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"Conversations with Alaska Gardeners" is your gateway to exploring the vibrant world of gardening in Juneau, Alaska, where the wilderness of towering mountains and the vast blue sea meet. This podcast series brings to life the unique challenges and unmatched rewards of gardening in the rugged yet beautiful terrain of The Last Frontier. Join us as we celebrate the passion and resilience of Juneau's gardening community, sharing insights, tips, and stories from those who thrive amidst the challenges of Alaskan gardening.
Conversations with Alaskan Gardeners is your gateway to exploring the vibrant world of gardening here in Juneau. Join us as we celebrate the passion and resilience of Juneau's gardening community, sharing insights, tips, and stories from the experts. Here's Margaret Tharp and David Lundrum of Landscape Alaska on KINY.
Speaker 2:Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome back to Conversations with Alaskan Gardeners, another episode. I'm so glad to be here.
Speaker 3:You know, I think about all the people who helped us learn about gardening in Southeast Alaska. Because even though we know a lot about gardening in general, gardening in Southeast Alaska is a whole other shebang shebang. We
Speaker 2:certainly got a
Speaker 3:chance to know them. The Polly's were really instrumental in that. Yep. And and and so happy to share. Well, you know, a lot of people are like, I don't wanna tell you anything.
Speaker 3:It is Southeast Alaska.
Speaker 2:Can tell you, my favorite memory of Doc Polly was seeing him tie up his delphiniums.
Speaker 3:This 12 feet tall?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Was he would he would reach out the upstairs window to tie him to the to the house. Yeah. Something else.
Speaker 3:And they were so beautiful. Yes. And everything you did.
Speaker 2:Got a call already. Okay. Good morning Conversations. Are you there? Having a little phone difficulty here, it looks like.
Speaker 2:I can hear you. Hello?
Speaker 3:Hello. Is this KIMY?
Speaker 2:Yes, it's KIMY.
Speaker 3:May I ask why Angu is not getting your station?
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. I can't understand you, ma'am. Okay, bro. Try again later. Thanks.
Speaker 2:Okay. So, yes, I loved I loved getting to know those people. It was absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3:We came here with a lot of skill, not only in the nursery business, in the design business, and all that, but everything is locale, locale, locale. And Southeast Alaska is its very own. And Juneau, Alaska, you know, we didn't go to Sitka. Sitka is like the paradise of gardening. And coming to Juneau, you have to deal with a whole bunch of controversial extremes environmentally.
Speaker 3:The ice, the snow, the rain, the
Speaker 2:The no topsoil. Yeah. Yeah. You betcha. That was a big deal too.
Speaker 2:Figuring out that we had to build it, had to make it.
Speaker 3:Oh, but that was me.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Good job. Yeah. Absolutely good job. So it's a call in show, folks.
Speaker 2:8050868085861800, excuse me. And you can call or text to that phone number and we'll answer you on the air or we will have it repeated by our esteemed colleague. Or we'll have
Speaker 3:a great argument.
Speaker 2:Well, there's always that. So I woke up thinking about one of those fascinating books I read in years called A New Tree Biology by a guy named Alex Shego. And he was agent in New Hampshire and he spent his entire career dissecting trees with a chainsaw, looking to see how they responded to different kinds of wounds and what he could figure out how things worked.
Speaker 3:And boy, had old trees in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:All kinds Unlike the trees here, other than the forest trees, they're all pretty young.
Speaker 2:So what he saw was that the tree responded to wounds from the outside, not from inside, not trying to heal it from the inside. They responded by growing layers over the outside of it and closing off the wound area. So even if a thing had started rot, it's still it could stop the rot by growing over the top of it. And he could tell that by cutting vertically through the tree trunk and being able to look at it sideways and see where the wound was, how far back, how many layers of wood there was over that, you know, how long ago was the wound occurred.
Speaker 3:And so it was fascinating.
Speaker 2:Absolutely fascinating. One of the best things that I learned about it was about something called branch collar. Now where where a branch comes off of a main trunk
Speaker 3:A trunk. There's a a little swollen area.
Speaker 2:That's There you go. That's exactly it. There's a swollen area at the base of it.
Speaker 3:Area. I mean, little tiny, but it's still swollen versus the smooth bark that's on the trunk.
Speaker 2:Exactly. And it's like stem cells. That's undifferentiated. It hasn't decided yet whether it's gonna be bark or wood. It's but it's ready to be either one of them.
Speaker 2:Now if you can imagine in your mind's eye that the branch gets broken off three inches away from the trunk, that little collar is going to try and grow up over the the end of that branch, and the branch is trying to rot away. It's kind of a race between the two of them. Which one can can do their job first?
Speaker 3:Conversations gonna win.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's it was fascinating. I I love it, and I think about that all the time. I did a bunch of tree work in the last couple of weeks, and and that's really kind of the guiding premise there is to see how quickly can I let it heal? And I did some earlier this year and there was big wounds in the trees and I filled them with that spray foam.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. And then
Speaker 3:the We still have to do my tree.
Speaker 2:I have. That's what I'm leading up to. I'll try and get to that today. We've got our big ladder and I've got my can of paint, and we've got a guy who can shin me up to the ladder. So let's try and get that today while the weather's nice.
Speaker 2:That's one
Speaker 3:of the things that I had never experienced before, but it really taught me a lot about thinking about design is that we had so much snow on the big forest trees that when they dropped their pile of snow on the deciduous things underneath them, they just shattered them. It's not the same as snowfall. It was really like 20 pounds of frozen snow falling off the branches right onto something that's smaller than they are. And in terms of logistics, if I could move my 100 year old Japanese maples, I would. But I I don't have any place to move them to.
Speaker 3:But it was it's it's what really taught me a lesson.
Speaker 2:So you have to be closer to the mic. She can't you can't hear it.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:She can pull that thing out out closer to you. Yeah. But I know what you mean. And that damage done to those lovely trees, you know, there's no getting it back. It was a great big branch that broke out of it right out of the middle of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And I I'm wondering, is it gonna kill it? You know? But we have to go fix it. We have to go fill it up with foam and paint it and see if we can get it to start healing over.
Speaker 2:We'll do it today.
Speaker 3:Because it's getting to the point where you're not gonna be able to paint wounds anymore because if we're going into fall,
Speaker 2:Yes. I'll get I'll do it today.
Speaker 3:I know you will.
Speaker 2:I'll do it today.
Speaker 3:You're not worried about it,
Speaker 2:Dave. I have several things I have to do today. That's one of them. And another one is give things their last fertilizing for the season.
Speaker 3:We did a lot of that yesterday.
Speaker 2:You used liquid fertilizer in the whole nursery. Everybody got
Speaker 3:it. Everybody.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Well, you know, there's a there's a combination of of fertilizer effects. The liquid fertilizer is available right now. Right. And so it's really a a good and useful tool.
Speaker 3:It's not to last through the wintertime.
Speaker 2:No. Need something that's going to be slower releasing that's going to last through the wintertime. Right.
Speaker 3:And that has to go next.
Speaker 2:Right. And you're not and you don't want a lot of nitrogen this time of year. Something like So and potash. Eight thirty two sixteen would be about right. Or you can even do it with twelve twelve twelve because not a whole lot of nitrogen in there.
Speaker 2:But, you know, we'll do that. And we'll give all the trees and shrubs in both planted.
Speaker 3:You know, the last four days have been absolutely glorious. Sunshine, the heat from the big star up there in the world, it's been great.
Speaker 2:It really has.
Speaker 3:We have been hungry for some heat.
Speaker 2:And we made hay while the sunshine. We did a lot of heavy work in the last week, digging and cutting. Yesterday, our crew were digging out the roots of salmonberries.
Speaker 3:There you go. Boy.
Speaker 2:An inspiration. It was quite a project, you know. They've been, you know, they've grown in this zone for twenty five years. So there were plenty of those big potato like starch storage roots.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, you know, salmonberries are vigorous things. Yeah. They'll take over if you let them.
Speaker 2:Well, they they had. And it was surprising we found the remnants of other landscape efforts buried under the salmon berries. They'd been eaten up, absolutely swallowed. Retaining walls, little bricks for piles, all that kind of stuff. It's like being a forensic biologist.
Speaker 3:Perfect.
Speaker 2:So it's also time to start looking at, at your landscape and think about what could I add to bring more color in at this time of year? Well What could I put in my yard that would would please me, that would bring color in at this time of year? One of the things that we really brought in for ourselves this year were asters, and we'd never had asters very much before. No.
Speaker 3:They're beautiful.
Speaker 2:And really, the modern asters are just stunning, and they're star shaped They're
Speaker 3:getting started.
Speaker 2:They're just starting now. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right. They they bloom really late and go into the fall. And
Speaker 2:And what a pretty color.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh. The other thing is that in the early spring, this is the time to start thinking about early bulbs. I love the my favorite, of course, is the golden crocus, but everybody has their own favorite. And the crocus come back every year, they hold up through all the weather and they bloom even when there's snow on the ground, and they spread and come back year after year. And they flower for
Speaker 2:And almost two
Speaker 3:you can mow them. So when they're done, you don't have to do anything other than, you know, cut them off. And to me, it's the perfect bulb.
Speaker 2:Yep. Ideal.
Speaker 3:Because it doesn't it doesn't it's not intimidated
Speaker 2:And by the bad it's affordable.
Speaker 3:And I would recommend buying them by the thousand.
Speaker 2:You betcha.
Speaker 3:Not, oh, here's tin. No. Have it be a carpet.
Speaker 2:That's really a good one. And and also another thing to think about this time of year is remember how much damage there was done to the Arborvitaes last winter. Uh-huh. So now when the weather's nice, is the time to get ahead And tie them up. And tie them up.
Speaker 3:Internally tie them up. And so what's the recommended product to tie them up with?
Speaker 2:I bought that nylon webbing like you have on backpacks. Mhmm. I bought a big roll of that. That way it's it's supple enough to tie. I bought it black, so you don't really see it.
Speaker 2:And and you
Speaker 3:can That's very important.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. And it's flat, so it's not gonna cut into the bark. Great. And when you tie them up, you don't tie them tightly. The idea is not to hold them in in stiff order.
Speaker 2:The idea is to stop them from falling apart very far. So you tie it loose around them. You reach underneath the foliage and you you reach around the plants and you wrap your your ribbon of strapping around the trunks all the way around and don't tie it very tightly.
Speaker 3:Maybe you give a class in this, Dave.
Speaker 2:Know, I'll you're show anybody that wants to.
Speaker 3:Your pruning class was really very successful. You could do a winterizing class.
Speaker 2:Not a bad idea. Before winter comes though.
Speaker 3:It's gotta happen Oh,
Speaker 2:it's it's only September 5 today. We have months. Yeah. No. Not the snow comes.
Speaker 3:People don't wanna get out there when it's pouring down rain.
Speaker 2:I'm there.
Speaker 3:You wanna do it all the weather's nice.
Speaker 2:And also, so now that you look around in your perennial garden and things are looking kind of worn out. The spring bloomers like the delphiniums and the bleeding hearts, they're looking sad.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Cut them back.
Speaker 2:Cut them off. That's right. Cut them off. They may not bloom again this year, but you'll get them to grow back and they'll look pretty. They look attractive.
Speaker 2:They look And
Speaker 3:you can fertilize them.
Speaker 2:That would be the story. Cut them back and fertilize them.
Speaker 3:So when they come on in the spring, they're nice and strong. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:Now if you if you pay attention, you could take these plants earlier when they start fading their when the flowers start fading and cut them off then, and at that time you will get another flush of flowers.
Speaker 3:Well, know, the real problem with that is we waited so long for the sun to come this year that people they don't want to.
Speaker 2:Who wants to cut them off? Yeah. Certainly follow that. So but but you know
Speaker 3:I mean, you're right. I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying that the the climate has a lot to do with people's motivation for cutting things back or not.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. It's an El Nino year. So the prediction is more snow than last year.
Speaker 3:I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry. I had 12 feet of snow at my house. I I I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, I'm sure nobody really wants to hear it. Maybe ski bunnies. I have
Speaker 4:to interrupt because I've waited patiently for fifteen minutes and we're fifteen minutes into the show. Hello? Your birthday
Speaker 2:is coming up. My birthday is coming up and it's part of my my birthday celebration. Mhmm. Dave's big birthday sale.
Speaker 4:That's the big thing because it's not about you asking for presents. It's you giving a
Speaker 2:gift. Right? As a matter of fact, I am giving a gift for my birthday. Every day, I'm adding one more species of plants to my sale list that I'm giving for 20% off.
Speaker 3:And today it's Japanese maples?
Speaker 2:Today I'm adding Japanese maples. That's right. We have about a dozen Japanese maples that are of all different kinds, both sizes and colors and shapes, and ones that will grow to be differently different looking also. But they're they're going to add to rhododendrons and lilacs and snow mount spireas and all the perennial things we have and the dwarf arctic birch curts. That's dwarf?
Speaker 3:That's a dwarf?
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's
Speaker 3:huge. It is, isn't it? Huge for a dwarf.
Speaker 2:It's it's native to the Brooks Range.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:And and Good for it. And there it only gets about eight eight or 10 inches tall.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're kidding. That that
Speaker 2:very plant. And it's six feet tall in our yard.
Speaker 3:Well, it's in a pot. So let's just say it's five feet tall, but that's big for a burp for
Speaker 2:a dwarf. Uh-huh. And it's so cool. The leaves are tiny, tiny, tiny. But you look at them, they're little miniature birch leaves, serrated edges, kind of tough looking, the stems and it has lots and lots of them and lots and lots of branches.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 3:What you what excites you guys is crazy. Oh. You know?
Speaker 4:Well, I'm getting kinda interested too now. How big of a pot
Speaker 2:was this in again? It's not in a very big pot. Maybe a six gallon pot.
Speaker 4:So the root system isn't gigantic on it? No.
Speaker 2:It's not. And you know how willow is. It grows in the tiniest crack. It grows if it if there's a place the seed can get into, it's gonna grow there. And, you know, a crack in your in your foundation, a will will grow there.
Speaker 2:I'm sure that when they did the rooftop garden and the transit center downtown, I'm sure it turned to Willow. I'm sure it turned to Willow because you look around the last few days, it's been Willow blowing everywhere. Willow and fireweed blowing everywhere. The fireweed seed is bigger than the willow seed is. The willow seed is just minuscule and floating around everywhere, just looking for a place to land and germinate.
Speaker 2:Anyway, my birthday celebration also includes the dwarf arctic willow. And if you don't wanna buy it, you can come look at it. Maybe you'll get excited for it too.
Speaker 3:You can pet it.
Speaker 2:You can come pet it. But talk about petting things. Those dwarf eastern white pines.
Speaker 3:They're the most beautiful thing we've got as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2:They really, mean, really have a
Speaker 3:lot of really pretty things, but those are incredible. I think we had a plan, every one of them. Oh, but you like to sell things.
Speaker 2:I'd rather sell them. That's right. So I'll add them on my list tomorrow. So for tomorrow's sale list, I'll add on the dwarf eastern white pines. We've got about five of those.
Speaker 3:You ought to come see them. If you're looking for some type of evergreen conifer that kind of glows in the night.
Speaker 2:And doesn't get too big.
Speaker 3:And doesn't get too big, but is really showy. That's what these are.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 4:Somebody was asking me about some suggestions to ask you for, you know, they're moving into a place, it's the front yard's wide open, very noisy. So shrubs, trees, what they might be able to do to help absorb sound.
Speaker 2:The big thing about sound absorbing or sound protection is you plant something that's kind of in a triangle looking at it at it at horizontal, at a cross section. So the closer to the sound, the plants are shorter. And then the next layer are higher than that, and then the next layer is higher than that. So the sound travels as if it were smoke. Okay.
Speaker 2:And it gets it gets forced up on that inclined plane up and over so you can actually direct the sound higher up over your up over your house, you know, and so it's Well,
Speaker 4:that makes a lot of sense. In that way, they're
Speaker 2:not planning something real tall near a corner or an intersection or something. Right? That's really true. And and that's a dangerous thing too. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, I I feel like it would be it would be my community donation to go around town and prune things away from the stop signs.
Speaker 4:Well, you and I go through the same roundabout there at Auk Bay, and the direction I'm coming from, that the trees that are right there in the corner of the roundabout Uh-huh. Man, there's been about two or three times a little car has been hidden behind those.
Speaker 2:The the ones that are in the electrical? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Right there at that.
Speaker 2:Yes. I know exactly what you mean. Okay. I'll take that up. Better you than me.
Speaker 2:Right. And we'll manage that. I'm I'm thank you for suggesting that. That is a particularly dangerous intersection. Somebody else wants to suggest something for me to pay attention to, give us a call.
Speaker 2:805861800 or send a text or you could even do it later in the day or week and send it directly to me rather than to the radio station because I can help with that. You know, I could go knock on their door and say, do you mind if I take that branch off that hides the stop sign?
Speaker 3:Well, know, part of it is the fact that everybody with all the people who are here in Juneau, but they're not really from here, that are here during the tourist season, they're all going 80 miles an hour. They're not paying attention to what the speed limit is or the fact they're in a neighborhood or, you know, they just want to be balls out out there driving really fast. And, you know, we come from small neighborhoods where everybody pays attention to the fact that kids are along the road. There are dogs with kids on bikes. You have to be a little bit more sensitive than how fast can I get there?
Speaker 2:Right. What difference does it make? Two or three minutes. Okay. So here's another thing.
Speaker 2:Most things, most plants in your your landscape, if you're gonna divide them, you do it after they flower. And right then, right after they flower is the perfect time for most things. So like irises, you divide them right after they flower. Primroses, you divide them right after they flower.
Speaker 3:So it's a little late for many things.
Speaker 2:Except for Florin Day Primroses, which are just finishing their bloom time now. And that's the tall yellow primrose that gets about
Speaker 3:It's really fragrant.
Speaker 2:Really, really fragrant, almost waist high. And they're everywhere this time of year. You see them in in almost every landscape garden because there's something that that propagates real easily. If you've got one, pretty soon you're gonna have 30 of them because the seed goes everywhere. And they like the willows, they want to grow.
Speaker 2:So if you like them and you want to have more of them, now's the time to do it. And to do that, you cut the top back, you dig the plant out of the ground and turn it over so the roots are sticking up in the air, You take your garden hose and you wash the dirt away from the root system. And that way you can see where the intersections are, where the plant looks like it would be the easiest to divide it. And and that's what you do. You just follow where it's easy to divide and go ahead and use a either a pair of pruning shears or a sharp knife and cut it into chunks and then right away, put it back in the ground.
Speaker 2:Don't let them lay around. Don't let them lay around for two or three days in a bucket. You know, get them right back in the ground and they'll start growing right away and you'll have more for the springtime.
Speaker 3:I think about how many thousands of primroses we've divided.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Thousands. And not very many before we came here. No. This is the Primrose city.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I'm planting lawns in sand this week and I'm if someone is interested, the reason why we quit planting lawns in dirt was because once we saw how easy it was to work with sand and get the lawns to grow in that, we never looked back.
Speaker 3:And not only that, it's cheaper. It's cheaper. On top of it.
Speaker 2:And it doesn't turn to mud when it rains.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:And it doesn't grow anywhere near as much moss.
Speaker 3:Right. Because it drains.
Speaker 2:And and it's so much easier to do. Absolutely so much easier to do. So what you do is you put down three inches of sand and then you buy a few bales of peat moss and you mix the peat moss into the sand with your rake.
Speaker 3:You have some organic matter in there.
Speaker 2:So it's got some something for the nutrient to hold on to. Grass likes to grow in sand. It makes it happy. Athletic turf is growing in sand. Golf courses are built on sand.
Speaker 2:Football fields and baseball fields are all built on sand. And they have strong growing roots and they mow it tight and it thrives in there. And the roots not knit the sand together into a coherent coherent piece, so it works really well. If anybody's interested, look at our website. There's an article in it.
Speaker 2:It's landscapealaska.com. And you can look there and you'll see instructions and some photos and some some some hints about it. There's a actually, it's a pretty a pretty information heavy website anyway. And if you're interested in being on our regular email list, this is the time to do it. Send us an email to landscape alaska at gmail saying, put me on the list.
Speaker 2:Because every month, a couple times, we send out lists of of new stuff that's available and and hints about what to take care of right now and introductions of things that we're excited about that we we look forward to seeing. So it's landscape Alaska at Gmail or look at our website, landscape Alaska dot com. Okay.
Speaker 4:So Plenty of folks who found out about your birthday sale that way. Yes.
Speaker 2:As a matter of fact, and I've been posting it on Facebook And I posted it to the Facebook pages also. So when you do something on Facebook, it gives you the option of posting putting it to other Facebook pages. So I put it to Gustavus and Huna and and Goon and and you know, every people because we ship stuff out of town all the time. We all use wings. We use seaplanes and Alaska Airlines.
Speaker 2:Box it up and send it out and we send stuff to Sitka and Anchorage and and Huna, and we're glad to help him. So there's places that don't have access to, you know, the kind of stuff that we've got. What?
Speaker 3:You make me want to go play golf. Sand lawns.
Speaker 2:Course you always I want to play
Speaker 4:thought it was his sunburned face. But you've been
Speaker 2:in the sun, Dave. Yeah. Well, know, that's genetics. I I tan easily. But I'm glad to do it.
Speaker 2:Absolutely glad to do it. It makes me feel healthy.
Speaker 3:My favorite golf course is the one at Lincoln City in Portland, Oregon, outside of Portland, Oregon, that I grew up playing golf there with my brother and my dad. You know, playing golf is a wonderful thing. And learning how to play golf, starting young so you don't get discouraged, and only getting better as time goes by, you got to go for it.
Speaker 2:And the pace of the game is just about right. Right. You play golf at a stroll.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And it conversation.
Speaker 2:Chat. Chat. Chat. That's right. Everybody's having a good time.
Speaker 2:Yep. We like that. So, if you're going to do your your lawns, give them a last fertilizing now. This is the time you wanna feed feed them up so that they go into the winter. But it's true.
Speaker 2:Nicely healthy.
Speaker 3:Trees and your perennials and your shrubbery too. Feed them now.
Speaker 4:I wish I would have known that about the sand earlier because I put in way too much topsoil and got a
Speaker 2:big old lumpy yard out of it. And muddy.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And expensive.
Speaker 4:Yep. And those wheels and
Speaker 2:the mower just dig right through and make it worse. Well, you can always just lay another layer on it and redo it. You don't have to take that away.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:You can just take another three inches of sand and sand's real easy to work with and you don't have to you don't have to pack it down. It does that by itself. So, it's been nice talking to you folks and we're going to see you again next week and we're going to end our program at the end of September. So, if you have questions you want to ask. Let's get it together.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Let's get it together.
Speaker 2:Let's get it together. And you can you can come and visit us at Landscape Alaska on the Back Loop Road. We're open from ten till four today and noon till four tomorrow. We're closed on Labor Day. Everybody's closed on Labor Day.
Speaker 4:You don't even get an extra day off because you usually
Speaker 2:I usually I'm usually closed on on Monday. That's right.
Speaker 4:So same old, same old, but
Speaker 2:a birthday on the tenth. On so that'll be on Thursday. That's right. So we're adding Japanese maples today and the eastern white pines tomorrow. So they're all still on sale.
Speaker 2:The things that I've been I've been mentioning every day, the list gets added to. It doesn't substitute for. Oh, okay. So it's not like if you missed it, you missed it. No.
Speaker 2:You can It's and, not or. Exactly. Gotcha. So if you want a lilac, now is the time, particularly because we have some really, really beautiful lilacs we bought for one of our clients who wanted some big lilac bushes, and these are five feet tall now. I always I already forgot what's today's.
Speaker 2:What's today? Maples.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:And we've got different kinds. The short archy ones, the tall ones, we've got the gold colored and the red colored and the green colored, and we have some that are a combination of Japanese and Korean, and they're really, really hardy. And they look unlike other maples that we've ever seen.
Speaker 4:Tell them where you are again because they don't let you
Speaker 2:have a sign. They do not let me have a sign. It's on the back loop road between Goat Hill Road and Spring Way. How late are you open today? Till 04:00.
Speaker 2:Alright. And if somebody wants to call me up and say I can't get there till 04:30.
Speaker 4:You'll stay open till 04:00.
Speaker 2:I'd like you to wait for them. That's
Speaker 3:right. It's a beautiful day. We'll be happy and we'll be outside.
Speaker 2:And if you haven't ever been to Landscape Alaska, it's a stunningly beautiful sight. So come join us. Talk to Cordova. It's fun. And until next week, it's the bargain day from Landscape Alaska.
Speaker 2:We're wishing you all.
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