Classic Gardens from February 8th, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the hand,
ready and with your want show up Plants and Grass.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
To grow two and docent Chris, Chris and Chris. No,
Chris knows it, Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris
knows it.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Chris knows it. Chris knows it.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Sure, Chris knows it.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Chris knows it.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris Kieth.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Our love. So I'm told we haven't heard anything.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
This is the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show. That's how
we roll around here.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
We can roll like that. I was about to show
you this bass that I caught the other day. Look
at that. Look at that big old sucker man, I
called it. I caught a spot the other days where
it was like six inches long.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
That's that bass of all of three ounces. You can fish.
You can fish with that, man.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, So welcome to the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
I'm Chris Keith, I'm Chris Joiner. I hope everybody's doing
good this morning. A little cloudy out, you know, but
no big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Man, how nice is telling you.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
What that's it?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
It is?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
I had my you know, you know, how sometimes you
just kind of you get going on projects and one
leads to another and one leads another. Holls out this
morning painting my front door. I had my shirt off,
right because I like to be that guy in the
neighborhood that that, you know, like alpha male, running around
my shirt off, and I walked outside. I it was

(01:45):
just a little little chilly for that.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah. Yeah, this morning is a little bit, a little
bit on the cool side.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I slept in this morning, Chris Keith. Last night, you know,
sometimes you know, you you uh, you stay up just
long enough to like catch that wind, you know what
I mean. Normally on Friday, Saturday nights or whatever, we'll
go to bed nine thirty ten, We'll lay around, watch
some TV or whatnot. And then I hit that ten
o'clock mark and I was like, all right, let me

(02:11):
go see what I can do. And I got a
I just got on my second win. And it was
like twelve thirty one o'clock before I finally went to bed,
and I'm still up kicking.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
I might hit that wall later later this afternoon and
uh take a nap or something, But that ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Man, I'm telling you we have been wide open. I mean,
the landscaping is going ninety to nothing. If you need
landscaping done, you call us eight five four four thousand
and five.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
But y'all were slinging some slinging, some trees out, some
plants out on some jobs.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
This week, well, we had to get Becky Robertson done
and she was over. She's over in trust On. Tuckwiller
and the guys built a wall for last week and
we came in the end of last week and started. Obviously,
we ran machines in and out, you know, a thousand
times in her backyard. So we came in her. Her
daughter is her neighbor. She lives to the right of her,

(03:04):
and it's a whole lot easier to come down her
driveway and get in that backyard than it is to
try to figure out how to get in there through
Becky's yard as just you know, one hundred sheet supply wood,
where if you go in on this side, then it
was only about you only tearing up, you know, a
couple of pounds of saw it to get in there.

(03:25):
So we obviously mom and daughter, you know, pretty lucky,
work well together, pretty lucky. We had a daughter pretty good.
So we went in there, built the wall, came back
sotted below the wall and where we screwed it up
and wrapped that one up. Monday had her arepair to

(03:46):
do for brit spears over there. He uh had a
union that he actually put it in and it it
was he's probably had. You know, Chris, what people don't
realize if you got a if you got a union
and it's not super tight, one little bead of water

(04:09):
might be coming out of that thing every two minutes,
you know, just a slow leak coming out of those
threads on that on that union, and that slow drip
out of there, that water will eat a gap in
that thing, just like a cutting torch, and it'll literally

(04:32):
that one drop will you know, go from every two
minutes to every one minute, and then from every one
minute to every thirty seconds, and then and that this
could happen over two year period and then all of
a sudden, that thing just it's eating at that spot,
eating at that spot, eating at that spot, and water
will literally cut it like I couldn't and then then

(04:53):
it's flowing and then it's coming. But when it starts
coming like that, it's coming and it blew that thing
to pieces. So we obviously he had his water off.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
That must that was not much in the front yard
right by the street. I was I was there spraying
his yard yesterday. We treat his yard. We did sloppy
out there. Yeah, well I was wondering, I was walking.
I had to kind of walk around that area because
it was it was like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
He had to come apart out there and that that.
You know, we got it back together for him, but
he didn't have water to the house, so we made
him first priority and kind of jumped him in front
of everybody like, hey, we got to go get Brits
water back on some you know they can shower and
do because the main water of the house was screwed up.
So we got that fix for him. Then we started

(05:40):
lit in on the Sonnet house. The son House is
over in Leeds. If you need a wedding, you called
Jared and him over there and set that up. But
so Jared and him, they I guess they all the
shrubs around the old Sonnet house and we're, you know,
twenty years old or something like that. Women in there
ripped all the shrubs out around the house itself and

(06:04):
put new shrubs in and all that stuff. Big pull out,
a big replace and we knock it out in a
couple of days.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yeah, y'all came back with a stack of like fifteen
gallon buckets from the potocarpas. And how long did it
take y'all plant those all day?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Seventeen potocarpus in about an hour? Yeah, yeah, we ain't no,
that wasn't no slacking on that risky busting it out.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, we're joking around, me and you and Anne because
I like watching the the This Old House, you know,
that's the one of the original home improvement shows, you
know what I mean. And you'll see them, you'll see
them doing landscaping and stuff, and they're up in like
the northeast and they're just like they're standing there with
a shovel and they just easily put their foot down
on it and they're just shoving this black you know,

(06:50):
nice just you know, lightweight dirt outs. And then you
come down here and it's like you need a jackhammer
to get through some of our some of our dirt.
And so that got us on, That got us on
soil consistency. And Anne had a picture that Mike took
from there far and probably fifteen years ago they were

(07:12):
planting the I don't know, probably like a hedgerow layland
cypress or Arbaviter eli agnus or something like that. But
they literally had you know, three or four holes that
were literally less than twenty feet apart, and it was
like every single hole was a different color. You know,
one was a black dirt, one was like a red clay,

(07:32):
and then one was like somebody took chalk, like white
school board chalk and just like crushed it up and
put you know, in place of that. And so that's
what we were talking about, soil consistency, how it how
it very it can vary from foot to foot.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, that's what people don't understand. I took three pictures
at the sun of the house, and those holes were
five feet apart, yep. And it was the same deal.
Had black loamy soil. In the first one, you'd bright red,
you know, like you're like your neighbors over here, the
reddest dirt ever, like stain your stain your clothes, bad stuff.

(08:09):
And then you move over another five feet and it
was kind of a it was kind of a gray
white looking clay. So uh, you can't ever tell and
then you know, you do a landscape for somebody in there, like, well,
why is this guardian on the left doing good and
this guardian on the right doing terrible? Well, the soil
can be totally different. So uh yeah, when plants don't

(08:31):
perform the same, if they're not in the same stuff,
I mean, it just you gotta expect this one to
do a little poorer than that one. How many times
as if you've seen like crisy plant, you know, six plants,
and you come around that corner and there's there's more
runoff around that edge, you know, and this plan on
the left is standing in water, and uh, you know,

(08:53):
wind up having a dig that one up. I did it,
Paul mopping in them. They've got some places in there
are that seeps like it's uh almost like it's an
art you know, like artesian well almost, you know. And
uh they had a spot on the front corner of
the house that I had to go in. They lost
a holly and I had to go in there and

(09:15):
put another holly in. But I raised it up about
a foot and plant it way high, you know, and uh,
the new holly's doing fine. And they had a high
dranger around on the back side of the house. That
was the same way you could pull. I pulled it
up out of the ground. It just like you know,
there's a slop, you know. And then I pulled the
thing out of there, and I was like, well, Paul,
what we're gonna have to do is just dump a

(09:36):
couple of wheelbar dirt in there, and uh, you know,
just bring that thing up, playing it high and put
the new hydrange in. It's doing fine. So you can't
ever tell, you said, he if you got a big
property like that, I mean, it's like, you know, you
playing one hundred shrubs out there, you're just about gonna
lose a shrub to something every year, you know, whether

(09:57):
it be you know, lace bu out break or you know,
just you can't a chipmunk digging under it. I mean,
you can't ever tell. But and when you got one
hundred and fifty shrubs in your yard, you know, chances
are something's gonna happen to one of them.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Here, one out of one hundred and fifty is pretty
good odds. Uh yeah, that's a that's a good success,
right to you.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Exactly. Well, here's where we at on a break. We're
probably about close for one. Let's go ahead and do that.
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(10:38):
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(11:57):
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It's getting there, it's coming, it's coming. I got the
I got I think a right they part. I only
been like two weeks and I'm finally back better.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Mine is better in the evening. Yeah, So I'm for
the radio show. It is what it is, is what
it is. Right, But we got a lot to talk about.
So right now, you can transplant anything, yes, sirs, perfect,
if you want to move it, do it right now.
Prune and trees, and I'm not talking about knocking top
out of your crpe myrtles. I'm talking about if you

(15:05):
need to go and lem a tree up, or if
you need a thin a tree, whatever, do it now.
Systemic insect drench every other crape myrtle out there. I
call it the parasite pandemic. But you look at your
crape myrtles, and every other one of them is black,
and that's caused by a parasite that gets on there.

(15:27):
It's basically a bark scale and those scales secrete like
a syrup, and that syrup that gets on there, this black,
sooty mold sticks to it and it gets all over everything.
So the cure for it is not to fix the fungus.
The cure for it is to fix the bug. And
if you use the fertil on systemic insect drench this

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time of year. Really, you can do it anytime of
year primetimes in the fall, really, but you can only
do it once a year. Now's the time to do it, though,
If you've got crape myrtles and cherry trees, because now
twig boars are gonna be starting to fly just win
the next month or so. So if you get that

(16:10):
in place, then that's gonna help you with that stuff too.
Bores are bad about getting dog woods and cherry trees,
Japanese maples. They'll get in just about anything. If you
got a prize tree and you are like a big
white oak and you don't want to lose it, you
can drench it once a year and you don't have
to worry about it.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Drenches and it's almost dummy proof. The application method. You
literally you just measure the circumference of the tree and
however many inches that is. I say your tree is
forty inches around. You basically mix up forty ounces of
this drench and a five gallon bucket with a few
gallons of water, and you slowly pour it around the base. Boom, Done,
piece of cake. I mean, you couldn't get any easier

(16:49):
than that. Chris, you know that true oak tree that
you've cut up out of my backyard.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, dad's already burning it.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Bors got into that, that's what killed it. And there's
another one off the side of my driveway off into
the woods. I was dumping some some I purned my
knockout roases back the other day, and I was walking
through there and I saw sawdust at the bottom of
the tree. And I looked and you could see all
the little pinholes in that oak.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
That's my firewood for there, your firewood for next year.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
But but I've got these big ones in my yard
and I need to make sure that I drench those
because I need to need to make sure I keep those.
But yeah, it's it's so they bore the bores, they
they'll fly in, they bore into the tree, and it'll
be like a teeny tiny little pinhole. Like if you
were to take a writing pin right now and like
make a dot on a piece of paper, that's about

(17:36):
how big that hole is. But as it bores in there,
it pushes the salt, the sawdust, you know, out of
the hole. So, like you've always talked about Chris Keith,
somebody that like smokes a cigarette and leaves it and
doesn't like flick the ashes off and it's just hanging there,
that's what that ash will look like. But you could
also look around the base of the tree, or if
it's like a crape myrtle, and it's got multiple trunks.

(17:58):
You can look in the cracks and crevices and you'll
see like sawdust all through there. And that's that's the
sign that you got that you've got bores in it.
And if you see that, like I might just go
ahead and drench that oak that's that's out there, just
to see if I can save it, unless you just
go want to. But if you see, if you see

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that it doesn't hurt, just to go ahead and drench
it to see if you can save it. I know
that there's a lady Chris Keith down in Brook Highland
that had a Japanese maple in her front yard. It's
one of the small small subdivisions around the main main
neighborhood of Brook Holland. She had a Japanese maple that
was half dead and she was wondering what she was.
I think it had sentimental value, you know, she planted

(18:41):
it when she first moved into the house thirty years ago,
and it's kind of one of those things. I look
at the tree and I'm like, you know, if it
were my house, I would probably just dig the thing
up and put another one in. But because it had
sentimental value, she wanted to do everything under everything that
she could to save it. And so I delivered some drench.
It may be like the next stay or two. And
she did that and show enough that tree that was

(19:04):
like half to three quarters dead, I mean a baby
right back up. Yeah, she had to cut some dead
limbs off, but the thing filled back out, and she
had patience and she had faith that that Japanese maple
was going to live in the first furlom systemic Insectorance.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Did the call back out. You know, dog woods, you
can look at everybody's dogwood just about and nobody's got
a perfect one because they've lost a limb due.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
To unless it's like five years old or younger.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Right, Yeah, they'll lose a limb in there, and it's
due to bors like every time, like you see it,
and most of the time it just makes the tree
look deformed, you know, because you lose that limb and
it falls out of it, and then you got this
this funky, you know, sideways tree out there, and people
leave them anyway, because the dog wood's beautiful for about

(19:51):
three weeks every year, right, and I got too, Hey,
it's better than it's better than some you know, like
these stinking bread for pairs and all that stuff from
the spring. Man.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
We had five at our old house, and I was
almost on the verge of cutting them down, and then
we ended up moving. So there's somebody else's problem now.
But man, every every year they would bloom. You'd walk
out the door and it'd hit you in the face.
It just smells like rotten.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Fish acid in my nose.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
There, horrible tree. And then we had some of those
little wild ones on the side of the house that
have like you know, like the crown of thorns. Man, Dude,
I'd go to prune some of those limbs off and it.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Was like barb wire. They seed all over the place.
I've got a half a dozen down in the pasture
that are along like a little it's not a creek,
it's like a just no drainage ditch. But there's a
there's a half a dozen up that drainage ditch down
there that I need to hook a tractor two and
snatching at the mount and they're they're about to get

(20:50):
too big to do it, so I need a bust
to move on it. Yeah, but yeah, it's that's a
trash tree. If there ever was one of Bradford pear
uh probably still go in the big box store and
buy one.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
You'll see him. They'll be like flowering pears or something
like that is what they'll call them. And they'll three
gallon three and five dollars apiece. Yep, you'll see somebody
go out there and put them things in you. I
just shake in my head, like goods, there's one place
that those belong. Where two places, either the dump stir
or the burn pile. That's right about like a sweet gum. Yeah,
I don't like a sweet gum.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
I got a special place in my heart for sweet gums.
I've got a couple at the house. There's one dad.
So dad got that big connex box right, and he
dug this massive hole out in his yard and so
basically he's making like a big storm shelter of a
connex box in his yard like a bombshell.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
So anyways, you're just looking like that's my dad. It's
my dad. So above it there's this monster sweet gum
tree and it's losing a limb about every three weeks,
so it's got something. I don't know if he got
struck by lighting in there or whatever. But it's dying.
So that's that one's gonna be. The trouble with a

(22:04):
sweet gum is it's not good for anything. Like it
doesn't make real good fire withood.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Oh you try to split that stuff, get it.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
It's a it's like it's green until it ain't and
then you got like a you got like a three
month window where it'll burn and then it turns into
like carb you know, like styrofoam and it won't blarren. Yeah,
I'm just terrible, you know. I remember I got all

(22:34):
those that were out from around my pond back several
years ago, and I mean I had seventeen piles of
trees out there, and it was nothing but sweet gums.
A man, I piled and reburned and I torched my
diesel fueled and I did everything and finally got rid
of all that stuff. But man, it was a mess.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
You know, sweet gum can make some pretty decent like
pretty wood. I don't ever use it because it it
I think it takes so long to dry and it
moves a lot and it'll crack. But uh, it kind
of looks like walnut in some In some cases but
I don't ever U, I don't ever use it.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well now, back in the day, you know, my mom
she used to or my grandmother and my mother worked
in a basket factory in uh Springville, and they literally
would take they had a huge wood lath in there.
When I say huge, chris was as big as this room.
And it would run a thirty inch law or thirty

(23:32):
or three foot long log and they would take in
hand hw all the bark off of it, and then
they would put it in this wood lath and they
turn it and they would take sheets off of it
like paper, yep, and they put that thing on that
clipper table, and the clipper table would come there. It
just had a had a my blade on one end

(23:53):
of it that would like just bob up and down,
and that clipper table would gradually feed that those sheets
down there to that clipper and that clipper would just
bob up and down and it would it would cut
those things into slats and they'd take those in there
and they give them to those little ladies. And you
had ladies like my my grandmother that could breid about

(24:17):
seventy dozen of them a day. And you had makers,
and the makers would They basically had a form. They'd
take that that braided. That braided, we just called it
a braid. They take that thing and put it on
that form. They had a slapper to come up and
slap that thing around that that form, and they just
put a band on it and they'd sling them in

(24:38):
there and they made dozens and you know, a hundred
dozen of those things today.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
It's pretty cool, how about that?

Speaker 3 (24:44):
But uh, they would use where I was going with that,
they would use poplar, and they would use a sweet
gum out of like bottom land, like swampy areas, and
that's that's all they'd make baskets out of.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
So it's probably an trast packing basket or anything like that,
like you like you see now it's made out of
poplar or like wet land sweet gum.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
So that's about all they're good.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
For, Yeah, making a bask My granddad used to hand
hand weave baskets and and like you know you get
old wooden chairs that have the woven seats in them,
and he taught me how to do that. And I've
actually got his old tool set that he used to
use from making all the chair bottoms. And it's basically
like a dental kit with all the picks and everything. Yeah,
because man, he used to wrap, he used to weave

(25:31):
those things so tight. Uh, and you'd have to use
that those little dental picks to you know, move you know,
get gaps and feed through there and everything. I think
I'm out of all the grandkids, I was probably one
of the only ones that ever learned how to do that.
So it's kind of a dying art in most cases,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, that's you know, it's everything's made in a factory now. Yeah,
and it's just as it's it's different when you saw
it done the way they used to do it. You know,
by the time the basket factory closed down, I think
Bob could buy baskets from overseas and resell them for
about you know, buy them for a quarter of what

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it was costing them and make them over here. But it,
you know, kept six little ladies I'm employed.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, for a long time. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
And uh, you know, Bob wound up giving that place
to my mom when he passed away, So that was
pretty cool, pretty.

Speaker 5 (26:28):
Neat nice of them.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, well, Chris, it's time for another break. Let's go
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And now you're a host. Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Hey, we're back for the second half of the class
of Lordie's Landscape Show. And we got a couple of callers.
Let's take Regina right quick. Good morning, Regina. How are you?

Speaker 10 (27:58):
I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 3 (28:00):
We're doing good? How can we help you?

Speaker 10 (28:02):
I have some banana trees around my pool, and every
one of them has grown to a different height. Some
of them didn't grow more than a foot or two,
and some of them are six feet eight feet tall.
And I was wondering if they're different types of banana trees.
I don't think they are.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yes they are. Do I need to I'm sorry, yes
there are?

Speaker 11 (28:31):
Well?

Speaker 10 (28:31):
Do I need to fertilize more? Or And another thing
is last year we wrapped them for the winter and
then just unwrapped them and they were fine. This year
we did not wrap them because one of our neighbors
said he doesn't do anything to his. But now that
there's dead on them, do we cut that off? Do
we cut it down?

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Or what do we do? Normally? What people do, Regina?
Is there a banana tree typically grow, typically dies all
the way down to the dirt. So everything that's up,
everything that's up and tall right now is just the old,
slimy mess. And you go in there this time of

(29:10):
year and take like a machete and you just hack
that thing down and you discard all that old growth
and then it'll re sprout from the base and then
every year it'll get up to you know, six foot
tall or something like that.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
That so, is this the time of year when we
do that?

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, you go ahead that. Now that'll all them wt
slimy trunks. You just take them off them down to
the ground and they'll they reasp out from the ground.

Speaker 12 (29:39):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
And another thing is there was a crape myrtle out
around the pool and that was such a mess, and
so we finally cut that down. But we need something
that will block the view from our neighbors, you know,
just some kind of little buffer. Is there something that
does not share excuse me, does not shave and it's

(30:01):
not pampas grass or something like that that we could
put up that grows kind of fast and won't leave
a mess in the pool.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
There's a bunch of different things that you can use,
you know. It's I mean, it really just depends on
how big you need the screen to be. You know.
The crape myrtle obviously is naked at the base and
came up and made a big tree, and ought they
are terrible to have around the pool. I mean, the

(30:32):
last thing you want around the pool is a crape myrtle.
But absolutely any kind of evergreen. It really just depends
on how tall you want it to get, would be
the suggestion we would give you. Because when you first
said I think it's something like a green giant arbivida

(30:52):
or something like a you know, a big screenplant. What
you have to look out for on those oders are
going to get brought in the bottom and get super tall.
So you're looking at you know, ten feet fifteen feet
wide in the base and twenty five feet tall. You
may not need a screen that big. You may only
need something that gets eight or ten feet tall. So

(31:13):
you go with you know, some type of holly or
or you know, a te olive or something like that.
None of those are super messy, so there's different routes
you can go. It just depends on the situation a
lot of times. Okay, well, all right.

Speaker 10 (31:30):
Well I appreciate the information.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yes, ma'am. You better. Oh yeah, hey, I feel great.
I just can't talk. It's been ongoing, deal man. This
one is just it's hung in here on me.

Speaker 12 (31:45):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (31:46):
It's been tough.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, all right, thank you, thank you, Regina, and we
got Caring next. Good morning Caring. How you doing?

Speaker 5 (31:58):
Hey, Karen, Glad Karen?

Speaker 3 (32:05):
How are you?

Speaker 11 (32:06):
Oh? Hi? Am I speaking with Classic Gardens? Yes we
can hear you now, Okay, good. I have a three
part question. And I've been listening to the program and
this talk about bores and things that destroy trees, frankly
has to be quite alarmed. Can you tell me what
we can put on it? You see, it's we have

(32:27):
a crape myrtle. I'm planning to plant a dogwood and
a Japanese maple in the back. Can you tell me
anything we can put on it that will break the curse?

Speaker 10 (32:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah, we talk about it all. We talked about it
really for the last several months. It's called fertilome systemic
insect drinch.

Speaker 11 (32:46):
Right, let me write this down. Fertilomes systemic insects insect
insect killer or.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
What fertalme systemic insect drinch insect.

Speaker 11 (32:58):
Okay, rich, okay?

Speaker 12 (33:00):
And what do we do?

Speaker 11 (33:01):
Just put that around the roots or before we plant it,
put it in the soil that we're going to plant in.

Speaker 10 (33:06):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Yeah, So when you get the when you get the
trees planning, uh, the dog wood in the Japanese maple
and your crape myrtle that's already existing there. What you
do is just mix it up in a bucket and
you just pour it around the base of it, and
you do that once a year, and it keeps the
bugs out of them.

Speaker 11 (33:21):
Oh anything, all right? The second part is hydrangeas. I've
got a few planted, and I've got some kind of
acid fertilizer around them, because I like them to be blue.
Should we prune them? They're growing up and they're growing out.
I would rather they grow up than out. Should I

(33:41):
prune the branches on the bottom. It's kind of funny,
but I'm not I'm not too knowledgeable, as you can
probably tell. Uh, should should I prune the bottom? Or
should I prune the top? Or should I prove something?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
It really depends on the variety of high drained, especially
with those the hydranges that are colorful like that, because
if you've got an old variety, Oh, I'll ask you this,
does yours bloom? Does yours bloom all season?

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Or is it?

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Does it just bloom in the spring and it quit?

Speaker 11 (34:19):
It brew starts blooming in the spring, It booms throughout
the summer and starts to fade about the middle of fall.
Right now, there's something on it, absolutely nothing.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Okay, So maybe yours are endless summer hydranges. They'll bloom
pretty much as the name implies. They bloom all summer.
They are not as finicky about pruning as the old
fashion variety. The old fashion variety, you would go in
they'd bloom in the spring and then or late spring,

(34:53):
and then you'd go in there after they're done blooming
and you prune them and you wouldn't have to worry
about cutting the blooms off. But the endless summer hydrange
is if you went in there and prune them, you know,
right after the bloom, it wouldn't hurt. You could prune
them now and it wouldn't hurt them. They bloom on
new growth, but the old fashioned ones bloom on new

(35:14):
growth off a year old wood. So it's kind of
tricky with them. So to answer your question, I don't
if you go in there and prune it at the base,
then you're probably pruning everything off at the bottom of it,
and you probably won't You probably won't get any blooms
down there.

Speaker 11 (35:34):
Okay, Well, actually that didn't concern me because I wanted
to grow tall and the blooms come out on top.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
You know.

Speaker 11 (35:40):
Have you seen anything like that?

Speaker 5 (35:42):
Yeah, I mean that's how they you know, if you don't.
I've got some on the side of my house, Regina,
And if I don't prune them, I mean they'll get
They'll get six seven feet tall. Hydrains don't bring. Hydrangeas
won't branch out, so it's not like you can't cut
it in layers. I think I was like all or
nothing thing. You either cut them down or you just there.

(36:03):
You don't prune them at all. And if you don't
prune them, then they'll get taller like that.

Speaker 11 (36:08):
Okay, then I'll not I'll not pune them because uh,
what was that I said? The third question is about oh, yes,
what's the best fertilizer for hydrate?

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Is we use fertile on as a evergreen food.

Speaker 11 (36:20):
It's got am that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, it's got a systemic insecticide in it. We use
it on all kinds of shrubs. But it's a it's
got a good fertilizer.

Speaker 11 (36:30):
Is it a good fertilizer?

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, we use it on all shrubs.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
It's the best fertilizer.

Speaker 11 (36:35):
Okay, now I'll let you go after the third question. Gladiolus.
I plant gladiolus and they start to grow and then
they fall They fall over and you know along the ground,
they just fall over paving.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Yeah, when they bloom, usually glad's a bloom about July.
When they bloom, they get so top heavy they'll fall over.
There's not much you can do about unless you go
out there and stake them up.

Speaker 11 (37:03):
That's what I've somebody else told me I'm not planting
them deep enough. That they should be planted about eight
to ten inches deep and that'll keep them. It didn't
sound it didn't sound. Didn't sound sound to me. Now
you believe that that if you plant them deep enough,
if you plant them like eight to ten inches, that
they'll stand up straight.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, I don't think so. I think you're better off
if you had a big bed of glads that'd been
there for ten years. They did the same thing. I mean,
they just when they get so full of blooms and
that they've got, they just get top heavy and topple over,
so you'd have to stake them.

Speaker 11 (37:39):
Okay, well, I'm certainly glad. I called I'm certainly glad
I called, and I'll go and get the first I'll
go get the stuff that kills the insects, kills bores.
It kills bores around trees too. Yep, ye time of
the year, okay, and I'll send Classic Gardens.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
A picture bloom.

Speaker 11 (38:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Come out and see us.

Speaker 11 (38:05):
I'd love to bye bye now.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Yeah, we're at eighteen fifty five Carson Road. Again. That's
eighteen fifty five Carson Road. You come see us. We
got plenty of systemic drinks there. We're the only there
the Monday through Friday. I had a couple in yesterday.
I want to say hey too. I can't remember. I
didn't catch her name, but I want to say hey. Anyways,
they're off of a canyon road down in Vestavia. Chris,

(38:29):
you know where that is. You serve over there by
Bob and Rhodis and happy birthday Bob and uh. Anyways,
so they were. They were in yesterday and bought some
of those big potacarpus like I planted over at the
Sonnet House.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
That's a hot that's a hot plant right now.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
I love it. Man.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
The ones we got in were so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Well, there are fifteen gallon plants, so you don't have
to wait on them if you needed a good Now,
that's about as pruneable plant as you can plant. It
doesn't do anything bloom wise or anything. It's just a
pretty green shrub and if you let it, it'll get
you know, fifteen feet tall, but you can maintain it

(39:10):
at five feet no problem. I mean, it's it's bulletproof.
And they were just using it against the foundation of
a house on my backside. They had a tall block
wall foundation and it's you know, ten feet tall or whatever,
and they just needed a few shrubs to go down
through there, and they didn't want to wait on them forever,
so they bought some of those big potacarpus, and then

(39:32):
they bought a couple of limelight hydrangeas and got a
couple of sacks of the bag of gold. So just
wanted to say hey to them that he was trying
to get to all of this pre emergent and all
that stuff done. You know, while the weather's pretty so
mission accomplimence.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
If he got it out, he'd probably putting it out today,
I would think.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
So it's a pretty it's a pretty day to be
doing that, and it's a it's a great season for
long care. It is a season for long care.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Listen, everybody, always can you know right now where was
I at? I was over in Leeds somewhere. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was over by bass Pro shops and that medium
between there and uh try green equipment up there. I've
never seen something me daffodils in my life. How about
that dandelions. Yeah, they're in full bloom right now. Daffodils. Man,

(40:24):
they're kind of slacking this year. You know, normally by
now you might see a scant bloom on one or whatever,
but they kind of got set back by that cold. Yes,
they did well, Chris. Let's take that break right quick.
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Speaker 5 (42:28):
I pull in weed and my son.

Speaker 13 (42:31):
I bought the lawn ever long one. I bought the
lawn ember lone one.

Speaker 11 (42:40):
My yard working never sent to get done.

Speaker 13 (42:44):
I bought the lawn emble long one. I bought the
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Speaker 5 (42:56):
I'm going and pray every Adam getting mad.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Gonna get Yeah, don't make me get my spray gun.
I'm telling you, you get at you, I'll get at you.
We got Randy online. I morning, Randy, how you doing, buddy?

Speaker 12 (43:10):
Good morning, Good morning. Well can I have you quick question?

Speaker 13 (43:15):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (43:15):
My wife's rose bushes. She's got fifty plus. It's hybrid's
old timey, you name it. She's got it. With all
this war whether we're having, have I missed my window
of opportunity to bring these back?

Speaker 7 (43:30):
Now?

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Usually all right, So, way back in the day, we
would say, pruni your perunier roses about President's Day. Well
that's about middle February. So you're about there. Sometime between
the middle of February. I mean, heck, if you wanted
to go ahead and print them, you wouldn't kill them.
But sometime around the middle of February to the middle

(43:53):
of March, it's prob prime time to PREMI your rose bushes.
And a blind man could a Brian line man could
prove a rose better than if you didn't print it
at all, So whack that thing back.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Roses love being prune. That is one of the plants
that the more he proved it, the better leose things do.
It seems to be.

Speaker 12 (44:13):
Yeah, I was, I was hoping I had missed by
window opportunity, because if I kill these roses, y'all see
me the obituary pages.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Well, I'm well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead,
and I'm gonna go ahead and tell you if y'all
got if y'all got fifty roses, Randy, that are all
old fashioned school roses, y'all know what y'all are doing. Yeah,
I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 12 (44:34):
There's one hundred and fifty year old company in California
and we and they uh make you categories all the time,
and I order them from there, A lot of them there,
and she's got all kinds. It's like I said, it's hybrids,
old timey. But uh, I was afraid I missed my
window opportunity and it it'd be bad for me.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
I'm gonna classify y'all as gardeners. Yeah, that's a compliment.

Speaker 12 (45:02):
Well, I appreciate it, brother, I appreciate the info.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Alright, no problem, Randy. Yeah, I think Randy probably half
of his life spraying.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
Yeah, but I bet man, those roses. You know, they're
pretty and you know they smell good. Oh yeah, you know, man,
I love when you get to when you get to
a gardener's house like that that has like specific stuff
or a lot of perennials or old fashioned roses and that,
and that that's done right and looks good.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
It is something that is just like the supple's house
that I was at not too long ago. Chris. I
planted some uh, I planted some camellias from the backyard.
They're over in Gardendale.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Oh, I know who you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
The corner I just about I thought you could spit
it out.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
They're they're listening. They're listening to the radio show right now.
But they've got If there's a perennial that was invented,
they have it in their yard. Luck guys. Man, the
Buckeyes scattered around through there. Man, those things must have
they got them proved up. My trees, they're beautiful. Ah
it's gonna bug me now.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm talking about. But yes,
they have got a beautiful yard. I could have spent
half a day over there, yes, just looking around at
all the neat stuff they had. And you know, if
you if you know plants like I know plants, and
you go to somebody's house, it's got that much stuff.

(46:20):
It's like you can It's it's almost like if I
go to Bellingrath Gardens, like I get it ten times
more than anybody else there is walking around.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
Like the amount of time because energy that you have
to know it.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Well, I know, okay, they had to really baby this
to make this happen.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
And think it through. It's not like you just come
through and randomly everything.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Everything is super strategic and uh, I just really like
walking through a garden like that. Man. It it's really
a it's really a treat for me, especially if it's
a homeowner that just is a plant geek, you know,
like I am when it comes to that kind of
stuff that when I get to the house, I don't
screw with a plant. I mean, I just I won't

(47:04):
be unless it's it's come. I'm about to eat it. Garden,
this is my broccoli or something like that, you know,
or my corn. But as far as like doing shrub
work in the yard, I'm just ain't that guy. When
I get to the house, I play with everybody else's
shrubs and the playing them for them and all that stuff,
and I just don't fool with it when I get home.

(47:26):
It's just not me.

Speaker 5 (47:27):
Yeah, I'm the opposite all flowers.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yeah, but you do grass, that's right. Somebody asked me
the other day, like you're the Chris. I was like, no,
that's the other Chris. That's the Chris that does the grass.
I'm the Chris that does all the other stuff, the
plants and the drainage and all that, and miss That's yeah,
that's my deal.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
Yep. We're lent Or Lnton roses, and wasn't in bloom
beautiful and full bloom right now and we were walking
around the yard, so there's like, what is that that's
pretty my old Winton Rose.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Talk about a bulletproof plant.

Speaker 5 (47:59):
Yeah, we got a bunch of work, and I'm sure
I'm wanting to make that bed. I want to make
that bed bigger. You kind of feel that stuff, all right.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
So if you if you go up Bare Mountain Road,
you take a ride on Zuber, you go out halfway
out Zuber, you look off to your right and there's
a house on the right that's got like a million HELLI.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Bores out there beautiful.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
I mean they are gorgeous. Well, that music means we're
out of time. Y'all, come see us. We're at eighteen
fifty five Carson Road. If you need landscaping, irrigation, night lighting.
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(48:42):
and get it done for you. Eight five four four
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Speaker 11 (49:00):
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