Gardening Simplified - Pushing Your Boundaries

Rick Vuyst joins us to preview this week's show!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rest in peace, sister. What a giant in the community.
Speaking of which, this is West Michigan's Morning New Steve, Kelly, Brett,
Keita Schmitty still working as day two of the radiothon
for Helen Debos Children's Hospital underway at B ninety three.
Schmitty on Star one five point seven. Rick Weiss joins

(00:21):
us on the liveline with Gardening Simplified. Let's talk a
little bit about pushing boundaries. Woo Rick as a preview
of tomorrow's Gardening Simplified show. Good morning, kind sir, what's
coming up?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning, Steve. Yeah, pushing the boundaries or pushing the
envelope if you use an aeronautical term. That's the topic
for this weekend's show. And there are many ways that
you can do that in the landscape, and we're doing
that in the landscape. For me, over the course of
my life, the magic words have always been when somebody

(00:56):
says to me, you can't do that, I'm like, Okay,
hold my beard, step back, watch this. It's just it's
an attitude that you take. And so in the landscape,
you have a subject, you have the composition, you have
the color. We find ourselves these days pushing the envelope.

(01:19):
The research and the innovation as far as plant material
is concerned, is unreal. Just the other day, I posted
a picture of the Paisley pop blue Kofi, which is
a really cool plant. It's also known as dog hobble,
popping up through the snow in my landscape. It's gorgeous.

(01:39):
It's a new introduction over the past few years. What
we have available to us today in plant material is unreal.
So Stacey and I will focus on pushing the envelope
this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Rick, I was thinking of you. My wife and I
did some Christmas shop in the other day and you
know where you were, Costco and Gray And as we
walked in to get our cart, the scent was unbelievable.
You know why they had fresh Christmas greens out there
where the carts are for sale, whether it was Reese
or whatever you wanted. And I'm like, oh, man, I

(02:14):
was thinking of Rick Weiss along with We did the
family tradition last Friday and cut our Christmas tree, and
oh was that thing thirsty. Let me tell you, I
had to pour a bunch of water all last weekend
of this week because it was healthy. We got a
Fraser fur. But man, it was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh that's great, And yeah, you got to stay on
your right, Brett. You got to stay on top of
monitoring the water, see to it that it's drawing up
water through that trunk like a straw and that aroma.
You're right. We talk about that on this coming Weekends
show also, and kudos to you. I mean, every time

(02:57):
I go into Costo, I end up walking out with
flat screen TV at kayak, some hearing aids and a
road history chicken.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, my point being and bringing that up is because
I've never seen Costco do that before. And you always
talk about plants in the landscape and how good they
are for us, whether it's our mental health of just
being around plants. I'm seeing more and more businesses picking
up on that. Rick.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I just think that there's a lot of nostalgia
attached to the aroma of Christmas. So when you talk
about fur or pine or for example, I personally I
cannot resist a Douglas fur tree. I mean, when I
see one at Christmas, I just got to stick my
face in it and take a good sniff because it's

(03:42):
got that evergreen scent, a hint of citrus to it. Yeah,
I agree with you, Brett, I love it.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You will hear Gardening Simplified tomorrow morning at nine o'clock
here on Wood Radio. Gardening Simplified on air dot com
to get to the podcasts right now, Rick Weist. Always
great stuff. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Have a great weekend, guys,