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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eight oh seven thirteen ten WIB and every Day outdoor Living.
It is brought to you by the Bruce Company online
Bruce Company dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com. You can
find him on Facebook and social media, the Bruce Company.
Great day to get on in right at the Middleton
Garden Center for the Bruce Company at twenty eight thirty
Part Registrate. That's twenty eight thirty Park Registrate. While you're there,
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you can say hi to everybody, but especially say hello
to Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. You joined us
this morning. Lisa, how you been?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm doing great? Is your birthday coming up soon?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
No months ago?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay, I acknowledged it though at the time I believe
because I have a note, you know, for like and
I am like, Lisa. I know it's a summer You're
a summer baby. Je Okay, okay, all right, Well, it's
it's good to see you and it's great to have
you along. And you know, it's if anyone wants to
bring you a gift, they don't.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You miss that. I do celebrate my birthday for like
a solid week.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Really that gets a little but it's great to see
you and I you know, you and I get a
chance to kind of huddle up before we go on
air to touch on some things, really cool things going
at the Bruce Company. And one of the also great
things is we just get to talk about things in general,
but gardening. And I think like for folks that may
be nervous sometimes to call in, and I get it.
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I've called radio shows before, and I actually and I've
been on the radio every day for like the last
twenty years. I get nervous when I call in, and
I understand that. But one of the great things about
talking with you, Lisa, is you're very relaxing. You put
everybody at ease.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's nice, thank you, and.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So and so for folks, if you've got a question
about anything outside your coffee, yeah, oh it's and it's
fun just to get some get some questions and get
some options.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We can see you exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We don't you know, Yeah, we don't judge on what
you're wearing. You got the coffee, you're still wearing the rope.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's early. I love to get you on the air
this morning. Six so eight, three, two, one, thirteen ten
that's six so eight three two one thirteen ten. We'll
get you right on the air at least Riggs from
the Bruce Company. I mentioned the website Brucecompany dot com.
That's Brucecompany dot com. Also other Facebook and social media
and includes place also like Instagram and other Facebook areas.
Of course you can find them there. Even better, get
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on in. Let's see you right at the Middleton Gardens
under Bruce Company right at twenty eight to thirty parm Interstreet.
That's twenty and thirty Partment Street. And again telephon number
six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
O eight three two one thirteen ten. We've got all
sorts of things to be thinking about at the Bruce Company.
Fall is coming soon, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Do you know we lose seventy seven minutes of daylight
in the month of August.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I did not know that, and uh, I'm gonna pretend
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Going forward.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So so with that though, there are opportunities, I know,
and I get it. I'm just like everybody else in spring,
and we're very excited. And we build this gar and
we put it together and everything pops and it's all beautiful.
And then like as the season runs, we kind of
accept that, you know, your garden runs.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
A car stop weeding. Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Have to be the case, though you can. It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, absolutely, if you've got some spots open in your
garden for you know, and you want to do something perennial,
like a tree or a shrub or a perennial plant.
You know, all of our tips on Facebook this week
and through our e blasts are not this week.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
This month through our e blast too, are about how
to garden with maybe an intention.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So our tip for last week was to think about
planting for birds. It is soon going to be migration time.
Pretty soon we'll wake up in the morning and there'll
be all kinds of birds massing in the trees or
massing on telephone wires or power lines, kind of getting
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ready to make.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That trek south. And all that travel is hungry work.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So you can put out feeders, for sure, that that's great,
and a lot of people do that. But you can
also make it a little easier for birds by planting
things in your garden that give them a little bit
of extra food. So things like perennial grasses which have
great seed heads, not only attract some small birds, but
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also look really cool in your garden, things that have
fall ripening fruit like dogwood, and then of course planting
some things for cover, some evergreens, so that as they're
kind of hanging out, especially by your feeders, that there's
a place for them to go in and out of
while they're feeding.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
With that. I don't know if it's just in my
neck of the woods or what, but the birds seem
to be particularly populous this year. It seems to be
like a boom year for birdies and songbirds. And I
don't know if this is just universal or maybe we
just got on some kind of route. Maybe the word
is out that dath the Bruce company seed at the
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Preval house is high quality and they're delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we have had. I mean at my
house it seems like we've had. It's been a little
quieter because, of course, we had a nest of broad
winged hawks in a large maple tree next door, and
they were loud, and you know, it took a lot
of chipmunks and that kind of thing to feed those
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young fledglings. But they're out now and it does seem
a little noisier in the morning. But yeah, I think
that we were all worried understandably about bird flu, but
all the research is showing that for songbirds, if you're
not close to like a fly lane along the water
where a lot of waterbirds would congregate, that it's pretty
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safe for you to feed your sort of suburban birds.
As long as you keep those feeders clean, that's super important.
And make sure that the seed that you're using is
high quality, it doesn't have a lot of junk in it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Make it worth their time too. They appreciate that, Like
if birds no quality, they don't well, I.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Mean, they they're they're hungry and they're gonna eat, but
we should make sure that what they're eating, what we're
supplying is going to be nutritional for them.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Good boy, that's great. And as we talked this morning
with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company, if you ever
have questions about some of the good stuff to offer
those birds, they've always got answers for you at the
Middleton Garden Center of Bruce Company. Speaking of getting answers,
if you've got questions, we've got a great opportunity for
you right now. Get down the air with Lisa Breaks
from the Bruce Company telf for number six eight three
two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two
one thirteen ten, and Steve joins us. Steve, welcome to
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the program. You're on the air with Lisa Breaks from
the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So I've got an area that I planted with wildflower seeds, okay,
truly a new area. It was like a hillside okay.
And some of it came up really good, some of
it didn't. And of course the weeds are in there
like crazy. Yeah, so about half of it is doing
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well or I can get in there, I can pull
those weeds. To the other hand, there's so many weeds.
I don't know whether to just chill it up and
replant this fall for wildflowers in the spring.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Again, Well, what.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You might do is be more selective with the seeds.
Instead of the mixes, seeds that you would plant this
fall would be things that need a cold period, so
like loop in or a lot of the perennial some
of the perennial prairie seeds need a chill period. So
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in the wild, the plants bloom and set seed and
then that drops and then they come up in the spring,
you just sort of scatter things on the top of
the soil. The problem with tilling it up is that
not only are you cleaning out those weeds, but you're
also bringing up more weed seeds and exposing them to
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air and sunlight and water, and then they germinate. How
we deal with this in a normal garden bed where
we're using plants is that we put down a pre
emergent herbicide and that stops those weed seeds from germinating,
but it would also stop the things from germinating that
you want. If it's not a giant patch that you're doing,
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I understand it's a hillside, Maybe be a little more
selective in the seed that you are choosing. Get something
that is that is quicker to germinate in the spring.
And then what you could do this fall is after
you clean it out, you could lay down some black
plastic or cardboard or something like that. The black plastic
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will heat that soil up and will kill a lot
of those seeds that are close to the surface, and
that might give you a little bit of a heads
up when you resow next spring.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So spring is when I should sew well.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You can do it either way.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
There are some that are better sewed in the fall,
but then you could put those down next fall. What
you've got to do first is get rid of the
seeds that are in the soil already, and there are
probably lots of them, So try to heat up that
soil and kill some of those off and see if
that reduces you know what, the amount of weed seeds
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that germinate in the spring.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Okay, so basically just cover that area.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, put some you know, put some
get some contractors, visquin from the or you know, contractor
plastic bags, trash bags from the hardware store. Lay that
stuff down, put some stones or bricks or something on
it so it doesn't fly away. And the winter will
heat up that soil and it can do a fair
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amount of work at getting rid of of any of
those weed seeds that are at the service. And then
in the spring you can pull that back and then
try again, and then make sure that you know what
you're planting in that in that seed mix, so when
the seed links come up, you can identify them and
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you know, tease them out from the weeds. Yeah, it's
hard to do that when they're all tiny.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
What would you suggest to come up quick next spring.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Them not an expert on the seeds, but come into
the garden Center and we, you know, explain your product
problem and we can figure help you figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, okay, Steve, great question, great call, Thank you for
calling this morth Thanks you welcome, great great advice as always,
and Steve, don't forget can always get on in Milton
Garden Center. Right at twenty eight thirty parm interistreet that's
twenty eight thirty parm ingistratet fuone lines or a. But
if you've got a question for Lisa six so eight
three two one thirteen ten at six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten the twenty fourth, it's coming up fast.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And why it is a bunch of stuff happening on
the twenty four.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's kind of a conglomeration of things that are just helpful.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yes, let's talk about what's all going on in the proof.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So we have got, of course, an opportunity to do
to get a free garden consult from one of our
landscape architects upstairs or I'm sorry, he's a designer, a
landscape designer, and so you'll want to sign up for
that and then someone will call you and arrange set
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up the appointment time. We also have Michelle from The
Delicious surcoming. She is going to be doing a series
of demos of ways that you can sort of jazz
up all that produce that you are pulling from your
garden this year. And also we have a lady coming
from the Arthritis Foundation and she's going to demonstrate some
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ways that you know, if your body is getting older
but you still love to garden, to help you out
with that. Sures and tips I saw, and also Fetch
will be there and like, who doesn't like puppies poppies?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yes, how awesome is that I saw? And I know
obviously things like raised beds as well are nice if
you don't want to and.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
There's there are certain tools that are easier to use.
Oh yeah, body positions, stretches that you can use to
limber up before your garden.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yoga in the yard.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Could call that, we call that garden. I will find it.
We'll brand at least so we'll get Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I did see and I like a social media post
and it's one of those things where you look at
and you go, well, that looks really cool, and then
you start reading the comments and you realize how kind
of impractical it is. Somebody was showing where there was
like and it was not a real picture in illustration
where they're like, grow your garden in mounds, and they
made these mounds and it looked like like ripples, and
then they would plant their garden on these mounds and
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it's like, oh, that looks like fantastic in theory. And
then people talk about it, like and they're pointing out
all the issues with doing it in practice. One creating
the mounds in the first place. Then stay that Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How high were these mounds. These mounds were about Oh
so they're raised.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, oh that does seem a little impractical.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It was pretty. And they also pointed out like the
lower stuff won't get light, and I thought, okay, this
is it looked neat, but man, that's yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Like a waffle guard.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, exactly. By the way, it was over at the
Bruce Company's Facebook page scrolling through and uh, I noticed
there is a ton when it comes to workshops being
posted up there.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, we did. I'm not quite done.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I haven't gotten into the December events yet, but I
do have everything posted through the end of November.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think no I have.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I haven't done Santa Missus clause yet, so the rest
of them for the holiday season will be going out
this week or early next week.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, all right, I just have to confirm some things.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You know what that means. Got to check in often,
check it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes, there you go, check back.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Also sign up or the bi weekly twice a month
newsletter as well.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Post and you know, pay attention when you read the description.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It'll tell you whether.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Whether pre registering is encouraged or whether it's manned that
you know, completely necessary. And then there is a link
on the If you're getting these things through Facebook, there's
a link that will go to the website so you
can sign up.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Sign up film, yeah, form it varies, and as you
point it out, it's just some of these do require
specialized materials.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah. Yeah, because if it's like a workshop, we need
to count and our room holds maybe fifteen people, so
twenty is a problem, so we just need to yeah it.
So sometimes we have to have pre registration. Other times
we just kind of want to head like a general
headcount like Delicious or event or when Fetch comes when
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they bring the rescue dogs and the puppies. We just
kind of want to have an expectation of how many
people are going to show.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Up, just be prepared to be absolutely all that all
that information, of course, you get the information on their
Facebook page. The ones that require registration, there's a link
right to their Bruce Company dot com page where you're
registered for those events as well. If you got a
question for Lisa love to have join us this morning,
six so waight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
so eight three two one thirteen ten. Gets you on
the air. Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company and Jim
joins us. Jim, welcome to the program. You're on the air,
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Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Every year I always plant you know, nice you know,
you know, flower seeds to you know, decorate you with
these boxes feed box that I've got, you know, plant
boxer I've got. Every year they at least come up
real nice. This year, okay, it's like and like Germany,
I always have flowers by say like mid to eight July.
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This year, it's like I'm looking at the flowers. They're
still like in of May, early June, nothing's coming up.
No flowers, at all.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Do you have plants coming up and they're just not blooming? Yeah, well,
you know you say they're in containers. Have you fertilized yes,
I used us, I used miracles grow okay.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Okay. Have you changed the soil out?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yes, for soil okay, Well.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Geez, I'm a little stumped.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Usually, you know, I always say that you can certainly
reuse soil that are that's in containers.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I do myself.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
It does get a little nutritionally depleted, so fertilizing containers
is important, and then maybe every two or three years
you can replace the soil. But in the meantime kind
of you know, you.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Take out the old plants.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
There's always roots and things that come out, so it's
good to sort of replenish it a little bit. So
plants came up, but no flowers.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Like midway and that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What did you plant?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
What? What kind of seeds did you plant?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Videos?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
And snap dragons and well.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Snaps snaps like the cooler weather, so they might have.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Although you know, we have.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Blue House that comes out every other Friday to sell
and she's got snaps and I'm seeing him. I saw
him at the farmer's market this weekend, and we've got
a lot of zin's at the garden center.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
How did you have new seed? I'm just running through
all the possibilities.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I bought brand new seed. And the other thing is
I planned the morning Glories and every other morning Glories
like to run the trails and I have the fun
of and it's like something assassinating them. Just this week
they like six inches the base of the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's probably rabbits.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But yeah, that's probably rabbits if they're.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Just like one bite and that was it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, it looks like it looks like a scissors. That's
a rabbit for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
So we're gonna need to.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Why don't you, Jim, why don't you send some photos
to the plant desk and that's plant desk at Bruce
Company dot com. We'll see, we'll put our heads together
and see if we can come up with maybe some
other possibilities as to it. Because it sounds like you're
doing everything that you're supposed to be doing. You're fertilizing,
you use new seed, you replenish your soil.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They're getting plenty of sun in this spot.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh yes, oh yeah, you're always get fowers, but I
have noise the population of rabbits all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Well yeah, so yes, send some snap some photos with
your phone. It's Plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Great call, great question. Jim again, that's Plant Desk at
Bruce Company dot com. And if you got a question,
you two can be like Jim Love David join us
this morning, Dolph number six so eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten.
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Living brought to you by the Bruce Company Online, Bruce
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get on in. They'd love to see your smiling face
right at twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. It's twenty eight
thirty par Mentor Street. And uh, Lisa, I know we
didn't get it as bad here in the central part
of the state, but wow, eastern Wisconsin. That rainfall can
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that By the way, can standing water? Does that damage
trees and other things? Obviously for plants, it's probably not
the greatest.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
If it's not a place where trees can adapt to
like a short period of standing water. There are trees,
of course, that are adapted to that kind of thing
all the time. You see him planted along riversides lakesides
like Willow arber Viety for instance. Red maples can take
more water than you'd think in the grand scheme of things.
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If it's fairly short lived a day or two, it's
not going to hurt anything. Long term, we might see
like some early fall color kind of things if they're
if the trees are stressed, But I don't think long
term it's.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Going to have a huge a huge effect.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, So, and I wasn't at the store yesterday I imagine.
I mean, Bruce Company sits up on a high spot,
so we don't usually get flooding, but we do get
a lot of water. It sort of sweeps in underneath
the doors. We have had the greenery department kind.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Of flood out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So I'm sure there was squeegee action happening yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And it wasn't two years ago where I'm out that
way out towards like the with the store, that kind
of flight all that not not.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh no, that was longer ago than that. That was.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, Guilda's Club flooded, Costco flooded out, was closed for
a couple of days. That was, Oh, that was long.
I think that was right around one of the first years.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I was back from Sheboygan. So I'm going to say
eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I feel like I'm getting old because everything's only happened yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, like I said, at Bruce Company, we didn't get
that cause we're up in Middleton, We're on a high spot, nice.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And so we didn't get any of that.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I heard some streets in downtown Madison were flooded a
little bit, So Milwaukee really got slammed.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It was some of that video and pictures and that
kind of brings up a question for folks that have
You mentioned arbor viting and some other things for folks
that have And that's one of the great things about
getting into the Midleton Gardens under the Bruce Company. We
talk about too, that event coming up the twenty fourth
and you know, kind of putting together that that perfect
yard is finding things if you've got I know, some folks,
you know, maybe they've got some.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, if you have a perennial problem with standing wall,
then yeah, there are things the ways you can cope
with that, or plants that you can put in that
will tolerate that. When the garden center I worked at
in Sheboygan had a creek that ran through the property
and it would flood from the snow melt every year,
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and there were some certain parts of the property that
would be pretty squishy.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh, but we were just careful about the.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Plants that we put in there, and you know, we
didn't there was no long term damage.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh well, it's good to know. And obviously we talk
about this stuff and our window and into this is
comparatively to nature, is very short. Trees and grass and
plants have dealt with floods before it belt it will
do it again, and yeah, they do just fine with
that stuff. I was gonna ask you as we talked
to morning with these breaks from the Bruce Company online
Brucecompany dot com, that's Bruce Company dot com. We were
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talking earlier about a little bit about gardens and things
like moms and those type of things. What a great
time a year to be picking up some.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Fresh Yeah, we you know, our summer annuals are all
on sale right now, so if you come in you
can save sixty.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Percent on all of the.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
On all of the four inch summer annuals, hanging baskets
and combo platter, plant planters, tropicals, those things are all
on sale. But we also have coming in now sort
of the late summer into fall annuals like Zinna's and Dahlias.
And we even got a few moms in last week,
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not a lot, but a few. There are some really
pretty yellow ones. And then we would also have some
you know, some fall decore coming in and we unpacked puzzles.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh last, we can put those out, the sort of
nostalgic ones from White Mountain.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
They're really fun like things I ate as a kid
or daytime television shows. The stuff that you look at
and you say, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Remember all that is fantastic stuff. Of course, it's always
a great day to get into the Middleton gardens of
the Bruce Company. If you got a question, let me
get you joined us this morning six O eight three
two want thirteen ten. That's six O eight three two
want thirteen ten. Let's go to the phones, and Gene
joins us. Gene, welcome to the programming. Are on the
air with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Thank you. I have this plant growing. The birds must
have brought it. But it's two feet high, beautiful green foliage.
Looks lovely, but it's a weed. You pull it and
there comes some more. Anyway, it hands these little clusters
they look like ground cherries, a little house on it,
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and then there's inside a very sour like a little
tiny tomato. I don't know what on earth it is.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
It sounds like it sounds like a tiny Yeah, it's well,
so it's a berry. Chinese lanterns are bigger and orange,
and they have like I think there is like a
little fruit inside there. But if this is more like
a tan colored husk, and there may be about the
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size of your thumb. Those aren't ground cherries or tomatillo's
and probably they got in through a bird.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Ah, that's what I was. I keep pulling them and
then it makes more and more and more. So that's
not the answer.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, there is. There is a good app out there
called picture this, and so you can download it, snap
a photo with your phone and it's really accurate that
it's the one that we use at the plant desk.
Or you can, like I said to Jim earlier, send
photos to the plant desk and we'll see somebody there.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
We'll know what it is.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Very good, Thank you so much. Second question, if you
get a minute, I've got a pine tree, a very bushy,
beautiful it was like a fan very sort of a
lovely green pine tree. It's all turning brown and it
looks terrible. Is it dying? I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Well, it's hard for me to say with not seeing it,
depending on what it is. Is it just brown on
the inside or is it browning out all the way
to the tips?
Speaker 6 (26:20):
The whole thing is slowly turning brown. It looks terrible,
but it's mate. I bought two of them at Kmart
ages ago. You know how long ago that was. The
other one by the house is beautiful. It's bushy and
feathery to touch. It's a real soft it's about the
five six feet tall, very plump. Okay, it must be
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almost six feet wide, but it's just disappearing.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Well again, Jeene, I'm hard to diagnose without seeing it myself.
So send those photos to the plant desk and we'll
will help you identify it so you know what it is,
and then that will give us a better clue as
to what might be going on.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Could there be more underground and they're brecking.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It could be, but hard to know without seeing it.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Gene, great question. I love that you got them. How
many years ago at kmartn't they.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
The Bruce Company was around many years ago, Just saying yeah,
I get that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
No, you know, when we're younger, we tend to not
always look for the quality.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It's all right. I still have it's like their high
quality plans.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, I still have the recipe for the sub sandwiches
that they used to have at Kmart. I saved it
because I used to get those. I love those things.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
They're so good.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, that's for another that's for we could talk, we
could talk submarine sandwiches on another day. Speaking of great food,
of course, the event coming up in the twenty fourth
the Delicious sur By.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh my goodness, that's going to be quality. That's gonna
be a lot of fun. Mentioned, all the workshops, mentioned,
the puzzles, all that stuff at the Bruce Company, of course.
Sign up online Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and social
media the Bruce Company. As you've heard, what a fantastic
day to get on in. They'd love to see you
right in the middle and garden center of the Bruce Company.
Twenty eight thirty parm Interistreet. That's twentyeth thirty parm Ministreet.
Think about something great for your art, think about something
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great for the birds as well. Great day to get
on in. Twenty eight thirty parm Interistrate Lisa. It's always
way too much fun hanging out. You have a great day,
he mush. Chris Les comes to us from the Bruce
Company Online Brucecompany dot com. More of Madison. The morning
comes away next year in thirteen ten Wiba
Eight oh seven thirteen ten WIB and every Day outdoor Living.
It is brought to you by the Bruce Company online
Bruce Company dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com. You can
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Great day to get on in right at the Middleton
Garden Center for the Bruce Company at twenty eight thirty
Part Registrate. That's twenty eight thirty Park Registrate. While you're there,
(00:22):
you can say hi to everybody, but especially say hello
to Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. You joined us
this morning. Lisa, how you been?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm doing great? Is your birthday coming up soon?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
No months ago?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay, I acknowledged it though at the time I believe
because I have a note, you know, for like and
I am like, Lisa. I know it's a summer You're
a summer baby. Je Okay, okay, all right, Well, it's
it's good to see you and it's great to have
you along. And you know, it's if anyone wants to
bring you a gift, they don't.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You miss that. I do celebrate my birthday for like
a solid week.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Really that gets a little but it's great to see
you and I you know, you and I get a
chance to kind of huddle up before we go on
air to touch on some things, really cool things going
at the Bruce Company. And one of the also great
things is we just get to talk about things in general,
but gardening. And I think like for folks that may
be nervous sometimes to call in, and I get it.
(01:18):
I've called radio shows before, and I actually and I've
been on the radio every day for like the last
twenty years. I get nervous when I call in, and
I understand that. But one of the great things about
talking with you, Lisa, is you're very relaxing. You put
everybody at ease.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's nice, thank you, and.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So and so for folks, if you've got a question
about anything outside your coffee, yeah, oh it's and it's
fun just to get some get some questions and get
some options.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We can see you exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We don't you know, Yeah, we don't judge on what
you're wearing. You got the coffee, you're still wearing the rope.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's early. I love to get you on the air
this morning. Six so eight, three, two, one, thirteen ten
that's six so eight three two one thirteen ten. We'll
get you right on the air at least Riggs from
the Bruce Company. I mentioned the website Brucecompany dot com.
That's Brucecompany dot com. Also other Facebook and social media
and includes place also like Instagram and other Facebook areas.
Of course you can find them there. Even better, get
(02:12):
on in. Let's see you right at the Middleton Gardens
under Bruce Company right at twenty eight to thirty parm Interstreet.
That's twenty and thirty Partment Street. And again telephon number
six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
O eight three two one thirteen ten. We've got all
sorts of things to be thinking about at the Bruce Company.
Fall is coming soon, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Do you know we lose seventy seven minutes of daylight
in the month of August.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I did not know that, and uh, I'm gonna pretend
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Going forward.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So so with that though, there are opportunities, I know,
and I get it. I'm just like everybody else in spring,
and we're very excited. And we build this gar and
we put it together and everything pops and it's all beautiful.
And then like as the season runs, we kind of
accept that, you know, your garden runs.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
A car stop weeding. Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Have to be the case, though you can. It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, absolutely, if you've got some spots open in your
garden for you know, and you want to do something perennial,
like a tree or a shrub or a perennial plant.
You know, all of our tips on Facebook this week
and through our e blasts are not this week.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
This month through our e blast too, are about how
to garden with maybe an intention.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So our tip for last week was to think about
planting for birds. It is soon going to be migration time.
Pretty soon we'll wake up in the morning and there'll
be all kinds of birds massing in the trees or
massing on telephone wires or power lines, kind of getting
(03:51):
ready to make.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That trek south. And all that travel is hungry work.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So you can put out feeders, for sure, that that's great,
and a lot of people do that. But you can
also make it a little easier for birds by planting
things in your garden that give them a little bit
of extra food. So things like perennial grasses which have
great seed heads, not only attract some small birds, but
(04:19):
also look really cool in your garden, things that have
fall ripening fruit like dogwood, and then of course planting
some things for cover, some evergreens, so that as they're
kind of hanging out, especially by your feeders, that there's
a place for them to go in and out of
while they're feeding.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
With that. I don't know if it's just in my
neck of the woods or what, but the birds seem
to be particularly populous this year. It seems to be
like a boom year for birdies and songbirds. And I
don't know if this is just universal or maybe we
just got on some kind of route. Maybe the word
is out that dath the Bruce company seed at the
(04:59):
Preval house is high quality and they're delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we have had. I mean at my
house it seems like we've had. It's been a little
quieter because, of course, we had a nest of broad
winged hawks in a large maple tree next door, and
they were loud, and you know, it took a lot
of chipmunks and that kind of thing to feed those
(05:24):
young fledglings. But they're out now and it does seem
a little noisier in the morning. But yeah, I think
that we were all worried understandably about bird flu, but
all the research is showing that for songbirds, if you're
not close to like a fly lane along the water
where a lot of waterbirds would congregate, that it's pretty
(05:47):
safe for you to feed your sort of suburban birds.
As long as you keep those feeders clean, that's super important.
And make sure that the seed that you're using is
high quality, it doesn't have a lot of junk in it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Make it worth their time too. They appreciate that, Like
if birds no quality, they don't well, I.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Mean, they they're they're hungry and they're gonna eat, but
we should make sure that what they're eating, what we're
supplying is going to be nutritional for them.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Good boy, that's great. And as we talked this morning
with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company, if you ever
have questions about some of the good stuff to offer
those birds, they've always got answers for you at the
Middleton Garden Center of Bruce Company. Speaking of getting answers,
if you've got questions, we've got a great opportunity for
you right now. Get down the air with Lisa Breaks
from the Bruce Company telf for number six eight three
two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two
one thirteen ten, and Steve joins us. Steve, welcome to
(06:38):
the program. You're on the air with Lisa Breaks from
the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So I've got an area that I planted with wildflower seeds, okay,
truly a new area. It was like a hillside okay.
And some of it came up really good, some of
it didn't. And of course the weeds are in there
like crazy. Yeah, so about half of it is doing
(07:06):
well or I can get in there, I can pull
those weeds. To the other hand, there's so many weeds.
I don't know whether to just chill it up and
replant this fall for wildflowers in the spring.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Again, Well, what.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You might do is be more selective with the seeds.
Instead of the mixes, seeds that you would plant this
fall would be things that need a cold period, so
like loop in or a lot of the perennial some
of the perennial prairie seeds need a chill period. So
(07:42):
in the wild, the plants bloom and set seed and
then that drops and then they come up in the spring,
you just sort of scatter things on the top of
the soil. The problem with tilling it up is that
not only are you cleaning out those weeds, but you're
also bringing up more weed seeds and exposing them to
(08:02):
air and sunlight and water, and then they germinate. How
we deal with this in a normal garden bed where
we're using plants is that we put down a pre
emergent herbicide and that stops those weed seeds from germinating,
but it would also stop the things from germinating that
you want. If it's not a giant patch that you're doing,
(08:24):
I understand it's a hillside, Maybe be a little more
selective in the seed that you are choosing. Get something
that is that is quicker to germinate in the spring.
And then what you could do this fall is after
you clean it out, you could lay down some black
plastic or cardboard or something like that. The black plastic
(08:46):
will heat that soil up and will kill a lot
of those seeds that are close to the surface, and
that might give you a little bit of a heads
up when you resow next spring.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So spring is when I should sew well.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You can do it either way.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
There are some that are better sewed in the fall,
but then you could put those down next fall. What
you've got to do first is get rid of the
seeds that are in the soil already, and there are
probably lots of them, So try to heat up that
soil and kill some of those off and see if
that reduces you know what, the amount of weed seeds
(09:27):
that germinate in the spring.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Okay, so basically just cover that area.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, put some you know, put some
get some contractors, visquin from the or you know, contractor
plastic bags, trash bags from the hardware store. Lay that
stuff down, put some stones or bricks or something on
it so it doesn't fly away. And the winter will
heat up that soil and it can do a fair
(09:57):
amount of work at getting rid of of any of
those weed seeds that are at the service. And then
in the spring you can pull that back and then
try again, and then make sure that you know what
you're planting in that in that seed mix, so when
the seed links come up, you can identify them and
(10:17):
you know, tease them out from the weeds. Yeah, it's
hard to do that when they're all tiny.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
What would you suggest to come up quick next spring.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Them not an expert on the seeds, but come into
the garden Center and we, you know, explain your product
problem and we can figure help you figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, okay, Steve, great question, great call, Thank you for
calling this morth Thanks you welcome, great great advice as always,
and Steve, don't forget can always get on in Milton
Garden Center. Right at twenty eight thirty parm interistreet that's
twenty eight thirty parm ingistratet fuone lines or a. But
if you've got a question for Lisa six so eight
three two one thirteen ten at six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten the twenty fourth, it's coming up fast.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And why it is a bunch of stuff happening on
the twenty four.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's kind of a conglomeration of things that are just helpful.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yes, let's talk about what's all going on in the proof.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So we have got, of course, an opportunity to do
to get a free garden consult from one of our
landscape architects upstairs or I'm sorry, he's a designer, a
landscape designer, and so you'll want to sign up for
that and then someone will call you and arrange set
(11:30):
up the appointment time. We also have Michelle from The
Delicious surcoming. She is going to be doing a series
of demos of ways that you can sort of jazz
up all that produce that you are pulling from your
garden this year. And also we have a lady coming
from the Arthritis Foundation and she's going to demonstrate some
(11:54):
ways that you know, if your body is getting older
but you still love to garden, to help you out
with that. Sures and tips I saw, and also Fetch
will be there and like, who doesn't like puppies poppies?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yes, how awesome is that I saw? And I know
obviously things like raised beds as well are nice if
you don't want to and.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
There's there are certain tools that are easier to use.
Oh yeah, body positions, stretches that you can use to
limber up before your garden.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yoga in the yard.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Could call that, we call that garden. I will find it.
We'll brand at least so we'll get Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I did see and I like a social media post
and it's one of those things where you look at
and you go, well, that looks really cool, and then
you start reading the comments and you realize how kind
of impractical it is. Somebody was showing where there was
like and it was not a real picture in illustration
where they're like, grow your garden in mounds, and they
made these mounds and it looked like like ripples, and
then they would plant their garden on these mounds and
(12:50):
it's like, oh, that looks like fantastic in theory. And
then people talk about it, like and they're pointing out
all the issues with doing it in practice. One creating
the mounds in the first place. Then stay that Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How high were these mounds. These mounds were about Oh
so they're raised.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, oh that does seem a little impractical.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It was pretty. And they also pointed out like the
lower stuff won't get light, and I thought, okay, this
is it looked neat, but man, that's yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Like a waffle guard.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, exactly. By the way, it was over at the
Bruce Company's Facebook page scrolling through and uh, I noticed
there is a ton when it comes to workshops being
posted up there.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, we did. I'm not quite done.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I haven't gotten into the December events yet, but I
do have everything posted through the end of November.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think no I have.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I haven't done Santa Missus clause yet, so the rest
of them for the holiday season will be going out
this week or early next week.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, all right, I just have to confirm some things.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You know what that means. Got to check in often,
check it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes, there you go, check back.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Also sign up or the bi weekly twice a month
newsletter as well.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Post and you know, pay attention when you read the description.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It'll tell you whether.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Whether pre registering is encouraged or whether it's manned that
you know, completely necessary. And then there is a link
on the If you're getting these things through Facebook, there's
a link that will go to the website so you
can sign up.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Sign up film, yeah, form it varies, and as you
point it out, it's just some of these do require
specialized materials.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah. Yeah, because if it's like a workshop, we need
to count and our room holds maybe fifteen people, so
twenty is a problem, so we just need to yeah it.
So sometimes we have to have pre registration. Other times
we just kind of want to head like a general
headcount like Delicious or event or when Fetch comes when
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they bring the rescue dogs and the puppies. We just
kind of want to have an expectation of how many
people are going to show.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Up, just be prepared to be absolutely all that all
that information, of course, you get the information on their
Facebook page. The ones that require registration, there's a link
right to their Bruce Company dot com page where you're
registered for those events as well. If you got a
question for Lisa love to have join us this morning,
six so waight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
so eight three two one thirteen ten. Gets you on
the air. Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company and Jim
joins us. Jim, welcome to the program. You're on the air,
(15:22):
Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Every year I always plant you know, nice you know,
you know, flower seeds to you know, decorate you with
these boxes feed box that I've got, you know, plant
boxer I've got. Every year they at least come up
real nice. This year, okay, it's like and like Germany,
I always have flowers by say like mid to eight July.
(15:48):
This year, it's like I'm looking at the flowers. They're
still like in of May, early June, nothing's coming up.
No flowers, at all.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Do you have plants coming up and they're just not blooming? Yeah, well,
you know you say they're in containers. Have you fertilized yes,
I used us, I used miracles grow okay.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Okay. Have you changed the soil out?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yes, for soil okay, Well.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Geez, I'm a little stumped.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Usually, you know, I always say that you can certainly
reuse soil that are that's in containers.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I do myself.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
It does get a little nutritionally depleted, so fertilizing containers
is important, and then maybe every two or three years
you can replace the soil. But in the meantime kind
of you know, you.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Take out the old plants.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
There's always roots and things that come out, so it's
good to sort of replenish it a little bit. So
plants came up, but no flowers.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Like midway and that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What did you plant?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
What? What kind of seeds did you plant?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Videos?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
And snap dragons and well.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Snaps snaps like the cooler weather, so they might have.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Although you know, we have.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Blue House that comes out every other Friday to sell
and she's got snaps and I'm seeing him. I saw
him at the farmer's market this weekend, and we've got
a lot of zin's at the garden center.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
How did you have new seed? I'm just running through
all the possibilities.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I bought brand new seed. And the other thing is
I planned the morning Glories and every other morning Glories
like to run the trails and I have the fun
of and it's like something assassinating them. Just this week
they like six inches the base of the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's probably rabbits.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But yeah, that's probably rabbits if they're.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Just like one bite and that was it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, it looks like it looks like a scissors. That's
a rabbit for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
So we're gonna need to.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Why don't you, Jim, why don't you send some photos
to the plant desk and that's plant desk at Bruce
Company dot com. We'll see, we'll put our heads together
and see if we can come up with maybe some
other possibilities as to it. Because it sounds like you're
doing everything that you're supposed to be doing. You're fertilizing,
you use new seed, you replenish your soil.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They're getting plenty of sun in this spot.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh yes, oh yeah, you're always get fowers, but I
have noise the population of rabbits all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Well yeah, so yes, send some snap some photos with
your phone. It's Plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Great call, great question. Jim again, that's Plant Desk at
Bruce Company dot com. And if you got a question,
you two can be like Jim Love David join us
this morning, Dolph number six so eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten.
We'll get you right on the air with Lisa Briggs
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Phone lines are up for you right now if you
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right at twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. It's twenty eight
thirty par Mentor Street. And uh, Lisa, I know we
didn't get it as bad here in the central part
of the state, but wow, eastern Wisconsin. That rainfall can
(19:43):
that By the way, can standing water? Does that damage
trees and other things? Obviously for plants, it's probably not
the greatest.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
If it's not a place where trees can adapt to
like a short period of standing water. There are trees,
of course, that are adapted to that kind of thing
all the time. You see him planted along riversides lakesides
like Willow arber Viety for instance. Red maples can take
more water than you'd think in the grand scheme of things.
(20:13):
If it's fairly short lived a day or two, it's
not going to hurt anything. Long term, we might see
like some early fall color kind of things if they're
if the trees are stressed, But I don't think long
term it's.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Going to have a huge a huge effect.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, So, and I wasn't at the store yesterday I imagine.
I mean, Bruce Company sits up on a high spot,
so we don't usually get flooding, but we do get
a lot of water. It sort of sweeps in underneath
the doors. We have had the greenery department kind.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Of flood out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So I'm sure there was squeegee action happening yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And it wasn't two years ago where I'm out that
way out towards like the with the store, that kind
of flight all that not not.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh no, that was longer ago than that. That was.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, Guilda's Club flooded, Costco flooded out, was closed for
a couple of days. That was, Oh, that was long.
I think that was right around one of the first years.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I was back from Sheboygan. So I'm going to say
eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I feel like I'm getting old because everything's only happened yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, like I said, at Bruce Company, we didn't get
that cause we're up in Middleton, We're on a high spot, nice.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And so we didn't get any of that.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I heard some streets in downtown Madison were flooded a
little bit, So Milwaukee really got slammed.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It was some of that video and pictures and that
kind of brings up a question for folks that have
You mentioned arbor viting and some other things for folks
that have And that's one of the great things about
getting into the Midleton Gardens under the Bruce Company. We
talk about too, that event coming up the twenty fourth
and you know, kind of putting together that that perfect
yard is finding things if you've got I know, some folks,
you know, maybe they've got some.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, if you have a perennial problem with standing wall,
then yeah, there are things the ways you can cope
with that, or plants that you can put in that
will tolerate that. When the garden center I worked at
in Sheboygan had a creek that ran through the property
and it would flood from the snow melt every year,
(22:18):
and there were some certain parts of the property that
would be pretty squishy.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh, but we were just careful about the.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Plants that we put in there, and you know, we
didn't there was no long term damage.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh well, it's good to know. And obviously we talk
about this stuff and our window and into this is
comparatively to nature, is very short. Trees and grass and
plants have dealt with floods before it belt it will
do it again, and yeah, they do just fine with
that stuff. I was gonna ask you as we talked
to morning with these breaks from the Bruce Company online
Brucecompany dot com, that's Bruce Company dot com. We were
(22:55):
talking earlier about a little bit about gardens and things
like moms and those type of things. What a great
time a year to be picking up some.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Fresh Yeah, we you know, our summer annuals are all
on sale right now, so if you come in you
can save sixty.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Percent on all of the.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
On all of the four inch summer annuals, hanging baskets
and combo platter, plant planters, tropicals, those things are all
on sale. But we also have coming in now sort
of the late summer into fall annuals like Zinna's and Dahlias.
And we even got a few moms in last week,
(23:35):
not a lot, but a few. There are some really
pretty yellow ones. And then we would also have some
you know, some fall decore coming in and we unpacked puzzles.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh last, we can put those out, the sort of
nostalgic ones from White Mountain.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
They're really fun like things I ate as a kid
or daytime television shows. The stuff that you look at
and you say, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Remember all that is fantastic stuff. Of course, it's always
a great day to get into the Middleton gardens of
the Bruce Company. If you got a question, let me
get you joined us this morning six O eight three
two want thirteen ten. That's six O eight three two
want thirteen ten. Let's go to the phones, and Gene
joins us. Gene, welcome to the programming. Are on the
air with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Thank you. I have this plant growing. The birds must
have brought it. But it's two feet high, beautiful green foliage.
Looks lovely, but it's a weed. You pull it and
there comes some more. Anyway, it hands these little clusters
they look like ground cherries, a little house on it,
(24:41):
and then there's inside a very sour like a little
tiny tomato. I don't know what on earth it is.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
It sounds like it sounds like a tiny Yeah, it's well,
so it's a berry. Chinese lanterns are bigger and orange,
and they have like I think there is like a
little fruit inside there. But if this is more like
a tan colored husk, and there may be about the
(25:08):
size of your thumb. Those aren't ground cherries or tomatillo's
and probably they got in through a bird.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Ah, that's what I was. I keep pulling them and
then it makes more and more and more. So that's
not the answer.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, there is. There is a good app out there
called picture this, and so you can download it, snap
a photo with your phone and it's really accurate that
it's the one that we use at the plant desk.
Or you can, like I said to Jim earlier, send
photos to the plant desk and we'll see somebody there.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
We'll know what it is.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Very good, Thank you so much. Second question, if you
get a minute, I've got a pine tree, a very bushy,
beautiful it was like a fan very sort of a
lovely green pine tree. It's all turning brown and it
looks terrible. Is it dying? I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Well, it's hard for me to say with not seeing it,
depending on what it is. Is it just brown on
the inside or is it browning out all the way
to the tips?
Speaker 6 (26:20):
The whole thing is slowly turning brown. It looks terrible,
but it's mate. I bought two of them at Kmart
ages ago. You know how long ago that was. The
other one by the house is beautiful. It's bushy and
feathery to touch. It's a real soft it's about the
five six feet tall, very plump. Okay, it must be
(26:43):
almost six feet wide, but it's just disappearing.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Well again, Jeene, I'm hard to diagnose without seeing it myself.
So send those photos to the plant desk and we'll
will help you identify it so you know what it is,
and then that will give us a better clue as
to what might be going on.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Could there be more underground and they're brecking.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It could be, but hard to know without seeing it.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Gene, great question. I love that you got them. How
many years ago at kmartn't they.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
The Bruce Company was around many years ago, Just saying yeah,
I get that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
No, you know, when we're younger, we tend to not
always look for the quality.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It's all right. I still have it's like their high
quality plans.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, I still have the recipe for the sub sandwiches
that they used to have at Kmart. I saved it
because I used to get those. I love those things.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
They're so good.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, that's for another that's for we could talk, we
could talk submarine sandwiches on another day. Speaking of great food,
of course, the event coming up in the twenty fourth
the Delicious sur By.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh my goodness, that's going to be quality. That's gonna
be a lot of fun. Mentioned, all the workshops, mentioned,
the puzzles, all that stuff at the Bruce Company, of course.
Sign up online Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and social
media the Bruce Company. As you've heard, what a fantastic
day to get on in. They'd love to see you
right in the middle and garden center of the Bruce Company.
Twenty eight thirty parm Interistreet. That's twentyeth thirty parm Ministreet.
Think about something great for your art, think about something
(28:05):
great for the birds as well. Great day to get
on in. Twenty eight thirty parm Interistrate Lisa. It's always
way too much fun hanging out. You have a great day,
he mush. Chris Les comes to us from the Bruce
Company Online Brucecompany dot com. More of Madison. The morning
comes away next year in thirteen ten Wiba
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