Classic Gardens from September 20th, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the head
Ready and if you want show up plants and grass
to grow two percent? Chris, Chris and Chris. No, Chris
knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.

(00:32):
Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris
knows it.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris Keith.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good morning weapon the Classic Gardens and the Landscape Show.
I'm on the w RC.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I'm Chris Keith, I'm Chris Joyner. I hope everybody's doing
good this morning. I'm gonna tell you one thing, Chris Keith.
You know what they say, if you're gonna be dumb,
you gotta be tough.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
See me rotating my shoulder around every.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Ooh, I've got one that's been bothering me for about
six weeks. Chris tweaked it yesterday. You just man, we were.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
We had this. This is a classic garden get at
rest four three nine nine three seven two four three
nine nine three seven two. If you want to call
in and join in in the festivities and have a
gardening question, we can answer it because there's a lot
going on long cair wise, watering wise, landscaping wise, pre

(01:31):
emergent wise, premergent wise, premergent wise. You ain't gotten that
down yet. Oh, pre emerging is don't wait on the
rain to do it, because now if you do that,
your yards get number one. Your yard's gonna be dead
because you ain't watered it and it may never come.
I think in the ten day forecast there was like
a forty five percent chance of rain one day next week.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
But you know, so we're down to fives. Now do what,
It's not forty or fifty, it's forty five and it'll
be man, it'll be er point five by the time
we get there.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
But no, if you're going to be dumb, you gotta
be tough. So we uh, you know we had in
Springville was home all the homecoming festivities yesterday, right yeah, parade,
homecoming game and everything. So we uh we did the
we were in the went to the parade yesterday afternoon
and I had a good time with all the kids.
Claire's off her crutches, by the way. She got released yesterday,

(02:22):
so that's been six weeks. I guess had a hip
of ulsion fracture. And so basically when when you're you know, young,
your bones are still soft and weak, but for athletes,
their muscles are super strong. So basically the muscles are
stronger than the bone. And where like her her leg

(02:43):
muscle attaches to the hip. I guess it's the best
I understand it. You got the muscle that's attached to
the tendon and then the tendon that's attached to the hip. Well,
when she was kicking the soccer ball, the muscle pulled
on the tendon. The tendon pulled on part of her
hip bone where the growth plate is, and it tore
a piece of the hip bone off. Like you got

(03:05):
a little piece of bone floating around, dangling and floating
around in there. So she uh, she's been on crutches
for six weeks. We went back yesterday, and went back
two weeks ago and they said that it was healing fine,
and but they wanted to see her again. So we
went back yesterday and the bone bones completely healed, you know,
it's calcified good. And uh so she's off of crutches,

(03:28):
doing physical therapy now, and uh man, we can't be
more excited because it's you know, when you see your
kid hurt, it just you know, she didn't it didn't
bother her a bit, you know what I'm saying. Her
head's been up and she hasn't really gotten frustrated or
anything about it. But as a parent, when you see
one of your kids hurt, it's just kind of frustrating.
But she got off yesterday and uh we go back

(03:52):
in another two weeks, and you basically they say, in
order to be kind of completely released, you have to
have uh you know, healing on X ray, full range
mode mobility, which she has both of those, and then
the third one is just you know, regaining the strength.
And so that's where we're at now doing physical therapy
and then she'll be released for soccer. But we're not

(04:14):
those parents that are just gonna like once that doctor says, go,
we're gonna pull the trigger and kick her back into it,
you know what I mean, because we don't want anything
to get re injured. And and her coach, coach Allen,
he's one of those he you know, they're hard to
come by, like really really good coaches that can develop
kids and that really truly like care for them and

(04:36):
you know, develop a relationship with the team. Because even
he said, just because she's released, if she's he's like,
if I play her number one, she's gonna be a
sub and number two, I'm only gonna play her for
about five minutes at a time because I don't want
her to get hurt. So he's one of those coaches
that really cares, you know, about the about the kids.
So anyway, but if you're gonna be dumb, you got

(04:57):
you gotta be tough. We went out to eat last
night in downtown Springville and the restaurant we went to
was right by Big Springs Park, So kids wanted to
go over to the park. So we walk over there.
And if you think about, like you know the old
mary go around where you kind of sit on and
you spin around, and they basically have one of those
that sits on top of a post and you hang
on to it and spin around. Well, you got a

(05:20):
two hundred and twenty five pound body, you're running and
jumping on that thing and swinging around.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Because we get you do that.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
You wake up in the morning and you're like, man,
I slip on my shoulder on and then you know
you're up for about thirty or forty five minutes and
you're like, ah, I bet I tweaked something that's spinning
around on the Merry Go Round. You got to show
out for the kids sometimes. I mean, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
You know, me and Teres. Of course, the kids weren't
with us because you know, we're we're in that whole
empty nestra thing now. But the last little vacation or
whatever me and her took, you know, we're out at
the pool and all that stuff, and I'm looking at
it and I was like, man, I remember back, you know,
ten years ago, when being the kids were up here

(06:06):
at the pool or whatever. I'd like do a freaking
flip off into the pool. And I was like, man,
I'm gonna go over here and do me a flip
into the pool for old times. And I looked over
there and I was like, no, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Man, that's how but that's how you get old. It's
not doing that stuff.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Man.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
You got to you gotta keep on going. No, ain't
nothing at that can't fix can't.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Man, you can't do somersaults in the pool anymore.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
It just uh oh, me and my brother in law
still do it. I could probably have loss pool man
off front flips and side flips and belly busters and
backbusters and brain busters.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know everything that they told me not to do
when back in the day, I just did you know
what I mean, like don't dive in the pool. You
did it, man. It was just like you just dared me.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
So anyways, there's that tenth there's now just write that backwards.
I'm like, no, they says don't. I'm just don't want
to obey the rules.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, And like I think we talk about that with
my kids all the time, Like when we used dride bikes.
You ever wear a helmet riding the bike?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
No, I don't have no, man, I didn't wear a
helmet to play football.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
And uh, I just think of some of the stuff
that we did as kids, and now as a parent,
I'm telling my kids what my parents used to tell me.
You know, wear a helmet, don't jump off the roof,
don't climb that tree so high, da.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Off the roof into the pool. Yeah, we were at
so we were.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
We were at soccer soccer game last weekend at uh
some of the turfields and Trustfield that have bleachers, it's
where the high school team plays, and there was a
bunch of kids playing football back behind the bleachers. You know.
They were, I don't know, everywhere from like six years
old to twelve year old, all boys, and they're playing
two hand touch and I know I know a few

(07:57):
of them. I mess with them all the time. I
look down there and I said, Colin, why ain't y'all
playing tackle football? And one of the kids like, oh,
what if I break my leg? I'm like, we would
have never thought about that. Tackle football is all you
played back then.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, we stayed.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Skin up all the time.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well yeah, Chris, I mean going back to garden and
I mean it's just been we've been on a job
for the last month or so over in Shoal Creek
and it's you know, it's a huge job of new construction.
We hardly ever do new construction work. Probably count on
one hand the time we've done I mean constructly. I
mean I can love probably the last one we did

(08:36):
was for the Moppins, and that's what years ago something
like that. We just very rich. Most of what we've
what we've cut our teeth on, is just going in
and you know, somebody's got shrubs that's humongous, you know,
in the front of their house. And we go in
there some of the time with machine, I mean depending
on you know, just how big your your shrubs are.

(08:59):
We going there with like a mini excavator and we
take plywood and lay it out on your lawn and
walk our machine in there. We rip all your shrubs out,
we come out. Some of the time it's no more
than a truck and a chain. It just depends on
the situation. And we go in there and we just
dig out all your shrubs like that, clean everything up

(09:20):
real good, go back in with a super low maintenance landscape.
And when I say low maintenance, I mean shrubs are
not like plastic. I mean you've got to trim them eventually.
But we do all we can to put something in
that you've got just minimal work to do on and
then go back in, clean things up, and man, we

(09:41):
pick up the plywood.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Leave.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
We got a pressure washer driveway, pressure washing driveway, and
it looks fantastic, and we leave. And that's ninety percent
of what we do in our landscape. And now we
still do, you know, any kind of drainage work. So
if you've got a drainage obviously right now it's dry,
it's a great time to do rainage work. You don't
wait until you know January when it's raining every day

(10:05):
and you say, man, I got a drainage problem. You
call us then and it's like, what's so dang muddy?
You can't even get in the yard. So you know
there's some things irrigation. I mean, here we are. You know,
we've been telling you for six months. Hey, give us
a call eight five four, four thousand and five. You
need irrigation work. And now it's dry as powder outside
and you're like, man, I sure do wish i'd called

(10:26):
Chris back in you know, March to do you know
my my irrigation work. So there's not a bad time
to do really anything. We always say it in Birmingham,
Outabama when we landscape three hundred and sixty five days
a year. But if you put a gun to my head,
I tell you right now is the best time to
do it. Because yet it's a little hot, it's a
little dry, but you know it's hot and dry, and

(10:47):
you're gonna take care of it, and you know, you're
only really going to have to, you know, keep it
water for the next you know, maybe three or four weeks,
and then we'll hit our you know, we always hit
about in the middle of November, we hit a wet
spell and it stays wet from the middle of November
to the middle of May. So you know, regardless of
when you plant, plants are under your care for the

(11:10):
first two years. So if you think about it, you're
gonna go every through every season twice. So it's gonna
get hot, it's gonna get dry, it's gonna get wet,
it's gonna get cold. It's going yeah. I mean here
in Alabama, the weather is so wishy washy uh, there's
no telling what your level will wind up with. I mean, heck,
two weeks ago it was you know, fifty five degrees
at night.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Right, you know, and that's that's seventy nine for the hog.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
That's the first of September, you know, So I.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Mean day you may be out there and tank tops
and shorts.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
I mean, technically today is the first day of fall.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
It's early.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Maybe maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's Monday. But either way,
we're virtually right there.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
So, but you know, it's ninety five degrees outside, so
I mean really, you know, the weather can throw you
a curveball regardless of whin you plant. Uh, but just
know here in Alabama, there's not a bad time to plant. Uh,
there's you know, it's always a good time to plant
in our area.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yep, Monday, yep, first day fall, first day fall, ninety
two degrees Yep, that's Alabama.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Four. Well, at least we're I mean there's been a
few pop up showers around town. Granted it's dry.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I mean, there ain't no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I mean, you ain't got to go far to see
a yard this parched. And uh, they're not going dormant,
they're going dying. Yeah, you know you gotta you gotta
continue to water right now. And uh, I mean it's
it's dry. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
So we had like Wednesday, we had good rain in Springville.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
When I say good, when I say good rain, it
was enough to satisfy like supplement one watering of the yard,
you know, because you get you know, you put down
an inch of water over a yard and then you
go four or five days of ninety degrees. I got
maybe not even that, three or four days of ninety
degrees and then you get a little breeze added into that.

(12:59):
Man that that that rain is gone. And one conversation
I have with people this time of year a lot is,
you know, particularly if they're they're not eargat and the
yards dry, they'll say, well, we've had great rain this year.
We'll had as past tense. You know, the record setting
rain that we had in May. That doesn't matter. It's
it's in the golf in Mexico, that doesn't matter. What

(13:21):
matters is basically over the last like month, we've virtually
had zero rainfall. There's probably places Chris Keith because Us
that will rain that we had Wednesday, you could look
at the radar and it was literally one blip over
like Margaret and Argo and Springville, and then you go
other places and it didn't get it. It didn't get
a drop. So that's just there's no there hasn't been

(13:42):
any widespread rain to mountain to anything. We really need
like a tropical depression to come up through come up
through the state. Forget the wind and everything, just just
dump about five or six inches of rain. Everywhere and
we'd be good.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
You know, that's typically this time of year we'll have
one of those tropical storms or whatever come in, and
it's kind of a trend changer, you know. It's every
I mean every September in October it gets hot and dry.
Its every year. Yeah, I mean I was looking at
the the weather of the day and they said, well,
typically in Alabama we hit are you know, typically in

(14:15):
Birmingham we have three point eight inches of rain in
September most of the time, that's like one thundershower. Yeah,
one day, and then the whole rest of the month
the dries powder.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
So last October we had about a quarter inch of rain. Yeah,
I was telling I sent Jenny a screen text for
the National Weather.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
I think we got more than three quarters of an
inch of rain in three months.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
No, it was crazy, woldouder, dry. Yeah, and here we
are again a year later, and guess what next year
is going to be. In the next year and the
next year, September and October hot and dry every year.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
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Speaker 3 (19:51):
Here that's pretty, Easy. Chris you by this time of,
year if you want to keep the weeds at, bay
you got to put your pre merging. On it's that
time of. Year we've already had some nighttime temperatures in
the fifties and now granted this dry weather is helping
you out a little.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Bit, yeah it's you, know because any seed.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
That germinates right now is getting smoked by the hot and.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
DRY i, mean the temperatures have still been you, know
those couple of nights where we got dipped down into the.
Fifties that was few and far. Between you, know it's
still hot. Outside but, yes pre merging right. NOW i,
mean if you haven't done, that you need to get
it in to the garden, center and you need to
get that down right. Now come in and get your
bag of, gold, yep and put it. Down do not
wait on the. Rain you, know that's one thing that

(20:36):
you just you can't depend, on you, know in the
summer months and in the fall much you can't depend on.
Rain so when you put that pre mergent, down you
go ahead and plan on running. It if you have
an irrigation, system. Fantastic all you got to do is
hit go and it. Waters if you, don't just you,
know take a little bit of time and drag the
hose around and water that. In it doesn't take a

(20:57):
tremendous amount of water to water in a an, application
but you need to be water in your yard, anyway
otherwise it's going to look like garbage next fall because
it's got dead patches all in. It but get your
pre mergent. Down you can come into the Garden center
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(21:20):
a couple phone. Numbers but come into the Garden center get,
it or call us and we can come out and
we can do it for. You so that's that's. Huge
the phones are really ringing off the. Hooks i'm doing
sales two, three four days out of the. Week you,
know people that are getting on the bandwagon and having
classic gardens come out and treat the. Yard not only you,

(21:41):
know are we going to put the right stuff down
at the right, time but you, know this time of,
year it can be tricky diagnosing the yard because people
see brown spots and they automatically think that it's that
it's just. Drought it's dry and it's drought. Damage but you,
know there's a lot of chinch bugs that are attacking
yards right now because chinch bugs love, hot dry, weather

(22:02):
and the hotter and drier gets In september And, october
the more they can get in there and damage. Yards
i've seen grubs on yards, Too so you, know in,
fall grubs will start coming up and they'll start feeding
on the roots of you, know soision bermuda, grass and
that also looks like it's just kind of starting to
fade and get. Dry spittle. Bugs seen a lot of

(22:23):
spittle bugs on.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yards tell YOU i cut my hayfield the two weeks
ago and you talking about spittle. Bug, Yeah, man my,
detractor the, koboda it looked like it was. Them black
they were all over that. Thing, MAN i ain't never
seen like a spittle. BUGS i guess THEY'RE i guess
they really like, UH i guess they really Like behave

(22:47):
And dallas grass or. Whatever but, MAN i HAD i,
mean like the tractor was covered with spittle. Bug.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah they'll they basically suck all the SAPs and sugars
and nutrients out of grass and makes it look like
GE's starting to fade and get. Dry so to have
a professional out on a yard like classic gardens. Has you,
know our technicians are, trained they know what they're looking.
For you'll see them out. WHO i was talking with
the homeowner a couple of weeks, ago and, uh it'll

(23:14):
name will come to me a little. Bit BUT i
was out looking for chinch bugs in her yard And
i'm down on my hands and, knees and she looked
out and she THOUGHT i was praying to the grass.
GODS i was down on my hands and knees looking
for chinch. Bugs AND i think she had mentioned that To,
uh she'd mentioned that to one of her, friends you,
know just in a, conversation that she THOUGHT i was
praying to the grass.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Gods you're that.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Guy, Guy i'm out there saying a little prayer for
the grass to get. Better but, no you can't just
assume that it's dry right, now especially if you're water
and you, Know i've got homeowners that you, KNOW i
mean they water and they Are, yeah that is like their.
Focus and if you've got brown spots popping, up it
could be it could be something. Else water And, chris

(23:59):
that's just one of the, Things like there are so
many factors and so many variables that that go into.
That you, know soil consistency can change from one spot
to the, next and you, know this spot holds water
and this spot is just solid rock and and you
know water evaporates from it like. Crazy so you just
it's a lot of common sense that goes into, watering

(24:21):
and unfortunately that's not something that that is very common these.
DAYS i ain't picking fun at, nobody BUT i, mean
you take my, Yard. Chris you may or may not
have noticed they got a tripod sprinkler set up in my.
Backyard i've Got i've got an irrigation, system But i've
got one swath THAT i could water all, day every

(24:42):
day and it would still dry.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Up oh, yeah you couldn't drive. It you didn't drive
a piece of reboard in the. Ground.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Now it's just it's just so it's just so compact
and hard with with like with, that with the you
know stones from the mountain, side from the prehistoric gages
that are back, there and it's Just i've got a
tripod set up SO i can just, water you, know
that one little swat, swath and it tells on you
this time of year when it gets really really hot and.
Dry So i'm trying not to let it get too

(25:09):
far ahead of.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
ME i, mean you can have a perfect irrigation, system
is what we're trying to. Say and literally you got
to know that the ground ain't. PERFECT i mean it
it fluctuates so much FROM i, mean it can fluctuate
just from here to four feet. Away you, know this
this area right here holds moisture a little. Better that

(25:31):
area over there as hard as a. BRICK i, mean
you go To Mountain brook and you see areas over.
There you, know the whole yard's, beautiful and you, know
you get in one spot and you see that, big,
huge just dry dead, spot you, know and you know
there's a big old rock under, there, yep you. Know
and where we've been working over In Shoal creek every
every day WHEN i come in this guy's irrigation. SYSTEM

(25:54):
i don't know who they are or, whatever but the
irrigation system is. Running you can look out there at
the yard and you, know the whole yard looks real.
Good and then there's, like you, know half a dozen
spots out in the yard where it's you, know scorched
and and and not doing, well and you, know, hey
that's that's a flaw either a flaw in the, irrigation
it's an insect problem or. Something but there's obviously something,

(26:16):
wrong you. Know so you just a lot of us
just being aware of what's going on. NOW i mean,
everybody if you've lived in the house long, enough you
know where that spot. Is so you know every year
when it gets super hot and super dry and you, say,
oh that's lied to my safety, tank you, know or
that's up there's where that dang rock. Is you, know every.

(26:38):
Year so if you have a funky spot that just
comes up in an odd, place then you, know, hey you,
know it ain't marrigation, system it's not that old, rock
it's not my safty tank. Lid THERE'S i got something
else going, on you. Know and that's we're, having you,
know a trained person on your, yard you, know and

(26:58):
how many you take somebody like, case you, know has
been treating the same yard for you, know fifteen. Years
he's out there every. Month so if he sees something
out there on the yard that's totally different than what
he saw, before then he's, LIKE i know. This you
know something's going. On he knows something's going on right
off the. Bat and that's that's where a trained. Guy you,

(27:20):
know like classic gardens comes out and they treat your
yard every, month and you, know you know that it's
it's being taken care of, properly and they know they
know they're, arounding and they know the surroundings and all that,
stuff and they know how, to you, know diagnose an. Issue,
chris we Got mike on The line's go ahead and Get.
Mike good, Morning. Mike hey, done, Buddy i'm.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
Good thank you for what you. DO i have a
crape myrtle that has been very beautiful over the, years
and it's not beautiful, now And i'm assuming that's because of.
Rain SHOULD i SHOULD i water it? Daily SHOULD i
just wait till the rain comes later in the fall or.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
When do you?

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Recommend say it's when you say it's not, beautiful you
mean it's like dropping. Leaves it's dropping.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
Leaves and, uh the flowers are few and far.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Between and how how old is the crank? Myrtle approximately three?

Speaker 7 (28:15):
Years, oh three. Years it's been big beautiful these last.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Years so water, watering, obviously that's something that you gotta
you gotta keep. It you gotta keep an eye, on
make sure that it's. Water it's the classic.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Gods The landscape show.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
On the head ready and when you want hump plants
and grass to grow?

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Up two doercent Because chris And chris.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
No and now you're a. Host Chris joyner And Chris.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Keith m, h we're.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Good we're on the radio. Again we lost we lost internet.
Connection nothing nothing like rebooting THE z and rebooting THIS.
Ef for not only are we land pros that landscaping long,
here but we're also, uh we're also taking tech. Savvy so, Hey,
MACKENZIE i guess we're good on brakes and, everything, right all, right,

(29:44):
cool all, right that's how we.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Roll that's how we roll with it right like, that
never even missed a. Blip so we were talking To.
Mike we're talking about crape, myrtles and we were talking
about possible bores and more than Likely, okay his crape
myrtles three years, older so we would consider that established. Somewhat,
yes a crpe mar's got a big root system when

(30:08):
it's fully. Established but when it's three years, old you,
know we hit these hot dry spells like this more than.
Likely you, know it's just dropping a lot of leaves
because it's hot and. Dry, however this has been one
of the worst year for wooly aphids That i've ever
done in my. Life, Honestly i've got two grills in
my backyard That i've had the pressure wash three times

(30:29):
because it looks like you went out there and spraying
with syrup and the leaves are falling out of this
elm tree so bad that you, know these wooly aphans
have been on this thing for about three months and
LITERALLY i can't part my truck in the. Yard AND
i drenched that tree like a month and a half,
ago but it hasn't had time to kick, in you.

(30:52):
Know AND i mean obviously the bigger the, tree the
longer it's going to take for that insect decide to
get up in the. Tree. Right so you, know If i'd,
NOT i was gonna have, this you, know terrible infestation
of you, know bugs like. THAT i would have drenched
the tree In, march you, know and it would have
been good to, go BUT i. Didn't but you can

(31:12):
drive down the road and you can see old hackberries
and and you, know elm trees and things of that
nature on the side of the, road and it's it's
like reverse of like you just get in a, thundershower you,
know or like a little light sprinkle where you, know
you're driving down the road and you see under the
canopies of the trees where it's, dry you, know but

(31:34):
the road is, wet is right, yeah well it's right. Backwards.
Uh you'll see these these trees hanging over the road
and you, know it looks like it's wet under, them you,
know and the rest of the road is. Dry and
that's from these wooly aphis and they're so bad this. Year,
uh you, know so just be. Aware you see these

(31:56):
little white fuzzy things floating around all in the in the,
area those those are wooly, aphis and they attack hackberries
and they attack they they attack crape. Myrtles you'll see
that black soodie mold and you get that stuff all
over your sidewalks and your patios and all that. Stuff
but that black soody mold gets on those crpe myrtles really.
Bad and uh it could be from, that it could

(32:17):
be from scale either. Way but if you drench your
trees once a year with a furlong systemic insect, drench
it helps you keep from getting that. Stuff we sell
it at the garden. Center but it's really good and,
uh it's a good practice if you've got you, know
just desirable trees that you don't you don't want to. Lose,

(32:37):
uh you, know now it's the time of year you
need to be drenching your. Trees but, yeah, man start
with the. Waters aphs are. Rough start with.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Watering that's, no that's number, one because, man that's it's
hot and it's.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Dry i've got. PLANTS i got a nise that's, wilting
AND i mean that's one of the. Toughest, yeah that.
Tree there's the toughest shrubs that you can you can
find and it's. Wilting and crape Myrtles chris crke. Myrtles
they're typically some of your First crate myrtles are messy.
Trees you, know they're always dropping, something dropping, limbs they're shedding,
bark they're dropping, blooms they're dropping.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Leaves you, know crap myrtles this time of, year they
just they do naturally start to drop leaves when we
get in the hot and dry. Spells cherries same. Way,
YEAH i. DON'T i haven't really paid. To cherries are
probably about. Bear cherries has been bear Since, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
August there's some trees like that river, birch river BIRCH i.
Planted i'm planting river birch at on the job we're
working on over In Shoal. Creek AND i don't like
it one. Second but she likes river birch just So,
hey she's just her.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
House they're pretty, trees but.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Messy they've got to they drop a lot of limbs
and stuff like. That they you're not gonna be able
to grow grass under the canopy of that thing wants
the great and you want us To, uh tree gets any.
Age you. Know there's just a lot of disadvantages to
a river. Birch. Uh if you want to plant it
on the, back there are some advantages. TOO i, mean
the bark is.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Beautiful planting on the back forty where you don't ever
have to do anything on the edge of the. Lake,
yeah and it's and it makes a nice, whispy you,
know pretty.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Tree but you don't want. It you don't want to put,
it you, know ten feet from your. House.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
No, No and that's a very common, tree especially you
get into, neighborhoods you, know Like, Graystone Highland. Lakes. Uh you,
know some In ross bridge that they that was one
of those old School liberty. Parkway that was one of
those old school trees that they planted on just about
on every single it was H O a approved. Tree,
yeah and they planted them along the driveway retaining wall

(34:38):
on the corners of the, houses and and, uh you,
know twenty five years later you see them getting cut
down because there's the wrong tree for the wrong you,
know in the wrong. Place.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Basically, yeah that, uh, YEAH i think the thinking about
the rouses or something over In, gosh they're over In, Meadowbrook, Meadowbrook, Deborah,
Well i'm not thinking about. Her i'm thinking About i'm

(35:08):
thinking about another One chris over An Eagle point that
we treat. It maybe the, HOUSES i can't, remember but either,
way they've got like three lots of. It they got
like three river birches above their retaining wall on the
front left by the, driveway and it's, like you, know
they can't grow anything from the sidewalk all.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
The and there's a probably a five foot strip of
grass that runs up right right next to, them and just,
yeah forget about.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
It you, know there's some over in the deerfoot crossings
over there off a Deer Foot. Parkway you know that
they've went in there and literally just cut the top
out of, them like worse than crape. Murder, yeah and
they're trying to come back out now and, everything And i'm,
like just take them, out take them completely. Out it's.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Terrible we had an email this this uh this, Week
Chris keith from somebody that had has juniper bed and
they wanted us to answer that question on the. Radio
but they, basically what do you where do you Think
i'm going with? This they got a juniper, bed got,
Weeds they got weeds all in, it. Right, uh that's
a tough, one.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Man we've got two jobs coming up in the next,
whenever you, know whenever we get off the job we're
working on. Now we got two jobs coming, up and
both of them are big juniper, beds and one of
them were we one end of. It they had like wild,
chrysanthemums like playing like they're, wild but they're they're on

(36:36):
either end of the bed and the homeowner just wanted
to extend the juniper bed where it was, wheat you,
know just this whole weedy chrysanthemum stuff in each corner
of the. Beds we're adding about fifteen in either. End
we're gonna go through and weed out the bed and
clean it. Up, well we've got another one over In
moody's kind of we're just gonna go through and it's

(36:58):
got vines and you, know just weeds of all different
kinds just growing up in. It so we're gonna have,
to you, know just literally get in there and climb
around in it and pull all that stuff out for.
Them and really that's all you can. Do, YEAH i,
mean there's not a product that you can take and
just spray over it and magically kill the weeds and
not kill.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
The juniperson's that's an unfortunate thing about. That there's a
product called fuselade that's labeled for, junipers but that just
kills grassy grassy. Weeds so like if you've got bermuda,
grass and it doesn't kill all, grasses very good on bermuda,
grass but when it comes to like your broad, leaf you,
know you'll get a lot of different wild. Trees you,
know you'll get elms and sweet gums that grow up in,

(37:38):
there so you'll get poison ives And virginia creeper and
with and all.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
That, yeah funky stuff just.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Grows, unfortunately you just have to come in and hand
weed that. Stuff now you, can you can do premergent you,
know you, know multiple times a year over the top
of that watered in and that will that will help
to reduce the.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Amount of weeds that you and juniper. Beds but that's
just that's not an easy. Situation that's just a lot
of manual, labor hand pulling stuff, exactly especially with broad,
leaves because whatever is going to kill the broad leaf
is also going to kill.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
The juniper the junipers as. Well so, unfortunately not a
good solution for.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
That now it's just climbing around in it a couple
of times a year and just snatching stuff. Out it
is what it.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
IS i don't know how many juniper beds we've probably
planted in the last fifteen.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Years i'm Gonna i'm gonna say the. Two, yeah, well
the one of these we're just cleaning. Up the other
one we're just adding a little on either. End so,
yeah we're we're we steer away from. IT i, mean
it's if you plant shrubs and you plant, them you,
know properly spaced or, whatever then you can go in around.

(38:49):
Them and. Spray but if it's you, know a solid
mass or, something there's not much you can. Do, no,
unfortunately not, Well, chris let's take a plan to break this.
Time our. Number if y'all want to get in a
last minute, call you. Can it's TWO o five four
three nine nine three seven two and we'll be right
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Speaker 4 (42:51):
Remember so we're talking about new, construction and like we,
said we it's very, few very few and far between
where we ever do new construction. Homes and it's typically
when the homeowner has a custom built house and they're,
LIKE i don't want the homeowner OR i don't want
the home builder to do the landscaping because they're just
going to put engineeric stuff and they hire us after

(43:13):
the house is built and after they've moved in to
come in and do like a custom type landscape. Job,
WELL i remember when we did The, moppins that was
the same. Thing they built the house first and then
we came in and landscaped after the construction was.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
DONE i did the landscape design on that.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
House it was a pile of.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Dirt there was a BIG i mean like a there
was twenty tracks loads of dirt piled up in the front.
Yard AND i went over there and did the landscape
design for that. Thing and you, know we wound up
landing that. Job and literally some of what normally happens

(43:49):
is they want to close on the. House they want
you to jump on in there and do the. Landscape
the problem is is nine times out of, ten the
house ain't. Finished so there you got builders and everything,
else like all up in your, way and the driveways
full of, contractors painters and, this that and the other and,
everything and they're wanting you to come in and grade

(44:09):
the whole yard and all that, stuff and you can't
even get your equipment there hard.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Because there's so much.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Trying everybody's all over the top of each, other and
it just makes it really, tough you, know to do
a landscape job for somebody like. That that's why we
really just, prefer you, know the good old. Fashion let
me come, in rip your twenty year old bushes out
and put new stuff in because we can just run,
in you, know totally do a transformation on your house

(44:37):
and literally a day or, two we don't have anybody
in our. Way you, know we get the lines, located
make sure you know we're not tearing anything, up and
then we come in and just virtually bulldoze all your shrubs,
out put new shrubs. IN i Mean it's as simple as.
That and it's good for another fifteen twenty, years for
another twenty, years, RIGHT i.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Mean that's one thing we've always.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Said a landscape typically only lasts about fifteen, years give or.
Take because stuff, gets stuff, dies stuff gets. Overgrown, yeah
lights out.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Of, place life, happens and then it just starts looking
at it starts looking. Bad and it's just like painting a.
House you, know you can't paint a house once and be.
Done you, know you got you gotta refresh it and
redo it every so. Often and landscape is no.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Different, Yeah and you know it's there's a lot of
people that try to save some you, know select plants
and that just doesn't. Work you, know maybe they have
a camella in or zelia that looks real nice that they.
Like and then you come in and you rip everything,
out you save one or two, plants you plant all
the new, stuff and then you sit back, here ANDY,
a it really doesn't look, good and so we come

(45:42):
in and just give everything a fresh, dart rip it all,
out put all new stuff.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
In and that's what we do Classic Gordon's transform your.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yard among other. THINGS i, mean like right, Now justin
is working on a big land clearing job up here In,
springville and you know he's been on that for two weeks.
STRAIGHT i think they went in yesterday and put some
colvert pipes in on another drib we've been doing over
in The moody, area so THAT i, mean we do
a lot of land. Clearing we do a lot of
forest mulching and stuff like. That so if you, want

(46:13):
like if you've got desirable trees and you just got
a lot of old trash growing up under them and
stuff like, that man we come in with the forest
multu and clean that thing out and, man it just
make it look like a. Park and uh it looked
literally looked like you just went in there and spread
multa under. It when we're through and, uh really clean
that stuff up as we do. That. Uh obviously irrigation, Work,

(46:34):
uh if you need a new irrigation, system we'd be
glad to come out and install you. One and you,
know any of that drainage, work any of that. Stuff
so call us eight five four four thousand and. Five
we'd be glad to come out and work for.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
You hard scaping's big this time of, year you, know
especially with patios and retaining. Walls we've done a ton
of jobs over the years where they were homeowner had
a backyard that just really wasn't usable or, functional and
you know we've come in and and, terraced, terraced you,
know areas of the, yard put retaining walls in, done you,
know whether it's a paver patio or a flagstone, patio

(47:09):
and that way they're they're able to just have, cookouts
watch football, games you, know graduation parties and you Know
christmas parties and all that kind of. Stuff that's probably
one of my FAVORITE i don't do those jobs you,
Do Chris. Keith it may or may not be your favorite.
THING i love, it but it's it's my favorite thing
to see like the finished product on that kind of
stuff because you just sit there and you're, like, man
that's that's. AWESOME i could, see you, know spending a

(47:31):
lot of time on areas like, that making.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Memories we did one for a couple over and done Them,
bestavia like off A Dollar ridge Or Rocky ridge or,
Yeah Dolly Ridge. Road that was back about a year,
ago and their backyard was totally. Unusable they had a concrete,
uh a concrete patio back there that was cracked and
just wasn't looking good or. Whatever and we came over

(47:56):
and busted all that out and put them into a new,
patio and, man it just they didn't have Any they
couldn't enjoy their backyard at all because it was so
tiny and it just wasn't it wasn't. Practical and we
came in there and put them a new patio in and,
man they just went from having a spot that they
couldn't use at all to just, having you, know a

(48:16):
nice back patio that they can hang out and grill
out and do all that stuff. On so we can
we can do that for, you no.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Problem, Hey ann has got some more vegetables in at
the Garden, Center Chris keys collars. Broccoli let us you
got a couple of shipments of some small pansies and.
Stuff but we'll be getting more and more betting plants
in the next few weeks Of come into The Garden
center and get. That get your bag of gold. Too,
yep that's gotta go.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Down we're at eighteen fifty Five Carson. Road y'all come
see us or call us at eight five four four
thousand and. Five if you need, landscaping if you need long,
care if you need, irrigation night, lighting, patios retaining, walls
any of that, stuff if you call us eight five
four four thousand and, five and we'll see you next
week on The class Of, Gardens The Landscape. Show y'all
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