HTA-0642: Henry's Garden — Hedges and Privacy Screening

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Henry and Buzz discuss hedge varieties and privacy screening plants.

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Speaker 1
00:01
Pruning the Escalonia ladies and gentlemen here in Henry's garden.

Speaker 2
00:05
It's about time Henry. Yes. It's about time.

Speaker 2
00:08
I've been chirping for months and months and months about this.

Speaker 1
00:11
No, you've been chirping for years to be perfectly honest.

Speaker 1
00:14
Why don't you tell folks why this Escal... well it's big but...

Speaker 2
00:17
It's big but you know we have lots of Escalonia and when the Escalonia and the Fuchsia start to merge there's something...

Speaker 2
00:23
That's beautiful. I know it's beautiful but look at this whole line of hedge material that's just basically gotten out of hands.

Speaker 2
00:29
Okay.

Speaker 2
00:29
So we need to sit there and exercise some control.

Speaker 2
00:32
It's too big.

Speaker 2
00:33
It's dominating all the green.

Speaker 2
00:35
You're missing everything in front.

Speaker 2
00:36
Yeah.

Speaker 2
00:36
Plus the fact is all the plant material is starting to grow together.

Speaker 2
00:39
Okay.

Speaker 2
00:39
I've been growing in the Escalonia right now.

Speaker 1
00:42
Okay.

Speaker 1
00:42
The fuchsia over here does look beautiful mixed in with the Escalonia.

Speaker 2
00:46
Yeah, but it's not designed that way.

Speaker 1
00:47
Okay.

Speaker 1
00:48
So anyway, in terms of a tool for trimming Escalonia, this is a really nice one.

Speaker 1
00:54
This is from Fiskars and it's got this little ratcheting thing here which gives you a little

Speaker 2
00:57
leverage and it's got that's it when you're looking for bumpers a key thing

Speaker 2
01:03
because of all the tension that goes down into your forearm believe me after

Speaker 1
01:07
you've been doing this for a while it makes a difference so these are perfect

Speaker 2
01:09
yeah but that's old school henry you've got too much to do to just do it by hand

Speaker 2
01:13
what do you got buddy

Speaker 2
01:20
i'm going electric i almost cut the core too but no i'm going electric therein is

Speaker 1
01:25
the problem. You go ahead and start pruning. But therein is the problem with electric is

Speaker 1
01:31
that you will get cord problems. But on the other hand, an electric is less expensive

Speaker 1
01:43
than this, which is battery, no cords. Oh yeah, Henry, but you know what? I've got

Speaker 1
01:55
Anyway, these are, they're now about as powerful.

Speaker 1
01:57
These are both made by Black & Dexter,

Speaker 1
01:59
and they're just about as powerful.

Speaker 1
02:00
Yeah, but mine last one's been yours.

Speaker 1
02:02
Well, yeah, I guess you're right,

Speaker 1
02:04
but I've got like three batteries to it.

Speaker 1
02:06
So in terms of Estelonia, Estelonia is not bad

Speaker 1
02:10
because you can pretty much take it as low as you want.

Speaker 1
02:13
You can't do this with every kind of a head.

Speaker 1
02:15
Exactly.

Speaker 1
02:16
Would you explain that to people, Buzz?

Speaker 2
02:18
And in about a month,

Speaker 2
02:20
it's gonna have new leaves coming out and be all refreshed.

Speaker 2
02:23
So one of the things to consider from a timing standpoint is how long he wanted to look unattractive.

Speaker 1
02:29
So, well, this looks, this doesn't look terribly, uh-oh, this doesn't look terribly unattractive.

Speaker 1
02:36
If you like wood.

Speaker 1
02:37
By the way, just one safety tip, folks, while he's doing that.

Speaker 1
02:41
No, you keep going.

Speaker 1
02:43
It's not a good idea to have two people doing this at the same time because they are inevitably going to bump into each other in a bad way.

Speaker 1
02:50
Buzz, explain about the shaping that you're doing over there.

Speaker 2
02:53
You like that?

Speaker 1
02:54
Well, no, but explain it.

Speaker 1
02:56
Why you're shaping it over there.

Speaker 2
02:58
Basically, I'm trying to have some...

Speaker 2
03:02
Definition.

Speaker 2
03:03
Definition.

Speaker 2
03:03
There you go.

Speaker 2
03:03
Thank you.

Speaker 2
03:04
Definition between the hedge and the other plant material around here.

Speaker 2
03:07
Otherwise, it all sort of blends together.

Speaker 2
03:09
One of the problems with landscapes today are they're too green,

Speaker 2
03:12
and everybody's looking to get more color into them.

Speaker 2
03:14
And part of it is because all the green we kind of blend into one big palette.

Speaker 1
03:19
I'm not drowning you out of anything.

Speaker 1
03:20
- I'm not drowning out or anything am I?

Speaker 1
03:25
- No Henry.

Speaker 1
03:26
- Okay, so give us just a minute here.

Speaker 1
03:28
We're gonna do a TV timeout while we finish this.

Speaker 1
03:38
- What did you do?

Speaker 1
03:39
- Kimmy doesn't like it.

Speaker 2
03:40
- She doesn't, huh?

Speaker 1
03:41
- I thought we did a pretty good job of it.

Speaker 1
03:43
- I'm pretty proud of it.

Speaker 1
03:44
- Bear in mind, okay, admittedly, come over here Kimmy.

Speaker 1
03:48
Admittedly, this doesn't look good right now.

Speaker 1
03:51
No, really.

Speaker 1
03:53
But it's going to, right?

Speaker 1
03:55
Yes.

Speaker 3
03:56
It's like a bad haircut.

Speaker 3
03:57
It'll come back.

Speaker 3
03:58
But decidedly, you wouldn't do this at home.

Speaker 3
04:04
Yes, you would.

Speaker 1
04:05
We did this to another Escalonia, and to this day,

Speaker 1
04:08
it looks much better after like two or three years

Speaker 1
04:11
than it did before.

Speaker 2
04:12
Yeah.

Speaker 1
04:13
And then we took it down even farther.

Speaker 2
04:14
Yeah, and we used a chainsaw.

Speaker 2
04:16
- Oh, we didn't use the--

Speaker 2
04:16
- Yeah, none of this wimpy stuff.

Speaker 1
04:18
- No!

Speaker 3
04:18
- Oh, lovely.

Speaker 3
04:19
Well, so long as you're not getting paid, that's all right.

Speaker 1
04:22
- Okay, so we're gonna move along to the next--

Speaker 3
04:24
- Please, by all means, carry on.

Speaker 3
04:26
I'm getting out of the way.

Speaker 1
04:27
- Okay. - All right.

Speaker 2
04:28
- Not, oh, I hate to lose the fuchsias.

Speaker 2
04:30
A buzz?

Speaker 2
04:31
- Oh, that would be helpful.

Speaker 2
04:45
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