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Bob visits Weston Wholesale Nursery with landscape architect Clara Bachelor.
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" You've got your plant list it on my plant list. And affectionate heart the other day and it looks pretty good -- we're gonna have almost everything on him where should we get started when you got a thousand acres is now like you just go pick out some pots -- are designed with producer let's look at the perennials first okay. What do we have here -- that this tomb around the corner and -- plant."

" It's also called -- and me -- and it's an example of a wonderful foliage perennial it has this great silver green foliage we're gonna. Plant a row of this in front of the failings we'll have the bright green bullets in the daily sentinel had this. Wonderful plant that that'll stay like this from spring to fall no flowers no railing you planet just for what you see here how many of these will need thirty. Out how much are --"

" When many countries. OK that's 250 dollar worth the part of Misha and well -- putting it."

" CNN -- Egypt with -- I'm not familiar with that well that's right over here let's go look it's a wonderful speculative plant."

" So you called this a circular tie that's right. Why is that they have these wonderful fleshy leaves future when I'm kicking and yeah they are kind of like the feel like they're leathery but they're very."

" Remorse to a lot of moisture inside out. They'll withstand drought conditions there really want -- the easiest care perennials that I know."

" Up to plane now it's a neat choice -- you just showed -- that silver green gray kind of plant yes I yard amnesia and this is kind of an apple green with pink."

" Right really at the new colors to -- he gave and that's when you do plant for the foliage it has a wonderful rosy red. On flower a lot of tiny little flowers but they're so -- than it looks like a great expanse of rosy rosy pink."

" And they're taller than the other plant now how many of these will you give me neat when he. -- day lilies are pretty common flower aren't they."

" They are but there's 35000. Different varieties and well we only need to choose three. -- And these beautiful some sort of a hybrid -- all this Frances hall."

" Very pretty. How come they're planted in the ground here why don't you -- them in containers. Or going to dig these this fallen divide and -- and then we'll park them out. An -- himself while I'm truly -- you -- and you said we need about seventy or gonna pick three different varieties these are late bloomers."

" And they'll bloom for about two weeks so we pick early bloomers and middle bloomers we'll have a a beautiful display of flowers for about six weeks starting back out -- right why they called day lilies for the obvious. The blossoms last only a day and as you can see flowers gone and as many blooms on Arizona's one -- another one blend true."

" Okay so we've looked at lots of perennials how about looking at some evergreen -- all we need to select some -- and as. Some little scary and so -- and where where where we see that I haven't they go right OK."

" Query here's a compact think very respect. Oh good we need agencies. Why they called ink --"

" Well I have quite a -- black berry that's very attractive to birds but what was originally used for ink all right."

" So this does not drop its leaves."

" That's right at the bronze leafed evergreen yep you know."

" The widely not a needle evergreen yeah you always -- ever -- being pine trees but I guess you get a lot of bushes that are like this -- like rhododendron very pretty against the snow in the winter. Now this is -- some sort of holly isn't it yeah that's a blue princess -- that you were talking about Inky and that's as the other choice that's right beneath them in Kansas there right over here."

" I really like this want. -- beautiful red stand. Like the way the -- on -- campus the leaves are concentrated that's it's at which gives -- an attractive appearance -- that's marvelous spot color we get a bright yellow or orange fall color it has some -- little bell shaped flowers in the -- but it drops its leaves in the winter that's correct it's deciduous it is not evergreen but probably it gets about 68 feet. And it has a -- branch structure so even without leaks is an attractive -- did you say you want to put into the plan we need three against one facade of the house at a terrible."

" These are being dug up here where they started from seed out here in the in in the and field no these were started from seed in the greenhouse -- and stay there about a year -- open to a three years and then. It's when the -- basically out here and they've been here probably -- three years so they could be 67 years old sure -- and what do you get when how much -- they -- noticed it because it's. That's not bad considering how much how much investment in time you have world which don't think so well maybe we should tag a -- was handling it. Factory like this when Clara absolutely Ellis thank that Clinton --"

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