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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight oh five, thirteen ten WIB and every day Outdoor Living.
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to go, those to stop on and they'd love to
see it right at the Middleton Garden Center of the
Bruce Company, twenty eight to thirty parm Inter Street. That's
twenty eight to thirty Parment Street in joining us in
studio this morning from the Bruce Company, Lie Spriggs, Lisa,
how you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm doing really well. It's good to see you. And
we're into August now we know, isn't it weird?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's the last where was our reading that during the
month of August we lose seventy seven minutes of daylight.
Oh goodness, thirty three in the morning and forty four
at night.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Man, how can we will we get by? It's rough?
That's yeah, that's so.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The end of August is the end of meteorological.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay, so what's the U and there's like something about
summer fleeting that we live for the day to day folks.
That's really what you've gotta be. Absolutely you gotta do
that stuff. If you've got questions things going on around
the yard and garden. Lisa Briggs is here for iss
you love to answer your question and take your call.
All they get is pick up dial in six oh
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six so eight
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three two one thirteen ten. We'll get you right on
the air with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. All
sorts of cool stuff going on at the Bruce Company.
We'll get that in just a moment. But first, Lisa,
looking at the forecast, not terrible, not terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's gonna get hot and humid over the weekend. Though,
I hate that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Does your garden hate that? Though?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know I have a shady garden.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't worry about it as as much as some
people do. Yeah, but the humidity is you know. Yeah,
my pe andes have some betrayed and I imagine the
power will set in any data.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, And I know I've asked you about this in
the past, and and I'm gonna ask you again just
because it's been so sustained. This the smoky stuff. Obviously
for us it's a it's a nuisance. Does it do
anything for our garden? Like does that have any effect
at all in the in the trees and plants?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And I don't. I don't think so. I would.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know, it's hazy, yeah, so we're not getting that
direct sunlight.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So but I think that by this time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Of year, most you know, trees and shrubs there, they'll
deal with this.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right, we don't have falling ash like.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
They would were were you'd be closer to the fires,
that could really have an impact on your plants. But
you know, it's not good for your lungs. So you know,
if you're a compromise in any way, or if you're
gonna if you're working outdoors, they just make sure that
you take breaks and have some water.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was reading about how it affects wildlife and of
course poor birds who who have you know, very they
they're they're circulate, nut circulatory, Their respiration is always very high.
And there's something and I only think of humans got
all these great filter and stuff, and a lot of
them are doing things like flying lower and it's kind
of changing some patterns for them.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that there are some things
that are that are happening. I think if you're worried
about your garden, I don't think you need to be
worried about your gardening.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I've noticed the backyard bird feeders have been especially busy
the last couple of weeks, and I don't know if
it's seasonal or if it's if it's haze related, but
the birds are maybe the word got out, I don't
know that, Like they're like they've got bruce company seed
and they're like they're like all over the Have you
know anybody else noticed that there's just a bunch more
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birds coming to bird feeders or is it just is
it just us that we suddenly find it funny?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
They just maybe they just all know who's got the
softest touch.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And I think too, they like it because it's kept fresh,
because if it's if it's not refilled every day, every
morning at about four thirty am, the deer comes over
and cleans the thing out. So maybe that's what it is.
They're just getting daily fresh stuff. Any yes, thirteen ten,
that's six eight three two one thirteen ten gets you
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on the air with Air with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company. If you've got a question, love, do you have?
You join us? And since we are now into August,
you were commenting just before the program. Of course we
typically take a bunch of calls about Japanese Japanese beetles, and.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We may I think that, you know, never say never,
but I think that Gail was right.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I think that Gail's.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Prediction that because of the low snowfall and the deeper frost,
that it killed a bunch of the larvae and pupe
that were in the soil.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So yeah, I didn't, I haven't. I think I mentioned
I've only seen two so far this entire summer, and
that was.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Usually we've got yes, at least of the garden center
where you usually see them around the roses the hibiscus.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Not so this year.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Course we had other things like the viburnum beetle earlier
in the spring and the viburnum beetle.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I didn't know there was a vibert There.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Is a viburnum beetle that came out about I want
to say, about three or four years ago. It started
to it's small, it's not as attractive or as you know,
massive as the Japanese beetle compare it, but it does
do the same kind of thing. It sort of strips
the leaves and makes leaves them looking really lacy like
Japanese beetles too, it's just an earlier past.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh and it's not unlike the Japanese beetle. These are
not There is no redeeming quality.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
No, they're pretty nondescript.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, they're kind of like at least they're kind of
a root beer color, but like not yeah, flashy. I
would love if they had like the.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Flash The other flashy one that has is it up
and comer is the lily beetle.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The lily beetle, I.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Look that one up. Okay, that one's very flashy looking.
And that again is an earlier an a pest that
you see earlier, and it goes after true lilies, so
not day lilies, but you know oriental lily's trumpet lilies,
that kind of thing. I saw a couple of them
on my Martagon lilies the spring, and they're like bright
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crimson red.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You could paint a w on them, and you think
they were a badger.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
The official insect of the of the.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wisconsin scarlet lily. Okay, so with the like with the
with the ernum, yes, and the lily beetle, a similar
approach to what was done with the with the Japanese.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, there's there their grub stage is not an
in ground kind of thing, or there there intermediate stages
not an in ground thing, so that you want to
treat with you could use the systemic although on you know,
viburnam are such a big food crop for a lot
of birds and small mammals, you'd want to use something
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that's more topical. But it's that it's it's a pest
that we see earlier in the year. So I would
say May into June. Okay, so by now they're long gone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Okay, they're done.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
They've said cyon ar.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, they've laid some eggs for next year.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They've gone belly up themselves and there.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
All these things have a very short lifespan.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Couldn't happen to better critters.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's like fruit flies in your house, right, Yes, you
think you have them all the time, but you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's just their children.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Talking this morning with Lisa Briggs of the Bruce company.
If you've got questions. Maybe you've got some pests around
the yard, and we're not talking about the neighborhood kids,
just actual little critters maybe bother in your garden. You've
got questions about how to deal with them, Lisa, I'd
love to answer it for you. This morning, gets you
some get you some clarity. I can just give us
call six so waight three two one thirteen ten. That's
six so eight three two one thirteen ten. They talk
about days starting to wind down as we start to
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work our way through the end and final months of summer.
I know sales get particularly popular this time.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
A year later they are, and there's there are a
lot of things on sale at the garden center as
we sort of wind down for the summer. So check
the website. They're listed there. So a lot of trees
and shrubs are on sale, as are uh some trellises
that kind of thing. Ceramic outdoor pots are There's some
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specials on on some floor model furniture if you're interested
in buy the Yard, which is one of those recycled
plastic material sort of situations, and they are made in
the West that they have a ten percent off special
orders thing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Through. I believe it's the eleventh August.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's a sort of a state Fair kind of sale
side in the state Fair.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Nice. Yeah, that's very cool. And you mentioned too.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well they have a fast turnaround too, since so.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Close perfect you mentioned to checking the website. I would
tell folks to get there regularly and follow you on
social media because we obviously we get a chance to
talk for a half hour each week, but there's always
like so much that. Like for folks that don't know
when we leave, they're like, oh, we could have got
to this. But the point being, there's way more going
on at the Bruce Company than we can cover in
a half hour, which means it would be hooview to
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follow behoovey.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's a good word.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The Bruce Company that comes up in the Big Lebowski
the word so I use it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But it's older than that.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh yeah, probably follow the Bruce Company. Facebook and social media.
Also subscribe to the bi weekly. It's a bi weekly,
right word for that? On the newsletter every other week.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Every other week. Really week it comes out this week?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Oh really, it's yeah, it's a it's an e blast week.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I get a little pop up, a little note that.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Means right the blogs.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yes, yes, so you definitely want to follow the Bruce
Company there on all those different platforms. Talking about some
of the us speaking of following the Bruce Company, some
of the great events coming up, we'll also talk about
some other really neat things going on. A great opportunity
for you. If you're looking at the yard you're going,
you know, this could use a little bit of a refresh.
They've got a great opportunity as always at the Bruce
Company for that. We'll do that, and of course we'll
take your call next as Everyday Outdoor Living with the
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Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten wiby eight
sixteen thirteen ten WIBA and every Day Outdoor Living brought
to you by the Bruce Company online Bruce Company dot com.
We were not that was really fast. That was the
quickest break ever was I was not ready for It's
it's fun too as we as we get a chance
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to catch up each and every week about all the
cool things going on at the Bruce Company. And one
of the things that I know, as long as you've
been joining me and we've been talking, the Bruce Company
has been and obviously predates even that very much into
different organizations, different charities, different ways to help out the community.
And one way that ties in so perfectly with what
you guys do at the Bruce Company is bringing in
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folks with you know, the garden. You end up with
excess this and a little extra that you guys have
a really great way for folks when it comes to
vegs with the Giving Gardener to bring in that stuff
and get it out to folks that could really use it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I was telling Sean entering our really fast break
that we had a knock on our door last night
and it was a neighbor who had an over abundance
of cucumbers apparently, and so they were stopping off and
giving all the people on the street.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
SOMEQ companies handed them it's handed them out.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But if you don't have the energy for that, yes,
you can bring your extra garden produce to the garden
center right by the cashiers.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
There's a state called the Giving Gardener.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And so we collect that and then bi weekly, you know,
whenever it sort of sort of fills up, we run
that over to way Forward Resources. It's a uh AN
organization in Middleton and they have they do a lot
of things to sort of help folks folks in need.
And one of them is they have a food pantry
and they and so they collect fresh produce for their
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food pantry and then folks in need in the community
can come and shop.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And you think about, you know that's a that that
distribution part of food and and that is is a
real great task, and you know it does require a
lot of work. That's great that that's a great partner
in town that can that can do that. And you
think too about just I'm still waiting for the day
somebody's going to bring in their bucket of tomatoes, because
that's always my personal thing. I end up eating most
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of them here at the station before I before I
head out for the day. But uh again, just got
on into the Middleton Garden Center, the Bruce Company. You've
got that got that harvest coming, and you're going got
these extra cucumbers soon enough, got all the tomatoes. What
am I going to do? You can of course take
them put them to get use again. Stop on in Middleton,
Guards of the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty Parmenty Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street, remembered also Robin and
asked this last week, she has a Christmas cactus or
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maybe a Thanksgiving or one of those cactuses. It bloomed
twice this year. Is that typical or atypical or I'm
judging by your got the answer, just by your reaction.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Did they usually bloom?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
There Easter cactus which bloom earlier in the spring, and
then there's Thanksgiving which are usually the ones that you
find at the garden centers and whatnot. Christmas cactus are
less less popular or that's they're not as easy to find.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, so usually they just bloom at one time.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But occasionally, occasionally things happen, you know, just when you
think you've got nature figured out.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Feeling a little zest.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
She doesn't have really any rules.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
No like humans, So you can you can That's that
can happen, not not often, but it can happen. Oh,
very very cool stuff. We're talking too about just things
going on at the at the Middleton Garden Center of
the Bruce Company, and a big opportunity for folks talking
about you know, looking at your yard, looking at your garden.
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Things tend to get you know, at some point going
you know, maybe time for refresh or maybe you haven't
really put enough a lot of time into really working
out that perfect landscape, gardenscape, those type of things. Yes,
have some cool opportunities for folks that want to want
to start that conversation, don't you.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I'm going to check the date because I think
it's the twenty fourth, but I'm going to look at
the calendar. Yes, on the twenty fourth, which is a
Sunday Sunday. Usually our events are on Saturdays, but this
one's on a Sunday. So not only will we have
thatch by with with some puppies and dogs, we also
have one of our landscape designers is going to be
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doing some free fifteen minute consults. So so go to
our website roostcompany dot com slash events and you need
to sign up for it and then somebody from the
plant desk will call you and then you can discuss
a time that works for you. So it's from eleven
to two. And while you're here, we also have Michelle
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from the delicious Er Oh Yeah, to sort of talk
about how you can sort of spice up your the
veg that you've grown or that you're picking up at
the farmer's market or from some of the CSAs.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
The Deliciouser is a have you have you do you
know of that?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I know of them, I've never experienced them.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
They come to our to our artists in Fair every
year and they have this great it's kind of a
restaurant shop kind of thing. But what they do is
they make amazing hand blended spice blends. Yeah, so some
are you know, like they have berber which is that
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you know, some of them are single things, but most
of them are blends. And so she's going to do
some demos and share some recipes with how you can
use those spices.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I feel like they and some people I know that
own restaurants. I feel like they've done some one off
events with them as well.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Where they they have, they used to do some some
pop ups, and I think that I'm not I'm not
one hundred percent sure how the restaurant works, but it's
not like a typical menu that you choose from. It's
sort of a curated, experiential kind of menu.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Which is what everybody loves these days.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You know, back in the day, when I wanted thought
I wanted to have a restaurant that would be the restaurant.
I would say, this is what you're going to eat,
and then you would eat it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's the bossy of me.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Have you seen that? Is it? The menu? Is that
the movie? Katie would know there's a Is it on Netflix?
The menu? Is that what it's called? You know what
I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is it called the menu? The movie?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, it's really good. I'm not sure if it's on
Netflix right now, but.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's not a it's not a I'll go on the
box and find if you have some tricky box. Oh, oh,
some tricky box from Canada, we.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Can see everything.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, wink wag if you want, if you if you
if you want to open a restaurant, I'd watch that.
That is.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Did you have to work at night and holidays and weekends?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And yeah, it's a lot, it is it is.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's always fun. Just just I'll.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Just support the people that are brave enough to.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do it exactly exactly and so that event.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, so that's that's gonna be really fun. So that's.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Eleven to two on August twenty fourth, and she's a
Sunday ex so stop by what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I was going to ask you to Lisa about I
was visiting with a neighbor and she had a bunch
of sunflowers which were beautiful, but she also had like
a lot of native prairie flowers and grasses and things.
I know, this is not a new thing. I know,
it's it's it's true. It's very trendy, yeah, and trending
for folks that want to start that conversation. And when
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you're talking to about that design stuff, we sometimes forget
that just like just like any type of design and stuff,
gardening and like yard scapes and other things, there's new
ways and new you know, getting new looks, and it
can really make a profound difference in in like your
overall quality of life, but even your experience in your
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own yard is having like whether you want to go
to maybe a more natural kind of that wildlife feel
or that you know, wildflowers and those type of native
grass and other things. It's such a cool, like like
shift for some folks. And it's always a good thing
to to maybe incorporate, even if it's not the entire space,
but incorporates some areas that have a little bit more
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of that native native funa. What's that?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
What's the funa? What's the flora flora funa. Yeah, the flora,
the flora part.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Fun is the wildlife. Yeah, this is something.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
To attract the fauna. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
This has been around since I would say the late
sixties early seventies, like when Sarah Stein wrote Planting the
os Garden. And but it's come to the forefront. I
think as weather patterns change. Plants are plants that are
native to where you live, are adapted to your climate.
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So if you're not like me, I'm a plant adventurer.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But if you want something that is a little more.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Sustainable and you don't have to work so hard, so
easier care because the plants are sort of used to
being here, then natives are a really good option. And
you know, the complaint used to be that they were
messy and big and you know, all that kind of thing,
and they are, especially some of the prairie plants. But
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now there are varieties of natives or cultivars. We also
call them native ours, so they are named varieties of
native plants. Sometimes they're just as attractive to the pollinating
insects as just the species. Sometimes they are not, so
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you can sort of use them with you know, just
you can come into the garden center.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
We're happy to help you.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All of the cone flowers that you see, all the
really beautiful ones, for instance, are all technically cultivars of natives.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Some are better for pollinating and that kind of thing
than others.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Do you want to stay with the flower forms that
are close to the species.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And for people that are looking to kind of make
incorporate more of that stuff, I mean, that's not that's
not a big lift, right, That's not like I think
for people that are maybe more more familiar with some
of the kind of traditional flowers and other things, it's
not like you're you're as you mentioned, Since they're native
or native derived, they're much more hardy and probably a
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little bit easier to care for than.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, And I'm not.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
For me to say, oh, you must only plant natives
would be disingenuous, because I do not just plantnatis.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I like a big wide plant, yell it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So even if you're not considering that you want to
turn your yard into a prairie or you have that
kind of plan, you can still incorporate some of these
plants into your landscape and mix and match them with
other things that you really like. So it's not a
judgment at least from me.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Sure, I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
See this as a judgment thing.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I just see this as a bigger box of paints. Yeah,
variety and yeah, like the not the kran box, it's
twenty four Crans, but that ninety six kran box that
you you always wanted your mom to get you when
school started.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I still buy that for myself occasionally, somewhere right around
September and I'll say, ooh, Crans, where's the biggest box?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Got the sharpener right on that sharp work? No, but
it looked it was. It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Where did the like bits of wax seriously filled in.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Just filled in the back of the box.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, it's that's funny. Those things that we as we
get when we get older were like I always wanted
that I was going to buy, you know, even little
tiny things like like a box of Crans. And I
sometimes wish that that because I don't know about if
it was the same way as for you growing up.
Is like my mom stuck the list. If it said
sixteen thirty two, that's what we're getting. We're getting sixteen
markers thirty two Crans. We would not deviate from that list,
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did you have a lot of siblings.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Do you have a lot of siblings, your brothers, two sisters. Yeah,
so I come from a family of five too.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And if you had to buy five boxes of ninety
six brands, that were not required. Although in my case
you kept your things right when my kids were in school,
and probably Madsen's the same, it went into a community
kind of thing that was for and that's a great thing.
But yeah, but you had your own desk and your
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own things were in your desk.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Real quick. As we wrap up speaking of community, we
mentioned of course the events, of course the opportunity to
bring with the giving garden, but also to community pets.
And I know you guys have talk about all the
great things you guys do to impact the community. One
of the things is finding fantastic working and helping FETCH
find great homes for great pets.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, so they will also be here from noon to
two on the twenty fourth. They come every month to
the garden center, and then as we get into the fall,
when we're having more family kind of things, they might
be here a little bit more often. But FETCH is
a great organization, rehab and re homing.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Organization.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Four dogs and so we have been working all year
doing some fundraising. And then also, you know, if you're
shopping at the Garden Center, you've got some extra change.
There are those you know, those really low key plastic boxes,
and we regularly empty those out and give that to
Fetch as well. All fantastic well, and all of our
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holiday fundraising, like the raffle at Ladies' Night and that
kind of thing, all those proceeds will go to Fetch.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Hey, what does holiday stuff start, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Let's see, I spent most of the day yesterday going
through retail prices for a really big order that's starting
to come in. But yeah, we will start pricing on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
But when did Halloween become so big too?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
But we mostly do harvest at the Garden Center, not
so much Halloween. That's been that Halloween's been like the
second biggest.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Decorating holiday for some time.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Because it feels like, yeah, literally as soon as as
soon as the fourth is completed, we're moving on to fall. Yeah,
which is fine. Again, one of the great things is
it is you don't like it, you don't have to participate,
But gosh, I see so many people that are just yeah,
some of.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
The were starting to get some of the bigger fall
plants like Zinn's and no Moms yet. It's a little
early for that, but I would imagine sometime later this month.
Sins and Dahlia's pumpkins will be in around the around
early September. No, not early September. Yeah, sometimes mid September,
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I guess. But we do have those really cool Last
year we got these hand painted Mexican Hi jack o
lanterns and those are in.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So those are in.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, those are in and they look really cool.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I saw a picture of one of two them and
I thought those.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Kind of snappy, aren't they?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
They are very very cool. Great to get day to
get on into the Middleton Garden Center at the Bruce Company.
Check those out. Don't forget about all the great upcoming
events as well. Make sure you're following them on Facebook
and social media. You can subscribe as well to their
newsletter the website Bruce Company dot com Bruce Company dot com. Again,
even better, get on into the Middleton Garden Center. Do
that today. Twenty eight thirty part Interistry. That's twenty eight
thirty part interstret Lisa. That's always great saying you have
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a fantastic.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Day you as well shine.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
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to go, those to stop on and they'd love to
see it right at the Middleton Garden Center of the
Bruce Company, twenty eight to thirty parm Inter Street. That's
twenty eight to thirty Parment Street in joining us in
studio this morning from the Bruce Company, Lie Spriggs, Lisa,
how you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm doing really well. It's good to see you. And
we're into August now we know, isn't it weird?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's the last where was our reading that during the
month of August we lose seventy seven minutes of daylight.
Oh goodness, thirty three in the morning and forty four
at night.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Man, how can we will we get by? It's rough?
That's yeah, that's so.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The end of August is the end of meteorological.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay, so what's the U and there's like something about
summer fleeting that we live for the day to day folks.
That's really what you've gotta be. Absolutely you gotta do
that stuff. If you've got questions things going on around
the yard and garden. Lisa Briggs is here for iss
you love to answer your question and take your call.
All they get is pick up dial in six oh
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six so eight
(01:22):
three two one thirteen ten. We'll get you right on
the air with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. All
sorts of cool stuff going on at the Bruce Company.
We'll get that in just a moment. But first, Lisa,
looking at the forecast, not terrible, not terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's gonna get hot and humid over the weekend. Though,
I hate that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Does your garden hate that? Though?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know I have a shady garden.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't worry about it as as much as some
people do. Yeah, but the humidity is you know. Yeah,
my pe andes have some betrayed and I imagine the
power will set in any data.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, And I know I've asked you about this in
the past, and and I'm gonna ask you again just
because it's been so sustained. This the smoky stuff. Obviously
for us it's a it's a nuisance. Does it do
anything for our garden? Like does that have any effect
at all in the in the trees and plants?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And I don't. I don't think so. I would.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know, it's hazy, yeah, so we're not getting that
direct sunlight.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So but I think that by this time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Of year, most you know, trees and shrubs there, they'll
deal with this.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right, we don't have falling ash like.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
They would were were you'd be closer to the fires,
that could really have an impact on your plants. But
you know, it's not good for your lungs. So you know,
if you're a compromise in any way, or if you're
gonna if you're working outdoors, they just make sure that
you take breaks and have some water.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was reading about how it affects wildlife and of
course poor birds who who have you know, very they
they're they're circulate, nut circulatory, Their respiration is always very high.
And there's something and I only think of humans got
all these great filter and stuff, and a lot of
them are doing things like flying lower and it's kind
of changing some patterns for them.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that there are some things
that are that are happening. I think if you're worried
about your garden, I don't think you need to be
worried about your gardening.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I've noticed the backyard bird feeders have been especially busy
the last couple of weeks, and I don't know if
it's seasonal or if it's if it's haze related, but
the birds are maybe the word got out, I don't
know that, Like they're like they've got bruce company seed
and they're like they're like all over the Have you
know anybody else noticed that there's just a bunch more
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birds coming to bird feeders or is it just is
it just us that we suddenly find it funny?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
They just maybe they just all know who's got the
softest touch.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And I think too, they like it because it's kept fresh,
because if it's if it's not refilled every day, every
morning at about four thirty am, the deer comes over
and cleans the thing out. So maybe that's what it is.
They're just getting daily fresh stuff. Any yes, thirteen ten,
that's six eight three two one thirteen ten gets you
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on the air with Air with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company. If you've got a question, love, do you have?
You join us? And since we are now into August,
you were commenting just before the program. Of course we
typically take a bunch of calls about Japanese Japanese beetles, and.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We may I think that, you know, never say never,
but I think that Gail was right.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I think that Gail's.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Prediction that because of the low snowfall and the deeper frost,
that it killed a bunch of the larvae and pupe
that were in the soil.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So yeah, I didn't, I haven't. I think I mentioned
I've only seen two so far this entire summer, and
that was.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Usually we've got yes, at least of the garden center
where you usually see them around the roses the hibiscus.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Not so this year.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Course we had other things like the viburnum beetle earlier
in the spring and the viburnum beetle.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I didn't know there was a vibert There.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Is a viburnum beetle that came out about I want
to say, about three or four years ago. It started
to it's small, it's not as attractive or as you know,
massive as the Japanese beetle compare it, but it does
do the same kind of thing. It sort of strips
the leaves and makes leaves them looking really lacy like
Japanese beetles too, it's just an earlier past.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh and it's not unlike the Japanese beetle. These are
not There is no redeeming quality.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
No, they're pretty nondescript.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, they're kind of like at least they're kind of
a root beer color, but like not yeah, flashy. I
would love if they had like the.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Flash The other flashy one that has is it up
and comer is the lily beetle.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The lily beetle, I.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Look that one up. Okay, that one's very flashy looking.
And that again is an earlier an a pest that
you see earlier, and it goes after true lilies, so
not day lilies, but you know oriental lily's trumpet lilies,
that kind of thing. I saw a couple of them
on my Martagon lilies the spring, and they're like bright
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crimson red.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You could paint a w on them, and you think
they were a badger.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
The official insect of the of the.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wisconsin scarlet lily. Okay, so with the like with the
with the ernum, yes, and the lily beetle, a similar
approach to what was done with the with the Japanese.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, there's there their grub stage is not an
in ground kind of thing, or there there intermediate stages
not an in ground thing, so that you want to
treat with you could use the systemic although on you know,
viburnam are such a big food crop for a lot
of birds and small mammals, you'd want to use something
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that's more topical. But it's that it's it's a pest
that we see earlier in the year. So I would
say May into June. Okay, so by now they're long gone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Okay, they're done.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
They've said cyon ar.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, they've laid some eggs for next year.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They've gone belly up themselves and there.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
All these things have a very short lifespan.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Couldn't happen to better critters.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's like fruit flies in your house, right, Yes, you
think you have them all the time, but you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's just their children.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Talking this morning with Lisa Briggs of the Bruce company.
If you've got questions. Maybe you've got some pests around
the yard, and we're not talking about the neighborhood kids,
just actual little critters maybe bother in your garden. You've
got questions about how to deal with them, Lisa, I'd
love to answer it for you. This morning, gets you
some get you some clarity. I can just give us
call six so waight three two one thirteen ten. That's
six so eight three two one thirteen ten. They talk
about days starting to wind down as we start to
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work our way through the end and final months of summer.
I know sales get particularly popular this time.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
A year later they are, and there's there are a
lot of things on sale at the garden center as
we sort of wind down for the summer. So check
the website. They're listed there. So a lot of trees
and shrubs are on sale, as are uh some trellises
that kind of thing. Ceramic outdoor pots are There's some
(08:46):
specials on on some floor model furniture if you're interested
in buy the Yard, which is one of those recycled
plastic material sort of situations, and they are made in
the West that they have a ten percent off special
orders thing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Through. I believe it's the eleventh August.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's a sort of a state Fair kind of sale
side in the state Fair.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Nice. Yeah, that's very cool. And you mentioned too.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well they have a fast turnaround too, since so.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Close perfect you mentioned to checking the website. I would
tell folks to get there regularly and follow you on
social media because we obviously we get a chance to
talk for a half hour each week, but there's always
like so much that. Like for folks that don't know
when we leave, they're like, oh, we could have got
to this. But the point being, there's way more going
on at the Bruce Company than we can cover in
a half hour, which means it would be hooview to
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follow behoovey.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's a good word.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The Bruce Company that comes up in the Big Lebowski
the word so I use it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But it's older than that.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh yeah, probably follow the Bruce Company. Facebook and social media.
Also subscribe to the bi weekly. It's a bi weekly,
right word for that? On the newsletter every other week.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Every other week. Really week it comes out this week?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Oh really, it's yeah, it's a it's an e blast week.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I get a little pop up, a little note that.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Means right the blogs.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yes, yes, so you definitely want to follow the Bruce
Company there on all those different platforms. Talking about some
of the us speaking of following the Bruce Company, some
of the great events coming up, we'll also talk about
some other really neat things going on. A great opportunity
for you. If you're looking at the yard you're going,
you know, this could use a little bit of a refresh.
They've got a great opportunity as always at the Bruce
Company for that. We'll do that, and of course we'll
take your call next as Everyday Outdoor Living with the
(10:33):
Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten wiby eight
sixteen thirteen ten WIBA and every Day Outdoor Living brought
to you by the Bruce Company online Bruce Company dot com.
We were not that was really fast. That was the
quickest break ever was I was not ready for It's
it's fun too as we as we get a chance
(10:53):
to catch up each and every week about all the
cool things going on at the Bruce Company. And one
of the things that I know, as long as you've
been joining me and we've been talking, the Bruce Company
has been and obviously predates even that very much into
different organizations, different charities, different ways to help out the community.
And one way that ties in so perfectly with what
you guys do at the Bruce Company is bringing in
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folks with you know, the garden. You end up with
excess this and a little extra that you guys have
a really great way for folks when it comes to
vegs with the Giving Gardener to bring in that stuff
and get it out to folks that could really use it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I was telling Sean entering our really fast break
that we had a knock on our door last night
and it was a neighbor who had an over abundance
of cucumbers apparently, and so they were stopping off and
giving all the people on the street.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
SOMEQ companies handed them it's handed them out.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But if you don't have the energy for that, yes,
you can bring your extra garden produce to the garden
center right by the cashiers.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
There's a state called the Giving Gardener.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And so we collect that and then bi weekly, you know,
whenever it sort of sort of fills up, we run
that over to way Forward Resources. It's a uh AN
organization in Middleton and they have they do a lot
of things to sort of help folks folks in need.
And one of them is they have a food pantry
and they and so they collect fresh produce for their
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food pantry and then folks in need in the community
can come and shop.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And you think about, you know that's a that that
distribution part of food and and that is is a
real great task, and you know it does require a
lot of work. That's great that that's a great partner
in town that can that can do that. And you
think too about just I'm still waiting for the day
somebody's going to bring in their bucket of tomatoes, because
that's always my personal thing. I end up eating most
(12:49):
of them here at the station before I before I
head out for the day. But uh again, just got
on into the Middleton Garden Center, the Bruce Company. You've
got that got that harvest coming, and you're going got
these extra cucumbers soon enough, got all the tomatoes. What
am I going to do? You can of course take
them put them to get use again. Stop on in Middleton,
Guards of the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty Parmenty Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street, remembered also Robin and
asked this last week, she has a Christmas cactus or
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maybe a Thanksgiving or one of those cactuses. It bloomed
twice this year. Is that typical or atypical or I'm
judging by your got the answer, just by your reaction.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Did they usually bloom?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
There Easter cactus which bloom earlier in the spring, and
then there's Thanksgiving which are usually the ones that you
find at the garden centers and whatnot. Christmas cactus are
less less popular or that's they're not as easy to find.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, so usually they just bloom at one time.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But occasionally, occasionally things happen, you know, just when you
think you've got nature figured out.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Feeling a little zest.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
She doesn't have really any rules.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
No like humans, So you can you can That's that
can happen, not not often, but it can happen. Oh,
very very cool stuff. We're talking too about just things
going on at the at the Middleton Garden Center of
the Bruce Company, and a big opportunity for folks talking
about you know, looking at your yard, looking at your garden.
(14:17):
Things tend to get you know, at some point going
you know, maybe time for refresh or maybe you haven't
really put enough a lot of time into really working
out that perfect landscape, gardenscape, those type of things. Yes,
have some cool opportunities for folks that want to want
to start that conversation, don't you.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I'm going to check the date because I think
it's the twenty fourth, but I'm going to look at
the calendar. Yes, on the twenty fourth, which is a
Sunday Sunday. Usually our events are on Saturdays, but this
one's on a Sunday. So not only will we have
thatch by with with some puppies and dogs, we also
have one of our landscape designers is going to be
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doing some free fifteen minute consults. So so go to
our website roostcompany dot com slash events and you need
to sign up for it and then somebody from the
plant desk will call you and then you can discuss
a time that works for you. So it's from eleven
to two. And while you're here, we also have Michelle
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from the delicious Er Oh Yeah, to sort of talk
about how you can sort of spice up your the
veg that you've grown or that you're picking up at
the farmer's market or from some of the CSAs.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
The Deliciouser is a have you have you do you
know of that?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I know of them, I've never experienced them.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
They come to our to our artists in Fair every
year and they have this great it's kind of a
restaurant shop kind of thing. But what they do is
they make amazing hand blended spice blends. Yeah, so some
are you know, like they have berber which is that
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you know, some of them are single things, but most
of them are blends. And so she's going to do
some demos and share some recipes with how you can
use those spices.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I feel like they and some people I know that
own restaurants. I feel like they've done some one off
events with them as well.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Where they they have, they used to do some some
pop ups, and I think that I'm not I'm not
one hundred percent sure how the restaurant works, but it's
not like a typical menu that you choose from. It's
sort of a curated, experiential kind of menu.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Which is what everybody loves these days.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You know, back in the day, when I wanted thought
I wanted to have a restaurant that would be the restaurant.
I would say, this is what you're going to eat,
and then you would eat it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's the bossy of me.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Have you seen that? Is it? The menu? Is that
the movie? Katie would know there's a Is it on Netflix?
The menu? Is that what it's called? You know what
I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is it called the menu? The movie?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, it's really good. I'm not sure if it's on
Netflix right now, but.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's not a it's not a I'll go on the
box and find if you have some tricky box. Oh, oh,
some tricky box from Canada, we.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Can see everything.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, wink wag if you want, if you if you
if you want to open a restaurant, I'd watch that.
That is.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Did you have to work at night and holidays and weekends?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And yeah, it's a lot, it is it is.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's always fun. Just just I'll.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Just support the people that are brave enough to.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do it exactly exactly and so that event.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, so that's that's gonna be really fun. So that's.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Eleven to two on August twenty fourth, and she's a
Sunday ex so stop by what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I was going to ask you to Lisa about I
was visiting with a neighbor and she had a bunch
of sunflowers which were beautiful, but she also had like
a lot of native prairie flowers and grasses and things.
I know, this is not a new thing. I know,
it's it's it's true. It's very trendy, yeah, and trending
for folks that want to start that conversation. And when
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you're talking to about that design stuff, we sometimes forget
that just like just like any type of design and stuff,
gardening and like yard scapes and other things, there's new
ways and new you know, getting new looks, and it
can really make a profound difference in in like your
overall quality of life, but even your experience in your
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own yard is having like whether you want to go
to maybe a more natural kind of that wildlife feel
or that you know, wildflowers and those type of native
grass and other things. It's such a cool, like like
shift for some folks. And it's always a good thing
to to maybe incorporate, even if it's not the entire space,
but incorporates some areas that have a little bit more
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of that native native funa. What's that?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
What's the funa? What's the flora flora funa. Yeah, the flora,
the flora part.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Fun is the wildlife. Yeah, this is something.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
To attract the fauna. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
This has been around since I would say the late
sixties early seventies, like when Sarah Stein wrote Planting the
os Garden. And but it's come to the forefront. I
think as weather patterns change. Plants are plants that are
native to where you live, are adapted to your climate.
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So if you're not like me, I'm a plant adventurer.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But if you want something that is a little more.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Sustainable and you don't have to work so hard, so
easier care because the plants are sort of used to
being here, then natives are a really good option. And
you know, the complaint used to be that they were
messy and big and you know, all that kind of thing,
and they are, especially some of the prairie plants. But
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now there are varieties of natives or cultivars. We also
call them native ours, so they are named varieties of
native plants. Sometimes they're just as attractive to the pollinating
insects as just the species. Sometimes they are not, so
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you can sort of use them with you know, just
you can come into the garden center.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
We're happy to help you.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All of the cone flowers that you see, all the
really beautiful ones, for instance, are all technically cultivars of natives.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Some are better for pollinating and that kind of thing
than others.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Do you want to stay with the flower forms that
are close to the species.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And for people that are looking to kind of make
incorporate more of that stuff, I mean, that's not that's
not a big lift, right, That's not like I think
for people that are maybe more more familiar with some
of the kind of traditional flowers and other things, it's
not like you're you're as you mentioned, Since they're native
or native derived, they're much more hardy and probably a
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little bit easier to care for than.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, And I'm not.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
For me to say, oh, you must only plant natives
would be disingenuous, because I do not just plantnatis.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I like a big wide plant, yell it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So even if you're not considering that you want to
turn your yard into a prairie or you have that
kind of plan, you can still incorporate some of these
plants into your landscape and mix and match them with
other things that you really like. So it's not a
judgment at least from me.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Sure, I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
See this as a judgment thing.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I just see this as a bigger box of paints. Yeah,
variety and yeah, like the not the kran box, it's
twenty four Crans, but that ninety six kran box that
you you always wanted your mom to get you when
school started.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I still buy that for myself occasionally, somewhere right around
September and I'll say, ooh, Crans, where's the biggest box?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Got the sharpener right on that sharp work? No, but
it looked it was. It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Where did the like bits of wax seriously filled in.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Just filled in the back of the box.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, it's that's funny. Those things that we as we
get when we get older were like I always wanted
that I was going to buy, you know, even little
tiny things like like a box of Crans. And I
sometimes wish that that because I don't know about if
it was the same way as for you growing up.
Is like my mom stuck the list. If it said
sixteen thirty two, that's what we're getting. We're getting sixteen
markers thirty two Crans. We would not deviate from that list,
(22:51):
did you have a lot of siblings.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Do you have a lot of siblings, your brothers, two sisters. Yeah,
so I come from a family of five too.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And if you had to buy five boxes of ninety
six brands, that were not required. Although in my case
you kept your things right when my kids were in school,
and probably Madsen's the same, it went into a community
kind of thing that was for and that's a great thing.
But yeah, but you had your own desk and your
(23:16):
own things were in your desk.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Real quick. As we wrap up speaking of community, we
mentioned of course the events, of course the opportunity to
bring with the giving garden, but also to community pets.
And I know you guys have talk about all the
great things you guys do to impact the community. One
of the things is finding fantastic working and helping FETCH
find great homes for great pets.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, so they will also be here from noon to
two on the twenty fourth. They come every month to
the garden center, and then as we get into the fall,
when we're having more family kind of things, they might
be here a little bit more often. But FETCH is
a great organization, rehab and re homing.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Organization.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Four dogs and so we have been working all year
doing some fundraising. And then also, you know, if you're
shopping at the Garden Center, you've got some extra change.
There are those you know, those really low key plastic boxes,
and we regularly empty those out and give that to
Fetch as well. All fantastic well, and all of our
(24:24):
holiday fundraising, like the raffle at Ladies' Night and that
kind of thing, all those proceeds will go to Fetch.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Hey, what does holiday stuff start, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Let's see, I spent most of the day yesterday going
through retail prices for a really big order that's starting
to come in. But yeah, we will start pricing on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
But when did Halloween become so big too?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
But we mostly do harvest at the Garden Center, not
so much Halloween. That's been that Halloween's been like the
second biggest.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Decorating holiday for some time.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Because it feels like, yeah, literally as soon as as
soon as the fourth is completed, we're moving on to fall. Yeah,
which is fine. Again, one of the great things is
it is you don't like it, you don't have to participate,
But gosh, I see so many people that are just yeah,
some of.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
The were starting to get some of the bigger fall
plants like Zinn's and no Moms yet. It's a little
early for that, but I would imagine sometime later this month.
Sins and Dahlia's pumpkins will be in around the around
early September. No, not early September. Yeah, sometimes mid September,
(25:43):
I guess. But we do have those really cool Last
year we got these hand painted Mexican Hi jack o
lanterns and those are in.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So those are in.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, those are in and they look really cool.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I saw a picture of one of two them and
I thought those.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Kind of snappy, aren't they?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
They are very very cool. Great to get day to
get on into the Middleton Garden Center at the Bruce Company.
Check those out. Don't forget about all the great upcoming
events as well. Make sure you're following them on Facebook
and social media. You can subscribe as well to their
newsletter the website Bruce Company dot com Bruce Company dot com. Again,
even better, get on into the Middleton Garden Center. Do
that today. Twenty eight thirty part Interistry. That's twenty eight
thirty part interstret Lisa. That's always great saying you have
(26:22):
a fantastic.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Day you as well shine.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
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