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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We're at the Middleton Garden Center to the Bruce Company
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part registreet. And joining us in studio is Lisa Briggs
from the Bruce Company. Lisa, how you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
How are you fan?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm doing well. So we're gonna break down the forecast
in just a moment, but just kind of weird. Yeah,
it's gonna be it's gonna be warm. Do you guys
see at the store a lot more foot traffic When
things start to get warm like this, people really start
getting like they.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Get the fever. Yeah, yeah they do. Okay, Yeah, so
they start coming in looking for things we don't have. Sure,
when are your perennials coming in? It's February, yes, you
know it's but I think it's human too. You know,
winter is long. Yeah, and even though we're you know,
barely halfway through it by you know, by the weather,
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by the climate year, not by the calendar year, people
are tired of it. Yeah, we want to see you've
got a little snow. Now. We're all happier about that, yes,
And now we just wanted to be spring.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We do. And looking at the forecast a high fifty today,
that's about a spring like as we get for for February.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We've got lots of you know, fun blooming house plants
in that'll sort of sort of tone down those winter
blues for a few more weeks. And you can you know,
there's always a few seeds you can get started, but
most of your seeds starting is going to come in
the you know, latter half of March to mid April.
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It's when you're going to be doing a lot of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I saw some friends posting on Facebook with those kind
I don't know if they're like hydroplonic gardens or they're
starting some certain and there are things usually imagine there
are things you can be starting right now.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, for sure, you can go ahead. And you know,
we've been talking about the normal ones, but now you
could add things like Brussels sprouts. You could some of
those really slow growing cool weather veget the things that
you can put out early. Same thing with flowers like
pansies and snapdragons, any woody herbs, rosemary, all those perennial herbs,
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a lot of if you're doing like prairie plants or
woodland plants that you want to start sort of those
native perennials, you could go ahead and get those going.
Some of them will need a cold treatment, so you
want to be sure that you get them in the
fridge for a few weeks before you get them in
the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Good good advice, And that was something I've learned from
it and realize all of that stuff. If you speaking
of learning things from Lisa, I what a great opportunity
right now, get you on the air. You got a question,
so three two one thirteen ten. That's six o eight
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this morning. Of course, Everyday Outdoor Living brought to you
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of the really cool stuff going on at the Bruce Company,
let's talk about this really awesome stuff going on in
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the weather.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, you know what, you know what this forecast says
to me, what's that it's time to prune? Pruning time. Yes,
do not prune your evergreens though, unless you need to.
Like they're broken, they got damaged in some of the
higher winds that we had over the last few weeks.
They're scraping your car when you back out of your driveway,
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that kind of thing. Other than that, leave your evergreens alone.
Remember that if you have things that you're pruning that
flower before June first, like crab apples or lilacs, that
kind of thing. You're pruning off flowers, it's not going
to hurt the plant, but just be aware and then
but this is a great time to do shade trees
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and fruit trees.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What about pruning equipment, prepare preparing set equipment.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, if you haven't sharpened your pruners in a while,
or your loppers or your hands, your your pruning saw,
go ahead and take those two their knife sharpeners in
the area or a lot of the you know local
hardware stores, we'll have that service where you can drop
off something and they'll they'll sharpen it for you. So
get those sharpened, find a good place to store them
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so that they don't get nicked. Remember, you need the
proper size pruning implement to do the job. So anything
that's sort of smaller than your index finger, you can
use a hand pruner for that. Usually if it's that
up to half an inch three quarters of an inch,
you'll want loppers. Those longer handles give you more more torque. Yeah,
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And if it's bigger than that, then you're gonna want
a pruning saw.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I've got a little chain sawce.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You can use the little chain sauce. I have one too.
Those are, yeah, but a pruning sauce really snappy it.
It has very big teeth and so it doesn't rip
the way others. And it's kind of nice because the
blade stores in on itself, so it's easy to keep
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it protected protected.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Now that you mentioned, I think I use one for that,
and I realized that's what it was like. The folds
out kind of like almost like a half moon on it.
All those are great little saws. Yeah, all those are fantastic.
Can guy sell that? And we talk? I know we
got Fiskers and other brands that do you guys have
a full line of pruning saws as well.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We do have pruning saws. They're either from Corona or Felco.
We there might be there's probably a Fiskers one. We
have a really good selection of the Fiscars stuff, lots
of pruners and lots of hand tools.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Are people partial to certain brands by the way, I know,
like you, I.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I think if you're if depending on what kind
of gardening you do. Okay, Fiscars are locally. It's a
local company. They have a really good warranty for all
their tools. They're well priced. I think they're They're well made.
If you're a pruner though, and that's a really big
part of your job. I go for Falcos myself because
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I used to, you know, make reads. There's a lot
of pruning involved and so all the parts are replaceable.
So I have Falcos that I have the same handles
that I've had for thirty years. I just replaced the braid,
the blades and the springs and the little thing that
holds them shot. So yeah, it's just something.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And I think about one of the things I love
getting into the Middleton Garentern at the Bruce Company is
is I'm not I'm not a smart guy with all
of this stuff. And I always get like, really good advice?
Is that something too that that you know, talking with
somebody they can help you, Like, for sure, what are
you looking to do?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Because the Falcos are an investment, Sure you know that.
I think that, like the Fiscar's Pruner's run between thirty
and forty and the Falcos are going to be seventy
eighty and up. But if you're you know, if that's
what you do all the time, then you want, you know,
a pair that's going to last. And they do. Believe me.
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I've accumulated like six or seven pairs over the years,
but I do there's sort of scattered all over the place.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Imagine I had one of those little thumb clickers that
counted every time you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Oh gosh, we used to make wreaths. I mean there
was I've got a pair that has like the rotating handle,
so it's supposed to be really good. And Fist Cars
makes a really good line of what they call ergo tools,
where they they're ergonomically made so if you have you know,
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hand strength issues, or you're older, you have arthritis or
that kind of thing, they're made to be easier on
those joints and on those muscles.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So you can get in obviously pick up new stuff
if you need to tune out stuff. I remember a
couple of years ago you had a I think it
was for shovels. Maybe it was for shovels. You talked
about sand.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And oh, I think this is not a well, you
can do this for pruners, but it's this is mostly
for trowels, ok, because you don't think about a trowel
having a blade, but it does kind of. And so yeah,
if you have a bucket of sand with a little
bit of mineral oil in there, then when you put
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the trowel in there, it sort of the sand scrapes
it clean and kind of hones the edge just a
little bit. I don't know that I do that with pruners,
but because you want them to be stored closed, so
it's not going to do much. And with pruners you
need to get the sap off and keep those blades clean.
In other ways, I find that like oxy that that
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oxygen oxy clean, that enzyme stuff that you put in
the laundry, put a little bit of that in a
bucket with some hot water and then soak the pruners
in there. That's really good at getting sap and that
kind of debris off your pruners. But yeah, the bucket
with the oil in it is good for things like
trowels and gus garden fork, small hand tools where you
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want them to have a keen edge, but not like
a knife shure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, you're not putting your initials in a tree with
one of those.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No, no, no, no, you're like digging little holes for
you know, for whatever you're planting.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So good week to prune, good week to And if
you're looking at your stuff and you're going, I don't
know if it's got it may be timed upgrade. Maybe
time to take a look. Of course, i'd love to
see at the middles and gardens of the Bruce Company
twenty thirty Apartment Street. That's twenty at thirty Apartment Street.
As mentioned, it's going to be a beautiful week and
a fantastic weekend to clean that stuff up. And let's
talk about what you should be looking for as you're
looking at your shrubs and other things signs that if
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that's a good, good place to be pruning, what are something.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well you want to you want to remove any damage,
So branches that are broken from storms or snow load
or animals kind of rooting around in there. You for
sure want to if you're sort of resizing, okay, you
know you want to make something smaller than check in
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with the plant desks, so we can give you specific
ways to make it easier for the plant to grow
through that. And then of course anything that's you know,
that's an obstruction that you need to take care of.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Where should be? Where should be? I know, when we're
cutting limbs, you and I you've talked about kind of
leaving that little.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That donut yes, donut.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yah, it's a perfect, perfect, a similar stipe. When you're
trimming back on those small no it shrubs you.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You just want to go back to a bud. You
want to prune just above the bud. And depending on
the plant itself, it's sometimes a good idea to choose
a bud that is facing outwards, not back into the plant,
but outwards from the plant, so that like leaves the
plant less congested. And so especially if these are things
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you know that are prone to any kinds of disease issues,
you get better airflow through the plant, and that's sort
of how it helps with that sort of ability of
the plant to to not become like completely overcome by
powdery mildew.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The way, which we've talked about the past few years,
which has been pretty pretty crazy. So we talked this morning, well,
Lisa Brice. Course, Lisa comes to us from the Bruce Company.
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you joined us this morning. Six o' eight three two
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thirteen ten. Love to have you jump on board. And
of course it's going to be a fantastic week ahead
to get good stuff in the yard taking care of
you mentioned ruining. It's also a good time to kind
of eyeball that back patio or that front porch and
I make some plants, plants and some furniture and I
have to sit out. I've noticed a trend. And I
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do a show with somebody who does They do remodeling,
but they also build some homes from time to time.
And one of the things he pointed out was front
patios are starting to come back. For like a long time,
houses were not built with large porches. And he's starting
to get along and I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
People requesting that kind of thing. Yeah, it's the same
thing with you know, I don't know, in the past
ten years or so, you see a lot more houses
that have gardens in front. Oh, yes, as opposed you know,
some foundation planting with you know, a couple of trees
and a lot of lawn especially. I live in Westmoreland
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and a lot of people in Westmoreland have their whole
front yard is a garden.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, not a lawn space.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So and you know, I've got a couple of chairs
that we put. We hardly ever sit in there, but
we do have them.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah. Well, it's great to have in such a you mentioned,
you know, whether you're sitting in it's it's very welcoming, very.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, speaking of sitting in chairs, there was a video
you posted over the weekend. Actually I think you posted
on Friday. Yes, there is a chair that you are
sitting in. That chair is so cool. It looks unbelievably
comfortable and it's super crumfy. It does some cool things.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's called the Tajin chair. No Tajin so you know,
like it Moroccan stew. They're made in those vessels that
are sort of terra cotta, and then you'd like bake
the whole thing, and it's got that top. And this
is what that chair is based on, that design of
a tajin the dustl not the food, although you.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Could eat some eating in your touching chair. You could
indeed anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And it's it spins, well, it swivels, I guess that's
a better word for it, but children would say it
spins well, you know, it's super comfortable. I could, you know,
see curling up in there with a with a book.
You'd be totally hidden. No one would know where you
were because it sort of surrounds you, like two thirds
of the of the space is chair.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Do the pillows come with? Throw pillows? Are those optional?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The multicolored ones, I think they are butterfly pillows on there.
Those are throw pillows. And we have a really good
selection of throw pillows right now. If you have furniture
that you like and you just want to update, a
way to update is to get a new umbrella or
to get some throw pillows. You know that are indoor
outdoor fabrics, so you don't have to worry about them.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But the back pillows, big fluffy ones, the.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Big fluffy white ones, yes they do.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That is and I know and for folks that listen
to the show regularly, I know this, but if you
are new to the program, first off, welcome to the show.
Love to hear from you, but love to have you
along as well. You guys at the Bruce Company, this
year is as a big year for furniture.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We are updating sort of the offerings and the sort
of re rebooting the furniture department. So there's some more
modern design, still the same great vendors. We have a
good range of vendors from Nardi, which is on the
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lower end, it's plastic furniture designed in Italy, made in Italy,
really cool designs, great colors, perfect for like small patios
or terraces or balconies, kind of cash and carry, really
well priced. And then we have all the way up
to things like Jensen, which is epay. It's a late
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super dense hardwood, doesn't doesn't float, it's so so there's
like ninety seven percent of beautiful, and then of course Castel,
which is our premium line of aluminum furniture, and so
there's a good there's a good range, but we've brought
in some more modern styling, some little more exciting options
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for fabric. Mary Beth is showing a lot of layered
textures and finishes, so you can get a really good
idea of how to be a little more, a little
creative in your furniture selections. Now. Of course, especially on
the higher end stuff, a lot of our sales are
special order sure, so it's you can customize your patio
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or out there living space to be exactly what you
want it to be. And on March fifteenth we have
an event I think we're calling it the Furniture Extravaganza,
and a lot of the vendors will be there sort of,
you know, to talk to you about the process, how
the furniture is made. You know, special features that it
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has that you might not see just by looking at it.
And there are some specials lined up which are super
helpful when you're doing the looking at the higher end stuff.
It's pricier, for sure, but worth it. There's a I
forget the name of it. There's a Gensen kind of
sectional and the design is so outstanding. The details on
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it are unbelievable. It's got a corner piece and not
only is the structure the epey sort of beautifully put together,
but the corner cushion is an actual corner cushion. It's
not two cushions, but it up to one another. So
you get that weird little space where there's no support
and the cushions kind of shift and you're kind of stuck.
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It's just incredibly well made.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh wow, that's aw And the cool thing too and
now is if you're thinking about now, it's a perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Time because yeah, because special orders are going to run
anywhere from two to three weeks for something like Pollywood
or by the Yard, all the way up to maybe
nine to twelve, especially if you're really customizing finishes and
all that stuff is made to order. A lot of
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these companies have some maybe they have some frames in stock,
but if you're having cushions made, you know there's some
custom work done that's involved, and so that takes a
little time. But if you're ordering in March and you
maybe have a six or eight week leeway, that means
you know, by mid May you're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And you look at this forecast, go out to the patio,
take a tape, measure get some measurements, get you Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Bring that in. We've got staff who would be really
happy to sort of help you figure out what you
actually we want. You know, do you want deep seating?
Are you do you use your patio? Do you lounge?
Do you want to eat out there? So what pieces
would best fit your goals to and on how you
want to use that space and then also.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
What will fit Yeah, that's it. You did you mentioned size?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, sizes, size matters, Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You don't want to make with the you mentioned eating
out there? Weber, we have not talked, Weber.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
We have it. The new grills are in.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Oh really, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's a new spirit. I have not talked to the
rep and gone through the training. So to my eye,
it looks the same look I have to say, the
doors look. But they they do update the features every
couple of years, like usually one year they'll do Spirits.
In the next year they'll do Genesis, and they go
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back and forth. So, but there's a new little tread,
Smokey Joe, it's a slightly bigger size. That's super good.
That's cool. There's a new Genesis. There's a couple of
new spirits.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh wow, that's exciting. Well, and you mentioned, you know,
kind of looking at you that one of the things
that Weber has mastered. Is like the like when you
think of like, what does that perfect grill look like,
it's it's it's a Weber, whether it's their classic cattle
or there or you know, or the gas.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
One final thing I do have to ask you about
as we're as we're talking about spending time outside and
I look particularly windy. What a nice time to maybe
do a little patio. I have a little back use
a smokeless stove, and.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh yeah we have the solo stoves. Those are yep,
those are in as well, and those are really cool,
sort of designed so that the smoke channels through it,
not all the way, not all out at the top.
They're made to burn wood. So if you like that
sort of vibe as opposed to a gas kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You had mentioned the I think the first day we
talked about solo stoves, I think the biggest fire pits
are are great. I love fire pits, but you pointed
out the biggest problem with fire pits, which is the
smoke always seems to find you like and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'm convinced I'm one of those people that I'm just
like a magnet. Yes, it doesn't matter where you move, okay,
you're you would think, okay, I'm sitting here, I'm getting
doused in the smoke. Then I'm going to go to
the other side, and then that smoke just moves around.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So the smokeless the solos, I always want to call
them smokeless solos. They are smokeless solo stoves.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
They divert the smoke in the way that it's not
coming out of the.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Top it is. It is a really get those if
you haven't had a chance to learn about them, check
them out. They they're perfect for you. They're perfect gifts
for the great people in your life.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Sizes.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You've got a husband that works in radio, he could
always use a bigger one. Just saying all those great stuff.
It's always a great day to get in the Middleton
Guards of the Bruce Company. Twenty at thirty part registreet.
That's twenty at thirty part registret. Also, if you've got
a question for Lisa, so yeah, we can get you
on there for sure. If you don't want to come
on the air, that's cool too, because we got a
question from somebody saying saying they didn't want to come
on the air, but they did have a question about
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pruning hydrangas, and I, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's a broad top, so I'm going to tackle it.
So there are two types of Hydrangea. There's the pgs,
which are those cone shape they get quite big. They're
more shrubby. And annabel hydrangeas. Those are the ones with
the white flowers. Those bloom on new wood, a new growth,
so they set their flower buds in the spring and
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then they bloom later in the summer that same year.
Those are super easy to prune. The Annabels, I usually
just take them back to the ground. The flower heads
get kind of big and they tend to flop. On
the PG types, the cone shaped ones, if you left
your flowers on from last year, which is perfectly fine,
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you want to go ahead and take those out now
while the plant is not starting to leaf out. It's
a whole lot easier to do it now, okay. And
then after you get the flowers off, you kind of
step back and look at it, and then again you're
going to prune to just above a pair of buds.
They're really easy to see on hydrangs and kind of
shape it and get the size in where you want.
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The other types are the types that grow in the shade.
So we're talking about the blue ones, the pink ones,
oak leaf hydranges. A lot of those bloom much better
on old buds, even the new ever blooming ones. You're
going to get more flowers if you protect the buds. Okay,
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So what you want to do on those is you
want to wait until those leaf out, until you start
to see those buds start to emerge and unfurl, and
then you're going to prune back. You're going to have
some dead some dead stuff. So you're going to prune
back to above what is clearly a living bud. Okay,
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that makes sense, Yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
With the and a quick question on hydrange is is
it I feel like we had questions about their color
every year? What determines and is it?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Okay? So, not all hydrangees will change color if you
ascentify the soil. Okay, the only species that does that
is Hydrangea macrophola. So those they're called big leaf hydranges.
Those hydrangas, not all of them, but some varieties will
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change their color based on the pH level of the soil.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Here they tend to be pink because our soil is
fairly alkaline. On the West coast, they tend to be
blue because their soil is more acidic. So what you
want to do is you acidify the soil or sweeten
the soil. Because I have to say that as much
as we want the blue ones the people on the east,
on the East coast, they want them to be pink,
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the best you're going to do in our soil is
to get them kind of a movy purple color. You're
probably not going to get them clear blue. When you
buy them at the garden center. You see them and
they're blue, but they're in a really contained area with
probably acidified soil. If you want to keep that, you're
going to have to treat them regularly to keep the
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soil more to lower the pH level. So the easiest
way to do that that's the least threatening to the
plant or the least potentially damaging it is to use
soil sulfur. Okay, which is just the stuff that you
used in if you're of an age where you did
high school labs and you did things with sulfur, that
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rocky kind of chalky yellow pale, that's soil.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's the same thing, okay, And you guys.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We do sell that, yes, and it's it's super easy
and you're going to apply it two or three times
a year, kind of rake it into the soil. But
it does. It's not a long lasting situation.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And that's we talk about the questions you have, and
of course we take questions every Monday morning here, but
it's always a great day to get into the Bruce Company. Yes, emails,
everything working good now.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
So if I phones are up, Yeah, emails are up.
They came up I think Wednesday, Tuesday night into Wednesday,
So we do have emails, so you can go ahead
and emails. You're not going to get some crazy bounce
back thing like phones are working for the most part.
We don't have access to our files yet what we're
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hoping this week. So but yeah, it's been a long slog,
and I appreciate everybody for being as patient as they
have been, because it's as frustrating as it is for
all of you been trying to call us or contact us.
It's even more frustrating Druss, because we know you are yeah,
and we know or lose lots of people got all
kinds of weird bounce back emails, you know, in the
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couple of weeks right after our little cyber event.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So and we talk about getting plant desk at Bruce
Company dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, plant desk at Bruce Company dot com. If you're
going to reach them by email, which is the best way.
If especially if you want to show us photos which
are super helpful, you can, I'll go through the switchboard.
I believe the phone tree is working as well.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yes, yes, I can't promise what the messages. I think
we have to re record a bunch of messages, so
I can't promise what it's going to say. But we're
getting there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We are getting there even better. It's a great day
to get on. And they'd love to see a Middleton
garden center of the Bruce Company right at twenty eight
thirty parm Ingistry. That's twenty eight thirty par Magistrates. So
much great stuff going on there. Any any of the
venus fly traps left or they all sold out, I
don't know. Definitely going to check on that.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I know they saw some of the little seedy ones.
It was like a little small plastic biodome where you
could grow them from seed. I'm not sure about the plants.
Trent and Skylar and Brittany sort of as part of
our whole floor shift, we sort of moved the house plants.
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We expanded the house plant area, so that looks really cool.
Oh yeah, so there's yeah, new new organization and how
they're put together. We're building a new sort of work
area for for Gina when she comes back in a
couple in. She's back in like three weeks, so it's
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kind of exciting.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is a great day to get on in. They'd
love to see at Milton Guards with The Bruce Company
twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's twenty and thirty Partment Street.
More learn more online Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and
social media The Bruce Company, Lisa, it's always great. Stand ya.
You enjoy this beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You as well shine.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
This is next year on thirteen ten wib A
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get on and say hello, they'd love to see you.
We're at the Middleton Garden Center to the Bruce Company
twenty eight thirty parm inter Street. That's twenty eight thirty
part registreet. And joining us in studio is Lisa Briggs
from the Bruce Company. Lisa, how you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
How are you fan?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm doing well. So we're gonna break down the forecast
in just a moment, but just kind of weird. Yeah,
it's gonna be it's gonna be warm. Do you guys
see at the store a lot more foot traffic When
things start to get warm like this, people really start
getting like they.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Get the fever. Yeah, yeah they do. Okay, Yeah, so
they start coming in looking for things we don't have. Sure,
when are your perennials coming in? It's February, yes, you
know it's but I think it's human too. You know,
winter is long. Yeah, and even though we're you know,
barely halfway through it by you know, by the weather,
(01:08):
by the climate year, not by the calendar year, people
are tired of it. Yeah, we want to see you've
got a little snow. Now. We're all happier about that, yes,
And now we just wanted to be spring.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We do. And looking at the forecast a high fifty today,
that's about a spring like as we get for for February.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We've got lots of you know, fun blooming house plants
in that'll sort of sort of tone down those winter
blues for a few more weeks. And you can you know,
there's always a few seeds you can get started, but
most of your seeds starting is going to come in
the you know, latter half of March to mid April.
(01:47):
It's when you're going to be doing a lot of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I saw some friends posting on Facebook with those kind
I don't know if they're like hydroplonic gardens or they're
starting some certain and there are things usually imagine there
are things you can be starting right now.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, for sure, you can go ahead. And you know,
we've been talking about the normal ones, but now you
could add things like Brussels sprouts. You could some of
those really slow growing cool weather veget the things that
you can put out early. Same thing with flowers like
pansies and snapdragons, any woody herbs, rosemary, all those perennial herbs,
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a lot of if you're doing like prairie plants or
woodland plants that you want to start sort of those
native perennials, you could go ahead and get those going.
Some of them will need a cold treatment, so you
want to be sure that you get them in the
fridge for a few weeks before you get them in
the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Good good advice, And that was something I've learned from
it and realize all of that stuff. If you speaking
of learning things from Lisa, I what a great opportunity
right now, get you on the air. You got a question,
so three two one thirteen ten. That's six o eight
three two one thirteen ten. Love to get your question
this morning. Of course, Everyday Outdoor Living brought to you
by the Bruce Company. And before we talk about some
of the really cool stuff going on at the Bruce Company,
let's talk about this really awesome stuff going on in
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the weather.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, you know what, you know what this forecast says
to me, what's that it's time to prune? Pruning time. Yes,
do not prune your evergreens though, unless you need to.
Like they're broken, they got damaged in some of the
higher winds that we had over the last few weeks.
They're scraping your car when you back out of your driveway,
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that kind of thing. Other than that, leave your evergreens alone.
Remember that if you have things that you're pruning that
flower before June first, like crab apples or lilacs, that
kind of thing. You're pruning off flowers, it's not going
to hurt the plant, but just be aware and then
but this is a great time to do shade trees
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and fruit trees.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What about pruning equipment, prepare preparing set equipment.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, if you haven't sharpened your pruners in a while,
or your loppers or your hands, your your pruning saw,
go ahead and take those two their knife sharpeners in
the area or a lot of the you know local
hardware stores, we'll have that service where you can drop
off something and they'll they'll sharpen it for you. So
get those sharpened, find a good place to store them
(04:15):
so that they don't get nicked. Remember, you need the
proper size pruning implement to do the job. So anything
that's sort of smaller than your index finger, you can
use a hand pruner for that. Usually if it's that
up to half an inch three quarters of an inch,
you'll want loppers. Those longer handles give you more more torque. Yeah,
(04:40):
And if it's bigger than that, then you're gonna want
a pruning saw.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I've got a little chain sawce.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You can use the little chain sauce. I have one too.
Those are, yeah, but a pruning sauce really snappy it.
It has very big teeth and so it doesn't rip
the way others. And it's kind of nice because the
blade stores in on itself, so it's easy to keep
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it protected protected.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Now that you mentioned, I think I use one for that,
and I realized that's what it was like. The folds
out kind of like almost like a half moon on it.
All those are great little saws. Yeah, all those are fantastic.
Can guy sell that? And we talk? I know we
got Fiskers and other brands that do you guys have
a full line of pruning saws as well.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We do have pruning saws. They're either from Corona or Felco.
We there might be there's probably a Fiskers one. We
have a really good selection of the Fiscars stuff, lots
of pruners and lots of hand tools.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Are people partial to certain brands by the way, I know,
like you, I.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I think if you're if depending on what kind
of gardening you do. Okay, Fiscars are locally. It's a
local company. They have a really good warranty for all
their tools. They're well priced. I think they're They're well made.
If you're a pruner though, and that's a really big
part of your job. I go for Falcos myself because
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I used to, you know, make reads. There's a lot
of pruning involved and so all the parts are replaceable.
So I have Falcos that I have the same handles
that I've had for thirty years. I just replaced the braid,
the blades and the springs and the little thing that
holds them shot. So yeah, it's just something.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And I think about one of the things I love
getting into the Middleton Garentern at the Bruce Company is
is I'm not I'm not a smart guy with all
of this stuff. And I always get like, really good advice?
Is that something too that that you know, talking with
somebody they can help you, Like, for sure, what are
you looking to do?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Because the Falcos are an investment, Sure you know that.
I think that, like the Fiscar's Pruner's run between thirty
and forty and the Falcos are going to be seventy
eighty and up. But if you're you know, if that's
what you do all the time, then you want, you know,
a pair that's going to last. And they do. Believe me.
(07:05):
I've accumulated like six or seven pairs over the years,
but I do there's sort of scattered all over the place.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Imagine I had one of those little thumb clickers that
counted every time you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Oh gosh, we used to make wreaths. I mean there
was I've got a pair that has like the rotating handle,
so it's supposed to be really good. And Fist Cars
makes a really good line of what they call ergo tools,
where they they're ergonomically made so if you have you know,
(07:36):
hand strength issues, or you're older, you have arthritis or
that kind of thing, they're made to be easier on
those joints and on those muscles.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So you can get in obviously pick up new stuff
if you need to tune out stuff. I remember a
couple of years ago you had a I think it
was for shovels. Maybe it was for shovels. You talked
about sand.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And oh, I think this is not a well, you
can do this for pruners, but it's this is mostly
for trowels, ok, because you don't think about a trowel
having a blade, but it does kind of. And so yeah,
if you have a bucket of sand with a little
bit of mineral oil in there, then when you put
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the trowel in there, it sort of the sand scrapes
it clean and kind of hones the edge just a
little bit. I don't know that I do that with pruners,
but because you want them to be stored closed, so
it's not going to do much. And with pruners you
need to get the sap off and keep those blades clean.
In other ways, I find that like oxy that that
(08:41):
oxygen oxy clean, that enzyme stuff that you put in
the laundry, put a little bit of that in a
bucket with some hot water and then soak the pruners
in there. That's really good at getting sap and that
kind of debris off your pruners. But yeah, the bucket
with the oil in it is good for things like
trowels and gus garden fork, small hand tools where you
(09:02):
want them to have a keen edge, but not like
a knife shure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, you're not putting your initials in a tree with
one of those.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No, no, no, no, you're like digging little holes for
you know, for whatever you're planting.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So good week to prune, good week to And if
you're looking at your stuff and you're going, I don't
know if it's got it may be timed upgrade. Maybe
time to take a look. Of course, i'd love to
see at the middles and gardens of the Bruce Company
twenty thirty Apartment Street. That's twenty at thirty Apartment Street.
As mentioned, it's going to be a beautiful week and
a fantastic weekend to clean that stuff up. And let's
talk about what you should be looking for as you're
looking at your shrubs and other things signs that if
(09:37):
that's a good, good place to be pruning, what are something.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well you want to you want to remove any damage,
So branches that are broken from storms or snow load
or animals kind of rooting around in there. You for
sure want to if you're sort of resizing, okay, you
know you want to make something smaller than check in
(10:00):
with the plant desks, so we can give you specific
ways to make it easier for the plant to grow
through that. And then of course anything that's you know,
that's an obstruction that you need to take care of.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Where should be? Where should be? I know, when we're
cutting limbs, you and I you've talked about kind of
leaving that little.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That donut yes, donut.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yah, it's a perfect, perfect, a similar stipe. When you're
trimming back on those small no it shrubs you.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You just want to go back to a bud. You
want to prune just above the bud. And depending on
the plant itself, it's sometimes a good idea to choose
a bud that is facing outwards, not back into the plant,
but outwards from the plant, so that like leaves the
plant less congested. And so especially if these are things
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you know that are prone to any kinds of disease issues,
you get better airflow through the plant, and that's sort
of how it helps with that sort of ability of
the plant to to not become like completely overcome by
powdery mildew.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The way, which we've talked about the past few years,
which has been pretty pretty crazy. So we talked this morning, well,
Lisa Brice. Course, Lisa comes to us from the Bruce Company.
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you joined us this morning. Six o' eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six o' eight three two one
thirteen ten. Love to get you on the air with Lisa.
Don't forget you can learn more about the Bruce Company
their website to Brucecompany dot com, Facebook and social media
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the Bruce Company. It's a great day to get on
in Milton Garnsenter the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty PARM industry.
That's twenty eight thirty parm industry. If you followed the
Bruce Company on Facebook, you've probably seen Lisa uh trying
out and showing off some new furniture and some other
stuff at the Bruce Company. We'll talk with Lisa about
that and take your call next as everyday outdoor living
with the Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten
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one thirteen ten. That's six so eight three two one
(12:09):
thirteen ten. Love to have you jump on board. And
of course it's going to be a fantastic week ahead
to get good stuff in the yard taking care of
you mentioned ruining. It's also a good time to kind
of eyeball that back patio or that front porch and
I make some plants, plants and some furniture and I
have to sit out. I've noticed a trend. And I
(12:30):
do a show with somebody who does They do remodeling,
but they also build some homes from time to time.
And one of the things he pointed out was front
patios are starting to come back. For like a long time,
houses were not built with large porches. And he's starting
to get along and I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
People requesting that kind of thing. Yeah, it's the same
thing with you know, I don't know, in the past
ten years or so, you see a lot more houses
that have gardens in front. Oh, yes, as opposed you know,
some foundation planting with you know, a couple of trees
and a lot of lawn especially. I live in Westmoreland
(13:07):
and a lot of people in Westmoreland have their whole
front yard is a garden.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, not a lawn space.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So and you know, I've got a couple of chairs
that we put. We hardly ever sit in there, but
we do have them.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah. Well, it's great to have in such a you mentioned,
you know, whether you're sitting in it's it's very welcoming, very.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, speaking of sitting in chairs, there was a video
you posted over the weekend. Actually I think you posted
on Friday. Yes, there is a chair that you are
sitting in. That chair is so cool. It looks unbelievably
comfortable and it's super crumfy. It does some cool things.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's called the Tajin chair. No Tajin so you know,
like it Moroccan stew. They're made in those vessels that
are sort of terra cotta, and then you'd like bake
the whole thing, and it's got that top. And this
is what that chair is based on, that design of
a tajin the dustl not the food, although you.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Could eat some eating in your touching chair. You could
indeed anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And it's it spins, well, it swivels, I guess that's
a better word for it, but children would say it
spins well, you know, it's super comfortable. I could, you know,
see curling up in there with a with a book.
You'd be totally hidden. No one would know where you
were because it sort of surrounds you, like two thirds
of the of the space is chair.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Do the pillows come with? Throw pillows? Are those optional?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The multicolored ones, I think they are butterfly pillows on there.
Those are throw pillows. And we have a really good
selection of throw pillows right now. If you have furniture
that you like and you just want to update, a
way to update is to get a new umbrella or
to get some throw pillows. You know that are indoor
outdoor fabrics, so you don't have to worry about them.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But the back pillows, big fluffy ones, the.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Big fluffy white ones, yes they do.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That is and I know and for folks that listen
to the show regularly, I know this, but if you
are new to the program, first off, welcome to the show.
Love to hear from you, but love to have you
along as well. You guys at the Bruce Company, this
year is as a big year for furniture.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We are updating sort of the offerings and the sort
of re rebooting the furniture department. So there's some more
modern design, still the same great vendors. We have a
good range of vendors from Nardi, which is on the
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lower end, it's plastic furniture designed in Italy, made in Italy,
really cool designs, great colors, perfect for like small patios
or terraces or balconies, kind of cash and carry, really
well priced. And then we have all the way up
to things like Jensen, which is epay. It's a late
(16:05):
super dense hardwood, doesn't doesn't float, it's so so there's
like ninety seven percent of beautiful, and then of course Castel,
which is our premium line of aluminum furniture, and so
there's a good there's a good range, but we've brought
in some more modern styling, some little more exciting options
(16:27):
for fabric. Mary Beth is showing a lot of layered
textures and finishes, so you can get a really good
idea of how to be a little more, a little
creative in your furniture selections. Now. Of course, especially on
the higher end stuff, a lot of our sales are
special order sure, so it's you can customize your patio
(16:52):
or out there living space to be exactly what you
want it to be. And on March fifteenth we have
an event I think we're calling it the Furniture Extravaganza,
and a lot of the vendors will be there sort of,
you know, to talk to you about the process, how
the furniture is made. You know, special features that it
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has that you might not see just by looking at it.
And there are some specials lined up which are super
helpful when you're doing the looking at the higher end stuff.
It's pricier, for sure, but worth it. There's a I
forget the name of it. There's a Gensen kind of
sectional and the design is so outstanding. The details on
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it are unbelievable. It's got a corner piece and not
only is the structure the epey sort of beautifully put together,
but the corner cushion is an actual corner cushion. It's
not two cushions, but it up to one another. So
you get that weird little space where there's no support
and the cushions kind of shift and you're kind of stuck.
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It's just incredibly well made.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh wow, that's aw And the cool thing too and
now is if you're thinking about now, it's a perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Time because yeah, because special orders are going to run
anywhere from two to three weeks for something like Pollywood
or by the Yard, all the way up to maybe
nine to twelve, especially if you're really customizing finishes and
all that stuff is made to order. A lot of
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these companies have some maybe they have some frames in stock,
but if you're having cushions made, you know there's some
custom work done that's involved, and so that takes a
little time. But if you're ordering in March and you
maybe have a six or eight week leeway, that means
you know, by mid May you're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And you look at this forecast, go out to the patio,
take a tape, measure get some measurements, get you Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Bring that in. We've got staff who would be really
happy to sort of help you figure out what you
actually we want. You know, do you want deep seating?
Are you do you use your patio? Do you lounge?
Do you want to eat out there? So what pieces
would best fit your goals to and on how you
want to use that space and then also.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
What will fit Yeah, that's it. You did you mentioned size?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, sizes, size matters, Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You don't want to make with the you mentioned eating
out there? Weber, we have not talked, Weber.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
We have it. The new grills are in.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Oh really, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's a new spirit. I have not talked to the
rep and gone through the training. So to my eye,
it looks the same look I have to say, the
doors look. But they they do update the features every
couple of years, like usually one year they'll do Spirits.
In the next year they'll do Genesis, and they go
(19:56):
back and forth. So, but there's a new little tread,
Smokey Joe, it's a slightly bigger size. That's super good.
That's cool. There's a new Genesis. There's a couple of
new spirits.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh wow, that's exciting. Well, and you mentioned, you know,
kind of looking at you that one of the things
that Weber has mastered. Is like the like when you
think of like, what does that perfect grill look like,
it's it's it's a Weber, whether it's their classic cattle
or there or you know, or the gas.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
One final thing I do have to ask you about
as we're as we're talking about spending time outside and
I look particularly windy. What a nice time to maybe
do a little patio. I have a little back use
a smokeless stove, and.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh yeah we have the solo stoves. Those are yep,
those are in as well, and those are really cool,
sort of designed so that the smoke channels through it,
not all the way, not all out at the top.
They're made to burn wood. So if you like that
sort of vibe as opposed to a gas kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You had mentioned the I think the first day we
talked about solo stoves, I think the biggest fire pits
are are great. I love fire pits, but you pointed
out the biggest problem with fire pits, which is the
smoke always seems to find you like and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'm convinced I'm one of those people that I'm just
like a magnet. Yes, it doesn't matter where you move, okay,
you're you would think, okay, I'm sitting here, I'm getting
doused in the smoke. Then I'm going to go to
the other side, and then that smoke just moves around.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So the smokeless the solos, I always want to call
them smokeless solos. They are smokeless solo stoves.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
They divert the smoke in the way that it's not
coming out of the.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Top it is. It is a really get those if
you haven't had a chance to learn about them, check
them out. They they're perfect for you. They're perfect gifts
for the great people in your life.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Sizes.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You've got a husband that works in radio, he could
always use a bigger one. Just saying all those great stuff.
It's always a great day to get in the Middleton
Guards of the Bruce Company. Twenty at thirty part registreet.
That's twenty at thirty part registret. Also, if you've got
a question for Lisa, so yeah, we can get you
on there for sure. If you don't want to come
on the air, that's cool too, because we got a
question from somebody saying saying they didn't want to come
on the air, but they did have a question about
(22:08):
pruning hydrangas, and I, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's a broad top, so I'm going to tackle it.
So there are two types of Hydrangea. There's the pgs,
which are those cone shape they get quite big. They're
more shrubby. And annabel hydrangeas. Those are the ones with
the white flowers. Those bloom on new wood, a new growth,
so they set their flower buds in the spring and
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then they bloom later in the summer that same year.
Those are super easy to prune. The Annabels, I usually
just take them back to the ground. The flower heads
get kind of big and they tend to flop. On
the PG types, the cone shaped ones, if you left
your flowers on from last year, which is perfectly fine,
(22:54):
you want to go ahead and take those out now
while the plant is not starting to leaf out. It's
a whole lot easier to do it now, okay. And
then after you get the flowers off, you kind of
step back and look at it, and then again you're
going to prune to just above a pair of buds.
They're really easy to see on hydrangs and kind of
shape it and get the size in where you want.
(23:14):
The other types are the types that grow in the shade.
So we're talking about the blue ones, the pink ones,
oak leaf hydranges. A lot of those bloom much better
on old buds, even the new ever blooming ones. You're
going to get more flowers if you protect the buds. Okay,
(23:35):
So what you want to do on those is you
want to wait until those leaf out, until you start
to see those buds start to emerge and unfurl, and
then you're going to prune back. You're going to have
some dead some dead stuff. So you're going to prune
back to above what is clearly a living bud. Okay,
(23:56):
that makes sense, Yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
With the and a quick question on hydrange is is
it I feel like we had questions about their color
every year? What determines and is it?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Okay? So, not all hydrangees will change color if you
ascentify the soil. Okay, the only species that does that
is Hydrangea macrophola. So those they're called big leaf hydranges.
Those hydrangas, not all of them, but some varieties will
(24:26):
change their color based on the pH level of the soil.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Here they tend to be pink because our soil is
fairly alkaline. On the West coast, they tend to be
blue because their soil is more acidic. So what you
want to do is you acidify the soil or sweeten
the soil. Because I have to say that as much
as we want the blue ones the people on the east,
on the East coast, they want them to be pink,
(24:51):
the best you're going to do in our soil is
to get them kind of a movy purple color. You're
probably not going to get them clear blue. When you
buy them at the garden center. You see them and
they're blue, but they're in a really contained area with
probably acidified soil. If you want to keep that, you're
going to have to treat them regularly to keep the
(25:12):
soil more to lower the pH level. So the easiest
way to do that that's the least threatening to the
plant or the least potentially damaging it is to use
soil sulfur. Okay, which is just the stuff that you
used in if you're of an age where you did
high school labs and you did things with sulfur, that
(25:33):
rocky kind of chalky yellow pale, that's soil.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's the same thing, okay, And you guys.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We do sell that, yes, and it's it's super easy
and you're going to apply it two or three times
a year, kind of rake it into the soil. But
it does. It's not a long lasting situation.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And that's we talk about the questions you have, and
of course we take questions every Monday morning here, but
it's always a great day to get into the Bruce Company. Yes, emails,
everything working good now.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
So if I phones are up, Yeah, emails are up.
They came up I think Wednesday, Tuesday night into Wednesday,
So we do have emails, so you can go ahead
and emails. You're not going to get some crazy bounce
back thing like phones are working for the most part.
We don't have access to our files yet what we're
(26:18):
hoping this week. So but yeah, it's been a long slog,
and I appreciate everybody for being as patient as they
have been, because it's as frustrating as it is for
all of you been trying to call us or contact us.
It's even more frustrating Druss, because we know you are yeah,
and we know or lose lots of people got all
kinds of weird bounce back emails, you know, in the
(26:40):
couple of weeks right after our little cyber event.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So and we talk about getting plant desk at Bruce
Company dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, plant desk at Bruce Company dot com. If you're
going to reach them by email, which is the best way.
If especially if you want to show us photos which
are super helpful, you can, I'll go through the switchboard.
I believe the phone tree is working as well.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yes, yes, I can't promise what the messages. I think
we have to re record a bunch of messages, so
I can't promise what it's going to say. But we're
getting there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We are getting there even better. It's a great day
to get on. And they'd love to see a Middleton
garden center of the Bruce Company right at twenty eight
thirty parm Ingistry. That's twenty eight thirty par Magistrates. So
much great stuff going on there. Any any of the
venus fly traps left or they all sold out, I
don't know. Definitely going to check on that.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I know they saw some of the little seedy ones.
It was like a little small plastic biodome where you
could grow them from seed. I'm not sure about the plants.
Trent and Skylar and Brittany sort of as part of
our whole floor shift, we sort of moved the house plants.
(27:57):
We expanded the house plant area, so that looks really cool.
Oh yeah, so there's yeah, new new organization and how
they're put together. We're building a new sort of work
area for for Gina when she comes back in a
couple in. She's back in like three weeks, so it's
(28:19):
kind of exciting.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is a great day to get on in. They'd
love to see at Milton Guards with The Bruce Company
twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's twenty and thirty Partment Street.
More learn more online Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and
social media The Bruce Company, Lisa, it's always great. Stand ya.
You enjoy this beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You as well shine.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
This is next year on thirteen ten wib A
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