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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight o seven thirteen ten do Wuiba and every Day
Outdoor Living brought to you by the Bruce Company Online.
Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. Great website
to see what's going on at the Bruce Company. It's
a fun place. I stopped by quite regularly, quite often.
Again that's Bruce Company dot Com, Facebook and social media
the Bruce Company. Speaking of stopping by regularly and often,
(00:23):
make it part of your routine. Get into Milton Garden Center,
the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty par Mentor Street. That's
twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. What a great day to
get on into the Bruce Company and joining us this
morning from the Bruce Company. Won and only Lisa breaks Lisa,
how you been good?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
How are you sean?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Doing really good? So you are a busy busy person
this time of year.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, everybody's at the store's busy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Busy busy, which leads me to believe that you probably
were at the store yesterday. Are you guys going to
do others day stuff today?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What's this week?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We Carvey and I had dinner last night. I think
we see the kids later. But the kids, the grand kiddo,
I hope, So, I hope.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So that's that's the Yeah, Lisa is doing a happy dance. Yeah, well,
it's great to see you. Happy belated Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's so it's so beautiful looking outside, got the sun
shining at warm temperatures. Wow, what are we looking at
for today? I know eighty two for today? Eighty two.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I've seen as high as eighty five on some of
the forecasts.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And nothing as far as I.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Let's let's check for cold. Yeah, this looks pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Then that's this looks pretty good. So yeah something So
go ahead and plant things.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's a good time to get stuff in the ground.
And something I've learned from you and I do this
now thanks to you, Lisa, is overnight taps like I.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's not the highs I look at so
much as at this time of year, as I look
at the overnights.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And that's where things start to get a little.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We brought the veggies out of the greenhouse yesterday morning
before the store opens. So tomatoes and peppers and things,
which are some of our you know, the plants that
we watch the most carefully because there's some of the
most tender. Uh those came outside oh yesterday, so they're
all on the racks.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That is a great sign. And we're going to talk
about speaking of things on the rack. What's all at
the Bruce Company with Lisa Briggs.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
If you've got a question, it was a busy weekend.
Let's just say that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
If you got a question for Lisa, maybe I picked
up something Neil, you've got a question about the perfect
spot to put in, or maybe you've got something he
already wondering about. Lisa would love to answer your question
this morning if you just give us a call six soh
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. I'll get you right on
the air with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. Don't
forget about the website Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company
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dot com. So busy weekend, which means I know that
there are is kind of like a you're sometimes like
a part time almost like air track have a controller
for trucks.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Truck rolled in yesterday morning where you're like, sorry, we'll
see you in the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, So he was.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Back there all day yesterday and it's a truck from
the west coast, so it's a reefer. So we're like
refrigerated truck for those all the term. And we hear
the you know, he's got a generator or something on
the back because you've got to maintain the temperature when
you're hauling plants long distance like that, and so everyone
in a while, we'd hear the generator go on and
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the it's rumbling in the.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Back, Yeah, which means this morning and throughout the week,
things are getting replenished.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yes, yeah, and that that always happens on these you know,
three or four really busy weekends.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, so we all go.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
In on Monday and take a deep breath and then
kind of look around, look at the carnage.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, put in the orders.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So some things like you know, trees and rubs, those
are scheduled. Those have been scheduled. They're a little harder
for us to control. But all the local growers, especially
things for annuals and veggies and and a fair number
of our perennials will be busy with our purchasing team
today writing up orders for deliveries later in the week.
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So most of those greenery deliveries come in on Wednesdays
and Thursdays, although you know, we did have one Saturday morning.
Issley came in Sunday morning. Yeah, so it's it's going
to be busy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We did get in our.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
A bunch of roses, including the David Austin's that everybody loves,
and we also got in our cleminist order from Donahue,
so there, I don't know. There were twenty ish varieties
of you know, big flowering cleminates as well as the
you know, the smaller ones like the sweet autumn that
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blooms later in the summer.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Doug This morning with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company.
If you've got a question for Lisa, we've got a
line for you love to hear from this morning six
so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six o'
eight three two one thirteen ten. Gets you right out
there with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. And is
Mother's Day the busiest or what is typically the busiest
day of the year at the Bruce Company. It's got
to be this.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Time of year.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's Mother's Day weekend, sure, although the next two this
weekend and then the weekend and Memorial Day will also
be very busy, but Mother's Day because you've got that
addage shopping for mom thing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But it's also seems to be.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The universal permission, you know, from every for everybody to.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Get stuff outside.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, I want to ask you about that, so, like,
is there anything we should be holding off on right now?
Or is are we kind of is?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I think that the I think that the the uh
average last frost date is today, okay, twelfth, but it
goes between the tenth and the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Things could happen.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We have had frosts, you know, Moborial Day weekend, So
as you're putting stuff out, excuse me, just have a
plan in case it gets cold.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't know if your ears were ringing last week.
We had a colder night last week in particular, and
Robin had literally said, at least always tells us about nights.
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, yeah, there were a couple last week. So we
were hauling racks in and out, and in an effort
to keep everything shoppable till the store closes, some of
the team was there till like nine o'clock and bringing
everything inside and putting row covers over things to keep
them safe from the frost.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
And we'll talk because I want to ask you about
the floating row cover, which is seems to be one
of the Maybe it's a two. They very useful, Yeah, multifaceted.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yes, it's a very useful thing to have, and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
A it's a kind of can make a break Again.
I think of like gardening tools. I think a lot
of times the hand tools which are which are vital,
and having a good set of gardening tools are very
very important. But one of the things that I guess
I had never thought about including in the in the
kit is the floating rope cover. And then since talking
with you, I don't know how folks live without it.
(07:17):
Between frost and critters. What a great What a great
thing it is to have.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, it is, and it doesn't cost very much money.
You can use it for lots of different things. Protection
from frost is key, but it is also really good
to keep critters off of your raspberry patch or your strawberries,
or your beans, your bean plants if you are having
an issue with Japanese beetles later in the summer. So
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it's just there's just they're super useful for a lot
of things.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
They sure are, and there of course they've got them
at the Bruce Company. Great day to get on into
the Middleton gardens at the Bruce Company right at twenty
eight thirty Paramntor Street. That's twenty eight thirty Paramnor Street.
Maybe you got one of those one of those gift
cards to the Bruce Company. Great day to get out
on in make use of that again. R out A
twenty at thirty Partment Street. If you've got a question
for Lisa, we'd love to have you join us this morning.
Telphone over to get on the air six oh eight
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three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. We'll get you right out on
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We'll take your call. We'll continue our conversation with Lisa
Briggs at Bruce Company. We'll do that next as every
Day Outdoor Living continues right here on thirteen ten wiba
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A twenty thirteen ten WIBA and every Day Outdoor Living
brought to you by the Bruce Company. Hanging out with
Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. If you've got a question,
love to have you join us this morning. Six oh
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six soh eight
three two one thirteen ten. We're going to talk with
Lisa about what should do, what you should be taking
care of right now, some preventative and some other things
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I'm going to take care of around here. Ya, don't forget.
You can learn more about the Bruce Company online Brucecompany
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the Bruce Company. Great day to get on into the
Middleton Garden Center, the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. And again bold lines
are open for you in your question. Six eight three
two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two
(09:11):
one thirteen ten. And Mark joins us this morning. Mark,
welcome to the program. You're on the air. Lisa Briggs
from the Bruce.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Company, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I have.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I don't know, uh. They're like violets and they're about
four or five inches tall, white leaves in a purple
center and they're just taking over everything. Any idea how
I can get rid of them? Besides digging them up.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, there there is a there in your lawn or
in your garden, garden, in your garden. In your garden,
you can dig them up. Of course, they have a
little corm. It's a violet and they so you want
to make sure that you get that little knotty root
thing out of there. Or you can treat them with
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a herbicide in your garden. You'll want to be careful
that you don't get the herbicide on anything else. Most
of most things like weed beater, ultra or round up
will work. But what I would do with those is
I would either get one with a real close sprayer
kind of applicator or do a concentrate and just paint
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it on.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Okay, awesome, Yeah, a lot of digging.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, they're pretty for sure. I mean, there are worse
things to be in your garden as far as weeds
are concerned, and they are pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But I get you know, if you.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like a kneader garden or it's not going with your vibe,
that's fine. But yeah, a herbicide a good strong herbicide.
Just be careful that if you're spraying it that you
don't have overspray on other things. And you're not you know,
willy nilly kind of spraying herbicides all over the place.
Even though it is not something that's meant to be
(11:02):
an insecticide, it can have an effect on you know,
beneficial pollinating insects.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So just be careful and thoughtful with it.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Okay, okay, thank you great much.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Great question. That of course, that freeze open line. You
could be like Mark six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. I mentioned earlier, Lisa,
the thing I learned to you but from you is
about checking out overnight.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Low is.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Another thing I learned from you is you had a
quote about speaking of Mark's violence.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What is your line about, Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The weeds just a plant you don't want in that spot?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, exactly, because I know there's some people going, oh,
I would love to have violets growing in there.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to have things in
your lawn that are not grass, Yeah, violets are not
the worst.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You know, there's they're sort of they're pretty well behaved.
They do spread, but it's not like, you know, they
don't take over. Yeah, not like other things which we
could name creeping Charlie is one of them.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yes, let's talk about things that may pop up in
your lawn and things that may be affecting your trees.
Are there things were going to be doing right now
as far as taking care of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Last week we talked about putting down you know, if
you have any perennial insect problems on your ornamental trees
and shrubs, that now is the time to be protecting
them against that by using a systemic and we talked
about oh gosh, bioadvanced twelve months protect and feed, tree
(12:32):
and shrub or something like.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I think it's tree and shrub, protect and feed. But
that is really now is the time you want to
put that down in the month of May. That sort
of gets the insect side inside of your plant where
it will be ready when the insects start arriving. But
this week we're going to talk about your evergreen. Yes,
So we have been seeing in the last few years
(12:55):
a lot of evergreen fungal diseases, especially on spruces, especially
on Colorado spruces, which are super popular because everybody loves
that blue color. And so we've seen a lot of
what we call tip blights where the new growth comes
out and sort of becomes wilty or brown and damaged
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as it expands. And that is usually a fungal problem.
And there are several fungal funguses with like long, weird
names with lots of consonants in them. But now it's
the time you want to treat for that. So as
the new tips, as the new growth is starting, you
want to apply a fungicide that's rooted for that's rated
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for tip lights.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Copper is a really.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Good one, and you want to apply that now just
as those needles are shedding that sort of papery covering
that they have, and then every seven to ten days
after that until as long as they're expanding, okay, and
that will control Because tip blights, the fungal the fungal
spores or the fruiting bodies are already on your existing needles,
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and so when weather conditions are right, then they spore
out and then they get lodged on the new tip growth,
which is super susceptible. So this is a preventative thing
that you're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
And this is the stuff that you want to heed.
As LISTA talks about because we will get indoubtedly a
couple of calls, a couple of questions.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, yes, yeah, my evergreens are you know the needles
are turning the new the new growth. And with with
evergreens since they grow at the tips and not a
lot of evergreen types will rebud along that existing growth
spruces and pines, surely not. You want to protect that
(14:53):
new growth. That's that's what's going to be the green
layer of your evergreens for the next several years as
and and if you kill off those buds, then it's
hard to get new buds for next year. Okay, so
is this something that you want to do if you
have seen that on your evergreens?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
We're talking needlecast as well as that's were talking.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, needlecasts are a little bit different, but yes, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, important time here and cool thing too is we
get a chance to talk with Lisa h And every
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Bruce Company, they are always there for you with their
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this morning six so eight three two one thirteen ten.
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That's six soh eight three two one thirteen ten. Fantastic
day to get on in to the Bruce Company. With
a great time of year, it is as well to
do those type of things. And with with gardening and
getting getting everything up and running around the around the art.
Are you seeing anything particularly popular this year that's standing
out as far as something folks are putting more and
(15:58):
more in as far as gardening, are we still seeing
And I know since the earlier like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
we started seeing an uptick of folks.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
With veg veggie gardens for sure, and that is continuing.
I was looking helping somebody yesterday find some tomatoes, and
even though we got an enormous shipment of tomatoes in
on Thursday, they're you know a lot of them were gone.
So we will have those replenished for next weekend. But
(16:28):
it's just veg veggie gardening for sure. And then a
lot of people are looking for more old fashioned flowers,
people looking for flocks.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Peonies, that kind of thing. So Clementis I talked about earlier.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, they have, they've some of these offered with different
varieties and those type of things. Are we starting to
see some of those traditional flowers, different varieties of those.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, I just well for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I mean, although the peenies we got in last week
are all the you know, the old fashioned varieties Sarah Bernhardt, Kansas,
those big fluffy paeonies that you know, the fragrant ones
that everybody remembers in their grandma's garden. And maybe it's
maybe that's part of it too. It's just a you know,
(17:18):
the pendulum swings. Yeah, some years, everybody wants the newest thing,
and there is still that people looking for things that
they saw in the gardening magazines. But also there's a
little return to some of those more traditional kinds of plants.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I noticed over this past week the lilac bush right
next to our back room of our house bloomed at
Oh my gosh, that smells just delightful. Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, And if you they're looking, because it hasn't been
hot and because we haven't had too many storms, flowers
are holding for a long time. I mean, the red
buds have been blooming for two weeks and they still
look glorious. If you have some time, take a trip
out to the Arboretum on Madison's west side. They have
(18:08):
a beautiful garden of lilacs, so you can see all
the older varieties. Also the cucumber magnolias, so the yellow
ones are just starting to bloom. Those are always really
magnificent looking to.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Really great little adventures.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's a really cool place if you want to see
what things look like, you know, as they mature. They
have an awesome crab apple collection too. And then there's
up at the back on the top of the hill
a really incredible collection of conifers too. Ohtas It is
a really cool place if you've never been. Long Necker
(18:47):
Garden is really a neat place to hang out.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
We've got some great institutions and great places here.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We are super lucky for a town of our size
that we have so many public gardens you can visit.
There's the Arboretum, of course, Alan Centennial Old Brick, and
then also just in our surrounding area the rotary gardens
at down in is it Racine.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I think there's Janesville's Guy. Janesville got a really nice one.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
They have.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
They have a Japanese garden that is always in the
top five lists of Japanese gardens in the United States.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh that is I did not know that. We'll definitely
gonna have to check that stuff out. Great day to
get into the Bruce Company. And speaking of great organizations
real quickly, so before we wrap this week, fetch Wisconsin
another great organization, and you guys are they will be.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Here on They will be at the garden Center on
Sunday Sunday. Yes, and they've We've had really good luck
adopting puppies from the you know, from the event last
time when they were they were here a couple of
weeks ago, there were I think five and two of
them got adopted. So you can't don't come expecting to
(20:01):
bring puppies home, but you can get the process started.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Great.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, that is fantastic. Again, that's at the Bruce Company.
Coming up this weekend. Always something fun going on at
the Middleton Garden Center, the Bruce Company right at twenty
eight to thirty Parmenter Street. That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
Of course you can learn more online the website to
Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company, dot com, Facebook, and
social media the Bruce Company even better. Today is a
great day to get on and right at the Middleton
(20:27):
Garden Center of the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street, Lisa. It's always great
seeing you enjoy this beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Day you as well, and happy Spring to everybody out there.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
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Again that's Bruce Company dot Com, Facebook and social media
the Bruce Company. Speaking of stopping by regularly and often,
(00:23):
make it part of your routine. Get into Milton Garden Center,
the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty par Mentor Street. That's
twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. What a great day to
get on into the Bruce Company and joining us this
morning from the Bruce Company. Won and only Lisa breaks Lisa,
how you been good?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
How are you sean?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Doing really good? So you are a busy busy person
this time of year.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, everybody's at the store's busy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Busy busy, which leads me to believe that you probably
were at the store yesterday. Are you guys going to
do others day stuff today?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What's this week?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We Carvey and I had dinner last night. I think
we see the kids later. But the kids, the grand kiddo,
I hope, So, I hope.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So that's that's the Yeah, Lisa is doing a happy dance. Yeah, well,
it's great to see you. Happy belated Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's so it's so beautiful looking outside, got the sun
shining at warm temperatures. Wow, what are we looking at
for today? I know eighty two for today? Eighty two.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I've seen as high as eighty five on some of
the forecasts.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And nothing as far as I.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Let's let's check for cold. Yeah, this looks pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Then that's this looks pretty good. So yeah something So
go ahead and plant things.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's a good time to get stuff in the ground.
And something I've learned from you and I do this
now thanks to you, Lisa, is overnight taps like I.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's not the highs I look at so
much as at this time of year, as I look
at the overnights.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And that's where things start to get a little.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We brought the veggies out of the greenhouse yesterday morning
before the store opens. So tomatoes and peppers and things,
which are some of our you know, the plants that
we watch the most carefully because there's some of the
most tender. Uh those came outside oh yesterday, so they're
all on the racks.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That is a great sign. And we're going to talk
about speaking of things on the rack. What's all at
the Bruce Company with Lisa Briggs.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
If you've got a question, it was a busy weekend.
Let's just say that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
If you got a question for Lisa, maybe I picked
up something Neil, you've got a question about the perfect
spot to put in, or maybe you've got something he
already wondering about. Lisa would love to answer your question
this morning if you just give us a call six soh
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. I'll get you right on
the air with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. Don't
forget about the website Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company
(02:51):
dot com. So busy weekend, which means I know that
there are is kind of like a you're sometimes like
a part time almost like air track have a controller
for trucks.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Truck rolled in yesterday morning where you're like, sorry, we'll
see you in the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, So he was.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Back there all day yesterday and it's a truck from
the west coast, so it's a reefer. So we're like
refrigerated truck for those all the term. And we hear
the you know, he's got a generator or something on
the back because you've got to maintain the temperature when
you're hauling plants long distance like that, and so everyone
in a while, we'd hear the generator go on and
(03:33):
the it's rumbling in the.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Back, Yeah, which means this morning and throughout the week,
things are getting replenished.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yes, yeah, and that that always happens on these you know,
three or four really busy weekends.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, so we all go.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
In on Monday and take a deep breath and then
kind of look around, look at the carnage.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, put in the orders.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So some things like you know, trees and rubs, those
are scheduled. Those have been scheduled. They're a little harder
for us to control. But all the local growers, especially
things for annuals and veggies and and a fair number
of our perennials will be busy with our purchasing team
today writing up orders for deliveries later in the week.
(04:18):
So most of those greenery deliveries come in on Wednesdays
and Thursdays, although you know, we did have one Saturday morning.
Issley came in Sunday morning. Yeah, so it's it's going
to be busy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We did get in our.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
A bunch of roses, including the David Austin's that everybody loves,
and we also got in our cleminist order from Donahue,
so there, I don't know. There were twenty ish varieties
of you know, big flowering cleminates as well as the
you know, the smaller ones like the sweet autumn that
(04:58):
blooms later in the summer.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Doug This morning with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company.
If you've got a question for Lisa, we've got a
line for you love to hear from this morning six
so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six o'
eight three two one thirteen ten. Gets you right out
there with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. And is
Mother's Day the busiest or what is typically the busiest
day of the year at the Bruce Company. It's got
to be this.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Time of year.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's Mother's Day weekend, sure, although the next two this
weekend and then the weekend and Memorial Day will also
be very busy, but Mother's Day because you've got that
addage shopping for mom thing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But it's also seems to be.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The universal permission, you know, from every for everybody to.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Get stuff outside.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, I want to ask you about that, so, like,
is there anything we should be holding off on right now?
Or is are we kind of is?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I think that the I think that the the uh
average last frost date is today, okay, twelfth, but it
goes between the tenth and the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Things could happen.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We have had frosts, you know, Moborial Day weekend, So
as you're putting stuff out, excuse me, just have a
plan in case it gets cold.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't know if your ears were ringing last week.
We had a colder night last week in particular, and
Robin had literally said, at least always tells us about nights.
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, yeah, there were a couple last week. So we
were hauling racks in and out, and in an effort
to keep everything shoppable till the store closes, some of
the team was there till like nine o'clock and bringing
everything inside and putting row covers over things to keep
them safe from the frost.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
And we'll talk because I want to ask you about
the floating row cover, which is seems to be one
of the Maybe it's a two. They very useful, Yeah, multifaceted.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yes, it's a very useful thing to have, and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
A it's a kind of can make a break Again.
I think of like gardening tools. I think a lot
of times the hand tools which are which are vital,
and having a good set of gardening tools are very
very important. But one of the things that I guess
I had never thought about including in the in the
kit is the floating rope cover. And then since talking
with you, I don't know how folks live without it.
(07:17):
Between frost and critters. What a great What a great
thing it is to have.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, it is, and it doesn't cost very much money.
You can use it for lots of different things. Protection
from frost is key, but it is also really good
to keep critters off of your raspberry patch or your strawberries,
or your beans, your bean plants if you are having
an issue with Japanese beetles later in the summer. So
(07:43):
it's just there's just they're super useful for a lot
of things.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
They sure are, and there of course they've got them
at the Bruce Company. Great day to get on into
the Middleton gardens at the Bruce Company right at twenty
eight thirty Paramntor Street. That's twenty eight thirty Paramnor Street.
Maybe you got one of those one of those gift
cards to the Bruce Company. Great day to get out
on in make use of that again. R out A
twenty at thirty Partment Street. If you've got a question
for Lisa, we'd love to have you join us this morning.
Telphone over to get on the air six oh eight
(08:07):
three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. We'll get you right out on
the air with Lisa Breaks from Bruce Company. Don't forget
about the website Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company
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We'll take your call. We'll continue our conversation with Lisa
Briggs at Bruce Company. We'll do that next as every
Day Outdoor Living continues right here on thirteen ten wiba
(08:30):
A twenty thirteen ten WIBA and every Day Outdoor Living
brought to you by the Bruce Company. Hanging out with
Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. If you've got a question,
love to have you join us this morning. Six oh
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six soh eight
three two one thirteen ten. We're going to talk with
Lisa about what should do, what you should be taking
care of right now, some preventative and some other things
(08:50):
I'm going to take care of around here. Ya, don't forget.
You can learn more about the Bruce Company online Brucecompany
dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook, social media,
the Bruce Company. Great day to get on into the
Middleton Garden Center, the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. And again bold lines
are open for you in your question. Six eight three
two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two
(09:11):
one thirteen ten. And Mark joins us this morning. Mark,
welcome to the program. You're on the air. Lisa Briggs
from the Bruce.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Company, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I have.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I don't know, uh. They're like violets and they're about
four or five inches tall, white leaves in a purple
center and they're just taking over everything. Any idea how
I can get rid of them? Besides digging them up.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, there there is a there in your lawn or
in your garden, garden, in your garden. In your garden,
you can dig them up. Of course, they have a
little corm. It's a violet and they so you want
to make sure that you get that little knotty root
thing out of there. Or you can treat them with
(09:58):
a herbicide in your garden. You'll want to be careful
that you don't get the herbicide on anything else. Most
of most things like weed beater, ultra or round up
will work. But what I would do with those is
I would either get one with a real close sprayer
kind of applicator or do a concentrate and just paint
(10:21):
it on.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Okay, awesome, Yeah, a lot of digging.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, they're pretty for sure. I mean, there are worse
things to be in your garden as far as weeds
are concerned, and they are pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But I get you know, if you.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like a kneader garden or it's not going with your vibe,
that's fine. But yeah, a herbicide a good strong herbicide.
Just be careful that if you're spraying it that you
don't have overspray on other things. And you're not you know,
willy nilly kind of spraying herbicides all over the place.
Even though it is not something that's meant to be
(11:02):
an insecticide, it can have an effect on you know,
beneficial pollinating insects.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So just be careful and thoughtful with it.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Okay, okay, thank you great much.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Great question. That of course, that freeze open line. You
could be like Mark six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. I mentioned earlier, Lisa,
the thing I learned to you but from you is
about checking out overnight.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Low is.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Another thing I learned from you is you had a
quote about speaking of Mark's violence.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What is your line about, Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The weeds just a plant you don't want in that spot?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, exactly, because I know there's some people going, oh,
I would love to have violets growing in there.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to have things in
your lawn that are not grass, Yeah, violets are not
the worst.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You know, there's they're sort of they're pretty well behaved.
They do spread, but it's not like, you know, they
don't take over. Yeah, not like other things which we
could name creeping Charlie is one of them.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yes, let's talk about things that may pop up in
your lawn and things that may be affecting your trees.
Are there things were going to be doing right now
as far as taking care of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Last week we talked about putting down you know, if
you have any perennial insect problems on your ornamental trees
and shrubs, that now is the time to be protecting
them against that by using a systemic and we talked
about oh gosh, bioadvanced twelve months protect and feed, tree
(12:32):
and shrub or something like.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I think it's tree and shrub, protect and feed. But
that is really now is the time you want to
put that down in the month of May. That sort
of gets the insect side inside of your plant where
it will be ready when the insects start arriving. But
this week we're going to talk about your evergreen. Yes,
So we have been seeing in the last few years
(12:55):
a lot of evergreen fungal diseases, especially on spruces, especially
on Colorado spruces, which are super popular because everybody loves
that blue color. And so we've seen a lot of
what we call tip blights where the new growth comes
out and sort of becomes wilty or brown and damaged
(13:18):
as it expands. And that is usually a fungal problem.
And there are several fungal funguses with like long, weird
names with lots of consonants in them. But now it's
the time you want to treat for that. So as
the new tips, as the new growth is starting, you
want to apply a fungicide that's rooted for that's rated
(13:41):
for tip lights.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Copper is a really.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Good one, and you want to apply that now just
as those needles are shedding that sort of papery covering
that they have, and then every seven to ten days
after that until as long as they're expanding, okay, and
that will control Because tip blights, the fungal the fungal
spores or the fruiting bodies are already on your existing needles,
(14:09):
and so when weather conditions are right, then they spore
out and then they get lodged on the new tip growth,
which is super susceptible. So this is a preventative thing
that you're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
And this is the stuff that you want to heed.
As LISTA talks about because we will get indoubtedly a
couple of calls, a couple of questions.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, yes, yeah, my evergreens are you know the needles
are turning the new the new growth. And with with
evergreens since they grow at the tips and not a
lot of evergreen types will rebud along that existing growth
spruces and pines, surely not. You want to protect that
(14:53):
new growth. That's that's what's going to be the green
layer of your evergreens for the next several years as
and and if you kill off those buds, then it's
hard to get new buds for next year. Okay, so
is this something that you want to do if you
have seen that on your evergreens?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
We're talking needlecast as well as that's were talking.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, needlecasts are a little bit different, but yes, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, important time here and cool thing too is we
get a chance to talk with Lisa h And every
week right here at thirteen ten Wuiva. Of course, the
Bruce Company, they are always there for you with their
plant desks. You can of course email them pictures and
questions plant desk at Brucecompany dot com. That's plant desk
at Bruce coompany dot com. So we have time. If
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this morning six so eight three two one thirteen ten.
(15:38):
That's six soh eight three two one thirteen ten. Fantastic
day to get on in to the Bruce Company. With
a great time of year, it is as well to
do those type of things. And with with gardening and
getting getting everything up and running around the around the art.
Are you seeing anything particularly popular this year that's standing
out as far as something folks are putting more and
(15:58):
more in as far as gardening, are we still seeing
And I know since the earlier like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
we started seeing an uptick of folks.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
With veg veggie gardens for sure, and that is continuing.
I was looking helping somebody yesterday find some tomatoes, and
even though we got an enormous shipment of tomatoes in
on Thursday, they're you know a lot of them were gone.
So we will have those replenished for next weekend. But
(16:28):
it's just veg veggie gardening for sure. And then a
lot of people are looking for more old fashioned flowers,
people looking for flocks.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Peonies, that kind of thing. So Clementis I talked about earlier.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, they have, they've some of these offered with different
varieties and those type of things. Are we starting to
see some of those traditional flowers, different varieties of those.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, I just well for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I mean, although the peenies we got in last week
are all the you know, the old fashioned varieties Sarah Bernhardt, Kansas,
those big fluffy paeonies that you know, the fragrant ones
that everybody remembers in their grandma's garden. And maybe it's
maybe that's part of it too. It's just a you know,
(17:18):
the pendulum swings. Yeah, some years, everybody wants the newest thing,
and there is still that people looking for things that
they saw in the gardening magazines. But also there's a
little return to some of those more traditional kinds of plants.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I noticed over this past week the lilac bush right
next to our back room of our house bloomed at
Oh my gosh, that smells just delightful. Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, And if you they're looking, because it hasn't been
hot and because we haven't had too many storms, flowers
are holding for a long time. I mean, the red
buds have been blooming for two weeks and they still
look glorious. If you have some time, take a trip
out to the Arboretum on Madison's west side. They have
(18:08):
a beautiful garden of lilacs, so you can see all
the older varieties. Also the cucumber magnolias, so the yellow
ones are just starting to bloom. Those are always really
magnificent looking to.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Really great little adventures.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's a really cool place if you want to see
what things look like, you know, as they mature. They
have an awesome crab apple collection too. And then there's
up at the back on the top of the hill
a really incredible collection of conifers too. Ohtas It is
a really cool place if you've never been. Long Necker
(18:47):
Garden is really a neat place to hang out.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
We've got some great institutions and great places here.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We are super lucky for a town of our size
that we have so many public gardens you can visit.
There's the Arboretum, of course, Alan Centennial Old Brick, and
then also just in our surrounding area the rotary gardens
at down in is it Racine.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I think there's Janesville's Guy. Janesville got a really nice one.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
They have.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
They have a Japanese garden that is always in the
top five lists of Japanese gardens in the United States.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh that is I did not know that. We'll definitely
gonna have to check that stuff out. Great day to
get into the Bruce Company. And speaking of great organizations
real quickly, so before we wrap this week, fetch Wisconsin
another great organization, and you guys are they will be.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Here on They will be at the garden Center on
Sunday Sunday. Yes, and they've We've had really good luck
adopting puppies from the you know, from the event last
time when they were they were here a couple of
weeks ago, there were I think five and two of
them got adopted. So you can't don't come expecting to
(20:01):
bring puppies home, but you can get the process started.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Great.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, that is fantastic. Again, that's at the Bruce Company.
Coming up this weekend. Always something fun going on at
the Middleton Garden Center, the Bruce Company right at twenty
eight to thirty Parmenter Street. That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
Of course you can learn more online the website to
Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company, dot com, Facebook, and
social media the Bruce Company even better. Today is a
great day to get on and right at the Middleton
(20:27):
Garden Center of the Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street, Lisa. It's always great
seeing you enjoy this beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Day you as well, and happy Spring to everybody out there.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
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