Yes, indeed, it's time with the Green Country Gardener program. That's Larry Glasses brother, and sitting right here in the studio is Larry Glass himself. He's our expert and you can get a hold of us of one eight hundred seven four nine five nine three six on top of the morning to you. We had a little bit of rain last night, but not as much as antip. Well, my brother's really not here. I know if he would have to fly in every week, you know, play the banjo for us.
That's doing pretty good. Kyle Lee, what a roller coaster week? Huh Yeah, it's either a hot or rainy or hot or cold or any or whatever. It's crazy, brother, Yeah, you can catch cold and this kind of stuff. Maybe it looks like it's looking your hat. You got a lot of you got a lot of mud on the boots, a lot of mud on the hat. So so yeah, it looks like you got well these boots too, and are already starting fold park. Oh my goodness, thanks, not really, I know, No, that's actually these
are held holding up pretty good. I guess about as good as your shovels. No, no, no, I'm kidding, I'm kidding you. So what kind of week have you been looking at here? Besides kind of get Nick started having to put a halt to it. Hey, this next week, if it didn't rain week, if we're gonna really dig in and get get some stuff done done. Yeah, I'm working on a two projects right now. Okay, kind of off and on. But we who we can't
work on one, we can work on another. You know that kind of thing I got you so, So anyway, it's time to apply soapie water or two. Maybe tent caterpillars. Oh, they're starting to pop a little bit more. Look and your trees, work carefully and just here little worms there before the tents get too big. You can put that on there, a little dawn dish soapen. Yeah, actually used in my house. I use that for flies. You do that too, Yeah, we've got a
straight little sprayer things. You get it at woods like a mistake. You take a quarter of twenty five percent down in water, right. Yeah. The insects are they don't have lungs, no, no, they know, so when you coat their little bodies with soapie water like that, they smother and they they don't do well, don't like it very well. So it keeps the windows very clean. So anyway, so insects are really not very good, don't do very well with soapie water. You can spray it on.
That also might some bagworms. The back rooms are starting to become a real problem with getting some people coming in with bagworm issues. Oh yeah, so that's getting to be a little bit of a problem too. So do you have a color? We sure do, bright, nor do we do. And good morning to you. Welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program with your question or comment for Larry. Good morning, Larry, you pretty good, Good morning. I had some I had some web worms on my coun
trees the other day. So I just reached up there and clipped that small lamb off and I just burned them. They're not they're not going to reproduce, I would say, not Kevin. What it was diesel used as the accelerant, got him going. You dug a dug a hole, got some crude oil and got him up, threw them on the gravel and let him on fire. Oh on the gravel. Well that's fine, Yeah, so that's what all. That's all that smoke was. Okay, Well, the
thing is they you know, I guess they reproduced pretty quick. Yes, they do actually, and actually we can have several generations during the course of a summertime if if they start out early. They're starting a little bit late this year, so we probably don't have too much of a recurrence later on in the year, but we'll have an initial occurrence coming up. So they love those pecan trees and they love walt trees. Yeah. Yeah, members
of the carry a family they really like. So yeah, in anyway, I had I've got a little pecans on all my trees, and so they've started in on those. So I just clipped them. I've got them before they got going to a good night park. Yeah, because I didn't have any. I didn't have any gone. That was the problem. Yeah, that works also, BT works works for a well on them too. Bashilasterringeness is a good control. It's uh it's a bat. The fire does pretty
good on them too. Yeah, I'm sure does they Those eggs will not reproduce well once you fry am you know. Yeah, you pick your good a little bacon out there and enjoy the egg. They got it, and they were anyway, no moss be it ever so scorched. There's no place like home. And I don't know what you did, but we were supposed to get four to five inches of rain. We man, they just missed us all again. I think it's because somebody lit a big old fire and
scared the clouds away. Now I know we missed out on that one. We need the rain come on. I was looking at the radar and it comes up, then it quits, and then it goes overhead, then it builds up again out to the east. What's the deal. I don't know. It's just not very good. I think you probably need to cut back the power on this radio station. Yeah, that's not it. I know. It's just a statistical anomaly. It is. But we'll get them again.
Then we'll have floods and we'll be worried about. That's a forecast for the upcoming week. And actually later on the week there's a pretty good chance of stuff coming on. So so we can only help. I've had him just ride out an inch of rain this week so far. Yeah, I had at our house, we had about five eighths of an inch. Well, you and I live a long way apart, Yeah, all right past, you know, Okay. Anyway, Yeah, it's getting a little for
bagworms on your jennifers and things. It's getting a little bit late, so you need to really watch for the little ones. They seem to be a little bit later this year. Also. The bagworms bagrams are those little triangular bags of stuff that hang on your leaves, jennifers and Japanese maples and everything like that. They they even get on your peek, yeah they will,
or or I've seen them on the people's trim. When they get really really bad, they when they use up all their leaves, they sort of crawl around looking for some place, looking for something else to go, and they carry this little bag with them and then then they start eating your house. So that's not right. That is not right. So we've had some people come by the nursery with problems with the back worms and uh uh, Captain Jack's Dead bug works on them. If they're really young and the h then
you use the BT on them too. But once they get the mature like that, they when they get fairly good size, they're not they're not feeding anymore. So you kind of missed the boat on that. So you need to look at them and see him. If they're real small, then you can have some effect on them. But once they get matured like that, they yes, they stop eating and then a big deal. So okay, uh time. Also if you want to fertilizer, but me to grass right
now. This is coming up just first of July kind of sort of, so your monthly application on that, and do it before it rains to water it in. I know, we can't water our grass once a week. Fell good on Thursday or Friday, depending on what day. Yeah, figures home on Thursday at rains, save me some water, I can. I try not to water my grass and it's doing actually is doing pretty well, not being irrigated at all this year. I might have to mow mine this
afternoon. I got a mow mine. I was mowing it last week and the drive belt broke on it. Where do you find a drive belt for thirty five year old one? More? Might you might have to search you know a friend? I found one? Yeah, probably, it'll probably come into mail today, so so you know a guy, right, No, not one of those deals. So looking for black market mower built. Also, as it warms up, you want to watch for spider mics on your
tomatoes. Spider mics are extraordinarily tough to control because they're not an insect. They are an arachnida, so the typical things don't work on them. If you can get a hold of some seven or discest on, well, you don't want to use discest on on tomatoes because it makes them somewhat deadly, but so yikes. So anyway, so watch watch your under the leaves,
the underleaves your tomatoes, and see if you've got the problems. I put a very heavy layer of cedar molds on the tomatoes and they're doing just fine. Don't have hardly any insect problems at all, So I think there's something about that they don't like. The dogwoods are actually beginning to differentiate to make blooms from next year, so it's getting too late to prune your dogwoods if you need to do that. Most people really don't they' and go the way
they want. But anyway, if you do need to trim your dog dog with and you want some blooms, yeah you might want to get after, you know, real quick, because as the days getting shorter, they are getting shorter, not not too noticeably yet now you won't notice until August or so. Yeah, but that's not that far away. Hard to believe. Jeeves, We'll go buy a snowshovel here it comes, you know, anyway,
come on November. So so your your your plants that bloom the spring are starting to set their buds, so make sure you got them trimmed up and ready to go on that. And uh, let's say krep myrtles are starting to bloom their length this year. For some odd reason, the krep myrtles are a little bit why don't you just starting to Yeah, we planted some at a project and there's stuff I noticed yesterday. They're starting to put on some blooms. So I did my walk around and see what we can
do and other than slip around in the mud. But well, anyway, so that they're starting to bloom some people and mine in the front of the house is kind of late. It's really late blueming. So I think we'll have a late show on our crape norble this year. Obviously, the boxwoods are look look at your boxwoods. Look at the color of your boxwoods. And if they're turning kind of brownish in color, and they're they're getting a
little bit on the dry side. So a lot of people put the boxwoods around their house on the foundation, and sometimes that area is just protected from the rain by the eve of the house and they typically don't get enough of water when that happens. So when it's your day to water the day before, you might go check out your the color of your leaves on your boxwoods,
and there should be a bright, glossy green color. And if they're starting to tinge a little bit on the olive green color or somewhat, you know, just off color, and the chances are they're really dry now. Boxwoods because of the glossiness of the leave and someone and then their extensive root system, they're rather drought tolerant. But they only have so much tolerance for that. Oh yeah, and so you want to look at them very carefully.
I was at somebody's house and so this box would throw How do you know you touched it? The leaves are warm. Typically a plant, the leaves transpire water to help keep it cool. And if on this predicular one, the leaves are really warm touch and they're starting to turn a little bit colors. They really need to water this one. So very good, very good. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. It's eight twenty one. We'll be right back after they say two minute, five second
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doing. You can be a part of the grape vine by giving us a call right here at oneting down at seven four nine, five nine three six eight twenty four And it is the Green Country Gardener Program with Larry Glass. Larry, what do we got cooking here? Also, at this time of the year, the azelius, the spring bloom azelius are starting to produce blooms
from the next spring. Okay, So if you do have some azelius, make sure they have a good layer of mulch on the surface that does help conserve water and keep the root temperature fairly constant so you have a better show on them. Also, also look for scale insect on the azelius and on your crape myrtles. I was at a property earlier this week and we were walking around looking at the sprinkler system and watching it malfunction of course, and
I looked at the crape merlis. It's cre merles covered at scale insect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The characteristic h outword appearance of a scale infestation is a blackening of the stem, which is a is a city mold that the growth from the sugar exuded by the scale insect. The scale insect takes the sap and convert it to a sugar and attracts ants and they spread, they spread the word you know. Well, yeah, so that's kind of
an interesting symbiotic relationship between two insect species like that. And the scale is difficult to control externally. You almost have to use an oil spray on it, and that can have a negative impact on your plant at this time of the year. So we use systemic and the one is a systemic nicotinoid known as a medicloprid. It works pretty well to control the scale insect. Now typically we mentioned that earlier in the year, to control the on the onslaught
if you will the scale insect to put the midicloprid down. If it's a systemic nicotinoid, the plant absorbs it and nicotenoid works in the brain of the little insect and stops the synaptic function and they die. Reacts to the point where they just don't want them right, And this particular substance has a very longevity to it also, so stays resident in the plant for a fairly long period of time. So it's it's a it's a less expensive way to do
it in an at least effort way to control scale insect. Yeah, so look at your CRT myrtles real carefully and see if you see all all these little spots on the leaves, they're they're some of them are kind of white at this point and it's the immature stage. But anyway, um, if you see some scale that look kind of like this blister on my fingers, Oh yeah, and that's definitely interesting blister you might have that looked at.
It's been an interesting way. It looks kind of like a blister on the on the stem of the plant, and that would that's an indication of scale insect. Then you then you rub your nail or a pencil or knife over it and they'll they sort of pop off. So that's the scale insect. So there are the topical applications would be like a dormant oil and it works by treating off the oxygen supply to the insect by sealing up their skin.
So that's one way to control it. But you don't want to really use that when it's really hot because it can have some detrimental effects on the plant. So this last a few days, it's been relatively cool, and I think the weather forecast causing it. It's called calling for it to be a little cooler. Yeah, oh, maybe you can use a little dormant oil on it. There's a several formulations of dormant oil use. One that specified is what they call the summer oil, and that would work as a application
for those you can probably get away with and spins ad that. Uh, it's difficult on those the scale insects, they had that protective tortoise shell like covering on them, and some of the things don't work on them. So go with what's going to work best. Yeah, so's it's a tough one to control. Yeah, okay. Also I mentioned it's the final fertilization for Azelius. There's getting ready to set their blooms for the spring. Those are the spring blooming azilius, so they had to be kind of fat and happy
right now. So you want to make sure they have a good layer of molds on the ground to conserve moisture. And if the final fertilization you do typically three fertilizations, one right after the bloom that in a month. In a month like that, so you should they should have been done already. Look at your azelia plans, you can tell if that there's some problems with
them. They are also susceptible to scale insects and has a similar characteristic is that which happens to the crater myrdle, the darkening of the stem et cetera, et cetera, and all that and these little scale things everywhere. Yeah, so a similar methodology would apply for the a elius. But also look at the size of the leaves on your azelius. If your soil pH is on the rise, and that happens a lot more people plant azelius because there's
soil here, it's not very well suited for Azilius. So a diminished leaf size and a diminished a node length on the on the stem, it's characteristic of soil pH being I'm correct, So use an azilius type fertilizer that has typically some aluminium sulfate in it or some iron sulfate would help keep that soil pH down to where the azlius need that proper pH. We have a color, we sure do. Hi, good morning, Welcome. You're on the
air with the Green Country Gardener Year you question a comment, please? Yeah, Well, I'm you're talking about azalius and mine. You're not blearning yet. I did buy some of the azelious fad just last week, but I haven't got it put on there yet. It's too late to put it on here. Not at all? No very good. And how long should I wait before another application or a second about thirty days? You already don't want to do any shock and all on the azelius say they don't like that.
Yeah, So when you push your fertilizer down, distribute it evenly in the area, don't clump it next to the stem, but distribute it away from the plant like that. And you want to water it prior to to do any application of fertilizer, and then water it afterwards as well. So candid right, that's well. It diffuses yet so cany in. Yeah, and also on your azelious, a good layer of multitude does help keep the well
good deal, okay, all right? Do you think if it's not living now, is it not going to at the blood last year, do you have the summer blooming azelius? I don't know. Yeah, typically, Yeah, it was kind of later than I expected, you know, but it did glue. Okay, good year. That's good. So you probably have a spring blooming variety of azelia, a creamy or two sum Azelia, perhaps
one of those two genres of azelius. Perhaps they bloom in the spring, so at this time of the year, they're they're setting their buds, so you want them to be pretty much as healthy as possible. They're setting their buds for next year. Okay, so fertilizing water isn't really good. Users fertilizer sparedly. Follow the directions very carefully because azelias are very shallow rooted, they have a very fibrous root system, and they're highly susceptible to burning on
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Welcome back to the green hundred gardner program. Alright, A thirty four in our contact line here to reach Flurry with your question or comment is one eight hundred seven four nine five nine three six one eight hundred seven four nine five nine three six Also on your lungs. Actually, it's getting a little bit late to do a post emergent control and crag wreaths. I know if it's there, it's there my yard. I know it's that in my yard.
Oh the craig wreaths is blooming. Oh well, oh well, the spray won't work, so kind you get out the clock, Homer mines. Other than right near the sidewalk, and we take care of it real quick in our house, right near the curb of the sidewalk. That's the only place it's been. And we got there Japan, and that, of course, said a few weeks ago. Yeah, the Japan is gone. I get a two hundred cable. You're gone. Or we can just burn it,
just burn it. No, I don't think that'll work. No. Back when I live, when I was a kid living in North Carolina, Kerry, North Carolina, I don't know if anybody has been there or seen it's nice. It wasn't a nice little town back back in the late fifties, early sixties and every way. But it would burn their bermuda grass in the spring. He houses catch fire. I don't know. He's standing over the hose, I guess. But gas and diesel and burner. No,
no, I didn't do that. I remember the neighbors burning the grass. My dad said, what Because we were never from the north. He was Nebraska in Kansas, city that we didn't have it. What is going on? I want we know we are rare. We burn our grass, so come back pretty and green. We never we never burned our Romuna grass and carry North Carolina. We just didn't want to fit in, you know. And then we moved to Chicago area. But that was a little bit of
a culture shock. Yeah, there's no permuta grass. We had these kids, all of our friends, we'd run around in a front yard on that fescue grass. We had the best looking grass in the neighborhood. Oh yeah, I don't know why, but carefully broken in, broken in yeah, straight straight hockey and football we kept. We kept that long, used very well, very well. So we up there, we detatched the fescue grass. Oh you have to. Yeah, yeah, we had this break this
especially shaped rake. You drag it across the yard and took it all out. Oh dad, we have to do that. Yes, yes, okay, anyway, that's anyway back to what you bring out with that rake. Really back to the Bartlesville grass. We do need to keep our bermun grass kind of mildly fertile ice throughout the summer. I did mind about two weeks ago, and we had about sixty fourth of an inch of rain. After I remembers last year, I think mode once in August and once in late
September. This last rain we had really brought it out doing nicely, just in time for the belt to break on the drive. So anyway, also in in in your beds, you can use a grass killer or it's kind of slow. There is a specialized grass killer fuse laid that works are pretty well too selectively remove grass, but it works real slowly. And I got a little bit of grass for me to grasp in my monkey grass and it'll take care of it. But you know to kind of repeat applications for it
to work. But it works real slowly, but it's effective. Also right now the hydranges they need a bit of water right now, so you want to make sure they're heavily mulished so they'll go ahead and have enough water stored up on the ground. Typically when we plant hydranges, you dig a whole bigger lens you can reach and prepare the soil with some peep moths and some composts. Those two items are actually do a very good job of retaining water
pretty well. A good deep application as well and then multi real heavily and they'll do fine. But it's not a death knell. If if they will during the heat of the day in the morning, they'll be popping back, popping back up and doing just fine. So hydrange just a little bit of wilth on them. This isn't that big a deal, but it's showing a sign that they we need a little bit of water. So you might in addition to water and maybe put some more molt on them, because I know
molts sort of goes away over time. Let's see some bird nests built out of bolts in my house and the squirrels like it too, and it blaws away and it decomposes, so it has to be replenished on occasion. So hydrange the need loss of water, so mult of them heavily. They do very well. And they have a specific needs too as far as the sunshine everything else that's concerned. There is a kind of an offshoot of the hydrone
it called verdi called bobo, which I really like. They're in bloom right now, and there are some examples here in town that we're really just putting on a really big show. They seem to tolerate the dryness a little better than the the big deleap ones too, so so that's an option get get a boo boo boo boo iran. Anyway, getting to the nursery, we have a sale items going on, so we have a mende villas which I give you some color all all basically all summer long sal a trellis or the
good color all. They're thirty percent off and cladium bulbs. It's not too late to put placuladium bulbs and they're by one get one free herbs or thirty percent elephant air bulbs too. They're they're rare to go. They need to be in the ground, so they're by one get one some half price. Basically Hardy Have biscuits have a great selection of Hardy Have biscuits. That's kind
of an interesting flower huge bloom sir. I don't know what eight feet across are, yeah, a little bit about eight eight inches across or so about a span that's maybe not that much, but anyway, they the size of the flower can vary depending on the available resources. So the Hardy Have biscuits come back every year. They're hardy as they applies and they get they form actually a larger clump over time. And there are some in town that just
a high blunt customer. They've got two clumps of it. They're just monstrous and they're just covered in blooms for a long period of time. And I dug up some divisions from there. They wanted to divide it, so take Homa division or two. And they're starting to bloom now. So kind of cool plants really. Morning glowyers are half price, ceramic pots twenty five percent off, and passion behinds have price too, so they have some stuff at it that's a nour sap for sale. The color is good, selection is
good. The rules of sharons are starting to bloom. Hardy have biscus and bloom right now. As I mentioned earlier, encourgeli as they're popping a few flowers here and there when the weather changes, when it goes from one hundred and ten down to ninety degrees, a little flower, that's for sure. The endless summer hydranges, they're doing their endless show. But they're kind of
resource hungry, so make sure they're planting in the right place. And the leaves are showing a little stress, but still they'll they'll give you some color. So anyway, we got quite a bit of stuff going on at the nursery too. In addition to some hard goods bolt molts, we've delivered some dirt. Somebody has we deliver more dirt. Well, well, look at the soil. We've got a ram i. Still you got the good stuff. Somebody's got to yea and compost too. Yeah, it's a lot of
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could save your life. A message from the CDC. Alrighty, it's forty five seventy three degrees and sunshine for the time being, and it's the Green Country Gardener Program with Larry Glass. I'm Tom Davis. Learry know something. I just stand the phone and one hundred and seven four nine five nine three say, Hey, what perennials do we need to look for? What perennials do we need? Cone flowers? Of course, the summertime cone flowers.
The hosses are in bloom the deli. Yeah, those hammer tallis. They're a little bit late. But the stella doors are still putting on a little sprinkle of things here in there to see them, which celerate the heat very well. It will thrive in on the irrigated gardens and starting to exhibit some color too, So the perennials are getting kind of active right now. It's the summer ones are and the cone flowers are probably the most possably filled.
A lot of cone flowers this year or this week rather, and they're available in all kinds of colors too. He used to have a a line of cold flowers called catch up and mustard. Yeah, they were red and yellow. It's kind of fun. Anyway, So the a lot of your summer pernials are starting to show some bloom. Some blooms, including the party have biscuits. So in the garden also, as far as irrigate against irrigation is concerned, it might be a little bit of a concern for some people.
Is a drip irrigation if you've got a guard your garden and spation, I consider a drip system. I've utilized that in my house and it's it's very efficient and uh it's it might be a little bit more maintenance than most people who want to do sure, but it's effective and you just have to kind of do a test tronnel now and then to make sure it's held together pretty well. But anyway, so it's a very efficient way to use water because
the water is applied specifically to administer to the planets. It's good for tomatoes, roses and things that don't don't like to be splashed on with this water. So all kinds of timers and emitters to create the best system for your needs. Great for hanging baskets too. I put a little half inch lined quarterns line up in the gutter, not working pretty good, and your tea and off and it goes to the pot and it the pots are watered automatically.
Yeah that's cool. So anyway, so drip irrigation is an efficient way and if you have a tendency, so you get to water your plants, and i'd be a good kind of solve that issue. And they had these battery powered ho was in little timer things. You can program it to go at a certain time. Can you do that over your phone? Actually, they do have something you can do it okay, because I know you can water your yard over the phone on days that you're allowed to. Oh yeah,
I got this couple of apps on my phone. I've got some customers circuit or system on my phone which I can change if they want to change things. Larry, please, you need to be okay, sure to make sure you're doing the line not the pool. Oh yeah. So anyway, so we can be very efficient with the water. You don't have to slop it around like you know, like crazy. You can be very specific with the applications. And I've generated kind of a high pressure thing and it shoots
the water kind of horizontal into the plants under high pressure. It's kind of cool. And you arrogate early in the morning or at night, and it just said, there's this fog, and really it applies water very quickly and you don't get any runoff because it's spread out. It waters. It has a low rate of precipitation, in other words, at a rate that the soil can absorbit. That's one one factor you got to consider when doing an
irrigation system is and sizing your novels on this system we're doing here. We have some areas that just don't drain too well, so we use a different nozzle that applies water slowly so the water can soak into the ground and be utilized rather than run away, rather than run down the street. And there's some areas where, especially on the lawn areas too, it's relatively flat.
And also there's areas that are really hilly and use the same type of sprinter nozzle rather the small one over there that'll administer the water at a rate that the ground can absorb it rather than run off and run down the street, you know, runoff. So efficiency efficient, and you have to apply the water at a rate at number one, the silic absorb and also consider the dryout factor. How long does it take that area to dry out? It
can change the way you do your system. And there's all kinds of sprinkler nozles out there that water real slowly and some of the water pretty fast and so on. So the more sun you have and area, you might want to use one that maybe shoots water a little faster and then on the shady parts over there, use a different circuit and water that slowly. So that's something we've utilized in a current project we're working on and it works rather well.
You don't have all this water running down the street after the thing runs not a good look. Not a good look. So irrigation systems can be be designed to be very efficient. Yeah, and when you have a system that's on the slope. This is one that we'll be doing probably this coming week, is you use a different nozzle diameter for an area, so it's
administures water slowly rather than quickly let's runoff. Let's waste all right, So efficiency is something we learned about in the school, the rate of precipitation versus slope, versus soil type versus land use and all that. A little bit of mathematics that we used. That after you've done it for forty years, yeah, it's nothing kind of second nature. But if you're a day one rookie, it's like what I was in college before the invention of the PC.
Oh yeah, boy, I had scientific calculators, both of them going made Texas. I think I knew how to do a calculator was type hello and hold it upside down four three seven seven zero down. When when you see demanding formula and trying to do precipitation or rate calculations, he had to Yeah, so I had to do that in college, was doing the urology. Yeah, do that. That was fun. When you said that, you know the Manning I'm going up. Boy, oh you know about the
Manning formula. I remember, Vaguley. I just remember it was interesting. That's how you calculate swails and stuff like that. So pretty cool. Anyway, that leads us to the tree of the week. What is the tree of the week? Is it anything to park about? Arborvariety? Is specifically the emerald arborvieti. It's a small tree or a tall evergreen shrub. I like this one because it's pretty well behaved and well, it's all suited for
the loose border style privacy screen. In other words, you want some privacy, but you don't want to take up a lot of space with it. You'd usually say the emerald larboravite is as an example, how why would you plant those apart about this far about three ft apart. Yeah, and anyway, they have a spread of four to six feet, so make an excellent screen and grow at a rate about four feet per years. It's pretty fast
growing. It can be pruned early in the season most often that you don't need to prune this one because it's fairly tightly growing, you know, in shape. By in Asia, they grow in a in a kind of upright paramatt parameteral if you will shape if the winter is especially cold, so we have a problem. The foliage, uh will turn kind of a yellow brown color. That's a characteristic of armor vody and box wood. To see what
it's really called. They turned this kind of brownish color. It's the chlorophyll and it kind of dissipates a little bit, changes in color and also known as the white seas of the arbor. Immer green. Arboravity grows as well. In ordinary soil is very well and we'll grow. In alkaline soil, it'll grow and contraction the concrete if you let it, and it's typically it's
hardy and zones three through seven. The emerald ar providing prefers full sun to do well, and they perform very well in areas with high atmospheric moisture and humid which we do have here. The only problem is typically in the wintertime and this last year the arborvite did absolutely horrible. Yeah, and it was cold associated with some dryness and they can't tolerate that. That's two strikes against it exactly. So if it's kind of the same thing with boxwoods too.
Boxwood plants they do some of the reaction because typically they're very very cold party and these are you know, zone three, they're very cold party, but they cannot tolerate the dry the dry in association with the drought. So this is a plant that if you want to screen and winter is coming on,
you do need to apply some water to it. If it gets really dry m because this last winter was really hard on him, and two winters before that was really really hard to do when we had that zinger to come through and I got it. And I know some people have just lost just the whole hedgerows of the stuff just from being too cold in the winter. And there's some of the are provided like the one next sort is fine, did fine, probably probably because he has a leak in his waterline, so it's
doing well. So it's very important to monitor these plants as well as even your boxwoods. Boxwood suffered real bad from the from the drought and associated with the coldest winter, and typically they're they're very very cold hearted, but we had a problem here and and it was because of the dryness. We'll be right back with being the Green Country Gardener program after this two minute and ten
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be delivered. We got a big old little one ton, a big old little one ton with a tilt small but mighty is with a tilt lid on it. So we could bring out some dirt and uh, like I said, we I don't know how many tons of dirt we deliver every we it's a small load. You can get exactly how much you want srather than having a this big pile in the of your driveway for like months. Yeah, just getting exactly the volume you need to. So we have a comboda tractor
that dumping into there. And then so you need to calculate your surface area times, the times, the depth to determine how many cubic feet you need to do the maths, a little bit of map there, we'll tell you how to do. How much do you get? So anyway, come by the nursery and check us out. We've got plenty of annual silk. Color is just just wild at the nursery. We've got all kinds of color over
there. Great selection of tropicals too. Yeah, and greenhouse is always fun to go in with the waterfall on all that, so come check it out. Going on. Butterfly plants are just flapping around, just doing just fine. Of course, you got that nice fountain way the greenhouse. We've had the wedding pictures there, graduation pictures of the greenhouse and all that's kind of fun. So it's I've worked on the pump, but this week too. Anyway, tom Ye Belliot said, good time here to get the gardening done
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