Classic Gardens from April 19th, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Starting next month, Alabamians will have to use a star
ID to board a commercial flight.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Here's Jim Faridy, Birmingham Airports spokeswoman Kim Hunt.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
We have known this was coming for a very very
long time. Now May seventh is right around the corner.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The adults will need the real ID with the star
in the upper right hand corner before they can board
a flight.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Travelers who who show up here without that compliant real
ID may.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Face additional screening.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
They're definitely going to face delays and the truth is
they may not be able to go through security.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
And she says travelers should expect.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Delays that are going to be caused by this potentially, unfortunately,
can cause delays for everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Recommends travelers flying on or after May seventh arrive up
to two hours early for their flight. I'm Jim Ferriday.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
A bill in the legislature sparks some old tensions because
it would reshape the Birmingham Water Works Board. It would
shift power from Birmingham to surrounding areas. The bill's goal
is to transform the board into our regional authority, reduced
to only five members. Free gas and groceries today in
Gadsden New Destiny Christian Church is giving away ten thousand

(01:06):
dollars worth of gas and groceries at the mobile Gas
station near Donaho Elementary. The church's reverend Steve Smith says.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
You just need to show up at nine o'clock. We'bi
here at about seven thirty. A lot of people have
already lost jobs, and so we want to make sure
that first and foremost that we'veministered to people's sold.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
He says, the church's mission is to be with people
in good times and especially in bad times. This is
the tenth year for the church's pre Easter giveaway. A
North Alabama road in Guntersville shut down Friday afternoon with
what police are calling delicately spilled commercial chicken remains. Police
aren't saying how it happened, what chicken plants involved, or

(01:48):
if charges are possible. I'm Charlie O'Brien and this is
Birmingham's news, traffic and weather station News Radio one oh
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Speaker 5 (02:01):
Starting out with some clouds around this morning, maybe an
isolated shower. Most areas staying dry today. We'll have some
breaks in the clouds this afternoon. Highs in the eighties,
lows in the sixties tonight and tomorrow for Easter. Sunday
still looks mainly dry, a very warm day, highs.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
In the eighties.

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There will be a chance for scattered showers and storms
late tomorrow night and on Monday. The rain chance Monday
sixty percent. I'm WBrC First Alert Chief Meteorologist West Wyatt
on your sun right now.

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Speaker 9 (02:55):
It's the classic gardens and landscape show on the head
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Speaker 10 (03:06):
Two percent this Christ and Chris, Chris knows it. Chris
knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
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Speaker 11 (03:23):
And now you're a host.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Chris Joiner and Chris.

Speaker 12 (03:29):
Good Morning Weave for the Eastern addition of Classic Garden
Landscape show Resurrection Weekend. And uh, we're past Good Friday.
Good Friday was yesterday. See you better plant.

Speaker 11 (03:41):
There's no there's no excuse that anyone has. Now. I
don't care how good your pansies look, rip them up
and put put your new bed and plants in. Yes, sir,
the Garden Center was hopping yesterday. I think I think
everybody listened to their everybody listened to the farmers, Amak
and the great gram Paws and everybody when they say,

(04:02):
don't plant till Good Friday. Because man, I know Anne
said she was. She was slammed all day long. Vegetables, bedding, plants, flowers, pushes,
you name it, we got it.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Man.

Speaker 12 (04:12):
So so usually I mean, look, look a week ago,
you know, flirting with a frost.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 12 (04:20):
So God's telling you, hey, look do what I say,
wait till Good Friday.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
And hey, sure enough.

Speaker 12 (04:27):
So you know, really we just in the Garden Center
and it's our industry like nationwide or you know, Southeast wide.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
I would say, good Friday.

Speaker 12 (04:41):
That's when you get the peak of your vegetables and
your your inventory in so you got from now until
Mother's Day peak inventory you can get. Everything is perfect,
everything's spit you one, you come in, get it and
it's fresh, and it's it's nice, and it's because it's

(05:02):
just rolling in, rolling out, rolling.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
In, rolling out, and uh.

Speaker 12 (05:05):
But when you get to Mother's Day, obviously that's the
peak of the season and like most of your garden
center start backing off on ordering and trying to sell
out what they've already got. So what I'm trying to
tell you is is you've got a window between about
now and about Mother's Day where the selection is fantastic.

(05:26):
So that's when you need to come in the garden center.
So these next what three weeks or whatever is very important.
Go ahead and get in and get your stuff because it's, uh,
it's that time of year.

Speaker 11 (05:36):
Yes it is. And I tell you we had Anne
kept texting me and calling me all week long. You know,
she had a bunch of folks coming in and really
bragging on like the service that that you know, and
you know, Chris Keith better than I do, because you
were in the garden center for years and years and years.
You know, Chris Keith or an y'all can be helping
like five different people at once and giving them all

(05:57):
personalized attention. Right, So I know, I talk with the.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Coll like a point guarden there.

Speaker 11 (06:02):
You know what I'm saying. So you know, you're helping
your water and you're helping you know, four or five
different people. You know, you're holding conversations. Everybody's laughing, everybody's joking.
It's a great environment. But so many people that I know,
Ann talked to in the garden center and I talked
to a couple I was fertilizing yards up in Gardendale,
Morris area, and people were spragging on two things. Number one,

(06:23):
the selection we have and the quality of the plants,
because I mean, we take exceptional care of our betting plants.
And then the fact that we are so much cheaper
than like all your big box stores, so like all
your loadsos places like that, we're cheaper and we have
better selection. So come on in, yeah and see what
we got because it is fantastic.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Well that's the thing.

Speaker 12 (06:44):
You know, if you're trying to do do it yourself
landscape job and you come into the garden center and
you want say, okay, you want the azaleas on the
left obviously to match the azaleas on the right, and
you're planting ten of them. You go in the big
box store, they might have two or three. We got
twenty five of thirty, you know what I'm saying, so

(07:04):
you can come in there and get Obviously, we've got
to keep it stuck like that because I'm toting it
out the back door as fast as it's coming in
the back door, and it's going out the front door.
So we have to keep about two or three times
more stuff because I'm using it. You know, we've literally
got a sold section in the garden center, and we've

(07:25):
got like the next three weeks work, you know, shrub
wise back off in this corner, and it's a do
not touch section that's got all the stuff that we
will be doing in three weeks. And some of the time,
you know, we've got half of it there and the
other halves on a truck.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
Coming kind of things.

Speaker 12 (07:44):
So you know, it's it's a conurity guards back there,
protecting our customers. AK forty seven standing back there, say
leave my plants along, you know.

Speaker 11 (07:54):
Oh man, Yeah, I was thinking. I don't know why
I was thinking about I was thinking about rain, because
they've got some rain coming this week, hopefully, because we
need it. Man, I'll tell you, I was starting to
kind of see some yards drying up. But I was
outside just listening to the birds, and then I was
thinking about how April showers bring me flowers. Well, you know,

(08:14):
our suppliers bringing us flowers. Man, I tell you, it's
just I get so excited this year because every time
I come in the garden center, it's like a new
shipment has come in of shrubs, you know, of plants.
You know. I mean we got bulk material coming in
and out. You know, I mean we're loading We're loading
pine straw and mulch, you know, as fast as we can.

(08:35):
And you know, trucks are rolling in with your bulk
materials and rock and all that kind of stuff. It's just, man,
it's it's our Christmas. You know, get giddy and excited, you.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
Know, honestly, it is our Christmas, Chris.

Speaker 12 (08:45):
And you know, we start in about you know, when
it's raining every other day in February, me and the
guys will literally be in there taking plants off the
mats and uh, you know, pressure washing and the mats
and the garden Center, and we'll go in there and
we'll put new gravel on the walk ways and it's
kind of like if you think about the ballpark, you know,

(09:09):
you they'll start about the first of February. They'll go
in there and over overseat it will dry and they'll
do this and they'll add new you know, they use
that old fine red rock or it's just about like
powder on the infields, and now they're adding more of
that and they're shining, shining things up and painting the
dugouts and doing all that. And it's the same thing
in the garden Center. We start about the first of

(09:30):
February when it's pouring down rain. We can't work. We're
in there doing clean up and getting everything spit shined
for the spring. And then that way, you know, you
get into you know, halfway into March and half you know,
from then into April. Uh, it just depends on when
the weather breaks and then all hell breaks.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Look, we love it, we love it.

Speaker 12 (09:54):
And then you got you got that eight to ten
week window where everything, you know, profit wise for the
year has got to come in that window.

Speaker 6 (10:05):
And that's why we do the radio show.

Speaker 12 (10:06):
Yeah, you know, well to help you out to our
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Speaker 6 (10:18):
We'd love to hear from you. But yeah, it's planting season,
yes sir.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
You know you're talking about the infields and the fine,
fine dirt and everything. It's amazing. Like, so my daughter
plays with Revolution Soccer Club, which is like a new
group that has formed in trust Field, and uh, they
just redid all their baseball fields at the sports complex
and it's all turf, synthetic turf and even like the
you know, everything there, the infield, you know, the track

(10:44):
around it and everything is uh is synthetic turf. And man,
I'm telling you that stuff looks sharp. Grass is going
to the wayside. Grass. It's going to the wayside for
a lot of sports as far as playing fields, you know,
and it's it's it's crazy. Like so there's a couple
around town and you know, some of them, some of
the synthetic turf is a little shorter and it's almost
like kicking a ball across across concrete and it flies,

(11:07):
you know what I'm saying. And then they have some
that's just a little bit taller and and it mimics
real grass because it kind of slows and slows the
ball down green. That stuff so short.

Speaker 12 (11:16):
I mean, it's just like like you go and play
pup but golf and you knock the ball and.

Speaker 11 (11:25):
Well, I tell you what. That stuff gets so hot,
like especially spring spring ball. With soccer, spring season is
not that bad, you know, it's it's actually kind of
chilly and cool for most of the spring season because
we're going to be wrapping up in the next few weeks.
Fall season is when it's hot because you know, we
usually start you know, practices and you know, late July,

(11:46):
early August, and then even you know, the game start
in September and October. You know, September and October, it's
still pretty warm out there. Yeah. You play on some
of those synthetic turf fields and man, you can just
smell like the rubber.

Speaker 12 (11:58):
Yeah, you know, like burning you go down on it
because you know, them kids they play rough, yeah, and
uh they go to slide on that stuff and it's like.

Speaker 11 (12:06):
Oh they get burned up. Yeah, I know a couple
of that and couple of the goalies will wear the leggings,
you know, leggings because it's you know, diving and sliding
to catch the ball, get the ball. You know, it
keeps their legs from getting torn up.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Well, it's almost like you get carpet burned from that stuff.

Speaker 11 (12:21):
But you know, I guess a lot less maintenance.

Speaker 12 (12:24):
It's ball. Yeah, you ain't got to cut it. You know,
you ain't got to line it. You ain't got to
do anything. You know, it's all the lines are painted
and all. Yeah, So I mean no maintenance until.

Speaker 11 (12:34):
You go to one that they use it for multiple
fields and there's a million different lines on there because
they play football, they play soccer, they play lacrosse and
whatever whatever else on the on those fields. And uh, kids,
it's like, what line do I use?

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah, that's crazy. Well, Chris, let's take a break right quick.

Speaker 12 (12:54):
Or number If you want to call us at the
garden center, ask us a gardener question.

Speaker 6 (12:58):
Uh, are on the radio show and ask us a
gardening the question. You can do that.

Speaker 12 (13:02):
It's two O five four three nine nine three seven too.
If you want to call us at the garden center
Monday through Friday, we're not there on the weekend, so
you know, call us Monday through Friday, or come see
us Monday through Friday. We're at eighteen fifty five Carson
Road to our number at the Garden Center. If you
need landscaping, irrigation, night lighting, if you need a patio

(13:23):
or a taina wall, forest, multching, land clearing. I know
Justin's got to dig a foundation for somebody over at
Odinville the first and next week, so he's gonna be
over there. We'll be moving equipment over there and starting
that first and next week we come back from the
from the break, I'll tell you about some work we've

(13:43):
been doing. We've been all over the place like normal.
Got to do a little work a little closer to
home this week. I'll tell you about it as soon
as we come up back from the break. You're listening
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Speaker 6 (17:01):
Don't know you're plants. What if you want plants? You
got to come to Classic Gardens and Landscape.

Speaker 10 (17:09):
You know.

Speaker 12 (17:09):
You take the prettiest bed and plants you've seen this spring,
and you multiply it by five, and that's what ours
look like just now.

Speaker 11 (17:17):
An I'll probably multiply that by about ten ten next week,
you know what I mean. I think she's already probably
putting together orders as we tell Yeah.

Speaker 12 (17:26):
She's supposed to be taking off for the weekend because
you've got family in town. You know, we don't work
on the weekends. But you know this time of year,
Anne's sitting there and contemplating her next move. And uh,
she's probably sitting there even though the kids are in
town and grandkids and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
She's putting together.

Speaker 12 (17:44):
An order in her head as soon as she can
dial them up, she'll be like, that's the right line.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
Yeah, I think we got tea long the line. Good morning, Teela,
how are you?

Speaker 14 (17:53):
Hey, guys, Good morning on this gorgeous resurrection Sunday weekend.
It's beautiful, Yes it is, ma'am. Okay, Hey, So I
want to command one of your employees. I had a
special need for something I was doing and I needed
a particular plant, and I called in about it. It's
out of season right now, because I don't know all

(18:14):
my plants in their seasons. But she was so kind.
After the phone call, she texted me pictures of what
y'all did have, so I can see as you absolutely
so sweet of her, and the pictures of what your
plants were were just absolutely stunning. So I really want
to get a friend to come with me out there
and just tour your place sometimes, because my friends all
have houses and yards and they do things that I

(18:37):
float home, so I don't have a particular place to
plant something. But the plants were gorgeous that she sent
me aside, and she just went to extra mile. I
think her name was maybe Jeanine.

Speaker 11 (18:45):
That sound close, that's Jenny.

Speaker 14 (18:49):
Jenny, Okay, I didn't know it. Jenny's Yeah, Jenny's amazing.

Speaker 12 (18:55):
Yeah, Jeannie's worked with me and Chris for nearly twenty
years and she's fantastic. She's she's just show right there
in the office and if she's she's kind of got
her hand in every every facet of it and h
been working on forever and she's she's fantastic.

Speaker 14 (19:14):
Yeah, Well, I'm gonna I'm going to put that contact name.
I'll put Jeanine in that. I didn't hear her correctly,
but I'll put Jenny in my phone. Notice that's her
and anything else, I'll definitely call her and hopefully I
can get someone out there with me sometime when they're
ready to do something in their yard, because so beautiful
y'all get some high cofty plants there.

Speaker 12 (19:32):
Yeah, three quarters of the time when you when somebody
answers the phone, it's gonna be Jenny. And uh, she
does that. She helps Chris run the long care, she
helps keeping my tail in gear. I mean literally just
checks the guys in, checks the guys out. She she
does a fantastic job. But yeah, you're gonna get that
kind of serim classic gardens regardless of who you are

(19:55):
the phone.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
We're gonna do everything we can to help you.

Speaker 14 (19:58):
Yeah, no doubt about it. A And then you guys
to people all the time. So keep up the great
work and I'll let y'all back to the next person.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Thank you to you, Yankee, Teyla.

Speaker 12 (20:07):
And our number if you want to call it, it's
two O five four three nine nine three seven two.

Speaker 11 (20:12):
Jenny is like and two point zero. Yeah, you know's
Jenny is. She she's been with us twenty years. She
used to work around the garden center help you and
her work in the garden center, you were like, you
were like seals and plant guys, and she did a
lot of the you know.

Speaker 12 (20:28):
I guess register if I had to guess, sure enough,
I guess Genny's probably been there about sixteen, probably years
or something like that. She started with me in the
garden center and had hired about three girls. You know,
it was that time of year where you know, it
was just like this time of year April, and she
would every year she'd hire four or five people to
work with me in the garden center. And you know,

(20:49):
out of four or five, you'd have two that pan
out kind of thing, and uh, Jenny was one of
the ones that panned out. And not only did she
pan out, but she excelled and she's done great and
here she is. She basically helps run all the operations
at the garden. She's our tech genius too.

Speaker 11 (21:08):
All say that ship man when it comes to computers
and software and phones and whatnot, I'm a dummy when
it comes to when it comes to anything tech wise,
I'm not. I'm a handshaking hug kind of guy. Yeah,
you know what I mean. And but when that's funny,
because if I ever have issues with my phone or
my tablet that we use, I'm like, gen hey, help.

Speaker 12 (21:27):
I had something going on with my phone, and my
wife's the same way. And I had something going on
with my phone the other day and I really didn't
have time to let Genny mess with it from longer.
She would have figured it out pretty quick, but I
had turned off, so like, it's so much easier for
me just to hit my little speaker button and send

(21:48):
a text right, you know, yeah, always send it right quick.
And it might look stupid when it comes to you,
but you'll figure it out in a second, because uh,
it don't talk red and deck, you know, so it
might come in a little, it might come a little funky,
but you'll figure it out in a second. It looks

(22:10):
it looks totally red when it comes out there.

Speaker 11 (22:12):
Oh man, that's awesome. You know we're talking about we
were talking about watering and uh this at the end
of this week, Chris Keith, I started seeing yards getting dry. So,
I know, we got I know, we got chances of
rain coming up pretty soon. But if you haven't like
turned on your irrigation system to make sure that it's
that it's working properly, you're gonna you're gonna get behind

(22:34):
the eight ball, or you are behind the eight ball,
because I saw some yards getting pretty dry this week.

Speaker 12 (22:37):
Yeah, well there's a lot of the factors in that, so,
I mean, yeah, we had it's crazy because you have
nights in the forties and then you get up in
the day and it's eighty two or three degrees. Not
only that, but you got different factors like the wind. Man,
it's been wind. It has like this whole month. Yeah,
it has been a on and off I mean there
was I know, there's been three or four days in

(23:00):
in the last three weeks that y'all probably had to
pull off right, you know, just because the wind the
wind factor, uh, for our guys holding the pattern. You know,
if you're going out through there and you're h you're
spraying a yard or you're you know, putting out fertilizer
and you got a heavy gust of wind or whatever,
it screws your pattern up. And if you pattern screwed up,

(23:21):
then you don't get good coverage. You don't get good coverage,
you get weeds. So we'd rather pull off for a
day and do something else, and to go back and
do it when it's not windy to make sure we
get good coverage on a product. Otherwise, you know, you
get a streaker of weeds in there or whatever, and
then you're having to do more spraying and all that

(23:43):
is just better for the whole deal.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
If you just pull off for a day, yep, and u.

Speaker 11 (23:48):
Even fertile even a granule fertilizer. You know, you got
thirty forty mile an hour gust and you're out there
pushing fertilizer and it's you know, blowing it around everywhere.
They just think they just ain't.

Speaker 12 (23:58):
Good back in the old days too, you know, Chris,
the way just take long food plus iron for example,
you know, it's it's the pellet is much larger than
the stuff that y'all are spreading. The is what they
call it a micro pillet, but it's it's more easy
to get blown away because obviously the pillet is smaller.

(24:18):
So you know, with that being said, it's it's just
a better ideas to back off.

Speaker 11 (24:23):
Of it and go back in. We're gonna do something.
It's gonna be done. We're gonna make sure we do
it right. Yeah, even if it knocks us behind schedule
a little bit. We want to make sure that getting
your money's worth. Basically. Man, at the break, Chris Keith,
I was talking about lace bugs.

Speaker 12 (24:37):
Oh yeah, and uh, last year was probably I mean
me at the house, I fought army worms from like
the middle or late May all the way to like July,
like I had my my hayfield, like just just like

(24:58):
cycle after cycle after cycle of army worms.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
And lace bugs last year were just horrible.

Speaker 12 (25:06):
And uh, you we were talking about it at the break,
how you were You said, Man, you know, lace bugs
are just and that winter.

Speaker 11 (25:13):
Over, Yeah they will, yeah, the lay eggs and the
eggs will hatch out and the next thing, you know,
I was, I was cutting through. I got a couple
of Zelie as big as old fashioned zelle is by
my back deck, and I was cutting through to hanging
a couple of baskets up, and so I squeezed through
both of them, you know what I'm saying, And they're
brushing against me. And when I got back out, I
had our work shirts are kind of like a dry

(25:34):
fit material on like a I don't know, it's not yellow,
but it's not green on all the color it is,
you know what I'm saying. But uh, I looked down
at my shirt and I looked down at my pants
and it's like I was covered in lace bugs all
over it. And I start flipping over the back of
the a Zelie as I'm like, oh man. So I
had some acs of Azellie evergreen food was systemic, and

(25:56):
I put on there, got it watered in, and then
I put them on my side of Zelia's too, because
they they hatched out. And I'm probably going to come
back in with some with some spray too, some insecticide
spray and give them and uh, you know, spray those
so I can knock them down real quick. But then
I got that azelie evergreen food with a systemic insecticide
are already down on them, so that will keep them

(26:18):
protected basically moving on through the season. But if a zelias,
and even Sarah was saying last night, she's like, yeah,
those leaves aren't as like bright green as they were
just a few weeks ago, and so those the lace
bugs basically will just suck all the sugars and sap
out of there, and it'll end up turning the leaves
yellow and eventually into a brown. So if you're azelias

(26:40):
are starting to look puny right now, flip over the
back of the leaf and see if you see some
real lacey looking insects crawling on the back of them,
because that's they're out there.

Speaker 13 (26:49):
Man.

Speaker 12 (26:49):
Well, when it first starts, what you'll do, you'll see
the face of the leaf, and what they do they
hook to the back and suck the pigment out the front.
So you'll start seeing just like little white dots on
the front of your azalea leaves. And then as it
gets worse and worse and worse, it almost turned like
a silver like an iliagnus leaf, and you're they're just

(27:11):
sucking the juice out of this plan. So usually we
recommend a fertil on mozalea evergreen food with the systemic insecticide.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
You do that.

Speaker 12 (27:22):
Easter, fourth July Labor Day as a minimum. So write
that down Easter, which is like tomorrow fourth July, that's
you know, July, and then Labor Day, and that's your minimum.
If you've got a heavy infestation of lace bugs, or
if you've got guardenias and you got a heavy festation
of white flies, or if you got like if you

(27:45):
got a huge guardenia or that just every year you
have trouble with white flies, you probably already use a
little bit of it monthly and just keep that going.
You could even use some of the fertilong systemic insect drench.

Speaker 11 (27:58):
Around And she's throwing her hand up in there right
now because she praises that drench.

Speaker 12 (28:04):
Yeah, you can use a little bit of that drench
around one of those if you got that problem plant.
You know that we had a lady and I can't
remember her name, Chris, if she's down in Hoover. I
cut her guardena. We did some work for I know.

Speaker 11 (28:16):
There are two guardenias on the side of the little.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Couple lives down there by the creek.

Speaker 11 (28:20):
Yep.

Speaker 12 (28:20):
And she had some guardenas I'm talking about. I cut
them back for when I swear they were fifteen feet.

Speaker 11 (28:26):
The trunks were like baseball bats.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Yep. They would get eat up with white flies.

Speaker 12 (28:31):
And you could throw all this systemic insecticide you wanted
around those things, you know, the old school stuff that
we had, and it wouldn't even knock a den in it.
And you could mix up some furlong systemic insect drench
and pour in those things and man, you wouldn't find
a white flight off.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
It worked that good.

Speaker 11 (28:47):
You know, you cut those things way back. And we're
talking about azelia's. You know, azelia's are phasing out, you
know what I'm saying, Like, you know, they're they're pretty
much done with their bloom cycles. So if you need
to do some heavy pruning on your azalea's, now is
the time to do it. And you know, if you've
got azalias that are just way out of bounds and
you need to take them back from eight feet down

(29:08):
to a foot, it'll look bad, but you can do
it and those things will flush back out with the
Zellia evergreen food and uh, basically look like a brand
new plant. So if you need to cut some back now,
it's gonna be time to do it.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Guardenias, you know you may have some.

Speaker 12 (29:23):
You know, we had another one of those funky freezes,
you know this summer where it got down super cold
for about three days. If you got any damage to plants,
you can go in there and do a severe pruning
on them right now.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Again.

Speaker 12 (29:36):
You go right behind it with the furlong mosaic evergreen
food and it will help flush that new growth back
out on there. But uh, guardenias, Uh, you know, if
you've got some older large gardenias and.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
You want to do a massive pruning on them, you
can do it. Uh.

Speaker 12 (29:51):
If you've got Hugh mangus yopon hollis and you're one
of those people that just won't let me come out
there and rip them out and put new ones in
for you, you can cut them to the dirt.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
It'll come right back this time of year. Yep. Something
that you can do it.

Speaker 12 (30:05):
Lord Pedlum's the same way, Lord Pedlum, be aggressive. If
you can take it down to ten inches tall and
it'll jump right back out.

Speaker 11 (30:12):
You still got Lord Pedlans coming up at your place
from the you know, they used to make the big
and the bigger, and you got the biggest mine.

Speaker 12 (30:19):
Yeah, and use them for a foundation shrib and no
long gone. Eradicated them like the last few suckers. I
think I sprayed them with round up twenty five times
and then I finally killed it.

Speaker 11 (30:33):
Oh man, those are some Those are some hosses right there.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
For sure.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
I mean I would like back up to them with
my truck and stand on the tailgate and keep the
tops flat.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
So they used to make they used to make a
lord peddlums. You had two varieties. One that got big,
one that got bigger. Chris Keith got some mutant and
it was the biggest. And now they make up. Now
they make them that get from a foot tall all
the way up to tree height.

Speaker 12 (30:59):
Every now and then you see somebody like Sue Restless.
You know Suzanne Restless. We treated yard down there. She
us in u Vestavia, and uh she had some at
her house. No, lie, there were trees and uh you know,
with trunks as big as your leg, and that big
freeze two years ago killed them all and uh managed

(31:20):
there was a.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Couple in the front that made it.

Speaker 12 (31:22):
But like we went in there and did a job
for the end of the last week or but that
was maybe two weeks ago.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
I almost forgot about Suzanne.

Speaker 12 (31:32):
And we went in and we remoltzed her whole yard.
She had some a bilia. They were the kaleidoscope of
bilia and they hadn't been prune. We did her landscape
four five years ago and they'd never been prune and
they she had yopon hollies below those, and they were
covering the opones and killing them. So we went in
there and I told her, I said, I'm gonna be aggressive,

(31:53):
so and sure enough, I took the weed hearer with
a skills all blade and I cut them everyone down
in the dirt and then we remulched. We cut those
lord pedaling trees down because they're resprouting from the base,
so we left them there, but we cut the tree
part of them that died out of them, and uh
just rematched and clean her place up. She had a
trub here and there that was dead and we replaced

(32:15):
them and just kind of did a spit shine on
her place. So, you know, we we'll do that for
Susanne probably about every three years, because she just they're
not gonna prune much and all that, so we'll do
a little clean up for and she'll be good to
go with those of billioll bounce right back.

Speaker 11 (32:31):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 12 (32:32):
That's another plant like the yopond. Once it gets established,
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Second half of the classic Guard of the Landscape.

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Speaker 12 (36:01):
It's two o five four three nine nine three seventeen
at break Chris just now is telling you how my
garden's laying out. Uh, So, I got ten rows of
corn in when I leave from here, I got to
stop at Central Seed. Get me about a quarter pound
of pinky purple hole peace.

Speaker 11 (36:20):
Making them growing in the seat.

Speaker 12 (36:22):
I'm showing out and I'm gonna grow so I and
I'm gonna plant me a by row of ochre. Now
row of ochre. I have to invite everybody in their
mama over there to get something. Yeah, because you got
to stay on top of it. It's crazy three in
if the deer don't eat it, I gotta keep my
mill organ n handy. But then so I got my

(36:43):
my mat down for my tomatoes, and I've got holes
cutting the mats keep the weeds out of there. But
it also see blight. What causes black on your tomatoes
is the dirt splashing up.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
You know when you get rains.

Speaker 12 (36:59):
The the basically, the blight is in the soil, and
water splashing that up on the bottom of your plants
cause them to get blight. So you put that fabric
down and you don't have to worry about that splashing
up there, so you get a longer life out of
your tomato plants.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
So that's just a trick to write that down.

Speaker 12 (37:20):
But what I did, I dug post holes about two
and a half feet deep, and I saved So I
went fishing the other day and I saved my fish
heads and on my fish guts and all that in
a trash bag and I put it in my old
fridge and an old barn down there. So I've had
this funky crap and my refrigerator down there for a

(37:41):
few days. But I'm gonna take that out and put
a water that in the bottom of all my holes
for my tomato plants. And I put me about eight
inches of dirt over the top of it. Now, I
dropped my tomato plants in there, and then that stuff
will decay and rot and do its thing in the
bottom moment and fertilize my tomatoes.

Speaker 11 (38:00):
Made fishing motion fertilizer.

Speaker 12 (38:01):
Hewre you got Indian that one that uh, and then
I've got right beside them, I plant my squash.

Speaker 10 (38:07):
Ye.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
You know it's hard to weed squash.

Speaker 11 (38:09):
It's so it's big plant.

Speaker 12 (38:11):
It's got so much vegetation and all that stuff. And
so I use the mat under it to just keep
all the trash at it, and I put drip on
all that so it's not getting overhead water and so
it's not going to cost powdery mildew and fungus and
all that stuff. So Chris Keith takes his vegetable garden.
It's going next level this yeund yeah, I mean I

(38:32):
like it. Last last year, you know, I was just
this was a virgin spot, you know, and uh, this this.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
Time it ate.

Speaker 11 (38:42):
You know, you got all the tweaks tweaked.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
It's going seriously all the time.

Speaker 11 (38:47):
So you talk about talk about tomatoes and like our
tomato program, you know, for those who don't want to
do gardening.

Speaker 12 (38:54):
Like Chris Keith, because Chris Keith is like most people had.
Most people can't roll the like I can. I've got
like everything right by the barn, so easy access.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
I can.

Speaker 12 (39:04):
You know, I'm gonna put I'm gonna put an irrigation
controller on it this round, so I can just set
it to where to just run yep. But most homeowners
can't do that stuff. And most homeowners don't have you know,
a fifty by seventy spot. They can just go out
there and disc up and you know, grow a big
old garden.

Speaker 11 (39:22):
And that's where our tomato program comes in. And especially
I don't care where you live. Even we had a
guy come in earlier this week from the Think and
he was telling Ann how that joker got five feet
over the cage and it's just this huge tomato plant
and you know, working on state record, you know, for

(39:43):
for poundage of tomatoes produced off of this.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
So I think his name was Randy, So shout out
to Randy.

Speaker 12 (39:49):
He was listening to truck Driver and he's listening to
the radio show coming through town, you know, trucking and
heard about it and he wound up, you know, hopping
in the car, you know, one day and coming down
the garden center and getting all the supplies for it.
And he you know, came back in the garden center
and get a refill like two or three days ago.
He said, Man, I've never seen like anything there, and

(40:11):
grow like five or six feet over the cage. He said,
it was freaking nuts. So yeah, if you it's it's
almost like a conversation piece.

Speaker 13 (40:20):
You know.

Speaker 12 (40:20):
You get somebody, you take them the dinner, you know,
and you spend one hundred and fifty bucks and uh,
you know, it's gone the next day. Or you can
go and buy them a tomato kit and uh, you know,
they play that thing for five or six months, you know,
and it's just people come.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Over for you know, dinner or whatever and they're like,
what the heck is that thing anything?

Speaker 11 (40:41):
And oh yeah, take you some, you know, and it's uh,
you know you talk about weeds, you know, because I
know in your particular case, you put the weed mat
down to keep from having a handweed. Well, in this
tomato program, you don't have to weed anything. It's that
it's it's in a big pot. You can put it
anywhere you want to, so, you know, if you're if
you're kind of limited as to you know, where the

(41:02):
sunlight is in your house, basically you can put it
on your patio and your driveway on the back forty
whatever and just keep a hand you know, your hand water.
It's super easy. No weeds.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
Yeah, and all the.

Speaker 11 (41:12):
Tomatoes you want. Man, We've got customers that will take
that same that same kit basically and they'll grow all
kinds of other vegetables in it. But tomatoes is where
it's at. When you're for our tomato program.

Speaker 12 (41:25):
We we have people try to try to copy it
and go get the cheap potting soil and all that
stuff and do it.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
Man.

Speaker 12 (41:32):
We have tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and
tweaked this thing till it is like if you screw
with it anymore, you'll screw it up. So I mean
you just do it by the rule.

Speaker 11 (41:46):
What we do.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
It's like a big kit.

Speaker 12 (41:48):
You come in the garden center and get just got
all the potting soil, the fertilizer and everything. We give
you a set of instruction and tells you exactly how
to put everything together and take care of it and
all that stuff, and boom, it just makes more tomato
and you can give away.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
And it's fun as heck to play with it is.
I used to grow two or three of them around
the garden center every time.

Speaker 12 (42:06):
And I mean there's picture old pictures of me on
a freaking ten foot step ladder up there on top
of that thing, putting a third cage on it because
they just grow like nuts.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
It's just cool to play with.

Speaker 11 (42:18):
That's a lot, it's a lot of fun. I do
it for my brother in law.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
See I did.

Speaker 11 (42:21):
I did that because my brother in law likes cooking,
loves cooking, and he makes a lot of different marinaire
sauce and stuff, and so h he'll actually do we
typically don't recommend like a cherry tomato and one of
these things, because that thing will just do it. It'll
take over. So he does. Yeah, he'll he'll do one
with cherry tomatoes, and he'll do another one with you know,

(42:43):
two or three other tomatoes, and another one with two
or three other tomatoes, and he jars a lot of
mar and air and spaghetti sauce and gives it away. Man,
it's so good. And then he'll do herbs too in
those pots and he'll make uh, he'll take olive oil
and he'll do like uh in herb infused all of
them because I like to cook it. Yeah, boy, that's

(43:04):
what I'm talking about. So he'll probably be in this
this week if he already hadn't coming in and getting
the game and everything sister sheberd.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Bread rolls and some he'll make. Uh, he probably makes
his own.

Speaker 11 (43:17):
He makes Uh, he'll make like his own pesto and
all that.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
Man.

Speaker 11 (43:22):
Yeah, boy, that's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
Get out of here.

Speaker 11 (43:24):
He does lasagnas a lot of times. He'll make all
the pasta from scratch. He's in the he's in the
National Guard. Thinking he's a medic with the National Guard.
But before that, I guess early on he worked at
some of the fancier restaurants. So he can cook like
legit like mans and stuff, you know what I'm saying.
So so if I'm watching cooking shows and I see

(43:46):
something that interests me, I'll be like, Man, Tim, I
was like, I was watching this cooking show and you know,
they were cooking peaking duck. How is that is that good?
He's like, I don't know. I'll go get duck and
we'll cook it all and you can, you know, judge
it for yourself. So if every wanted to cook anything,
I just have my way of dropping here.

Speaker 12 (44:02):
Ever cooks me a like that, the next one it
quacks over. My pond has had it all right, Chrias
last break of the show. Let's go ahead and do that.
We come back, I promise I'll tell you about the
work we did. Yeah you need Yeah, we got off
of the sidetrack. But man, we're talking garden. It's all cool.
We're talking food too. That's even better. Right, We'll be
back on the Classic Gardens and Landscape Showing just the second.

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Get in during the LEAs five garden road. It comes.

Speaker 12 (47:54):
See us man, there's plants rolling in and plants rolling out,
and Chris we went to Uh. We were talking about
all the work we've been doing, and uh, man, we've
been busy. But I forgot about Suzanne Resps doing hers
a couple of weeks ago because we have honestly been
all over the police. So this last week, uh, we
were working for the Parkers. B Let me back up.

(48:18):
We were over and that was a week and a
half ago or whatever. We were over in uh Eagle Point.
So if you come on and off of one nineteen,
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because he's got a big classic gardens signing the front yard.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
But we went in. You should have seen it before,
and man, you should see it now.

Speaker 12 (48:38):
He had the biggest overgrown He had Jopon hollies in
the front of the house eight feet tall. Uh big azaleous.
He had three big four big crank myrtles above retaining wall.
I'm talking about humongous crak myrtles, big hollies.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
You know.

Speaker 12 (48:54):
We went in with an excavator, came in, walked across
the yard of a place we would didn't hurt a thing,
took all of his overgrown print of nightmares out and
put him in a new, low maintenance landscape. We did
a big natural in the backyard that had just been
i mean just wall to wall privet and trash and

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everything else. Went in there and cleared all that stuff out.
You'll probably see pictures of that one on our website.

Speaker 11 (49:19):
That's what I was looking for.

Speaker 12 (49:21):
If it's not on there yet, it will wind up
being on there because we literally reclaimed his whole place,
everything there was there since the house was built, and
totally redid everything. So that was mister Hensley's and then
from there we started the week this week at the Parkers,

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and the Parkers due to health reasons and this, that
and the other, we did their bid back last June
and landed the landed the work and it got put off,
and it got put off, and it got put.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
Off and got put off. So that was June twenty four.

Speaker 12 (50:01):
Now we finally get on the job, you know, the
week before Easters right now, and I've never seen a
healthier stand of with steria.

Speaker 13 (50:13):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (50:13):
We man their place down the left hand side of
the house, and down the right hand side of the
house was just you name it, it was there, just trash, privet,
everything the house. I mean, honestly, they've got two houses
over there side by side.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
We did one of them. We need to do the
other one.

Speaker 12 (50:30):
But uh man, we pulled everything out, cut cuts, I
cut privet cut with steria, cleaned everything up. The whole
backyard was a disaster. Just went in there and literally
reclaimed the whole place. They're gonna have to get translined,
they're gonna have to get round up.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
They're gonna have to.

Speaker 12 (50:50):
Keep a backpack sprayer full of it and keep on it.
Like I spat at your hand before I left and said,
you got to stay.

Speaker 11 (50:59):
On top of the because it will grow.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
It will regrow.

Speaker 12 (51:02):
And uh literally beds that were just we made beds
where there were no beds. It was just trash and
uh man, I can show you pictures that one, Chris,
and you'd be like, what were they thinking? I know
what they did do. They did the right thing. They
called us and we fixed it for them. I mean,
we literally preclaimed their whole place. So we left them
there and we went to Holy Rosiary that is a

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that is a Catholic church over in uh off of
Porto Madrid over there, and uh justin they've got a
vacant lot beside the church and eventually they're gonna put
a soccer field over there. Right now, it's just a
grown up mess over there. So Justin brought the forest
multu over there, moultched everything, so now it just looks

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like a slick uh more or less like a pasture
over there now where it used to be woods and trash,
and uh cleaned all that up and then he planned
a new bushes down the left hand side of the
church and clean that up for him just in time
for Easter, and then out to Lincoln.

Speaker 6 (52:08):
So we did.

Speaker 12 (52:09):
Uh. This guy he's off the Lincoln exit out there
on the backside of Logan Martin Lake, and we went
out there, gosh, probably a month ago and laid a
whole tractor trailer load of sout. He bought this lake property,
and we're gradually gonna be laying sad all over it.

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But he had a he's got a wet weather spring there,
and uh, we did probably one of the most extensive
drain systems that we've ever done. Over there is about
four hundred feet a French of French drain and it's
just to catch the water where it's seeping out of
the ground in spots, and then now that it's gonna

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get drier, we can start laying sod again over there,
so fix that and then let's see from there. We
were at Fred Hibbs, he's over here in Crandall Crest
right here in Springville, and uh it was an easy
We pulled up about four shrubs that was all. He
really had, some big old knockout roses, pulled them out,

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put new shrubs in for him around the house and
cleaned that up.

Speaker 6 (53:18):
And then we went down to.

Speaker 12 (53:19):
Bertram Circle, the guy, uh we've done work for in
the past, and uh did a little bit of irrigation
addition for him, laid a pallet of sod. Uh you
know he'd do for pine straw, put out about a
hundred bells of pine straws and got his place cleaned
up and he's back good to go again. So uh
and then wrapped it up yesterday with irrigation repairs.

Speaker 6 (53:42):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (53:44):
You just about had to be our kin to us
for us to do irrigation repairs for you. It's just
not our forte. But I got to be honest with
We don't make money off of it. It's just one
of those I mean obviously you have to pay for
it when we do it. But if I send two

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guys out there and they have to like rebuild a
whole manifold for you know, six zons of irrigation and
we charge you five hundred bucks and we were there
a couple of hours.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
The company ain't made no money.

Speaker 11 (54:17):
You know.

Speaker 12 (54:17):
I mean, it's just a fact, kind of just a
favor for our customers. Yeah, I mean, honestly, we don't.
It's one of those things you just you can't charge enough,
you know, to recoup it back. But you've got a
customer like Tracy and John Wilkie that's been customer's bars

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for lord ever, and you know, we've treated their yards
for twenty years, twenty plus years, and they've got a
manifold broke, So who comes to rescue me? And Sergia
went over there and fixed it. And we had another
customer another one. We did a patio for scot ten
years ago and she had a she had a contractor

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come in and build them a new deck, and they
screwed up one of her night lights and it was.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
It was one that this discontinues. We had to get
them a light as close as it would match kind
of thing, so we went and replaced that. So that's
kind of what we've been doing. But anyways, we're out
of time. Y'all. Come see us or call us if
you need landscaping, long.

Speaker 12 (55:27):
Caar, irrigation, night lighting, patio, retaining wall, any of that stuff.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
You call us. Eight five four four thousand five. Would
love to get you on the books this time. You're
ever getting booked up, so give us a call. Eight five,
one thousand and five. We'll see you next week. In
the classic Largie landscape show Happy Years,