Latest / Garden America Saturday / Prep For Rain [10.24.2026]
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to Garden America, the country's most listened to gardening
- 0:04Speaker 1: show where we talk about gardening, horticulture, landscaping, and more.
- 0:08Speaker 1: In fact, we'll discuss anything that has to do with
- 0:10Speaker 1: growing plants and keeping your yard in tip-top shape. Now,
- 0:14Speaker 1: here are your hosts, Brian Mayne, John Bagnasco, and Tiger
- 0:17Speaker 1: Palafox on the Garden America Radio and Media Network.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Well, well, well, here we are. We are live. No,
- 0:25Speaker 2: this is not recorded. We are live back at the
- 0:27Speaker 2: pool house here, Tiger's Pool House in San Diego, California.
- 0:31Speaker 2: It's been a couple of weeks. I'm Brian Mayne, John Bagnasco,
- 0:33Speaker 2: Tiger Palafox, ready to go. Hope you got the newsletter.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Hope you've had a good couple of weeks off and
- 0:38Speaker 2: are ready to delve back into What's been happening weather-wise?
- 0:42Speaker 2: A lot to talk about, especially here in Southern California,
- 0:44Speaker 2: where you are. We want to hear what's going on. Tiger,
- 0:47Speaker 2: the levels are good. John is figuring things out on
- 0:49Speaker 2: his phone. You're back from Europe. John's back from Hawaii.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Where do we go from here?
- 0:52Speaker 3: Let's start with me, since John is still fiddling around,
- 0:56Speaker 3: finding out where he's at.
- 0:57Speaker 4: He's still on in Hawaii time.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I love how you said, figuring out where he's at.
- 1:02Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, a great trip. Janine and I
- 1:04Speaker 3: went to, we started off in Munich, and we went
- 1:07Speaker 3: to Oktoberfest.
- 1:08Speaker 4: That's a special thing.
- 1:10Speaker 3: If you, if you get a chance to go to
- 1:11Speaker 3: Oktoberfest to see what it's about, I highly recommend it.
- 1:14Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.
- 1:15Speaker 4: And, and it's not just a matter of like.
- 1:16Speaker 3: The beer and all of that. Like there's a whole
- 1:19Speaker 3: other range.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Of the German women.
- 1:22Speaker 3: That too. But, um, you know, it's, I didn't realize this,
- 1:26Speaker 3: but it's imagine like a, a massive County fair where
- 1:30Speaker 3: there's rides and games and food.
- 1:33Speaker 4: And it's, it's for not just for adults, it's kids.
- 1:36Speaker 3: And it's, a crazy stat I heard was that it's
- 1:41Speaker 3: like attended to very heavily by the locals. It's not,
- 1:45Speaker 3: I thought it was like going to be like a
- 1:46Speaker 3: big tourist thing.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Tourism. There was actually a very small percentage of it.
- 1:50Speaker 3: It's a lot of very local people. And you know,
- 1:53Speaker 3: a lot of like organizations will go on a certain day.
- 1:57Speaker 3: A lot of businesses will attend it with their companies.
- 2:00Speaker 2: How many days is it? Is it several days?
- 2:02Speaker 4: It's two weeks.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Oh, two weeks. Wow. Yeah.
- 2:05Speaker 3: So, um, it's, it's a really cool thing. And we
- 2:08Speaker 3: stayed right down there in the heart of Munich, right
- 2:09Speaker 3: next to it. And that was really fun. And we,
- 2:12Speaker 3: we got to tour around Munich a little bit and
- 2:14Speaker 3: John had said, you know, Hey, was it very clean?
- 2:16Speaker 4: And yes, the city is very clean. They, so one
- 2:19Speaker 4: of the crazy things, right.
- 2:22Speaker 3: I mean, 7.4 million people attended it over the two weeks.
- 2:26Speaker 4: So we were there on, um, on, uh, we were
- 2:29Speaker 4: there for the last day, which was a Sunday. We
- 2:31Speaker 4: were there Friday. Um, Also, so on Saturday, we're seeing
- 2:36Speaker 4: it's just trash, trash, trash. People coming out, flood.
- 2:39Speaker 2: It's like going to the last day of the Del
- 2:40Speaker 2: Mar Fair.
- 2:41Speaker 3: Okay, but way more intense, right?
- 2:43Speaker 2: Right, right.
- 2:44Speaker 3: And there's bottles and trash everywhere around as people are leaving.
- 2:49Speaker 3: A really weird thing, there's not a lot of trash
- 2:51Speaker 3: cans through a lot of the cities I went to,
- 2:52Speaker 3: which I thought was funny. So yeah, they do just
- 2:55Speaker 3: leave a lot of trash around. So I talked to Janine,
- 2:57Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, in the morning when we wake up,
- 3:00Speaker 3: is this going to be the same or is it
- 3:01Speaker 3: going to be all gone? And she's like, oh no,
- 3:04Speaker 3: there's way too much trash here. It's all going to
- 3:05Speaker 3: be the same. They're going to clean up this over
- 3:08Speaker 3: the next few days.
- 3:09Speaker 2: As they go.
- 3:10Speaker 5: No.
- 3:11Speaker 3: I woke up at nine o'clock the next morning, went
- 3:14Speaker 3: down to get a coffee. I looked out in the street.
- 3:17Speaker 3: perfectly clean not one bit of trash wow one bottle.
- 3:22Speaker 2: And you and you didn't think no noise you had
- 3:24Speaker 2: no idea that this you think that there'd be some
- 3:26Speaker 2: noise overnight well.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Like yeah cleaning up the trash i see in the
- 3:29Speaker 3: morning i see these big like trucks with the trash
- 3:33Speaker 3: and i see these little like go-kart truck vacuum trucks
- 3:36Speaker 3: driving through the city cleaning things up and these people
- 3:38Speaker 3: sweeping and blowing and but no i mean all through
- 3:41Speaker 3: the night they must have been working and just cleaned
- 3:42Speaker 3: it all up it was pretty impressive it was very
- 3:45Speaker 3: impressive So that was really cool.
- 3:47Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 3:47Speaker 3: And then we made our ways down to the Netherlands
- 3:49Speaker 3: and Amsterdam and, you know, the surrounding areas and really cool,
- 3:53Speaker 3: lots of fun history. And, um, you know, we were
- 3:56Speaker 3: there at the wrong time of year. So not a
- 3:58Speaker 3: lot of garden stuff, you know, when we go into
- 4:00Speaker 3: the garden, it was like, eh, you know, kind of
- 4:03Speaker 3: a thing.
- 4:04Speaker 6: No tulips blooming.
- 4:05Speaker 3: I did get, I did get one picture though, because
- 4:08Speaker 3: are two pictures of things that I thought was funny.
- 4:10Speaker 3: So number one is when we went to the, to the, uh,
- 4:13Speaker 3: garden market, A real popular plant that they.
- 4:16Speaker 4: Put out in front for everybody to get are those
- 4:18Speaker 4: resurrection plants.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. You know those ones that you put in
- 4:20Speaker 3: water and they come back to life?
- 4:22Speaker 6: It's a selaginella, right?
- 4:23Speaker 1: Yep.
- 4:24Speaker 3: And then the other thing was there was a bunch
- 4:29Speaker 3: of bulbs and things of plants that were not real.
- 4:34Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
- 4:35Speaker 3: They're just like tourist trap. You buy this and you're
- 4:38Speaker 3: going to get it home and that's not going to
- 4:40Speaker 3: be whatever it was.
- 4:41Speaker 6: Do you know Bruce and Sharon got scammed by that?
- 4:45Speaker 2: Did they really?
- 4:46Speaker 6: Yeah, because they had a blue amaryllis.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Yeah, they have stuff like that.
- 4:50Speaker 4: They do.
- 4:51Speaker 6: And they knew about, there is a blue amaryllis, right?
- 4:54Speaker 6: A Worsley, which is a lavender color, but it's not
- 4:58Speaker 6: a hippie astrum, a regular amaryllis. But they saw this sign,
- 5:03Speaker 6: blue amaryllis, and Worsley are almost impossible to find. They're
- 5:09Speaker 6: really rare and really expensive. So they bought two bulbs,
- 5:13Speaker 6: came home and They were red amaryllis.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Hey, go ahead.
- 5:18Speaker 6: I was just going to mention that Carla said that
- 5:22Speaker 6: she's glad that we're all back, but she was a
- 5:24Speaker 6: little sleepy this morning and she just took a look
- 5:27Speaker 6: at the newsletter. She said, I thought we were going
- 5:29Speaker 6: to have a guest called Guten Morgan.
- 5:32Speaker 4: I like how you did that intro from all the places.
- 5:35Speaker 3: We were at.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Yeah. So you're in Hawaii for a wedding and obviously
- 5:40Speaker 2: the weather was Hawaii weather.
- 5:42Speaker 6: Well, no, but it was perfect.
- 5:44Speaker 3: They've had some storms, so he's locked out.
- 5:46Speaker 2: I was going to say, there's been some hurricanes and storms.
- 5:48Speaker 6: We were there a week after the hurricane.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Okay. And then we had a tropical... Well, there's a hurricane,
- 5:54Speaker 2: a tropical depression, and a tropical storm. We had the
- 5:57Speaker 2: tropical storm, the remnants of Hurricane Rachel.
- 5:59Speaker 6: Only the second time in history San Diego had a
- 6:02Speaker 6: tropical storm warning.
- 6:04Speaker 2: And we're going to have some more, too. But anyway,
- 6:07Speaker 2: then it got hot, then it got cold. The tropical
- 6:09Speaker 2: storm rained.
- 6:10Speaker 3: So there's this funny post I saw, and it was
- 6:14Speaker 3: just supposed to be... And by no means do I
- 6:16Speaker 3: mean to poke fun at other places because they have
- 6:18Speaker 3: serious weather, but it was like, san diego strong we
- 6:22Speaker 3: will rebuild and it was it was a picture of
- 6:25Speaker 3: like a puddle and then and then there was another
- 6:27Speaker 3: picture of like some palm fronds that had fallen.
- 6:30Speaker 2: To the ground that is so perfect.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Because it's like because like that's the thing when we're
- 6:34Speaker 3: here with the news they're saying like oh be prepared
- 6:37Speaker 3: like batten down the hatches like get ready and then
- 6:39Speaker 3: it comes.
- 6:40Speaker 6: Along yeah hey i wanted to ask you guys and
- 6:42Speaker 6: i was gonna ask you before the show but i
- 6:44Speaker 6: forgot And it has.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Nothing to do with the show. It's not like you.
- 6:48Speaker 6: But I heard something on the radio. And is this true?
- 6:51Speaker 6: Because we were talking about Teslas.
- 6:54Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 6:54Speaker 6: And that's what I was going to ask you. But
- 6:56Speaker 6: I heard something on the news that said, warned people
- 7:00Speaker 6: in San Diego with the coming El Nuno and the flooding,
- 7:04Speaker 6: that not to drive through with an electric car because
- 7:08Speaker 6: it could blow up through puddles, deep water. Is that true?
- 7:12Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think they're.
- 7:14Speaker 6: And what does blow up mean? I don't think it's
- 7:16Speaker 6: going to stall us.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Okay, if that were the case, then all the testing
- 7:21Speaker 2: they did before this technology came out and they were
- 7:23Speaker 2: ready to sell cars, somebody blew it someplace.
- 7:26Speaker 6: Well, they tested in California.
- 7:28Speaker 2: But I mean, the first thing you think of is battery, water.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Let's run it through some tests. Let's see what happens here.
- 7:34Speaker 2: I can't believe that would be the case.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Well, but I mean, and also I think that what
- 7:39Speaker 3: they're saying is the obvious thing of like, If you
- 7:42Speaker 3: don't know how deep it is, too, you should never
- 7:43Speaker 3: drive through it.
- 7:44Speaker 2: With any car.
- 7:45Speaker 4: With any car, let alone an electric car.
- 7:48Speaker 3: Well, I will say, and I'm, okay, so regarding the testing,
- 7:52Speaker 3: you remember the Cybertruck?
- 7:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:54Speaker 3: You know the Cybertruck?
- 7:55Speaker 6: Right. So you talk about.
- 7:56Speaker 3: All the testing, right? So right away, the first months
- 8:00Speaker 3: it was released, there were some people that lived in
- 8:02Speaker 3: a snowy region. Do you know that the lights are
- 8:05Speaker 3: like a light bar?
- 8:05Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a bar.
- 8:06Speaker 3: It's just a bar.
- 8:07Speaker 2: Right.
- 8:07Speaker 3: But they put a ledge on it, right, in front
- 8:09Speaker 3: of it. So what was happening was the snow was
- 8:11Speaker 3: falling and built up on that ledge, so it blocked
- 8:14Speaker 3: out the light bar. So the light bar did not
- 8:17Speaker 3: work as well as it should have. So you're saying,
- 8:20Speaker 3: but where is it in Europe where they have the
- 8:23Speaker 3: windshield wipers on the things? They needed those on the
- 8:26Speaker 3: little light bar thing to clean the snow off.
- 8:28Speaker 2: And that ledge, why?
- 8:30Speaker 4: Right, but you don't.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Think about that when sometimes you develop a car.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Do you know what I.
- 8:34Speaker 6: Especially if you develop it in an area where it
- 8:37Speaker 6: doesn't snow, right?
- 8:38Speaker 2: I know, but You know what I call that? Because
- 8:40Speaker 2: these are all very smart people, right? Intellectually advanced. I say,
- 8:44Speaker 2: you have a divot in your intellect.
- 8:46Speaker 3: There you go. A divot.
- 8:48Speaker 2: You like that, John? A divot in your intellect.
- 8:50Speaker 3: It does go along with our theme of gardening, too.
- 8:56Speaker 3: Because we talk about that all the time, where people
- 8:57Speaker 3: plant things. And you're like, it's a palm tree under
- 9:00Speaker 3: the eave of a house or something like that. And
- 9:03Speaker 3: you realize that that's going straight up.
- 9:05Speaker 6: Oh, you know. I'm trying to think if this is
- 9:08Speaker 6: before your time or not, Tiger, but used to have
- 9:13Speaker 6: the plantings right around the house. And in, what would
- 9:19Speaker 6: have been the, maybe the 60s, Brian? Everybody planted Hollywood juniper.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 9:25Speaker 6: Right underneath it.
- 9:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:27Speaker 3: It just comes straight through the roof.
- 9:28Speaker 6: Yeah, those things get to be huge in Italian Cyprus.
- 9:32Speaker 6: Now they've got the dwarf ones.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Yeah, but still.
- 9:34Speaker 6: Which are great, but.
- 9:37Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:38Speaker 6: Foundation planning. Everybody had a foundation planning to cover up
- 9:41Speaker 6: the foundation of your house.
- 9:43Speaker 3: Now they don't show. Isn't that funny? And now people say,
- 9:45Speaker 3: don't plan near your foundation.
- 9:47Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. It's actually a law now, right?
- 9:49Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. So it's funny.
- 9:52Speaker 2: We got about a minute to go. All right.
- 9:53Speaker 6: When we come back, first of all, I want to
- 9:56Speaker 6: thank everybody.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Let's greet everybody who's here.
- 9:58Speaker 6: Daisy and Kevin.
- 10:00Speaker 2: I see Kevin, Carla, Lenore.
- 10:02Speaker 6: Yeah. Rochelle.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:05Speaker 6: Everybody that's happy to see us here.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Bill, Bob, Mary, Jennifer. Wow.
- 10:08Speaker 6: We're happy to be back too. But when we come back, Brian,
- 10:13Speaker 6: you were talking about the change in weather. We've had rain. Uh,
- 10:16Speaker 6: we've had cool weather. We had, uh, heat hot furnace
- 10:21Speaker 6: type weather furnace is right that's a great description of
- 10:24Speaker 6: it yeah it has been and and what i want
- 10:26Speaker 6: to know and we're discussing when we come back is
- 10:29Speaker 6: plants have suffered and how boy what do we do
- 10:31Speaker 6: about getting them to recover.
- 10:32Speaker 2: All right we're going to take a break welcome to
- 10:34Speaker 2: those on biz talk radio thank you this break is
- 10:36Speaker 2: for you as always those on facebook live thank you
- 10:38Speaker 2: for joining us we're going to talk about the weather
- 10:40Speaker 2: the plants and what's happening stay with us we're back
- 10:42Speaker 2: tiger brian and uh john right you're still going to
- 10:45Speaker 2: go by john for the rest of the year It's
- 10:49Speaker 2: easy to say.
- 10:50Speaker 6: It's only one syllable instead of Giovanni, which is.
- 10:53Speaker 2: I like that. Back after these messages on BizTalk Radio.
- 11:06Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian, John,
- 11:10Speaker 5: and Tiger.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. It's Garden America after a
- 11:14Speaker 2: couple of weeks off. We are back with you. Hope
- 11:16Speaker 2: you had a good couple of weeks without us. See,
- 11:19Speaker 2: they say, well, you won't be able to survive without
- 11:21Speaker 2: Garden America. And yet I see so many survivors, John,
- 11:24Speaker 2: on Facebook right now. And BizTalk Radio, they did survive.
- 11:27Speaker 6: Barely, though.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Well, but they're there. They're holding on. You know, they're
- 11:30Speaker 2: holding on. So you want to talk about plants, the weather.
- 11:32Speaker 2: I'm surprised that I didn't lose more plants than I did.
- 11:36Speaker 2: You were there.
- 11:37Speaker 4: You were there to maintain and take care of them.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Yeah, but still, it's like, Every day. Yeah. Mine are
- 11:44Speaker 2: not on the ground.
- 11:45Speaker 6: Well, that's what I wanted to ask you because I
- 11:47Speaker 6: have plants both in the ground and in pots and
- 11:50Speaker 6: plants in the ground I had damage on.
- 11:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:53Speaker 6: And some in pots, like, were thrown out of the pots.
- 11:57Speaker 6: The pots are gone. I had to look all around
- 12:00Speaker 6: the house and try to find them because, yeah, that
- 12:02Speaker 6: wind was unbelievable.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:03Speaker 2: And that wind really dries things out, obviously.
- 12:06Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 12:07Speaker 2: It just sucks up everything that has anything to do
- 12:09Speaker 2: with moisture.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:10Speaker 2: I'm okay, but it's– remember, you and I talk about
- 12:13Speaker 2: we get into this time of the year where it
- 12:15Speaker 2: starts to get cooler, and we've discussed the fact that
- 12:18Speaker 2: you don't have to water for a couple, two or
- 12:20Speaker 2: three days or even a week. But this heat just
- 12:23Speaker 2: changed everything.
- 12:24Speaker 6: Well, I think I probably have lost close to 200 roses. Yeah.
- 12:29Speaker 2: And I don't think they're going to come back. You
- 12:30Speaker 2: could have given those to Tiger and myself, couldn't you?
- 12:35Speaker 6: You were as hot as I was.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Thank you. No, I'm kidding.
- 12:40Speaker 6: It's a key word.
- 12:42Speaker 3: So question for you regarding what you brought up, bringing
- 12:45Speaker 3: these plants back, or not necessarily bringing them back, but
- 12:47Speaker 3: so one of the things that.
- 12:48Speaker 4: I've noticed, so.
- 12:51Speaker 3: Over the past week of me driving around town, something
- 12:54Speaker 3: that I've noticed through town is there's some popular plants
- 12:59Speaker 3: just living natively in our areas. One is an acacia, eucalyptus,
- 13:06Speaker 3: and some of the other like You know, coffee berry,
- 13:10Speaker 3: you know, things like that, that are on our hillsides.
- 13:13Speaker 3: And a phenomenon that I've seen recently is you'll see
- 13:18Speaker 3: one of those style plants just dead, like absolutely burnt
- 13:23Speaker 3: to a crisp dead or a portion of that plant dead,
- 13:28Speaker 3: which I've never really seen before because I think we've
- 13:31Speaker 3: had this really sustained heat for so long. And these
- 13:35Speaker 3: are plants that are not getting water. These are plants
- 13:36Speaker 3: that are just living native on our slopes. So it's
- 13:40Speaker 3: almost like in the cold snaps. After a cold frost,
- 13:43Speaker 3: you'll see these plants also die or get damaged.
- 13:49Speaker 4: When a plant is.
- 13:53Speaker 3: Completely burned to a crisp like that that's native, is
- 13:56Speaker 3: there anything you think you can do to kind of
- 13:57Speaker 3: bring it back? Or is it just like, no, cut
- 14:00Speaker 3: it out and move on?
- 14:02Speaker 6: Well, that's one of the things I was going to
- 14:04Speaker 6: mention is we've got, now this week it's supposed to
- 14:07Speaker 6: be in the 60s and 70s and rain. And I
- 14:10Speaker 6: would not prune out deadwood yet.
- 14:13Speaker 3: Okay.
- 14:14Speaker 6: I would wait to see what happens because is it
- 14:17Speaker 6: the outer bark that's turned black and the plant's still alive?
- 14:21Speaker 6: Who knows?
- 14:22Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Right.
- 14:24Speaker 4: So be patient.
- 14:25Speaker 6: Right.
- 14:26Speaker 3: You understand you have some damage happening in your yard
- 14:28Speaker 3: or in your landscape.
- 14:30Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 14:30Speaker 2: But don't be reactive yet. Yeah. Right.
- 14:33Speaker 3: And there's nothing really you can do because the other
- 14:35Speaker 3: thing too, we've talked about this and I remember John
- 14:38Speaker 3: Clements commented on this one time about like the, the boiling.
- 14:42Speaker 6: He can fact check you by the way, cause he
- 14:44Speaker 6: just joined.
- 14:44Speaker 3: Oh, did he? Okay.
- 14:45Speaker 4: Well, he mentioned, what was it called?
- 14:47Speaker 3: Like boiling, you know, the remember, remember we were talking
- 14:50Speaker 3: about watering during the heat and how that could be
- 14:52Speaker 3: damaging as well. And, you know, and how he actually said, yeah,
- 14:56Speaker 3: that's a true phenomenon, especially with like a lot of
- 14:58Speaker 3: like the California natives. If you water, when it's hot out,
- 15:01Speaker 3: sometimes the plants get negatively affected by that. So you
- 15:04Speaker 3: got to be careful because these plants have suffered through stress.
- 15:08Speaker 3: Sometimes people instantly think like, I'm going to dump water
- 15:11Speaker 3: on them and it's going to fix it. And sometimes
- 15:13Speaker 3: that's also damaging. So it's just, you just got to
- 15:15Speaker 3: weather this out. You just got to like hold, you know,
- 15:18Speaker 3: like you say, don't trim it back. Don't just start
- 15:21Speaker 3: dumping water on things. Um, and just got to like,
- 15:25Speaker 3: you know, keep, keep stable, so to speak, just go
- 15:27Speaker 3: through this.
- 15:28Speaker 6: Is that your best I think so. But again, it
- 15:31Speaker 6: depends what the plant is because some you just know
- 15:33Speaker 6: there's no hope for. I mean, especially if this would
- 15:38Speaker 6: be my guess, if it's annuals that have turned black
- 15:42Speaker 6: and they're dead to the ground, just take them out.
- 15:46Speaker 6: Start looking for pansies and winter flowering plants.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Did you have anything in your backyard that you're concerned
- 15:53Speaker 2: with or? Gone crisp?
- 15:55Speaker 3: So the things that I have in my backyard that
- 15:59Speaker 3: are on irrigation are perfectly fine.
- 16:01Speaker 4: The irrigation sustained it. I wasn't too worried about it.
- 16:04Speaker 3: I had a couple pots that I lost, but nothing
- 16:07Speaker 3: that was like, oh, bummer, you know, kind of a thing.
- 16:10Speaker 3: And then kind of like to what John was saying,
- 16:12Speaker 3: like everything in the ground was okay.
- 16:15Speaker 6: Did you have the wind? Like we had 40, 50
- 16:17Speaker 6: mile an hour winds.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Not as bad as you. We had a little bit,
- 16:20Speaker 2: but not you had it worse.
- 16:21Speaker 5: I mean.
- 16:23Speaker 3: I didn't come back and things were just completely turned over,
- 16:26Speaker 3: but I heard that there was some wind, but I,
- 16:28Speaker 3: I didn't come back and I never got any.
- 16:30Speaker 6: Well, you know, my back patio, right?
- 16:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:32Speaker 6: Yeah. The, uh, cushions on all the chairs are gone.
- 16:37Speaker 6: You don't have them tied to your chairs? Well, some are.
- 16:40Speaker 2: Okay.
- 16:41Speaker 6: But others are blown over every pot blown over. Yeah. Um,
- 16:46Speaker 6: I had a red Diplodinia on a table, uh, blown
- 16:51Speaker 6: over smashed.
- 16:53Speaker 3: Yeah it's just in any tree breaks any kind of
- 16:56Speaker 3: tree like topple over or break or anything like that
- 16:59Speaker 3: because that was always a thing with you we we
- 17:01Speaker 3: restaked some trees yeah a year or two ago.
- 17:04Speaker 6: I fortunately eco garden gardeners did a great job of
- 17:08Speaker 6: staking up the trees and they're all still there i.
- 17:11Speaker 4: Was gonna say they're all still there all looking good.
- 17:13Speaker 6: Yeah but i i i was watching them because i
- 17:15Speaker 6: thought one of those has got to go yeah but
- 17:18Speaker 6: they did pretty good Um.
- 17:20Speaker 3: And then the other thing too, is you have, um,
- 17:25Speaker 3: you have like a, a slope. So I feel like
- 17:28Speaker 3: that kind of, you know, can also be like almost
- 17:31Speaker 3: like an updraft. So does that wind come up and
- 17:36Speaker 3: then actually blow? Like you said, does the pots were
- 17:38Speaker 3: like the roses were blown away. Is that because the
- 17:42Speaker 3: wind comes up and just kind of like blows them
- 17:44Speaker 3: off or does it go the other way and goes
- 17:45Speaker 3: down the hill?
- 17:47Speaker 6: Well, you know, I'm setting up. With nothing around me, right?
- 17:52Speaker 6: And that the Santa Anas are coming in at 40,
- 17:56Speaker 6: 50 miles an hour. It's just, who knows? And then,
- 18:00Speaker 6: you know, sometimes it reverses and it goes the other way.
- 18:04Speaker 6: Like that, I have a Norfolk Island pine on the back.
- 18:07Speaker 6: Chance is bring that in. And I said, I'm now 77.
- 18:10Speaker 6: I cannot bring that in. So I braced it by
- 18:15Speaker 6: a chair. Because the Santa Anas were coming in from
- 18:19Speaker 6: the east. And then I went out and it had
- 18:22Speaker 6: fallen over. So I picked it up, put a chair
- 18:24Speaker 6: there to brace it. And then an hour later, I
- 18:26Speaker 6: went outside and it had fallen the other way. So
- 18:30Speaker 6: I had to put two chairs to hold it up.
- 18:32Speaker 3: So twice during our trip, we took a total of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
- 18:40Speaker 4: Nine flights this trip.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Whoa.
- 18:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lot. I don't recommend doing that. No.
- 18:46Speaker 4: But nine flights.
- 18:47Speaker 3: But twice, twice at different airports, we sat on the
- 18:51Speaker 3: tarmac because we were ready to go. And right when
- 18:55Speaker 3: we were kind of like ready to go, they're like, oh,
- 18:56Speaker 3: we just got word from the tower. The winds have shifted.
- 18:58Speaker 3: So they're going to switch. They're going to switch all
- 19:01Speaker 3: the direction of the takeoff and landings. And that takes
- 19:04Speaker 3: like 45 minutes, you know, so we had to just
- 19:05Speaker 3: sit there. That happened to us twice while we were
- 19:07Speaker 3: out there that the wind shifted and they had to
- 19:10Speaker 3: switch directions. So like what you're saying, like one day
- 19:12Speaker 3: it's blowing down. you know, east to west, and the
- 19:15Speaker 3: next day it's blowing west to east, and it was
- 19:18Speaker 3: just all over the place.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to take a break, another break. See,
- 19:21Speaker 2: you come back from two weeks, show goes quick. A
- 19:24Speaker 2: lot of information. Want to stay on time for the network,
- 19:26Speaker 2: BizTalk Radio. So whatever's on your mind, questions, comments, what's happening?
- 19:31Speaker 2: Talk about the weather, talk about El Nino, talk about
- 19:33Speaker 2: whatever's growing or no longer growing where you are. So
- 19:36Speaker 2: Garden America for BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live. I'm Brian Mayne,
- 19:39Speaker 2: John Bagnasco, Tiger Palafox. We're going to be back after
- 19:42Speaker 2: these messages on BizTalk Radio.
- 20:12Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian, John,
- 20:16Speaker 5: and Tiger.
- 20:16Speaker 2: Okay, we are back from the break. Thank you to
- 20:19Speaker 2: those that are tuned in on BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live.
- 20:22Speaker 2: We've got a lot of comments. We've got things happening.
- 20:25Speaker 2: So this is one of the longer segments. So we
- 20:28Speaker 2: have plenty of time.
- 20:29Speaker 4: I love how Rick is impatient, though. You know what
- 20:32Speaker 4: I mean?
- 20:33Speaker 2: He's growing impatience? No. I'm kidding.
- 20:36Speaker 3: But it's so funny because is there a trick to
- 20:39Speaker 3: get Christmas cactus to bloom? And then Kevin writes, Rick,
- 20:45Speaker 3: patience and just wait for Thanksgiving. But it's funny because
- 20:51Speaker 3: we've talked about the Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving cactus thing a
- 20:53Speaker 3: number of times now. And the Christmas cactus are actually
- 20:57Speaker 3: Thanksgiving cactus.
- 20:58Speaker 4: What was it? Do you remember?
- 21:00Speaker 3: I mean, do you remember?
- 21:01Speaker 4: Do I remember?
- 21:02Speaker 2: No.
- 21:03Speaker 4: But, you know, the Christmas cactus are.
- 21:07Speaker 6: What they're calling... Christmas cactus now are really Thanksgiving cactus.
- 21:13Speaker 6: Thanksgiving cactus are, and John Clements may want to correct me,
- 21:17Speaker 6: but I think, you know, the Latin's always changing, but
- 21:23Speaker 6: the botanical names, but Thanksgiving cactus are zygocactus, and those
- 21:28Speaker 6: are the ones that bloom early. Schlumbergera are Christmas cactus,
- 21:34Speaker 6: and they bloom at Christmas. But Rick has a good
- 21:37Speaker 6: question there because there's something that triggers their blooming and
- 21:43Speaker 6: Rick's in a star Idaho. So he's got them indoors. And,
- 21:49Speaker 6: and when we were in Detroit, you know, that something
- 21:52Speaker 6: Christmas cactus were something that, uh, in the past you
- 21:56Speaker 6: would pass down from generation to generation, you know, and
- 21:59Speaker 6: you'd always.
- 22:01Speaker 4: Would you just take off cuttings and share them?
- 22:04Speaker 3: Or would this be like mother plant?
- 22:05Speaker 4: The mother plant.
- 22:06Speaker 6: You would keep the mother plant, yeah, for years and years.
- 22:09Speaker 6: But you would share and start new ones too. But anyway,
- 22:14Speaker 6: the blooming is partially triggered by cool nights, almost like cymbidium.
- 22:19Speaker 3: Cymbidiums, yeah.
- 22:20Speaker 6: They need the same care. And if they don't get that,
- 22:22Speaker 6: if they're indoors all the time with the heat on
- 22:26Speaker 6: all the time, they're not going to bloom.
- 22:28Speaker 4: Yeah, they'll grow fine.
- 22:29Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:29Speaker 3: They look good.
- 22:30Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:30Speaker 4: But they don't bloom.
- 22:31Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:32Speaker 4: So what is a cool night?
- 22:34Speaker 6: The cool night would be temperatures in the 60s at least.
- 22:38Speaker 6: You can't keep the temperatures outside.
- 22:40Speaker 4: On a patio would be probably okay.
- 22:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, right?
- 22:43Speaker 6: Well, not in Star Idaho.
- 22:45Speaker 3: I was going to say, what's the weather in Star
- 22:46Speaker 3: Idaho right now?
- 22:48Speaker 6: No, but they have sunrooms there. So maybe an unheated
- 22:52Speaker 6: porch or an unheated sunroom would be perfect. That's what
- 22:56Speaker 6: we used in Michigan. You don't want it to freeze.
- 22:58Speaker 6: It's too cold.
- 22:59Speaker 3: Or what if you put it into a garage? Because
- 23:01Speaker 3: a lot of those places, their garages are not Their
- 23:03Speaker 3: garages are not heated, so they're kept cool. I hear
- 23:07Speaker 3: a lot of people put plants in garages through the winter, too.
- 23:11Speaker 2: If they don't need light.
- 23:13Speaker 6: That's a tough thing. Some garages freeze. You want to
- 23:19Speaker 6: make sure it's not going to freeze. I think most
- 23:21Speaker 6: today don't. In Maine, I was reading a book and
- 23:27Speaker 6: they were talking about storing all their hybrid tea roses
- 23:32Speaker 6: in the garage during the winter.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:34Speaker 6: And I think I told you guys at Sangerhausen in Germany,
- 23:38Speaker 6: they have 80,000 roses. Every single hybrid tea is dug
- 23:43Speaker 6: up in the fall, put in cold storage, and brought
- 23:46Speaker 6: back out in the spring because otherwise it wouldn't survive.
- 23:50Speaker 4: So Rick's question, your Christmas package.
- 23:53Speaker 6: Keep it cool at night.
- 23:54Speaker 4: You've got to keep it below... Or around 60.
- 23:57Speaker 6: In the sixth, yeah.
- 23:59Speaker 4: For, what do you think, a week, two weeks, a month?
- 24:02Speaker 6: Usually, yeah, if you could do it a month, I
- 24:04Speaker 6: think that would trigger it.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Okay.
- 24:07Speaker 4: So you just got to maintain that.
- 24:08Speaker 6: Let's see, a month puts us almost to Thanksgiving, so
- 24:12Speaker 6: Kevin would be right too.
- 24:13Speaker 4: Yeah, just wait.
- 24:16Speaker 6: But yeah, most of the hybridizing that's been done with
- 24:21Speaker 6: Christmas cactus or Thanksgiving cactus is with the zygocactus. So
- 24:26Speaker 6: all the new colors and different shapes of the flowers
- 24:31Speaker 6: is coming on those. So those are the ones you see.
- 24:34Speaker 6: And I don't know if work is going like it
- 24:37Speaker 6: is with poinsettias. You know, poinsettias are light sensitive. So
- 24:42Speaker 6: we always used to have to give directions. What do
- 24:44Speaker 6: we do? How do we get my poinsettia to bloom? Well,
- 24:47Speaker 6: the new ones, you don't have to worry about it.
- 24:49Speaker 6: They're just going to bloom.
- 24:50Speaker 4: Yeah, they've bred that out of you, right?
- 24:53Speaker 3: Because you... They used to have to create these greenhouses
- 24:55Speaker 3: and put like shade or like black tarp over them.
- 24:58Speaker 6: Black cloth over them, yeah.
- 24:59Speaker 3: You know, to be able to darken it, you know,
- 25:01Speaker 3: like you're saying. And nowadays it's like, no, you just
- 25:03Speaker 3: grow it like normal. And it's going to do the
- 25:05Speaker 3: red thing like right around Christmas.
- 25:06Speaker 6: I remember maybe 30 years ago now, 30, 40 years ago,
- 25:12Speaker 6: someone lost their poinsettia crop at Christmas because they had
- 25:17Speaker 6: put in a new streetlight. And nobody thought about that
- 25:23Speaker 6: because people weren't working at night and the streetlight provided
- 25:27Speaker 6: enough light to break up the night. So the poinsettias
- 25:30Speaker 6: didn't bloom.
- 25:32Speaker 2: Wow.
- 25:32Speaker 6: They tried selling them at Valentine's, but didn't work.
- 25:35Speaker 3: Didn't work as well.
- 25:36Speaker 6: Right.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:38Speaker 3: So, yeah.
- 25:38Speaker 4: So, okay.
- 25:39Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:39Speaker 4: There's, so there is a way.
- 25:40Speaker 3: And now the other thing too is watering of those
- 25:46Speaker 3: because they're kind of like a succulent and When you
- 25:51Speaker 3: keep it cooler, I feel like you don't ever have
- 25:54Speaker 3: to water.
- 25:54Speaker 4: Those through the cooler months because they.
- 26:00Speaker 3: Do hold a water in them. And usually they're kind
- 26:03Speaker 3: of in... They're not in cactus mix. A lot of
- 26:05Speaker 3: times you see them and they're like a potting soil,
- 26:06Speaker 3: very kind of like water retaining. And I feel like
- 26:09Speaker 3: a lot of people make the mistake of they rot
- 26:11Speaker 3: them out.
- 26:12Speaker 6: Yeah, they are cactus, right?
- 26:13Speaker 2: Right.
- 26:15Speaker 6: But they're epiphytes.
- 26:18Speaker 2: So.
- 26:19Speaker 6: Really, the ideal soil would be one that would drain
- 26:22Speaker 6: really well.
- 26:22Speaker 4: Right. But I always see them in like a heavy,
- 26:25Speaker 4: you know, when people buy them, they're always in that
- 26:27Speaker 4: like peat material.
- 26:28Speaker 6: But isn't that a lot of that now because you're
- 26:32Speaker 6: putting them into pay-by-scan places?
- 26:34Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 26:35Speaker 6: And you know it's never going to get watered.
- 26:38Speaker 4: So they got to make water. They got to make
- 26:40Speaker 4: the soil where it.
- 26:40Speaker 6: Can hold it a bit.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 26:42Speaker 2: I think it's scam, not scan.
- 26:44Speaker 4: Pay-by-scan.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Pay-by-scan.
- 26:46Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, we were talking about passing them down.
- 26:48Speaker 6: Tanya in San Jose says her Christmas cactus is grown
- 26:52Speaker 6: from a cutting that her grandmother gave her in the
- 26:55Speaker 6: early 70s. Look at that.
- 26:57Speaker 2: How about that?
- 26:58Speaker 4: That is neat.
- 26:58Speaker 2: A lot of history there.
- 27:00Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 27:01Speaker 2: Wow.
- 27:02Speaker 3: And then a warning to people. We're talking about a
- 27:04Speaker 3: lot of places with cool weather. But I will say
- 27:07Speaker 3: another warning to people. We were talking about this during
- 27:09Speaker 3: this time of year for people in Southern California. They
- 27:12Speaker 3: put them into like a hanging basket or something like
- 27:15Speaker 3: on their porch. And we were just talking about that.
- 27:16Speaker 4: This hot, dry wind, hanging baskets.
- 27:20Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
- 27:21Speaker 4: If you don't water them every 15 minutes.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
- 27:25Speaker 6: It's not going to hurt, you know, a cactus. So
- 27:28Speaker 6: the hot, dry wind wouldn't hurt that. But you're talking
- 27:33Speaker 6: about passing them down. I had one from my grandmother
- 27:36Speaker 6: that she had started in the 40s. And when Shannon
- 27:40Speaker 6: and I first got married, we were in Mount Clemens, Michigan,
- 27:43Speaker 6: our first apartment. And that was the macrame era. Right, right, right.
- 27:50Speaker 6: So Shannon made this huge macrame. And I think I
- 27:54Speaker 6: told you guys, she was even on television one time
- 27:56Speaker 6: showing people how to make macrame. So we hung it
- 28:01Speaker 6: on her porch with this gigantic Christmas cactus in it.
- 28:05Speaker 6: And a tornado went by. And Just took that thing,
- 28:12Speaker 6: smashed it over the balcony, and it was gone. Jeez.
- 28:16Speaker 6: I know.
- 28:16Speaker 2: Gosh.
- 28:18Speaker 4: A tornado.
- 28:19Speaker 2: Tornadoes in Michigan? Really? Is that? Common?
- 28:22Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Michigan.
- 28:24Speaker 6: Tornado warnings all the time. Not all the time.
- 28:27Speaker 2: It just seems a little frequent.
- 28:28Speaker 4: Not an unheard of thing.
- 28:30Speaker 2: It's not part of Tornado Alley. It's not Oklahoma tornadoes.
- 28:33Speaker 6: No, no.
- 28:33Speaker 2: But you would get an occasional tornado.
- 28:35Speaker 4: But they get those in like Iowa and stuff too.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Yeah, they even said that these hurricanes that we're getting
- 28:40Speaker 2: or the remnants can cause tornadoes as well.
- 28:43Speaker 3: Yeah, as it crews through the center.
- 28:44Speaker 2: Right, exactly. So it's not unheard of.
- 28:46Speaker 6: Closest we had was a tornado touching down When we
- 28:50Speaker 6: lived in Michigan, a mile and a half from our house. So,
- 28:54Speaker 6: and I know I told you guys this before, but
- 28:57Speaker 6: we wanted to go see the damage afterwards, like the
- 29:00Speaker 6: next day. So we drove by and I was shocked
- 29:04Speaker 6: by what I saw.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Just some houses are there, some aren't.
- 29:08Speaker 6: Right. But what I was shocked by was how clean
- 29:10Speaker 6: it was. There was no, I'm thinking everything's going to
- 29:13Speaker 6: be crumbled, trash all over. It was wiped clean.
- 29:19Speaker 3: It took everything. You know what?
- 29:21Speaker 2: Tornadoes are just ominous. Hurricane's one thing. It's all around.
- 29:26Speaker 2: But a tornado is like, here it comes.
- 29:29Speaker 6: The way to stop it, because I saw this on Flash,
- 29:32Speaker 6: is you run the opposite direction around it and it unwinds.
- 29:35Speaker 2: It they should just do that then like like like
- 29:38Speaker 2: superman would do that yeah he.
- 29:39Speaker 3: Just goes the opposite direction it unwinds it i like
- 29:42Speaker 3: i like that description it.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Unwinds we got about a minute to go by the way.
- 29:46Speaker 3: Because that's what happens it's just a bunch of wind
- 29:48Speaker 3: that's wound up yeah so you just gotta unwind the
- 29:51Speaker 3: wind yeah that makes perfect sense.
- 29:54Speaker 6: Yeah You guys read any good books lately?
- 29:57Speaker 2: Yes, I'm reading one right now called The Jesus Revolution
- 30:00Speaker 2: by Greg Laurie. Oh, really?
- 30:02Speaker 6: Is that where they made the movie from?
- 30:04Speaker 2: I think so, yeah. And there's a woman, Ellen Vaughn
- 30:07Speaker 2: or somebody else. It talks about pop culture. It starts
- 30:10Speaker 2: from the very beginning. It talks about the British invasion,
- 30:12Speaker 2: the Beatles, Kennedy getting shot, Chuck Smith, all if you're
- 30:15Speaker 2: into that, Southern California, how that happened. I'm like, every
- 30:19Speaker 2: page I read is like, I got to keep reading this.
- 30:22Speaker 2: So it's called The Jesus Revolution.
- 30:24Speaker 6: I was there.
- 30:24Speaker 2: I was there.
- 30:26Speaker 3: I lived it.
- 30:27Speaker 2: But I like the pop culture stuff.
- 30:29Speaker 6: Tiger wasn't born, but he can relate.
- 30:31Speaker 2: You know, Greg Laurie's got a bunch of posters of
- 30:33Speaker 2: rock groups and rock stars in his office. And he's
- 30:37Speaker 2: good friends with Alice Cooper. And it's just interesting how
- 30:41Speaker 2: there was so much going on at the time. You
- 30:43Speaker 2: couldn't keep up with, oh, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Vietnam War.
- 30:47Speaker 2: I mean, so many things happening. We're going to take
- 30:49Speaker 2: a break to stay on track here for BizTalk Radio.
- 30:51Speaker 2: This is Garden America, back after these messages.
- 31:16Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian, John,
- 31:20Speaker 5: and Tiger.
- 31:21Speaker 2: We are back. And if you're on BizTalk Radio, listening
- 31:24Speaker 2: to BizTalk Radio, this would officially be the last segment
- 31:27Speaker 2: of our number one. We do two hours. Hopefully your
- 31:29Speaker 2: market carries us. We come back at six minutes after.
- 31:32Speaker 2: Facebook Live is a continuous loop. And we want to
- 31:35Speaker 2: make sure that we're keeping up on the questions and comments.
- 31:38Speaker 6: Rick said he was in Oregon for a couple months
- 31:40Speaker 6: and he just got home a couple weeks ago. And
- 31:43Speaker 6: he was surprised to find that his Fuji apple tree
- 31:45Speaker 6: didn't have a single apple on it. And last year
- 31:50Speaker 6: was loaded. What do you think happened, Brian?
- 31:53Speaker 2: Well, last year, Rick was loaded or the tree was loaded?
- 31:56Speaker 6: The tree was loaded.
- 32:00Speaker 2: I would say it has something to do with weather.
- 32:02Speaker 6: Really? I would say it had something to do with
- 32:04Speaker 6: him being gone for two months.
- 32:07Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you said two weeks. Oh, two months.
- 32:10Speaker 6: Two months, yeah.
- 32:11Speaker 2: Oh, two months.
- 32:13Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the neighbors just came, popped the fence, picked.
- 32:16Speaker 2: All the apples. Well, you might see any, I mean,
- 32:19Speaker 2: not one apple.
- 32:21Speaker 3: If your neighbors start offering you apple pie, you know
- 32:23Speaker 3: what happened.
- 32:25Speaker 2: Because sometimes you'd see any remaining apples. It might be
- 32:28Speaker 2: worms or birds or whatever, right? Two months. What else
- 32:32Speaker 2: wasn't the same after you got back?
- 32:34Speaker 6: Tanya says that it was squirrels. I'm not really sure.
- 32:39Speaker 2: I don't.
- 32:41Speaker 6: You know, California's got ground squirrels.
- 32:43Speaker 2: Yes, California ground squirrels.
- 32:45Speaker 6: But I don't think they have ground squirrels up there.
- 32:48Speaker 3: Have you ever had an apple tree, not maybe you ever,
- 32:51Speaker 3: but heard of it, where you've gotten two cycles of
- 32:56Speaker 3: production in one year?
- 32:57Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 32:58Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. It's usually with the low-chill apples.
- 33:01Speaker 4: Where they'll start early, finish.
- 33:03Speaker 6: Yeah. Because they don't need to chill in order to produce.
- 33:08Speaker 6: And the one most famous for it is Anna. You
- 33:12Speaker 6: can get two or three blooms on Anna every year.
- 33:16Speaker 5: Wow.
- 33:17Speaker 6: Anna and Ein Shemer. And I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
- 33:21Speaker 6: they were both developed in Israel for low chill.
- 33:26Speaker 2: Okay.
- 33:27Speaker 4: So that's not unheard of. Because I thought.
- 33:29Speaker 6: Well, not for Southern California. You wouldn't get that in
- 33:33Speaker 6: cold climates. Right.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Because they don't have the time between. Because, yeah, I
- 33:38Speaker 3: always thought all of those.
- 33:42Speaker 2: One and done.
- 33:42Speaker 3: That was it.
- 33:43Speaker 2: One and done.
- 33:43Speaker 6: Yeah. For the year.
- 33:44Speaker 3: But that's crazy to me that you can get to, um,
- 33:49Speaker 3: I wonder Rick, like if, if you're still listening to,
- 33:54Speaker 3: when it comes to, you had no apples and you
- 33:58Speaker 3: were there for two months, like before you left, were
- 34:02Speaker 3: things starting and you just, or did they, you just
- 34:05Speaker 3: never really get going, you know, because that's the thing too.
- 34:07Speaker 3: We talk about like with these production plants, like sometimes like, if,
- 34:12Speaker 3: you know, you don't have the chill, it just doesn't
- 34:14Speaker 3: even get started, you know, kind of a thing.
- 34:17Speaker 4: The season doesn't even really happen.
- 34:19Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think it was Lila pointed out
- 34:22Speaker 6: that before this last hot weather, her jacaranda was blooming.
- 34:28Speaker 6: And we talked about how crape myrtles, jacarandas, a lot
- 34:33Speaker 6: of flowering plants because of our weird weather this year
- 34:35Speaker 6: were just thrown off their bloom cycles.
- 34:37Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, I mean, It'll be interesting
- 34:43Speaker 3: to see what happens, I think, this winter because as
- 34:46Speaker 3: we go into this... Because it's going to continue, this
- 34:48Speaker 3: weird weather cycle, right? Whether it is warm or whether
- 34:51Speaker 3: it's wet, whatever it may be, this winter is going
- 34:56Speaker 3: to be another funky season for us that we're not
- 35:00Speaker 3: going to be prepared. Because you asked me when I
- 35:02Speaker 3: was traveling, were the leaves starting to change? And I mean, obviously,
- 35:06Speaker 3: I'm talking about Germany and Netherlands and stuff like that.
- 35:09Speaker 4: No, it was still.
- 35:11Speaker 3: it was, it wasn't fall yet, but I could see
- 35:14Speaker 3: it on the horizon in some places, but it wasn't
- 35:18Speaker 3: fall yet. And it.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Was interesting coming back here after that.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Because like I said, I look on the hillsides and
- 35:28Speaker 3: I just saw dead, you know, well-established native plants that
- 35:33Speaker 3: were just dead on the hillsides. And that just means
- 35:37Speaker 3: lots of hot dry weather for prolonged period of.
- 35:40Speaker 2: Time a long period of time yes i mean.
- 35:41Speaker 3: These are plants that have probably been there for 15
- 35:43Speaker 3: 20 years that it was just this one season and
- 35:46Speaker 3: that was enough to take.
- 35:48Speaker 2: It out and you know what else that's that's talked
- 35:50Speaker 2: about too normally okay summertime it's hot evening cools off
- 35:54Speaker 2: yeah this time around it doesn't cool off at night
- 35:57Speaker 2: it was so when it's 81 or 79 degrees at
- 36:00Speaker 2: night you're like what yeah and it's still so there's
- 36:03Speaker 2: no relief.
- 36:04Speaker 3: Yeah Have you started to see, though, the one thing
- 36:07Speaker 3: I'm starting to see when I've been watering here since
- 36:09Speaker 3: I've gone back, though, is because we have shorter days,
- 36:13Speaker 3: I do see the water staying.
- 36:15Speaker 4: In the ground.
- 36:15Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.
- 36:16Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 36:16Speaker 6: A little bit.
- 36:17Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 36:17Speaker 4: Because we don't have the prolonged evaporation time.
- 36:19Speaker 3: Right.
- 36:20Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 36:20Speaker 3: Which I'm like looking at a plant. I'm like, it
- 36:23Speaker 3: was hot. It's got to be dry. But then I
- 36:24Speaker 3: look at the soil. I'm like, it's still damp.
- 36:26Speaker 6: Yeah. Especially in the ground, right? Yeah.
- 36:29Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 36:29Speaker 6: I got confirmation from Veronica in Spring Valley. She has
- 36:33Speaker 6: Anna and Ein Shemer, and they were both developed in Israel.
- 36:39Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
- 36:39Speaker 6: And they both have apples right now.
- 36:42Speaker 3: See?
- 36:42Speaker 4: She probably got two then.
- 36:44Speaker 3: Because, I mean, definitely you got one earlier.
- 36:47Speaker 4: Well, I used.
- 36:48Speaker 6: To have an Anna apple, and I definitely would get
- 36:52Speaker 6: Bloom while it had apples on it. So I'd have
- 36:55Speaker 6: a crop of apples and it would be blooming at
- 36:57Speaker 6: the same time.
- 36:58Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
- 36:58Speaker 2: You know, getting back to Rick, we didn't think about this.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Maybe he should leave for another two months and come
- 37:03Speaker 2: back and see if anything's changed.
- 37:06Speaker 6: Well, I think that he may be mentioning or talking
- 37:10Speaker 6: about the fact they never got apples.
- 37:12Speaker 2: Yeah, never got it.
- 37:13Speaker 6: Because he wants to know if a late freeze could....
- 37:17Speaker 2: Because you said, what was it like before?
- 37:18Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- 37:19Speaker 6: Yeah, it could destroy the buds, the flower buds. And absolutely, right?
- 37:22Speaker 3: Because if he left and it was flowering, you know,
- 37:27Speaker 3: you're like, okay, at least it flowered.
- 37:29Speaker 4: But then, like you say.
- 37:30Speaker 6: Well, he must have left. He must have been in
- 37:33Speaker 6: Idaho while it was flowering.
- 37:34Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
- 37:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:37Speaker 4: So he must have seen it flower.
- 37:39Speaker 6: Yeah, and he knows there was a late freeze. So, yeah,
- 37:42Speaker 6: that could have easily done it, Rick.
- 37:43Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 37:44Speaker 6: And then, let's see. We were talking about reading books.
- 37:48Speaker 6: Kevin said he's reading Theo of Golden. That was one.
- 37:52Speaker 4: John really liked.
- 37:53Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 37:54Speaker 4: I saw that a lot on my travels. A lot
- 37:56Speaker 4: of people reading it.
- 37:56Speaker 6: Really? Yeah.
- 37:58Speaker 2: In Europe?
- 37:59Speaker 3: Yeah, all through.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Plane ride, in resorts. I saw that book pop up
- 38:04Speaker 4: a lot.
- 38:05Speaker 2: I like the fact that people are still reading books.
- 38:09Speaker 6: But Kevin says so far he's come across at least
- 38:12Speaker 6: three words that he uses in the book. And you
- 38:15Speaker 6: need a dictionary to look them up. He said, it's
- 38:18Speaker 6: always good to learn new words. People might think how
- 38:22Speaker 6: intellectual you are when you can use them in conversation.
- 38:25Speaker 3: There you go.
- 38:27Speaker 6: And Kevin Bryan says that, um, you know, only three
- 38:32Speaker 6: words you didn't understand in the preface.
- 38:34Speaker 2: It's not bad. No, that's, I think that's like, that's,
- 38:37Speaker 2: that's a good batting average, right?
- 38:38Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Let's see. We are winding down here because we have
- 38:42Speaker 2: news coming up on BizTalk Radio.
- 38:43Speaker 4: But, uh, We're going to shut down.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we're going to shut down. Yeah, that's a
- 38:48Speaker 2: good reminder.
- 38:48Speaker 3: We're going to shut down. We're going to restart. We've
- 38:50Speaker 3: got a second hour raring to go.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Oh, boy, do we have a jam-packed hour waiting for
- 38:55Speaker 2: you on Facebook Live and BizTalk Radio if you're going
- 38:58Speaker 2: to be with us, if your market carries us.
- 39:00Speaker 6: Carla says she's got a terrible mosquito problem.
- 39:03Speaker 3: Oh, that's a big thing right now.
- 39:06Speaker 2: And we have a cricket problem.
- 39:07Speaker 6: What?
- 39:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to talk about that when we come
- 39:10Speaker 2: back next hour or next. Several few minutes. Yeah, we do. Anyway,
- 39:15Speaker 2: whenever we're coming back. How much time.
- 39:17Speaker 3: Do we have?
- 39:18Speaker 2: We have to go now.
- 39:18Speaker 3: We've got to go now.
- 39:19Speaker 4: Next hour, we'll get mosquitoes and crickets.
- 39:21Speaker 2: We're going to shut down and come back on again.
- 39:23Speaker 2: BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live. This is Garden Americans. Hey, welcome
- 39:52Speaker 2: back to the show. If you're just joining us, welcome
- 39:54Speaker 2: to the show on BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live. It's Garden
- 39:58Speaker 2: America back in the proverbial saddle. I don't see the reins,
- 40:02Speaker 2: but I do see the saddle. So welcome back, Tiger, John, myself.
- 40:06Speaker 2: What's happening, John?
- 40:07Speaker 6: Do you ever hear like somebody will just say a
- 40:09Speaker 6: word like you just did?
- 40:10Speaker 2: And then something will come to mind? Yeah.
- 40:13Speaker 6: Does that happen to you where it's just like, Totally
- 40:16Speaker 6: out of place. There's nothing to do.
- 40:17Speaker 2: Right. Stream of consciousness.
- 40:19Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 40:20Speaker 2: And something you can't say, right?
- 40:21Speaker 6: Just a word you can say. No, I can say.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
- 40:23Speaker 6: I mean, you said that. What did you start with?
- 40:25Speaker 2: Perverbial saddle?
- 40:27Speaker 6: You said, hey.
- 40:28Speaker 4: And you thought horse?
- 40:30Speaker 2: And then I said saddle? You thought hey?
- 40:32Speaker 4: No, no.
- 40:32Speaker 6: The first thing I thought of was to kill a mockingbird.
- 40:37Speaker 2: Wow, that is. Well, we were talking about books.
- 40:40Speaker 6: Well, maybe that was it.
- 40:41Speaker 2: But nobody mentioned Gregory Peck, so I don't see how that... Well,
- 40:44Speaker 2: in To Kill... Did you ever read To Kill a Mockingbird?
- 40:47Speaker 5: Yes.
- 40:47Speaker 6: Okay, do you remember Scout, the little girl, was walking
- 40:50Speaker 6: down the street and in the south, right, on the porch,
- 40:55Speaker 6: her neighbor was sitting in the rocking chair and she said, hey, Mrs. Caldwell,
- 41:03Speaker 6: and I don't know if that was her name, and
- 41:05Speaker 6: The woman answers back, don't you say hey to me,
- 41:08Speaker 6: you ugly girl.
- 41:11Speaker 2: And that's what came to mind.
- 41:12Speaker 6: That's what came to mind immediately.
- 41:14Speaker 2: Now, before the break, before the top of the hour break,
- 41:18Speaker 2: we teased the listeners and viewers that we were going
- 41:21Speaker 2: to talk about mosquitoes and crickets.
- 41:23Speaker 6: Yes.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Well, I just want to quickly say that in the
- 41:26Speaker 2: past two weeks, the cats are finding crickets all over
- 41:29Speaker 2: the house.
- 41:30Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 41:31Speaker 2: We think they're coming in the front door, but they're
- 41:33Speaker 2: good-sized crickets.
- 41:34Speaker 3: Yes.
- 41:34Speaker 2: And we really haven't ever seen that before. I haven't.
- 41:39Speaker 2: I mean, as much as we're seeing it now, if any.
- 41:43Speaker 6: I showed you the picture.
- 41:44Speaker 2: If I had reptiles, I'd have free food.
- 41:45Speaker 6: Scorpion that was in my bedroom, right?
- 41:47Speaker 2: What?
- 41:48Speaker 3: No.
- 41:48Speaker 5: No?
- 41:49Speaker 3: Geez.
- 41:50Speaker 6: Well, you're talking about crickets. I always have to one-up you.
- 41:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 41:54Speaker 6: Well, you're talking about crickets. Go ahead and talk.
- 41:56Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got scorpions coming in.
- 41:58Speaker 2: Did I tell you about the bear that broke into
- 42:00Speaker 2: our house?
- 42:03Speaker 5: But.
- 42:03Speaker 3: But, I mean, this is a thing, right, where we're
- 42:05Speaker 3: having this weird weather, which also now brings other things
- 42:11Speaker 3: that we're not accustomed to. And crickets, I don't know
- 42:15Speaker 3: if they align with the weather per se, but I
- 42:18Speaker 3: know that the mosquitoes, that's been a real thing because
- 42:21Speaker 3: we've had hot weather, standing water.
- 42:24Speaker 2: Were those mosquitoes that you were brushing off before the show?
- 42:26Speaker 3: No, those were not.
- 42:27Speaker 2: Because they have little wings.
- 42:28Speaker 4: They did have little wings, but they're not mosquitoes. I
- 42:30Speaker 4: don't know what they were.
- 42:32Speaker 2: But you're right. Any little thing that's kind of tilted
- 42:35Speaker 2: out of place, usually the weather has something to do
- 42:37Speaker 2: with it. But we see the cats batting something around
- 42:40Speaker 2: and playing around with it. You're kidding me.
- 42:42Speaker 3: That is big.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
- 42:43Speaker 3: When was this?
- 42:44Speaker 4: That's a lobster.
- 42:45Speaker 6: That was a couple weeks ago.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Jeez.
- 42:48Speaker 6: Like the night before we went to... It looks like
- 42:51Speaker 6: a lobster, doesn't it?
- 42:52Speaker 2: Can you put that on the camera?
- 42:54Speaker 4: Yeah, send it to me.
- 42:55Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 42:56Speaker 2: Oh, you can do that. This is in your bedroom.
- 42:58Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 43:00Speaker 2: Are you ready to go to bed? You're barefoot.
- 43:02Speaker 6: No, I had my slippers on. Watch the screen.
- 43:06Speaker 3: There, Brian.
- 43:09Speaker 2: It's a little dark, but I don't know how true.
- 43:12Speaker 2: Go up higher, because it says hour two. Yeah, there
- 43:15Speaker 2: you go. That looks okay. That gives people, yeah, I
- 43:20Speaker 2: think that gives them a good idea. Yeah, you're good.
- 43:24Speaker 6: Now, when we first moved there five years ago, we
- 43:28Speaker 6: had one after the house was built, and I thought,
- 43:32Speaker 6: At that time, it seems kind of scary, right? Because
- 43:35Speaker 6: we're not used to scorpions.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
- 43:38Speaker 6: But now that I already had prior experience when I
- 43:43Speaker 6: saw this one, first thing that came to my mind is, yeah,
- 43:46Speaker 6: I'll just.
- 43:46Speaker 2: Step on it. Is that what you did? Yeah. Did
- 43:50Speaker 2: it crunch?
- 43:50Speaker 6: Yeah, it crunched. I was going to put it outside, but.
- 43:55Speaker 4: Why?
- 43:56Speaker 2: Because it just came back in again. Actually, probably not.
- 43:59Speaker 2: It doesn't belong in the house. That's a mistake. Yeah.
- 44:03Speaker 6: I was thinking of Tiger, though. Like, he caught a rattlesnake,
- 44:07Speaker 6: and he just put it in a pail and then
- 44:09Speaker 6: let it go.
- 44:10Speaker 2: So how long, how many inches do you think that
- 44:12Speaker 2: scorpion was?
- 44:13Speaker 3: 25.
- 44:14Speaker 6: Sounds like he went fishing, right?
- 44:19Speaker 2: How big was the one that got off the hook?
- 44:21Speaker 6: It was about four. What's that, like five, six inches?
- 44:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 44:25Speaker 4: It was big.
- 44:26Speaker 6: It was way bigger than the one we had before.
- 44:29Speaker 2: So it's well-fed, right?
- 44:30Speaker 6: But, you know, when I was working outside a couple
- 44:33Speaker 6: summers ago, I was working in a rock pile and
- 44:36Speaker 6: moved a couple rocks, and there was a whole nest
- 44:39Speaker 6: of scorpions under there.
- 44:42Speaker 2: Well, they're obviously indigenous to your area.
- 44:45Speaker 4: What do scorpions eat? What is the benefit of a scorpion?
- 44:48Speaker 2: I think bugs, insects.
- 44:50Speaker 3: So are they kind of like a prey mantis?
- 44:52Speaker 4: Crickets, right?
- 44:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 44:55Speaker 4: You need to have.
- 44:56Speaker 6: Scorpions, right?
- 44:57Speaker 4: Get a scorpion for your house.
- 44:58Speaker 6: I had a.
- 45:02Speaker 6: I worked with a guy who came from Iran, and
- 45:07Speaker 6: he said that.
- 45:08Speaker 2: This is the guy that would make no guarantees that
- 45:11Speaker 2: you killed the plant?
- 45:12Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that guy.
- 45:13Speaker 2: Admit to me that you killed it.
- 45:15Speaker 6: My friend Artie, Artisher. And so he said in the
- 45:19Speaker 6: summertime there, it was so hot, and of course there was,
- 45:23Speaker 6: you know, he's talking about in the 60s, right? So
- 45:26Speaker 6: there's no air conditioning, of course. So people would sleep
- 45:30Speaker 6: on the roof of their homes. They would bring their
- 45:33Speaker 6: beds up there and they would just sleep out at
- 45:35Speaker 6: night because it's probably like 150 degrees in the house.
- 45:39Speaker 6: And he said that they had a bucket on each
- 45:43Speaker 6: leg of the bed that they would put under the
- 45:46Speaker 6: leg and fill with water. So the scorpions couldn't crawl
- 45:51Speaker 6: up on the bed because otherwise they would crawl up
- 45:54Speaker 6: on the bed and sting you.
- 45:56Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 45:57Speaker 6: Dang.
- 45:59Speaker 4: That's not fun.
- 45:59Speaker 3: I don't want to live like that. Jeez.
- 46:05Speaker 6: Those were the days, Tiger.
- 46:07Speaker 3: So mosquitoes, crickets.
- 46:09Speaker 2: Cricket, yeah.
- 46:10Speaker 6: So what's the deal on mosquitoes?
- 46:12Speaker 4: Well, it's just all the hot weather.
- 46:15Speaker 6: But we haven't had rain. It's been so dry.
- 46:17Speaker 4: But we, as a population, irrigate.
- 46:22Speaker 3: And all of that, we have all kinds of those things.
- 46:24Speaker 6: So we have water and saucers.
- 46:26Speaker 3: Exactly. And I think it's just this prolonged season of that.
- 46:31Speaker 3: So it's not going to go away soon because I
- 46:34Speaker 3: don't think this... Because the thing that makes mosquitoes go
- 46:38Speaker 3: away is it getting cold.
- 46:39Speaker 2: Well, the first heat wave we had, not this one,
- 46:41Speaker 2: it was humid along with it. Yeah. Which usually we
- 46:45Speaker 2: have dry heat.
- 46:45Speaker 3: Right. And so I don't think that we're going to
- 46:48Speaker 3: get any kind of reprieve from... mosquitoes, because it's going to, I,
- 46:55Speaker 3: I fear that like this winter, all bugs are just
- 46:58Speaker 3: going to overwinter.
- 46:59Speaker 2: All bets are off.
- 47:00Speaker 3: Well, I think they're just going to overwinter. I think
- 47:02Speaker 3: it's not going to get cold enough for them to
- 47:04Speaker 3: go away. So I think it's going to be a
- 47:07Speaker 3: challenge this year.
- 47:08Speaker 2: So, um, well, this week coming up is going to
- 47:11Speaker 2: feel like it's cold with a, to us back in
- 47:13Speaker 2: the seventies, seventies is.
- 47:14Speaker 3: Like, Ooh, cold.
- 47:16Speaker 2: Get the jackets out, put your pants on.
- 47:20Speaker 6: Carla has some advice for you, Brian.
- 47:23Speaker 2: Cricket advice?
- 47:23Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 47:24Speaker 6: She says that, you know, look around Tiger's Pool House.
- 47:29Speaker 6: You've got lizards everywhere, right?
- 47:30Speaker 3: All over the place.
- 47:31Speaker 6: So catch a bunch of lizards.
- 47:32Speaker 2: Yeah, we have lizards everywhere, though.
- 47:34Speaker 6: Bring them home. Do you have them in the house?
- 47:36Speaker 2: No, that's the key, right? Let them loose in the house.
- 47:39Speaker 4: Get some frogs.
- 47:40Speaker 2: For the cats to play with those, too, right?
- 47:43Speaker 6: Yeah. Not a good idea, Carla. It's not going to work.
- 47:48Speaker 6: It's inside.
- 47:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 47:53Speaker 6: I'm glad Lenore didn't see that scorpion. She said she
- 47:56Speaker 6: would die. We don't want to lose any of our listeners, right?
- 48:00Speaker 4: Yeah, let's not.
- 48:01Speaker 2: Especially if we're scorpions.
- 48:02Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 48:06Speaker 3: And then, you know, with this kind of like bug thing,
- 48:11Speaker 3: you know, the plant damage with a lot of these
- 48:14Speaker 3: bugs too is going to be higher. I've seen in
- 48:18Speaker 3: the nursery... just the plants that we have in the store,
- 48:24Speaker 3: a big increase in grasshoppers. I just feel like that
- 48:28Speaker 3: damage has been a bit more than it has normally.
- 48:33Speaker 3: Maybe it's just because of all the new growth or whatever,
- 48:35Speaker 3: but I usually don't see grasshoppers at the nursery. I
- 48:39Speaker 3: just feel like we don't ever see them, and I
- 48:41Speaker 3: feel like every time I walk through.
- 48:42Speaker 4: The nursery, I see grasshoppers.
- 48:43Speaker 2: How about a praying mantis?
- 48:44Speaker 4: I don't see them much, no.
- 48:46Speaker 3: I like them. We see them like once or twice
- 48:48Speaker 3: a year.
- 48:48Speaker 6: I used to have a lot. I don't know if I.
- 48:50Speaker 4: You did used to have a lot.
- 48:51Speaker 6: You talked about it.
- 48:52Speaker 2: Pray for more.
- 48:56Speaker 6: Brian, we have a question. Can you... And this is
- 48:58Speaker 6: for you. Can you explain why sometimes you get bitten
- 49:02Speaker 6: and then other times you don't?
- 49:04Speaker 4: Mosquitoes?
- 49:05Speaker 6: Yeah. When you're out in the garden.
- 49:07Speaker 2: Don't mosquito... Oh, we've been getting bit. Yeah. But my wife, Dana,
- 49:12Speaker 2: gets bit more than I do.
- 49:14Speaker 6: Well she's the one who asked the question oh was
- 49:16Speaker 6: it yeah okay yes she wants an explanation she demands
- 49:21Speaker 6: an explanation.
- 49:22Speaker 2: I think i think like uh certain people they just
- 49:25Speaker 2: gravitate more toward sweeter ones you had to say that
- 49:29Speaker 2: huh Yeah, and that's very interesting. So we want to
- 50:48Speaker 2: follow up on that as soon as we can. Did
- 50:50Speaker 2: we drive under a bridge or something? It got dark
- 50:53Speaker 2: all of a sudden. All that to say that we
- 50:55Speaker 2: have a break coming up, so we want to stay
- 50:58Speaker 2: on course with BizTalk Radio and Facebook Live. If you're
- 51:02Speaker 2: just joining us, you've survived. We are back. This is
- 51:04Speaker 2: Garden America, so we're going to take a break for
- 51:06Speaker 2: BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live, back after these messages here on
- 51:09Speaker 2: Garden America. Okay, we are back from the break. Thank
- 51:21Speaker 2: you for joining us. Thank you for tuning in. I
- 51:24Speaker 2: guess the question was, why are we getting bit intermittently?
- 51:27Speaker 2: It seems to be this time of the season, for
- 51:29Speaker 2: the most part.
- 51:30Speaker 4: Did you look it up, though?
- 51:32Speaker 3: Did you and Dana have a discussion and do the
- 51:34Speaker 3: deep dive into why some people get bit and some
- 51:36Speaker 3: people don't?
- 51:37Speaker 2: You know, it just, I wasn't that interested.
- 51:40Speaker 6: Really?
- 51:40Speaker 2: It's interesting because she.
- 51:41Speaker 4: Because they've done a lot of research.
- 51:43Speaker 2: Exactly. She really, when these things happen, she really wants
- 51:45Speaker 2: to delve into it, find out why.
- 51:47Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 51:47Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, one of those things.
- 51:49Speaker 6: She's inquisitive.
- 51:50Speaker 2: She is inquisitive.
- 51:52Speaker 4: I mean, have you ever looked into why, John?
- 51:55Speaker 6: I think it's- Well, I just saw, and I forget,
- 51:57Speaker 6: Tanya might have posted this because they lost it, but
- 52:00Speaker 6: somebody said that they like type O blood best.
- 52:03Speaker 4: Correct.
- 52:03Speaker 3: They do know for a fact different blood types. Mosquitoes
- 52:08Speaker 3: do gravitate.
- 52:09Speaker 2: We're both type A, I think.
- 52:11Speaker 4: Okay. But then it was different.
- 52:15Speaker 2: Blood.
- 52:17Speaker 1: Oh.
- 52:19Speaker 2: Were you thinking I was giving myself an A?
- 52:21Speaker 6: No, I was just thinking of type A and B personalities.
- 52:24Speaker 2: Oh, well, that I am too. Yeah. Can't sit still.
- 52:28Speaker 3: But But I mean, they do know like different blood
- 52:32Speaker 3: types specifically.
- 52:33Speaker 2: And don't we give off a scent or a smell
- 52:35Speaker 2: maybe too?
- 52:35Speaker 3: And then on the secondary level of like different, like
- 52:40Speaker 3: whether it's perfumes, colognes and different things like that, also
- 52:45Speaker 3: they found. And then they also put it as people,
- 52:50Speaker 3: like the reason why women also is because they usually
- 52:54Speaker 3: will shave where men have hair. And then that's another
- 52:57Speaker 3: thing that stops them is like, so.
- 52:59Speaker 4: So it's kind of crazy.
- 53:00Speaker 3: Like they've done a lot of research into why some
- 53:02Speaker 3: people get bit and some people don't. Some of it
- 53:06Speaker 3: you can't control at all. And, you know, I've, I've
- 53:10Speaker 3: never been one that's been really bit and Janine always
- 53:12Speaker 3: is one. So she uses a lot of like the
- 53:14Speaker 3: repellents and I've never been a big fan of using
- 53:18Speaker 3: the repellents, but she uses them a lot and she,
- 53:21Speaker 3: You know, she definitely like she'll bring that everywhere she
- 53:24Speaker 3: goes because she gets bit if she's outside.
- 53:26Speaker 2: We went to Costa Rica two years ago. We had
- 53:28Speaker 2: no problems with mosquitoes. Remember that? Yeah.
- 53:30Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:31Speaker 2: Not at all. It was like I brought all this
- 53:33Speaker 2: stuff with me and didn't need it.
- 53:35Speaker 3: Right.
- 53:35Speaker 2: But it was the time of the season we were there.
- 53:37Speaker 3: April.
- 53:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
- 53:38Speaker 3: I mean, you're right, but it was wet and. It
- 53:44Speaker 3: was weird that we weren't getting bit, you're right.
- 53:47Speaker 6: Rick wanted to know if we, and we do have
- 53:49Speaker 6: them down here, and I think we've talked about them before,
- 53:51Speaker 6: I think especially when we had Summit on the radio,
- 53:56Speaker 6: but the tiger mosquitoes, no offense.
- 54:00Speaker 2: Mosquito dunks.
- 54:02Speaker 6: Well, they bite during the day, though. You know, other
- 54:04Speaker 6: mosquitoes come out at dusk or night, but they bite
- 54:07Speaker 6: during the day. And I think Veronica mentioned that she
- 54:11Speaker 6: had them in spring valley she said they really.
- 54:14Speaker 3: Hurt yeah well and like you're saying at least if
- 54:17Speaker 3: you stay inside in the evening you can kind of
- 54:19Speaker 3: be like i'm okay yeah but when you have the
- 54:22Speaker 3: tiger mosquitoes and you're just out in the yard working
- 54:25Speaker 3: you're just getting bit it's horrible because then you can't
- 54:28Speaker 3: you can't you know go like like for the most
- 54:32Speaker 3: part if you avoid a grassy large area or like
- 54:38Speaker 3: you know woodlands in the evening you'll be fine you're okay.
- 54:41Speaker 2: And stay away from the Amazon as much as you can.
- 54:43Speaker 4: Yeah. But yeah, not those other ones that come out
- 54:49Speaker 4: during the day.
- 54:50Speaker 3: I hate that. Oh, it's so bad.
- 54:52Speaker 4: And then there's the no-see-ums, just the little.
- 54:55Speaker 6: Oh, I hate those. But the problem, too, is they're just...
- 54:59Speaker 6: Those are little flies, aren't they?
- 55:01Speaker 3: But the problem is they're just annoying because they're bitey
- 55:04Speaker 3: and itchy. But then the next day, like a mosquito,
- 55:06Speaker 3: you'll have that bite for days afterwards. The no-see-ums, they're
- 55:10Speaker 3: just annoying in the moment, and then they go away
- 55:12Speaker 3: hours after.
- 55:13Speaker 2: There's some fly in Florida that's rather large that also bites.
- 55:18Speaker 2: It doesn't leave like a mosquito. Like a horsefly? Something
- 55:20Speaker 2: like that. I forget the name of it, but the
- 55:21Speaker 2: show that I watched down there, this sanctuary, they were
- 55:24Speaker 2: talking about this time of the year that they're doing that,
- 55:26Speaker 2: and these things are biting them.
- 55:28Speaker 6: They have a mosquito sanctuary in Florida?
- 55:30Speaker 2: Yeah. You didn't know about that?
- 55:31Speaker 6: No.
- 55:32Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It only cost a pint of blood to
- 55:35Speaker 2: get in.
- 55:35Speaker 4: Someone's got to stand up for them.
- 55:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 55:38Speaker 2: And was it you that said, what are mosquitoes good for?
- 55:40Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 55:41Speaker 4: Well, I mean, it's a very, you know.
- 55:43Speaker 2: What are they good for?
- 55:44Speaker 6: Same thing as war.
- 55:46Speaker 2: What is it good for? See, that's the same thing
- 55:48Speaker 2: I was thinking. Edwin Starr, by the way.
- 55:52Speaker 6: They're part of the food chain.
- 55:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 55:55Speaker 3: Fish.
- 55:56Speaker 6: The larvae are called wigglers, right? And fish love them.
- 56:01Speaker 2: Fish make good bait. Yeah.
- 56:03Speaker 6: I used to, when I had a freshwater tank. In Michigan,
- 56:06Speaker 6: I think, I would go out with a net, collect
- 56:09Speaker 6: the mosquito larva, and dump.
- 56:11Speaker 3: It in your fish tank.
- 56:12Speaker 6: Dump it in your fish tank?
- 56:13Speaker 2: Really?
- 56:13Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 56:13Speaker 2: I give them bloodworms and brine shrimp.
- 56:17Speaker 4: Brine shrimp? Do you have a saltwater tank?
- 56:19Speaker 2: No, brine shrimp. It's fresh water.
- 56:21Speaker 3: Is it a fresh water?
- 56:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 56:22Speaker 3: Really?
- 56:23Speaker 2: Interesting. Along with a few flakes now and then.
- 56:26Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 56:27Speaker 6: Cornflakes?
- 56:29Speaker 2: Babacus, Michigan?
- 56:30Speaker 4: No, frosted flakes.
- 56:31Speaker 2: Yeah, they like the sugar.
- 56:32Speaker 4: Cornflakes, gross. Frosted flakes.
- 56:34Speaker 6: Yeah. Did you ever see that movie, Unfrosted?
- 56:37Speaker 3: I feel like I have.
- 56:38Speaker 6: It was Jerry Seinfeld.
- 56:40Speaker 2: Oh, that was the.
- 56:41Speaker 6: The serial battles between Post and Kellogg's.
- 56:44Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
- 56:44Speaker 6: It was a hilarious movie.
- 56:45Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
- 56:46Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 56:48Speaker 2: Quote of the week. What? We've waited this long.
- 56:51Speaker 4: Jeez.
- 56:52Speaker 2: Teasing it up to this point.
- 56:53Speaker 4: That's what happens when we take a couple weeks off.
- 56:54Speaker 3: We forget the.
- 56:55Speaker 2: And it's a good quote, too.
- 56:56Speaker 6: Well, it's also a translation.
- 56:59Speaker 2: Right.
- 56:59Speaker 6: This is from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- 57:02Speaker 4: Did you translate it?
- 57:03Speaker 2: No.
- 57:04Speaker 1: No.
- 57:05Speaker 6: So the origin, there's many translations, right? It's like it
- 57:10Speaker 6: may not be exact. But he wrote a poem called
- 57:16Speaker 6: Something Like the Sun. And the poem said, the eye
- 57:19Speaker 6: must be something like the sun. Otherwise, no sunlight could
- 57:24Speaker 6: be seen. God's own power must be inside us. How
- 57:28Speaker 6: else could godly things delight us?
- 57:32Speaker 4: I was geared to. Way before Dr.
- 57:34Speaker 6: Seuss, huh? I've mentioned many times that I've had three
- 57:44Speaker 6: semesters of first semester German. Three semesters of first semester,
- 57:48Speaker 6: I love it. And one of the poems we had
- 57:50Speaker 6: to learn was by Goethe. And I think the first
- 57:56Speaker 6: line was, die Sonne scheint schön, which means the sun's
- 58:01Speaker 6: so shone beautifully.
- 58:03Speaker 3: Wow.
- 58:06Speaker 6: It's the same thing I would have said and it
- 58:10Speaker 6: got me a D, Brian, three times.
- 58:13Speaker 3: So this is the first time I've traveled in... not
- 58:19Speaker 3: had a clue about what any of the signs said
- 58:22Speaker 3: because in germany like they don't have like the translation
- 58:24Speaker 3: it's german and they're all.
- 58:26Speaker 2: German if somebody like dying on the freeway yeah.
- 58:29Speaker 6: Exactly oh did you drive on the.
- 58:32Speaker 4: Autobahn no i didn't drive anything.
- 58:33Speaker 6: Oh my gosh that was an experience.
- 58:35Speaker 3: Yeah yeah oh no i did you is that in
- 58:38Speaker 3: munich i don't even know where it's at did.
- 58:39Speaker 6: You notice the exits on the freeway what about them
- 58:44Speaker 6: i don't know what they were called no.
- 58:47Speaker 3: Again, I have no clue what I was looking at.
- 58:49Speaker 6: Because my grandkids thought this was hilarious because I was
- 58:52Speaker 6: showing them pictures of when I was in Germany. And
- 58:56Speaker 6: the exit says fart.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Oh.
- 59:00Speaker 6: They loved that.
- 59:00Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 59:01Speaker 3: That's funny. But even through the Netherlands, like, I can't
- 59:06Speaker 3: read a word.
- 59:07Speaker 4: And they have really, so one word is actually like
- 59:10Speaker 4: a sentence.
- 59:11Speaker 6: Do you know their language?
- 59:12Speaker 3: In German.
- 59:13Speaker 4: They combine.
- 59:14Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 59:14Speaker 4: And in Germany, too, they combine words.
- 59:17Speaker 6: Like if you have.
- 59:18Speaker 2: To make a statement.
- 59:19Speaker 6: Yeah. The word life is one word, right?
- 59:22Speaker 4: Right.
- 59:22Speaker 6: Insurance is one word.
- 59:24Speaker 1: Right.
- 59:25Speaker 6: Companies one word. Life insurance companies also one word.
- 59:30Speaker 2: We're going to take a break. For BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live,
- 59:33Speaker 2: this is Garden America. Stay with us. Okay, we are back.
- 59:57Speaker 2: We've got two more segments if you are keeping track.
- 59:59Speaker 2: And this is one of our longer segments here. So
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: plenty of time to get things done, plenty of information,
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: and plenty of time for your questions and your comments,
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: if you so desire, or any comments that we may
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: not have gotten to yet, John. Did you flip around?
- 1:00:13Speaker 6: I don't know because I just lost our comments. I'm not.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: I lost our comments.
- 1:00:22Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: That sounds serious.
- 1:00:24Speaker 6: I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: Somewhere where you shouldn't be?
- 1:00:28Speaker 6: No, definitely not there. I'm getting close. Okay, I got them, Brian.
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: There we go. They just repopulated.
- 1:00:39Speaker 6: Did you just lift your hat up?
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: Okay. I'll do it again to make sure that you know.
- 1:00:44Speaker 6: I just wanted to make sure I was on the
- 1:00:47Speaker 6: right one.
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: Boy, this is a long delay, isn't there? There you go.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: Look at that. That was 10 seconds ago. Yeah.
- 1:00:57Speaker 6: Rick is saying that Tiger seems to be really sneaky.
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: Why?
- 1:01:00Speaker 6: He just says that you'll attack from behind if you
- 1:01:08Speaker 6: don't see him coming. Oh, I think he was talking
- 1:01:11Speaker 6: about tiger mosquitoes. Oh.
- 1:01:14Speaker 3: Me too, though.
- 1:01:15Speaker 6: Sorry, Tiger.
- 1:01:15Speaker 4: I attack during the day from behind.
- 1:01:18Speaker 6: When you least expect it.
- 1:01:19Speaker 3: Yeah, watch out.
- 1:01:21Speaker 4: Watch out exactly.
- 1:01:24Speaker 6: Um oh i i wrote an article on clirodendrons for
- 1:01:31Speaker 6: the newsletter you.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: Know it's about time we're waiting it's been years yeah
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: joey ross okay.
- 1:01:41Speaker 6: And imaging coca.
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: Wow that's how you put things together.
- 1:01:46Speaker 6: Well that Was the TV show they starred in.
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:01:49Speaker 6: It's about time.
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: It's about time. It's about space.
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: Yeah. So we relate that to.
- 1:01:56Speaker 6: What were we talking about?
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: It's about time you wrote an article about clorodendrons.
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: Clorodendron.
- 1:02:04Speaker 4: I did. And you went off on music again.
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: No, it's not music. No, it's a cool TV show.
- 1:02:09Speaker 3: Oh, sorry.
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:02:11Speaker 4: I had a 50-50 chance.
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: And not even worth delving into, really.
- 1:02:14Speaker 6: Well, you need to explain it to Tiger. Joey Ross
- 1:02:18Speaker 6: was the guy who played Gunther Tootie on Car 54,
- 1:02:21Speaker 6: Where Are You? And then afterwards, he went to It's
- 1:02:25Speaker 6: About Time.
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: And Fred Gwynn was the other cop that was with
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: him who later went on to play Herman Munster.
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: Thank you for all of that.
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: And it was also in the movie What's a Ute? Vinny.
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: My cousin Vinny. He was the judge in My Cousin Vinny.
- 1:02:39Speaker 4: Oh, that guy played like the.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: Yeah, he was Herman Munster.
- 1:02:42Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: And he was also in Car 54.
- 1:02:45Speaker 6: Where are you?
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: There you go. See, look how quickly you've been brought
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: up to speed.
- 1:02:47Speaker 6: Done.
- 1:02:48Speaker 3: All right.
- 1:02:49Speaker 6: Why would you take the time to say Herman Munster
- 1:02:52Speaker 6: when you can just say, like, Tegger did?
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: That's good.
- 1:03:00Speaker 6: So anyway, back to Claridonians.
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: I was.
- 1:03:05Speaker 6: I've always been fascinated because the genus Clirodendron is so diverse.
- 1:03:11Speaker 6: I mean, there's trees, there's vines, there's shrubs, and some
- 1:03:15Speaker 6: really unusual flowers. There was Clirodendron incisum, which is the
- 1:03:20Speaker 6: common name's musical notes. And before the flower opens up,
- 1:03:24Speaker 6: they look like musical notes.
- 1:03:26Speaker 3: Yeah, like little like fern spring things.
- 1:03:29Speaker 6: Yeah, and the reason I bring it up is Carla
- 1:03:32Speaker 6: was saying she didn't really consider them to be tropical.
- 1:03:36Speaker 6: But that's the unique thing about Clarodendrons is they can
- 1:03:39Speaker 6: be temperate, tropical, Mediterranean. And I just love the flowers
- 1:03:46Speaker 6: because they're just so different.
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's fun to kind of have those kinds
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: of varieties of plants that you look at one and
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: you're like, I didn't think that was a clear dent.
- 1:03:53Speaker 4: Like, you know what I mean? Or I didn't think
- 1:03:54Speaker 4: that was this type of dent.
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:03:57Speaker 4: That's really fun.
- 1:04:00Speaker 6: I think the most common one in California is probably
- 1:04:03Speaker 6: the bleeding heart vine. Yeah.
- 1:04:04Speaker 4: Yeah. Exactly.
- 1:04:06Speaker 6: I think I have a couple pictures here.
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: And even then, they kind of like just do marginal,
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: kind of like for us here.
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: I feel like.
- 1:04:15Speaker 6: Well, they have to be protected.
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: I was going to say, is it too dry for.
- 1:04:19Speaker 6: I think that's probably it. Yeah?
- 1:04:21Speaker 4: Yeah. Because it's not the heat. I think it's just
- 1:04:23Speaker 4: the dryness.
- 1:04:24Speaker 6: Not the heat. It's the humidity.
- 1:04:30Speaker 4: You get your scorpions.
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: Yeah, like, look at that.
- 1:04:32Speaker 6: Isn't that a cool clarity?
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: So cool.
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: I love the color.
- 1:04:35Speaker 6: Big time. And this one's more tree-like.
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:04:39Speaker 6: And then I think I, I don't know if I
- 1:04:42Speaker 6: had another one.
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: Whatever you do, do not show it to our viewers. No.
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: Yeah. Keep that a secret.
- 1:04:47Speaker 6: They'd have to look it up. I never saw a
- 1:04:49Speaker 6: double ginger before. Like, you know, Alpinea, right?
- 1:04:55Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
- 1:04:56Speaker 6: Like, have you ever seen that one?
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: I think so.
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: Really?
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: I feel like, I don't know. I feel like I've
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: seen that one before.
- 1:05:04Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever seen that double one.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: You know, and then that's another really cool, you know,
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: the ginger plants, like when we travel to Costa Rica
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: and Hawaii.
- 1:05:16Speaker 6: And The Heliconias too, right? Because we can grow some
- 1:05:20Speaker 6: gingers here, but no Heliconias. Yeah. Or virtually no.
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: And then the variety of flowers that they have and
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: the colors and, you know.
- 1:05:30Speaker 6: And the diversity like Lobster Claw, Torch.
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:05:34Speaker 6: Well, Torch is a ginger, but the Heliconias, Lobster Claws, yeah.
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun to kind of like be
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: traveling around and kind of seeing that kind of stuff.
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: I will say in my travels through the past couple
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: of weeks, there wasn't a lot that I saw that wasn't,
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: was unique to an area. Like I saw a lot
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: of plants and then, and again, it was the time
- 1:05:57Speaker 3: of year. I didn't travel and necessarily in the best
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: gardening time, but a lot of the plants were similar
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: to what we have.
- 1:06:04Speaker 4: And, you know, I didn't see anything too exotic.
- 1:06:06Speaker 3: I did see like one, like, cyclamen that looked pretty
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: cool but i it was a cultivar it wasn't like
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: a you know native one or anything like that that
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: i saw like on the roadside.
- 1:06:16Speaker 6: So i was thinking that we should uh we should
- 1:06:21Speaker 6: put together a garden america tour that starts in belgium
- 1:06:25Speaker 6: and goes straight across germany into and end up in prague.
- 1:06:30Speaker 4: And do it in like april or may uh.
- 1:06:34Speaker 6: No do do it in june june Because April and
- 1:06:38Speaker 6: May is too early.
- 1:06:39Speaker 3: Yeah. So June. It's cold.
- 1:06:44Speaker 6: Either the very end of May or first part of June.
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:06:49Speaker 6: I think would be perfect.
- 1:06:50Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:06:50Speaker 4: Then we can do all of the bulbs, all of
- 1:06:53Speaker 4: the roses.
- 1:06:54Speaker 6: It'd be too late for bulbs. Oh.
- 1:06:56Speaker 4: What are you saying then?
- 1:06:58Speaker 3: When is the tulip field? April?
- 1:07:02Speaker 6: That would probably be April, but I didn't mention Holland
- 1:07:05Speaker 6: in what I just told you. Where did you start in?
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: Belgium.
- 1:07:10Speaker 6: Belgium.
- 1:07:11Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:07:12Speaker 4: They're like next door.
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: They are next door. But you can't do everything all
- 1:07:17Speaker 6: at once.
- 1:07:18Speaker 4: We'll just stay there for like a couple months.
- 1:07:20Speaker 6: But I'd love to go back to the gardens in Dortmund.
- 1:07:26Speaker 6: It's just phenomenal. You know, I think I told you
- 1:07:29Speaker 6: Ping Lim said it was, you know, he's been all
- 1:07:31Speaker 6: over the world too. It's one of the most fantastic
- 1:07:33Speaker 6: gardens he's ever seen.
- 1:07:35Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:07:37Speaker 6: And a lot of different things. In Frankfurt, they have
- 1:07:41Speaker 6: a place called the Palmetum, which is kind of cool.
- 1:07:46Speaker 6: It has some more Mediterranean plants in it because that's
- 1:07:52Speaker 6: unique to that area, right?
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: Right.
- 1:07:54Speaker 6: They don't get to see that. But a lot of
- 1:07:56Speaker 6: other cool things.
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: Is it in a big house?
- 1:08:00Speaker 6: Part of it is, but the rest is like meadow
- 1:08:02Speaker 6: gardens and all kinds of cool things. So I really
- 1:08:05Speaker 6: like that. And I want to go to the Czech
- 1:08:08Speaker 6: Republic because I've heard Prague is spectacular. And they also
- 1:08:14Speaker 6: have the most beautiful library in the world, supposedly.
- 1:08:19Speaker 4: Second to John Bignosco's library.
- 1:08:22Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to see why it's so much better
- 1:08:24Speaker 6: than mine.
- 1:08:25Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:08:27Speaker 6: Lenore said she just planted 20 cyclamens.
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: Nice.
- 1:08:31Speaker 6: Oh, no, I'm sorry. She planted cyclamens. And she read
- 1:08:35Speaker 6: that the seeds were viable for 20 years.
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: Oh.
- 1:08:39Speaker 6: And she wants to know if it's true.
- 1:08:43Speaker 3: Like, if you store the seeds and they're viable for
- 1:08:46Speaker 3: 20 years? I think it depends on how you store them.
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: Cycle them in seeds?
- 1:08:51Speaker 6: That may be a question for Gemini.
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:08:56Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know. You know, some seeds last a
- 1:08:59Speaker 6: long time. We've talked about how they found a lotus
- 1:09:03Speaker 6: seed and a palm seed in the pyramids, planted them 2,000, 3,000
- 1:09:09Speaker 6: years later, and they did fine. Yeah.
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: And they found them where?
- 1:09:13Speaker 6: In pyramids.
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: And that's why. And that's why. Because they're completely sealed
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: off from the environment.
- 1:09:20Speaker 6: But some seeds, like lettuce seeds, after a year, they're
- 1:09:23Speaker 6: no good.
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: Not these.
- 1:09:27Speaker 4: These are super seeds.
- 1:09:28Speaker 3: I think it depends on where they're kept, too, because
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: how they're preserved. If they're in your kitchen drawer in
- 1:09:36Speaker 3: a Ziploc baggie, they seem to last forever because you
- 1:09:39Speaker 3: keep them forever. Will they actually turn into anything? Who knows?
- 1:09:44Speaker 6: But Brian's pointing out that not every seed is hermetically sealed.
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: See how quickly he says that? See how he's straight
- 1:09:51Speaker 2: to the point? Okay, we are on the precipice.
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: Of a break.
- 1:09:56Speaker 6: Okay, Dana wants Tiger to let her know what type
- 1:10:00Speaker 6: of repellent your wife uses.
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: Oh, all of them.
- 1:10:04Speaker 4: Because she just always has it.
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: Yeah, just whatever.
- 1:10:07Speaker 4: Off or whatever spray she can get.
- 1:10:09Speaker 3: Anything that says keeps mosquitoes away, she just sprays because
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: she gets bit.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: And with that, we're going to take a break. One
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: more segment coming up. BizTalk Radio Facebook Live. Stay with
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: us here. on Garden America. Okay, how about that? That
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: was probably, what, about a second break?
- 1:11:08Speaker 4: That's as fast as the new Tesla.
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: Goes zero to 60.
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: Look at you, how quick you are. Yeah, how fast
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: is that? And I say quick for Facebook Live, not
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: BizTalk Radio.
- 1:11:17Speaker 6: Was that 10 seconds?
- 1:11:18Speaker 4: No, zero to 60 in one second.
- 1:11:20Speaker 6: In one second?
- 1:11:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: Now, what is that? We're talking G-forces here. Nine. Okay.
- 1:11:25Speaker 4: A normal human cannot do that.
- 1:11:27Speaker 5: No.
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: That's like a jet fighter pilot. You can't.
- 1:11:30Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: I remember there was, what's that roller coaster? There's a coaster.
- 1:11:33Speaker 6: It sounds dangerous.
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's silly.
- 1:11:37Speaker 6: There's a coaster.
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: It was at Disneyland California Adventure.
- 1:11:41Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: And they have one where, and I never had, I
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: had no idea this was going to happen. This is
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: years ago. So it comes out, you know, and it
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: sits there and you're waiting and waiting and all of
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: a sudden it just goes. And like your head goes,
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: it's like, wow, I'm not sure I want to do this.
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: That's, yeah, you can't.
- 1:11:59Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
- 1:12:01Speaker 4: Who wants to go.
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: That fast, that quick?
- 1:12:04Speaker 6: Dana wants to go.
- 1:12:06Speaker 2: Dana, you're taking up a lot of people's comments here.
- 1:12:11Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I appreciate her comments and everyone's comments.
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: But you don't have to go.
- 1:12:19Speaker 6: I think Dana's thinking you don't need to go on
- 1:12:21Speaker 6: the trip.
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: She just wants to go anywhere. We're talking about going
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: to Idlewild. We're going to go to Idlewild here in
- 1:12:26Speaker 2: the next month or so. Just get a little Airbnb
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: or some cabin. So we just need to get away. Yeah.
- 1:12:33Speaker 3: Is this the first year you guys have worked together?
- 1:12:36Speaker 4: Or you guys have worked.
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: Together multiple years?
- 1:12:37Speaker 3: Oh, the second year.
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: Second year?
- 1:12:38Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: I started in 2025.
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: Right around now, it starts.
- 1:12:41Speaker 4: To kick in.
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: It's just a routine.
- 1:12:43Speaker 4: It's fun year one. Year two?
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: We just have to get at it. It's the routine.
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: It is the routine.
- 1:12:50Speaker 6: Oh, man.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: I will say that is the one thing that when
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: we were.
- 1:12:55Speaker 4: Traveling, because.
- 1:12:57Speaker 3: I'm so used to Southern California where everything is outside
- 1:13:00Speaker 3: and you just do everything whenever you want, however you want.
- 1:13:03Speaker 4: It's not, you don't think about it.
- 1:13:05Speaker 3: You learn that when you travel to places that you
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: just can't get outside every day, it just doesn't, that
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: when you get a chance to get outside, it's a
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: big deal and they go out and they enjoy it
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: and they walk and they sit in the streets at
- 1:13:21Speaker 3: the markets and all that kind of stuff because they
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: know that in another month, this is not an option.
- 1:13:26Speaker 3: So they take advantage of it when they can.
- 1:13:28Speaker 6: I just love Dana's promoter. Dana's a good promoter, right?
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: Sure.
- 1:13:35Speaker 6: He used to be a producer, right? And the name
- 1:13:39Speaker 6: of the trip's Belgium and Beyond.
- 1:13:40Speaker 4: Oh, there you go.
- 1:13:43Speaker 6: Seriously, I'm wondering, would our listeners be interested in that trip?
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: It could be Beyond Belgium. I think it would be
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: a great one.
- 1:13:50Speaker 3: I think it's an easy one, too. You know, like
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: it's not too much.
- 1:13:55Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm wondering if it's too much for me. I mean,
- 1:13:57Speaker 6: you guys could do it if I don't go.
- 1:14:00Speaker 4: You're the one that started it.
- 1:14:01Speaker 3: He's like, I'll let you guys go and do it.
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: I don't have to go, you know.
- 1:14:04Speaker 6: I just thought about, and we're going to Ireland.
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: What? When?
- 1:14:12Speaker 6: Now I have to find out when it is.
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: Next week?
- 1:14:14Speaker 4: You didn't get the memo?
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: Why don't you just sit still?
- 1:14:18Speaker 6: My wife and.
- 1:14:19Speaker 4: Why would you sit still? Come on.
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: Travel.
- 1:14:22Speaker 4: Get out there.
- 1:14:22Speaker 6: My wife and... My sister and my sister-in-law have been
- 1:14:27Speaker 6: planning this. And I don't know the particulars. As a
- 1:14:33Speaker 6: matter of fact... You shouldn't.
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: Just go. Where do I show up? Where do I
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: have to be? Yeah, pretty much.
- 1:14:38Speaker 6: Because a couple days ago, they were all on a
- 1:14:41Speaker 6: phone conference. And I walked in and I heard the voice,
- 1:14:46Speaker 6: my brother's and my sister-in-law's voice. And I just said,
- 1:14:49Speaker 6: hey guys, just to say hello. And I said, I
- 1:14:52Speaker 6: can't stay because... I want to be surprised. So I
- 1:14:58Speaker 6: let them make the plans. So I'm not really... I'll
- 1:15:00Speaker 6: have to look. If we have... If it doesn't conflict,
- 1:15:06Speaker 6: I'll look more into setting up that tour.
- 1:15:10Speaker 4: But yeah, just go. Surprise.
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: I was a lot.
- 1:15:13Speaker 3: Janine planned this trip for us and it was pleasant
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: just to.
- 1:15:16Speaker 6: And you didn't have anything to do. You just followed
- 1:15:19Speaker 6: the line.
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: She did the whole thing. Itinerary, flights, all that. Nine different... Flights?
- 1:15:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:15:27Speaker 6: See, I don't think certain people are as good at
- 1:15:33Speaker 6: making flights as I am. Because I know how to.
- 1:15:36Speaker 6: I did it for like 40 years.
- 1:15:38Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:15:39Speaker 6: You know, I know how to do it. And when
- 1:15:43Speaker 6: I go to Hawaii and I have to change planes
- 1:15:46Speaker 6: in L.A., like, why do I go from San Diego
- 1:15:50Speaker 6: to L.A.? To change planes. Yeah, and then I got to.
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: Sometimes it's worse than going to San Francisco first, which
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: makes no sense to me.
- 1:15:57Speaker 3: Yeah. And somehow that flight is cheaper than just flying
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: straight to Hawaii, right?
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:16:02Speaker 4: That's the funny thing.
- 1:16:03Speaker 6: That's why we did it.
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why you do it. That's why you do it.
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: And you're like, oh, the direct flight is $ 500. And
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: it's like, oh, well, this one is $ 350. So you're like,
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: I'm going to save myself $ 150 each person.
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: What airline did you take over there? United.
- 1:16:20Speaker 6: United.
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: Friendly Skies.
- 1:16:22Speaker 6: I think it was United.
- 1:16:23Speaker 4: Was United the Friendly Skies? Yeah.
- 1:16:27Speaker 6: We took Alaska on the way back.
- 1:16:29Speaker 3: Direct.
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: It's a good airline.
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: Because it's Hawaiian.
- 1:16:32Speaker 6: It was one year before Hawaii, right? It was 59
- 1:16:35Speaker 6: for Alaska, 60 for Hawaii to become states.
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: So you supported both. That's good. Good for you.
- 1:16:42Speaker 6: Kevin says, if I go to Ireland, go to Ashford Castle?
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: No.
- 1:16:49Speaker 6: We are spending one night in a castle or two
- 1:16:52Speaker 6: nights in a castle.
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: My dad was telling me that that's a thing. That
- 1:16:57Speaker 3: when you travel to these areas, kind of like an Airbnb,
- 1:17:00Speaker 3: a lot of these castles also have opportunities to stay
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: in them. And they're actually nice and not too expensive. So,
- 1:17:08Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure there's a range. But my dad
- 1:17:11Speaker 3: was saying that when I travel next time through Europe,
- 1:17:14Speaker 3: that's something you should look at is like staying in
- 1:17:16Speaker 3: someone's castle somewhere.
- 1:17:18Speaker 6: Well, see, I'm thinking a castle is not going to
- 1:17:20Speaker 6: be as good as a palace.
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: Right?
- 1:17:24Speaker 4: Do they have palaces in Ireland, though?
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: That you can stay in?
- 1:17:28Speaker 4: Do they have a palace?
- 1:17:29Speaker 6: They may not. I don't know.
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: I don't think they have palaces there. I think it's
- 1:17:32Speaker 3: castles or nothing.
- 1:17:33Speaker 6: I think the reason we're staying in the castle is
- 1:17:35Speaker 6: because it's my sister's 50th wedding anniversary. She wanted to
- 1:17:41Speaker 6: stay in a castle. Originally, we were going to.
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: Go to Hawaii.
- 1:17:45Speaker 4: Everybody goes to Hawaii.
- 1:17:45Speaker 6: I had it all set up. what we were going
- 1:17:47Speaker 6: to do. And then next thing I knew we're going
- 1:17:50Speaker 6: to Ireland instead.
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: That's funny.
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: All right. That's a, well, that's going to wrap things up.
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: We've got a minute, a minute to say our goodbyes,
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: a minute to, uh.
- 1:17:57Speaker 4: I'm off the flag football.
- 1:17:59Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: You got, you're out of here like busy, quick as.
- 1:18:01Speaker 4: A flag football, birthday parties, right.
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: Back, right back into it to go, man. And this
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: is a flag football for both of you.
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: No, just for Isaac, just for Isaac, just for Isaac today.
- 1:18:12Speaker 2: So he's not burned out by all the things he's doing, lacrosse.
- 1:18:14Speaker 4: That's the only way I can keep him to not
- 1:18:16Speaker 4: bug me at all.
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
- 1:18:18Speaker 6: I might have to leave a little early next week.
- 1:18:21Speaker 6: For our listeners, if you go to the American Rose
- 1:18:23Speaker 6: Society's website, Ruth Tiffany and I are going to be
- 1:18:27Speaker 6: doing a Zoom meeting. And I think it's free to
- 1:18:32Speaker 6: sign up. I'm not really sure. But you do need
- 1:18:34Speaker 6: to sign up if you.
- 1:18:35Speaker 3: Want to do that. Where are you doing it from?
- 1:18:37Speaker 6: I'm going to do it from Ruth's house.
- 1:18:39Speaker 4: So you've got to head out to La Mesa.
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:18:42Speaker 6: It starts at 10, so I think I can stay
- 1:18:45Speaker 6: for most of the show.
- 1:18:46Speaker 4: You should just do it here.
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: Just be like, boom, boom. We got to go.
- 1:18:49Speaker 6: Well, it's got to be.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: On.
- 1:18:50Speaker 6: Log on, log on.
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: With all that to say, they can have their discussion.
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: We need to go. Alright. You need to stay on
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: time for The Network, BizTalk Radio, Facebook Live. Thank you
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: for joining us. We'll do it again next week here
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: on Garden America. Take care. Thank you.