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Landscaping the Naples, Florida Property

Bob meets with John Wall, landscape contractor, about removing existing plant material.
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Landscaping the Naples, Florida Property

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" You're mainly gonna help us identify a lot of plant materials that was put here by the previous owner."

" Yes."

" And she was probably a collector, so there's a lot of things here that are overgrown and stuff."

" There are a lot of things that are overgrown. There's a lot of variety in the yard, Bob."

" Yeah, what is this that you were just looking at?"

" Right. This is a [unk] palm, Bob. It's gotta go and have it of 3 to 4 feet. It's a handsome little palm tree. "

" Yeah. It's so beautiful."

" And this is probably---- this is one of the plants that have been around since the beginning of the recorded time."

" Prehistoric?"

" Prehistoric time and it's a pretty little palm."

" Is it an expensive palm or is it?"

" Yeah, Bob. This little tree is probably worth 75 to 100 dollars."

" Uh!"

" It's really worth big in a tree you have to save it."

" Indeed."

" And there have been no problem to top it out of the ground."

" Okay. What about something like this? This is certainly [unk]"

" Well, this is a croton, Bob and it's certainly relative to a fleur-de-lis, but this is not a handsome specimen at all. I mean,----"

" It's almost dead."

" this is not worth your time, that's right."

" Yeah. It's not worth trying to transplant or anything?"

" No, it's not."

" Okay."

" No, it's not worth anything at all."

" And over here?"

" This little plant here, Bob is the coconut palm. This is a native plant and makes a nice hedge. It's not a real fast grow or a real large though."

" Yeah."

" We'll see it down the caves."

" Yes."

" I mean, in the everglade, maybe 10 or 12, 14 feet tall."

" It's a good hedge material."

" It is a nice hedge material."

" Yeah."

" It is, Bob."

" And then here, we've got lots of what's really native scrub palmetto, right?"

" That's right, just though palmetto, cabbage farm."

" How do you suppose it got here?"

" The [unk] is a volunteer. Bird probably drops the seed in the ground. It popped out and here it is."

" Is it a good idea to have it this close to the house?"

" No. We would never plant anything that's large to grow. It is close to the house."

" Yeah."

" If we let it go it's just gonna grow up and hide the house."

" Yeah."

" We don't want that."

" But yet someone planted one of the most beautiful of palms 3 feet away from the front of the house."

" They sure did, Bob. This is a royal palm, probably a Florida royal. It's a specimen tree. It's gotta go a height of 80 or 90 feet tall and it's getting pretty close to that right now."

" I think it's one of the most beautiful trees we've got here."

" Beautiful palm tree. "

" We don't have to worry about it, hurricanes [unk]?"

" No. It's a very sturdy palm. It's not gonna---- nothing's gonna blow that tree out of the ground. We got a major parasite in here. This is the Pepperwood. It was rooted 40 years ago, but now we found that----"

" That, yeah."

" That it has no natural enemies, so it's taken over. So nobody plants this---- this is just a parasite."

" Of course the birds love the little red berries."

" The birds love little berries and they make a mess when they get down and eat them, Bob."

" Really. Okay and what about this stuff that's growing underneath it?"

" This is a little [unk] right here. This is a handsome little tree and we can see that it's suckering and spreading out, Bob. It's chlorotic right now. It's hungry. It hadn't been fed in awhile, but this is something that we'll probably leave right now because they can always dig it out and move it."

" Okay. Again, it's a specimen plant. It's not the----"

" It's the best of all plants and it's not trash by any means."

" You want to preserve it. Right, there you go and here there's a fine areca palm----"

" Yeah."

" which we all know we can buy this in the supermarket up north."

" Yeah. We can buy this. There's a nice arecas on this property,----"

" Yeah."

" but I don't really think this is particularly one."

" No. And then what's this [unk] right here?"

" This [unk] is a pot of cancer, Bob. We see this all up and down the east or maybe in other parts of the country terrace got a pretty little red berry on, but it's not a particularly advantageous plant."

" I noticed this one earlier today. I've never seen a little palm like this."

" This is a nice Florida Thatch palm. It's what this is, Bob."

" A thatch palm."

" A thatch palm. This is Florida native, but we won't see it around here in the wild. We'll see it more down in the caves out in the wild."

" Well, we have to take care of----"

" We've got a little poison ivy out there, Bob."

" Yeah, is that poison ivy?"

" Yes."

" I'll leave it alone. And then we've got some trees here right on top of each other."

" We've got trees on top of trees."

" Yeah. What's this big one here?"

" The big one is a Dahoon Holly. This thing is a Florida native, Bob."

" Yeah."

" This is a desirable tree. This is specimen. We wouldn't wanna cut this now. We would rather give up the areca palm because we have so many already. We would have to give up the areca palm and save the Dahoon Holly."

" Okay. So that's the job to do there? You've already picked what you think is one of the best---- best specimens of the whole property back here."

" Yes, you bet Bob."

" What do you call these trees?"

" This is called the Frangipani."

" Frangipani."

" Frangipani. I'm sure a lot of people have heard it in scents and perfume."

" Yeah."

" This isn't a particularly handsome tree when it's naked, but when it goes to bloom, we're gonna be in love with it."

" Yeah."

" That's why we're going to Africa to dig this tree up and move it."

" Yeah."

" We're just gonna put it in [unk] show your spot."

" Yeah."

" Now, frankly we've got it about ready to pop it out of the ground now."

" Alright. How are you gonna do it?"

" We're gonna hook a strap around this tree right here, Bob. And the wood's so soft that we might bruise this tree. "

" But we're not worried about it dying."

" Alright."

" It may be skinned up a little bit, so that's gonna be----"

" Let's get started. Lets' move it."

" Okay, Bob. We're gonna---- try to be careful with this big specimen tree. This might be the biggest Frangipani in [unk] County. I don't know it's the biggest one that I have seen."

" Yeah. And the root ball, you've already trimmed it down there."

" We trimmed it. We came in a few weeks ago and we've pruned this tree. "

" Yeah."

" And now, we're gonna---- we even had to go up under the house, the tree was planted right through close to the house."

" But it's too nice to trade it, you just put a Chinese oil and scrap it."

" No."

" We can't buy this tree. This tree is not available in the market or anywhere around here."

" It's like 34 years old."

" I would say so, yes."

" Alright. So you're just gonna hook that up to your horse now, huh."

" Yeah, sure am Bob."

" Go ahead. Not much of a hole, not much of a root ball. Is that all there is to it? You can really just plop it in there and----"

" For this particular tree we can. Yes, Bob."

" Yeah."

" We won't just plop it in the hole, we're gonna sneak the tree into the hole."

" Okay."

" I gotta get it standing up straight."

" If it's naked [unk]"

" It's gonna swing over [unk]. Yes, okay. We got it."

" Alright John, you've got it in place. You gotta water it a lot, don't you?"

" We're gonna give it a good drink of water and we're gonna seed it, Bob with activated full-fledge as well"

" Oh."

" It's an organic fertilizer. It's the best fertilizer that money can buy for trees and shrubs, but we don't use it on fruits and vegetables as long as it's not for human consumption."

" No, of course, yeah."

" For trees and shrubs, it's a great fertilizer."

" Okay."

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