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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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coolest place to hang out though, is, of course, Milton Gardens.
Enter the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty part inter Street,
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studio this morning from the Bruce Company list brays get
loose skins.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm trying to limber up. Hey, I saw Robbins in
your front parking room this morning. A pair really frollicking.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh we may have more Robbins than.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Not that I saw. It's not that kind of frol oh, not.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That kind of more of like that like swooping around,
How you been, what's been up? That kind of thing.
Let's uh yeah, let's uh, let's think about those birdies
and think about warm temperatures and oh my goodness, we
got a little taste of it was that frid what.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Dama, Oh yeah, Friday was in the seventies crazy wow.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, and then Saturday was not.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's true, Saturday was not. And it's very sea sawy
this week.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Isn't that kind of the season it is.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It is the season marches, and it's certainly been a
very windy month, which is March winds bring aprilsh hours,
which bring pilgrims mayflowers. Skipped. I skipped a part of
the joke. I'm sorry you got the punchline. That's you
didn't get the straight to the punchline.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Although I would love like like a comedian that just
did punchlines, just didn't do the setup, just stood.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
There and just said punch flows many flowers and then
everybody would laugh because you all know the joke, right,
sounds like it sounds like something you could do, maybe.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
A second career. It's just a punchline comics. Looking at
the forecast, though, as you mentioned, kind of this and
that and the other thing, and kind of that time here,
which I know in years past, and I'm going to
guess this year is no exception. I think your advice
has always been have a plan.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, you know, the warm weather probably got things
going in people's yards. Yeah, I haven't heard about anything,
just like so beyond where it should be, but bulbs
might be up, for sure, there might be some things
that have you know, some things have started to emerge.
Just get some floating row cover or have some old
(02:26):
sheets or something. So that if you're as this goes forward,
the warmer it is, the further along things progress. And
then when we get some really cold weather you have
to cope with that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When is final frost typically do we d.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Final frost is? Typically? I think it's changed a little
bit in the past, but I think it's around the
tenth of May. Okay, that doesn't mean that. I mean
even in the past four or five years, we have
still had frosts very close to Memorial Day. So again
it is just you have to have a plan. And
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so if you have purchased pansies this weekend, and honestly,
who didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's gonna sis.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What you just have to do is bring them into
your garage. Pansies the things that you're going to buy
in the garden center now are fairly tough, so they're
cool weather annuals or cool weather perennials. There are a
lot of hellebores have been going out, so they're they're
able to cope with some fairly cold weather pansies. The
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flowers will be damaged right around freezing a little bit
above the foliage closer to thirty. So if you just
want to pull it in the garage or bring it
in the house for the night, then you can just
put it right back outside in the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Good advice. That's and by the way, is a lot
of folks kind of wondering and mentioned maybe some bulbs
popping and other questions like that. If folks, if you've
got a question for Lisa, I guess what got an
answer and opportunity to get you right on the air
six eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six eight
three to two I want thirteen ten gets you down
there with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. Of course,
you can learn more about Bruce Company online Bruce Company
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dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Social media, the
Bruce Company. Great day to get on in Middleton Garden Center.
The Bruce Company right at twenty eight thirty param Intor Street.
That's twenty eight thirty parm Intor street today. Is I
do believe it's some type of same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
St.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Patrick's Day, you guys have St.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'd bet I'm wearing something kind of green. Is that's
sort of sort.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Of I'm it's kind of a like in green.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's not it. I got this on the discount rack
at Cole's. Just I think it's going by the collar.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, because that's the way I say.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. So shamrocks.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We do have shamrocks in the store, and some really
gorgeous looking ones too. We have the green, the purple.
There might be still a few of that bicolored one. Okay,
it has the dark red. I think it's called iron
Cross or something like that. So we have a few
of those as well.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Are they and I've never I've never had a shamrock before.
Are they a year?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They are a my grandmother used to keep she lived
in Michigan. She used to keep hers alive in the garden.
But I think that it was a fairly sheltered spot
for the most part. They are a house plant here.
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They're not the true clover shamrocks. They're oxalis, which is
which you find a lot. There's different varieties that we
sell as colorful foliage plants for annuals, but you can
bring it in and out. They do, sometimes, depending on
your house, go through a quick little dormancy period, sometimes
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sometimes not. But a couple of my sisters have pieces
of my grandmother's plants, so they can live quite a
long time. They're sort of like those Christmas cactuses where
people bring them in and they say, oh, this Christmas
cactus is one and ten years old. Yeah, they're yeah, wow,
I did. But my grandmother was ninety six when she died,
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and that was like more than ten years ago really,
so yeah, this thing might be getting onto, you know,
close to one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Wow, that is amazing. You didn't take any.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Of them, No, because I am houseplant care lives in
my head right, But practically speaking, the reality of the
reality of it is that I have a very short
attention span for things that are in the house. Outside,
I'm much better. Entirely different, entirely different thing, all kinds
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of weird things are living in my yard, but in
my house, I just you know, it's just not my thing,
and so they tend to be neglected. Sure, and so
I sort of stick with things if they're going to
be in there. Things that can take a fair found.
What about that's just the reality of it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What about things obviously shamrocks, clovers you had mentioned just
kind of while I'm on that kind of line of
leafy green things, are we still seeing folks planning and
putting and putting those down?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, the flowering lawn thing has gotten to be a
really popular thing. We have some new seed mixes that
are from it's called Earth Sciences. It's a Wisconsin company
and they have different mixes. But it's if you you know,
this goes back to the whole May mowing thing. If
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you want to attract pollinators or do things plant things
that are benefiting pollinators, a flowering lawn is a much
better idea than letting your lawn grow to whatever height
in May and then chopping it back and having it
take a month to recover. Just find a little spot
where you can have a flowering lawn.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I know over the weekend we'll talk about also upcoming
events about the Bruce Company. But for folks that took
advantage of kind of the opportunity to I know, you
guys had folks on hand to go over some planting
I need. Yeah, I bet it was really cool. Is
this good? It's probably a good time too for folks
that have been maybe contemplating the past few years to
maybe starting as part of their their lawn letting, uh letting.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
H Yeah. I've been trying to do that for the
past few years. And it's a process because my yard
is fairly shady and it's hard to keep the creeping
Charlie at bay long enough to let the clover establish.
So we've been every year doing you know, a lot
of cleaning out areas and then doing overseating. But yeah,
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I've been planting micro clovers, so I don't have enough
sun for the flowering parts of it. But the clover
flowers quite nicely in a fair amount of shade.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So and you know, it's too about clovers. You've got
to worry about mowing them. They just don't need that
same money.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, especially the micro clovers, because they're really short. If
you just go with like the Dutch white, it'll get
about six inches. So what they say to do is,
you know, after it flowers, to scythe off a little
bit of it, a couple of inches of it and
then let it go. But yes, what a cool thing,
but it doesn't look super attractive in the well, no
lawn looks super attractive, but clover lawns are less attractive.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It does stand out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, but it's in my backyard. My front yard is
all like hostas and plants and stuff, so nobody.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Notices do you have any grass?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And I know I'm working towards zero, but I don't know.
I have a grandchild, right, so now I'm like, but
the yard is shady, so there's no place to put.
You can't growl in it anyway, which is why I
look for an alternative.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And as we talk too about looking at alternative, good
day to get int the Bruce companies start that conversation
for folks that absolutely be like, Lisa, you can do
do a.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Cool Yeah, we've got all sorts of options we have
Besides our sciences, we also have stuff from Flawn, which
is another Wisconsin company, and he deals more with clover
as opposed to like mixes, although he does have some
flowering like low flowering plants that can take some abuse
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like walking on it is kind of abuse.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Of Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company online Bruce Company
dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com also Facebook and
social media. Find them online the Bruce Company. Great day
to get on in twenty eight thirty Apartment Street. That'shere
you'll find the Middleton Gardens under Bruce Company. It's twenty
eight thirty Apartment you Street. And speaking of getting into
the Bruce Company, sales running through the big event going
with through twenty third.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Most of them are through the twenty third. So on Saturday,
we had our outdoor Furniture Extravaganza. Yes, and so we've
been talking through the winter about how we've been updating
the store, moving things around, trying to you know, sort
of relaunch some departments, and furniture was one of the
places where we put in a lot of effort. And
(10:57):
so there are a lot of newer styles. We've got
some new uh, some new companies, more color, a lot
more accessories so that if you just are one you
have furniture that you like and do you want to
add a pop of color or something different. We've got
a lot of options that way, outdoor rugs, pillows, that
(11:18):
kind of thing. So this this extravaganza started on Saturday
with a lot of manufacture sponsored discounts on new special orders,
So I want to be clear, it's not furniture off
the floor. It's stuff that you are special ordering, which
is great because it's the middle of March, so you
(11:38):
have a lot of time to get your furniture here
in time for when you want to be spending time outdoors.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I did see on your Facebook page, casteelel which.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'm Callah Cassel's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Amazing stuff I did see. Is it North Cape? Is
that a new North Cape?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We have had in a little bit, but we are
giving it a bigger presence. Yes, Home Crest is newer
for us. Meadow craft we haven't had in a long time.
We've got a lot of Nardi which is and it's
it's on the low end of us for price point. Nice,
(12:17):
but it's like not the plastic furniture you buy at
the hardware store. Sure, so it's designed and made in Italy.
It's sturdier, it's the designs are more modern. It's not
just you know, the Adirondack kind of style. Great colors,
and we've got a lot of that on hand. So
it's perfect I think for little patios or balconies. People
(12:40):
with their first home and they want something kind of
chic and cool out on their in their backyard. But
you know, feeling a little house poor, so you've got
to sort of make adjustment adjustments. But it's great furniture.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Nothing classes up a place like a little bit of
Italian furniture.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's what I say. That's my that's one of my
life monos. I should get a T shirt along with
the one that says my favorite color is glitter.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
We'll talk to the story with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company Online Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company
dot com. Great day to get on in. They'd love
to see you out at twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's sure you'll find
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talk about the really cool challenge. Of course, I don't
know if we're allowed to say March madness or if
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that's some type of trademark, but got a really cool
we'll call it a bracket challenge.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I know you guys, Yeah, I think you could say
bracket challenge.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
We'll say that. Yeah, I'll talk about that of course,
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par mentor Street. That's twenty eight thirty par mentor Street.
Seed seeds, more seeds. I think I can quote you
on that if I remember correctly. What a selection and
not only is it a great time to stock up
on seeds. There are some seeds you can be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We've been talking about that as we go, telling you know,
everybody to be patient on some things. It's still not
time to plant tomatoes, Okay, just saying, but now that
it's March, and now it's past the middle of March,
you can do all of the cabbage things you can do,
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you know, all the things we've talked up, talked about
up till now onions like weird badge, like artichokes and
that kind of thing. But gardeners, start your hot peppers.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They need some time, don't they. They do need some time.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You want them to be a little more mature when
you put them outside because it takes it's it's better
that they flower and start to fruit early as it
takes some time to develop the heat.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay. So yeah, and you guys have at the Bruce Company,
do you have some some quite called them exotic or
some they've got some kick some of your peppers.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, And we've been doing a bracket challenge for seeds
and it started last week and last week was some
like it hot. So it was all about the peppers
and it was Carolina Reaper versus a Apocalypse Scorpion yep,
and then Pizza my Heart against beaver Dam, which is
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sort of you know, maybe a hometown favorite. Yeah, Pizza
my Heart blew beaver Dam out of the water because
it's such a cute name, right, Yeah, it's a very
cute name. So the fine is between Apocalypse Scorpion and
Pizza my Heart. So we're gonna announce the winner early
this afternoon. So there's still time to vote, and if
(16:13):
you you're in the running for gift cards, so go
ahead and go to our Facebook page and vote. We
do three gift cards. I take a winner from each
of the days. Nice is how it works.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The funny thing about peppers is if they look evil,
they're evil. Like if they look nice and sweet and
like kind of yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Apocolyp Scorpion does not look very nice and it's all kind
of wrinkly and weird.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, like they're like telling you, like angry, They're like,
I'm hot, get ready because like the nice bell pepper
is just like it looks very it looks very puffy
and cuddly. And then you see these these like Apocalypse
scorpions and they oh, they're all just like they literally
look like it came out of a fiery cauldron just
(16:58):
ready to are you. Do you like hot stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I do, Yeah, I do. I'm not I'm not into
like heat for heat's sake. Yeah, for me, that stuff
is just it's gonna burn your mouth. I don't know
that you can taste the flavor beyond the heat. So,
but I do like spicy food.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You can see through space and time with some Yeah, yeah,
like warm, I don't, I don't like. I do love
though that. And what's really cool about is we and
you know, we talk about this with the Bruise Company
a lot. Is I love that there's you know, people
experimenting and collecting unique peppers, new things that that. And
that's also going on in the plant world as well.
(17:38):
And I know you have talked about this lease about
folks that are always looking for kind of the newest
cross pollination and the newest that's that's a very popular
thing for folks, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah? And you know, and they're so they're developing new
varieties that you know, find something that they like. And
the thing with plants, you know, annuals or things like vegetables,
is that it's a very it is a it's a process.
It doesn't take as long as it does to do
this with say a tree, because what you have to
do is you sort of cross pollinate two plants that
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have two features that you want to sort of put together,
and then you have to then you take that seed
and then you plant out that seed, and you see
they're all going to be different, which so which of
those is you know, which of those are the most
like what you were looking for, or maybe something that
you weren't looking for that's really cool, and then you
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have to make sure that that's true to their progeny. Right,
So it's a it's a process that takes a few
years with things like vegetables. Then imagine that if you're
waiting for a tree to get big enough to go
through seasons to see if the characteristics that you were
(18:56):
looking for hold true over years and years. So it's
it's a it is a commitment, you know, in time
and sort of passion for some people that like to
do that.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Have you ever ed Curry who created the Carolina Reaper
is a fact. Also, all these.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Guys are fascinating or the plant hunters, Like I think
about the guys that used to go into the mountains
in China. I mean this all started with the Victorian's
you know they went all over the world collecting, pillaging
their plants. Right, But this is why we have so
many cool things to plant now. Now there are rules
which there should be. Should not be going down cliffs
(19:38):
and stealing succulents, that's ridiculous, But you know this is
how this is, This is how plants are developed. Got there, yeah, yeah,
this is why we have, like you know, fifteen hundred
varieties of seeds in the store.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And this is why, and.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
This is why you want fifteen You want that choice, right.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And if you've got kids or grandkids, this why you
should get them started on Because why I believe.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
One hundred percent. And you would know this because because
Manson is the right age. My kids are older, he's
much more willing to eat things, try things. He's probably
better eating with eating veg and not as picky an
eater because he helped grow that stuff himself. So there's
a certain amount of pride.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's hard to say I don't like something that I
work so hard for. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Might taste it and say I'm not going to plant
this again. Yeah, but he's but he's open to trying it.
And honestly, when you have kids, if they're picky eaters,
that's what you're hoping for is at least they try
and if they don't like it, so you sneak it
in and again six months later. Kids taste buds.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Change, they do. They And the other thing too is
we talk about like growing thing and obviously the benefits
of food and learning and you know, you you really
as for kiddos, they're very proud of the stuff that
they and it's good.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
For them to know that food doesn't them in a
bag from the grocery store and the shrink wrapped kind
of styrofoam container, it actually comes. So there's all kinds
of really great lessons about that as well.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'm going to do kids Club soon.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm talking about it with Skyler and Sarah. I think
we're just going to do it for the summer. Nice so,
but we you know, been trying to get ready for spring.
Their sort of other things on our plates right now
that we're going to get through and then we'll, yeah,
then we'll have the conversation. They're up for it. We
just have to figure out the day and topics and
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It's going to want to follow Facebook and social media
for the rest.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's where you're going to find that stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Before we wrap up, we didn't touch on bulbs other
than saying that some are some are coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
We do have a really good selection in of summer
blooming bulbs, so we're talking about like Dahlia's and Canna
that kind of thing. So those are good to start
now too, especially if you want a longer bloom time.
You can get them started indoors.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's great day. Yeah, get into the Bruce Company, start
that conversation of course, mentioned the online of course, the
Bruce Company, the seeds and the contest there of course, and.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
We do have a succulent workshop this weekend on Saturday.
There's still space, so go ad to the website and
sign up for that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Sign up at Bruce Company dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com.
Great day to get on in as well. Twenty eight
thirty par Registreet. That's twenty eight thirty Parment Street. That's
where you find the Midleton Garden Center to Bruce Company,
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Of course, everyone hangs out in those cool places. The
(00:21):
coolest place to hang out though, is, of course, Milton Gardens.
Enter the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty part inter Street,
that's twenty eight thirty Partment Street and joining us at
studio this morning from the Bruce Company list brays get
loose skins.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm trying to limber up. Hey, I saw Robbins in
your front parking room this morning. A pair really frollicking.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh we may have more Robbins than.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Not that I saw. It's not that kind of frol oh, not.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That kind of more of like that like swooping around,
How you been, what's been up? That kind of thing.
Let's uh yeah, let's uh, let's think about those birdies
and think about warm temperatures and oh my goodness, we
got a little taste of it was that frid what.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Dama, Oh yeah, Friday was in the seventies crazy wow.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, and then Saturday was not.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's true, Saturday was not. And it's very sea sawy
this week.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Isn't that kind of the season it is.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It is the season marches, and it's certainly been a
very windy month, which is March winds bring aprilsh hours,
which bring pilgrims mayflowers. Skipped. I skipped a part of
the joke. I'm sorry you got the punchline. That's you
didn't get the straight to the punchline.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Although I would love like like a comedian that just
did punchlines, just didn't do the setup, just stood.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
There and just said punch flows many flowers and then
everybody would laugh because you all know the joke, right,
sounds like it sounds like something you could do, maybe.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
A second career. It's just a punchline comics. Looking at
the forecast, though, as you mentioned, kind of this and
that and the other thing, and kind of that time here,
which I know in years past, and I'm going to
guess this year is no exception. I think your advice
has always been have a plan.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, you know, the warm weather probably got things
going in people's yards. Yeah, I haven't heard about anything,
just like so beyond where it should be, but bulbs
might be up, for sure, there might be some things
that have you know, some things have started to emerge.
Just get some floating row cover or have some old
(02:26):
sheets or something. So that if you're as this goes forward,
the warmer it is, the further along things progress. And
then when we get some really cold weather you have
to cope with that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When is final frost typically do we d.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Final frost is? Typically? I think it's changed a little
bit in the past, but I think it's around the
tenth of May. Okay, that doesn't mean that. I mean
even in the past four or five years, we have
still had frosts very close to Memorial Day. So again
it is just you have to have a plan. And
(03:01):
so if you have purchased pansies this weekend, and honestly,
who didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's gonna sis.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What you just have to do is bring them into
your garage. Pansies the things that you're going to buy
in the garden center now are fairly tough, so they're
cool weather annuals or cool weather perennials. There are a
lot of hellebores have been going out, so they're they're
able to cope with some fairly cold weather pansies. The
(03:30):
flowers will be damaged right around freezing a little bit
above the foliage closer to thirty. So if you just
want to pull it in the garage or bring it
in the house for the night, then you can just
put it right back outside in the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Good advice. That's and by the way, is a lot
of folks kind of wondering and mentioned maybe some bulbs
popping and other questions like that. If folks, if you've
got a question for Lisa, I guess what got an
answer and opportunity to get you right on the air
six eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six eight
three to two I want thirteen ten gets you down
there with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. Of course,
you can learn more about Bruce Company online Bruce Company
(04:05):
dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Social media, the
Bruce Company. Great day to get on in Middleton Garden Center.
The Bruce Company right at twenty eight thirty param Intor Street.
That's twenty eight thirty parm Intor street today. Is I
do believe it's some type of same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
St.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Patrick's Day, you guys have St.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'd bet I'm wearing something kind of green. Is that's
sort of sort.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Of I'm it's kind of a like in green.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's not it. I got this on the discount rack
at Cole's. Just I think it's going by the collar.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, because that's the way I say.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. So shamrocks.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We do have shamrocks in the store, and some really
gorgeous looking ones too. We have the green, the purple.
There might be still a few of that bicolored one. Okay,
it has the dark red. I think it's called iron
Cross or something like that. So we have a few
of those as well.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Are they and I've never I've never had a shamrock before.
Are they a year?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They are a my grandmother used to keep she lived
in Michigan. She used to keep hers alive in the garden.
But I think that it was a fairly sheltered spot
for the most part. They are a house plant here.
(05:21):
They're not the true clover shamrocks. They're oxalis, which is
which you find a lot. There's different varieties that we
sell as colorful foliage plants for annuals, but you can
bring it in and out. They do, sometimes, depending on
your house, go through a quick little dormancy period, sometimes
(05:44):
sometimes not. But a couple of my sisters have pieces
of my grandmother's plants, so they can live quite a
long time. They're sort of like those Christmas cactuses where
people bring them in and they say, oh, this Christmas
cactus is one and ten years old. Yeah, they're yeah, wow,
I did. But my grandmother was ninety six when she died,
(06:08):
and that was like more than ten years ago really,
so yeah, this thing might be getting onto, you know,
close to one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Wow, that is amazing. You didn't take any.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Of them, No, because I am houseplant care lives in
my head right, But practically speaking, the reality of the
reality of it is that I have a very short
attention span for things that are in the house. Outside,
I'm much better. Entirely different, entirely different thing, all kinds
(06:43):
of weird things are living in my yard, but in
my house, I just you know, it's just not my thing,
and so they tend to be neglected. Sure, and so
I sort of stick with things if they're going to
be in there. Things that can take a fair found.
What about that's just the reality of it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What about things obviously shamrocks, clovers you had mentioned just
kind of while I'm on that kind of line of
leafy green things, are we still seeing folks planning and
putting and putting those down?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, the flowering lawn thing has gotten to be a
really popular thing. We have some new seed mixes that
are from it's called Earth Sciences. It's a Wisconsin company
and they have different mixes. But it's if you you know,
this goes back to the whole May mowing thing. If
(07:38):
you want to attract pollinators or do things plant things
that are benefiting pollinators, a flowering lawn is a much
better idea than letting your lawn grow to whatever height
in May and then chopping it back and having it
take a month to recover. Just find a little spot
where you can have a flowering lawn.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I know over the weekend we'll talk about also upcoming
events about the Bruce Company. But for folks that took
advantage of kind of the opportunity to I know, you
guys had folks on hand to go over some planting
I need. Yeah, I bet it was really cool. Is
this good? It's probably a good time too for folks
that have been maybe contemplating the past few years to
maybe starting as part of their their lawn letting, uh letting.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
H Yeah. I've been trying to do that for the
past few years. And it's a process because my yard
is fairly shady and it's hard to keep the creeping
Charlie at bay long enough to let the clover establish.
So we've been every year doing you know, a lot
of cleaning out areas and then doing overseating. But yeah,
(08:43):
I've been planting micro clovers, so I don't have enough
sun for the flowering parts of it. But the clover
flowers quite nicely in a fair amount of shade.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So and you know, it's too about clovers. You've got
to worry about mowing them. They just don't need that
same money.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, especially the micro clovers, because they're really short. If
you just go with like the Dutch white, it'll get
about six inches. So what they say to do is,
you know, after it flowers, to scythe off a little
bit of it, a couple of inches of it and
then let it go. But yes, what a cool thing,
but it doesn't look super attractive in the well, no
lawn looks super attractive, but clover lawns are less attractive.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It does stand out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, but it's in my backyard. My front yard is
all like hostas and plants and stuff, so nobody.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Notices do you have any grass?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And I know I'm working towards zero, but I don't know.
I have a grandchild, right, so now I'm like, but
the yard is shady, so there's no place to put.
You can't growl in it anyway, which is why I
look for an alternative.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And as we talk too about looking at alternative, good
day to get int the Bruce companies start that conversation
for folks that absolutely be like, Lisa, you can do
do a.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Cool Yeah, we've got all sorts of options we have
Besides our sciences, we also have stuff from Flawn, which
is another Wisconsin company, and he deals more with clover
as opposed to like mixes, although he does have some
flowering like low flowering plants that can take some abuse
(10:10):
like walking on it is kind of abuse.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Of Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company online Bruce Company
dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com also Facebook and
social media. Find them online the Bruce Company. Great day
to get on in twenty eight thirty Apartment Street. That'shere
you'll find the Middleton Gardens under Bruce Company. It's twenty
eight thirty Apartment you Street. And speaking of getting into
the Bruce Company, sales running through the big event going
with through twenty third.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Most of them are through the twenty third. So on Saturday,
we had our outdoor Furniture Extravaganza. Yes, and so we've
been talking through the winter about how we've been updating
the store, moving things around, trying to you know, sort
of relaunch some departments, and furniture was one of the
places where we put in a lot of effort. And
(10:57):
so there are a lot of newer styles. We've got
some new uh, some new companies, more color, a lot
more accessories so that if you just are one you
have furniture that you like and do you want to
add a pop of color or something different. We've got
a lot of options that way, outdoor rugs, pillows, that
(11:18):
kind of thing. So this this extravaganza started on Saturday
with a lot of manufacture sponsored discounts on new special orders,
So I want to be clear, it's not furniture off
the floor. It's stuff that you are special ordering, which
is great because it's the middle of March, so you
(11:38):
have a lot of time to get your furniture here
in time for when you want to be spending time outdoors.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I did see on your Facebook page, casteelel which.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'm Callah Cassel's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Amazing stuff I did see. Is it North Cape? Is
that a new North Cape?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We have had in a little bit, but we are
giving it a bigger presence. Yes, Home Crest is newer
for us. Meadow craft we haven't had in a long time.
We've got a lot of Nardi which is and it's
it's on the low end of us for price point. Nice,
(12:17):
but it's like not the plastic furniture you buy at
the hardware store. Sure, so it's designed and made in Italy.
It's sturdier, it's the designs are more modern. It's not
just you know, the Adirondack kind of style. Great colors,
and we've got a lot of that on hand. So
it's perfect I think for little patios or balconies. People
(12:40):
with their first home and they want something kind of
chic and cool out on their in their backyard. But
you know, feeling a little house poor, so you've got
to sort of make adjustment adjustments. But it's great furniture.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Nothing classes up a place like a little bit of
Italian furniture.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's what I say. That's my that's one of my
life monos. I should get a T shirt along with
the one that says my favorite color is glitter.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
We'll talk to the story with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company Online Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company
dot com. Great day to get on in. They'd love
to see you out at twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's sure you'll find
the Milton Gardens of the Bruce Company Online, Bruce Company
dot com, Facebook and social media. The Bruce Company will
talk about the really cool challenge. Of course, I don't
know if we're allowed to say March madness or if
(13:27):
that's some type of trademark, but got a really cool
we'll call it a bracket challenge.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I know you guys, Yeah, I think you could say
bracket challenge.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
We'll say that. Yeah, I'll talk about that of course,
take your call six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. If you've
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the Bruce Company. And again great day to get on
in Middleton Gardens under the Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty
(14:16):
par mentor Street. That's twenty eight thirty par mentor Street.
Seed seeds, more seeds. I think I can quote you
on that if I remember correctly. What a selection and
not only is it a great time to stock up
on seeds. There are some seeds you can be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We've been talking about that as we go, telling you know,
everybody to be patient on some things. It's still not
time to plant tomatoes, Okay, just saying, but now that
it's March, and now it's past the middle of March,
you can do all of the cabbage things you can do,
(14:53):
you know, all the things we've talked up, talked about
up till now onions like weird badge, like artichokes and
that kind of thing. But gardeners, start your hot peppers.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They need some time, don't they. They do need some time.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You want them to be a little more mature when
you put them outside because it takes it's it's better
that they flower and start to fruit early as it
takes some time to develop the heat.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay. So yeah, and you guys have at the Bruce Company,
do you have some some quite called them exotic or
some they've got some kick some of your peppers.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, And we've been doing a bracket challenge for seeds
and it started last week and last week was some
like it hot. So it was all about the peppers
and it was Carolina Reaper versus a Apocalypse Scorpion yep,
and then Pizza my Heart against beaver Dam, which is
(15:51):
sort of you know, maybe a hometown favorite. Yeah, Pizza
my Heart blew beaver Dam out of the water because
it's such a cute name, right, Yeah, it's a very
cute name. So the fine is between Apocalypse Scorpion and
Pizza my Heart. So we're gonna announce the winner early
this afternoon. So there's still time to vote, and if
(16:13):
you you're in the running for gift cards, so go
ahead and go to our Facebook page and vote. We
do three gift cards. I take a winner from each
of the days. Nice is how it works.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The funny thing about peppers is if they look evil,
they're evil. Like if they look nice and sweet and
like kind of yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Apocolyp Scorpion does not look very nice and it's all kind
of wrinkly and weird.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, like they're like telling you, like angry, They're like,
I'm hot, get ready because like the nice bell pepper
is just like it looks very it looks very puffy
and cuddly. And then you see these these like Apocalypse
scorpions and they oh, they're all just like they literally
look like it came out of a fiery cauldron just
(16:58):
ready to are you. Do you like hot stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I do, Yeah, I do. I'm not I'm not into
like heat for heat's sake. Yeah, for me, that stuff
is just it's gonna burn your mouth. I don't know
that you can taste the flavor beyond the heat. So,
but I do like spicy food.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You can see through space and time with some Yeah, yeah,
like warm, I don't, I don't like. I do love
though that. And what's really cool about is we and
you know, we talk about this with the Bruise Company
a lot. Is I love that there's you know, people
experimenting and collecting unique peppers, new things that that. And
that's also going on in the plant world as well.
(17:38):
And I know you have talked about this lease about
folks that are always looking for kind of the newest
cross pollination and the newest that's that's a very popular
thing for folks, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah? And you know, and they're so they're developing new
varieties that you know, find something that they like. And
the thing with plants, you know, annuals or things like vegetables,
is that it's a very it is a it's a process.
It doesn't take as long as it does to do
this with say a tree, because what you have to
do is you sort of cross pollinate two plants that
(18:12):
have two features that you want to sort of put together,
and then you have to then you take that seed
and then you plant out that seed, and you see
they're all going to be different, which so which of
those is you know, which of those are the most
like what you were looking for, or maybe something that
you weren't looking for that's really cool, and then you
(18:35):
have to make sure that that's true to their progeny. Right,
So it's a it's a process that takes a few
years with things like vegetables. Then imagine that if you're
waiting for a tree to get big enough to go
through seasons to see if the characteristics that you were
(18:56):
looking for hold true over years and years. So it's
it's a it is a commitment, you know, in time
and sort of passion for some people that like to
do that.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Have you ever ed Curry who created the Carolina Reaper
is a fact. Also, all these.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Guys are fascinating or the plant hunters, Like I think
about the guys that used to go into the mountains
in China. I mean this all started with the Victorian's
you know they went all over the world collecting, pillaging
their plants. Right, But this is why we have so
many cool things to plant now. Now there are rules
which there should be. Should not be going down cliffs
(19:38):
and stealing succulents, that's ridiculous, But you know this is
how this is, This is how plants are developed. Got there, yeah, yeah,
this is why we have, like you know, fifteen hundred
varieties of seeds in the store.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And this is why, and.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
This is why you want fifteen You want that choice, right.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And if you've got kids or grandkids, this why you
should get them started on Because why I believe.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
One hundred percent. And you would know this because because
Manson is the right age. My kids are older, he's
much more willing to eat things, try things. He's probably
better eating with eating veg and not as picky an
eater because he helped grow that stuff himself. So there's
a certain amount of pride.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's hard to say I don't like something that I
work so hard for. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Might taste it and say I'm not going to plant
this again. Yeah, but he's but he's open to trying it.
And honestly, when you have kids, if they're picky eaters,
that's what you're hoping for is at least they try
and if they don't like it, so you sneak it
in and again six months later. Kids taste buds.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Change, they do. They And the other thing too is
we talk about like growing thing and obviously the benefits
of food and learning and you know, you you really
as for kiddos, they're very proud of the stuff that
they and it's good.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
For them to know that food doesn't them in a
bag from the grocery store and the shrink wrapped kind
of styrofoam container, it actually comes. So there's all kinds
of really great lessons about that as well.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'm going to do kids Club soon.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm talking about it with Skyler and Sarah. I think
we're just going to do it for the summer. Nice so,
but we you know, been trying to get ready for spring.
Their sort of other things on our plates right now
that we're going to get through and then we'll, yeah,
then we'll have the conversation. They're up for it. We
just have to figure out the day and topics and
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It's going to want to follow Facebook and social media
for the rest.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's where you're going to find that stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Before we wrap up, we didn't touch on bulbs other
than saying that some are some are coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
We do have a really good selection in of summer
blooming bulbs, so we're talking about like Dahlia's and Canna
that kind of thing. So those are good to start
now too, especially if you want a longer bloom time.
You can get them started indoors.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's great day. Yeah, get into the Bruce Company, start
that conversation of course, mentioned the online of course, the
Bruce Company, the seeds and the contest there of course, and.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
We do have a succulent workshop this weekend on Saturday.
There's still space, so go ad to the website and
sign up for that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Sign up at Bruce Company dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com.
Great day to get on in as well. Twenty eight
thirty par Registreet. That's twenty eight thirty Parment Street. That's
where you find the Midleton Garden Center to Bruce Company,
Facebook and social media, the Bruce Company. Lisa, it's always
great hanging out on Joe. This beautiful day us us
Shideyduce comes your way. Next right here at thirteen to
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