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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the hand,
Ready and with your wand show up plants and grass
to grow two.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And doercent Chris, Chris and Chris snow Chris knows in.
Chris knows in, Chris knows in, Chris nos in, Chris
knows it. Chris knows it. Sure, Chris snows in. See
Chris knows it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris Ki,
Good morning, and welcome to the Classic Gardens and Landscape
Show on w e r C. Can we move this outside?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I need to get a I need to get a
fifty foot cable to put this radio box on.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That man when you roll up in the morning and
it's fifty eight degrees outside, Oh lord, I got time
a year.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I got up this morning and I was gonna go
outside and puddle around, and I put my I got
like a zip up you know, jacket, put that on,
walked outside so I don't need to jacket.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It was fantastic out here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm sitting there. You know that The first thing I
do when I when I get out of the shower
and get in there and get away from I don't
get dressed I mean my house is pretty small, and uh,
I get dressed and living room, cause what I do?
I just run, like I don't want to disturb Teresa.
She's in there, she wants you know, she's been working.
She got a new position at work, and she's been
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working like from daylight to dark every day, just trying
to She's trying to train the person that took her
place and do her new job at the same time.
So she's basically having to do her old job and
her new job both and it's just wearing her out.
So on a Saturday morning, if she's not planning on
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getting up, I don't want to bake her up. So
I'm like in there trying to get dressed in the
living room. You know, Ashley not there half the time
because you know, she's she's we're virtually empty nesters at
this point. But yeah, so I'm in there trying to
get dressed. The first thing I do, I hit the uh,
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you know, hit the TV just to see what do
I need to throw on because this time of year,
it's craps you. Yeah, one more than this thirty degrees,
the next morning sixty degrees, and you're like all right,
you know, you go from three layers of clothes one
morning to you know, a T shirt the next. And
I get up in this fifty eight this morning. I
was like, oh man, and I can already see you know,
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the sun's out.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
And I was like, oh man, this time, this is
that time of year, right, Yeah, that's what I was
up this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And I was walking around the yard, man, and I say, see,
I picked you some flowers, some smell good flowers.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't pick many men.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Other of them came out of your yard that both
of us.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Came out of my yard. I don't pick many men flowers.
But I saw that, and I know that those are
some of your grandma plants that you like.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, this is the other plant there is. This is
a winter honeysuckle, and it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Can survive a nuclear holocaust.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I transplanted that plant, that thing, Chris Keith, at least
six different times over the past three years, because I'd
put it, I'd put it somewhere, and then i'd cut
a tree down and i'd move it, and i'd put
it somewhere else, and then i'd move it, and I
put it somewhere else, and then i'd move it.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And now it's in its final spot and I'm not
moving it. I'm not moving it. Again.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Let me bust in right quick and give out the
phone number because we want some input from the callers today.
Our numbers two O five four three nine nine three
seven two. Again, that's two O five four three nine
nine three seven two.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We're talking about winter honeysuckle, and that's the ugliest plant
there is. You don't want it. This This ain't no
foundation shrub. Let me put it like that. It is
an ugly bush.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I don't even think we have any at the garden center,
so don't I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, I don't run in there. And then we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The only reason that Anne bought winter honeysuckle is because
I was spray. I was treating the yard a couple
of years ago and I passed by this. I went
inside this gate and I was, what is that heavenly smell?
And I'm looking around. I'm looking around and I see
this big, old, gnarly looking book. I mean, it's just there,
nothing pretty about it, but it smells fantastic. And I
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said Anne, I said, hey, I want some of those,
because I got a natural area out back and really nobody.
The only person that sees it is me when I
walk around out back, I said, I want one of
those plants. Well, most of the time when you order plants,
you just don't order one you can't get, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You to order six or twelve or whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So she got the minimum. She said, all right, I'm
gonna get these, but you better plant them. And I said,
I got you know, I got my I got my one.
I actually had two of them, and uh and I
think that was probably three four years ago maybe, and
so we've sold them since then. But yeah, don't come
running into the garden center asking for when her honeysuckle
because it's an ugly plant.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, back in the day, you know, the deciduous atyle
used to be very complex. I guess you would say
we carried every grandma plant that you could possibly have
because it was kind of the same situation. You know,
It's like every every year, you know, when the Harvard
Shires was spraying start blowing lady quints and Forsythia and
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you know all this stuff. Everybody wants to come in
the garden center and get one of them, but they
only want to get one, you know, so you have
to get six or ten or whatever on the order.
You can't disorder one. So it's the same thing. We
had a whole isle of your old old plants like
quints and for scythia, and ten different kinds of iviburnums
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and yg and you know, just all these different spyrias
and and different things. This time of year. You know,
the briery spyria is blooming, the quince is blooming, or
Forcythia's blooming, and that stuff only sells when it's in bloom.
So we would keep like six or eight of them
around all the time, and then you might sell. You
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might sell two or three this season, and then you'd
have five for four or five the next year that
you didn't sell, but you know, just hanging around the
garden center. But this still it was h it was neat.
That was kind of the every you know year, this
time of year, I would gravitate to the deciduous isle
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because something was blooming all the time. You know, you
start with the quins and the fursiti and the bridle
rey spiery and then it'll kind of float into the
burtwood ie i Burnhams and the ygear start blooming and
then you know, you got different things that the other
you know, you snowball vi burn thems and stuff like
that will bloom a little bit later and it would
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just kind of flow into the seas and the mock orange.
We'd always have some of that in the garden Center
and just just neat plants that bloomed. All most of
them were fragrant, so you know, you'd smell them as
soon as you come to the gate at the garden
Center and uh, you know, you'd go over there and
just try to hunt it down.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know, And we still pretty.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Much have a whole aillway of a lot of those
plants you just talked about, and so as they start
to bloom, we bring those up front so that people
can see them and because it's just one of those
instant things. But we have our garden Center, you know,
we carry a lot of unique plants like that that
people just don't plan anymore. You know, we refer to
them as Grandma plants because, like Chris Keith, like our grandparents,
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our grandmas and our aunts, you know, used to plant those.
And you can go into some of the bigger established
areas of you know, downtown, like downtown Birmingham. Crew twenty
eight is what we refer to as it goes down,
you know, like Claremont Avenue down into you know, the
highlands all down around UA B and even you know,
you get up and all up and down Old Leed
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Road and Mountain Brook and you start going on some
of these yards and you just see a lot of classic,
you know, classic plants that people don't plan anymore in
new you know, new developments and new subdivisions.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And it's just cool.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I me and you, Chris Keith, we've always talked about
and we always you know, love those plants because you
just don't see them.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You don't see them that much anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well you don't see as you don't there's not as
many old fashioned gardeners as there. You know that your
grandma she would go and she would you know, she
wanted to yell rosa Texas bush, you know, and she's
brag bo boy, my yellow rose of Texas bush. It
just bloomes like crazy. She can drive all over talking
about it. Yeah, she's talking about a kiir Japonica and uh,
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you know it's just a yellow bush that is kind
of long and scraggly. Most of the year. But when
it blooms, it has beautiful caution yellow blooms all over it.
And uh, you only know it for two and a
half weeks every year, but uh, you know Grandma had
one over here in the corner, you know, and that
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quince bush, and you know that the old gardeners though,
they'd mix that stuff up, so they had something a
little something going on all the time. And uh, you know,
if you got a big natural area and you want
to play, you need to call us. That's right, because
now I can I can come up with something, you know,
like that, with you know, a few odd and ind
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plants like you've never seen before.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And you'll have something blooming all times of the year.
I don't care if it's January or July. You know,
we can strategically get Yeah, if you call an.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Ask or something like that, I guarantee you I can
put you something together that will be awesome.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So winter honeysuckle. We went way off on deciduous plants.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
God smells good.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
All right, we go from ugly to uglier. This is
this plant.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
So this should have been blooming like in January, but
it just now started.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
This one is an edgeworthy, and it it's it starts out,
it's kind of a yellow in the center, but it's
a little more creamy around the outside edge of the bloom.
The bloom is really, to be honest with you, it's
not even pretty, but it looks like it blooms. It'll
usually in January. It'll start and it'll bloom for a
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cod a month or month and a half. It smells,
oh man, it smells amazing. And you know, if we've
got a mild winter, it'll bloom in January. Ours was
a little funky this year. We had some cold spells,
you know, right around the end of December that kind
of set everything back, made the daft deils not bloom,
you know, two weeks earlier. And uh, but the edgeworthy
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when it leaves out, it looks like an oleander, but
it's got long, kind of leathery leaves. But uh, it'll
grow as big as a tree, and uh, you kind
of limb it up like a tree. It's not a big,
thick bush. But it smells fantastic when it blooms this
time of year. And again, we probably don't have it
if we got any in the garden sitting we probably
don't have but one or two. But it is a
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neat plant, that one.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
That I it smells one I've got in my backyard,
Chris Keith, I want to say we I planted that thing.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Six years ago and it was like split in the pot.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I got an old cinder block back there holding
the thing up. And it was just one of those
that Anne was hanging on to for I don't know,
I don't know whatever whatever, and I ended up planting it.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You know, most of the time those plants just need
to home.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
If they look kind of bad in the pot, sometimes
they'll get root down. Oh yeah, and they just need
to either be put in a bigger pot or they
just need to be you know, they need to be planting.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
But save that one.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That And I was looking, Chris Keith, and it hadn't
popped up yet, but walking around the walking around my
yard and you know, springs here because I got purple
heart that's starting that's starting to come up.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I got you know, those two blooming right there.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I saw my Amorryllis that I dug up from my
some of it I dug up from my granddad's house,
and some of it y'all dug up about three million
bulbs from a landscape job. And so I've got amaryllis
scattered all over the place. So that's starting to come up.
And then I was looking for my Solomon seal, but
I hadn't it hadn't popped up out of the ground. Yeah,
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so all these things are starting to come up. So man,
it's here. We are here, we are in the spring.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, I mean daylight saving time tomorrow. I love that.
I like it. So he got a little more daylight
every evening. Get in and play. And uh, I've got
to get my I gotta get my ultimato baskets out
of my garden. And uh, I'm fixing a can like
the west left of the college.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Start working that ground yet ready for.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
The stuff, you know, And it'd be another month or
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Speaker 5 (17:57):
It is sprong.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
We've been putting pre merging out all over town and
you need to get us to come out and do
that for you, man, because it's that it's that time
of year. And I tell you, you know, people that
that didn't do anything this past Paul, this pass Paul,
this past fall. They're paying the price right now because
I'm going out the yards and they're like, oh my god,
where these weeds come from? And there's hn biting bitter
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cress and poanna and everything just like exploding.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
There's a guy right up the road here, Chris, that
had that big funky pine tree you know, that's been
dead forever.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Right against it was like leaning against the lines and
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Speaker 3 (18:35):
Against the fence row is leaning against the utility lines
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Speaker 5 (18:42):
To, isn't it funny?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But this big goofy looking pine tree has been dead
for about six since we've moved in here, okay two years,
and uh, you know you you look at you like
it when they gonna take the well they finally cut
the thing down. I don't know if it cut it
they can finally cut it down, or it failed, it
fell down, fell, And uh but I was looking as
I was coming in earlier, and he's got the prettiest
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patch of daffodils right there in front of his barn,
you know where the saw mill is, and then going
out across there, he's got the prettiest patch of hen
bit your life. Now, if he had a lawn, you
be kicking him out of the neighborhood. But he's out
on farm and you know, it's just a pretty massive
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purple hen bit going out across there. But you sure
as hell don't want that in yard right now.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Sarah and I have been talking about that tree for years. Man,
they need to cut that thing down. But that's that,
That is it, man.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You know, I was, I was treating a lot of
yards up in like you, Hayden Morris Kimberly area this
past week, and I just actually I love this time
of year too, Chris Keith, because you get onto one
of our yards and it's just like a nice pair
of starch khaki pants. You know, it's just tan, you know,
and it's just and then you get to the you
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get to you have that guy that lives next to
one of our customers and he doesn't do anything to it,
and you can literally you can stand back and you
can see a definitive line of where the weeds stop,
and those weeds stop at classic gardens and landscapes yards
because we we're good at putting down pre merging.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The property is just as straight as a gun and
you can see it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But I'm not worried. So and that's one of the
things that I talk with people. You know, they come
out or I come out visit the yard. They they
you know, maybe they just bought a house in the
previous homeowner didn't do anything, or maybe they didn't do
anything last fall, and they see all these weeds that
are growing in the yard right now and there panicking.
You know, I'm and me personally like I can get
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rid of those. You know, we can come in, we'll spray,
you know, we'll get rid of those. But I'm not
concerned about the weeds that they see in the yard
right now because it's kind of like what's done is done.
You know, those weeds are there. We'll start getting rid
of those. But what we're focusing on is stuff that
you're gonna be see and then in the next six, eight,
ten weeks if you don't do anything. So like you know,
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right now for scythy's in bloom, so you know that
that spring batch of weeds, you know, your your crab grass,
your chamber, bitter, your spurge. All that stuff's gonna start
germinating in the yard. So you've got to get pre
emergent down now to head off all that stuff that's
coming on in the spring months. But the stuff that
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you see in the in the yard right now you
come in. You you know, weed free Zone is one
that we sell out of the garden center. That's one
that we sell a lot of that we use a
lot of in our long hair program because it's a
fantastic product. So you know, clover, hen bit, bittercress, if
you've got that sticker weed lawn burrowed in your yard,
you spray it with weed free Zone and it will
absolutely just demolish that stuff and it won't and it
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won't kill the grass.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
And then and then mowing, mowing, mowing, mowing.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I know that your grass is not growing right now,
but you got to be mowing right because eds do
not like to be cut. So if you've got poana,
if you've got him bit, if you've got all these
turnip looking weeds growing in the yard, the best thing
that you can do, next to putting down pre emergent
and spraying, it's just keep those things cut because as
weeds don't like to be weeds don't like to be
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mowed down like.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That, it's time to scalp the yard anyways. So I mean,
if you've got you got big weeds out there, you know,
bermuda grass doesn't come back from the old stems. It
comes back from the ground. So the lower you can
cut that and clean it up, you know, the the
greener your lawn's gonna be as it comes out of dormancy.
So yeah, go over it, you know, scalp it, drop
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it again, scalp it again, drop it again, scalp it
to see if you can get it to the dirt.
That's kind of what we where. We want to be
as close to the dirt right now as we can
get it on a bermuda lawn. And man, when you
do that, it's gonna allow that sun to get to
that yard. And if these temperatures at night, you know,
and I know they won't, they're gonna fluctuate like crazy
over the next couple three weeks. But if though not
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time tenators jump back up and we consistently stay in
the seventies, you'll start seeing that green, that bermuda green
up pretty hot and heavy. Uh, you know, it's that
it's that time of year that stuff's gonna start coming out.
All it takes is just a couple of nice weeks
of warm weather. You might have a night or two
where the temp dropped down in the thirties or whatever,
but for the most part, we're about done with that.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
And scalping will put you a month ahead of everything
everybody that doesn't. It's amazing the difference. If that makes
for sure?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, Chris, let's get Jim. We got him on the
line of morning, Hey, good morning, how you guys, we're
doing good? How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (23:39):
So?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I recently moved from Trustball, where I had a little
bit of land, to Lake Logan, Martin and Lincoln, where
I really don't have land to plant any any vegetables.
And you guys talk about your tomato containers a lot.
So is it like self contained? Do I need to
buy anything else with it?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
When?
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Yeah, you talk a little bit about.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
It, Yeah, let me talk to you about it. So
how that works is it's a it's pretty much like
a big kit. It's it's a twenty five gallon pot
and it comes with the potting soil and it comes
with the fertilizer and the whole nine yards, and we
give you the plants and everything else. It comes with
(24:21):
the steaks and the cages and the whole nine yards,
so pretty much everything to take it at, you know,
through about a ten week process, and you take it
and we give you a seven instructions with it that
you know, you just take it and following the instructions
and mix the stuff up and uh, you know, you
plant your tomatoes in there. And when you do, man that,
(24:43):
it's like they sit there for about two weeks and
then it's like you know, Johnny and the Beanstalk. The
thing just goes crazy and it'll wind up, you know,
getting eight or ten feet tall and you know, three
or four feet wide, and you'll make you know, two
or three hundred pounds of tomatoes in that one pot.
It's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
What variety of your tomato is it?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You can use whatever ride do you like. I recommend, yeah,
I recommend you use a good hybrid, like a better
Boy or you know, a I like using Celebrity, but
you can use any kind. You get better production out
of a out of a hybrid like that. That's a
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indeterminate tomato. You don't want to do a determinate tomato
in there, because what happens is they'll put on a
bunch of tomatoes right fast and then the whole thing
just kind of craps out on you. So you really
want one that's got longevity. So a better boy is
usually a pretty good one. A celebrity is another real
good one. But you can use any kind you want.
(25:47):
I've had people do you know, purple ones. I've had
people do all different kinds and they do fine. I
do recommend you don't put a cherry tomato in there
with your other tomatoes because obviously not gonna get the
yield out of it. And a cheerry tomato grows like
a vine, it grows crazy, so it's just gonna take
the whole thing over probably, But yeah, it does really good.
(26:11):
We usually keep about thirty different varieties tomatoes in the
garden center in the spring, and I've seen people do
it with everything, so yellow varieties and stripped to my
varieties whatever.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
And when does that start, like around April? You can
get them.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You can get it. I mean you can go in
the garden center and get the kit. Now you're not
gonna be able to get any tomato plants now because
it's too early, but you know, in a couple of
weeks we'll have them in stock. This pot is pretty big,
so you know, we say you can take it and
you know, put it on your put it on your
patio and whatever, and you know, if you get a
(26:48):
cold night, you can slide it in. But it's pretty
daggum heavy. So you know, it's one of those things
where usually people start doing them, probably around mid April,
but you can go in the garden center and get
the kids. Now. We keep it in stock all the time.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I grew up in Massachusetts on our farm, and I
could go anything might move down here, man, the soil
is very.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Different and all right, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And such, Yeah that's great, thank you sir, Yes, sir,
no problem, yeah down it's it's really a craps you
depending on where you're at here. You know, Chris came
and helped me jockey some jockey some equipment off a
job yesterday over in uh Over in Trustful and uh man,
(27:39):
you talking about some terrible Oh, I don't believe you
could get any better than the long Meadow. I mean
it is horrible.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
That's common in subdivisions.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
We'll talk a little bit about that when we come
back from break well, Chris, we are going to go
ahead and get our second break in.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
I do want to give a shout out to Justin Bates.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
He's just riding around.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Maybe we're going to the soccer field or something like that,
but he's like, I'm listening to you on one O
five point five right now.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
So I want to say hey to Justin Warner out there.
Give us a called our garden center eight five four uh,
four thousand and five. We can come out.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
We can give you a quote for fertilization. We control
get rid of us nasty weeds for you in the yard.
Chris Keith, I know you'll been landscaping, You'll been doing
retaining walls, you'll been doing irrigation, you name it. We
can do it in the yard. So you can give
us a cough the garden Center eight five four four
thousand and five. We'll get you set up and get
your yard back into shape for you. This is a
classic gardens and landscape show on w RC.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Will be right back.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's the classic gardens and landscape shovel.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Am ready and go.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
If you'll watch up.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Lands and grass to grow two cent Chris, Chris and
Chris No.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith,
and we're back in the second half of the class
of gardens and landscape showing our number. If you want
to call us and ask us a garden a question,
you can do that as two O five four three
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or attainable wall, if you need irrigation, if you need
(29:18):
drainage work, if you need forest multing, land clearing, you
call us eight five four four thousand and five and
we'll be glad to do it for you. Chris, I
was landscaping for miss Well. We started out the week
out in Lincoln when probably not far from gym there.
So this fell on. Bought a lake lot down there,
(29:41):
and back in the fall we put in irrigation on it.
And he had the intent you know, obviously saw it
as expensive and he had it in his head. Okay,
I'm gonna set it with rye grass. Now you know,
we graded the whole lot and put irrigation, I mean,
put a pump in the lake can put. You know,
(30:01):
I think he's got like eight or like I think
because we got the pump in the lake, we're able
to run about ten heads on his own. So I
think we might have like six zones, but every zone's
got like ten heads, a big old lot. And uh,
but he had it costs wise, he had in his head,
and you know, Okay, we'll oversee it with a rival
graded and then in the spring and you know or
(30:23):
the you know about May June, we'll come in to
seed it. Well, things come together and just dad gumming,
he wanted to saw it. So what he's doing is
he going in there and buying you know, attractor trailer
load of saw it at the time, you know, as
he can, you know, budget allows it, and uh, we're
gonna gradually saw it the whole lot a little at
(30:45):
a time. So that's what we're doing. The first couple
basically we laid uh to I think twenty five palace
of saw it over there. Goodness, that was a Monday
and Tuesday. Then Wednesday we shift to the miss Bakers.
The Miss Bakers, we she's in Long Meadow and trustful, Uh,
(31:07):
they literally build those houses on top of a chirt
rock and she already had somebody quit that was putting
the irrigation system in.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I don't know, they just didn't have the right equipment
or whatever, but I can tell you it was hard,
rough terrain to work with. And uh we were able
to put her irrigation in.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Uh, no problem.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It wasn't an issue for us, and got that in
for Then we built a little wall over there for
put all new shrubs around her house for the most part,
and uh, you know, getting her fixed up. We lacked
a little bit over there. Uh just do the hard
ground we were working with. But uh, we'll be back
on it uh here pretty quick and uh then we're
(31:49):
on the Rudd yeats and we'll finish that or we'll
go there. We're doing uh, we're doing said irrigation. We're
doing all kinds of stuff overt rudds else we might
be there a week half.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Phase two for him we did.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
We did like yeah, this is like three. We built
a big wall for Rudd. I mean a big when
you can't hardly miss his place. He's in Criswood and
he's got a black fence around. It looks like a
fortress more or less. And uh, but we built a
big built a big wall for him, and then we
came back in and when he got his fence built. Uh,
(32:23):
we came in and I don't know if we did
it before or after he got the fence built, but anyways,
we came in and and put big arborviders and Holly's
and all that stuff around his fence and uh, you know,
just kind of softened the fence up a little bit
and it really turned out nice. And now we're doing
phase three irrigation and uh saw it in the front
(32:46):
yard and fixing that up. So good deal.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Well, Chris, we got Lewis on the line. We'll go
ahead and take Lewis and we'll take your car call
on the radio show four three nine nine three seven
two if you gain questions.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Good morning, Lewis, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Man?
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Good morning?
Speaker 5 (33:02):
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Doing?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Fantastic that I'm that nice Kaki looking lawn and Kimberly
you were talking about.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yeah, yeah, I had, Hey, I was, I was there
yesterday and uh, I was, I had I had a
new guy there with mew. I was training them and
I said, this is what a scalped yard is because
you could look at Lewis's yard is scalped, nice and tight,
and the neighbor's yard is probably still about three inches
And I'm like, that's when I say scalp. Because I
(33:29):
was training them, teaching them new things. I was like,
this is how everybody's yard should look right now. So
thank you Lewis for all the work that you put
into your yard, because you do your part and that
makes the world a difference.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
I do.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
I appreciate it. I was gonna say, I do a
commercial for you. I do everything up, the bugs, the bushes,
the whole yard. It's great and it's cheaper than me
paying for it halfway doing it right myself. So I
appreciate you guys. And uh, those are tomato plants? Can
I can? I do cucumbers And now I'm not a
tomato guy, but I would like to grow them. Maybe
you know.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I have a we have a longtime customer that lives
down in Alabaster, and I think he does everything that
you can imagine in those twenty five gallon pots. He'll
come in he does five or six different tomatoes, but
he'll grow peppers, he'll grow cucumbers, he'll grow squash and
he'll put some of them he'll put up against this
(34:22):
uh yeah, uh huh, some uh yeah, some uh. The
green beans he'll put in that pot and they'll climb
up trellises. And then in the winter he'll do cabbage
and he'll do kill I mean, you know, he does
everything in those pots because it's easier than doing everything
in the ground. So to answer your question, you can
do just about anything you want to in those pots.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
Well, I appreciate you guying going the show, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Thank you, Lewis. Yeah, that's that's the thing. Yeah, a
lot of people that just don't have a lot of room.
I mean, my mom and dad, I think they've got
five planner boxes out there in the backyard that are like, uh,
they're cross tied boxes. And the dad, you know, adds
a little bit of concoction to them every year, you know,
as far as you know, different types of Calvin hear
(35:09):
and this, that and the other end those things. And
you know, he he's got five of those things that
are just square, cross tied boxes, and he makes more
stuff and they can more stuff out of those things
that most people can in a great big garden. So
you know, a lot of times if you maximize, you
can maximize you're yielded by minimizing, you know, the amount
(35:30):
of coverage you've got, because you know, if you go
out there and you till up a spot that's fifty
by eighty, you know, that's a whole lot of weeding.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
That's a whole lot of weeding. That's why Don would
do everything in pots. He would come to the Garden Center,
Chris Keith, and I know you've probably loaded them up
for twenty years, but he would come and he would
buy almost an entire palette of fertile and potting soil, yeah,
to refill all his pots, and you know, bags of
calcium and all the bags of fertilizer. But man, because
(35:58):
he had a lower spot that he would till up
and garden and he just got tired of it because yeah,
you get down, man, you start getting you know all
of you know, every weed imaginable and in beds like that,
and it's just a nightmare in these pots.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I bet you, I bet you.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We don't pull a single weed out of our tomato
program at the Garden Center in a year's time, maybe
maybe a piece of spurgs or something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
By the time you get that. That tomato plant gets
you know, three feet three or four feet wide, and it,
I mean it shades everything in the pots. So if
you get anything in there, it's gonna be just this
you know, minuscule mount. We throw so much fertilizer to
that thing un till literally just about burning up any
weeds that come up in it. Don't burn that. But
(36:44):
we come on.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
We talked about we talked about not planting cherry tomatoes
in there, and god, forget this guy just cherry tomatoes.
I forget the guy's name, but he lives off of
Old Ledra I mean Spring old Old Hero Road down
to like Spring Valley Road, and he he does our
tomato program.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
But he'll plan a cherry tomato in there, and.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
He'll put it on the corner of his house and
he'll basically run it up his down spout and he's
got like a thirty foot tall extension ladder, and by
the end of the summer, that cherry tomato will be.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
All the way up to the top of his roof tie.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
So he uses that extension ladder climbing up and down
grabbing tomatoes. Wow, that's that's that's determination right there, And dad.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Funny story my granddad when we were kids, he had
an old barn up there and you know my my
granddad's old place in the ashwell up there off Greensport Road.
And since the old barn has been torn down because
it was just falling down. But uh, he plant gorge
beside the barn, and the gourd plant would climb the
(37:46):
barn like you know the beanstalk, you know, and go
up in the barn and go up in the loft
of the barn. I mean he go like all the
way through the barn, now that thing. And he had
like gords all in the barn and then go up
there in harvest the marks.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
And say they using them to make bird houses.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Yeah, I tell you it's funny what the old people
used to do.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
You see us Martin houses all over the countryside. When
you go up there, people have need to put.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
People have an old on my barn, like an.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Old antenna that's forty feet high, and then with a
pulley system and put thus gored bird houses up there.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I need to put some of them gorge around my
pond down there.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Sure, No, Chris, it's time for our last break of
the show. If you want to get in a last
minute call, you got time two O five four three
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(38:42):
on Saturdays. Uh, but you can leave a message and
the girls will call you back like immediately Monday. So
just give us a call. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, if you're fighting your lawn and you've done it
by yourself, you are messing up. What you need to
do is call eight five four four thousand and five
and let Classic Gardens take over. And uh man, we'll
take the wheel. That's right, Like Jesus took the wheel.
Speaker 5 (43:02):
That's right. Classic, We'll take the wheel.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yes, and you won't be that guy sitting beside the
khaki colored yard. You'll be that guy. You know. That's
what we need right now. You need to be scalping
ther yard. I mean, that's that's crucial. And then you know,
once you've done with that, you need to call Classic
Garden and say I need help, you know, because I
mean if you got him bid old purple crap all
(43:25):
over the yard right now, chick weed, bitter cress, all
that stuff's coming up like crazy now. And if you
hadn't done anything in the last six months, you got
a yard slam full of it. But the answers just
call us and we'll come do it for you. Uh,
we do have the product in the garden center, So
if you want to stop in there and get it,
you can where they're money through Friday eight to four
(43:47):
and we'll be glad to you know, we'll help you
out anyway we can. In there. This time of year,
we have so many people that just bring like bags,
like grocery bags full of weeds in the garden center. Say,
what do I need to control all this? And uh,
you know, we just have to start you on pre
emergent program and it's you know, right now is the
time for the bag of gold.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
You know, we've been you know, we've been so focused
on prevention of weeds and pre emergent and long cair
We've forgot to mention Chris Keith that Ann has been
bringing flowers in like crazy into the garden.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
Yeah. I say, like I say, like crazy.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
It's just we went from we went from we went
from having nothing to you know, getting in some one
gallon things like lantana and some sun patients and salvia
and colias and uh, you know, jap maples and Kimberly
queen ferns and macho ferns. So she's starting to bring
in shipments, and she's got some of those you know,
hardy vegetables that you can plant this time of year.
(44:42):
So I know she brought in some more russell sprouts
and cabbage and collars, you know, some of that stuff
that you can just kind of start out early, early,
early in the spring and and get you some get
you some of that. But she's been bringing plants in,
Like she had a big shipment of of shrubs come.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
In, tons of some high dranges and all that stuff. Man,
they were unloading them. We had just palletts and pallets.
They'll they'll ship those things on those big tall crates
like uh, you know three stories high kind of are
you know, three three sections high. And we got a
ton of those things that are empty at the garden
center now because you got so many shipments in the
(45:19):
other day, just all kinds of encore auzelias and high
dranges and te olives. I saw come in some ginko
trees and just all different kinds of plants. So the
spring and sprung come see us at the Garden Center
where at eighteen fifty five Carson Road, you know where
we've been for forty years. And uh, the thing about
(45:42):
coming in class at gardens is you're gonna get first
class help when you come in. We're gonna walk you
through it. If you you know, if you need landscaping
help and you're just to do it yourself, or you
can come in and uh, you know, they'll help you
do a design. If if they don't, you know, can't
help you that same day, which most of the you know,
(46:03):
ninety five percent of the time we can. But if
we can't, you leave it there. You know, I can
take a look at your pictures and you know, draw
you up something. Literally, you can take a picture of
your house, just a straight on shot bringing in the
Garden Center and I can literally draw it, you know,
a design on your house, you know, the picture of
(46:23):
your house. So it's not a big deal, but we
help you with that. Doesn't cost you a thing. You
just buy the plants the Garden Center right there, and
you know, we go from there.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
And everything we sell you is going to be low maintenance.
You know, it's not like you're gonna have to get
out there and prune it five times a year. Uh,
there's no such thing as no maintenance. But nobody likes
very few people like pruning. There's a couple of people
I can think of that do like to prune. But well,
everything we put down is for our area. It's acclimated
to our weather, and it's gonna be as low maintenance
(46:55):
as possible.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah, well that's We probably only got about four or
five high maintenance plants in the garden center, and they
are only high maintenance because you take them and put
them in between you and the neighbor.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
You know, you put them in the wrong spot we
put up.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
You take this plant and put it in the perfect spot,
then it's not high maintenance.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
You just leave it alone. You don't plan it.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Eli Agnus four feet off of your house, and no,
you don't expect to keep it maintaining.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
A Chris true story. So we were talking about my
brother in law who was neighbor about burn his house up.
I think that was on the last show anyways, Because
we were talking about don't burn your yard. That's where
we got off on that. So anyways, this guy has
set his house on fire. Anyways, So when Matt and
did moved in their house, and I surely God Matt's
(47:41):
got rid of them by now, because you know, he
was having a prinum like every other week. But they
had eli agnes for a foundation shrub around there. They
don't have a front porch. They got a front patio,
and the front patio had about five ili agnes planted
around the front of the patio. And obviously the patio
(48:02):
is sitting at you know, ground level, so it's not
like it's sitting up. So they had these planet around
that thing when they first moved in that house.
Speaker 5 (48:11):
That's a plant you plan on the back forty and
you let go.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
That's right, well, Chris, that music means we're out of time.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
Y'all.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Come see us at eighteen fifty five Carson Road. If
you need lawn care, if you need landscaping, if you
need a patio or a taina wall, forest mulching, land clearing,
you call us eight five four four thousand and five.
Would be glad to come out there and do it
for you, or give you a price to do it. Y'all,
come see us and we'll see you next weekend on
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And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris Ki,
Good morning, and welcome to the Classic Gardens and Landscape
Show on w e r C. Can we move this outside?
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That man when you roll up in the morning and
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a year.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I got up this morning and I was gonna go
outside and puddle around, and I put my I got
like a zip up you know, jacket, put that on,
walked outside so I don't need to jacket.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It was fantastic out here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm sitting there. You know that The first thing I
do when I when I get out of the shower
and get in there and get away from I don't
get dressed I mean my house is pretty small, and uh,
I get dressed and living room, cause what I do?
I just run, like I don't want to disturb Teresa.
She's in there, she wants you know, she's been working.
She got a new position at work, and she's been
(01:23):
working like from daylight to dark every day, just trying
to She's trying to train the person that took her
place and do her new job at the same time.
So she's basically having to do her old job and
her new job both and it's just wearing her out.
So on a Saturday morning, if she's not planning on
(01:45):
getting up, I don't want to bake her up. So
I'm like in there trying to get dressed in the
living room. You know, Ashley not there half the time
because you know, she's she's we're virtually empty nesters at
this point. But yeah, so I'm in there trying to
get dressed. The first thing I do, I hit the uh,
(02:05):
you know, hit the TV just to see what do
I need to throw on because this time of year,
it's craps you. Yeah, one more than this thirty degrees,
the next morning sixty degrees, and you're like all right,
you know, you go from three layers of clothes one
morning to you know, a T shirt the next. And
I get up in this fifty eight this morning. I
was like, oh man, and I can already see you know,
(02:26):
the sun's out.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
And I was like, oh man, this time, this is
that time of year, right, Yeah, that's what I was
up this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And I was walking around the yard, man, and I say, see,
I picked you some flowers, some smell good flowers.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't pick many men.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Other of them came out of your yard that both
of us.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Came out of my yard. I don't pick many men flowers.
But I saw that, and I know that those are
some of your grandma plants that you like.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, this is the other plant there is. This is
a winter honeysuckle, and it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Can survive a nuclear holocaust.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I transplanted that plant, that thing, Chris Keith, at least
six different times over the past three years, because I'd
put it, I'd put it somewhere, and then i'd cut
a tree down and i'd move it, and i'd put
it somewhere else, and then i'd move it, and I
put it somewhere else, and then i'd move it.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And now it's in its final spot and I'm not
moving it. I'm not moving it. Again.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Let me bust in right quick and give out the
phone number because we want some input from the callers today.
Our numbers two O five four three nine nine three
seven two. Again, that's two O five four three nine
nine three seven two.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We're talking about winter honeysuckle, and that's the ugliest plant
there is. You don't want it. This This ain't no
foundation shrub. Let me put it like that. It is
an ugly bush.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I don't even think we have any at the garden center,
so don't I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, I don't run in there. And then we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The only reason that Anne bought winter honeysuckle is because
I was spray. I was treating the yard a couple
of years ago and I passed by this. I went
inside this gate and I was, what is that heavenly smell?
And I'm looking around. I'm looking around and I see
this big, old, gnarly looking book. I mean, it's just there,
nothing pretty about it, but it smells fantastic. And I
(04:05):
said Anne, I said, hey, I want some of those,
because I got a natural area out back and really nobody.
The only person that sees it is me when I
walk around out back, I said, I want one of
those plants. Well, most of the time when you order plants,
you just don't order one you can't get, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You to order six or twelve or whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So she got the minimum. She said, all right, I'm
gonna get these, but you better plant them. And I said,
I got you know, I got my I got my one.
I actually had two of them, and uh and I
think that was probably three four years ago maybe, and
so we've sold them since then. But yeah, don't come
running into the garden center asking for when her honeysuckle
because it's an ugly plant.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, back in the day, you know, the deciduous atyle
used to be very complex. I guess you would say
we carried every grandma plant that you could possibly have
because it was kind of the same situation. You know,
It's like every every year, you know, when the Harvard
Shires was spraying start blowing lady quints and Forsythia and
(05:00):
you know all this stuff. Everybody wants to come in
the garden center and get one of them, but they
only want to get one, you know, so you have
to get six or ten or whatever on the order.
You can't disorder one. So it's the same thing. We
had a whole isle of your old old plants like
quints and for scythia, and ten different kinds of iviburnums
(05:23):
and yg and you know, just all these different spyrias
and and different things. This time of year. You know,
the briery spyria is blooming, the quince is blooming, or
Forcythia's blooming, and that stuff only sells when it's in bloom.
So we would keep like six or eight of them
around all the time, and then you might sell. You
(05:45):
might sell two or three this season, and then you'd
have five for four or five the next year that
you didn't sell, but you know, just hanging around the
garden center. But this still it was h it was neat.
That was kind of the every you know year, this
time of year, I would gravitate to the deciduous isle
(06:06):
because something was blooming all the time. You know, you
start with the quins and the fursiti and the bridle
rey spiery and then it'll kind of float into the
burtwood ie i Burnhams and the ygear start blooming and
then you know, you got different things that the other
you know, you snowball vi burn thems and stuff like
that will bloom a little bit later and it would
(06:26):
just kind of flow into the seas and the mock orange.
We'd always have some of that in the garden Center
and just just neat plants that bloomed. All most of
them were fragrant, so you know, you'd smell them as
soon as you come to the gate at the garden
Center and uh, you know, you'd go over there and
just try to hunt it down.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know, And we still pretty.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Much have a whole aillway of a lot of those
plants you just talked about, and so as they start
to bloom, we bring those up front so that people
can see them and because it's just one of those
instant things. But we have our garden Center, you know,
we carry a lot of unique plants like that that
people just don't plan anymore. You know, we refer to
them as Grandma plants because, like Chris Keith, like our grandparents,
(07:08):
our grandmas and our aunts, you know, used to plant those.
And you can go into some of the bigger established
areas of you know, downtown, like downtown Birmingham. Crew twenty
eight is what we refer to as it goes down,
you know, like Claremont Avenue down into you know, the
highlands all down around UA B and even you know,
you get up and all up and down Old Leed
(07:29):
Road and Mountain Brook and you start going on some
of these yards and you just see a lot of classic,
you know, classic plants that people don't plan anymore in
new you know, new developments and new subdivisions.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And it's just cool.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I me and you, Chris Keith, we've always talked about
and we always you know, love those plants because you
just don't see them.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You don't see them that much anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well you don't see as you don't there's not as
many old fashioned gardeners as there. You know that your
grandma she would go and she would you know, she
wanted to yell rosa Texas bush, you know, and she's
brag bo boy, my yellow rose of Texas bush. It
just bloomes like crazy. She can drive all over talking
about it. Yeah, she's talking about a kiir Japonica and uh,
(08:12):
you know it's just a yellow bush that is kind
of long and scraggly. Most of the year. But when
it blooms, it has beautiful caution yellow blooms all over it.
And uh, you only know it for two and a
half weeks every year, but uh, you know Grandma had
one over here in the corner, you know, and that
(08:32):
quince bush, and you know that the old gardeners though,
they'd mix that stuff up, so they had something a
little something going on all the time. And uh, you know,
if you got a big natural area and you want
to play, you need to call us. That's right, because
now I can I can come up with something, you know,
like that, with you know, a few odd and ind
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plants like you've never seen before.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And you'll have something blooming all times of the year.
I don't care if it's January or July. You know,
we can strategically get Yeah, if you call an.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Ask or something like that, I guarantee you I can
put you something together that will be awesome.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So winter honeysuckle. We went way off on deciduous plants.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
God smells good.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
All right, we go from ugly to uglier. This is
this plant.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
So this should have been blooming like in January, but
it just now started.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
This one is an edgeworthy, and it it's it starts out,
it's kind of a yellow in the center, but it's
a little more creamy around the outside edge of the bloom.
The bloom is really, to be honest with you, it's
not even pretty, but it looks like it blooms. It'll
usually in January. It'll start and it'll bloom for a
(09:45):
cod a month or month and a half. It smells,
oh man, it smells amazing. And you know, if we've
got a mild winter, it'll bloom in January. Ours was
a little funky this year. We had some cold spells,
you know, right around the end of December that kind
of set everything back, made the daft deils not bloom,
you know, two weeks earlier. And uh, but the edgeworthy
(10:06):
when it leaves out, it looks like an oleander, but
it's got long, kind of leathery leaves. But uh, it'll
grow as big as a tree, and uh, you kind
of limb it up like a tree. It's not a big,
thick bush. But it smells fantastic when it blooms this
time of year. And again, we probably don't have it
if we got any in the garden sitting we probably
don't have but one or two. But it is a
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neat plant, that one.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
That I it smells one I've got in my backyard,
Chris Keith, I want to say we I planted that thing.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Six years ago and it was like split in the pot.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I got an old cinder block back there holding
the thing up. And it was just one of those
that Anne was hanging on to for I don't know,
I don't know whatever whatever, and I ended up planting it.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You know, most of the time those plants just need
to home.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
If they look kind of bad in the pot, sometimes
they'll get root down. Oh yeah, and they just need
to either be put in a bigger pot or they
just need to be you know, they need to be planting.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
But save that one.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That And I was looking, Chris Keith, and it hadn't
popped up yet, but walking around the walking around my
yard and you know, springs here because I got purple
heart that's starting that's starting to come up.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I got you know, those two blooming right there.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I saw my Amorryllis that I dug up from my
some of it I dug up from my granddad's house,
and some of it y'all dug up about three million
bulbs from a landscape job. And so I've got amaryllis
scattered all over the place. So that's starting to come up.
And then I was looking for my Solomon seal, but
I hadn't it hadn't popped up out of the ground. Yeah,
(11:33):
so all these things are starting to come up. So man,
it's here. We are here, we are in the spring.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, I mean daylight saving time tomorrow. I love that.
I like it. So he got a little more daylight
every evening. Get in and play. And uh, I've got
to get my I gotta get my ultimato baskets out
of my garden. And uh, I'm fixing a can like
the west left of the college.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Start working that ground yet ready for.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
The stuff, you know, And it'd be another month or
so and it'll be, uh, you know, time to put
your tomato plants out and things like that. If you
want to start something right now in a container, it's
a good time to do it. Uh, it's time for
a break. Let's go ahead and do that. Or number
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We'll talk a little more about that, and uh, we
(12:17):
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Speaker 5 (17:57):
It is sprong.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
We've been putting pre merging out all over town and
you need to get us to come out and do
that for you, man, because it's that it's that time
of year. And I tell you, you know, people that
that didn't do anything this past Paul, this pass Paul,
this past fall. They're paying the price right now because
I'm going out the yards and they're like, oh my god,
where these weeds come from? And there's hn biting bitter
(18:21):
cress and poanna and everything just like exploding.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
There's a guy right up the road here, Chris, that
had that big funky pine tree you know, that's been
dead forever.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Right against it was like leaning against the lines and
everything right.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Against the fence row is leaning against the utility lines
and everything else. Now amazing what you pay attention.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
To, isn't it funny?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But this big goofy looking pine tree has been dead
for about six since we've moved in here, okay two years,
and uh, you know you you look at you like
it when they gonna take the well they finally cut
the thing down. I don't know if it cut it
they can finally cut it down, or it failed, it
fell down, fell, And uh but I was looking as
I was coming in earlier, and he's got the prettiest
(19:07):
patch of daffodils right there in front of his barn,
you know where the saw mill is, and then going
out across there, he's got the prettiest patch of hen
bit your life. Now, if he had a lawn, you
be kicking him out of the neighborhood. But he's out
on farm and you know, it's just a pretty massive
(19:28):
purple hen bit going out across there. But you sure
as hell don't want that in yard right now.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Sarah and I have been talking about that tree for years. Man,
they need to cut that thing down. But that's that,
That is it, man.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You know, I was, I was treating a lot of
yards up in like you, Hayden Morris Kimberly area this
past week, and I just actually I love this time
of year too, Chris Keith, because you get onto one
of our yards and it's just like a nice pair
of starch khaki pants. You know, it's just tan, you know,
and it's just and then you get to the you
(20:02):
get to you have that guy that lives next to
one of our customers and he doesn't do anything to it,
and you can literally you can stand back and you
can see a definitive line of where the weeds stop,
and those weeds stop at classic gardens and landscapes yards
because we we're good at putting down pre merging.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The property is just as straight as a gun and
you can see it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But I'm not worried. So and that's one of the
things that I talk with people. You know, they come
out or I come out visit the yard. They they
you know, maybe they just bought a house in the
previous homeowner didn't do anything, or maybe they didn't do
anything last fall, and they see all these weeds that
are growing in the yard right now and there panicking.
You know, I'm and me personally like I can get
(20:45):
rid of those. You know, we can come in, we'll spray,
you know, we'll get rid of those. But I'm not
concerned about the weeds that they see in the yard
right now because it's kind of like what's done is done.
You know, those weeds are there. We'll start getting rid
of those. But what we're focusing on is stuff that
you're gonna be see and then in the next six, eight,
ten weeks if you don't do anything. So like you know,
(21:05):
right now for scythy's in bloom, so you know that
that spring batch of weeds, you know, your your crab grass,
your chamber, bitter, your spurge. All that stuff's gonna start
germinating in the yard. So you've got to get pre
emergent down now to head off all that stuff that's
coming on in the spring months. But the stuff that
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you see in the in the yard right now you
come in. You you know, weed free Zone is one
that we sell out of the garden center. That's one
that we sell a lot of that we use a
lot of in our long hair program because it's a
fantastic product. So you know, clover, hen bit, bittercress, if
you've got that sticker weed lawn burrowed in your yard,
you spray it with weed free Zone and it will
absolutely just demolish that stuff and it won't and it
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won't kill the grass.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
And then and then mowing, mowing, mowing, mowing.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I know that your grass is not growing right now,
but you got to be mowing right because eds do
not like to be cut. So if you've got poana,
if you've got him bit, if you've got all these
turnip looking weeds growing in the yard, the best thing
that you can do, next to putting down pre emergent
and spraying, it's just keep those things cut because as
weeds don't like to be weeds don't like to be
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mowed down like.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That, it's time to scalp the yard anyways. So I mean,
if you've got you got big weeds out there, you know,
bermuda grass doesn't come back from the old stems. It
comes back from the ground. So the lower you can
cut that and clean it up, you know, the the
greener your lawn's gonna be as it comes out of dormancy.
So yeah, go over it, you know, scalp it, drop
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it again, scalp it again, drop it again, scalp it
to see if you can get it to the dirt.
That's kind of what we where. We want to be
as close to the dirt right now as we can
get it on a bermuda lawn. And man, when you
do that, it's gonna allow that sun to get to
that yard. And if these temperatures at night, you know,
and I know they won't, they're gonna fluctuate like crazy
over the next couple three weeks. But if though not
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time tenators jump back up and we consistently stay in
the seventies, you'll start seeing that green, that bermuda green
up pretty hot and heavy. Uh, you know, it's that
it's that time of year that stuff's gonna start coming out.
All it takes is just a couple of nice weeks
of warm weather. You might have a night or two
where the temp dropped down in the thirties or whatever,
but for the most part, we're about done with that.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
And scalping will put you a month ahead of everything
everybody that doesn't. It's amazing the difference. If that makes
for sure?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, Chris, let's get Jim. We got him on the
line of morning, Hey, good morning, how you guys, we're
doing good? How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (23:39):
So?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I recently moved from Trustball, where I had a little
bit of land, to Lake Logan, Martin and Lincoln, where
I really don't have land to plant any any vegetables.
And you guys talk about your tomato containers a lot.
So is it like self contained? Do I need to
buy anything else with it?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
When?
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Yeah, you talk a little bit about.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
It, Yeah, let me talk to you about it. So
how that works is it's a it's pretty much like
a big kit. It's it's a twenty five gallon pot
and it comes with the potting soil and it comes
with the fertilizer and the whole nine yards, and we
give you the plants and everything else. It comes with
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the steaks and the cages and the whole nine yards,
so pretty much everything to take it at, you know,
through about a ten week process, and you take it
and we give you a seven instructions with it that
you know, you just take it and following the instructions
and mix the stuff up and uh, you know, you
plant your tomatoes in there. And when you do, man that,
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it's like they sit there for about two weeks and
then it's like you know, Johnny and the Beanstalk. The
thing just goes crazy and it'll wind up, you know,
getting eight or ten feet tall and you know, three
or four feet wide, and you'll make you know, two
or three hundred pounds of tomatoes in that one pot.
It's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
What variety of your tomato is it?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You can use whatever ride do you like. I recommend, yeah,
I recommend you use a good hybrid, like a better
Boy or you know, a I like using Celebrity, but
you can use any kind. You get better production out
of a out of a hybrid like that. That's a
(25:27):
indeterminate tomato. You don't want to do a determinate tomato
in there, because what happens is they'll put on a
bunch of tomatoes right fast and then the whole thing
just kind of craps out on you. So you really
want one that's got longevity. So a better boy is
usually a pretty good one. A celebrity is another real
good one. But you can use any kind you want.
(25:47):
I've had people do you know, purple ones. I've had
people do all different kinds and they do fine. I
do recommend you don't put a cherry tomato in there
with your other tomatoes because obviously not gonna get the
yield out of it. And a cheerry tomato grows like
a vine, it grows crazy, so it's just gonna take
the whole thing over probably, But yeah, it does really good.
(26:11):
We usually keep about thirty different varieties tomatoes in the
garden center in the spring, and I've seen people do
it with everything, so yellow varieties and stripped to my
varieties whatever.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
And when does that start, like around April? You can
get them.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You can get it. I mean you can go in
the garden center and get the kit. Now you're not
gonna be able to get any tomato plants now because
it's too early, but you know, in a couple of
weeks we'll have them in stock. This pot is pretty big,
so you know, we say you can take it and
you know, put it on your put it on your
patio and whatever, and you know, if you get a
(26:48):
cold night, you can slide it in. But it's pretty
daggum heavy. So you know, it's one of those things
where usually people start doing them, probably around mid April,
but you can go in the garden center and get
the kids. Now. We keep it in stock all the time.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I grew up in Massachusetts on our farm, and I
could go anything might move down here, man, the soil
is very.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Different and all right, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And such, Yeah that's great, thank you sir, Yes, sir,
no problem, yeah down it's it's really a craps you
depending on where you're at here. You know, Chris came
and helped me jockey some jockey some equipment off a
job yesterday over in uh Over in Trustful and uh man,
(27:39):
you talking about some terrible Oh, I don't believe you
could get any better than the long Meadow. I mean
it is horrible.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
That's common in subdivisions.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
We'll talk a little bit about that when we come
back from break well, Chris, we are going to go
ahead and get our second break in.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
I do want to give a shout out to Justin Bates.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
He's just riding around.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Maybe we're going to the soccer field or something like that,
but he's like, I'm listening to you on one O
five point five right now.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
So I want to say hey to Justin Warner out there.
Give us a called our garden center eight five four uh,
four thousand and five. We can come out.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
We can give you a quote for fertilization. We control
get rid of us nasty weeds for you in the yard.
Chris Keith, I know you'll been landscaping, You'll been doing
retaining walls, you'll been doing irrigation, you name it. We
can do it in the yard. So you can give
us a cough the garden Center eight five four four
thousand and five. We'll get you set up and get
your yard back into shape for you. This is a
classic gardens and landscape show on w RC.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Will be right back.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's the classic gardens and landscape shovel.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Am ready and go.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
If you'll watch up.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Lands and grass to grow two cent Chris, Chris and
Chris No.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith,
and we're back in the second half of the class
of gardens and landscape showing our number. If you want
to call us and ask us a garden a question,
you can do that as two O five four three
nine nine three seven to two. If you need landscaping,
if you need lawn care, if you need a patio
or attainable wall, if you need irrigation, if you need
(29:18):
drainage work, if you need forest multing, land clearing, you
call us eight five four four thousand and five and
we'll be glad to do it for you. Chris, I
was landscaping for miss Well. We started out the week
out in Lincoln when probably not far from gym there.
So this fell on. Bought a lake lot down there,
(29:41):
and back in the fall we put in irrigation on it.
And he had the intent you know, obviously saw it
as expensive and he had it in his head. Okay,
I'm gonna set it with rye grass. Now you know,
we graded the whole lot and put irrigation, I mean,
put a pump in the lake can put. You know,
(30:01):
I think he's got like eight or like I think
because we got the pump in the lake, we're able
to run about ten heads on his own. So I
think we might have like six zones, but every zone's
got like ten heads, a big old lot. And uh,
but he had it costs wise, he had in his head,
and you know, Okay, we'll oversee it with a rival
graded and then in the spring and you know or
(30:23):
the you know about May June, we'll come in to
seed it. Well, things come together and just dad gumming,
he wanted to saw it. So what he's doing is
he going in there and buying you know, attractor trailer
load of saw it at the time, you know, as
he can, you know, budget allows it, and uh, we're
gonna gradually saw it the whole lot a little at
(30:45):
a time. So that's what we're doing. The first couple
basically we laid uh to I think twenty five palace
of saw it over there. Goodness, that was a Monday
and Tuesday. Then Wednesday we shift to the miss Bakers.
The Miss Bakers, we she's in Long Meadow and trustful, Uh,
(31:07):
they literally build those houses on top of a chirt
rock and she already had somebody quit that was putting
the irrigation system in.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I don't know, they just didn't have the right equipment
or whatever, but I can tell you it was hard,
rough terrain to work with. And uh we were able
to put her irrigation in.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Uh, no problem.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It wasn't an issue for us, and got that in
for Then we built a little wall over there for
put all new shrubs around her house for the most part,
and uh, you know, getting her fixed up. We lacked
a little bit over there. Uh just do the hard
ground we were working with. But uh, we'll be back
on it uh here pretty quick and uh then we're
(31:49):
on the Rudd yeats and we'll finish that or we'll
go there. We're doing uh, we're doing said irrigation. We're
doing all kinds of stuff overt rudds else we might
be there a week half.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Phase two for him we did.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
We did like yeah, this is like three. We built
a big wall for Rudd. I mean a big when
you can't hardly miss his place. He's in Criswood and
he's got a black fence around. It looks like a
fortress more or less. And uh, but we built a
big built a big wall for him, and then we
came back in and when he got his fence built. Uh,
(32:23):
we came in and I don't know if we did
it before or after he got the fence built, but anyways,
we came in and and put big arborviders and Holly's
and all that stuff around his fence and uh, you know,
just kind of softened the fence up a little bit
and it really turned out nice. And now we're doing
phase three irrigation and uh saw it in the front
(32:46):
yard and fixing that up. So good deal.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Well, Chris, we got Lewis on the line. We'll go
ahead and take Lewis and we'll take your car call
on the radio show four three nine nine three seven
two if you gain questions.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Good morning, Lewis, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Man?
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Good morning?
Speaker 5 (33:02):
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Doing?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Fantastic that I'm that nice Kaki looking lawn and Kimberly
you were talking about.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yeah, yeah, I had, Hey, I was, I was there
yesterday and uh, I was, I had I had a
new guy there with mew. I was training them and
I said, this is what a scalped yard is because
you could look at Lewis's yard is scalped, nice and tight,
and the neighbor's yard is probably still about three inches
And I'm like, that's when I say scalp. Because I
(33:29):
was training them, teaching them new things. I was like,
this is how everybody's yard should look right now. So
thank you Lewis for all the work that you put
into your yard, because you do your part and that
makes the world a difference.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
I do.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
I appreciate it. I was gonna say, I do a
commercial for you. I do everything up, the bugs, the bushes,
the whole yard. It's great and it's cheaper than me
paying for it halfway doing it right myself. So I
appreciate you guys. And uh, those are tomato plants? Can
I can? I do cucumbers And now I'm not a
tomato guy, but I would like to grow them. Maybe
you know.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I have a we have a longtime customer that lives
down in Alabaster, and I think he does everything that
you can imagine in those twenty five gallon pots. He'll
come in he does five or six different tomatoes, but
he'll grow peppers, he'll grow cucumbers, he'll grow squash and
he'll put some of them he'll put up against this
(34:22):
uh yeah, uh huh, some uh yeah, some uh. The
green beans he'll put in that pot and they'll climb
up trellises. And then in the winter he'll do cabbage
and he'll do kill I mean, you know, he does
everything in those pots because it's easier than doing everything
in the ground. So to answer your question, you can
do just about anything you want to in those pots.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
Well, I appreciate you guying going the show, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Thank you, Lewis. Yeah, that's that's the thing. Yeah, a
lot of people that just don't have a lot of room.
I mean, my mom and dad, I think they've got
five planner boxes out there in the backyard that are like, uh,
they're cross tied boxes. And the dad, you know, adds
a little bit of concoction to them every year, you know,
as far as you know, different types of Calvin hear
(35:09):
and this, that and the other end those things. And
you know, he he's got five of those things that
are just square, cross tied boxes, and he makes more
stuff and they can more stuff out of those things
that most people can in a great big garden. So
you know, a lot of times if you maximize, you
can maximize you're yielded by minimizing, you know, the amount
(35:30):
of coverage you've got, because you know, if you go
out there and you till up a spot that's fifty
by eighty, you know, that's a whole lot of weeding.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
That's a whole lot of weeding. That's why Don would
do everything in pots. He would come to the Garden Center,
Chris Keith, and I know you've probably loaded them up
for twenty years, but he would come and he would
buy almost an entire palette of fertile and potting soil, yeah,
to refill all his pots, and you know, bags of
calcium and all the bags of fertilizer. But man, because
(35:58):
he had a lower spot that he would till up
and garden and he just got tired of it because yeah,
you get down, man, you start getting you know all
of you know, every weed imaginable and in beds like that,
and it's just a nightmare in these pots.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I bet you, I bet you.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We don't pull a single weed out of our tomato
program at the Garden Center in a year's time, maybe
maybe a piece of spurgs or something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
By the time you get that. That tomato plant gets
you know, three feet three or four feet wide, and it,
I mean it shades everything in the pots. So if
you get anything in there, it's gonna be just this
you know, minuscule mount. We throw so much fertilizer to
that thing un till literally just about burning up any
weeds that come up in it. Don't burn that. But
(36:44):
we come on.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
We talked about we talked about not planting cherry tomatoes
in there, and god, forget this guy just cherry tomatoes.
I forget the guy's name, but he lives off of
Old Ledra I mean Spring old Old Hero Road down
to like Spring Valley Road, and he he does our
tomato program.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
But he'll plan a cherry tomato in there, and.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
He'll put it on the corner of his house and
he'll basically run it up his down spout and he's
got like a thirty foot tall extension ladder, and by
the end of the summer, that cherry tomato will be.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
All the way up to the top of his roof tie.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
So he uses that extension ladder climbing up and down
grabbing tomatoes. Wow, that's that's that's determination right there, And dad.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Funny story my granddad when we were kids, he had
an old barn up there and you know my my
granddad's old place in the ashwell up there off Greensport Road.
And since the old barn has been torn down because
it was just falling down. But uh, he plant gorge
beside the barn, and the gourd plant would climb the
(37:46):
barn like you know the beanstalk, you know, and go
up in the barn and go up in the loft
of the barn. I mean he go like all the
way through the barn, now that thing. And he had
like gords all in the barn and then go up
there in harvest the marks.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
And say they using them to make bird houses.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Yeah, I tell you it's funny what the old people
used to do.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
You see us Martin houses all over the countryside. When
you go up there, people have need to put.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
People have an old on my barn, like an.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Old antenna that's forty feet high, and then with a
pulley system and put thus gored bird houses up there.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I need to put some of them gorge around my
pond down there.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Sure, No, Chris, it's time for our last break of
the show. If you want to get in a last
minute call, you got time two O five four three
nine nine three seven to two. If you need to
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eight five four four thousand and five. We're not there
(38:42):
on Saturdays. Uh, but you can leave a message and
the girls will call you back like immediately Monday. So
just give us a call. We'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
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Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, if you're fighting your lawn and you've done it
by yourself, you are messing up. What you need to
do is call eight five four four thousand and five
and let Classic Gardens take over. And uh man, we'll
take the wheel. That's right, Like Jesus took the wheel.
Speaker 5 (43:02):
That's right. Classic, We'll take the wheel.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yes, and you won't be that guy sitting beside the
khaki colored yard. You'll be that guy. You know. That's
what we need right now. You need to be scalping
ther yard. I mean, that's that's crucial. And then you know,
once you've done with that, you need to call Classic
Garden and say I need help, you know, because I
mean if you got him bid old purple crap all
(43:25):
over the yard right now, chick weed, bitter cress, all
that stuff's coming up like crazy now. And if you
hadn't done anything in the last six months, you got
a yard slam full of it. But the answers just
call us and we'll come do it for you. Uh,
we do have the product in the garden center, So
if you want to stop in there and get it,
you can where they're money through Friday eight to four
(43:47):
and we'll be glad to you know, we'll help you
out anyway we can. In there. This time of year,
we have so many people that just bring like bags,
like grocery bags full of weeds in the garden center. Say,
what do I need to control all this? And uh,
you know, we just have to start you on pre
emergent program and it's you know, right now is the
time for the bag of gold.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
You know, we've been you know, we've been so focused
on prevention of weeds and pre emergent and long cair
We've forgot to mention Chris Keith that Ann has been
bringing flowers in like crazy into the garden.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
Yeah. I say, like I say, like crazy.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
It's just we went from we went from we went
from having nothing to you know, getting in some one
gallon things like lantana and some sun patients and salvia
and colias and uh, you know, jap maples and Kimberly
queen ferns and macho ferns. So she's starting to bring
in shipments, and she's got some of those you know,
hardy vegetables that you can plant this time of year.
(44:42):
So I know she brought in some more russell sprouts
and cabbage and collars, you know, some of that stuff
that you can just kind of start out early, early,
early in the spring and and get you some get
you some of that. But she's been bringing plants in,
Like she had a big shipment of of shrubs come.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
In, tons of some high dranges and all that stuff. Man,
they were unloading them. We had just palletts and pallets.
They'll they'll ship those things on those big tall crates
like uh, you know three stories high kind of are
you know, three three sections high. And we got a
ton of those things that are empty at the garden
center now because you got so many shipments in the
(45:19):
other day, just all kinds of encore auzelias and high
dranges and te olives. I saw come in some ginko
trees and just all different kinds of plants. So the
spring and sprung come see us at the Garden Center
where at eighteen fifty five Carson Road, you know where
we've been for forty years. And uh, the thing about
(45:42):
coming in class at gardens is you're gonna get first
class help when you come in. We're gonna walk you
through it. If you you know, if you need landscaping
help and you're just to do it yourself, or you
can come in and uh, you know, they'll help you
do a design. If if they don't, you know, can't
help you that same day, which most of the you know,
(46:03):
ninety five percent of the time we can. But if
we can't, you leave it there. You know, I can
take a look at your pictures and you know, draw
you up something. Literally, you can take a picture of
your house, just a straight on shot bringing in the
Garden Center and I can literally draw it, you know,
a design on your house, you know, the picture of
(46:23):
your house. So it's not a big deal, but we
help you with that. Doesn't cost you a thing. You
just buy the plants the Garden Center right there, and
you know, we go from there.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
And everything we sell you is going to be low maintenance.
You know, it's not like you're gonna have to get
out there and prune it five times a year. Uh,
there's no such thing as no maintenance. But nobody likes
very few people like pruning. There's a couple of people
I can think of that do like to prune. But well,
everything we put down is for our area. It's acclimated
to our weather, and it's gonna be as low maintenance
(46:55):
as possible.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah, well that's We probably only got about four or
five high maintenance plants in the garden center, and they
are only high maintenance because you take them and put
them in between you and the neighbor.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
You know, you put them in the wrong spot we
put up.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
You take this plant and put it in the perfect spot,
then it's not high maintenance.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
You just leave it alone. You don't plan it.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Eli Agnus four feet off of your house, and no,
you don't expect to keep it maintaining.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
A Chris true story. So we were talking about my
brother in law who was neighbor about burn his house up.
I think that was on the last show anyways, Because
we were talking about don't burn your yard. That's where
we got off on that. So anyways, this guy has
set his house on fire. Anyways, So when Matt and
did moved in their house, and I surely God Matt's
(47:41):
got rid of them by now, because you know, he
was having a prinum like every other week. But they
had eli agnes for a foundation shrub around there. They
don't have a front porch. They got a front patio,
and the front patio had about five ili agnes planted
around the front of the patio. And obviously the patio
(48:02):
is sitting at you know, ground level, so it's not
like it's sitting up. So they had these planet around
that thing when they first moved in that house.
Speaker 5 (48:11):
That's a plant you plan on the back forty and
you let go.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
That's right, well, Chris, that music means we're out of time.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
Y'all.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Come see us at eighteen fifty five Carson Road. If
you need lawn care, if you need landscaping, if you
need a patio or a taina wall, forest mulching, land clearing,
you call us eight five four four thousand and five.
Would be glad to come out there and do it
for you, or give you a price to do it. Y'all,
come see us and we'll see you next weekend on
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