Classic Gardens from May 3rd, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris, Chris and Chris No.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Chris knows in, chrisnos In, Chris knows in, Chris knows it.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Chris knows it.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Chris knows it, chrisnos In, Chris knows.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
And now you're a host. Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Good morning, We happo the Classic Gardens and the Landscape
Show on w r C.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
I'm Chris keithon, I'm Chris Joyner and hope everybody's doing
fine this beautiful weekend.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
Man.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I don't know why, Chris, but man, it seems like
the work from yesterday.

Speaker 7 (00:36):
It's just so fresh on the brain.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
Is it isn't it?

Speaker 8 (00:38):
Though?

Speaker 7 (00:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (00:39):
I mean grass is turning green, not quite green yet,
but it's turning green. And I mean mowers are going,
Irrigation systems need to be going. You know, we were talking
about that before the radio show, the Sneaky Dry.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
This is what we call it, the Sneaky dry and uh,
usually about the third week of April you'll get that
little sneaky dry spell. You know, you go eight days
or whatever and it doesn't rain, and then it's like
I start getting calls from uh uh people like Paul Mopping,
you know, and he says, when do I need to

(01:13):
turn my irrigation system on? I said, you need to
run it today, Paul, right. You know, of course that
was a week ago. And you know things things change
on the on the at the drop of a hat.
So you know, we we we're sneaky dry what we
like to call it, and now we're sneaky wet a
little bit, you know. So we've had pop up showers
pretty much everywhere, you know, over the last several days.

(01:36):
More some people got more than others. That's the way
it is. You know, you get into you know this
this you know early May June like, and what's gonna
happen is, you know, we get in the first second
week of May and typically you'll hit that ten day
dry spell and that's when all the farmers have cut
their hay.

Speaker 7 (01:53):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
You know you always see like right now you're seeing
the big tractors on the on the interstate. You know
they're if they're not running right now, they're sitting there
waiting there on the verge.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
You know what I mean. You you were shuffling trucks
back and forth this again. You know you had to
you needed I think three or four trucks on the
on the job site, and you were the only one
available to drive that particular day. But so I had
to take Chris Keith home one afternoon and I told him.
I was like, I can't remember where I was, but
I saw I saw four big John Deere tractors park

(02:25):
side by side on the side of the interstate, and
I was like, yep, they're fixing. They're fixing the cut grass.
And you know, it was a few it may have
been a month ago. All the farmers around my house. Man,
it smelled like straight up chicken maneuver all over the
place because they were fertilizing to get that stuff to pop.

Speaker 7 (02:40):
And I was.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Training a new guy, and I was we were, you know,
we were cutting through some farm land up in like
Kimberly Hayden area, and I was like, a few weeks,
it's like they're gonna be cutting all this. Hey, it's
gonna be right for cutting.

Speaker 7 (02:51):
That's typical. You know.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
They just wait on that dry spill that that first
second week in May, and by then the hay is
pushed out enough to where it is ready to go.
You know, I've been busting at the house, Chris. You know,
I've got my bottom pasture around the lake down there's
probably about three acres by again, three and a half acres.
I cut all that on my z turne this past week.

(03:16):
So like every day in amongst the showers and this,
that and the other, you know, there was one night
I just had to punt every one evening but literally
running coming in at you know, five o'clock every evening
and riding the z turn until dark, you know, And
I got all that done. I've probably got another acre
around my house. But between that, I'm I'm z turning

(03:38):
about five acres down there, Chris.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
I'm sitting here and this this pad right here is
Mike Pender's old pad, and I wish there was I
wish there was like the year on it, but it's
just basically from uh, yeah, say what's the show on
May twentieth? Right, And this was probably fifteen twenty years
ago because I got this from the from the room
upstairs at work that we used to do the radio

(04:03):
show from. But it's talking about dry and watering on
May twentieth. Yeah, and this is probably again, I mean,
this was probably a long long time ago, yeah, I
mean ten fifteen years Well, that was so, so isn't
Isn't that crazy? Just like how consistent and how routines are,
how routine things are, and how predictable things are like

(04:23):
in our industry, but yet at the same time they're
so unpredictable. Yes, you can never depend on rain, you
can never depend on temperatures. I mean it just you know,
you go from one extreme to the other. But it's crazy.
Mike's old notes from May probably like you know, nineteen
ninety nine talking about getting dry.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, it's crazy man, that but it's it's just a
typical thing. You can count on it as much as
you can count on the rain starting and at the
end of November, first of December not quitting until May.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean that's just the nature of Alabama. I mean,
that's just that's where we're at. So, but yeah, we
we've been busting it. Like you said, Chris, I'm shuffling
trucks everywhere.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
You know.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
It's it's crazy. Uh, you can't find workers that have
a driver's license.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
And workers that want to work hard.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know, is everybody on the planet we're driving around
with a suspended driver's life.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
I mean, really you think so?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
I mean I guess everybody cruising up the park way,
ninety five percent of them don't have a driver's life.
I mean I can't, probably not. I sure would love
to pay somebody to come work with me. That just
had is like a normal person has a driver's life.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
It's crazy, too, Chris, because I talked to so many
like doing what we do, especially what I do. You know,
I'm at fifteen to twenty houses a day, give or
take depending on you, exactly what I'm doing and how
close my route is. And I talk to a tremendous
amount of people in every industry that you can imagine,
don't care what it is, whether it's service and physical

(06:02):
labor or whether it's just straight up office work. And
that seems to be a pretty common common theme and
common conversation is how hard it is to find good employees.
I don't care, from from gas stations to you know,
executives and everything in between. Yeah, it's just it's tough, man.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I hope my I hope my breed. And when I
say my breed of badasses, yeah I hear you. Yet
mine and Chris's breed. I hope we're teaching our kids.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Right, I think, well, I know we are, well, I
know we are.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
But what I'm saying is, I hope our generation of
just you know, we got kicked in the button may
do and you know that whole bust your butt mentality
and all that stuff that we're passing down our kids.

Speaker 7 (06:49):
I hope everybody else do it.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
You know, it's like mine. You know, mine are twelve,
ten and five and so it's you know, Claire, Caroline
and Sadie and Claire and Caroline. They they have their
chores that they do. You know, they empty all the
small trash cans, you know, they they uh want to
help wash dishes, help unload the dishwasher, you know, the
switch clothes and clean up their stuff and everything. And

(07:10):
they don't get paid for it. That's just their job.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
That's the job.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
They don't get paid for it.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (07:16):
You know.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Now there are times that it's funny crisp, because like
I laid some some sod in a couple of spots
in my front yard and uh, Claire came up to
to Sarah and I and said, hey, if I rake
all of these rocks up out of here before you
all lay the side, will can y'all let me spend
some of this Amazon gift card that's sitting on the thing.

(07:37):
So that was an additional one. And she's she's negotiating, right,
and I said yeah. I was like, but you got
to rake up every single rock. I come out here,
there better not be a single rock left. And every
day after school she would go up, she would go
out to that section and she'd get those rocks up,
and she had a shovel out there, and she's digging
them up and whatnot. And uh and she did. Man,
she had it slick. She had it slick as glass.

(07:59):
And then a night or two after that, it rained
and I walked out there and the rain had resurfaced
a whole bunch of other rocks, and I said, clear,
said come out here for a second. I'll show you something.
And it was still sprinkling, and so we walked over
there and I kind of stopped right at that spot,
and you know, I didn't say anything, and then I
just pointed down and she looked at it and she
just hung her head. It's like novade. I was like,

(08:22):
you're still gonna get to spend a little bit off
of that Amazon gift card, you know, but just I
don't know, this is our our parenting section of the
Classic Gardens, but just teaching responsibility even my five year old, right,
my five year old. I don't think I'm as hard
as her, or you know, we don't make her make
her do as much stuff because she's five, but she

(08:43):
still has to clean up her toys. And like if
she's having in a little like kool aid pouch or
something like that, and she leaves it laying around, I
make her get up and put it in the trash can.
And then like, you know, they're outside all the time
gardening with me, right, so if they ever take a
little hand shovel or a little hatchet or whatever, and
they're helping me, and like Sadie leaves it. She let's say,
she gets it off my workbench, but then she puts

(09:05):
it on the shelf by the door. I'll make her
come back downstairs and I'll say, Sadie, is that where
you got that? Is that where you got that little
shovel from? And she says no, sir. I was like, well,
you need to put that back where you got it from.
And she's sure enough, will she'll get it. She'll take
it back to the work bench.

Speaker 7 (09:18):
You know, both of my daughters.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
They are always the same way, Chris, and they you know,
they will always wash your own clothes, and they wanted
to help cook and all that stuff the whole time.
And uh, growing up, you know, they always want to
be active and doing stuff. And uh, man, I don't know.
I just hope this. I hope our generation is teaching
the next generation to, you know, step it up, because

(09:40):
right now the generation between they suck. I mean they yeah,
you got, I'm gonna I'm gonna spat everybody in between
me and the old folks and just remember made me
and the me and the generation between my kids and say, hey,
look y'all need to tighten it up.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
That's right, I.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Mean really, and uh we some help by God. So
you need to show up and show up in a
big way.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah, I've got I've got a position opening our fertilization
we control department that we're looking pill. Had a couple
I had a couple guys that I brought on recently
and they're doing real good.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
My guys do great.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Man, I tell you, y'all aren't getting younger so well.
Me and Sergio have been working together for twenty plus years. Uh,
we're added Grado about five years ago, and uh, we're
all Harado is the oldest one of us.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
He's forty eight. I'm forty six, and.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
We added a we added Raymond, and he's thirty eight.
So you know, that's not a whole lot younger than
the rest of us. Uh, he looks like he's a
whole lot younger than the rest of us because the
rest of us moves to that gun much lower than
he does.

Speaker 7 (10:47):
But uh, but.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Y'all, y'all may be slow, but y'all, y'all are efficient.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
I don't I Hey, listen, if you if you can
get it as fast as Grado and you can drive
a truck, then uh, hey, I'd love to have you.
But I mean, honestly, my my crew is we kill it.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
I mean, y'all been working together for you know, a
long time.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Everything is real repetitive on ours. So like we jump
on a job and I know what Sergio is thinking.
I don't try to step on what he does.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
He is fantastic at what he does. And uh, you know,
I he knows what already what he's gonna do, and
I know already what I'm gonna do, and everything just
flows like that. And somewhere in between the Serrato and
now we got Raymond. He's picking it up. You know
how how the process goes and all that stuff, and man,

(11:39):
we fly. We've done some big work the last couple
of weeks. Chris, Uh, I tell you what it's time
for break, Let's go ahead and do that. When we
come back, I kind of tell you a little bit
about some of the work that we've done. We're just
really doing a lot of just rip out, replace, clean up.

Speaker 10 (11:57):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
We're we're taking people's houses that literally have not done
anything in thirty years, and we're making their house look
like you know, the Adams family don't live there in
the morning. But when we come back from this break,
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(13:33):
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Speaker 4 (14:37):
First, we've got it right here at the garden. Here
you call us up eight five four four thousand and five,
and she we've got the guys running all over. The
chances are we can drop it off right at your house,
telling you man better off, we'll treat it for you.
I know, I was everywhere I was everywhere this past week.
I mean a new guy I'm training.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
We were up in Gardendale, Kimberley Morris did a lot
in Trustville. That was the days that the two of
us were like treating yards. And then I usually have
two or three days in between that where I'm doing
bids and and like service calls and follow ups and whatnot.
And when I do sales, it's like, man, I make
grounds around the city. I'll be in I might be

(15:21):
in Hayden. I might be in Hayden in the morning
and Chelsea in the afternoon and everything in between. So basically,
if Jefferson and all the surrounding counties you know, for
the most part, you know, it's where we go all
the suburbs of Birmingham. Yeah, pretty much all over the.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Place, soutkirts. Yeah, call us and we'll tell you.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
So we go up up, like just looking at the
interstate map, we go up to Hayden, going up sixty five,
going down sixty five, we're in Kolera, going out twenty.
We go out to pel City, up to Springville, down
to Chelsea, down fifty nine to like mccallough. Basically we're
four fifty nine and fifty nine meet, so that that

(15:59):
kind of gets you a general idea of you know,
the Birmingham Greater Greater Metro suburb area, whatever you want
to call it. But uh, yeah, we'll call you. Because
see even when we talk about pil City, right, somebody
can call with the pel City address, but depend on
what side it, depending on what side of the lake
you are, or Talladega. We treat some in Talladega, but
depending on when what part of Talladega you are. But

(16:19):
you know, we can't treat everybody. I know, we've had
some folks we don't haul a boat out there. I know,
we've had some folks with like Columbiana addresses, and when
we look at it, it's like thirty minutes to our
closest stop, and it's like that's just that's too far.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
We want you.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
But but sometimes you just gotta Sometimes you gotta say no,
unfor now.

Speaker 7 (16:37):
If you're thirty minutes out though, and you talk five
of your neighbors into it.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
That's different. That's different. For thirty miles out and you
got five acres, it's different.

Speaker 7 (16:45):
That's different. And that we're in.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Our footprint for landscaping is about the same, like the
other day I was working in Lincoln and like a
month ago we did a job up in corner, you know,
like Hayden Corner area. So and you know we do
work in spring Will quite a bit. We we did
squill ower three jobs in Springville.

Speaker 7 (17:05):
The other day.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
We're in Trustful all the time, you know, around two eighty,
you know, regardless meadow Brook were we just finished up
a neat job where we just man, you talking about
the Adams family house, mister Henley over there, when you turn,
we treat the first yard on the right.

Speaker 7 (17:23):
Chris turning all the eagle point. Mister Pewett.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
We did some work for him about a year ago,
and of course we've done his yard forever.

Speaker 7 (17:31):
But uh man, the house goff the door.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Uh he just flat out and said, I I suck
at yard work and I hate doing it. And uh
so his everything there was thirty years. I mean he
had yopan Holly's that were better than chest high and
man we went in there. He had crape myrtles above
the retaining wall at the house. Man, I didn't think
the excavator was gonna dig.

Speaker 7 (17:54):
Really it was.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
It was touch and go. But we managed to get
him out and get all this cleaned up. I guarantee
you we're gonna wind up with pictures of that one
on our on our website, because man, it was terrible
and we just turned it into a whole new house.
But uh finished that one up. Then we were all
over the place. We did a job for mister Richardson.

(18:16):
Uh he's up. I feel like we I feel like
we've done work for everybody on the block right there.
You know, he is miss Morrison Lowe's neighbor. And then
we did work for Becky across the street, built the
wall for her, and that all kinds of work. Where
now we've done work for mister Richardson. He wanted a
privacy screen up against his back fence, so we went

(18:42):
up in there and planted nine big hollies for him,
and uh, they are already pretty nice to begin with.
I mean their chest high right now, and you know
they're big variety of hollies, so they're gonna get big, big.
And then uh, he had some old recramed claim bricks
and we don't hardly ever do this, but we laid him.
He had started a patio with him and you know
he's not a spring chicken no more.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
He's probably if I had guess mid seventies. Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
And you know when you get to be mid seventies
and you start a project like that, you get about
halfway through it and you're like, man, I just can't
do this like I did before. So we went out
there and laid his bricks for him and backfield behind
a retaining wall for him. He had already put a
little irrigation work in itself and stuff like that, but

(19:29):
it looked pretty sharp when we left him there. So
we gonna give a shout out to mister Richardson and
then left from that area trustful and went over so
that was Tuckweller area. We left him there, and we
were out at Carrington Lakes and we were at the
Langston's and they had big trees in the yard and

(19:50):
Mark Whitfield with a cobba tree, came in there, took
his trees out, had some big crape myrtles. Took those
crape myrtles out. They were above retained wall and had
junipers all around them, just a mess.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
I didn't see it before, but I know the junipers
were still there. But we went in.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
We took the marketing and took the crop models out
and then he took out a big oak I think,
and ground the stumps and all that stuff. Then we
came in behind him, put them in an irrigation system
in the front yard, put drip on his existing shrubs,
took out all those junipers, the radio looking junifers, and
threw them on the truck and hauled them off and

(20:29):
came back in with new shrubs.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
Above the house.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Obviously we had to be deer conscious, so we put
butterfly bush and a billion and stuff like that the
deer won't eat, and then resided the whole front yard
and down the right hand side of the house. It's
so shady it won't grow grass and it washes. So
we went in there and put red rock down the
side of the house like bark more or less, and
just cleaned that up and we finished that one up,

(20:53):
so we're good to go.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
So that's probably you know that that's probably original landscaping,
twenty years old.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
They had original bermuda grass out there, and I don't
know if the you know, that house is thirty years old.
In the it's in the part of Carrington Lakes that's
not gated, so you know, if you get up the
top of the hill, you bust right, and those houses
have been in there a good bit longer than the
further back in the neighborhood you go the newer the
houses are right, and uh so hit these these.

Speaker 7 (21:23):
Houses are thirty years old.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
And that oak might have been planted there, but more
than likely it was on the site when it was there.

Speaker 7 (21:30):
I never saw the tree.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
They probably just left it there.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
All I did was really go in there and spray
the old bermuda out of it and kill it about
two weeks ago. And then the trees were already gone then,
so I never saw what they looked like, but they
were bad enough to make the bermuda grass look horrible.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, that's not uncommon. Every twenty thirty years, I don't
even give it thirty years, if fifteen to twenty years.
You know, that's typically kind of when a lot of
people end up relandscaping the yard, because life just happens exactly,
especially in especially in subdivisions. You know, whether it's a
you know, you know, small garden home type things or

(22:08):
even biggest state lots. You know, shrubs get overgrown, you know,
maples or oaks or planet and bermuda's up underneath them,
and as those oaks, you know, get twenty years old,
it shipped the root. Competition and shade just kills off
the bermuda. And uh, I mean we've done a ton
of that in Liberty Parkway.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Will you think about it, Chris twenty five years ago.
Let's just say twenty five to thirty years ago. That
was about when I started messing with this, right when
I was in a horticulture class or whatever. We would
go and do projects for like schools and stuff like
that for nothing, you know, just we.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
Would for the experience.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, yees.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Our horroriculture division would go out and do it for them,
and it would they would pay the they would pay
the department.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
You know.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Our actually, our horticulture class was the only departyer went
up there that made a profit. The rest of them
didn't make squat you know. They were just in there
to learn, you know. But we would go out and
do that, and we were planting stuff like compact to hollies,
and we were planting stuff like clear and we were
planting stuff like and looking back on it now, and
we were planting big Nellie R.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Stevens and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
On the Queen and we're looking back on it and
needle point hollies, and I'm thinking to myself, about half
of what I was planting back there. The reason why
we were planting that stuff then is because it was bulletproof.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
You know.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
The problem with it was is when you get age
on it and everything, obviously clear grows like a weed.
It's a tough plant, but it grows like crazy. The
compact to holly is only good for about ten years
and then after that, you know, you start losing them
from root disease and stuff like that. A needle point
holly is pretty good, but it tends to get a

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little bigger than most people want it. So it's just
looking back on it now and you look at these
houses that we're going in. It's thirty years old now
twenty five years old, and they got big clears and
big hollies and big stuff like that in front of
the house. It was like, man, we didn't landscape for
low maintenance, then we landscaped for survival.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yeah, yeah, right exactly.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
The idea was to not have to go back out
there and replace plants. You know, that's really what contractors
want to do. They want to you know, when they
get done with the house, they build a big, beautiful
house and they go down there and buy some compact
to hollies and some cheap bushes or whatever sticking in
front of the house because they know, number one, they're
they're really tough. But and then they're not gonna die

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and they look decent until they get up big and
they can sell the house and they're good to go.
And then you know, somebody like me has come in there, ten, twelve,
fifteen years later and put them in something that's lower
maintenance because they just don't want to be out there
pruning theirself to death. So that's what we're doing. Yeah,
piece of cake.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
I like it. That's good. That's a good thought, Chris.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
And you know, irrigation wasn't as prevalent as it is now,
and so you're you know, if you've got to drip
irrigation that you're able to put on shrubs so you
know you can plant. You know, still we still do
low maintenance, but we don't have to put the bulletproof
stuff in like.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Well there's there's there's bulletproof plants that are low maintenance too.
You know, some of these some of these new plants
that were planting, these little radiance of Billia's and these
little uh well like we used to.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
Plant a ton of Nelly R. Stevens holly.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Now we've replaced it with a little holly called a
Miss Patricia, and uh man, that thing you can you
can keep it at six feet no problem. Uh you
know with perna, just barely pruning it twice a year,
you can keep the thing perfectly slick. And uh at
six feet Stevens's gone, it's it's gonna skyrocking.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
So uh you know, it's just proper plant I guess,
picking proper plants to begin with and knowing the full
capacity of what they're gonna do. Because I mean when
we when we put in plants, I don't care if
you go in our garden center, if you go in
any other garden center anywhere, they're gonna every plant's got

(25:58):
a size. Well, plants aren't like us. They won't get
to five foot ten or six foot two and quit growing.
You know, they get to a mature height and then
they dramatically slow down in growth, but they never quit.
So you might see a plant that's labeled it gets
three feet tall, Okay, that's fine. But if you don't
prune it for ten years, it may be five feet tall,

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it might be six. That's a maintained height on there. Obviously,
the smaller the plant is labeled, the slower it will grow.
So just keep that in mind when you're picking out plants.
Just because you pick out a plant and said, well,
this thing's only going to get three feet tall, not
if you never prune it. There's no such thing as
no maintenance. Every plant has a little bit of maintenance

(26:41):
to do. And uh, there's something that are really really
really low maintaing. I mean you take like a firepower now, Dina,
if you see one of them, that's waist time. Man,
it's been there for a lifetime, right. So there's certain
things that are like that, but they're few and far between,
and some of them are fancky to grow. Hillo ra Holly,
you if it gets to be knee high, it's been

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there thirty five years. But it's just about impossible to
get those things started. That's why most growers don't grow it.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
Now.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
They grow like a soft touch. So it's you know,
it's just it. Things have evolved, you know, it's just
the way of the way things are.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
That's right, well, Chris, it's time for another break. Let's
go ahead and do that.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
Or number if you want to call us at the
garden center seven appointment for landscaping or long gear. If
you need irrigation or not lighting, if you need a
patio or a taina wall. You know, this time of
year is a good time of year do drainage work.
It's gonna start drying out, and when it does, it's
better for us running our equipment on your yard doing
drainage work. So call us eight five four four thousand

(27:44):
and five. We'd love to come out there and do
work for you. We'll be right back on Classic Gardens
of Landscape show.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
We lost their music.

Speaker 12 (28:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the head
ready and when you'll want show up Plants and grass
to grub two and icent Chris, Chris and Chris.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
No, and now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris Keith.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know Chris, I know it, and I know you
know it. You know who else knows it? And Fender
that runs a garden center Classic Gardens of Lands.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
When when she say run by God, you mean it
and she knows.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
She knows her plants. Boy, And I'm gonna tell you
what if you hadn't been into our garden center eighteen
fifty five corson road Monday through Friday eight to five,
come in to see the spectacle of bedding, plants and
perennials and shrubs that she has in stock. I'm talking about, man, everywhere,
everywhere you look, it's not something bloom. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
And I mean honestly, yesterday another big shipment of plants
came in, and I mean she was so busy. And
you know, the girl that helps her in the in
the garden centers just is in the process.

Speaker 7 (29:02):
Of selling her house. So she had to stay home
and pack one day.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
And man, Anne was just like we came in and
you were walking up front and here we just heard
her go whew. And she looked down her watch and
she was like, she was like twelve point five miles yeah,
And I mean twelve point five miles around the garden
center is a lot of back and forth.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
With that is a lot of tracks.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
I'll tell you what. Anna is basically like everybody's mama
around here. And uh, man, I'm gonna tell you what.
That's an amazing woman, and I get so many compliments
on her and and a lot of people that listen
to this radio show that come in and shop with us.
Number One, I want to thank everybody that does business
with us. But you know, they I get a lot
of comments and a lot of like praise about how

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Anne can help like four or five people all at
the same time. She's out there having conversations and helping
everybody out, like all at the same time, like five people,
you know what I'm saying, and just makes it a
real pleasant experience. And and uh, you know, I think
the vast major wordy of people too that come in
here when we're really busy, you know, they're very patient
with us because they know the service they get, they

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see the quality plants in it. I don't even think
it's that hard to be patient a lot of times, because, like,
you know, you come in It's like me sometimes when
I go to a store, I like, you know, I
go in there to get one thing, but sometimes I
just kind of wander around, you know, just and look
at different stuff. It's the same way here. People that
come in here have an interest in gardening, and you know,
they come in here for a couple hanging baskets or

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some betting plants, and they'll spend forty five minutes or
an hour just wandering around in the on the side
of the greenhouse where they're shrubs, just looking at all
the different shrubs and pottery and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
And we carry a lot of stuff that most people
don't don't carry. And when you get over into the
deciduals asle and you see all the odd and end
stuff that is kind of tricky to find, you know.
I mean just the other day, Grantcy Graybeard was blooming.
I passed my buddy Frank Eaty's house right there on
the county line, and he's got the big one in

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front of his house. And if you go to hunt
one of those things somewhere, uh, you'll be lucky. If
you find a Chinese French tree, good luck. But a
Grancy Graybeard is one we typically carry in the garden center.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
There's some odd and end stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Uh my my Carange were talking about the other day,
edgeworthy of that's that kind of stuff most garden centers
just don't carry.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
You know, well, you'll have people called come in and
say I want a seven bark well. They want to
mock on, you know, they want to they want to
oak leaf Hydrangea, and you know it's you get old
timy people that come in and they just want an
old fashioned plant like that. And there's not many garden
centers that carry that kind of stuff.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
Man.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
We just got a big shipment of plants and uh,
those guys were unloaded earlier. And uh, I mean there
was some y g on there that were just winding. Dad,
you can't even see the bloom, see the foliage hardly
for the blooms, and man, they're beautiful.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Those are the smaller ones.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
Those are short.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
Yeah, there's little short ones that like just ball blooms.
I've got some big ones on the top of my
property that are that are in bloom. But that's just
another again, a cool plant, especially for natural areas. You know,
if you want to if you have like a big
natural area where you want to where you want to
stage it to where you have different things blooming at
different times, that's where you come to classic gardens because

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we got that stuff. Hydrange is fixing the pop buddy.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
We got about twenty eight the first wave of your
spy areas and what done. But what's the name of
that one, Chris that we've gotten Now that the foliage
is nearly black.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
I don't know, I know which one you're talking.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
I saw that coming up through the garden center yesterday
and there. So there's a hydrange in the garden center
right now that's kind of a pink salmony color bloom
and the foliage is nearly blasted.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
So dark purple that is black. We've got to display
set up with them with that new little pink and uh,
that pink abilia is going to be a cool one.
I planted a couple of those by my front porch
because they only get like two feet tall, you know,
three four feet wide. They almost just create almost like
a groundcover.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
It kind of reminds you of a gold mound spy area.
You know, it stays little and uh man stuff like that.
It just uh will just add a little pot because
it's got that variegated foliage urney, you know, like the
gold mound spy rey has got that lime green color
and uh people like that kind of stuff. That's another
plant too that, you know, a gold mound spy area.

Speaker 7 (33:23):
You know, it's a.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Good edge plant. You know, if you want something for
in front of your other shrubbery. Uh stays good and
lime green. It's gonna bloome in the summertime or you know,
late late spring, early summer, and uh when it it
just goes dormant in the wintertime. Heck, when it goes dormant,
you can take that thing and just lop it back
with some shears and you can keep that thing at
you know, fifteen inches tall.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
And it's one of the first ones to flush back out.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Oh yeah, right, and right in time for Yeah, you
can barely tell it's there when it goes dormant because
it's just it. It goes so dormant it just about
doesn't exist. And then you know, when it comes back
out in the spring, it just takes off.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Love them, yeah cool plants. But yeah, my oak leaves
are fixing to fixing to uh pop. And I know
Anne's got a big shipment of oak leafs in and
you know, we got the line.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
I love I love.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
Anne's curiosity for hydrangeas because we have so many different
varieties whether you got them for whether you need it
for a sunny spot or for a shady spot. So
that'll be the next wave of plants coming through our vegetables. Man,
we've got the vegetables in stock, buddy. I mean, so
if you got you know, we're well passed. Good Friday.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Right to my corn, Chris about is about a half
inch t like it's just now peeking out the ground.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
But you need your peppers, you need your squash Okra.
Tomato program, we've got herbs. We got it in the
garden center. Yeah, this time of year, it stays. It
stays packed, plants coming in, plants going out.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
The tomato program really is, we're just now getting where
you need to be putting that thing in over the
next over the next three or four weeks. You know, well,
I always tell people, depending on the variety of tomatoes
that you put in there, it's gonna be eight to
ten weeks before you get the.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
First ripe tomato.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
So if you put it in right now, right around
the fourth July, man, when you're grilling burgers and you
do and your hot dogs and all that stuff on
the thing, and you hanging out by the pool on
the fourth you reach up there and grab that first smoking,
red ripped tomato off that thing and you cut it up,
and you know, you chill that thing for about six hours,

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and goodness gracious, and it ain't now. You can't go
in the grocery store and buy one.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
No kid, Oh no, oh no, it's totally different.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
You know.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Strawberries are the same way. Every now and then you'll
get some good strawberries. But man, you can go to
the you can go to the you pick farms and
little corner side markets and stuff like that and get
fresh strawberries. Ain't nothing.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
But there's a truck driver. When I used to he
would he would deliver somewhere down here. And every year, Chris,
because man, my girls, you talking about eating strawberries, they
would tear them up. And I would every year he'd
come in and get six months worth of fertil on
stuff at the time. And he would come in in
February or March, come in in March, and that was

(36:14):
right when the strawberries were coming in, and he'd bring
me a case of them, and I mean they were
so ripe, they were about rotten. And I'd cut them
things up for them girls. And you talk about tearing
them up, buddy, they would just destroy it.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yep, mine too. That and blueberries, yep, blueberries. We've got
the blueberry bushes. That's a great plant. You know. We've
always talked about how how cool of a plant that is,
especially if you have kids, because like I don't ever
they never make it into my house. I mean, my
girls sit out there and they just every day, Yeah,
when they get right, they just go out there and
they they're racing the birds and they pick all that

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they pick them and eat them right there. So I
barely even get any but blueberries a cool plant. Absolutely,
talking about a bulletproof plant. You can't go wrong with
those things.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
You know.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
That's funny vegetable garden. And now is like, so Ashley's
really not you know, she just closed on her and
Seth just closed on their house. So my youngest daughter
just bought and her her fiancee just bought a house together.
So I'm about to be an empty nester. So uh,
but Ashley's not really interested in gardening yet, and I

(37:19):
don't know that she ever will be. She's just not
that person. But Kaylee Ann and Alec they're different people.
They got about five planter box in the backyard and
I took them about five yards of dirt, you know,
and that was like a present from Dad.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
So I I put them like three or four yards
of good sifted topsail on there, and then I put
them about a yard and a half of just old
decayed you know, our bark pile here. If you run
around and run around and run around it all the time,
you know you're gonna wind up with a bunch of
old fines around it that are just o rotten bark.

(37:58):
And uh but it makes a good filler to put
in those boxes. I threw them a yard and half
of that stuff in there, so uh, you know, it
kind of makes that soil a little more porous. And
uh so they've got everg squash planted and you know
peas planning, okre planning and all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (38:15):
So yeah, I rubbed off on one of my kids,
the home stars. Huh yeah, yeah, they're good to go.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Now some chickens.

Speaker 7 (38:22):
Yeah, well give them a minute.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
And yeah, if it was up to Alleck, he'd have
a farm and in his little three thousand square foot backyard.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
I like it.

Speaker 7 (38:32):
It's pretty cool, Chris. I think we're about time for
a break. Let's go ahead and do that.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
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Speaker 7 (38:50):
You need irrigation if you need.

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Speaker 4 (41:26):
Sir, yep, And I tell you right now, Chris, if
you didn't do your bad goal pre emergent back in March, uh,
you've got crab grass.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yeah pretty much.

Speaker 7 (41:39):
Yeah, I mean that's just what it is.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
So what's gonna happen is you're gonna get into You're
gonna have to keep it. First off, you're gonna have
to keep it mode low, you know, and just grin
and Barrett, there's not really any real well you got
like what that Queen.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
Chlora which we sail here at the guarden.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
We got it in the garden center. You gotta catch it.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
You got to catch it when it's young like once
crab like right now, yeah, once crab grass like gets
gets you know big. I guess you could say it
gets you know, a big clumpy weed. It is tough
to get rid of.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
But yes, if you didn't, we are up against the
pre merging. So like, if you didn't do that, you
come in with the UH with a fertilong pre merging.
It actually has somewhat of a post emerging effect on
crab grass if you catch it when it's first. I
think it's like the first till of the second tiller stage.
So before it gets one or two leaves two leaves
on it, UH, it'll have somewhat of a post emerging

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effect on it. But you're still kind of behind the game.
But you know, I was talking with somebody that listens
to the radio, and I forget who it was. He's
probably listening now, but you know he he kind of
admitted He's like, yeah, I hear y'all talking about You know,
you're either you've always missed something, but you're ahead of
something else. So there is no bad time to start
long here.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Well, it's a blessing for us and it's a curse
for you. Here in Alabama, wheeze germinate three hundreds five
days a year, So you've got to keep out a
constant barrier for it, otherwise you're gonna be eat up
with weeds you get. You just all you've got to do.
Even if you put out the bag of gold in March.
If you don't put it out in September. When you

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get around to that next weed cycle, which would be
that next December, January, February, you're gonna start seeing's crap
come up just like you never treated it to begin with.
So you just if you've got a lawn, you've got
to put pre emerging on it. If you don't keep
on a week control program, then you're not gonna have

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a lawn.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
You're gonna have a pastor.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Yep. You know. The good thing about the pre mergent
that we do in May, for the people that do
it every six months or you know, every other month,
it has a real good shot of fertilizer in it.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Yes, sir, if you show back up there in June,
it's like, man, it's a whole different lawn if you.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
If you do the bag of gold where you come
in and March and September, go ahead and get your
long food plus iron down right now, because that is
gonna make things green. And uh, you know between that
and now that we're finally past our cold weather, you
know our nighttime temperatures are gonna be steadily on the
increase your air conditioning. That's what I joke around with

(44:12):
cut with customers. I tell them, I was like, when
you wake up in the morning to get ready for
work and it's like six seven am, and your air
conditioning and your house is running, that's when you know
that this grass is gonna be cranking up.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
It finally woke up.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
It's there, you know, it's coming on along. So there's
still a lot of month from there. Yeah, yeah, we're
still not in the prime time growing season, so like
there's still most yards are still kind of you know,
eighty ninety percent you know, green. Maybe maybe they're still
a little bit more brown than that. But you know,
once we get into our nighttime temperatures consistently, like closer

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to seventy, man, that's when this grass is gonna.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Either that or you're that guy that really did a
good job your scalping your Bermuda back and you just
got that one strand that's like a little bit better
than somebody else's, you know what I mean. Yeah, you
see that lawn out there, there was one in care today.
I don't even know, Trea, well, we came by it.
I was like, man, they did a good job of
scalping their yard, because then no, there was no dead

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grass in it.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
I was like, man, that they did a good job.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
That makes a huge difference. You know, we do the
Deerman's up in Morris. We did the landscaping in the
front of their house, prime example. Like he scalped his
yard like two months ago, and when I was out there,
I guess it was about six weeks. When I was
out there about six weeks ago, his grass was probably
half inch tall and the neighbors was still like two
three inches tall. And I was back up there today

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and his was just as slick as glass. I mean,
it looked fantastic, nice and green, and the neighbor had
recently just scalped theirs. But there was night and day difference,
Like I mean, it was just just totally different.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Well it helps us out too, like if we're coming
in there to kill someone out and redo it. We
were doing a job for Fred Hibbs up there in
the springle uping crandall Crest about a week ago, and
I went out there two weeks before that. The spray
we were putting in two beds in the backyard and
they were just tree circles, and I sprayed to kill

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the bermuda. But as bermuda was an inch o, you know,
two inches tall. So I really didn't get a super
good kill like I wanted to get. It did a
pretty good job, but we went back in that day
when we did it.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
And sprayed it again with quick pro, so it smoked it. Yep.
But yeah, we put in a few beds for them
over there.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
But it helps us a lot to get a good
kill on the grass, you know, if it's been really
cut down like that and let that green come back
in it. Because every time we do a new side job,
unless we're just going back with the same thing, we
always go in there and spray the yard.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
Oh that's a disaster when you don't, particularly if you
have a bermuda yard and you go to rest it
with zoysia. I've had homeowners that went with just a
cheaper company and they just came in and kind of
scraped the bermuda off, laid zoysia, and then it's you know,
and it's just weeks later that you see that bermuda
popping back up through this noision. I'm like, there's a
reason that you there's a reason that you got to

(47:04):
discount on that job because they halfway did it. Yeah,
that's horrible. That's horrible when you see that. So mowing.
You know, if you hadn't gotten on a good mowing schedule,
you know, at least at a minimum every two weeks
right now, you need to be cutting your grass. It
won't be long before you need to go weekly.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
If you have not run your irrigation system just to
make sure that everything works, you're behind the eight ball.
Because you know, early in April we got a little
dry and there were yards starting to dry up. But fortunately,
you know, we did get some we did get some relief,
and we got some rain. But as me and you've
talked about, Chris, it's not gonna be long. You know,
you get to around mid May and we're gonna hit
that first light legit dry spell.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Well not only that, but it'll be eighty seven degrees
and the wind factor too. You got to you gotta
figure that in because you'll get you'll be eighty seven
degrees during the day. The wind's blowing ten miles an hour,
and the humidity levels are just that up there, you know,
and it's good. It's bomby outside, and man, those those
yards they just dry out and now like big time.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
And that's when everybody typically turns their irrigation system on
and it doesn't work. So it's like they turn it
on when they need it. It's like it's like your heat.
You know, you don't turn your heat on until it
gets cold, right right, you don't turn it on in August.
Just to make sure that it works with your irrigation system,
you need to make sure that you run that thing
through and don't just hit start and assume that it works.

(48:23):
I mean that you know, you can just literally go
out there and run each zone for five minutes and
just sit there and watch it. I mean, just grab
you a cup of coffee in the morning, walk outside,
watch it. Make sure everything you know is rotating properly,
it's spraying properly, because that makes that can make or
break a yard. Yeah, you know, properly running.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
I mean we see it all the time.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
We go out there and do an irrigation p prayer
for somebody and the head got pinned, you know. I mean,
mowers are gonna get heads. It happens all the time,
you know, and and once they get hit by a mower, it's.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
It's it's a shot. You know.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
You got to screw it out in replace it, so
I have.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
You know, I'll meet with homeowners and there'll be brown
spots in the yard and I'll scratch at the dirt
and the dirt's just powder dry, and where it's green,
it's wet like Plato, and the homeowner swears, I'm water
and I'm water and I'm watering, and I'm not challenging
that fact. I'm not saying you're not water. And what
I'm saying is that that that area of your yard
is not getting covered by irrigation. And so most of

(49:22):
the time I'll tell them I was like, walk inside
and turn that zone on and let's sit here and
look at it. And like I can throw a piece
of paper down where that brown spot is and that
irrigation head it and it didn't getting that piece of
space warking over it.

Speaker 7 (49:32):
So you know, well, I meantimes.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
You see that guy too that lets his grass get
about three and a half inches taller. You know that
you have one of those Z fifty two yards and
they let it get up super high, and then that
sprinkler head's been coming up and it's just barely brushing
the top of the irrigation or the the blades of
the grass. So you got one real pretty green spot
right around the sprinkler head, and all the grass out

(49:54):
of around up is just like dead, all right.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
I see that a lot. The heck it happened out
here at the first last summer because then we had
to come in and just kind of weed eat around it. Yeah, uh,
you know, just to just to you know, get that
grass down. It wasn't it necessarily they got too tall.
I think over the years, our sprinkler heads have probably
just sunk in natural settling in our glorified drainage ditch out.

Speaker 7 (50:16):
Of our front yard precisely.

Speaker 5 (50:17):
But that is a beautiful drainage ditch.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
We other thing about it is too. I mean, those
those shrubs kind of encroach on them too. So once
a year we have to go in there and cut
the shrubs back away from it. Otherwise it doesn't you know,
make it complete, you know, one eighty it, it won't
quite make it all the way around.

Speaker 7 (50:35):
Yep. So yeah, this is just all stuff you gotta
pay attention to. Uh. We see it all the time too.
We go out there and check.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Somebody's night lighting or whatever, and they're like, the night
lighting is not coming on, and they've got a photo
sell on the thing and a bush has grown up
all the way around it. Well, if it's not if
it's getting light, then uh yeah. If it's not getting light,
it ain't gonna turn on.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
That's right. Got to pay attention.

Speaker 7 (50:58):
That music means we're out of time. Chris.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Uh, y'all call us eight five four four thousand and five,
and uh we'll see you next week on the Classic
Gardens and Landscape Show. If you need any of our
services landscaping, long cair irrigation, night lighting, patios and retaining
walls in that stuff, you call us eight five four
four thousand and five. Come see us eighteen fifty five
Carson Road. We'd love to see you in the garden Center,
and we'll see you next week on the Classic Gardens

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and Landscape Show.