but it can be done. Splots of sunlight,
let them dry, water dry, water dry, keep the air
moving around them. You should be okay. Then you think
about out the springtime.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That seems like a lot of work. It's a lot
of work. I may have to take an issue up
with the boss on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know, you can always bail out by just cutting
it all off and then using it in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I don't want to. I don't want to do that.
It's it's too pretty at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So well, I will have a sidebar conversation on how
to how to figure out the lavender plants in the
in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Hey, what about mold on Christmas trees? You hear about this?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Uh, this time of year, we go out and get
that fresh cut tree bringing in the house and it
starts to warm up and it activates a bunch of
don't know, is it pine mold or something that can
trigger people's allergies.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, sometimes that can happen. It doesn't happen that often.
But I'll tell you what if you you hear we
talk about a product called will Stop and will Proof
and these are anti transparents that that helps to seal
moisture in the lea, in the needles and in the branches.
And it seems like if you use that before you
bring it inside and it helps to keep them pressure longer.
It helps to reduce that as well. Now I'm not
(07:44):
saying it's a cure for it, but it does help
to reduce that down. You don't seem to have that
allergy situation by using the will stop or will proof
kind of late to do that. Now you have to
do it before you take it inside, let it dry
on there. But that's a possibility to help you out.
That is one reason I give people. You know, I'm
always harping about using a live tree, but there are
some folks that are allergic to live Christmas trees that
(08:08):
happened to be one of the things that could be
allergic to, and I get it. And that's a case
where sometimes you just have to go artificial rather than
going live. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I hate to see that, but you know I understand.
So it's called wil get, wilt stop.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Wilt stop, or wilt prove, and it's used out. It's
pine resident is all it is. But it kind of
steals that all up. And it really does keep your
fresh greens fresher indoors longer. So you know, they used
to label that for as a fireproofing product for Christmas trees.
They took that off, but it doesn't It really does
a nice job.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's a good tip there. All right, Ron, I need
a holiday dip recipe from you this morning that we
can share with our audience.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, there are so many that I like. This
time of the year is crazy, but let me give
you the one that's so simple. Even camp you can
do this one, Okay, he said he likes the French
onion dip.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Just make garlic dip, cream cheese, a little bit of milk,
make it source consistent as a dip, and use garlic
powder and flavor it to the garlic level that you
like it. I guarantee you. We've been doing this for
my entire life since I was a kid. If you
take that to a party with a bag of rip
the wavy chips or whatever lays chips, I guarantee you
(09:18):
that will be the first dip to go to Guarantee
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