Orange You Glad It's November?

Rick Vuyst joins us for a Gardening Simplified preview!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's morning news. Do you Kelly bred Kita.
I see Laurence Smith and Rick Weist of Gardening Simplified
on the liveline. Good day to you, sir, A good.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Day to you. Yes, very well done. I love that
bump music. Nicely done.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you Orange. You glad that it's November and my gosh,
what a batch of all colors this year?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well exactly. Steve and Stacey and I cover a lot
of topics every week on the Gardening Simplified Show. This weekend,
we're going to cover a polarizing topic, and that is
the color orange. It's a polarizing topic because some people
love that color in their landscape, some people don't. I

(00:42):
love the color orange in my landscape. It draws hummingbirds
and pollinators. It feels like Miami Beach to me when
you combine bright orange with pink, for example, or sharpruse color.
Love orange. But unfortunately, yeah, it's one of those polarizing

(01:02):
types of colors because it's also the color of prison
jumpsuits and life jackets and construction barrels and that kind
of thing. But this fall, I don't think it's a
big leaf of our imagination. That the carotenoid pigments in
the foliage in the trees have just been dominant this year.

(01:24):
The orange color has really stepped up to the plate
and it's been fun to see. So that's our topic
for this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
On the show, I saw carrat pigment at the old
Evert Lounge right there on Evert lou the US ten.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, we probably did.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Place you used to get packed. A ball bearing company
across the street is big.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I can't let you talk about leaves without pointing out
the fact that you, on occasion have stopped to pick
up other people's leaves, but not in a good way.
You just take the bags of it. You're not actually raking, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's correct. I do that, And at this time of
the year they call me plant to Claus around here
because I drive through the neighborhood and I grab big
bags of maple leaves. I scout out the homes in summer,
the ones where I want their leaves, and yes, bring
them to my garden mulchum, compost them. Love it. So
this is gree It's free.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
It's first degree leave theft. I didn't know that you
had planned this day, Oh, yes.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh yes, first degree, I look for the nicest maple
trees in yards. Uh, and then I start to build
a relationship with those people so they'll allow me on
their lawn when we get to this time of year.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Speaking of that, there is the idea that on Sunday
we could see a little snow on top of our leaves.
Right when does snow mold happen? And when do the
we get to the point of diminishing returns with the
power that our leaves are holding.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, this is great. I mean we can use the
moisture that snow is going to provide, and also the
plant answer now being given an opportunity to slowly shut
down and prepare for winter. So it's great. I invite
that this weekend, and then next week looks like it'll
be halfway decent. It's all part of the process as

(03:16):
we enter dormancy.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Me too, Yeah, I mean that's the thing, Ricky John
as it today, I'm fully yeah, and I want the
house plants that will also support that, maybe clean my
air for a minute. But everybody's just powering down. I
think that's fair, right.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Rick Yeah, exactly. And you know we're not entering a
season of darkness. Even though we are, we've got to
have a mindset that this is all part of the process.
It's all part of four seasons, and the plants celebrate
it too, And before you know it, we'll be talking
spring flowers.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
There it is rick by Gardeningsimplified on air dot Com.
You'll hear it tomorrow at nine a m. Thank you,
as always, have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
You to take care