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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thirteen ten WIBA and every Day Outdoor Living brought to
you by the Bruce Company Online Bruce Coompany dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com all one word.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The website great resource for the Bruce Company. Even better
if you're on the social media stuff with its Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram.
They've got you covered there. The best thing to do, though,
great day to get on into the Middleton Garden Center
the Bruce Company right at twenty eight thirty parm Inter Street.
That's twenty at thirty Partment Street. That's where you will
see the smiling Basically.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Sa breaks Lisa, how you doing this week?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm doing really good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's uh, start all over.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
With that sorry fit that part.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh, but I'll just I'll just pick off like this,
how you doing this?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And Lisa, how you doing this week?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm fab Sean, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm doing really good.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Now we're supposed to mention that this is pre recorded,
so we won't be taking any cars, no calls.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You're right, Yeah, I think folks may have picked up.
I've been off this a couple of days, so you
never know though, you never know, but yeah, where we are.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I hope you're having a good time.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I hope so too. Fingers t us on this. If
you do have questions, so you can always reach out
to the Plant desk at Bruce Company of course email
plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com or give him
a call six oh eight eight three six seven zero
four to one. That's eight three six seventy forty one.
Maybe you've got questions about seeds and plantings and Lisa,
you brought along a friend this week day I did.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's been a long time since we had somebody else here.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Back in the day, we used to have Mike here
all the time, and then of course Matt picked up
after that, and now we have Trent opstad Al and
Trent is our what we call our green goods manager.
So basically he's in charge of everything that we sell
that is living okay or has the potential to live
and like seeds.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Nut Yeah, so no furniture.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Not furniture, not tools, although he does have his hand
and a lot of that stuff. But basically he's responsible
for all the plant life at the store.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's a big responsibility. Trend Welcome to the show, good
to see you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Yes, it is a little.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Bit about you before we get rolling.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Just for folks. Obviously, Lisa mentioned what you do with
the Bruce Company. What is background? What brought you to
to start at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Well, my hobby is gardening and wanting to play in
the soil with flowers and vegs and things like that.
And my background is actually in journalism, no way it is.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
I came here working for the State Journal and I
enjoyed that for many years, and.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
We lured away. He started.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
He started part time, so just sort of because you
worked nights, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Do like cover the night desk or something.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
And so he worked a couple of days a week,
and then he worked a couple more days a week,
and then he kind of left for a hot second,
but then he missed us, so he came back and
now he's full time.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh that is great.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, congratulations you're.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Around there all the time. Trent's always in the store.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What a fun.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's got to be a lot of fun to be
part of.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And the other thing too about the Bruce Company is
we talk about all things seeds, all the green things
in greenery. Is there's a bunch of whether it's from
house plants to outdoors to trees and shrubs. I mean,
you're really covering the gambit, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
That's right, there's something for everyone. No matter the color
of your thumb, we can help.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
You and your wet Yeah, even if your thumb is
super super brown.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We have these adorable metal flowers. They bloom all summer.
They require no maintenance.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's so with We've been talking the past few weeks
about what we can and what we can't get in
the ground, and obviously, Lisa, I know, we always keep
people up speed. We're getting close to tomatoes season. As
we mentioned, it's kind of three. Of course, we don't
know exactly where we are right now, but any you know,
week or two, depending.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
On I think it depends on a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It depends on what the weather's going to do, which
we have no control over. And then it's going to
depend about how much how prepared you are to uppot
them as they grow.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Trent, what is like as we talk about that stuff too,
is as as the green guy with the bruise company,
are there like indicators for like when's a good time
for things like tomatoes to get them going or get
them moving, or even time obviously we're not there yet,
but put them outside permanently.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Sure, Well, now's the perfect time to start your seeds
if you haven't already. There's still plenty of time to
get those going.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I think I.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Would say we're a little far off from putting tomatoes
outside just yet.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Maybe another month and a half. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
In Wisconsin, we're in that range where it's really warm
one day and its super cold the next. But now
it is a certain it certainly is a great time
to get out and do some other things. We just
started getting a bunch of seat potatoes and onion sets,
asparagus crowns.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's it.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Now is the ideal time to start all that cool
weather vege kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Get that started indoors, outdoors. Where should get that started?
If we're doing that?
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Yeah, No, the onions and potatoes, you should put those
in right now, into.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
The ground in the garden.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
They're super easy, super fun, so many different varieties you
can try.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
As we talked to this time of year, is this
a good time to be thinking about getting your soil
tested and making sure that you've got really good soil
for growing?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Is are we a little late for that? Or is
that something that.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Folks may may want to be looking at, is what
they're kind of what they're putting those seeds in.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I mean, you can certainly always amend your soil a
bit with some good compost garden soil. We've got a
bunch of different options there at the store. But you
can certainly get that tested if you want.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I think if your yard is performing, you know, if
the yield is good, and then why.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Mess with it.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I know some people want to control everything, but it's
not always necessary.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We need data.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You can't manage it.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You can't manage such a data society.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Can't manage what you can't measure. So you know, if
I'm going to manage the.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Gardens, that is a matra. I have heard more than.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Once to say Doug this morning with Lisa and Trent.
Of course, they come to us from the Bruce Company online,
Brucecompany dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It's all one word, Bruce Company, dot.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Com, Facebook and social media, the Bruce Company, great data.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Get on in.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
They'd love to see you at the Middleton Garden Center.
Bruce Company twenty eight to thirty parm inter Street. That's
twenty eight thirty part Interstreet. Obviously, a veg. We think seasonal.
There's also obviously plant a tree annual. Every year you
get something on that tree, right, is that Lisa? You're
looking at me like.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Okay, So do we have to I think we have
to do the definition between a perennial and an annual.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I would say the tree is a perennial.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
What did I say?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
You said it was an annual. Oh, that means it
dies every year.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yes, I said annual.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Tree that produces annually.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, So when can we start planting trees?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'm gonna put this to you, Lisa, Trent, maybe.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You'll Trent knows too.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Yeah, you can start planting as soon as the ground thaws.
The window is very wide for that. Of course, you
need the product to be here to start planting, and
so we're still a little ways off from that, but
we are prepared for that very soon. We've got many
shipments start starting to come into the nursery here in
the next.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So Lisa was talking the other week on the program
about as those shipments come in, obviously it's a it's
a big undertaking unloading them. Have you gotten gotten into
one of those days where it's cold rainy and crummy
and you got to go out and unload a truck
with Lisa.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Oh yeah, that's exactly when they always show up.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It's always in our revity truck, is what every day
that our reviting truck comes in.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
The weather is just either there's hot or just like miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh, that's always.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's got to be great inside those Oh, I guess
they're prime most of the open air.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
They they have to be. They have to be reefers.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh okay, because.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Either either there needs to be temperature control.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Either they're driving through the mountains in the winter or
they're driving from one place to another and it's ninety degrees.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, I'm thinking think and I'm like, wait, no, there's
plants in there.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Of course that always they're always three for trucks. So
it's always kind of comfortable inside the truck.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Other than the fact that you're lifting things a thousand times.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So with that, I mean with a stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And this is the time of year with the Bruce
Cone Company where we talk about the website, we talk
about social media, and I always mention to folks to
get on on a great day, to get on into
the Milton Garts with the Bruce Company, twenty thirty Parment Street.
It's important this time of year because literally you can
come in the morning, or come in the afternoon, or
come the next day and there's not a truck that's
been through, which means there's a bunch of new stuff
out there, isn't there?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Springtime is like Christmas for us. It's always something new. Yeah, exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We've been doing We've been doing with Lisa for a while,
two different fun names for seeds and plants and what
else would we had?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well? Do we never call that anything?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Where you at your favorite seed name?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Remember that we.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Kind of lapsed, but yeah, but I know there's a
Facebook graphic every Monday and Wednesday, I believe of a
seed packet. And then when we're done with seeds, we're
going to tackle annuals because there are a lot of
good annual names.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I was going to ask, do you have what a
Trent like one?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Do you have a seed name that you're super fond of?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I do?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Like chocolate beauty, it's a it's a pepper, actually, yeah, pepper.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No, it's a sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I think it's a bell, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, isn't it good looking pepper as well?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
When it grows.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
It's oh yeah, it's the size of them, like I
would say, like we said, the green bell pepper, it's
got a rich chocolate almost burgundy color to it.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
And anything with chocolate, I'm so on there for.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't think you're alone in that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's you mentioned that with peppers and different colors we
always think of obviously when it comes to flowers and
other things, you know, very decorative things. But a veg
garden and if you do it right, you can have
just a great variety of different colors of things. And
obviously it's not you know, it's tough to complete with
compete with the blooming flowers aren't things, but you can
(09:45):
you can have a really neat looking veg garden too
if you're interested.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, what are the new trends. It's called edimentals.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yesmentals, So it's edible things that you instead of ornamental,
it's so it's ornamental and edible. So like I kale,
what are some other things that are really like really
good looking plants that are edible?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Person that comes to my mind, or the little fig bushes,
fig trees that we get They have a really nice,
beautiful leaf color and the shape is fun and you
can take that in and out year round.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I think herbs too can be really attractive whether you
plant them in your gardener pots.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
What's that term again, edimental?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Edimental?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I love it with Lisa and Trump, that's a and
in my book, that's a win win, right, And I
think that's that's kind of the point is not only
does it provide, but it also provides beauty as well.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Absolutely really cool talking this morning with Lisa and Trend.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Of course, they come to us from the Bruce Company
online Bruce Company dot com. That's all one word, Bruce
Company dot com. They're telephone number six oh eight eight
three six seven zero four one. That's for the plant
desk if you've got a question. Of course, it's time
of year. I know there's a lot email plant esk
as well at Bruce Company dot com. Speaking of the website,
Bruce Company dot com, don't forget to hit them up
on Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest, all the cool places there.
(11:08):
Find them there or even better, great day to get
on into Middleton Gardens on to the Bruce Company twenty
at thirty Parma Street, that's twenty thirty Parma Street. We'll
talk about some of the events of the workshops on
the Great Stuff next as every Day Outdoor Living with
the Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten wuib e.
This is every Day Outdoor Living brought to you by
the Bruce Company. Here thirteen ten wiv A. Can learn
(11:28):
more about the Bruce Company on their website. To Brucecompany
dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Great data.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Check out the website even better, great data. Get on
into the Middleton Gardenside to the Bruce Company twenty eight
thirty Parmat Street. That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. Joined
this morning by Lisa and Trent. Of course they come
to us from the Bruce Company. Mentioned the website, mention
the address.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Haven't mentioned the.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Social media Facebook and social media including Instagram and what's
that Pinterest? What are the other places everyone's at. I
think that's all of them. I think that's got them
all covered. And while you're on.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
There, I don't know that I can manage more than that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, it used to be back in the day you
could get there was like things out there. You could
just post a one and it would share with them.
Now one of them get along. None of them play nice.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
So you can't Facebook and Instagram play yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I think they're both uh yes, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So that's that one's easy.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Got that going for us. But otherwise it's a lot
of and I know you put a lot of work
into the website and social media, and one of the
things that is putting up the schedule and workshops and
events and all that stuff. And we are in a
busy time of year for the Bruce Company when it
comes to those things. And I know, like, for example,
the workshops want to register.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
And we have a bunch not a bunch. We have
a couple new ones on hand. There's one on gardening
with herbs. I want to figure out a way to
do some kind of thing about cutting flowers.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
And I've been able to add.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
More because I've got some extra people to help. So
Trent has been leading some workshops, and so has Scott
from our plant desk.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'm going to ask, how do you like doing that?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's one of my favorite things, mostly just because we
get so many different people that either are new to
the store or returning customers, and it's one of the
best things, just because you're hearing from all of them
and they always have a good time with us and
we learn something new every time.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Do you get individuals, do you get groups to kind
of a mixture of as far as the makeup of
these of these classes, sure.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Yeah, it's a wide ranging gamut of people. People will
come with their friends, girlfriends. I've had people come with
their kids and they you know, plant up a pot
of succulent.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
It's definitely a family event if that's what you're looking
to do.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, and I think they're they're well priced.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
You get the pick of what we have because we
order specially for those classes, some of them, and then
the annual container ones. I'm lurking on the dock as
the trucks are being unloaded and putting things on carts
and saying, okay, this is going to the class.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
You get the best of the best.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Really, yeah, you give first choice.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So it's really fun and like Trent said, it's really
fun to meet everybody and to sort of have more
one on one time with somebody.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What about too, as we talk about the event's calendar
and stuff. I know, the big event to Bloom coming
up a couple of weeks, kind of the official kickoff
of the season, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, So we have some outside vendors. Weber's going to
be there. He's going to be grilling on his griddle.
We've got We're hoping that Violet the Purple Cow will
be on hand. Then we also have just people that
are there to do some education. Somebody from the Arthritis
(14:38):
Foundation is going to be talking about how you know
ways to garden when you have body pain and that
kind of thing. One of the things that we're that
we're doing that we started earlier this year was to
have what we call some free design consultations. So it's
a fifteen minute time slot with one of our landscape designers.
(15:01):
And for that, you need to sign up on the website. Okay,
you sign up, We pass that onto the plant desk
and then they'll call you and set up your your
appointment slot.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, And that's April twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
April twenty six, from eleven to two.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's a great day to get into the Garden Center.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, that'll be a lot going on is with that too.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And I know obviously a lot of different events different vendors,
different everything. I know, it's for a lot of folks,
as I mentioned, kind of their kickoff to spring, kick
off to summer, kind of getting things going in Trent.
I got to guess you meet with a lot of
people about about got this spot or I had this,
you know, maybe I saw this this garden and.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I was gonna stay in a magazine. I'm sounding old.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I saw this online sharing with you, like, where can
I find it in a Facebook? Really?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
All?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, And one of the great things about the Bruce
Company is having somebody that you can actually talk to
and like guide you to help find or recreate something
either exactly like what you saw or very similar something
that'll work here in Wisconsin, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, Absolutely, any number of us would be glad to
do that for you.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
We especially have a good and working knowledge of what
we have in stock, of course, and maybe we don't
have what you've seen in that picture, but we can
certainly find something that matches or will have a similar
growth habit and color and things like that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Little micro climates too. If people pay attention to that stuff,
they tell you like, it's going to be right along
this wall in my house.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And that type of thing too.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
What about for people that speaking of micro climates and
I'm going to stalk indoors for people that are maybe
don't have and we mentioned an earlier segment about folks
that may not have a green thumb? Are there certain
houseplants that are like, if you're not particularly good as
far as growing things, are really good indoor plants for
folks that they may you know, maybe someone's for the
(16:43):
office that I get neglected on the weekends or time away.
Are there certain plants that are really good for those environments?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Oh? Absolutely. I don't know if you're talking about yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But a little bit you might need a section.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Are a cactus? They're really fun and easy. They're one
of my favorite personal houseplants that I have.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
ZZ plant a zz.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Like zz Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What is a zz plant?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I once rescued one out of an office, an interior
office that had been in there for six weeks with
no water and no sunlight. The lights were not on,
it was abandoned.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's not succulent, it's just a.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
No, it's they can They're quite stocky. They get really rich.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Colored green leaves, very shiny. That sounds like the perfect
and they're one of the ones I do like to
be neglected.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That is kind of I give them too much attention.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They like LISTA you mentioned too, speaking of succulents and
cactuses on things you have mentioned the other week, some
cactuses had come up recently, and those are all stuff
like that's always coming in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
There were some really cool ones that I saw last
weekend and they're they're fan shaped.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
We're like, we're we've recorded this, so I'm.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Hoping that they're still there if somebody really wants one.
I hoping you got in early after you heard us
talking about this last week.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
One way to find out.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Is those twisting ones too?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh really? Yeah, where do those come from?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Well, a lot of our houseplands come from Florida.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
They just have the ideal conditions to grow anything.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, you're around.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What about we going way back a couple of months ago,
we had bought a bunch of people in the building.
Your venus fly traps. Now those are those are It's
kind of hit or miss when those are going to
be in.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Next, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Yeah? There are fun they're really fun.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Yeah, tricky though they're not the easiest thing to grow.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
No, No, but stuff like that is like the variety
of different things that come through the Bruce Company, is
that that's a lot of fun to see what's what's
in there.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yeah, whether you're a complete novice and you just need
something that's sort of idiot proof, or you're a competitive
gardener and you want like the latest coolest thing. We've
got all that and everything in between.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's we've talked a little bit about the kind of
the competitiveness and the folks that are out there hunting
and seeking that that the what the new thing is
or something that they're going to wow their friends and
guests with. And Trent, as we get to know you
a little bit on this program, is there is there
a particular plant that that you may not have acquired
quite yet that you're hoping one day to see come
(19:23):
through the store and set one aside for yourself or
what like kind of that dream that perfect plant that's
like that's what I need to get.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
So for me, I like to collect philodendron and pathos
very similar as far as habit and growth. They're the
ones that vine and trail over the place. And I've
become very good friends with one of the purchasers that
orders all of our plants, and I've slowly been weaseling
my way into.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Do you guys get in, Lisa?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Do you get folks that like will check in like
a couple of times a week just to see what's
exactly new. Maybe not necessarily because I think of like
there's kind of just a kind of roll around to
see what's what's new with the Bruce Company.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
And I think people we did have a review a
couple of weeks ago from somebody who had been in
from out of town and she actually was really she
saw some things that she'd never seen at garden center before,
and she was traveling. She actually bought some things to
take home with her that she hadn't seen in her.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Local garden centers. But I think we see more people
are looking for something.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
In particular that they check back frequently, especially as we
get into.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
More into the growing season.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
So many of the hybridizers, especially with perennials, do a
lot of advertising and marketing when they come up with
something new. And that's what everybody wants, is that thing
that is coming up on Instagram that the you know,
something that they see online if they are magazine people,
because gardening magazines are different than other magazine I think
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you kind of hang on to them.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You mentioned too, somebody that hadn't been in the store
for a bit, and obviously earlier this year you did
rearranging a little bit with the with the with the
outdoor furniture and stuff. I'm guessing for a lot of
folks too that maybe haven't been in.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It looks it's a fresh look, right.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What goes into that design, by the way, is that
it's more than just we just moved stuff over here
and set stuff over there.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
There's there's a big plan that goes into it.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, what we did this time was we had all
of the staff kind of contribute, all the managers and
leads kind of and they weren't just stuck in their
own space. They you know, didn't mean that whatever they
came up with we were going to do. So we
got all those ideas together and we kind of picked
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the ones that we liked the best, and I think
Sarah and Skyler put together a pretty comprehensive floor plan
and then we sort of talked it out and decided
which things we could accomplish in the short amount of
time between Garden Expo and the end of February.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Ok, weird like three weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
To manage it all. That was the goal.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
So we you couldn't bite off more than you could chew,
for sure, because we did move around some fairly major things.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Yes, but gard next Bow was handy.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Because a lot of those things that we wanted to relocate,
we're at the.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Gardens, we're at the exbo.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
So then when we brought it back, we just didn't
put it in its old place.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We put it in a new place.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Worked out really well.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And if folks haven't had a chance to check that out,
great day to get on into the Middleton Guards of
the Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty Parma Street. That's twenty
at thirty Partment Street. Online Bruce Company dot Com, Facebook
and social media the Bruce Company again, even better, get
on in.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It is a great data Say lo everyone.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
At the Middleton Gardens of the Bruce Company twenty eight
thirty Partment Street. That's twenty thirty Partment Street. They had
Lisa say hi to Trent while you're in there today.
And of course you can learn more online Bruce Company
dot Com. That's Bruce company dot com. Lisa Trent could see.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Both of you. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You too, shot news comes your way. Next, here are
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Speaker 5 (23:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The website great resource for the Bruce Company. Even better
if you're on the social media stuff with its Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram.
They've got you covered there. The best thing to do, though,
great day to get on into the Middleton Garden Center
the Bruce Company right at twenty eight thirty parm Inter Street.
That's twenty at thirty Partment Street. That's where you will
see the smiling Basically.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Sa breaks Lisa, how you doing this week?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm doing really good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's uh, start all over.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
With that sorry fit that part.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh, but I'll just I'll just pick off like this,
how you doing this?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And Lisa, how you doing this week?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm fab Sean, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm doing really good.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Now we're supposed to mention that this is pre recorded,
so we won't be taking any cars, no calls.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You're right, Yeah, I think folks may have picked up.
I've been off this a couple of days, so you
never know though, you never know, but yeah, where we are.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I hope you're having a good time.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I hope so too. Fingers t us on this. If
you do have questions, so you can always reach out
to the Plant desk at Bruce Company of course email
plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com or give him
a call six oh eight eight three six seven zero
four to one. That's eight three six seventy forty one.
Maybe you've got questions about seeds and plantings and Lisa,
you brought along a friend this week day I did.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's been a long time since we had somebody else here.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Back in the day, we used to have Mike here
all the time, and then of course Matt picked up
after that, and now we have Trent opstad Al and
Trent is our what we call our green goods manager.
So basically he's in charge of everything that we sell
that is living okay or has the potential to live
and like seeds.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Nut Yeah, so no furniture.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Not furniture, not tools, although he does have his hand
and a lot of that stuff. But basically he's responsible
for all the plant life at the store.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's a big responsibility. Trend Welcome to the show, good
to see you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Yes, it is a little.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Bit about you before we get rolling.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Just for folks. Obviously, Lisa mentioned what you do with
the Bruce Company. What is background? What brought you to
to start at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Well, my hobby is gardening and wanting to play in
the soil with flowers and vegs and things like that.
And my background is actually in journalism, no way it is.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
I came here working for the State Journal and I
enjoyed that for many years, and.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
We lured away. He started.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
He started part time, so just sort of because you
worked nights, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Do like cover the night desk or something.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
And so he worked a couple of days a week,
and then he worked a couple more days a week,
and then he kind of left for a hot second,
but then he missed us, so he came back and
now he's full time.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh that is great.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, congratulations you're.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Around there all the time. Trent's always in the store.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What a fun.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's got to be a lot of fun to be
part of.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And the other thing too about the Bruce Company is
we talk about all things seeds, all the green things
in greenery. Is there's a bunch of whether it's from
house plants to outdoors to trees and shrubs. I mean,
you're really covering the gambit, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
That's right, there's something for everyone. No matter the color
of your thumb, we can help.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
You and your wet Yeah, even if your thumb is
super super brown.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We have these adorable metal flowers. They bloom all summer.
They require no maintenance.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's so with We've been talking the past few weeks
about what we can and what we can't get in
the ground, and obviously, Lisa, I know, we always keep
people up speed. We're getting close to tomatoes season. As
we mentioned, it's kind of three. Of course, we don't
know exactly where we are right now, but any you know,
week or two, depending.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
On I think it depends on a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
It depends on what the weather's going to do, which
we have no control over. And then it's going to
depend about how much how prepared you are to uppot
them as they grow.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Trent, what is like as we talk about that stuff too,
is as as the green guy with the bruise company,
are there like indicators for like when's a good time
for things like tomatoes to get them going or get
them moving, or even time obviously we're not there yet,
but put them outside permanently.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Sure, Well, now's the perfect time to start your seeds
if you haven't already. There's still plenty of time to
get those going.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
I think I.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Would say we're a little far off from putting tomatoes
outside just yet.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Maybe another month and a half. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
In Wisconsin, we're in that range where it's really warm
one day and its super cold the next. But now
it is a certain it certainly is a great time
to get out and do some other things. We just
started getting a bunch of seat potatoes and onion sets,
asparagus crowns.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's it.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Now is the ideal time to start all that cool
weather vege kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Get that started indoors, outdoors. Where should get that started?
If we're doing that?
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Yeah, No, the onions and potatoes, you should put those
in right now, into.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
The ground in the garden.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
They're super easy, super fun, so many different varieties you
can try.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
As we talked to this time of year, is this
a good time to be thinking about getting your soil
tested and making sure that you've got really good soil
for growing?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Is are we a little late for that? Or is
that something that.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Folks may may want to be looking at, is what
they're kind of what they're putting those seeds in.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I mean, you can certainly always amend your soil a
bit with some good compost garden soil. We've got a
bunch of different options there at the store. But you
can certainly get that tested if you want.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I think if your yard is performing, you know, if
the yield is good, and then why.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Mess with it.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I know some people want to control everything, but it's
not always necessary.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We need data.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You can't manage it.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You can't manage such a data society.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Can't manage what you can't measure. So you know, if
I'm going to manage the.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Gardens, that is a matra. I have heard more than.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Once to say Doug this morning with Lisa and Trent.
Of course, they come to us from the Bruce Company online,
Brucecompany dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It's all one word, Bruce Company, dot.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Com, Facebook and social media, the Bruce Company, great data.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Get on in.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
They'd love to see you at the Middleton Garden Center.
Bruce Company twenty eight to thirty parm inter Street. That's
twenty eight thirty part Interstreet. Obviously, a veg. We think seasonal.
There's also obviously plant a tree annual. Every year you
get something on that tree, right, is that Lisa? You're
looking at me like.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Okay, So do we have to I think we have
to do the definition between a perennial and an annual.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I would say the tree is a perennial.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
What did I say?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
You said it was an annual. Oh, that means it
dies every year.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yes, I said annual.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Tree that produces annually.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, So when can we start planting trees?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'm gonna put this to you, Lisa, Trent, maybe.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You'll Trent knows too.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Yeah, you can start planting as soon as the ground thaws.
The window is very wide for that. Of course, you
need the product to be here to start planting, and
so we're still a little ways off from that, but
we are prepared for that very soon. We've got many
shipments start starting to come into the nursery here in
the next.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So Lisa was talking the other week on the program
about as those shipments come in, obviously it's a it's
a big undertaking unloading them. Have you gotten gotten into
one of those days where it's cold rainy and crummy
and you got to go out and unload a truck
with Lisa.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Oh yeah, that's exactly when they always show up.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It's always in our revity truck, is what every day
that our reviting truck comes in.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
The weather is just either there's hot or just like miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh, that's always.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's got to be great inside those Oh, I guess
they're prime most of the open air.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
They they have to be. They have to be reefers.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh okay, because.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Either either there needs to be temperature control.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Either they're driving through the mountains in the winter or
they're driving from one place to another and it's ninety degrees.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, I'm thinking think and I'm like, wait, no, there's
plants in there.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Of course that always they're always three for trucks. So
it's always kind of comfortable inside the truck.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Other than the fact that you're lifting things a thousand times.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So with that, I mean with a stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And this is the time of year with the Bruce
Cone Company where we talk about the website, we talk
about social media, and I always mention to folks to
get on on a great day, to get on into
the Milton Garts with the Bruce Company, twenty thirty Parment Street.
It's important this time of year because literally you can
come in the morning, or come in the afternoon, or
come the next day and there's not a truck that's
been through, which means there's a bunch of new stuff
out there, isn't there?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Springtime is like Christmas for us. It's always something new. Yeah, exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We've been doing We've been doing with Lisa for a while,
two different fun names for seeds and plants and what
else would we had?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well? Do we never call that anything?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Where you at your favorite seed name?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Remember that we.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Kind of lapsed, but yeah, but I know there's a
Facebook graphic every Monday and Wednesday, I believe of a
seed packet. And then when we're done with seeds, we're
going to tackle annuals because there are a lot of
good annual names.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I was going to ask, do you have what a
Trent like one?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Do you have a seed name that you're super fond of?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I do?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Like chocolate beauty, it's a it's a pepper, actually, yeah, pepper.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No, it's a sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I think it's a bell, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, isn't it good looking pepper as well?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
When it grows.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
It's oh yeah, it's the size of them, like I
would say, like we said, the green bell pepper, it's
got a rich chocolate almost burgundy color to it.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
And anything with chocolate, I'm so on there for.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't think you're alone in that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's you mentioned that with peppers and different colors we
always think of obviously when it comes to flowers and
other things, you know, very decorative things. But a veg
garden and if you do it right, you can have
just a great variety of different colors of things. And
obviously it's not you know, it's tough to complete with
compete with the blooming flowers aren't things, but you can
(09:45):
you can have a really neat looking veg garden too
if you're interested.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, what are the new trends. It's called edimentals.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yesmentals, So it's edible things that you instead of ornamental,
it's so it's ornamental and edible. So like I kale,
what are some other things that are really like really
good looking plants that are edible?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Person that comes to my mind, or the little fig bushes,
fig trees that we get They have a really nice,
beautiful leaf color and the shape is fun and you
can take that in and out year round.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I think herbs too can be really attractive whether you
plant them in your gardener pots.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
What's that term again, edimental?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Edimental?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I love it with Lisa and Trump, that's a and
in my book, that's a win win, right, And I
think that's that's kind of the point is not only
does it provide, but it also provides beauty as well.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Absolutely really cool talking this morning with Lisa and Trend.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Of course, they come to us from the Bruce Company
online Bruce Company dot com. That's all one word, Bruce
Company dot com. They're telephone number six oh eight eight
three six seven zero four one. That's for the plant
desk if you've got a question. Of course, it's time
of year. I know there's a lot email plant esk
as well at Bruce Company dot com. Speaking of the website,
Bruce Company dot com, don't forget to hit them up
on Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest, all the cool places there.
(11:08):
Find them there or even better, great day to get
on into Middleton Gardens on to the Bruce Company twenty
at thirty Parma Street, that's twenty thirty Parma Street. We'll
talk about some of the events of the workshops on
the Great Stuff next as every Day Outdoor Living with
the Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten wuib e.
This is every Day Outdoor Living brought to you by
the Bruce Company. Here thirteen ten wiv A. Can learn
(11:28):
more about the Bruce Company on their website. To Brucecompany
dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Great data.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Check out the website even better, great data. Get on
into the Middleton Gardenside to the Bruce Company twenty eight
thirty Parmat Street. That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. Joined
this morning by Lisa and Trent. Of course they come
to us from the Bruce Company. Mentioned the website, mention
the address.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Haven't mentioned the.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Social media Facebook and social media including Instagram and what's
that Pinterest? What are the other places everyone's at. I
think that's all of them. I think that's got them
all covered. And while you're on.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
There, I don't know that I can manage more than that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, it used to be back in the day you
could get there was like things out there. You could
just post a one and it would share with them.
Now one of them get along. None of them play nice.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
So you can't Facebook and Instagram play yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I think they're both uh yes, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So that's that one's easy.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Got that going for us. But otherwise it's a lot
of and I know you put a lot of work
into the website and social media, and one of the
things that is putting up the schedule and workshops and
events and all that stuff. And we are in a
busy time of year for the Bruce Company when it
comes to those things. And I know, like, for example,
the workshops want to register.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
And we have a bunch not a bunch. We have
a couple new ones on hand. There's one on gardening
with herbs. I want to figure out a way to
do some kind of thing about cutting flowers.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
And I've been able to add.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
More because I've got some extra people to help. So
Trent has been leading some workshops, and so has Scott
from our plant desk.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'm going to ask, how do you like doing that?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's one of my favorite things, mostly just because we
get so many different people that either are new to
the store or returning customers, and it's one of the
best things, just because you're hearing from all of them
and they always have a good time with us and
we learn something new every time.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Do you get individuals, do you get groups to kind
of a mixture of as far as the makeup of
these of these classes, sure.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Yeah, it's a wide ranging gamut of people. People will
come with their friends, girlfriends. I've had people come with
their kids and they you know, plant up a pot
of succulent.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
It's definitely a family event if that's what you're looking
to do.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, and I think they're they're well priced.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
You get the pick of what we have because we
order specially for those classes, some of them, and then
the annual container ones. I'm lurking on the dock as
the trucks are being unloaded and putting things on carts
and saying, okay, this is going to the class.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
You get the best of the best.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Really, yeah, you give first choice.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So it's really fun and like Trent said, it's really
fun to meet everybody and to sort of have more
one on one time with somebody.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What about too, as we talk about the event's calendar
and stuff. I know, the big event to Bloom coming
up a couple of weeks, kind of the official kickoff
of the season, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, So we have some outside vendors. Weber's going to
be there. He's going to be grilling on his griddle.
We've got We're hoping that Violet the Purple Cow will
be on hand. Then we also have just people that
are there to do some education. Somebody from the Arthritis
(14:38):
Foundation is going to be talking about how you know
ways to garden when you have body pain and that
kind of thing. One of the things that we're that
we're doing that we started earlier this year was to
have what we call some free design consultations. So it's
a fifteen minute time slot with one of our landscape designers.
(15:01):
And for that, you need to sign up on the website. Okay,
you sign up, We pass that onto the plant desk
and then they'll call you and set up your your
appointment slot.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, And that's April twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
April twenty six, from eleven to two.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's a great day to get into the Garden Center.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, that'll be a lot going on is with that too.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And I know obviously a lot of different events different vendors,
different everything. I know, it's for a lot of folks,
as I mentioned, kind of their kickoff to spring, kick
off to summer, kind of getting things going in Trent.
I got to guess you meet with a lot of
people about about got this spot or I had this,
you know, maybe I saw this this garden and.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I was gonna stay in a magazine. I'm sounding old.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I saw this online sharing with you, like, where can
I find it in a Facebook? Really?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
All?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, And one of the great things about the Bruce
Company is having somebody that you can actually talk to
and like guide you to help find or recreate something
either exactly like what you saw or very similar something
that'll work here in Wisconsin, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, Absolutely, any number of us would be glad to
do that for you.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
We especially have a good and working knowledge of what
we have in stock, of course, and maybe we don't
have what you've seen in that picture, but we can
certainly find something that matches or will have a similar
growth habit and color and things like that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Little micro climates too. If people pay attention to that stuff,
they tell you like, it's going to be right along
this wall in my house.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And that type of thing too.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
What about for people that speaking of micro climates and
I'm going to stalk indoors for people that are maybe
don't have and we mentioned an earlier segment about folks
that may not have a green thumb? Are there certain
houseplants that are like, if you're not particularly good as
far as growing things, are really good indoor plants for
folks that they may you know, maybe someone's for the
(16:43):
office that I get neglected on the weekends or time away.
Are there certain plants that are really good for those environments?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Oh? Absolutely. I don't know if you're talking about yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But a little bit you might need a section.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Are a cactus? They're really fun and easy. They're one
of my favorite personal houseplants that I have.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
ZZ plant a zz.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Like zz Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What is a zz plant?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I once rescued one out of an office, an interior
office that had been in there for six weeks with
no water and no sunlight. The lights were not on,
it was abandoned.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's not succulent, it's just a.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
No, it's they can They're quite stocky. They get really rich.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Colored green leaves, very shiny. That sounds like the perfect
and they're one of the ones I do like to
be neglected.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That is kind of I give them too much attention.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They like LISTA you mentioned too, speaking of succulents and
cactuses on things you have mentioned the other week, some
cactuses had come up recently, and those are all stuff
like that's always coming in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
There were some really cool ones that I saw last
weekend and they're they're fan shaped.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
We're like, we're we've recorded this, so I'm.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Hoping that they're still there if somebody really wants one.
I hoping you got in early after you heard us
talking about this last week.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
One way to find out.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Is those twisting ones too?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh really? Yeah, where do those come from?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Well, a lot of our houseplands come from Florida.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
They just have the ideal conditions to grow anything.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, you're around.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What about we going way back a couple of months ago,
we had bought a bunch of people in the building.
Your venus fly traps. Now those are those are It's
kind of hit or miss when those are going to
be in.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Next, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Yeah? There are fun they're really fun.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Yeah, tricky though they're not the easiest thing to grow.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
No, No, but stuff like that is like the variety
of different things that come through the Bruce Company, is
that that's a lot of fun to see what's what's
in there.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yeah, whether you're a complete novice and you just need
something that's sort of idiot proof, or you're a competitive
gardener and you want like the latest coolest thing. We've
got all that and everything in between.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's we've talked a little bit about the kind of
the competitiveness and the folks that are out there hunting
and seeking that that the what the new thing is
or something that they're going to wow their friends and
guests with. And Trent, as we get to know you
a little bit on this program, is there is there
a particular plant that that you may not have acquired
quite yet that you're hoping one day to see come
(19:23):
through the store and set one aside for yourself or
what like kind of that dream that perfect plant that's
like that's what I need to get.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
So for me, I like to collect philodendron and pathos
very similar as far as habit and growth. They're the
ones that vine and trail over the place. And I've
become very good friends with one of the purchasers that
orders all of our plants, and I've slowly been weaseling
my way into.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Do you guys get in, Lisa?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Do you get folks that like will check in like
a couple of times a week just to see what's
exactly new. Maybe not necessarily because I think of like
there's kind of just a kind of roll around to
see what's what's new with the Bruce Company.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
And I think people we did have a review a
couple of weeks ago from somebody who had been in
from out of town and she actually was really she
saw some things that she'd never seen at garden center before,
and she was traveling. She actually bought some things to
take home with her that she hadn't seen in her.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Local garden centers. But I think we see more people
are looking for something.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
In particular that they check back frequently, especially as we
get into.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
More into the growing season.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
So many of the hybridizers, especially with perennials, do a
lot of advertising and marketing when they come up with
something new. And that's what everybody wants, is that thing
that is coming up on Instagram that the you know,
something that they see online if they are magazine people,
because gardening magazines are different than other magazine I think
(21:02):
you kind of hang on to them.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You mentioned too, somebody that hadn't been in the store
for a bit, and obviously earlier this year you did
rearranging a little bit with the with the with the
outdoor furniture and stuff. I'm guessing for a lot of
folks too that maybe haven't been in.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It looks it's a fresh look, right.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What goes into that design, by the way, is that
it's more than just we just moved stuff over here
and set stuff over there.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
There's there's a big plan that goes into it.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, what we did this time was we had all
of the staff kind of contribute, all the managers and
leads kind of and they weren't just stuck in their
own space. They you know, didn't mean that whatever they
came up with we were going to do. So we
got all those ideas together and we kind of picked
(21:48):
the ones that we liked the best, and I think
Sarah and Skyler put together a pretty comprehensive floor plan
and then we sort of talked it out and decided
which things we could accomplish in the short amount of
time between Garden Expo and the end of February.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Ok, weird like three weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
To manage it all. That was the goal.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
So we you couldn't bite off more than you could chew,
for sure, because we did move around some fairly major things.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Yes, but gard next Bow was handy.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Because a lot of those things that we wanted to relocate,
we're at the.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Gardens, we're at the exbo.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
So then when we brought it back, we just didn't
put it in its old place.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We put it in a new place.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Worked out really well.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And if folks haven't had a chance to check that out,
great day to get on into the Middleton Guards of
the Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty Parma Street. That's twenty
at thirty Partment Street. Online Bruce Company dot Com, Facebook
and social media the Bruce Company again, even better, get
on in.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It is a great data Say lo everyone.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
At the Middleton Gardens of the Bruce Company twenty eight
thirty Partment Street. That's twenty thirty Partment Street. They had
Lisa say hi to Trent while you're in there today.
And of course you can learn more online Bruce Company
dot Com. That's Bruce company dot com. Lisa Trent could see.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Both of you. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You too, shot news comes your way. Next, here are
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Speaker 5 (23:00):
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