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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 Lindrum of Landscape Alaska on KINY.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Conversations with Alaskan Gardeners is back on the air. Mark and Dave from Landscape Alaska.
Speaker 2:Here we are. This is regularly a call in show, but since we don't have any new phones in our new studio yet, you just have to imagine. Use telekinetic transfer.
Speaker 3:You can send a text on online.
Speaker 2:You can send a text to me at, 321-4149. That's 321-4149. Or you can use the radio station's website email, which is air@kinyradio.com. Air@kinyradio.com.
Speaker 3:Well, happy Memorial Day.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You know? The sun's shining. And Isn't it astounding to see
Speaker 3:that Well, let's not get overly excited. It did come between two clouds, but has it been raining? Holy moly.
Speaker 2:Oh, man. Oh, man.
Speaker 3:And it's been so cold. The resilience of the Alaska Gardeners are certainly being put to the test.
Speaker 2:The gardeners that have come to Landscape Alaska in the last week have all been swaddled in rain gear, rubber boots, looking around grinning as if they had made the secret trip like they're inside.
Speaker 3:So a woman yesterday was at the nursery, and I said, this weather, because it was pouring down rain, is just so obnoxious. And she says, well, you just have to have a greenhouse. And I thought, well, I'm sure everybody'd like to have a greenhouse, but not everybody can have a greenhouse.
Speaker 2:And a lot of those people who have greenhouses lost them this winter. I can't tell you how many people talk to me about the crushing effects of the snow or the snow being shoveled off their roofs on top of their greenhouse.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, I have a lot of gardener friends who I'm trying to get to who call and talk to me about how crushed their their plants are from the snow coming off the roof. And the one constant that I see is the Mugo Pines and the ewes seem to have come through okay. And they were been buried.
Speaker 2:Aren't they tough?
Speaker 3:Yes. They are.
Speaker 2:The Japanese yew turns out to be incredibly resilient. Think about the roundabout there at Ok Bay.
Speaker 3:You know? Right. It was absolutely buried.
Speaker 2:Absolutely buried. And, when the snow melted off, the Japanese yew, they're the only thing that looks good in that planting. Now but they just looked fine as soon as it came off.
Speaker 3:You think about doing the whole thing in you?
Speaker 2:I do think about that. Know? But but on the other hand, I like the idea of the diversity, but maybe utility is gonna win out.
Speaker 3:I would think well, you know me. In a public space like that, where it gets a tremendous amount of abuse just by being out in the elements, I think having it all be you would be a really smart thing.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll float the idea with my superiors.
Speaker 3:It'll be, you know, it's use a little bit more expensive than a deciduous shrub, but it is evergreen all year round.
Speaker 2:And tough. That's right. And and it looks good.
Speaker 3:And it doesn't have any diseases or it likes it here in Southeast.
Speaker 2:The Japanese yew is an evergreen, but it doesn't have needles. It has has little tiny leaves in bright green color, and the new growth on the Japanese yew is a contrasting even brighter color. It's always a spectacular thing.
Speaker 3:Almost yellow.
Speaker 2:The ones we just brought into the nursery have their new growth on them now, and they're really, really pretty. Really, really pretty. Yeah. They look so gentle. So the ones that are pruned around the Governor's House is not the same variety as what we have now.
Speaker 2:No. We have a one that is much softer and much brighter green.
Speaker 3:It's a real old variety.
Speaker 2:The one that we're using? The hedge? No. Oh, the hedge of the
Speaker 3:The hedge of the Governor's.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 3:How old do you think that hedge is?
Speaker 2:Hundred years.
Speaker 3:Real close.
Speaker 2:Easily. Hundred years. You know? And it it's not the same bright green. It's a darker green, so it makes me think it's more of a English yew or an Irish yew even though they're not as hardy as what the Japanese yew is, and they have seemed to be wonderful.
Speaker 2:When the governor's house had me prune their hedge back about oh gosh, it's gotta be eight or ten years ago now. I cut it back and there was no foliage showing. Cut it back to bare wood.
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:And it took it a couple years to recover from that, but it looks just fine now.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. Well, you didn't cut it back like that everywhere, but where you where it had been damaged.
Speaker 2:No. I cut it all around the outside edge where it was growing out over the sidewalk. Oh. Okay. And I used a power shear and cut it
Speaker 3:right The Governor's Mansion can use another pruning because the trees are not Well, no, I'm talking about the flowering trees and things that are in the garden. Need to be taken care of. But anyway, I'm sure that's never gonna happen.
Speaker 2:It is something to drive around town and look at landscapes and think, well, they ought to do this and they ought to do that. Well,
Speaker 3:not any of our business, but
Speaker 2:is where It's how we respond to it.
Speaker 3:It's where we live. Uh-huh. Know? It's just like somebody walked into my house and said, why aren't you tidier? I don't have the time.
Speaker 2:That's right. And nobody really does that, walks in your house and complains about your housekeeping.
Speaker 3:Well, I
Speaker 2:do. Yeah. I know. Absolutely. So if you come to Landscape Alaska this weekend, we're having a memorial day sale on peonies.
Speaker 3:And peonies are an amazing thing. They are so long lived.
Speaker 2:Tell the story.
Speaker 3:Well, then when we were on on our honeymoon, we stopped to see my grandmother in the Midwest, and she had a row of peonies growing behind her house in Kingston Mines, Illinois, the thriving metropolis of. And she said, well, why don't you dig up one of these peonies and take it home to your house and you can have one of your grandfather's peonies in your backyard. And of course, it was huge. It took three banana boxes for us to get it all wrapped up and packed up. And we have it living in our backyard now, and it must be a 125 years old or even a 150 years old.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh. And still blooming.
Speaker 2:And still blooming and growing healthily. And so it's also now so there's your your grandmother to you, to our house in Portland where our son and his children live. Right. So it's growing right on down through the generations, sharing that peony plant. Do you remember that guy living on C Street downtown?
Speaker 2:His name was Al. I don't remember what his last name was. But he had that great big pink peony in his yard.
Speaker 3:Right. And there was also a German woman who lived down in the flats that grew peonies underneath the eaves of of her little house that just went to town every year.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. Al told me that that when he was a little boy he was an old man when he was telling me this story. When he was a little boy, his mother admired somebody else's peony, and the woman just took her spading fork and dug a hole next to her peony plant and took a piece of root and tore it off and gave it to her, and that's the origin of his peony plant.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:So it's a share it around.
Speaker 3:And apparently, it's a medicinal Chinese herb. They use it.
Speaker 2:In Chinese traditional medicine, they use it for a lot of things and they have botanical name for it.
Speaker 3:And they use the roots.
Speaker 2:They use the roots. Paonia offisionalis. And when you see offisionalis as the botanical name for anything, it means it was medicinally used. It's the official kind. So it came from medical gardens, medicinal gardens.
Speaker 2:So many of our common garden plants do come from medicinal gardens.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I didn't have any idea.
Speaker 2:Delphiniums, foxgloves, larkspur, bleeding hearts. Those are all medicinal plants originally. And lots of other things that that we use regularly originally were medicinal plants, they have migrated. They've crossed over into being ornamental species that we now breed for their flower or their shape or their leaf color rather than for their medicinal power.
Speaker 3:Well, the peonies we have at Landscape Alaska are big and beautiful.
Speaker 2:Stunning. We have several kinds.
Speaker 3:Several kinds.
Speaker 2:And we also have a bunch of peonies that are field grown that are sturdy, looking plants, but we have no idea what color they
Speaker 3:are. Mhmm. So
Speaker 2:So anyway, 10% off on any peony plant you want. The big beautiful name varieties or the field grown ones or
Speaker 3:We have Ayto peonies too. Right?
Speaker 2:I think they're gone.
Speaker 3:Are they all gone?
Speaker 2:Aitou is a cross between herbaceous kind of peony and a tree peony, and it's it's named after the guy that did the hybridization whose name was Aitou.
Speaker 3:My mother had tree peonies.
Speaker 2:Real tree peonies. Yes. And there are there are a bunch around Juneau, I'm sure. Mhmm. They're they're really, really tough.
Speaker 2:A tree peony in the wintertime drops its leaves, but keeps some woody stems above the ground. Right. So so it makes a little, a statue, like a three foot high stick that then blooms incredibly. And the herbaceous peonies have leaves that die to the ground in the wintertime. There's no trace of it showing above ground in the winter.
Speaker 2:People tell me that they have peonies in their yard that they have for years that haven't bloomed. And one of the things I learned years ago was
Speaker 3:Plant it too deep.
Speaker 2:If it's too deep or if it is originally planted, if it bloomed at one time and doesn't bloom anymore, it's probably been covered up by successive layers of mulch or cultivation and gotten too deep over the top of it so it no longer will bloom. You wanna have it be just about an inch under the ground. You should be able to reach down with the end of your
Speaker 3:thumb. And feel the top of the And you have to feed them. They're like a hog tied up at the garden fence. Wanna feed them so that they wanna produce the flowers.
Speaker 2:And the same thing with rhubarb, by the way. People are planting their rhubarb this time of year, and they're getting pieces from their neighbors or buying it from Landscape Alaska. And
Speaker 3:So do we have rhubarb up at the house?
Speaker 2:We do. We've got about a half a dozen that are overwintered ones, and then we planted all those this spring that are gonna be ready Right.
Speaker 3:Those new roots that were really big.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Great. Rhubarb's a very popular plant around here.
Speaker 3:Yeah. It does so well.
Speaker 2:It does so well. It comes up so reliably. It looks so beautiful, and it tastes good.
Speaker 3:And the bears
Speaker 2:don't Really, really rich flavor on it. Yeah. You don't eat the leaves though. No. You have to eat only the stem.
Speaker 2:And one thing also I learned about that is that you don't cut stems on that, you tear them off like you would the leaf of an artichoke. And that makes them that tears off the piece that would rot if you cut it off.
Speaker 3:I see. Don't wanna leave anything behind.
Speaker 2:Don't wanna leave anything behind and let it rot. So we'll be open from 10:00 till 04:30, 05:00, depending upon the weather. And we're closed on Mondays, and tomorrow and Sunday, we don't open until noon. But other than that, we're open, and by the way, we are soliciting employees. And we have Juno's original nursery and landscape business, and we're hiring and we're offering vigorous outdoor work for people who are interested in learning and practicing with the masters of their craft.
Speaker 2:That's us, you and me. Masters of our craft. If you wanna know how to grow things in Southeast Alaska and how to have your landscape look beautiful and have your landscape be sustainable and have it be with minor inputs so you have low maintenance, come and talk to us, or even better, come work with us. And we're looking for people that can work on the landscape crew and people that like to take care of plants in the nursery. We've got a lot of openings.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of plants.
Speaker 2:And we have a lot of work.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of plants. We have a lot of work.
Speaker 2:Have when you come up to the landscape of Alaska and you walk around, you're just astounded at how much there is there.
Speaker 3:And this next week, we're gonna be getting clematis. So if there's clematis lovers out there, come and see us.
Speaker 2:And among the things that we have that well, I'll I'll go down the storyline is that if you look around in people's landscapes after this winter with the snowmageddon, lots of the arborvitaes look like they've been splayed apart. Their tops are
Speaker 3:Did you see the woman's email yesterday about the top of hers being splayed? No. Okay. We'll look at it when you get home.
Speaker 2:Okay. By the way, people send us email messages all day long. Don't hesitate. If you have a question, send it to us, landscape alaskagmail, because here we are and we can help you.
Speaker 3:And we're all in the same boat.
Speaker 2:And as well as people that can work on the landscape crew, which we're very desirous of. We want a couple more people to be able to work in the nursery. And you can learn a lot about landscape material here by taking care of it in the nursery, and there's such a wide variety of it. Lots of things you never even think about. And one of the new ones that came this year is a shrub called deervillia.
Speaker 3:Deervillia? How do spell
Speaker 2:d I e r v I l l I a.
Speaker 3:And what's its origin?
Speaker 2:It's a bush honeysuckle. It's in the honeysuckle family. It's Chinese. I only saw it for the first time last year at the nursery convention.
Speaker 3:Love to go to China and see what they've got there.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't that be something? Yeah. You'll need a guide.
Speaker 3:No kidding.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Remember Ed Woods?
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:Ed Woods went regularly. He loved it. He was a bonsai specialist, so he had a lot of bonsai pals.
Speaker 3:That's great.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't it be? So the Derivilia is such an amazing foliage.
Speaker 3:It flowers.
Speaker 2:It flowers too, but boy, the color on the leaves is just astounding.
Speaker 3:So what's the color?
Speaker 2:It's a gold body with green highlights, and the young growth is always red. It's really a stunning looking plant, and it's shearable. It only gets about three or four feet. Oh, good. So you can keep it as part of the low maintenance landscape and have it fit in with the dwarf rhododendrons and little spireas.
Speaker 2:The hallmark of the
Speaker 3:I'm gonna have to plant a couple at Landscape Alaska.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. That's why I bought them, so we can try them and try them out. And, of course, we'll also be trying them out in people's yards that are gonna come. The people that see it already have gone, wow, what a beautiful looking thing that is. And the gold leaved glow girl spirea that came in is so pretty.
Speaker 2:It's such a bright bright yellow
Speaker 3:right now. I've seen it. But that sounds great.
Speaker 2:They are
Speaker 3:out there. I love having yellow in the landscape.
Speaker 2:I really do too.
Speaker 3:Especially as a leaf.
Speaker 2:That's what I mean. As a leaf, it's really stunning.
Speaker 3:Because flowers in the last couple years have had a
Speaker 2:pretty hard time. Hard time, everything.
Speaker 3:Get beat up.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Get beat up, get broken, don't even really bloom well sometimes. Turn The colored foliage is really
Speaker 3:A really nice thing.
Speaker 2:Really good for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well We
Speaker 2:we have new lilacs came in also.
Speaker 3:Yeah. We have
Speaker 2:to prune them. Five colors of lilac including the big pink one.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. We have to pick out one for the gentleman who came last week and put a soul tag on it.
Speaker 2:You bet. That's the ideal thing. Lilacs, peonies, bleeding hearts. You're looking at the big triumvirate for for social growth.
Speaker 3:Do we have any miss Kim trees?
Speaker 2:We have several miss trees.
Speaker 3:Great.
Speaker 2:Both overwintered that are just coming into leaf and new ones that arrived.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay. Great.
Speaker 2:The ones that arrived, we have some that are quite large too. And we also have those beautiful hydrangea trees that just arrived. And a hydrangea tree is a very sophisticated looking thing. It's a hydrangea shrub that's
Speaker 3:made What's it doing in Juneau?
Speaker 2:Thriving. Absolutely thriving. And, you know, think of the ones think of the one at Joe's yard that got knocked to the ground by the snow weight every winter.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 2:And then stands back up when the snow melts away. It's like nobody lifts it back up. It stands back up by itself.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 2:It's pretty astounding. They flower. They flower from July till frost, and the flowers, oh, maybe 10 inches or 12 inches long.
Speaker 3:And they don't turn brown.
Speaker 2:The flowers don't turn brown? No. No. They start off pale green, then they ripen through pink to bright red, and the leaves They turn burgundy
Speaker 3:look creamy too, Dave. They go from green to creamy.
Speaker 2:And then to pink.
Speaker 3:And then to pink.
Speaker 2:And then to red. Yeah, they're lovely. And there are some that have the dark part below turns real real dark red and the top part stays round and white. It looks like a big ice cream cone. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:But the cool thing about them is they're a zone two shrub. People in Chicago can have them on their decks, so people here in Juneau, they've adopted them. Somebody came yesterday and said, the buzz is if you wanna know about hydrangeas, come here and look because you have more than anybody else around. And we do. We've got about six kinds of them now.
Speaker 3:Well, we're flower fanatics. What can I say?
Speaker 2:That's right. We besides
Speaker 3:being fanatics, but we're flower fanatics.
Speaker 2:And we find something we like, we try and get as many kinds of it as we can. Speaking of as many kinds as we can, how about those dwarf delphiniums? You know, they only get two and a half feet tall and they bloom all season long.
Speaker 3:I haven't seen them. We have so much stuff. I you know, I spend so much time putting together orders and getting things ready for you to ship and all that stuff that I don't have time to everything. So show them to me when we get home.
Speaker 2:I'll do that. We're sending stuff out of town every week, you know, and stuff comes and goes pretty rapidly. It's hard to stay on top of everything we've got. So
Speaker 3:So we have dwarf delphiniums, which is are they multi stemmed or do they need to be staked still?
Speaker 2:They probably should still be staked as I've
Speaker 3:So they're not a multi stemmed thing?
Speaker 2:Not the first crop. But just like all delphiniums, when they finish their first bloom shot and you cut them back, then they sprout again from the base and you get multi stems at that point.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh. Okay. Great. Sounds great. So I I pulled the Activist Stillby that we had, and I also pulled the Selvia for Mrs.
Speaker 3:Strailey, which we are late getting to. But I know that that's going to be the kind of thing that she's really going to like. And the pink Astilbe is called Vision in Pink, so I imagine it's gonna be quite beautiful.
Speaker 2:It is a lovely thing. We've had it a couple years ago and it's a real, real rich pink. Astilby is such a wonderful flower for us here.
Speaker 3:Yes, you think.
Speaker 2:It can take all the weather, it looks nice even when it doesn't have any flowers on it.
Speaker 3:I think we need to order
Speaker 2:a bunch blooms for a long time. Mhmm. We have another 25 of them coming this week.
Speaker 3:Oh, good. Good. Different colors or all one color?
Speaker 2:No, different colors. Four different colors, I believe.
Speaker 3:Great.
Speaker 2:And and different bloom periods. So there are overlapping Mid
Speaker 3:and late.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. And Astilbe is a perfect combination for where you wanna plant daffodil bulbs or something like that because you can have the daffodils come up and then when the flower fades on the daffodil, the Astilbe is right behind it and covers that space up.
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:Oh, by the way, I was in Safeway last week and I saw oriental lilies from Martin's Oregon flower company
Speaker 3:Oh, great.
Speaker 2:In bloom there in the store. We have a friend who's the preeminent lily grower in the country. He lives in Oregon.
Speaker 3:He's from he's a Dutch.
Speaker 2:He's a Dutch man, but he lives in Oregon, has beautiful beautiful flowers. And there they were, and they're just huge.
Speaker 3:Why didn't you buy me some?
Speaker 2:Cheap. I guess I'm not too cheap, am I? Bought your bought your rhododendrons. By the way, those nova zemla rhododendrons that are coming into bloom right now
Speaker 3:They're really pretty.
Speaker 2:They are just beautiful. If you wanna come and see some absolutely stunning kinds of rhododendron flowers, come and see and look at the nova zemla. It's a real, real rich raspberry pink. Dark, dark, dark pink. It's not quite red.
Speaker 2:And it's just a beautiful shrub and it gets big. It gets to be seven or eight feet tall and I see them all over town that I know came from the same field that we've been buying from for forty years.
Speaker 3:You buy them from the Hennies, don't you?
Speaker 2:Buy them from the Hennies, that's right. And speaking of which, there are deciduous azaleas headed this way.
Speaker 3:Good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're probably two weeks out, but if you like deciduous azaleas, this is a stunning, stunning ornamental plant for us here. Fragrant, brilliant fluorescent colors, oranges, golds, and reds, and beautiful fall colors.
Speaker 3:Fragrant, it's so fragrant.
Speaker 2:Right, just lovely, lovely shrub. And not too often seen, but they're hardy. The plant of the old ones, can see them all over in old gardens, know, and they're right out there in the weather and no protection and not shielded by anything and just bloom their heads off every year.
Speaker 3:Where do azaleas come from? Are they a mountain flower?
Speaker 2:They're a mountain flower in the American South in the Appalachians and they're also a mountain flower in the Asian Mainland. And what we see as Xperi hybrid azaleas are a cross between those two species that were done in England. The guy, Rothschild, wanted immortality and he said, like Thomas Jefferson, the greatest thing a person can do in life is to introduce a useful plant. And so he had his gardeners breed those azaleas for years and years until they came up with this whole stable of them, and they called them Exbury Azaleas because that was the name of his estate. And the night the old baron died, his young Scotts gardener left with a suitcase full of seed and that's the Hennie's grandfather.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:There they go. And they came right straight from the breeder into into the Oregon land, and they are stunning, stunning plants. Yeah. So it's just like the peony story, you know. These things are passed generation to generation, and the cultivation of a
Speaker 3:good good plant is a good plant.
Speaker 2:Plant, and if your father grows a good one, and your mother grows a good one, there's a good chance that you can grow a good one too.
Speaker 3:Just like the Roseanne Geranium, you know? Where it thrives, it really does goes to town and blooms an incredible long time and no muss, no fuss.
Speaker 2:And even in the harshest conditions that I can imagine, where we planted them last year, along the highway with those big new plantations at the university, they're all coming up.
Speaker 3:That's great.
Speaker 2:And where the borders are, when you enter the university from the back, they're all coming up. I know it's gonna be these. This is gonna be a great summer for that stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I hope they're all getting fertilized.
Speaker 2:Well, they're not being fertilized yet, but let's get to it this week, I hope.
Speaker 3:Well, all I'm saying is
Speaker 2:It's time for it.
Speaker 3:They they
Speaker 2:And we can't leave the air without saying that's a real thing to do this week. It's time to fertilize. Yeah. As the stuff starts coming alive in the springtime, it's living on what it has stored. But if you wanna have it be able to grow and thrive, now is the time to fertilize it.
Speaker 2:And, a safe way, a comfortable way is to use organic chicken manure as a mulch around them. That's always good, but you can use, blended fertilizers also, something like eight thirty two sixteen or ten twenty ten, or even ten ten ten, and all those fertilizers are readily available around town. If you want the organic chicken manure, come talk to us because we just got a nice shipment of it, It's local favorites. So if you've been waiting for it to come, everybody who's in the gardening world or living out there at the community garden and you want to fertilize your asparagus that's coming up now, Landscape Alaska has received their order of organic chicken manure and it's every bit as stinky as you can imagine. The young bin unloading it, we're going, how come it smells so much?
Speaker 2:Said, it's chicken manure, buddy. Can't you figure it out? They had no idea.
Speaker 3:About roses? What kind of roses are we gonna get, Dave?
Speaker 2:Well, we've got four or five colors of rugosa roses.
Speaker 3:Oh, great.
Speaker 2:And we have a bunch that are wintered over that are coming to life now. We've got
Speaker 3:Do we have a red one?
Speaker 2:We have Hansa.
Speaker 3:Oh, my favorite.
Speaker 2:Yep. And we have the beauge that's kind of magenta. Uh-huh. And we've got the pink rugosa, the one that spreads.
Speaker 3:And what about the white one? The alba?
Speaker 2:The alba, and we've got blanc double du coubert.
Speaker 3:Oh, I love that one too.
Speaker 2:Yep. And that's a pure pure white one. Mhmm. I also bought a couple
Speaker 3:of know if we're gonna be able to sell white flowers this year. We had so much snow all winter long.
Speaker 2:Know, was still I mean, was still here yesterday saying, I just love white flowers in my yard. What do mean you can't sell? Everything I've got is white. You know? Oh, those snowbound spireas in bloom right now?
Speaker 3:They look great, don't
Speaker 2:they? They just look great. So you're gonna come out to Landscape Alaska in response to our sparkling conversation this morning and say, where are all these treasures? So Landscape
Speaker 3:Alaska over there, so we'll have to go around and look
Speaker 2:for them because we
Speaker 3:just unloaded them.
Speaker 2:That's right. Landscape Alaska is on the back loop road between Goat Hill and Spring Way. We're not allowed to have a sign on the road yet, so we painted we have a mailbox that's painted to look like rhododendron flowers.
Speaker 3:And it's on a sawhorse.
Speaker 2:So you'll be able to see it. It has a little landscape Alaska sign. We just stuck it out there just because, you know, we need to. But it's a straight up the hill Driveway and you'll just be astounded when you get there. The amount of material, but also what a lovely sight.
Speaker 3:Had to rebuild it
Speaker 2:from all the
Speaker 3:snow we had.
Speaker 2:Tremendous. Okay. We have a couple minutes just let to go. So remember, we have a sale going on. Oh, I didn't mention that, if you wanna plant vegetables and herbs, now is the time to come.
Speaker 2:25% off on vegetables and herbs, and we've got a good supply. Swiss chard, peas, broccolini, broccoli, cabbage.
Speaker 3:I gotta get my
Speaker 2:Get them together.
Speaker 3:Box out so I could plant it.
Speaker 2:What we really have this year, I got I made sure is to get plenty of celery. Celery always sells out quickly. It's such a good it's a great plant. And it's great in the garden. You're right.
Speaker 2:It looks beautiful. Yeah. It gets big. It gets two feet tall and a foot and a half across. And where you buy at the store, it's pale pale green.
Speaker 2:When you have it in your garden, it's dark green like Italian parsley. I'm afraid I will go on over the end of my time, so this is Margaret Tharpe and David Lindrum from Landscape Alaska. I'm wishing you all happy gardening.
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