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I'm Chris Joiner on the Spine Spring Day, Chris Key.
This beautiful, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Man?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
It is pre We've had a couple of nice warm
days this week too.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You know, it's kind of crazy. I'm week's show.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
I said something about, all right, let me predict the
ground temperature for what the first or second week at June,
and I said seventy seven degrees And God said not
so fast.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm in control. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
So he dept me about three days at nearly ninety. Yeah,
and uh, obviously that's going to do wonders for the
ground temperature. But you know, and that's that's kind of
how wish you wash you it is. I mean, we're
looking at next week's forecast and it looks like we
got a night in the forties and the night flirting
with you know, for all.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
This time of year, it's uh, I mean, you go
off all through the entire month of April and it's
like a it's like a swing set. Swing is back
and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So you know,
it's it is what it is. I mean, that's normal
for this time of the year. Typically we start getting
you know, through the May months and that's when our
that's when the temperatures really start coming on strong, and
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that's when, uh, you know, everything starts looking good, particularly
the grind. You know, you talk about God being in control.
I was wandering around looking at some of the plants
and coming up some of the perennials in my yard
this past week, and I've got purple heart kind of
scattered everywhere. You know, that stuff's bulletproof. You can't hardly
kill it. And I've got some underneath my back everything
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all of it's coming up, except for like three plants
under my back deck.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It was in the world.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Why is this stuff not coming up? You know it's
got red rock around it. It's on a brick wall,
so I know it's got a good heat source basically,
So I start pulling the rock back where they're planted,
and guess what's sitting all over the top of those things. Snails.
So snails are mowing those things back.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
So I got some. I keep slugo on.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Basically on my shelf in my garage because I've got
a lot of snails and slugs. So if you've like perennials,
particularly like succulent type stuff so Bogonias, sun patients, purple heart, gosh,
what is I got a couple other ones that they
really just come through and smoke down. Snails and slugs
will basically just eat those things off at the base.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
And yeah, bad about pasta Osta bad, That's the.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
One I was thinking about. Asta is real bad. So
if you've got if you've got like.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Succulent type perennials in your garden, it's a great idea
to come into the garden center and just go ahead
and get some slug o and uh, keep that on
your shelf because you're gonna because you're gonna need it.
And so then so that's one bulletproof plant. Another one,
you know, we had some Quints that we sold a
couple of years ago. I think we probably still have it.
But it's like the Thornless. Yeah, and it's a double bloom.
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I forget the name of it, but I have two
up on the back, up on my back forty and again,
Quint's is one of those that I mean that that's
a prehistoric type plant, right, I mean it dates back
to like Adam and Eve. Yeah, it's a biblical plant,
and it's it's bulletproof. You can't hardly kill this stuff.
One came back one didn't, and I'm like, or I
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say it didn't you know it had one little bit
twig on it. I'm like, what in the world, man,
you can't kill this thing. And so I start pulling
the pine straw back and I see holes all burrowed around.
It's there's dang chipmunks back there burrowing around it. So chipmunks,
another one of God's creations, can destroy plants and they're
bad about doing it. Oh yeah, I've got a We've
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got a long hair customer down in Mountain Brook.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
It's on uh you know, Nancy Allen Street, and we
treat probably fifteen yards. You can basically park in like
in one spot. And I just walked my spreader, you know,
all all around.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
You know, I'm talking to you know, people right walking
down the street and I'm waving, I'm talking. I'm conversating
with half the neighborhood. Well, like mister Edwards on the
corner has had a massive Azalia bed.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I'm talking about it.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
It was like the it was like you have a
centerpiece of Mountain Brook man a bunch of old fashioned azalias.
And in the spring, I mean you couldn't see anything
but blooms. I mean it was solid blooms. And it
was one of those he had every color imaginable, you
know what I mean. So it wasn't like a row
of red or a row of pink. It was just
every arena, red, pink, you know, white, all the colors.
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And he had a bunch of camellias in there as well.
And he had a colony of chipmunks get in there
and burrow around all those all the roots of the plant,
and ended up killing a lot of those. So they'll
basically they'll burrow through there and they'll chew and they
will basically chew up the entire root system to where
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like you've got a ten foot tall as elia and
when those chipmunks get in there, that that root will
be like the size of a softball because they've basically
gnawed it down to that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We had one over in I guess it's like the
kid drawn area.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Chris and a lady lived there and now she sold
the house and moved. But she had a big Japanese
maple in the front yard, and I mean it was
a lace leaf Japanese maple, but like the trunk was
as big as your leg.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Me.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
It had been in there for you know, thirty years
old as the house, and uh, chipmunks got the born
around on that thing, and one one spring it leafed
out some and it just crapped out, you know, right
up when we got that first dry spell about May.
It just died literally, and uh, she had me out
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there to do some kind of I guess it was
a landscape estimate, and uh, I said, look, this thing's toast.
She said, what do you think happened to it? And
I said, well, you know, I'm looking at the trunk
for boers, you know, just first thing because it tried,
you know, it had that characteristic. You know, it tried
to tried to leaf out that spring and it just
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couldn't get the moisture out to the end of the
limbs to do any good. And uh I, no boar signed.
So I got down on my hands and knees and
crawled around under it, and sure enough, the chipmunk hole
was all under that thing. And you gotta be careful
of those shallow rooted plants like uh, you know you
mentioned as zelias, but you know, Japanese maple is just
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like every other maple o their roots, they send roots
out across the top of the ground, and uh, you know,
anything gets in there and and bores around it, lets
that oxygen get around there, and it just uh you know,
that air just you know, bakes those roots on those things.
So you gotta be super careful with chipmunks. You're talking
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about bores, Chris, just I just brought that up. But
that's another thing right now, twig bars are flying, so
you need to if you hadn't drenched your trees. You know,
if you got a dogwood or a maple or anything
like that, or you know a nice majestic oak tree
in your yard or whatever, and it's kind of one
of those center pieces in your yard. Uh, it's not
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a bad idea to go ahead and drench it. We
like to do that in the fall, but there's not
a bad time of year to do it. Uh, small
dog woods, little cherries, things like that. Man, that's like
candy too, and uh, they'll they'll trees up, So make
sure you get your systemic insect drench.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah, we talked at length over the winter month about
crape myrtles too. You know, if if it looks like
somebody spray pained and black, that's a sooty mold that
either came from aphids or or bark scale. So crap
crape myrtles are another one that that have really become,
you know, an issue, and and you need to drench
those to keep that from getting on there. But yeah,
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we've been preaching preaching just fertilo on systemic insect drench
since fall. You know, we talk about chipmunks and how
bad they are. There's really not a great solution to
get rid of chipmunks.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
You know, get it. You take a.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Female cat, you put it outside and you don't feed it.
It'll kill everything that moves. You know. It's like you
can't get a male cat though. It's like the it's
like the uh you know, pride in the in the
African Sahara. You know that the male doesn't do anything.
Male's lazy. The woman gets out there and does all
the work.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Or you got a pellet gun. Twelve year old and
a pellet gun. That's about the only way to get
rid of chipmunks. I had one in my I had one.
Gets to get into Hydrangea a couple of summers ago.
I had to roll the lime lights and one lime
light started drooping, and I kept watering it and it
kept drooping, and I kept watering it. And one day
I come over and the things just leaning over, and
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I had chipmunks. And we had at one point some
little smoke bombs that you would put down in the
in their tunnel, and you light the smoke bomb, you
put it down in the tunnel and you cover up
that main entrance with a rock, and then you kind
of sit there and you wait and you look for
smoke to come out of the second entrance and you
cover it up, and so forth and so forth, and
no more chipmunk, except now they're in my backyard.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
So yeah, you just moved them. I just moved them.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
So I got the collar. I gotta I gotta get
to see if we got some more of the smoke bombs.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
But the good thing is it's so far back there,
it's like that's the back forty. Yeah, you don't want
it to like, you don't want to like migrate back
up now there. I put stuff back there. That's the
survival of the fittest, you know what I mean. Yeah,
that won't that won't die. I don't want to have
to do anything to get tough for die.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Chris, it's about time for a break.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
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Speaker 1 (10:56):
Tell you why it makes my plants grow and it
makes sweds die when Chris San Chris talking plants, my
luniest guy to fighting chance because of fer That's right.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
You gotta have your fertile on the only place you
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Speaker 5 (11:13):
Get his class.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Carson Roads. Come on now, man, we got everything we
got fertilean.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You want to talk.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
About what we got. We got a whole bunch of landscape,
shrubs and flowers.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Right, I'm telling you that time of here, you know
I've been I've been coming and going this week. I
mean like I get there at seven am, six forty five.
Get my guys out to get my stuff ready, I'm
measuring yards. I'm treating yards, and I hadn't had a
time to really like walk through like our Betting plant aisle.
And so yesterday afternoon, I said, hey, come on, let's
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walk show me what you.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Got over here.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
And I walked over there and it was like it
was like plants everywhere. I'm talking about hanging you know,
beautiful hanging baskets, you know, betting plants, goalory.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Vegetables.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You want your tomatoes, you want your tomato kid program,
you want your peppers. Man, we got them, We got
them all.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
That's the thing that Constant trucks right now just rolling
in the garden center.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
So it's full, right, But I know Anne talked about
looking at all the availability lists this weekend and she's
gonna order more, so like probably come late next week,
it's gonna be overflowing, right, I mean, so just come
on into the garden Center and see what we got.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Everything's gorgeous.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Well this time of year too, we have to obviously
we it's supplying the mand and you know, you look
at you know, this week and it was eighty five degrees.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Next week it's gonna be a little cooler.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
But everybody wakes up right about Easter, you know, that's
right way when they do, we we've got to be
packed out, you know, over capacity before that before that.
So we literally got a stockpile all that stuff like
this next week. That way, when we get in to
that Easter time frame or whatever, and the you know,
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everybody and their mama comes and sees us that we've
got plenty for them. So it's yeah, this next week
or so, it's just gonna be you know, jam packed
and look forward to seeing everybody. You know, Chris just
riding around town. I had to go buy Russell greenhousees
other day he lost. I was all over the place
that day. We've kind of been all over the place
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this week. So we started out at Connie Porter, she's
down in Trace Crossings, and did a landscape job for
her in the backyard and then left them there. The
next day we were at Bassms, he's down in South Lake.
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And then when we got done with Basms, I flipped
trucks with Justin and we went and did irrigation, a
drip irrigation install in bent Brook and then left them
there and did another irrigation repair in that same area.
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Vestment Area. Left from there, came back and did the
next day.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We were in Dora.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
We did a big seating job up there back in
the fall, and we had to go up there. We
left the silt fence in and everything until everything came
up and did what it's supposed to do. I've never
seen any sand of your soul than what they have
over there, Chris. It's literally knee deep. The soil is
virtually sin and uh, I mean you could grow corn
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like nobody's business on this lady's she's from like Shoe
Creek and this is this is a property that's been
in her family for a long time. And they came
out there and bulldozed all the trees down. And when
I say bulldose trees down, we had tree trucks out
there for about three days straight, two tree trucks running,
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you know, literally one would leave out an other and
be coming in.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah. Fall. So you couldn't burn it because we were under
burn band. Not only that, but it was you'd be
burning for three years probably.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
It was a ton of it now, you know. Obviously
it's all green too, you know. So they got all
that stuff up and then we went in there and
literally hearty racked about twenty acres and made it slick
as glass and went in there and seated it with
rye and the last step was to you know, pull
out the silk fence, and we did that. So we're
done with that. We're supposed to go back in there
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like June or July, and it's gonna wind up a
horse pasture is what it's gonna wind up being. And uh,
we're gonna reseed it with bermuda and behavior grass and
put some millet on it, just to get something up
quick because that's sandy.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So, I mean, it's so sandy, Chris.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
It just spots where you know, just a lightwash.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Looks like a ditch. Wow, because it just.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I mean the slightest little the slightest little run off
or whatever is it will literally make a ditch because
it's so so saining. You can reach down and just
grab a grab a handful of it. And I mean
not a rock inside.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
On the horses feet at least.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Oh, this horse is gonna love this and it's gonna
grow grass like a boss. Yeah, I mean, right now
it's got a rye on it. There were some guys
pulled up when we uh, when we were out there
pulling that sealt fence up. And where we pulled up
the sealt fence, you know, obviously because it's seal fence,
it did what it was supposed to do. And the
what little bit of salt you know, wash washed against
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that seal fence exactly what it was supposed to. And
uh so when we pulled that up, we had to
go in there and just run hearty break over it,
smoothed it up, and put a little more seed and
straw over that.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
But uh, it's growing grass like a champ.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
There was two guys that pulled up and with brand
you could bowl a lawnmoors and uh they were getting
ready to mow all that. So about halfway through the day.
They were about halfway through cutting, and that old rye
grass was nearly knee deep and it was, you know,
just so lush, and you know that stuff is so
watery and moist, yeah, you know when they're cutting it.
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So it's they cutting rice no fun. They had a
time cutting that stuff. If they'd cut it two weeks earlier,
they could have been done in the same time they started.
But man, it's so gotten tall, it's so dense and thick.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Right now. Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
That's why we don't recommend people overseeing their yard with
a rye is because man, it's just coming on like
game busters when your grass needs to be coming on,
and it's not a good ide.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Did overseas the yard I did that one. I did
that probably fifteen years ago, Chris Keith. And I remember
you telling me that fall. You're like, man, it's a mistake.
I say, oh, man, it looked great, and it did.
It looked great through the winter months. But we got
to about apron leam mid March going through April, and
you could cut it and you could cut it down
to like, I don't know, you cut it down to
an inch on Monday, and by Tuesday it was two
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inches tall and by Wednesday it was five inches honestly,
and it never and you're right, it never dries out.
It's just a wet grass.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
It is, and it's so succulent, and man, when you
got to cut that stuff, it's just like mud.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
So I will never do that again.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
And plus, you know, on on yards, it creates a
lot of competition when like your permuter is always just
trying to green up. You know, it can stunt that
back and I've.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Had a couple of people that will do that.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
And if you look at you know, a lot of
your you know, bags of seed, there's a I think
it's called like an inert weed seed or whatever, but
you know there's there is there is other seed in
there other than rice sometimes and so you could get
some tall fescue or some basically wild rescue. And so
when that ride dries dies off, then you're stuck with
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like some perennial rescue or something like that, and there's
nothing you can do but dig that stuff up. So
just steer away from that unless you're hunting deer or
or raising horses.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Right, Well, got a you've got a place like that
where you know, I mean it was totally gutted down
to nothing, and with that soul of the way it
is over there, you know, you had to get something
on it fast and get something up or I mean
it would have washed like crazy. So temporary solution to
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a big problem. And uh yeah, if you don't have
a horse pasture or a cow pasture or something like
that for rye grass, or you ain't planting a deer plot,
and the truth being on it doesn't even make that
good a deer plot. The deer don't eat it as
good as they do some other things, so you better
off just deer and clear of it. As far as
that goes to it just makes it pretty green.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It makes pretty eat it when there ain't nothing else.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
This is one of those years where it got so
dry in the fall to everything died in the woods.
And the deer were so much worse this year than
they typically are. I mean, they've never fooled anything at
my house, Chris, as far as bushes go. I hate
these Indian hawthorns that are at the end of my house,
and I'm gonna take that little machine and I'm gonna
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shove them to the dirt, you know, and just put
them on my burn pile and plant something pretty there.
It was kind of one of these things I wanted,
wanted something. I wanted something evergreen on the end of
the house. Didn't care really what it was. And Anne
got a shipment of plants. It was back when we
got plants from Monrovia out of California quite a bit,
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and they totally screwed up our order and sent us
some stuff that was like a It didn't have any
rhyme or reason. It wasn't even like it wasn't even
marsh stuff hardly. It was so bad. And there was
four big, seven gallon Indian hawthorns in there. I hate
the plant, hate selling them, hate doing anything. They came in.
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They were the prettiest ones that I ever saw, and
I said, well, that's the evergreen shrub. And we got
them for nothing, and Anne said, hey, you can have them.
I said, well, that's what's going up the end.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We all.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I don't know that we've ever sold those now, but
they came on on on this shipment and totally wrong,
and we got them for nothing. They just said, hey,
just keep them, and uh so instead of us turn
around trying to sell them to somebody or something like that,
and just gave them to me. And I stuck them
on the end of the house and they've been there
for fifteen years. I've never pruved them. Their waist high.
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And the deer loved them this year so bad they
they took literally a foot of foliage off the sides
of those things to the point where there's not nothing
on them, and they got a mohawk across the top
of them. They're the stupidest looking things you ever saw
right now and they're about to get just totally took out.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Isn't it amazing what deer will eat? So Indian hawthorns
is one. They'll they'll take those down to the nub.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Knockout roses.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
You wouldn't think that that deer would eat a thorny
old rose, but when it puts off growth, they'll eat. Man,
they will eat those things down to nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
That's what we had to go to Basoms for.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
So we went and did a landscape job for him
down in South Lake. I've never seen the like of
deer in my life.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Arbravidas, that's probably one of the ones.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
That's so we replaced three arbividers at basmselves that had
no foliage from you know, four foot off the ground
up or down. I'm talking about no face, somebody that
looked like somebody had trimmer and trimmed them.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Like literally we just planted them, you know, eight months ago,
and they completely defoliated the outside of those bushes and uh,
I mean there was stuff they don't normally eat. This
past year they ate it still. I mean like you
can go in South Lake and like there's not an
azalea in South Lake that has a leaf on it
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below four feet. I mean, that's like huge six foot azaleas.
They looked like they look like a mushroom, like all
the all the blooms are right on top of that.
It's the craziest thing I ever saw. Uh, you know,
And we told basomly like and this this is not
a typical thing. I mean, but if you go through
South Lake, you'd literally see everybody's arbravidas that are you.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Know, twenty feet tall.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
They're they're three foot wide at the bottom and you
know five and a half feet wide at the top.
It's crazy. Well, Chris's time for another break. Let's go
ahead and do that. Or number if y'all want to calls,
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Speaker 4 (23:45):
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Speaker 5 (24:07):
Come on, man, is you in his house? It's kind
of like, you know, when.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
We're doing it's like gardening at the house.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
If I screw up, I'll tell you I screwed up.
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. You know I've learned more
about I've learned more.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
About gardening just from killing stuff honestly than anything.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I mean, trialing error is the best way to learn something.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I think.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
So the best gardeners have killed the most.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
I killed one time. I killed five hundred pine trees
at one time.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Yeah, that's right, because that was that was back in
the day.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
What you do?
Speaker 6 (24:45):
I forget the story about back in the day?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Now, man, I listen.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I love Start and Grow fertilizer. And if you if
there's a fertile on product that's like like gold standard,
it's Start and Grow forertilizer. I mean you can put
that stuff on anything, and then you can take a
new shrub and you can take a handful of Start
and Grow fertilizer and throw around it and man, that
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thing is just like double in size in just a month.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's amazing. It's use it.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Use it like steady every on every shrub or every
plant that you put in. It's just like I have
to the problem is is when you're putting in new
you know, uh bear root pine trees. Uh, they don't
like fertilizer and five hundred Let me let you. Let
(25:37):
me just go ahead and save you the trouble of
not burning up five hundred pine trees and tell you
that's one thing you don't use. Start and grow fertilizer
on you don't be aggressive with like I am anyways,
but if you want to, if you want to burn
up some pine trees.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Start grow fertilizer. Give him a fist full and you
will fry. Ask me how I know. Let's get Diane.
Good morning, Diane. How you doing.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm doing great? But I heard you discussing the deer
how they were eating all of the shrubs and plants.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And I didn't know. I just tuned in, and so
I didn't know if you talked about how to keep
them off your plants. My husband and I we have
built a new house and we started putting in some
shrubs and we put in they're all deer, but the
deer ate just about everything we had, the oziahs and
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some of the little fire cheese and pancakes, hydramses, and
even then they were eating everything. We put netting over it,
and the netting kept them, you know, from coming in
and eating them. Sometimes I was still try but sometimes
they try to move the netting. But I thought, there's
I think there's something you can spray.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
To the there's a great product that we've used a lot,
and it's it's called liquid fence, and it's basically, they
take all this stinky stuff like future to eggs and
like you know, old garlic garlic and like mint oil
and all this crap and they mix it all together
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in this concoction. It comes in a quart bottle and
you take it mix so many tablespoons or ounces per
gallon of water, and you spray it on your plants
and it just puts this funky smell, funky taste, funky,
just funky everything on these plants.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And the deer don't mess with them.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Now.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
You gotta do it about once a week, you know,
just to make sure it's on their goods so you
don't have to worry about it, you know, then you
just put it in a you know a little cheap
pump up spray and just go around and spray plants.
And uh, this year was a unique year that typically
the deer aren't as bad as they are this year.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
But we were so dry this fall.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
A lot of the undergrowth and stuff like that, and
the woods just that you know, died out and went
dormant super early, and they just didn't have anything to eat,
and they migrated out there and ate stuff that they
don't typically eat. As you said, Nandinas, that's a plant
they usually don't touch. So the fact that they're eating that, uh,
they like hydrangers and they'll eat azelia's Uh, no problem,
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stuff like that. They'll del chew on it and tear
it up. But as far as like Pndinas and I
had them over at basms they were eating to steal them. Uh,
just funky stuff that they don't normally eat.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Uh. That's that's the st stuff you had to deal
with this year.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Arba vided thell you always chew on that sum, but man,
his were completely defoliated. They were terrible. So liquid fence
is what you'd use. Uh, and it works really good.
I use mill organite and I was talking to the
mance Fields down there. We did work for them last
week and she uses mill organite around her limelight hydranges
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and she didn't have a she didn't have one bike
mark on them, so they worked pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Okay, do you think these things that we've planned will
come back? Uh?
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Yeah, what you want to do? So you obviously you
want to spray them with liquid fence. And then I
know with in the case down in South Lake, his
stuff was starting to put back on new foliage. They
had ate all the leaves off the lourd peddlums say
they ate all the leaves off the azaleas. The azaleas
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were trying to come back out. The Lord Peddlum had
already flushed new growth all over. So that's a good
sign this time of year. You know, when everything starts
greening back up in the in the woods. Uh, then
they'll quit migrating out there and they just they'll stay
more in the woods and eating what's there. So just
spray them. You want to fertilize everything with a fertile
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on miasa evergreen food. It's got a systemic insecticide in it,
and then it kind of puts a funky taste in
in the shrubs. So if they do chew on it
or whatever, it'll kind of help the tour that as well,
and that'll help push new foliage on your on your shrubs.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
That gotta eat up.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay. And that's called for loon.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Yes, furlong isaiah evergreen food and it says with systemic insecticide.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Okay, Okay. Well, I hope we have better luck because
you know, we spent you know, you spend a lot
of money on your and we just put them at
ourselves and everything. But I mean it's you know, it's
terrible to look out there and they're just these stimmy
little things.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
No leave.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, what area towny all in?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I live in Coleman County up at Smith Lake.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I used to live. May have to become a
deer hunter.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
I have resorted to that, I think, Yeah the time,
that's yeah, some of the time. That's if you're in
an area where that's an option. They eat pretty good.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yes, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yes, ma'am Diane. Have a good weekend. Echo, Yeah, a
good question. I mean that liquid fences, to me is
probably been one of the most effective things outside of
like me. I use the mill organite in my vegetable garden,
and uh man, they didn't touch anything out there.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
They should hopefully come back out damage to the roots obviously,
so they should should flush back out, I would think,
especially giving some warmer weather and some fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Little fertilizers.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
I know they pounded a mister slam my neighbor up
the up the street from me on the right. As
you turn and you go up like before you get
the s curve on my road, Chris, he's up there
on the right. I planted a few bushes for him
last I guess it was last summer, and the deer
really really tore up his stuff up. The pretty good
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they eat sunshine and lugustrum.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
How about that they the ground they ate.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
His lord peddling weird stuff. I mean, they just never eat.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
They ate.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
It's crazy, but uh it's they're all flushing back now
and looking all right. So hopefully I must go by
there and shoot him from his fertilizer on his shrubs
and make them bounce back like a chimp, you know,
it'll be all. It'll be good to go. Then for
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And we are back on the Classic Gardens of Landscape
show and uh, just kind of rehashing.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Obviously it's time to put out pre emergent we always.
I came up with this last week and it's pretty good.
You gotta get it done, just like you gotta keep
your car between the lines between the yelling and the white.
You gotta get you pre emerging out between the yellow
and the white, the Forsythia blooming and the dog woods.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I saw some crabgrass the other day in a in
a flower bed right along the edge of the street.
I mean that stuff was probably had probably two or
three little sprigs popping up. I was like, Ooh, if
you ain't got your pre merging down, you in trouble.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yep, so's you got to.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
You gotta get it done like right now. It's super important.
If you're not, you will have some crabgrass this summer.
So just bank on that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
The garden center is packed lamb full of plants right now,
and it's gonna be overflowing with plants in the next week.
The prettiest thing to me in that garden center, though, Chris,
is the bonfire Encore azellias. They showed out now just
so they've looked like they were just gonna bust like
any second, just in the last week or so. And man,
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when those high temperatures you know, came in here like
late Wednesday Thursday, Man, those things all flushed out at
one time and you couldn't find the foliage, the big ball.
They were amazing, absolutely beautiful, and uh, all the all
the encores are just really coming in pretty right now.
Everything's flushing new gross so, I mean everybody, everything looks
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like a shiny new penny. And uh, I saw some
really pretty wide gia in the garden center.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
That's a that's a plant that starts blooming right now.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
You know some of the old Grandpa point our grandma
plants that we talk about all the time. That stuff
really turned it on just in this last week. There's
some shafts that by burn them in there or there
was I put them over there. We're gonna use them
on landscaping job come monday. Uh we're gonna do that.
But uh some why gi uh is in full bloom
in there a plant that I hate worse than anything.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You can't get rid of.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
One of the most evasive weeds there are right now
but they are beautiful as all get out with steria.
It's blooming like crazy out in the wild right now.
And uh, don't dare stick a sprig of that crap
in your yard.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
I read a post on Facebook page about how it
was so beautiful, but do not plant.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
It because fantastic kill trees. It'll take over. Don't do it.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Do not put a sprig with steia in your yard.
You know, believe it or not. We used to sell
some of that crap in the garden center. It's you.
You'll never get rid of it if you ever put
it on your plate.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
It's Kudzoo's cousin.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
It's it's worse than cuds. Kudso you can spray kill,
you cannot spring kill tough one. It is super tough.
Don't plenty of that crap on your yard. Saw some
Chinese French trees and blo that was We went by
Russell greenhow just he lost a couple of spy rea.
We're just going to see what type it was so
we can go there and replace them for them.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
But yeah, there's.
Speaker 7 (37:11):
A house right of the road from him, and they
had a grouping of Chinese fringe trees up in there
and man, they were just busting like crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
It's a real pretty tree. Snowball bushes blowing up right now.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Yes, there's a big one up the road from the
garden center. That's just all the snowballs on her. They
are still lyme green. Yeah, so give it another week
or so and they're all turned white and like, literally
you won't be able to see the foliage for it.
You know, I got squirrels, squirrels. A friend of mine,
I got his mom a snowball bush a year ago
(37:45):
and he said, man, that thing's got twenty five balls
on it right now.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
He said, it's just going crazy and it. You know,
his mom is like.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Ninety something, you know what I mean, she's old, and
it just she just ticle to death that that snowball
bush is doing like it is. So it's cool when
you plant something like that for somebody and it just
comes out and does killer like that.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
That's that's cool.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
That's a bushy plant somewhere and you don't touch it.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Bigger the bigger it gets, the battery it gets. You know,
you'll see them. You'll see them fifteen feet tall and
fifteen feet wide, just solid blooms right now. Yeah, that's
the one you just plant and let go.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Super big, natural area sticky about three in there. I'm
telling you you'll you'll thank yourself for it every time
they bloom in the spring, and hey, you get another
bloom in them in the fall most of the time.
Really neat plant and bulletproof. I mean they are bulletproof,
tough plants. I highly recommend them that. You know, anytime
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you got a natural area whatever you can to stick
a forsity year or two or you know, we were
talking about quints earlier, stuff like that, and just uh,
you know, there's a lot of neat plants like that
you can put in there that yg I was talking
about earlier. There's about a dozen different types of spy
rea that you can use, so you can kind of
mix it up like that, mix in a few of
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Billia stuff like that. Now Billia isn't one another one
you talking about deer resistant. A deer won't touch that thing.
That's crazy. But they honestly, I mean I don't know
if it smells bad to them or what, but they
won't even taste it. You know, they eat all bathsoms
shrubs up over there, and there's a bill you're sitting
there just looking fine.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
We're right in amongst all of it.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
That's a versatile plant, because you know, we've got some
that probably stay two feet tall. We got something to
get eight feet tall. Yeah, and in between.
Speaker 7 (39:33):
There's varieties that are lime green colored and there's varieties
that are just a regular deep green. So you know,
it's kind of an abilia for everybody. Uh, they blooming,
They start blooming about May and they don't quit until
you get a freeze and uh, just a bulletproof plant.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
I got kaleidoscopes, and they've changed colors throughout the year.
I don't know that we really push those a lot anymore.
I know we can carry some, but that's a billy.
Is a cool plant. That's it's different and give different things.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
The kaleidoscope came out, Chris, I think they just, uh,
we planted a ton of them and the growers weren't
ready for the rush.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I guess you would say.
Speaker 7 (40:12):
So there's different varieties like Sunshine and Radiance and all
this that are more of a lime color that are
more easily are more easy to get. Kaleidoscope too. To me,
when I'm planting them, it seems like are weak rooted.
They are at first. I mean like when you dump
it out of the pot and you put it in
the in the ground. It when they come out of
(40:34):
the pot, they come out just all the pieces and
you're thinking they ain't no way this is gonna live,
and it just does.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
You know, It's the.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Craziest thing you ever say.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
I mean, when you dump it out of the pot,
it has no roots, and you're thinking, all this thing.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Let's see what happens, and it just does go figure.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
The rest of the abilias that seem to be, you know,
have a better root system, root structure to them.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
If you haven't started cutting your grass right now, you're
in trouble and you need to get on top of it.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Is wrong with I don't know, I've cut my like
forteen I know.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I was on a handful of yards this this past
week where you know, people really hadn't gotten in there
and scalp. They had layover, they had leaf debris and
sticks and you know, just trash all in there. And
I knocked on the beat on the door and not
knock boom boom, boom boom. I said, hey, you need
to start. You need to start working on this. Get
it scalped down, get it raked out, blow all that
(41:25):
stuff out. So if you haven't gotten on a good
mowing schedule, you're you're behind the eight ball on that.
And that's really going to affect the yard as we
move into the spring.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
So gotta do that.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
You know, if you hadn't done premergent, go ahead and
get that down. But uh, furtilo on lawn food plus iron.
Come on, now that bag orange, Let's go ahead and
get that put down and get the fertilizer.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
Get this grass cranked up.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
Yeah, really gets that grass kind of You know, the
grass is sluggish anywhere. I mean one day it's eighty
seven degrees and the next morning it's forty. Yeah, on
the grass don't know what to do, and you give
it a kick in the pants with a lawn food
plus iron. Ma, you talking about making some grass? Come on,
I use it on my corner my garden. Listen, then
make that stuff go crazy. Chris, it's about time for
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This beautiful, isn't it?
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Man?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
It is pre We've had a couple of nice warm
days this week too.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You know, it's kind of crazy. I'm week's show.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
I said something about, all right, let me predict the
ground temperature for what the first or second week at June,
and I said seventy seven degrees And God said not
so fast.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm in control. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
So he dept me about three days at nearly ninety. Yeah,
and uh, obviously that's going to do wonders for the
ground temperature. But you know, and that's that's kind of
how wish you wash you it is. I mean, we're
looking at next week's forecast and it looks like we
got a night in the forties and the night flirting
with you know, for all.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
This time of year, it's uh, I mean, you go
off all through the entire month of April and it's
like a it's like a swing set. Swing is back
and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So you know,
it's it is what it is. I mean, that's normal
for this time of the year. Typically we start getting
you know, through the May months and that's when our
that's when the temperatures really start coming on strong, and
(01:56):
that's when, uh, you know, everything starts looking good, particularly
the grind. You know, you talk about God being in control.
I was wandering around looking at some of the plants
and coming up some of the perennials in my yard
this past week, and I've got purple heart kind of
scattered everywhere. You know, that stuff's bulletproof. You can't hardly
kill it. And I've got some underneath my back everything
(02:17):
all of it's coming up, except for like three plants
under my back deck.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It was in the world.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Why is this stuff not coming up? You know it's
got red rock around it. It's on a brick wall,
so I know it's got a good heat source basically,
So I start pulling the rock back where they're planted,
and guess what's sitting all over the top of those things. Snails.
So snails are mowing those things back.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
So I got some. I keep slugo on.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Basically on my shelf in my garage because I've got
a lot of snails and slugs. So if you've like perennials,
particularly like succulent type stuff so Bogonias, sun patients, purple heart, gosh,
what is I got a couple other ones that they
really just come through and smoke down. Snails and slugs
will basically just eat those things off at the base.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
And yeah, bad about pasta Osta bad, That's the.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
One I was thinking about. Asta is real bad. So
if you've got if you've got like.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Succulent type perennials in your garden, it's a great idea
to come into the garden center and just go ahead
and get some slug o and uh, keep that on
your shelf because you're gonna because you're gonna need it.
And so then so that's one bulletproof plant. Another one,
you know, we had some Quints that we sold a
couple of years ago. I think we probably still have it.
But it's like the Thornless. Yeah, and it's a double bloom.
(03:36):
I forget the name of it, but I have two
up on the back, up on my back forty and again,
Quint's is one of those that I mean that that's
a prehistoric type plant, right, I mean it dates back
to like Adam and Eve. Yeah, it's a biblical plant,
and it's it's bulletproof. You can't hardly kill this stuff.
One came back one didn't, and I'm like, or I
(03:58):
say it didn't you know it had one little bit
twig on it. I'm like, what in the world, man,
you can't kill this thing. And so I start pulling
the pine straw back and I see holes all burrowed around.
It's there's dang chipmunks back there burrowing around it. So chipmunks,
another one of God's creations, can destroy plants and they're
bad about doing it. Oh yeah, I've got a We've
(04:18):
got a long hair customer down in Mountain Brook.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
It's on uh you know, Nancy Allen Street, and we
treat probably fifteen yards. You can basically park in like
in one spot. And I just walked my spreader, you know,
all all around.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
You know, I'm talking to you know, people right walking
down the street and I'm waving, I'm talking. I'm conversating
with half the neighborhood. Well, like mister Edwards on the
corner has had a massive Azalia bed.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I'm talking about it.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
It was like the it was like you have a
centerpiece of Mountain Brook man a bunch of old fashioned azalias.
And in the spring, I mean you couldn't see anything
but blooms. I mean it was solid blooms. And it
was one of those he had every color imaginable, you
know what I mean. So it wasn't like a row
of red or a row of pink. It was just
every arena, red, pink, you know, white, all the colors.
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And he had a bunch of camellias in there as well.
And he had a colony of chipmunks get in there
and burrow around all those all the roots of the plant,
and ended up killing a lot of those. So they'll
basically they'll burrow through there and they'll chew and they
will basically chew up the entire root system to where
(05:34):
like you've got a ten foot tall as elia and
when those chipmunks get in there, that that root will
be like the size of a softball because they've basically
gnawed it down to that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We had one over in I guess it's like the
kid drawn area.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Chris and a lady lived there and now she sold
the house and moved. But she had a big Japanese
maple in the front yard, and I mean it was
a lace leaf Japanese maple, but like the trunk was
as big as your leg.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Me.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
It had been in there for you know, thirty years
old as the house, and uh, chipmunks got the born
around on that thing, and one one spring it leafed
out some and it just crapped out, you know, right
up when we got that first dry spell about May.
It just died literally, and uh, she had me out
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there to do some kind of I guess it was
a landscape estimate, and uh, I said, look, this thing's toast.
She said, what do you think happened to it? And
I said, well, you know, I'm looking at the trunk
for boers, you know, just first thing because it tried,
you know, it had that characteristic. You know, it tried
to tried to leaf out that spring and it just
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couldn't get the moisture out to the end of the
limbs to do any good. And uh I, no boar signed.
So I got down on my hands and knees and
crawled around under it, and sure enough, the chipmunk hole
was all under that thing. And you gotta be careful
of those shallow rooted plants like uh, you know you
mentioned as zelias, but you know, Japanese maple is just
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like every other maple o their roots, they send roots
out across the top of the ground, and uh, you know,
anything gets in there and and bores around it, lets
that oxygen get around there, and it just uh you know,
that air just you know, bakes those roots on those things.
So you gotta be super careful with chipmunks. You're talking
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about bores, Chris, just I just brought that up. But
that's another thing right now, twig bars are flying, so
you need to if you hadn't drenched your trees. You know,
if you got a dogwood or a maple or anything
like that, or you know a nice majestic oak tree
in your yard or whatever, and it's kind of one
of those center pieces in your yard. Uh, it's not
(07:47):
a bad idea to go ahead and drench it. We
like to do that in the fall, but there's not
a bad time of year to do it. Uh, small
dog woods, little cherries, things like that. Man, that's like
candy too, and uh, they'll they'll trees up, So make
sure you get your systemic insect drench.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah, we talked at length over the winter month about
crape myrtles too. You know, if if it looks like
somebody spray pained and black, that's a sooty mold that
either came from aphids or or bark scale. So crap
crape myrtles are another one that that have really become,
you know, an issue, and and you need to drench
those to keep that from getting on there. But yeah,
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we've been preaching preaching just fertilo on systemic insect drench
since fall. You know, we talk about chipmunks and how
bad they are. There's really not a great solution to
get rid of chipmunks.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
You know, get it. You take a.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Female cat, you put it outside and you don't feed it.
It'll kill everything that moves. You know. It's like you
can't get a male cat though. It's like the it's
like the uh you know, pride in the in the
African Sahara. You know that the male doesn't do anything.
Male's lazy. The woman gets out there and does all
the work.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Or you got a pellet gun. Twelve year old and
a pellet gun. That's about the only way to get
rid of chipmunks. I had one in my I had one.
Gets to get into Hydrangea a couple of summers ago.
I had to roll the lime lights and one lime
light started drooping, and I kept watering it and it
kept drooping, and I kept watering it. And one day
I come over and the things just leaning over, and
(09:21):
I had chipmunks. And we had at one point some
little smoke bombs that you would put down in the
in their tunnel, and you light the smoke bomb, you
put it down in the tunnel and you cover up
that main entrance with a rock, and then you kind
of sit there and you wait and you look for
smoke to come out of the second entrance and you
cover it up, and so forth and so forth, and
no more chipmunk, except now they're in my backyard.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
So yeah, you just moved them. I just moved them.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
So I got the collar. I gotta I gotta get
to see if we got some more of the smoke bombs.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
But the good thing is it's so far back there,
it's like that's the back forty. Yeah, you don't want
it to like, you don't want to like migrate back
up now there. I put stuff back there. That's the
survival of the fittest, you know what I mean. Yeah,
that won't that won't die. I don't want to have
to do anything to get tough for die.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Chris, it's about time for a break.
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Tell you why it makes my plants grow and it
makes sweds die when Chris San Chris talking plants, my
luniest guy to fighting chance because of fer That's right.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
You gotta have your fertile on the only place you
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Speaker 5 (11:13):
Get his class.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Carson Roads. Come on now, man, we got everything we
got fertilean.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You want to talk.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
About what we got. We got a whole bunch of landscape,
shrubs and flowers.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Right, I'm telling you that time of here, you know
I've been I've been coming and going this week. I
mean like I get there at seven am, six forty five.
Get my guys out to get my stuff ready, I'm
measuring yards. I'm treating yards, and I hadn't had a
time to really like walk through like our Betting plant aisle.
And so yesterday afternoon, I said, hey, come on, let's
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walk show me what you.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Got over here.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
And I walked over there and it was like it
was like plants everywhere. I'm talking about hanging you know,
beautiful hanging baskets, you know, betting plants, goalory.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Vegetables.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You want your tomatoes, you want your tomato kid program,
you want your peppers. Man, we got them, We got
them all.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
That's the thing that Constant trucks right now just rolling
in the garden center.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
So it's full, right, But I know Anne talked about
looking at all the availability lists this weekend and she's
gonna order more, so like probably come late next week,
it's gonna be overflowing, right, I mean, so just come
on into the garden Center and see what we got.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Everything's gorgeous.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Well this time of year too, we have to obviously
we it's supplying the mand and you know, you look
at you know, this week and it was eighty five degrees.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Next week it's gonna be a little cooler.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
But everybody wakes up right about Easter, you know, that's
right way when they do, we we've got to be
packed out, you know, over capacity before that before that.
So we literally got a stockpile all that stuff like
this next week. That way, when we get in to
that Easter time frame or whatever, and the you know,
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everybody and their mama comes and sees us that we've
got plenty for them. So it's yeah, this next week
or so, it's just gonna be you know, jam packed
and look forward to seeing everybody. You know, Chris just
riding around town. I had to go buy Russell greenhousees
other day he lost. I was all over the place
that day. We've kind of been all over the place
(13:26):
this week. So we started out at Connie Porter, she's
down in Trace Crossings, and did a landscape job for
her in the backyard and then left them there. The
next day we were at Bassms, he's down in South Lake.
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And then when we got done with Basms, I flipped
trucks with Justin and we went and did irrigation, a
drip irrigation install in bent Brook and then left them
there and did another irrigation repair in that same area.
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Vestment Area. Left from there, came back and did the
next day.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We were in Dora.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
We did a big seating job up there back in
the fall, and we had to go up there. We
left the silt fence in and everything until everything came
up and did what it's supposed to do. I've never
seen any sand of your soul than what they have
over there, Chris. It's literally knee deep. The soil is
virtually sin and uh, I mean you could grow corn
(14:42):
like nobody's business on this lady's she's from like Shoe
Creek and this is this is a property that's been
in her family for a long time. And they came
out there and bulldozed all the trees down. And when
I say bulldose trees down, we had tree trucks out
there for about three days straight, two tree trucks running,
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you know, literally one would leave out an other and
be coming in.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah. Fall. So you couldn't burn it because we were under
burn band. Not only that, but it was you'd be
burning for three years probably.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
It was a ton of it now, you know. Obviously
it's all green too, you know. So they got all
that stuff up and then we went in there and
literally hearty racked about twenty acres and made it slick
as glass and went in there and seated it with
rye and the last step was to you know, pull
out the silk fence, and we did that. So we're
done with that. We're supposed to go back in there
(15:36):
like June or July, and it's gonna wind up a
horse pasture is what it's gonna wind up being. And uh,
we're gonna reseed it with bermuda and behavior grass and
put some millet on it, just to get something up
quick because that's sandy.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So, I mean, it's so sandy, Chris.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
It just spots where you know, just a lightwash.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Looks like a ditch. Wow, because it just.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I mean the slightest little the slightest little run off
or whatever is it will literally make a ditch because
it's so so saining. You can reach down and just
grab a grab a handful of it. And I mean
not a rock inside.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
On the horses feet at least.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Oh, this horse is gonna love this and it's gonna
grow grass like a boss. Yeah, I mean, right now
it's got a rye on it. There were some guys
pulled up when we uh, when we were out there
pulling that sealt fence up. And where we pulled up
the sealt fence, you know, obviously because it's seal fence,
it did what it was supposed to do. And the
what little bit of salt you know, wash washed against
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that seal fence exactly what it was supposed to. And
uh so when we pulled that up, we had to
go in there and just run hearty break over it,
smoothed it up, and put a little more seed and
straw over that.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
But uh, it's growing grass like a champ.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
There was two guys that pulled up and with brand
you could bowl a lawnmoors and uh they were getting
ready to mow all that. So about halfway through the day.
They were about halfway through cutting, and that old rye
grass was nearly knee deep and it was, you know,
just so lush, and you know that stuff is so
watery and moist, yeah, you know when they're cutting it.
(17:13):
So it's they cutting rice no fun. They had a
time cutting that stuff. If they'd cut it two weeks earlier,
they could have been done in the same time they started.
But man, it's so gotten tall, it's so dense and thick.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Right now. Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
That's why we don't recommend people overseeing their yard with
a rye is because man, it's just coming on like
game busters when your grass needs to be coming on,
and it's not a good ide.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Did overseas the yard I did that one. I did
that probably fifteen years ago, Chris Keith. And I remember
you telling me that fall. You're like, man, it's a mistake.
I say, oh, man, it looked great, and it did.
It looked great through the winter months. But we got
to about apron leam mid March going through April, and
you could cut it and you could cut it down
to like, I don't know, you cut it down to
an inch on Monday, and by Tuesday it was two
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inches tall and by Wednesday it was five inches honestly,
and it never and you're right, it never dries out.
It's just a wet grass.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
It is, and it's so succulent, and man, when you
got to cut that stuff, it's just like mud.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
So I will never do that again.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
And plus, you know, on on yards, it creates a
lot of competition when like your permuter is always just
trying to green up. You know, it can stunt that
back and I've.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Had a couple of people that will do that.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
And if you look at you know, a lot of
your you know, bags of seed, there's a I think
it's called like an inert weed seed or whatever, but
you know there's there is there is other seed in
there other than rice sometimes and so you could get
some tall fescue or some basically wild rescue. And so
when that ride dries dies off, then you're stuck with
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like some perennial rescue or something like that, and there's
nothing you can do but dig that stuff up. So
just steer away from that unless you're hunting deer or
or raising horses.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Right, Well, got a you've got a place like that
where you know, I mean it was totally gutted down
to nothing, and with that soul of the way it
is over there, you know, you had to get something
on it fast and get something up or I mean
it would have washed like crazy. So temporary solution to
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a big problem. And uh yeah, if you don't have
a horse pasture or a cow pasture or something like
that for rye grass, or you ain't planting a deer plot,
and the truth being on it doesn't even make that
good a deer plot. The deer don't eat it as
good as they do some other things, so you better
off just deer and clear of it. As far as
that goes to it just makes it pretty green.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It makes pretty eat it when there ain't nothing else.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
This is one of those years where it got so
dry in the fall to everything died in the woods.
And the deer were so much worse this year than
they typically are. I mean, they've never fooled anything at
my house, Chris, as far as bushes go. I hate
these Indian hawthorns that are at the end of my house,
and I'm gonna take that little machine and I'm gonna
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shove them to the dirt, you know, and just put
them on my burn pile and plant something pretty there.
It was kind of one of these things I wanted,
wanted something. I wanted something evergreen on the end of
the house. Didn't care really what it was. And Anne
got a shipment of plants. It was back when we
got plants from Monrovia out of California quite a bit,
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and they totally screwed up our order and sent us
some stuff that was like a It didn't have any
rhyme or reason. It wasn't even like it wasn't even
marsh stuff hardly. It was so bad. And there was
four big, seven gallon Indian hawthorns in there. I hate
the plant, hate selling them, hate doing anything. They came in.
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They were the prettiest ones that I ever saw, and
I said, well, that's the evergreen shrub. And we got
them for nothing, and Anne said, hey, you can have them.
I said, well, that's what's going up the end.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We all.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I don't know that we've ever sold those now, but
they came on on on this shipment and totally wrong,
and we got them for nothing. They just said, hey,
just keep them, and uh so instead of us turn
around trying to sell them to somebody or something like that,
and just gave them to me. And I stuck them
on the end of the house and they've been there
for fifteen years. I've never pruved them. Their waist high.
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And the deer loved them this year so bad they
they took literally a foot of foliage off the sides
of those things to the point where there's not nothing
on them, and they got a mohawk across the top
of them. They're the stupidest looking things you ever saw
right now and they're about to get just totally took out.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Isn't it amazing what deer will eat? So Indian hawthorns
is one. They'll they'll take those down to the nub.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Knockout roses.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
You wouldn't think that that deer would eat a thorny
old rose, but when it puts off growth, they'll eat. Man,
they will eat those things down to nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
That's what we had to go to Basoms for.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
So we went and did a landscape job for him
down in South Lake. I've never seen the like of
deer in my life.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Arbravidas, that's probably one of the ones.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
That's so we replaced three arbividers at basmselves that had
no foliage from you know, four foot off the ground
up or down. I'm talking about no face, somebody that
looked like somebody had trimmer and trimmed them.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Like literally we just planted them, you know, eight months ago,
and they completely defoliated the outside of those bushes and uh,
I mean there was stuff they don't normally eat. This
past year they ate it still. I mean like you
can go in South Lake and like there's not an
azalea in South Lake that has a leaf on it
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below four feet. I mean, that's like huge six foot azaleas.
They looked like they look like a mushroom, like all
the all the blooms are right on top of that.
It's the craziest thing I ever saw. Uh, you know,
And we told basomly like and this this is not
a typical thing. I mean, but if you go through
South Lake, you'd literally see everybody's arbravidas that are you.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Know, twenty feet tall.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
They're they're three foot wide at the bottom and you
know five and a half feet wide at the top.
It's crazy. Well, Chris's time for another break. Let's go
ahead and do that. Or number if y'all want to calls,
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It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
On the hand, Ready and go when you want show
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Chris and Chris.
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Speaker 5 (24:07):
Come on, man, is you in his house? It's kind
of like, you know, when.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
We're doing it's like gardening at the house.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
If I screw up, I'll tell you I screwed up.
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. You know I've learned more
about I've learned more.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
About gardening just from killing stuff honestly than anything.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I mean, trialing error is the best way to learn something.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I think.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
So the best gardeners have killed the most.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
I killed one time. I killed five hundred pine trees
at one time.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Yeah, that's right, because that was that was back in
the day.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
What you do?
Speaker 6 (24:45):
I forget the story about back in the day?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Now, man, I listen.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I love Start and Grow fertilizer. And if you if
there's a fertile on product that's like like gold standard,
it's Start and Grow forertilizer. I mean you can put
that stuff on anything, and then you can take a
new shrub and you can take a handful of Start
and Grow fertilizer and throw around it and man, that
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thing is just like double in size in just a month.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's amazing. It's use it.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Use it like steady every on every shrub or every
plant that you put in. It's just like I have
to the problem is is when you're putting in new
you know, uh bear root pine trees. Uh, they don't
like fertilizer and five hundred Let me let you. Let
(25:37):
me just go ahead and save you the trouble of
not burning up five hundred pine trees and tell you
that's one thing you don't use. Start and grow fertilizer
on you don't be aggressive with like I am anyways,
but if you want to, if you want to burn
up some pine trees.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Start grow fertilizer. Give him a fist full and you
will fry. Ask me how I know. Let's get Diane.
Good morning, Diane. How you doing.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm doing great? But I heard you discussing the deer
how they were eating all of the shrubs and plants.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And I didn't know. I just tuned in, and so
I didn't know if you talked about how to keep
them off your plants. My husband and I we have
built a new house and we started putting in some
shrubs and we put in they're all deer, but the
deer ate just about everything we had, the oziahs and
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some of the little fire cheese and pancakes, hydramses, and
even then they were eating everything. We put netting over it,
and the netting kept them, you know, from coming in
and eating them. Sometimes I was still try but sometimes
they try to move the netting. But I thought, there's
I think there's something you can spray.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
To the there's a great product that we've used a lot,
and it's it's called liquid fence, and it's basically, they
take all this stinky stuff like future to eggs and
like you know, old garlic garlic and like mint oil
and all this crap and they mix it all together
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in this concoction. It comes in a quart bottle and
you take it mix so many tablespoons or ounces per
gallon of water, and you spray it on your plants
and it just puts this funky smell, funky taste, funky,
just funky everything on these plants.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And the deer don't mess with them.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Now.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
You gotta do it about once a week, you know,
just to make sure it's on their goods so you
don't have to worry about it, you know, then you
just put it in a you know a little cheap
pump up spray and just go around and spray plants.
And uh, this year was a unique year that typically
the deer aren't as bad as they are this year.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
But we were so dry this fall.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
A lot of the undergrowth and stuff like that, and
the woods just that you know, died out and went
dormant super early, and they just didn't have anything to eat,
and they migrated out there and ate stuff that they
don't typically eat. As you said, Nandinas, that's a plant
they usually don't touch. So the fact that they're eating that, uh,
they like hydrangers and they'll eat azelia's Uh, no problem,
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stuff like that. They'll del chew on it and tear
it up. But as far as like Pndinas and I
had them over at basms they were eating to steal them. Uh,
just funky stuff that they don't normally eat.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Uh. That's that's the st stuff you had to deal
with this year.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Arba vided thell you always chew on that sum, but man,
his were completely defoliated. They were terrible. So liquid fence
is what you'd use. Uh, and it works really good.
I use mill organite and I was talking to the
mance Fields down there. We did work for them last
week and she uses mill organite around her limelight hydranges
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and she didn't have a she didn't have one bike
mark on them, so they worked pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Okay, do you think these things that we've planned will
come back? Uh?
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Yeah, what you want to do? So you obviously you
want to spray them with liquid fence. And then I
know with in the case down in South Lake, his
stuff was starting to put back on new foliage. They
had ate all the leaves off the lourd peddlums say
they ate all the leaves off the azaleas. The azaleas
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were trying to come back out. The Lord Peddlum had
already flushed new growth all over. So that's a good
sign this time of year. You know, when everything starts
greening back up in the in the woods. Uh, then
they'll quit migrating out there and they just they'll stay
more in the woods and eating what's there. So just
spray them. You want to fertilize everything with a fertile
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on miasa evergreen food. It's got a systemic insecticide in it,
and then it kind of puts a funky taste in
in the shrubs. So if they do chew on it
or whatever, it'll kind of help the tour that as well,
and that'll help push new foliage on your on your shrubs.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
That gotta eat up.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay. And that's called for loon.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Yes, furlong isaiah evergreen food and it says with systemic insecticide.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Okay, Okay. Well, I hope we have better luck because
you know, we spent you know, you spend a lot
of money on your and we just put them at
ourselves and everything. But I mean it's you know, it's
terrible to look out there and they're just these stimmy
little things.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
No leave.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, what area towny all in?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I live in Coleman County up at Smith Lake.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I used to live. May have to become a
deer hunter.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
I have resorted to that, I think, Yeah the time,
that's yeah, some of the time. That's if you're in
an area where that's an option. They eat pretty good.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yes, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yes, ma'am Diane. Have a good weekend. Echo, Yeah, a
good question. I mean that liquid fences, to me is
probably been one of the most effective things outside of
like me. I use the mill organite in my vegetable garden,
and uh man, they didn't touch anything out there.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
They should hopefully come back out damage to the roots obviously,
so they should should flush back out, I would think,
especially giving some warmer weather and some fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Little fertilizers.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
I know they pounded a mister slam my neighbor up
the up the street from me on the right. As
you turn and you go up like before you get
the s curve on my road, Chris, he's up there
on the right. I planted a few bushes for him
last I guess it was last summer, and the deer
really really tore up his stuff up. The pretty good
(32:09):
they eat sunshine and lugustrum.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
How about that they the ground they ate.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
His lord peddling weird stuff. I mean, they just never eat.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
They ate.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
It's crazy, but uh it's they're all flushing back now
and looking all right. So hopefully I must go by
there and shoot him from his fertilizer on his shrubs
and make them bounce back like a chimp, you know,
it'll be all. It'll be good to go. Then for
sure time for a break again. Let's go ahead and
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Speaker 7 (34:03):
And we are back on the Classic Gardens of Landscape
show and uh, just kind of rehashing.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Obviously it's time to put out pre emergent we always.
I came up with this last week and it's pretty good.
You gotta get it done, just like you gotta keep
your car between the lines between the yelling and the white.
You gotta get you pre emerging out between the yellow
and the white, the Forsythia blooming and the dog woods.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I saw some crabgrass the other day in a in
a flower bed right along the edge of the street.
I mean that stuff was probably had probably two or
three little sprigs popping up. I was like, Ooh, if
you ain't got your pre merging down, you in trouble.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yep, so's you got to.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
You gotta get it done like right now. It's super important.
If you're not, you will have some crabgrass this summer.
So just bank on that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
The garden center is packed lamb full of plants right now,
and it's gonna be overflowing with plants in the next week.
The prettiest thing to me in that garden center, though, Chris,
is the bonfire Encore azellias. They showed out now just
so they've looked like they were just gonna bust like
any second, just in the last week or so. And man,
(35:15):
when those high temperatures you know, came in here like
late Wednesday Thursday, Man, those things all flushed out at
one time and you couldn't find the foliage, the big ball.
They were amazing, absolutely beautiful, and uh, all the all
the encores are just really coming in pretty right now.
Everything's flushing new gross so, I mean everybody, everything looks
(35:37):
like a shiny new penny. And uh, I saw some
really pretty wide gia in the garden center.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
That's a that's a plant that starts blooming right now.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
You know some of the old Grandpa point our grandma
plants that we talk about all the time. That stuff
really turned it on just in this last week. There's
some shafts that by burn them in there or there
was I put them over there. We're gonna use them
on landscaping job come monday. Uh we're gonna do that.
But uh some why gi uh is in full bloom
in there a plant that I hate worse than anything.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You can't get rid of.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
One of the most evasive weeds there are right now
but they are beautiful as all get out with steria.
It's blooming like crazy out in the wild right now.
And uh, don't dare stick a sprig of that crap
in your yard.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
I read a post on Facebook page about how it
was so beautiful, but do not plant.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
It because fantastic kill trees. It'll take over. Don't do it.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Do not put a sprig with steia in your yard.
You know, believe it or not. We used to sell
some of that crap in the garden center. It's you.
You'll never get rid of it if you ever put
it on your plate.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
It's Kudzoo's cousin.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
It's it's worse than cuds. Kudso you can spray kill,
you cannot spring kill tough one. It is super tough.
Don't plenty of that crap on your yard. Saw some
Chinese French trees and blo that was We went by
Russell greenhow just he lost a couple of spy rea.
We're just going to see what type it was so
we can go there and replace them for them.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
But yeah, there's.
Speaker 7 (37:11):
A house right of the road from him, and they
had a grouping of Chinese fringe trees up in there
and man, they were just busting like crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
It's a real pretty tree. Snowball bushes blowing up right now.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Yes, there's a big one up the road from the
garden center. That's just all the snowballs on her. They
are still lyme green. Yeah, so give it another week
or so and they're all turned white and like, literally
you won't be able to see the foliage for it.
You know, I got squirrels, squirrels. A friend of mine,
I got his mom a snowball bush a year ago
(37:45):
and he said, man, that thing's got twenty five balls
on it right now.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
He said, it's just going crazy and it. You know,
his mom is like.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Ninety something, you know what I mean, she's old, and
it just she just ticle to death that that snowball
bush is doing like it is. So it's cool when
you plant something like that for somebody and it just
comes out and does killer like that.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
That's that's cool.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
That's a bushy plant somewhere and you don't touch it.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Bigger the bigger it gets, the battery it gets. You know,
you'll see them. You'll see them fifteen feet tall and
fifteen feet wide, just solid blooms right now. Yeah, that's
the one you just plant and let go.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Super big, natural area sticky about three in there. I'm
telling you you'll you'll thank yourself for it every time
they bloom in the spring, and hey, you get another
bloom in them in the fall most of the time.
Really neat plant and bulletproof. I mean they are bulletproof,
tough plants. I highly recommend them that. You know, anytime
(38:44):
you got a natural area whatever you can to stick
a forsity year or two or you know, we were
talking about quints earlier, stuff like that, and just uh,
you know, there's a lot of neat plants like that
you can put in there that yg I was talking
about earlier. There's about a dozen different types of spy
rea that you can use, so you can kind of
mix it up like that, mix in a few of
(39:04):
Billia stuff like that. Now Billia isn't one another one
you talking about deer resistant. A deer won't touch that thing.
That's crazy. But they honestly, I mean I don't know
if it smells bad to them or what, but they
won't even taste it. You know, they eat all bathsoms
shrubs up over there, and there's a bill you're sitting
there just looking fine.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
We're right in amongst all of it.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
That's a versatile plant, because you know, we've got some
that probably stay two feet tall. We got something to
get eight feet tall. Yeah, and in between.
Speaker 7 (39:33):
There's varieties that are lime green colored and there's varieties
that are just a regular deep green. So you know,
it's kind of an abilia for everybody. Uh, they blooming,
They start blooming about May and they don't quit until
you get a freeze and uh, just a bulletproof plant.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
I got kaleidoscopes, and they've changed colors throughout the year.
I don't know that we really push those a lot anymore.
I know we can carry some, but that's a billy.
Is a cool plant. That's it's different and give different things.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
The kaleidoscope came out, Chris, I think they just, uh,
we planted a ton of them and the growers weren't
ready for the rush.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I guess you would say.
Speaker 7 (40:12):
So there's different varieties like Sunshine and Radiance and all
this that are more of a lime color that are
more easily are more easy to get. Kaleidoscope too. To me,
when I'm planting them, it seems like are weak rooted.
They are at first. I mean like when you dump
it out of the pot and you put it in
the in the ground. It when they come out of
(40:34):
the pot, they come out just all the pieces and
you're thinking they ain't no way this is gonna live,
and it just does.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
You know, It's the.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Craziest thing you ever say.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
I mean, when you dump it out of the pot,
it has no roots, and you're thinking, all this thing.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Let's see what happens, and it just does go figure.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
The rest of the abilias that seem to be, you know,
have a better root system, root structure to them.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
If you haven't started cutting your grass right now, you're
in trouble and you need to get on top of it.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Is wrong with I don't know, I've cut my like
forteen I know.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I was on a handful of yards this this past
week where you know, people really hadn't gotten in there
and scalp. They had layover, they had leaf debris and
sticks and you know, just trash all in there. And
I knocked on the beat on the door and not
knock boom boom, boom boom. I said, hey, you need
to start. You need to start working on this. Get
it scalped down, get it raked out, blow all that
(41:25):
stuff out. So if you haven't gotten on a good
mowing schedule, you're you're behind the eight ball on that.
And that's really going to affect the yard as we
move into the spring.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
So gotta do that.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
You know, if you hadn't done premergent, go ahead and
get that down. But uh, furtilo on lawn food plus iron.
Come on, now that bag orange, Let's go ahead and
get that put down and get the fertilizer.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
Get this grass cranked up.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
Yeah, really gets that grass kind of You know, the
grass is sluggish anywhere. I mean one day it's eighty
seven degrees and the next morning it's forty. Yeah, on
the grass don't know what to do, and you give
it a kick in the pants with a lawn food
plus iron. Ma, you talking about making some grass? Come on,
I use it on my corner my garden. Listen, then
make that stuff go crazy. Chris, it's about time for
(42:08):
the that's it right there. That's the last of the show.
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Need forest multing, land clearing, drainage work in that stuff.
You call us the Garden Center eight five four four
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landscaping for you. Just get old fashioned, snack your bushes
out and put new plants in.
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Just to call us eight five four four thousand and
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You next week in the Classic Gardens and Landscape Shop
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