Andy Robinson: Hi there I’m Andy Robinson, the Landscape Renovator and we’re here with Jason Grilli. Do you know what these are?
Jason Grilli: I don’t know the names of the plants. I’m not good in naming names, that’s why I have you. This is the real pro, you know.
Male: He doesn’t know the name of your pitches either.
Jason Grilli: If he wants to know how to throw a curve ball slider, I can teach him that. But I don’t know, I call him a pro that’s why I’m here you know.
Andy Robinson: We can throw a curve in for you right here. It’s actually nice schillings holly along this driveway to create a nice curve. And the nice thing about this schillings holly is that if you pruned it once, maybe twice a year at the most, it not going to get out of hand. If you forgot to prune it, and it takes you a year, you can always cut it back. It is always a real nice one to maintain, disease and insect resistant, drought tolerant. So if your irrigation goes off. In about a month later you call me up and “Andy, the guy mowing the lawn came by and said that things are looking dry on the lawn, could you come by and check the irrigation?” “ Jason I’m been off by about a month it is a good thing that we put that plants in there. Another plant we have back here is mondo grass. This is nice 6 to 8 inches tall. Weird things that your wife asked me to do here because I know it was not really your project, was actually to do some things to tie in with your house with the architecture. So we did come nice formal lines, with some nice big masses of ground cover.
Jason Grilli: Yeah I liked the grass a lot it reminds me a lot about baseball, so perfect fit for this house.
Andy Robinson: But normally after Detroit in September you guys leave because actually grass aren’t growing, right?
Jason Grilli: Yes, it is a little cold.
Andy Robinson: So you guys are pretty much done. That’s why the Red Sox…it’s a little cold there too, right?
Jason Grilli: Because grass grow in Boston.
Andy Robinson: Actually last fall it grew a little better in Boston didn’t it?
Jason Grilli: Yes it did. I give you that.
Andy Robinson: Let’s go take a look a couple of these other plant. These are liriope, this is one other grass family it gets about 18 to 24 inches tall. Now you might think we’re using a lot of greenery here but actually what we’ve got it is we’ve used this for the formality of the garden, and we’ve actually got some ferns here with some annuals in it. Now annuals a aren’t really low maintenance but your wife likes them, she can come out here and change them out couple of times when you guys are here in the winter time.
Jason Grilli: Let me correct you, I think I’m the one that goes and changes them out. She’s the one that tells me what color to pick and I usually call my landscape renovator, this guy, and I usually do the dirty work. But again, if that’s what I have to do this is my whole goal with designing with Andy, with my wife as well. We’re just trying to keep it very low maintenance for obvious reasons as we stated.
Andy Robinson: Couple of other plants we got here, these are couples of one that bloom in the winter time. This is a sasanqua camellia, actually a fall blooming variety, October, November into December. We also have japonika, which is a January to February bloomer. So this one is going to give you color while you are here. Some other things we used in to this garden is burford holly. It has a deep green shiny foliage, has got a red berry on it. We’ve used some agapanthus, which we’ve used them more for their foliage and texture. Because they’re blooming actually about to start, maybe a couple of buds starting on them now, but they’re actually going into to May. Sorry, maybe you could come home in a break, when you're playing in Tampa, right?
Jason Grilli: That’s right. I can check on the house and take a good whiff of the nice beautiful flower.
Andy Robinson: Nice! Agapanthus is the one we’re talking about. European fan palm is the other one we’ve used here just a very, very slow growing palm. So if Jason happens to play deep into the fall, he could come back and actually not have the thing totally overgrown. He could come out there and play with his pruners and snip, snip. Right?
Jason Grilli: Absolutely! If I’m pitching, I could just call my landscape renovator here because I will be pitching in the cold, nice northeast temperature, and that usually means that you are in the fall classics.
Andy Robinson: Let’s put some contract here.
Jason Grilli: That’s a good idea. I have got to feed that baby, and feed these plants.
Andy Robinson: That’s right. And more work for the landscape renovator. Well, you know, great yards don’t grow on trees that’s why you need the Landscape Renovator.
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