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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson, and you
are in the garden here on news radio six' TEN.
Wtvn you, know a lot of talk out there about native,
plants but coming on stronger and stronger all the, time
probably one of the biggest things out there right. Now
a lot of them being being. Recommended but where do
you find? Them still not that many available in a
lot of the local independent garden. Centers and LIKE i,
(00:23):
SAID i have just said to. Earlier you, know if
you go to your garden center and they don't have
a good selection of native, plants and they, say maybe
we don't have a source for, one just tell Them
woodywarehouse dot com is the place to. Go as a
matter of, fact From Woody warehouse dot, com our native
expert is with us this. Morning no stranger to our.
Show Mister bill de boor The pride of The. Boidlemakers
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Sir Happy, saturday Mister, Wilson Happy.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Saturday are you looking forward to football season right around the.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Corner i'll take it over baseball. SEASON i can't say
That i'm a huge, fan so this is a dull
period for me in sports, world.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Not even women's fast pitch soft.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ball i'd just never gotten into, baseball so.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay that's, right, perfect that's, hey you're pretty close.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Though, Yeah i've still got a few more years.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Ago all, right we haven't got a lot of. Time
it ALWAYS i love. It you put together a list
for us called Hot native plant colors for. Summer, uh
these are your, CHOICES i have to, say first of
all are, Outstanding and of COURSE i have this list
on our website At Ron wilson online dot, com so
folks can go and check it out as. Well But
(01:31):
i'd like for you to walk me through some of
your favorites and your top ten of hot native plant
colors for. Summer but before we do, that real, quick
i'd mentioned about the fact of a lack of availability
of native plants still in the local garden. Centers why is?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It, yeah so that's been something to, where you, know
the industry has not always, thought, well natives is something
that it sells for, Us so we're going to stick
with kind of the more mainstream. Things and as consumer
demand continues to grow for native, plants it's created this supply,
chain you know, issue and that's kind of Where Woody
(02:10):
warehouse is coming in saying how do we get this
product in front of? Consumers so if they are looking
for milk weed or you, know New jersey tea or spice,
bush we can be that wholesale supplier to get that to. You.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Excellent, well why you say we kick it off by
talking about that New jersey tea plant that happens to
be one of your.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Favorites, yeah it's just a great, compact hardy plant three by,
three lightly fragrant, flowers really just brings in the pollinators
left and, right and as long as you don't stick
it in a, soupy poorly drained, clay it will do just.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Fine once, established so needs good, drainings but otherwise tough,
plant you, know and you say you listen as very drought.
Established it's amazing how many PEOPLE i hear from seriously that,
SAY i, asked how long you know new plants not doing?
Well how much are you watering? It, well it's drought.
TOLERANCE i really haven't watered very much at. All.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah so many of these, things when they're in you,
know smaller containers from, nursery they have to get. Established
if those roots are not growing into the, soils then
it's still like a container in the ground to need supplemental. Irrigation,
yeah no doubt about.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It but, yeah so you gotta water once. Established different,
story but you have to stick with them util they get.
Established second on your, list WHICH i had to. DO
i had never heard of this one before is lead.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Plant, yeah that's a very unknown but wonderful shrub similar
To New jersey. Tea only gets two three feet tall and,
wide really striking purple with a hint of orange, flowers
very popular with, pollinators and then has a really grayish
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interesting cast to the. Leaves and so even the leaves
themselves are you, know quite ornamental and fun to look, at.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Say even if it didn't, flower which is. Spectacular the
foliage itself is that's really. Cool.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah it works really well with any sort of short,
grass and if you pair those, two you're gonna be
happy with the.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Results it's called lead. Plant smooth. Hydranges now this is
PRETTY i mean everybody who's what is Smooth not, everybody
but a lot of us know what smooth yedranges.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are, yeah anybody who's Purchased annabel Or incredible with those very,
huge beautiful, flowers you have this. Plant that's where it
was derived, from from our native. Hydrangea but just a real.
Workhorse full sun to full, shade just make sure you
give it a little more water mulch if it's in full,
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sun but in the shade part sun gives you spectacular
color in places that you're usually not accustomed to having
a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Flow common name Wild, Hydrangea.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah a little little bit of a marketing faux. Pa you.
Know botanists really don't tend to be marketing, people so
they like to give names like weed or, wild and
that just really doesn't sell well when you.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Like would you like to sit in on a plant
naming committee where you sit around the. Table i'm assuming
they drink some wine or beer or whatever and try
to come up with names for.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Plants, hey if you And Steve faults were part of,
that you could. Count.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
MAN i think that we come up some pretty good.
NAMES i tell, you you. KNOW i in that arborescence A.
Hydrangja there's a new one this year that we've been.
GROWING i really like it's called. Flowerful it's a little more, compact.
Man that thing is putting out the flowers like. CRAZY
i think it's going to be a real winter but
Again hydrangia arborescence or the absolutely outstanding or Smooth. HYDRADJA
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i like this one two been around a while summer.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Sweet, yep that's a another great one commonly. AVAILABLE i
think sixteen candles and ruby spice are ones that are
out there in the. Industry but you, know this is
a great gray. Grant white flower usually Starts july ish
when most other things are kind of shutting. Down really
does prefer even, moisture AND i think does best in
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part soun kind of give it that full sun in
the morning and a little afternoon protection and it'll be very.
Adaptable and just what a wonderful fragrance that has.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And pollinator, wise that one is truly. Maggan i've seen
those things just absolutely covered with you name, it it's on.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It, yeah you like, butterflies you get that. One you're
gonna have them hovering.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That one all, right before we take a, Break let's
go one. More AND i wasn't familiar with this particular
one as. Well this is A Saint john's, warp but
not like the one That i'm familiar.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
With, Yeah colns is just a slightly smaller version of
Shrubby Saint john's. Wart there is a CULTIVAR i think IT'S.
Gmo that's kind of old school out, there not, common
but it. Is and it's dry from this, one but
the leaves have kind of a glaucous bloom kind of
give a bluish gray hint so that it's really quite.
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Striking and then, man it is a long Flowered you
get three weeks plus around this, time and it is
just if it's a, pollinator especially, bees they will just
go bananzas for this.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
One and the yellow flowers looking at this picture absolutely
perlifles all, over perliper less all over the plant and
really bright yellow and again pollinators. Galore so you're right
when you say, it and it kind of explodes in
fireworks of yellow. Flowers, man this thing is. Covered now
what about does this get the berries like The Saint
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john's wart That i'm familiar.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
With, yeah a lot of the non native or more
tropical ones get the real dramatic seed. Sets this one
is life Shrubby Saint John's warts is a very just
small brown seed. Husk so, okay from kind of the floorest,
perspective not quite as.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Ornamental got. It this is called Calms Saint John's. Ward
we're talking With bill De. Boor he is From Woody
warehouse or website Is Woody warehouse dot com or going
through the top ten list for hot native plant colors for.
Summer we'll come back with The bill for morell finish
up his top ten here on news radio six to TEN.
Wtvn we are talking to yarding here on News radio
(08:34):
six y TEN Wtvn Native, yardening and of course we've
got our native specialists with, us The pride of The,
Boilermakers bill De boor From Woody. Warehouse woody warehouse dot
com is their. Website looking at a top ten list
for summer bloomers in the native plants that you might
want to consider for your. Landscape New jersey t lead
(08:54):
plant THAT i wasn't familiar, with and it's a. Wow
the foliage on that, One, Bill i'm telling you WHAT i.
Guess if it didn't, Flower i'll take it for just
for the. Foliage Wild hydrangia or Smooth, hydrajya the Aarborescence
klethra or summer sweet absolutely outstanding plant. Calms Saint john's
wart yellow flowers that are absolutely outstanding as. Well so,
(09:15):
Far i'm one hundred percent here on all the flowers
in the great looking. PLANT i think sometimes there is
that misconception about native, plants you. Know it's LIKE i
don't know AND i want to those in my. Landscape so,
far you're you, know you're bad in a thousand here
with these. Plants were, yes landscape desirable.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Plants well that'll be the first time in history you'll say, that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And and the last time as. Well so, yeah take that,
today all, Right so tell me about and before we
get back into this real, quick but tell me. This
when you're growing native plants like you guys do there
At Woody, warehouse that's all from. Seed, Correct that's?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yep so think about. This they're collecting seeds from your own,
plants or you go out and collect seeds from the,
wild and that's what you're starting your plants with and
then upgrading them into one gallon pots or quart pots
and then one gallons or whatever you do to upgrade
those and grow. Them but everything comes from.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Seed, yeah it can be challenging at, times and that's
WHY i don't have a lot of brown hair left.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
ROUND i don't know how you do. THAT i tell you,
again it makes us understand a little bit more about
the availability in the inventories and out there of native
plants and what it takes to ramp that. Up but
you guys are doing a great. JOB i, MEAN i
look at your list today compared to where you were
several years. Ago it's phenomenal where your lists are of
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native plants that you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Grow, yeah we've got probably a little over two hundred
and fifty and the way things are, going we seem
to add at least ten to twenty new species every single,
year especially more ho. Basios as we get into.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
That, well speaking of her, basis let's jump into your next.
Five purple prairie. Clover.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yep so if you're looking for that, tiny little dainty
plant for the front border foreground of your bed in full,
sun this is a great. One has a deep tap,
root very, durable and then right now it sends up you,
know lots and lots of these really beautiful purple flowers
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that bees and other pollinators will love you for.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Them there's this flower all summer. Long it's it's just.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Midsummer, yeah this is probably doesn't have the longest you'll
get a couple of weeks of color out of it
and then it'll go dorman and then you just kind
of have a sun looking you, know leaves to look.
At but, yeah it's not once, again with a lot
of the native plants, unfortunately unless you're getting into the native,
oars that flowering period is anywhere from one to four
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weeks usually. Max and that they're.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Done, yeah that is a beute royal cash. FLY i
love this. Plant.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
YEAH i mean anything that's you, know scarlet red in
the landscape is fairly. Striking and there's not too many
native plants that can call red you, know the flower,
color and this is one of. Them once, again it's
a prairie, species very, durable it doesn't require a lot
of fuss and. MUSTARD i personally think you need to get,
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three five seven of these, plants plant them in, mass
and then you'll have quite the red show when these
things are, flowering because individual stocks can just kind of
be a little leave something to be. Desired so plant
a couple of them in close, proximity AND i think
you'll like it even, more and so will the, hummingbirds.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You, Know AND i think, SCARLET i mean that's scarlet is,
perfect would go perfect with.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Gray you know that's a personal, opinion you, know.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
But you know you a point here in your description
WHICH i think is interesting about a lot of these
plants does not do well in nutrient rich.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Soils, yeah this is one that in the nursery, setting
if you load it up with, fertilizer it wants to
flop over because it's just too much. Growth you can't support.
It and so it actually will do better if you
do less to the.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Soils, interesting all, Right SO i always PICK i have
a plant of the week also that we put on our,
website and this happens to be one of the plants
of the week's. Myself butterfly.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Weed, YEP a great, small very once again good at nutrient,
poor dry. Soils butterfly Weed scletius tuberosa one to three
feet tall and. WIDE i can get a little solid than,
that but that's usually work caps. Out just very striking orange.
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Flowers obviously a larval host for the on our, butterfly
but just the flowers themselves are even if you don't
get into, monarch butterflies are worth the.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Show oh, yeah. Spectacular and again you talk about a
bed and breakfast for any of the pollinators out, there
that thing that they're all over, THAT i, mean they're on.
It you, know you MENTIONED i think talking about the
milkweed and all swamp.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Milkweed, YEAH i know some people have renamed it rose milk,
weed which marketing sounds a little, nicer because the swamp
milkweed is more of a wetland but can grow fine
and average. Soils i've grown it for, years gets taller
four feet wide and, tall pink flowers pink and, white
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but very. Fragrant and you really can't go wrong with
a lot of this. Sclepius but if you're looking for
something a little smaller with that orange, color the butterfly
weed is a good.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
One and of, course, yeah in the ground are in
containers that will work in both. Places so if you
don't have a backyard or a place to plant in the,
ground you can you can do these in a pot
and you plant, it they will, come whether it's in
a container or whether it's in the. Ground choreopsis AND
i DON'T i SOMETIMES i don't think about choreopsis very
much as far as the native.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Plant, yeah and you, know we've had so many cultivars
developed over the years that there's probably more cultivars than
there are actually species of. Choreopsis but you, know if
you think about long lasting in terms of, flowering is
a wonderful, option especially once again in that, foreground get
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it close to the edge of your landscape. Bed just
what a WONDERFUL i, mean the choreopsis will bloom for.
Months if you dead had, them you may get another.
Flush they'll take kind of a little bit of a
rest or, pause but pollinators love. Them it's a wonderful yellow.
Splash with the, cultivars you can get other, colors but
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just a really underutilized is a great native herbaceous.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Plant and again you refer to the fact that prefers
nutrient poor to medium.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Soils, yeah we've been so trained to just load up
your beds with fertilizers and amendments and other. Things and
maybe it's the fact That i'm a little bit of
a lazy, gardener BUT i love native plants because you
don't really if you plant the right plant in the right,
place you don't have to do a lot for them to.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Thrive and, again the native of, ours the selections that
are out there today in choreopsis is. CRAZY i like this,
one the. LANDSLEAF i mean that just a native one straight.
Species Jethro tall has always been one of my.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Favorites, yeah and it really if you're not there's so many.
Colors if you look into, choreopsis, yeah you say yellow
is not your, favorite look into. Them you will find
a lot of different options out.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
There, last but not, least AND i talk about a
pollinator magnet mountain.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mint, yeah AND i think this, YEAR i think clustered
mountain mint is the perennial of the year or something like.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Society, yeah so you can't go wrong with any of
the mountain. Innts we've got really a handful of them
that are native to The. Midwest but you, know you're
talking about something three to four feet tall and. Wide once,
again doesn't require a lot of, inputs full, sun and
you want to talk long bloom, periods this one will
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give you a month month and a, half almost two
months sometimes with re, blooms and it will just be
a busy city of pollinators flying in and out when
you plant this, one and very.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
FRAGRANT i think the the perennial of the year is
the the species is M U.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
T i SEE U. M, yeah AND i think the
common one. IS i think that's clustered mountain mint IF
i recall, correctly but if you're, wrong don't hold me to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It, no it is is cluster mountain. MAN i was
going to ask you what's the difference between the, two
and it's just another.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Species, yeah it's just another. Species the clustered mountain mint
has larger leaves and it actually gets almost kind of
a whitish gray hue towards the developing flower. Buds so
it's very ornamental in that. Sense but you, know once,
again it's a mountain, mint part of the mint. Family
so you want to talk about something the herbivores will
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kind of leave. Alone this is a good, one and
you get the. Fragrance anytime you crush the, leaves it's
going to sell strongly of.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Mint so IF i put that gray along with my
royal catch fly red, scarlet that would be great scarlet
and great.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Combination you, know if that's the color scheme you're going,
with then, yeah you would accomplish that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
RUN i love a build a. Board it's always fun
having you. On you are mister Native. PLANTS i tell
you guys are doing such a great. Job and again
it's so impressive to see where you guys have come
over the years as far as continuing to add more
and more native plans to your. Selections the quality of
what you guys grows phenomenal as, well and your knowledge is.
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UNSURPASSED i, appreciate appreciate you spending time with us this.
MORNING i look forward to spending more time with you
as we go, along continuing to push those native plants
to all those folks out, there because they do such
a great, job especially with our pollinators and just overall for,
planting going back with the. Natives appreciate your time, today.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Sir thank, You, Ron appreciate, it and look forward to
the next.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Time all, right build a boar and uh from what
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too bad right, now but it's gonna get hot a
little bit later, On so make sure you keep yourself
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hydrated and try to do. It whatever gardening you need
to do early in the morning or late in the.
AFTERNOON i. DID i tried to do a. LITTLE i just,
thought you know, What i've always liked to work out
in the end when it's. HOT i don't, know but
it's sure drained. Me the other DAY i had to,
FINALLY i, Said i'm. Done i'm gonna have to wait
it out till the sun starts to go down BEFORE
i can go back out and do. Anything it's that getting,
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old you know What i'm. Saying talking about, Yardening and
of course we're talking about these plant picks and the native.
Plants and one of my plant picks this week happened
to be butterfly, weed which one of his picks as
well as far As bill AND i did not know
he was going to have that on his list UNTIL
i got that. Yesterday but the other plant that's on this,
list WHICH i think is outstanding and you may be
interested in, planning it way underused and in flower if
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you look around right, now and that's the bottle brush buck.
Guy as a matter of, Fact ron rothis are a
hobby meteorologist and a certified arbus sent me a note
this week and, said look at my, buck my bottlebrush.
Buckeye this is, beautiful and it really. Is and it's
one of those plants that you see. IT a lot
of folks don't know what it is because it's a,
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shrub and you, know it's got that really nice and
it looks like a bottle brush flower sticking, up nice,
white creamy white, flower kind of narrow and, long has
the buckeye, leaves but it grows like a big shrub
and it's it's got really characteristic that's good throughout the entire.
Season it's when the leaves are, gone the, branches some
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of the lower branches can kind of lay on the.
Ground someone come up and then archback. Over it gets
usually ABOUT i Guess i've seen Something i've gotten as
much as you, know fifteen feet tall or. So but
it's just a big, shrub usually about six to eight
feet high ten feet, high and can just spread out
nice and. Wide but here's a plant that will tolerate the,
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shade will tolerate the sun as, well and does a
scorch like a lot of the other buckeyes can, do
especially in the heat of the, summer especially when it
gets dry and. Hot it can a little, bit but
not as. Bad but it's just a big shrubby buckeye
and it's. Outstanding if you've always wonted a buck eye
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in your, yard but you don't have room for the,
tree and of course we've got the red buckeyes and
some of the dwarfs that stay. Smaller but if you
don't have room for the, tree take a look at.
Bottlebrush if you've got a screen planting hedge planting an
area where this thing can kind of just mass out
and grow and kind of fill, in you'll love this.
Plant and when it's in, flower LIKE i, said most
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folks don't know what it, is pollinators will enjoy it as.
Well and, yes you get the buckeyes on it as,
well so it's a cool. One if you're not familiar with,
it you want to see what it looks like, again
go to our website At Ron wilson online dot com
and you'll find both of those picks, there as well
As bill's list of his top ten summer flowering native
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plants that you might want to consider for your. LANDSCAPE
i also have a honorable mention for this, week and
they're just starting to show their color depending on if
they're closer to a, building maybe out, already but otherwise
just starting to show the color a little. Bit and
that's golden rain. TREE i love golden rain. Tree and
gold rain tree has a pinately compound. Leaf you, know
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kind of looks like A i guess you could see
sometimes like a walnut or that type of a look to.
It just trying to describe it to. You smaller tree
twenty five thirty feet thirty five feet at the most
kind of rounded. Head usually you'll see them branch, low
a trunk comes, up then brand multi branch branch. Low
nice look at, plant kind of a tropical. Look but
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this time of the year when they come into, flower
they get like this star burst on the end of the,
branches the stick, out and then they just covered with
a really bright golden yellow flower flowers and it's absolutely,
spectacular and the whole head of those trees will be
just a yellow show of. Color and then when they're,
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done and this may be a little drawback in some,
cases those form a seed, pod and that seed pod
when when they dry and the wind, blows it shakes
inside and kind of sounds like it's. Raining so you
get this that's why the golden rain tree for the
name of. That and sometimes those seeds can fall and.
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Pop the little plants will pop up here and, there
easily pulled out of the, ground taken care of or
collect up the pods and get rid of them before
they make it into the ground and start to germinate
and grow next. Spring it does, happen but it's not that,
bad but it's well worth. It AND i always think
of WHEN i see those in flour every. YEAR i
always think of my father because back WHEN i was
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just getting in working at a garden center AND i
was in high school, still and our nursery the garden
center got in these plants Called golden rain, trees AND
i saw the picture on the sign and all that
kind of and it was really. Cool never seen it.
Before it's kind of it was like it was new
for our. Area SO i took anyone like a five gallon,
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pot SO i bought one AND i took it. Home
AND i had created this little patio planting for my
parents by their, patio AND i planted that in there
to give us this small ornamental type tree with a
yellow flower. Snow AND i, remember and when you see.
It when they're, small there's not a lot to. Them
it's like bottlebrush. Buckeye when you see it when it's,
small not much to see, there and you're kind of,
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LIKE i don't, know but once it starts to, grow
looks pretty dark and. Nice, well the golden rain tree
is the same Way kentucky coffee trees that way as.
Well you look at it and you go oh. Wow
but then as it continues to, grow it's a nice.
Plant but, ANYWAY i planted this and my dad came
home from work that evening AND i remember him going.
OUTSIDE i don't know if my mom said somebody planting
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another tree out there or, whatever because my parents' landscape
AS i was getting into this was on the. MOVE
i was moving stuff and plant stuff all the. Time but,
anyway planted this golden rain. Tree my dad walked out
looked at that and, said did you grub that out
of a fence row or something? Somewhere it looks like
something you got out of the fence back in by
the by the barn or. Whatever AND i was, like,
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no this is this golden rain tree. Thing and it
took a little. Convincing he wasn't convinced for a. While
but after a couple of years and it started to,
grow and then once it finally came into, flower he loved.
It it was a great. Plant But i'm always think
of my dad because he, said did you care of
that thing out of a fence? Row or where did
that come? From but time proved all when it grew
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and flowered and looked absolutely wonderful out. There all, right
one more break and we will finish. Up got tips
to share with, you and of course phone lines are
open at eight two to one WTV in here on
news radio six to TEN. Wtvn All, RIGHT i brought
this up a couple of weeks, ago And i've already
gotten a few emails exactly what we were talking about.
Here three. Hydrangees tree hydrange is becoming more and more
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popular all the. Time different types of hydrangeas like a
shrub on a, stick, right and they're really, cool very.
NICE i love. Him but here's the kicker twofold one
is most of the, time when you buy a tree,
hydraantia the trunk of that tree hydrangea is typically not
large enough to support the weight of the. Top once
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it starts to put out new growth leaves and then
flower on top of. That and if you get a
rainfall on top of that to add waight to it
a little bit of. Win guess what happens if they're not.
Staked they either snap on in half or they fall.
Over and this Week i've gotten a couple of emails
from folks that planted them last year that have either bent,
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over haven't snapped, fortunately or fell over out of the.
Ground if you have a tree, hydraja tree, lilac you
know where they have the dwarf creen lilacs, grafted any
of those small patio trees like, that you've got to
keep those staked until they get large enough and rooted
in well enough to support the weight on. Top, now
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typically when you buy like the, hydrangea that's going to
have like a bamboo steak right down the side of that,
trunk and it's usually got the garden twist ties on,
there the plastic twist, eie and that steak helps us
support the trunk itself all, right doesn't keep it from falling,
over but it helps us support the trunk itself so
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it doesn't. Bend so that's a stake that you'll probably
leave on that for a couple. Years now you've got
to adjust those garden ties once or twice a year
to make sure it doesn't cut into the trunk of
the tree as it expands in. Diameter but you've got
to leave that on there for. Support it's, very very
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important until that trunk diameter gets a at least three
quarters to an inch in diameter or, more and that
it's going to take a couple three. Years so you've
got to leave that steak, there but you adjust the
ties at least a couple times during the season to
make sure that it's tied, properly two or three times
loan of steak and adjust it enough so that it
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doesn't cut into the trunk as it's starting to increase in.
Diameter the other staking is to steak to support the
head on that thing from pulling it out of the.
Ground so you wind up staking, it whether it's a,
steak you, know one at an angle or a three
way staking or two was staking like you would a
normal tree if you were in a high wind area
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that you would stake a. Tree we're going to do
the same thing with this and you're gonna leave. That
this is one of those cases where we don't keep trees,
staked usually for more than a. Year in this case
with tree hydranges or these tree patio tree, plants we're
going to leave that on, there and again you're gonna
have to adjust it every year to adjust for trunk
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diameter increase until the trunk diameter gets large enough and
it gets rooted in enough to help support that. Plant
and so many times these are planted in by the
edge of the of the HU i see them where
you put the little wall there and you fill it
in with good, topsoil and then you plant it and
guess what it's so the soil is so loose at.
All it may have started to root, in but it
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can't support itself because you get a little weight up,
there a little wind, poom they fall. Over so you're
gonna have to keep it staked until it's solidly rooted
and trunk diame and are large enough to support the
head of those patio. TREES i have a tip SHEET
i put together because this happens so much, anymore and
these have become so, popular and rightfully, so because they're.
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GORGEOUS i put a tips sheet together on tips for
a successful tree. Hydrianjia it also tells you how to prune,
them because how you prune them each year will determine
how the head of that thing, looks how well it's
going to flower the next, year et, cetera et. Cetera
so if you would like, that go to our, Website
Ron wilson online dot com Or Ron wilson At iHeartMedia
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dot com and email me And i'll send you this
tip sheet on those tree. Hygjiats but, again we talked
about it a couple of three maybe four weeks, ago
But i'm already getting a couple of emails from folks
where they've bent over or fallen out of the. Ground
and that's the reason you got to keep them. Staked
it's an exception to the rule when it comes to
staking plants of how long you do. It but it's
got to be done on those until they get themselves
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where they can truly support that way to the head
of that thing on, top especially when they come into
flour and it collects all the. Water second thing THAT
i dealt with this, week THOUGH i haven't dealt with
it in a long. Time folks planted a dogwood, tree
did all the right THINGS i mean they did it
exactly to the, tea the way you should plant a,
tree balden bur, lapped took the bur lap off, EVERYTHING
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i mean, perfect but the tree is never perked. Up
they planted it back In april and the leaves have
just been, wilted not, yellowing not falling, off but just
kind of wilted and not looking. Good and they watered
it like it's supposed to, be. Etc. Etc and, said
you know what do we do? Here we were trying
everything and it just won't perk. Up SO i had
them go and check the soil, temp, moisture and they,
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said it always seems like it's kind of. Wet so
they got a moisture, meter stuck it in the rootball
and it registered. Wet stuck in the soil around it registered.
Wet send me a picture of the planting of the
root ball and there's grass, growing actually growing around the
outside of the, rootball a good indicator that it's staying too.
Wet and they, said, well you know, what we haven't
really watered it that much because it's been. Wet and
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SO i, said dig down beside the, rootball see what you.
Find they dug, down got about four inches. Down it
was a tuble. Water and they pulled this thing up
out or they took it out of the hole because
it hadn't done. Anything it was sitting in and it
was sitting in a tuble. Water the soil is so
compacted from when they built the house and compacted the
soil around the, house that it wasn't draining at all
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or barely out of this. Hole so if you move
into a new, home or you've never planted in the
home that you're there and you're gonna plant trees or
whatever it may be out in the, YARD i might
suggest you do. This go and dig yourself a hole
that's about twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches,
deep and take a gallon of water and pour it in.
That let it do its, thing and then come back
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and put it and once it's, empty put another gallon
of water in. There and see how long it takes
for it to drain out of that. Hole if it
takes more than the you, know some pot folks will
say three or four. HOURS i, say if it takes
more than the, day you got a. Problem you're not,
percolating you're not durraining very, well and you're gonna have
to come up with other things like digging channels to
get the water to drain away from the hole or,
whatever mounting it, up planting a little higher so that
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the plants are able to try to get rooted in
there without. Drowning and of course you're gonna have to
watch your watering as. Well but this is a situation
where it was actually over watered and you kind of
get the same symptoms from overwatering as you do from.
Underwatering so you, know again check the percolation of your
soil before you go out the, plant just to give
yourself an idea how well your soil does or does not.
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Good morning everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson, and you
are in the garden here on news radio six' TEN.
Wtvn you, know a lot of talk out there about native,
plants but coming on stronger and stronger all the, time
probably one of the biggest things out there right. Now
a lot of them being being. Recommended but where do
you find? Them still not that many available in a
lot of the local independent garden. Centers and LIKE i,
(00:23):
SAID i have just said to. Earlier you, know if
you go to your garden center and they don't have
a good selection of native, plants and they, say maybe
we don't have a source for, one just tell Them
woodywarehouse dot com is the place to. Go as a
matter of, fact From Woody warehouse dot, com our native
expert is with us this. Morning no stranger to our.
Show Mister bill de boor The pride of The. Boidlemakers
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Sir Happy, saturday Mister, Wilson Happy.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Saturday are you looking forward to football season right around the.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Corner i'll take it over baseball. SEASON i can't say
That i'm a huge, fan so this is a dull
period for me in sports, world.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Not even women's fast pitch soft.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ball i'd just never gotten into, baseball so.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay that's, right, perfect that's, hey you're pretty close.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Though, Yeah i've still got a few more years.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Ago all, right we haven't got a lot of. Time
it ALWAYS i love. It you put together a list
for us called Hot native plant colors for. Summer, uh
these are your, CHOICES i have to, say first of
all are, Outstanding and of COURSE i have this list
on our website At Ron wilson online dot, com so
folks can go and check it out as. Well But
(01:31):
i'd like for you to walk me through some of
your favorites and your top ten of hot native plant
colors for. Summer but before we do, that real, quick
i'd mentioned about the fact of a lack of availability
of native plants still in the local garden. Centers why is?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It, yeah so that's been something to, where you, know
the industry has not always, thought, well natives is something
that it sells for, Us so we're going to stick
with kind of the more mainstream. Things and as consumer
demand continues to grow for native, plants it's created this supply,
chain you know, issue and that's kind of Where Woody
(02:10):
warehouse is coming in saying how do we get this
product in front of? Consumers so if they are looking
for milk weed or you, know New jersey tea or spice,
bush we can be that wholesale supplier to get that to. You.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Excellent, well why you say we kick it off by
talking about that New jersey tea plant that happens to
be one of your.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Favorites, yeah it's just a great, compact hardy plant three by,
three lightly fragrant, flowers really just brings in the pollinators
left and, right and as long as you don't stick
it in a, soupy poorly drained, clay it will do just.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Fine once, established so needs good, drainings but otherwise tough,
plant you, know and you say you listen as very drought.
Established it's amazing how many PEOPLE i hear from seriously that,
SAY i, asked how long you know new plants not doing?
Well how much are you watering? It, well it's drought.
TOLERANCE i really haven't watered very much at. All.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah so many of these, things when they're in you,
know smaller containers from, nursery they have to get. Established
if those roots are not growing into the, soils then
it's still like a container in the ground to need supplemental. Irrigation,
yeah no doubt about.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It but, yeah so you gotta water once. Established different,
story but you have to stick with them util they get.
Established second on your, list WHICH i had to. DO
i had never heard of this one before is lead.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Plant, yeah that's a very unknown but wonderful shrub similar
To New jersey. Tea only gets two three feet tall and,
wide really striking purple with a hint of orange, flowers
very popular with, pollinators and then has a really grayish
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interesting cast to the. Leaves and so even the leaves
themselves are you, know quite ornamental and fun to look, at.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Say even if it didn't, flower which is. Spectacular the
foliage itself is that's really. Cool.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah it works really well with any sort of short,
grass and if you pair those, two you're gonna be
happy with the.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Results it's called lead. Plant smooth. Hydranges now this is
PRETTY i mean everybody who's what is Smooth not, everybody
but a lot of us know what smooth yedranges.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are, yeah anybody who's Purchased annabel Or incredible with those very,
huge beautiful, flowers you have this. Plant that's where it
was derived, from from our native. Hydrangea but just a real.
Workhorse full sun to full, shade just make sure you
give it a little more water mulch if it's in full,
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sun but in the shade part sun gives you spectacular
color in places that you're usually not accustomed to having
a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Flow common name Wild, Hydrangea.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah a little little bit of a marketing faux. Pa you.
Know botanists really don't tend to be marketing, people so
they like to give names like weed or, wild and
that just really doesn't sell well when you.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Like would you like to sit in on a plant
naming committee where you sit around the. Table i'm assuming
they drink some wine or beer or whatever and try
to come up with names for.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Plants, hey if you And Steve faults were part of,
that you could. Count.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
MAN i think that we come up some pretty good.
NAMES i tell, you you. KNOW i in that arborescence A.
Hydrangja there's a new one this year that we've been.
GROWING i really like it's called. Flowerful it's a little more, compact.
Man that thing is putting out the flowers like. CRAZY
i think it's going to be a real winter but
Again hydrangia arborescence or the absolutely outstanding or Smooth. HYDRADJA
(05:55):
i like this one two been around a while summer.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Sweet, yep that's a another great one commonly. AVAILABLE i
think sixteen candles and ruby spice are ones that are
out there in the. Industry but you, know this is
a great gray. Grant white flower usually Starts july ish
when most other things are kind of shutting. Down really
does prefer even, moisture AND i think does best in
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part soun kind of give it that full sun in
the morning and a little afternoon protection and it'll be very.
Adaptable and just what a wonderful fragrance that has.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And pollinator, wise that one is truly. Maggan i've seen
those things just absolutely covered with you name, it it's on.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It, yeah you like, butterflies you get that. One you're
gonna have them hovering.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That one all, right before we take a, Break let's
go one. More AND i wasn't familiar with this particular
one as. Well this is A Saint john's, warp but
not like the one That i'm familiar.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
With, Yeah colns is just a slightly smaller version of
Shrubby Saint john's. Wart there is a CULTIVAR i think IT'S.
Gmo that's kind of old school out, there not, common
but it. Is and it's dry from this, one but
the leaves have kind of a glaucous bloom kind of
give a bluish gray hint so that it's really quite.
(07:20):
Striking and then, man it is a long Flowered you
get three weeks plus around this, time and it is
just if it's a, pollinator especially, bees they will just
go bananzas for this.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
One and the yellow flowers looking at this picture absolutely
perlifles all, over perliper less all over the plant and
really bright yellow and again pollinators. Galore so you're right
when you say, it and it kind of explodes in
fireworks of yellow. Flowers, man this thing is. Covered now
what about does this get the berries like The Saint
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john's wart That i'm familiar.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
With, yeah a lot of the non native or more
tropical ones get the real dramatic seed. Sets this one
is life Shrubby Saint John's warts is a very just
small brown seed. Husk so, okay from kind of the floorest,
perspective not quite as.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Ornamental got. It this is called Calms Saint John's. Ward
we're talking With bill De. Boor he is From Woody
warehouse or website Is Woody warehouse dot com or going
through the top ten list for hot native plant colors for.
Summer we'll come back with The bill for morell finish
up his top ten here on news radio six to TEN.
Wtvn we are talking to yarding here on News radio
(08:34):
six y TEN Wtvn Native, yardening and of course we've
got our native specialists with, us The pride of The,
Boilermakers bill De boor From Woody. Warehouse woody warehouse dot
com is their. Website looking at a top ten list
for summer bloomers in the native plants that you might
want to consider for your. Landscape New jersey t lead
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plant THAT i wasn't familiar, with and it's a. Wow
the foliage on that, One, Bill i'm telling you WHAT i.
Guess if it didn't, Flower i'll take it for just
for the. Foliage Wild hydrangia or Smooth, hydrajya the Aarborescence
klethra or summer sweet absolutely outstanding plant. Calms Saint john's
wart yellow flowers that are absolutely outstanding as. Well so,
(09:15):
Far i'm one hundred percent here on all the flowers
in the great looking. PLANT i think sometimes there is
that misconception about native, plants you. Know it's LIKE i
don't know AND i want to those in my. Landscape so,
far you're you, know you're bad in a thousand here
with these. Plants were, yes landscape desirable.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Plants well that'll be the first time in history you'll say, that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And and the last time as. Well so, yeah take that,
today all, Right so tell me about and before we
get back into this real, quick but tell me. This
when you're growing native plants like you guys do there
At Woody, warehouse that's all from. Seed, Correct that's?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yep so think about. This they're collecting seeds from your own,
plants or you go out and collect seeds from the,
wild and that's what you're starting your plants with and
then upgrading them into one gallon pots or quart pots
and then one gallons or whatever you do to upgrade
those and grow. Them but everything comes from.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Seed, yeah it can be challenging at, times and that's
WHY i don't have a lot of brown hair left.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
ROUND i don't know how you do. THAT i tell you,
again it makes us understand a little bit more about
the availability in the inventories and out there of native
plants and what it takes to ramp that. Up but
you guys are doing a great. JOB i, MEAN i
look at your list today compared to where you were
several years. Ago it's phenomenal where your lists are of
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native plants that you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Grow, yeah we've got probably a little over two hundred
and fifty and the way things are, going we seem
to add at least ten to twenty new species every single,
year especially more ho. Basios as we get into.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
That, well speaking of her, basis let's jump into your next.
Five purple prairie. Clover.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yep so if you're looking for that, tiny little dainty
plant for the front border foreground of your bed in full,
sun this is a great. One has a deep tap,
root very, durable and then right now it sends up you,
know lots and lots of these really beautiful purple flowers
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that bees and other pollinators will love you for.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Them there's this flower all summer. Long it's it's just.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Midsummer, yeah this is probably doesn't have the longest you'll
get a couple of weeks of color out of it
and then it'll go dorman and then you just kind
of have a sun looking you, know leaves to look.
At but, yeah it's not once, again with a lot
of the native plants, unfortunately unless you're getting into the native,
oars that flowering period is anywhere from one to four
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weeks usually. Max and that they're.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Done, yeah that is a beute royal cash. FLY i
love this. Plant.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
YEAH i mean anything that's you, know scarlet red in
the landscape is fairly. Striking and there's not too many
native plants that can call red you, know the flower,
color and this is one of. Them once, again it's
a prairie, species very, durable it doesn't require a lot
of fuss and. MUSTARD i personally think you need to get,
(12:27):
three five seven of these, plants plant them in, mass
and then you'll have quite the red show when these
things are, flowering because individual stocks can just kind of
be a little leave something to be. Desired so plant
a couple of them in close, proximity AND i think
you'll like it even, more and so will the, hummingbirds.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You, Know AND i think, SCARLET i mean that's scarlet is,
perfect would go perfect with.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Gray you know that's a personal, opinion you, know.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
But you know you a point here in your description
WHICH i think is interesting about a lot of these
plants does not do well in nutrient rich.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Soils, yeah this is one that in the nursery, setting
if you load it up with, fertilizer it wants to
flop over because it's just too much. Growth you can't support.
It and so it actually will do better if you
do less to the.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Soils, interesting all, Right SO i always PICK i have
a plant of the week also that we put on our,
website and this happens to be one of the plants
of the week's. Myself butterfly.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Weed, YEP a great, small very once again good at nutrient,
poor dry. Soils butterfly Weed scletius tuberosa one to three
feet tall and. WIDE i can get a little solid than,
that but that's usually work caps. Out just very striking orange.
(13:56):
Flowers obviously a larval host for the on our, butterfly
but just the flowers themselves are even if you don't
get into, monarch butterflies are worth the.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Show oh, yeah. Spectacular and again you talk about a
bed and breakfast for any of the pollinators out, there
that thing that they're all over, THAT i, mean they're on.
It you, know you MENTIONED i think talking about the
milkweed and all swamp.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Milkweed, YEAH i know some people have renamed it rose milk,
weed which marketing sounds a little, nicer because the swamp
milkweed is more of a wetland but can grow fine
and average. Soils i've grown it for, years gets taller
four feet wide and, tall pink flowers pink and, white
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but very. Fragrant and you really can't go wrong with
a lot of this. Sclepius but if you're looking for
something a little smaller with that orange, color the butterfly
weed is a good.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
One and of, course, yeah in the ground are in
containers that will work in both. Places so if you
don't have a backyard or a place to plant in the,
ground you can you can do these in a pot
and you plant, it they will, come whether it's in
a container or whether it's in the. Ground choreopsis AND
i DON'T i SOMETIMES i don't think about choreopsis very
much as far as the native.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Plant, yeah and you, know we've had so many cultivars
developed over the years that there's probably more cultivars than
there are actually species of. Choreopsis but you, know if
you think about long lasting in terms of, flowering is
a wonderful, option especially once again in that, foreground get
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it close to the edge of your landscape. Bed just
what a WONDERFUL i, mean the choreopsis will bloom for.
Months if you dead had, them you may get another.
Flush they'll take kind of a little bit of a
rest or, pause but pollinators love. Them it's a wonderful yellow.
Splash with the, cultivars you can get other, colors but
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just a really underutilized is a great native herbaceous.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Plant and again you refer to the fact that prefers
nutrient poor to medium.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Soils, yeah we've been so trained to just load up
your beds with fertilizers and amendments and other. Things and
maybe it's the fact That i'm a little bit of
a lazy, gardener BUT i love native plants because you
don't really if you plant the right plant in the right,
place you don't have to do a lot for them to.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Thrive and, again the native of, ours the selections that
are out there today in choreopsis is. CRAZY i like this,
one the. LANDSLEAF i mean that just a native one straight.
Species Jethro tall has always been one of my.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Favorites, yeah and it really if you're not there's so many.
Colors if you look into, choreopsis, yeah you say yellow
is not your, favorite look into. Them you will find
a lot of different options out.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
There, last but not, least AND i talk about a
pollinator magnet mountain.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mint, yeah AND i think this, YEAR i think clustered
mountain mint is the perennial of the year or something like.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Society, yeah so you can't go wrong with any of
the mountain. Innts we've got really a handful of them
that are native to The. Midwest but you, know you're
talking about something three to four feet tall and. Wide once,
again doesn't require a lot of, inputs full, sun and
you want to talk long bloom, periods this one will
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give you a month month and a, half almost two
months sometimes with re, blooms and it will just be
a busy city of pollinators flying in and out when
you plant this, one and very.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
FRAGRANT i think the the perennial of the year is
the the species is M U.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
T i SEE U. M, yeah AND i think the
common one. IS i think that's clustered mountain mint IF
i recall, correctly but if you're, wrong don't hold me to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It, no it is is cluster mountain. MAN i was
going to ask you what's the difference between the, two
and it's just another.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Species, yeah it's just another. Species the clustered mountain mint
has larger leaves and it actually gets almost kind of
a whitish gray hue towards the developing flower. Buds so
it's very ornamental in that. Sense but you, know once,
again it's a mountain, mint part of the mint. Family
so you want to talk about something the herbivores will
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kind of leave. Alone this is a good, one and
you get the. Fragrance anytime you crush the, leaves it's
going to sell strongly of.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Mint so IF i put that gray along with my
royal catch fly red, scarlet that would be great scarlet
and great.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Combination you, know if that's the color scheme you're going,
with then, yeah you would accomplish that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
RUN i love a build a. Board it's always fun
having you. On you are mister Native. PLANTS i tell
you guys are doing such a great. Job and again
it's so impressive to see where you guys have come
over the years as far as continuing to add more
and more native plans to your. Selections the quality of
what you guys grows phenomenal as, well and your knowledge is.
(19:05):
UNSURPASSED i, appreciate appreciate you spending time with us this.
MORNING i look forward to spending more time with you
as we go, along continuing to push those native plants
to all those folks out, there because they do such
a great, job especially with our pollinators and just overall for,
planting going back with the. Natives appreciate your time, today.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Sir thank, You, Ron appreciate, it and look forward to
the next.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Time all, right build a boar and uh from what
do you Wearhouse woody weearhouse dot com quick, Break we come,
back got tips to share with you and phone lines
are open at eight two to ONE wtvn here on
news radio six to TEN wtvn talking to your ardening
here on news radio six y ten WTV. In it
is hot, outside is going to get. Hot it's not
too bad right, now but it's gonna get hot a
little bit later, On so make sure you keep yourself
(19:48):
hydrated and try to do. It whatever gardening you need
to do early in the morning or late in the.
AFTERNOON i. DID i tried to do a. LITTLE i just,
thought you know, What i've always liked to work out
in the end when it's. HOT i don't, know but
it's sure drained. Me the other DAY i had to,
FINALLY i, Said i'm. Done i'm gonna have to wait
it out till the sun starts to go down BEFORE
i can go back out and do. Anything it's that getting,
(20:09):
old you know What i'm. Saying talking about, Yardening and
of course we're talking about these plant picks and the native.
Plants and one of my plant picks this week happened
to be butterfly, weed which one of his picks as
well as far As bill AND i did not know
he was going to have that on his list UNTIL
i got that. Yesterday but the other plant that's on this,
list WHICH i think is outstanding and you may be
interested in, planning it way underused and in flower if
(20:33):
you look around right, now and that's the bottle brush buck.
Guy as a matter of, Fact ron rothis are a
hobby meteorologist and a certified arbus sent me a note
this week and, said look at my, buck my bottlebrush.
Buckeye this is, beautiful and it really. Is and it's
one of those plants that you see. IT a lot
of folks don't know what it is because it's a,
(20:53):
shrub and you, know it's got that really nice and
it looks like a bottle brush flower sticking, up nice,
white creamy white, flower kind of narrow and, long has
the buckeye, leaves but it grows like a big shrub
and it's it's got really characteristic that's good throughout the entire.
Season it's when the leaves are, gone the, branches some
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of the lower branches can kind of lay on the.
Ground someone come up and then archback. Over it gets
usually ABOUT i Guess i've seen Something i've gotten as
much as you, know fifteen feet tall or. So but
it's just a big, shrub usually about six to eight
feet high ten feet, high and can just spread out
nice and. Wide but here's a plant that will tolerate the,
(21:36):
shade will tolerate the sun as, well and does a
scorch like a lot of the other buckeyes can, do
especially in the heat of the, summer especially when it
gets dry and. Hot it can a little, bit but
not as. Bad but it's just a big shrubby buckeye
and it's. Outstanding if you've always wonted a buck eye
(21:57):
in your, yard but you don't have room for the,
tree and of course we've got the red buckeyes and
some of the dwarfs that stay. Smaller but if you
don't have room for the, tree take a look at.
Bottlebrush if you've got a screen planting hedge planting an
area where this thing can kind of just mass out
and grow and kind of fill, in you'll love this.
Plant and when it's in, flower LIKE i, said most
(22:19):
folks don't know what it, is pollinators will enjoy it as.
Well and, yes you get the buckeyes on it as,
well so it's a cool. One if you're not familiar with,
it you want to see what it looks like, again
go to our website At Ron wilson online dot com
and you'll find both of those picks, there as well
As bill's list of his top ten summer flowering native
(22:40):
plants that you might want to consider for your. LANDSCAPE
i also have a honorable mention for this, week and
they're just starting to show their color depending on if
they're closer to a, building maybe out, already but otherwise
just starting to show the color a little. Bit and
that's golden rain. TREE i love golden rain. Tree and
gold rain tree has a pinately compound. Leaf you, know
(23:04):
kind of looks like A i guess you could see
sometimes like a walnut or that type of a look to.
It just trying to describe it to. You smaller tree
twenty five thirty feet thirty five feet at the most
kind of rounded. Head usually you'll see them branch, low
a trunk comes, up then brand multi branch branch. Low
nice look at, plant kind of a tropical. Look but
(23:27):
this time of the year when they come into, flower
they get like this star burst on the end of the,
branches the stick, out and then they just covered with
a really bright golden yellow flower flowers and it's absolutely,
spectacular and the whole head of those trees will be
just a yellow show of. Color and then when they're,
(23:49):
done and this may be a little drawback in some,
cases those form a seed, pod and that seed pod
when when they dry and the wind, blows it shakes
inside and kind of sounds like it's. Raining so you
get this that's why the golden rain tree for the
name of. That and sometimes those seeds can fall and.
(24:12):
Pop the little plants will pop up here and, there
easily pulled out of the, ground taken care of or
collect up the pods and get rid of them before
they make it into the ground and start to germinate
and grow next. Spring it does, happen but it's not that,
bad but it's well worth. It AND i always think
of WHEN i see those in flour every. YEAR i
always think of my father because back WHEN i was
(24:36):
just getting in working at a garden center AND i
was in high school, still and our nursery the garden
center got in these plants Called golden rain, trees AND
i saw the picture on the sign and all that
kind of and it was really. Cool never seen it.
Before it's kind of it was like it was new
for our. Area SO i took anyone like a five gallon,
(24:57):
pot SO i bought one AND i took it. Home
AND i had created this little patio planting for my
parents by their, patio AND i planted that in there
to give us this small ornamental type tree with a
yellow flower. Snow AND i, remember and when you see.
It when they're, small there's not a lot to. Them
it's like bottlebrush. Buckeye when you see it when it's,
small not much to see, there and you're kind of,
(25:19):
LIKE i don't, know but once it starts to, grow
looks pretty dark and. Nice, well the golden rain tree
is the same Way kentucky coffee trees that way as.
Well you look at it and you go oh. Wow
but then as it continues to, grow it's a nice.
Plant but, ANYWAY i planted this and my dad came
home from work that evening AND i remember him going.
OUTSIDE i don't know if my mom said somebody planting
(25:41):
another tree out there or, whatever because my parents' landscape
AS i was getting into this was on the. MOVE
i was moving stuff and plant stuff all the. Time but,
anyway planted this golden rain. Tree my dad walked out
looked at that and, said did you grub that out
of a fence row or something? Somewhere it looks like
something you got out of the fence back in by
the by the barn or. Whatever AND i was, like,
(26:02):
no this is this golden rain tree. Thing and it
took a little. Convincing he wasn't convinced for a. While
but after a couple of years and it started to,
grow and then once it finally came into, flower he loved.
It it was a great. Plant But i'm always think
of my dad because he, said did you care of
that thing out of a fence? Row or where did
that come? From but time proved all when it grew
(26:24):
and flowered and looked absolutely wonderful out. There all, right
one more break and we will finish. Up got tips
to share with, you and of course phone lines are
open at eight two to one WTV in here on
news radio six to TEN. Wtvn All, RIGHT i brought
this up a couple of weeks, ago And i've already
gotten a few emails exactly what we were talking about.
Here three. Hydrangees tree hydrange is becoming more and more
(26:48):
popular all the. Time different types of hydrangeas like a
shrub on a, stick, right and they're really, cool very.
NICE i love. Him but here's the kicker twofold one
is most of the, time when you buy a tree,
hydraantia the trunk of that tree hydrangea is typically not
large enough to support the weight of the. Top once
(27:11):
it starts to put out new growth leaves and then
flower on top of. That and if you get a
rainfall on top of that to add waight to it
a little bit of. Win guess what happens if they're not.
Staked they either snap on in half or they fall.
Over and this Week i've gotten a couple of emails
from folks that planted them last year that have either bent,
(27:35):
over haven't snapped, fortunately or fell over out of the.
Ground if you have a tree, hydraja tree, lilac you
know where they have the dwarf creen lilacs, grafted any
of those small patio trees like, that you've got to
keep those staked until they get large enough and rooted
in well enough to support the weight on. Top, now
(27:58):
typically when you buy like the, hydrangea that's going to
have like a bamboo steak right down the side of that,
trunk and it's usually got the garden twist ties on,
there the plastic twist, eie and that steak helps us
support the trunk itself all, right doesn't keep it from falling,
over but it helps us support the trunk itself so
(28:19):
it doesn't. Bend so that's a stake that you'll probably
leave on that for a couple. Years now you've got
to adjust those garden ties once or twice a year
to make sure it doesn't cut into the trunk of
the tree as it expands in. Diameter but you've got
to leave that on there for. Support it's, very very
(28:41):
important until that trunk diameter gets a at least three
quarters to an inch in diameter or, more and that
it's going to take a couple three. Years so you've
got to leave that steak, there but you adjust the
ties at least a couple times during the season to
make sure that it's tied, properly two or three times
loan of steak and adjust it enough so that it
(29:02):
doesn't cut into the trunk as it's starting to increase in.
Diameter the other staking is to steak to support the
head on that thing from pulling it out of the.
Ground so you wind up staking, it whether it's a,
steak you, know one at an angle or a three
way staking or two was staking like you would a
normal tree if you were in a high wind area
(29:26):
that you would stake a. Tree we're going to do
the same thing with this and you're gonna leave. That
this is one of those cases where we don't keep trees,
staked usually for more than a. Year in this case
with tree hydranges or these tree patio tree, plants we're
going to leave that on, there and again you're gonna
have to adjust it every year to adjust for trunk
(29:47):
diameter increase until the trunk diameter gets large enough and
it gets rooted in enough to help support that. Plant
and so many times these are planted in by the
edge of the of the HU i see them where
you put the little wall there and you fill it
in with good, topsoil and then you plant it and
guess what it's so the soil is so loose at.
All it may have started to root, in but it
(30:08):
can't support itself because you get a little weight up,
there a little wind, poom they fall. Over so you're
gonna have to keep it staked until it's solidly rooted
and trunk diame and are large enough to support the
head of those patio. TREES i have a tip SHEET
i put together because this happens so much, anymore and
these have become so, popular and rightfully, so because they're.
(30:30):
GORGEOUS i put a tips sheet together on tips for
a successful tree. Hydrianjia it also tells you how to prune,
them because how you prune them each year will determine
how the head of that thing, looks how well it's
going to flower the next, year et, cetera et. Cetera
so if you would like, that go to our, Website
Ron wilson online dot com Or Ron wilson At iHeartMedia
(30:52):
dot com and email me And i'll send you this
tip sheet on those tree. Hygjiats but, again we talked
about it a couple of three maybe four weeks, ago
But i'm already getting a couple of emails from folks
where they've bent over or fallen out of the. Ground
and that's the reason you got to keep them. Staked
it's an exception to the rule when it comes to
staking plants of how long you do. It but it's
got to be done on those until they get themselves
(31:15):
where they can truly support that way to the head
of that thing on, top especially when they come into
flour and it collects all the. Water second thing THAT
i dealt with this, week THOUGH i haven't dealt with
it in a long. Time folks planted a dogwood, tree
did all the right THINGS i mean they did it
exactly to the, tea the way you should plant a,
tree balden bur, lapped took the bur lap off, EVERYTHING
(31:37):
i mean, perfect but the tree is never perked. Up
they planted it back In april and the leaves have
just been, wilted not, yellowing not falling, off but just
kind of wilted and not looking. Good and they watered
it like it's supposed to, be. Etc. Etc and, said
you know what do we do? Here we were trying
everything and it just won't perk. Up SO i had
them go and check the soil, temp, moisture and they,
(32:00):
said it always seems like it's kind of. Wet so
they got a moisture, meter stuck it in the rootball
and it registered. Wet stuck in the soil around it registered.
Wet send me a picture of the planting of the
root ball and there's grass, growing actually growing around the
outside of the, rootball a good indicator that it's staying too.
Wet and they, said, well you know, what we haven't
really watered it that much because it's been. Wet and
(32:23):
SO i, said dig down beside the, rootball see what you.
Find they dug, down got about four inches. Down it
was a tuble. Water and they pulled this thing up
out or they took it out of the hole because
it hadn't done. Anything it was sitting in and it
was sitting in a tuble. Water the soil is so
compacted from when they built the house and compacted the
soil around the, house that it wasn't draining at all
(32:44):
or barely out of this. Hole so if you move
into a new, home or you've never planted in the
home that you're there and you're gonna plant trees or
whatever it may be out in the, YARD i might
suggest you do. This go and dig yourself a hole
that's about twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches,
deep and take a gallon of water and pour it in.
That let it do its, thing and then come back
(33:05):
and put it and once it's, empty put another gallon
of water in. There and see how long it takes
for it to drain out of that. Hole if it
takes more than the you, know some pot folks will
say three or four. HOURS i, say if it takes
more than the, day you got a. Problem you're not,
percolating you're not durraining very, well and you're gonna have
to come up with other things like digging channels to
get the water to drain away from the hole or,
whatever mounting it, up planting a little higher so that
(33:29):
the plants are able to try to get rooted in
there without. Drowning and of course you're gonna have to
watch your watering as. Well but this is a situation
where it was actually over watered and you kind of
get the same symptoms from overwatering as you do from.
Underwatering so you, know again check the percolation of your
soil before you go out the, plant just to give
yourself an idea how well your soil does or does not.
(33:51):
Drain all, right all, right that's it for. Today thanks
to our, callers thanks to our, Sponsors thanks of course
to l our, producer because Without, ella none of this
stuff would. Happen So, ella thank you so much for
all that you do to make us sound as good
as we. Do now do yourself a. Favor go out
and keep planting those, Trees keep planting those native. Plants
be pollinator, polite be, friendly get the kids and dogs
(34:12):
involved with. Gardening pamper your worms by all. Means pamper
those worms stay cool and go out and make it
the absolute best weekend of your. Life see you
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