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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Here is award winning remodeling expert Nick Kerzner.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
New Just Talk eleven thirty wisn Nick the Construction Guru.
I'm excited today I have a returning guest, Derek Johnson
from Trees on the Move. You know we talked last time, Derek.
I think everybody knows you guys from the Big Trees
are going down the road, and you probably get sick
of hearing it. But that's I remember the first time
I thought I was fascinated. But you guys do so
much more than just move big trees. Give us a
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little history on Trees on the Move and tell us,
you know, tons of commercial, residential, all kinds.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Of everything, everything that is outside. We wind up doing it.
So we've been in business forty seven years. We have
huge nursery. We have our own trees. We bring trees in.
We have about six thousand trees above ground. We have
quite a few in grounds still. We're actually doing a
huge sale coming up. It actually started two days ago,
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so our big fall sale, it's tell.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Us about that. Now, where do people go? How do
they get? You know, how does it all work?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So they just come on out to the shop there.
It's fifty six eleven South Calhoun and New Berlin. We
have salespeople that will drive you around in the golf carts,
take you a look at whatever trees you're looking at.
We have all different kinds from ornamentals, deciduous, some beautiful
spruces and pines, all varying sizes from five foot to
twelve foot. We're also doing our lot clearing sales, so
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that's all of our trees that are in ground. Some
of those are you know, twenty twenty four foot tall
and we can move those with a spade truck. Got
beautiful sales on those. But that's what we're running right now.
But we still have, you know, our residential sales where
we still have room for a couple more jobs this year,
just because we have so many crews. We are up
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to seventeen construction crews now, so keep those guys fed
and keep going until the frost sets in and we
can't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know, we were talking about a subdivision. We were
in and you know a lot of these newer builds
people are building them on farm fields. Basically they're old
farm fields a lot of them, which means that the
land was cleared to farm. And there's some gorgeous houses
going up. And you're on a postage stamp like a
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frying pant sitting there with these little little bushes and
things like that. Now, you guys recently landscaped a home
in that area that we were talking about, and so
they can have it can look like like a real.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Lot, right, Yeah, it can look like it's been there
for ten fifteen years already with some of the stuff
that we put in. Yeah, it really shows that everything's mature.
You got, you know, a nice autumn blazed maple sitting
in front that's twenty four feet tall. You got some
shrubs that, you know, instead of getting to eighteen inch shrubs,
we put in like six foot shrubs. So they look
like they've been there forever. It feels like it's been
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home for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And they just come out pick out their trees. A
client comes out, looks at the different trees they want.
I'm sure you know I haven't been to your lot.
Now that I know, I want to come out and
we'll spend some time together because I want to I
want to see how you guys operate. But in Arizona
there's a place called Moon Nurseries, and I'm not advocating
them or anything, but basically the same thing. And with
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palm trees. Okay, yeah, but you look at the palm
trees and different prices. Obviously bigger trees are more money.
But interestingly, you really don't have to do anything as
a customer. You just point and say, okay, these are
the ones I want. Then you guys come out, you
plant them, you prefertilize them, get everything ready right, yeap,
Because nothing would bother me more than putting a big
tree up and then waking up on nice spring morning
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and looking at it and see, you know that one
didn't make it right? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Most definitely?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No, we go through and we make sure it's planted
correctly and everything for you. The only thing we ask
is that you maulch it when we're done. We don't
maltz because we don't know what kind of malts you
have at your house and we want everything to match.
And then just make sure you water. That's the most
important thing. Just water your trees constantly, especially when they
are first planted. You can over water. This time of year,
it's a little bit harder too, because you're trying to
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give as much water to the trees as you can
before winter sets in.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Gotcha get them healthy for the.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, and just have something. Yeah, it's getting colder though.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So have you guys been able to with the weather
the way it is? Have you been able to do
what you want? I mean, has this been a tough
weather year for you? It has for us.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean the beginning of the year was terrible, just
because the winter was an absolute terrible winter with no
snow and bitter cold it. It did a lot of
damage to a lot of evergreens out there this year.
So we did wind up having a little bit extra
warranty as far as summer and everything. We had a
little bit of rain. But no, I think it's been
a pretty good year for us. We were able to
get a lot done. And it's funny. I know it
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ruins everybody's weekend, but it rains on the weekends and
not during the week a lot this year. So that's
it's helped us.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot, I know, And that's exactly. I'm glad I
got validation on it because I'm I'm a sunny guy.
You know, It's got to be sunny for me. Otherwise
I feel it. I would never last in Seattle fifteen minutes.
Oh definitely, not even in what was it, Chaz, I
wouldn't last, not even there where I could have my
own way, right. Yeah, But you guys, you know, trees
on the move is a bit of a deception from
the standpoint that you do so much more than that.
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Let's talk about some of the other things you guys know,
most definitely.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So we have multiple divisions. We have a forest tree division,
we have an irrigation division.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We have as okay, forestry division. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So taking down trees, pruning trees, just clean ups and
stuff like that in general.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So if you have a really big tree, trees on
the move, people to call to trim that tree.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah for sure. Yeah. We have bucket truck and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's part of the health of the tree too, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Most definitely? Yeah, and knowing when to cut it and
all that good stuff. So that's why we have a
certified arburist on staff and make sure anythings take care properly.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
If you have a lot of trees on your Is
it expensive to trim trees?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's all in the eye of beholding, right, And it's
really the size of the tree and how much you
need pruned. I don't think it's really expensive. It's much
cheaper to get your tree pruned than wait five years
and have to cut it down and get a new one.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, okay, that makes good sense. So it is something
if you have I know a lot of these out
where I live in o'conmak, there's a lot of I
have one hundred year more than one hundred year old oaks.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Right, prune we do only in the winter time, but yes,
we do prune them, okay, and that keeps them healthy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Insects all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Fro Yeah, exactly, that's when the insects are down to
a minimum. And also all the diseases and stuff they're
not out there because of the cold.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And you cover some of this on your website, right,
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, So people can go and
learn before they call.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They sure can. And there's multiple spots on the website
where you can look up exactly what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Cool, okay, I'm sorry I interrupted. So Forest Street Division,
then you said irrigation.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Irrigation division. We do both residential and commercial. We've been
doing irrigation for about fourteen years now, so it's starting
to pick up. We've got a couple of crews doing that.
And then we have a concrete division. Concrete division has
been around for about seven years. They do a lot
of residential, they do some commercial, but mostly residential. Beautiful
stamped work with the beautiful rock face on the steps
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and everything like that. It's some of the nicest concrete
work I've ever seen. Really really proud of those.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
How did you guys, I mean, they don't seem like
related fields to me. How do you get into that?
Is it just landscaping?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, it's amazing how related they are, and how often
we had to subcontract out concrete and you just can't
control the schedule when you're subcontracting, and you can't control
the actual quality of the work either. So Gary decided, hey,
we want to make sure we give the best to
our clients, so he started a concrete division to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Are you guys behind No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I think that we're on schedule and we actually still
have a little bit of room, say in November, to
bring in some more jobs.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. Have you know, has this been a particularly busy
year for you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's been an extremely busy year for or as we
h we're not planning on growing as much as we
did this year, but we added on three new crews
this year. So yeah, it's been that busy and we're
still a little bit, not really behind, but right on
the cusp of it.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know, I get to talk to a lot of
different kinds of contractors, and the general consensus has been that,
you know, the people that are established that I know,
like like you guys, and and and you know a
lot of my other guests, they're buried. Oh yeah, they're
absolutely buried. I think a couple of things are happening.
People are looking at the reputations of companies, so there's
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there's some discretionary income out there. I mean, not to
get political, but you know, it's great Trump's in office
because the economy is better, and you know, so that
money and and interest rates. I don't know, the Feds
aren't cooperating. I don't know what it's all about, but
people are saying, hey, let's stay in our house. We
don't need a seven percent mortgage on a brand new house, right,
So you know they're they're they're doing a lot of improvements. Yes,
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And I think buyers are going more savvy. They realized that,
you know what, Yeah, this guy's the cheapest guy. But
I've never heard of them before. These people have been
in business for fifty sixty years. Let's do business with them, agree,
And everybody's reporting that to me.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Everybody's telling me, yeah, no, I think over the last
five years, I kind of think it's been going that
way and we over the last five years, we haven't
had a slow period because of that, and I think
it's great. I think people are starting to realize how
much they have invested in their house and just to
clean it up and stay there is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And a lot of the older houses that may not
look as Pristina's, the new builds are built better. Yes,
so it's worth putting the money into them. Yes. So
I'm sorry I interrupted you again. This is an exciting topic.
So you have the concrete division.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And then and then we have a maintenance division. The
maintenance division, though is not residential, it's commercially Sorry for
everybody for that. But yeah, they do all commercial work.
And then of course we have our construction crews, so
many of those, and then we have our B and
B sales. So that's all of the trees that we
have on the lot.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, and you said right now it's the time to
buy trees.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Right now is definitely the time to buy that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You want to get them out of there before winter.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, we don't like overwintering things. We want them to
be in there forever home. That's where they are going
to thrive. If they stay above ground an extra year,
they don't do quite as well for us. So we
like to get them in the ground and make sure
somebody gets to use it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
How long is your show going on for?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Is going on until the end or middle of October?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Middle of October? Good selections?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Still an amazing selection still Yeah, like I said, over
six thousand trees above.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Ground, so especially I would think that people that are
just fresh built. Yes, you know, and you still got
the mud lot. Now is the time to go talk
to trees on the move, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now is the perfect time to come talk to us.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yes, you can still plant.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Planting right now is the best time to plant because
you're going to get the fall rains and everything everything's done.
It's the wonderful time for the trees to start growing
and the roots to propagate.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All and then in spring you'll have blooming tree.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In spring, you'll have a blooming tree.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's that's cool.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Be established.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I think a lot of times when people build,
they're not really putting. You know, I'm not going to
say I think. I know because I've talked to so
many people that are building. Like everything else, you have
a budget, and like everything else, when you're building, you
add more and then the house that was this much
now goes to this much. And you know, they don't
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think about the landscaping, right.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That does get held off to the last. That happens
all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And then you end up with erosion. You end up
with mud in the house, on the new carpet, you
end up with all kinds of things. And where I'm
going with this, Derek, is that you guys, because you're
involved in commercial and residential, you have the equipment and
you have the crews that can get in there and
make this happen in a flash, as opposed to and
I know a lot of small landscapers that are very good.
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I'm not knocking them, but what takes you guys days
is going to take them weeks. Right, So you guys
just basically, you know, you could go away for the
week and come back in your house's landscape. You guys
are that big, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And another good part about that that I'd like to
mention is we also have, you know, multiple designers on staff.
We have two landscape architects on staff, and with that
they can help you if you are in a new
home and you did kind of blow your budget, you
don't have enough left for landscaping, they can help you
on finding something that fits your budget. And also you
can phase out so that way, that was my next question,
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meets your requirements because there are a lot of homeowner
associations to say, hey, you have to have this many
shrubs and you have to have your grass planted within
this amount of time. So we can figure that out
for you, and we can come in and we can
get what the bare minimum's done, and then phase two
we can start putting in the things that you like.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You just gave me post traumatic stress and I'm saying
hoas I will never ever buy anything with an HOA
ever again, I would not do that. I put in
an AI because I'm having an experience in Arizona at
a condoy own. And you know I did after looking
at the way it's been mismanaged. I looked on AI.
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I went to AI on Google and I said the
question I asked, is isn't HOA a license to steal? Okay,
and boom, you know what. It came up and it said, well,
you know, ninety six percent of all hoas are been
accused of malfeasance. I'm like, oh, it's crazy. All right,
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We're going to take a short break, Derek, and when
we come back, we'll talk more about I want to
talk more about your sale and kind of the inventory,
because I think that's going to spark spark a bit
in people's minds, because I don't think most people are
thinking about it. They usually think about doing this in spring, springtime,
and now it's the best time. And I want you
to tell us why. Okay, it sounds good to me.
All right. We will return after these messages on News
Talk eleven thirty WISN. News Talk eleven thirty WISN returning
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I have a returning guest, fascinating fascinating guests from Trees
on the Move. I'm sure that, like myself, most of
you have probably seen these huge trucks going down with
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this pointed spade carrying these gigantic trees. And if you've
seen that, that is Trees on the Move. But they
do so much more concrete, division, irrigation, all kinds of
things like that. Derek and I were talking at break
and interestingly, I think most of us, you know, when
we're going to the big box stores or walking by
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Walmart or that we'll see these greenhouses out in the
spring and start to get excited about, you know, doing plantings,
not only flowers, but bushes, small trees, Stein's Garden Center,
things like that. We'll walk around and see this in spring.
But talking to Derek, there's a good reason for doing
that right now, isn't.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
There multiple reasons. One is just to save the money.
You know, all nurseries like ourselves are trying to get
rid of our stock before wintertime. We don't like having
to overwinter them. They don't do quite as good above
ground as they do in ground.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I mean you could save easily forty to fifty
percent on all of your plantings at this time of year.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Holy that that's a bit that's not you know, usually
it's ten You had.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Fifty, yes, sir, Yeah, And I mean not only that,
but you're also given a chance to establish and get
their roots set in before winter hits, so that way
next spring they're starting to flower for you right off
the bat, instead of going through a shock where you
might not get any flowers in that first spring.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well, you know a lot of times and again, you know,
being a remodeling contractor, I will go into like home
depot and when I'm walking by, I'll see these dwarf maples.
What are the ones with the red leaves? What are
those cold the Japanese made companies maples? Okay, those are
those are cool looking trees, but they're real little they
And you know many times because I planted a lot
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of different bushes that I bought it. They don't make it.
They just don't make it. They do not.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, Japanese maples really aren't meant for a round here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's one to know.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You tell me, that's one of the good things about
going in and talking to a designer. We don't charge
for our designs. They're free if you do the work
with us, but you could always just ask us a
few questions. And you know, Japanese maples are one of
those ones that, yes, they can live up here, but
they need to be surrounded by stuff because they don't
like the wind, they don't like the cold, and that's
what will kill them off right away.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So and that's good to know because you can use them.
But with a landscape architect, they're going to tell you, Okay,
here's how we want to we want to put a
buffer here exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yes, I'll tell you where you can use it and
where you'll get the most beautification from it as well.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know another and guilty of charged another mistake. I
planted trees when I was twenty eight pines, white pines, okay,
and there were real little trees, so I planted them
too close together. Yes, and they're fine, but it looks
like one big clump of trees now. And bushes when
you plant them close you get this cool little barberry
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bush or something like that, and you put it up
against your house and you go, well, that looks really cool.
Well three years later it's encroaching the front of your house.
And definitely that's another good argument for getting a design.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, because it surely is. And that way because we
know what the grown height is and size and everything,
so we can put it where it needs to be.
And also for shade and sun we know, you know,
because we come out and we look at what parts
of your yard are doing to get the sun during
what hours and make sure that the correct plant is
in there for that environment. We also have such a
wide variety because we go to multiple nurseries, you know,
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seven or eight of them in state, and then we
go to a couple down in Illinois, some in Michigan, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So we're a fire that goes running vice plants. Oh
for sure, yes, yes, yeah, I never thought about that aspect.
So you have somebody literally picking the stock, yes, I mean,
because I'm used you know, what I'm used to, Derek
is seeing a semi truck pull up and again like
home deeper and I'm not knocking them, but you know,
and they pull all these plants out. I don't think
any they just call up and say, give me ten
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of these, give me fifteen of these. You actually have
eyes on everything you sell.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh for sure. Yeah. Make sure it meets the quality
that we need to have for our clients.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So there is a different quality. I think that's important.
There definitely is. And you know, as and we talk
mostly residential, I'm sure it's same with commercial. But when
you're doing a landscape design, especially for those folks that
we were talking about that just build houses, they want
it to look good right away. So the placement of
the bushes are put in places that make sense when
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they're little, but make no sense when they get bigger. Right.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I have clients that will argue with me for hours
on end on placement of plants because they do want
that full screen right away. Sometimes I'll give in and
say that's fine, but in five years it's going to
cost you some money for me to come and move
one out and to give them the spacing that they need.
But it's up to you. Really. I mean, the plants
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will survive, they will make a wall for you, they
just won't be as healthy as they should be. They
won't look quite as good because they'll only have greenery
on two sides because the rest will be dead that
it's inside the other plantings.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Well, you know, it's interesting because we were talking, my
wife and I were talking about this because we have
a place up north and it's very thick with maples
and oaks and nice the scrub pines whatever they are. Yeah,
they're okay, But what's happened is these trees are also
close together that they shoot way up in the air
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and create a canopy, which is beautiful, but that's not
really what you want on a lot. I got some
of our trees are sixty feet tall and there's a
canopy up there, and when the sun's out, I mean,
we don't ever turn on the air conditioning. It's part
of the charm of the whole place. But I don't
think on a residential when you have things planted that close,
those trees are striving to survive in groups, so they
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keep going higher to get the sun. Yes, and there's
no branches on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
There no branches on the body because it doesn't get
any of the sun, so it doesn't grow any of
the foliage. But yeah, you definitely need to have the
proper space, and it's always best to give us a
call and have us come out and also check out
the soils and everything to make sure we're putting in
the correct plants for that too.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know that these are things that I think homeowners
just don't think about. And it sounds like, well, you know,
obviously stupid, you got to plant your plants and we
know how to do this and throw the dirt back in.
But there's a real science to it. So when you
see these yards that look pristine that's been planned since
they were small, right right, yes, certain, and when you
first put it in, it doesn't look adequate. I mean
I see it all the time in the new houses.
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You know, I got these all these little bushes. But
you know, in years to come, it's not an overnight
sensation for you guys. It is if you want to
buy the big trees.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yes, if you want to pay the money, it'll look
fully established right away. But if you don't have that
money and we do put the smaller ones in, it's
amazing what you can do with perennials because perennials will
be fully grown within a few months, so you can't
fill in the bigger voids there until your shrubs come in.
And perennials are a fraction of the cost.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
As you know, I'm smiling because I had a burn
put in many many years ago and it was beautiful.
But this stuff now I'm constantly with out there with
a machete and a helmet on training. You know, it's
there's some maintenance involved, and you can minimize that with
a good landscape architect because you're going to have, if
nothing else, more room to prune around it. Yes, grouping
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the plants when they're little, you have it's gonna look
like it's it's far apart. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Most definitely. Yeah, you're gonna have some spacing in there,
but if you have a nice Moltz or rock cover
or something like that, it does not look bad while
they're growing.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And I would imagine especially with you guys, with the
inventory that you have now. And by the way, mention
it again, fifty percent off on some of this stuff.
Big deal. That's a big deal. So a landscape, you know,
a good landscape architect could mix some of the mature
trees and some of the smaller trees to give you
a better bang for your buck and look more established right.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Away, most definitely. And then also just to put in
some of those ornamentals, because we have so many different
types of ornamental trees that stay nice and small but
have the beautiful branching patterns or beautiful flowers that you
want at the front of your driveway or at your
entry way just to give your house a little bit
of character. So we have those. We have the big
shade trees that'll be out in the middle of the
yard just to have a nice place for a picnic,
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or to provide some shade near your swimming pool or
whatever the case. May be, and then the evergreens when
you need some privacy. You don't really want to be
looking at your neighbor's picnic area while you're on your
picnic area.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Or you could have a white vinal fence or you could.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, most definitely not quite as nice to look at.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know. I'm going to bring this up because I
got I don't know what it is. It's an ornamental
and it looks like one stick coming out of the ground.
And then when I got it, it had like a
ball of almost like fern type leaves on it, and
you know, part of the challenge, and it wasn't I
got it at Stein's. Okay, I'm just gonna I hate
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to bring up the competition. I guess they're not really
not really, but you know the thing that you got
that little tag on there and it says put in
this much space and this much but it doesn't really
explain what you have to do. So, you know, we're
watering the tree and all of a sudden, I look
at it one day and it's just a stick with
a bunch of dead leaves on it, and I'm like wow.
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So I called them up and they were going to
take care of it. But you know what, my wife said,
I can't just pull this out of here. Let's just
keep water and now it's perfect. It looks like a
stick with a firework on top of it. Okay, I
don't know what it is. Does that make any sense
to you?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, the leaves don't really make a lot of sense
to me. But there are a lot of trees that
are on standard now. So they take like a a
miss Kim lilac or a hydrangea and then they'll take
a tree and they'll chop the top of the tree
off and graft it right on there. So it sounds
like it could be something like that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And are those typically as healthy as a regular trees? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Sure, Yeah, they're great. They're absolutely beautiful because you get
trees are nice, and some trees do have the flowers
that the shrubs have, but hydrangeas and lilacs, the amazing
amount of flowers that they get, and especially the hydrange
is how long they hold them during the summer. There's
no trees that hold their flowers like that. So to
be able to have that as a tree, it's pretty darkned.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So hydrange it can stay out all winter.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure, what are these.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Things that I see people put out and then they
take them in their baby I got I want nothing
to do with it. I'm just asking, and then they
put them in their basement.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, anything that's tropical, anything that you know comes from
around Florida, Georgia, whatever that has those beautiful flowers, unfortunately
got to bring them in.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That takes a specific individual to have that.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yes, it does do that, Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I just met a gentleman who does that with palm.
He's got palm trees, okay, and then now they're too
big you can't put them in, so he's taking them
to some nursery and paying to store them.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
In the greenhouse over the wintertime. I've heard of people
doing that. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It is. You know, we got to have you guys
on again because there's just so much to talk about,
but let's give out your information. Keep in mind, Derek
has mentioned several times. I mentioned again fifty off trees.
Big deal. That's a big deal, mostly because I've just
purchased some trees, so I get it. Yeah, tell us
a yeap.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So it's twenty to sixty percent off, depending on you know,
the variety and the size, but we have all of
our ornamentals. We have anywhere. You know, lilacs, got some
beautiful crab apples, got a couple of red buds left.
We have amazing amount of shade trees from your your
your maples that are going to give you the beautiful
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call fall collar oaks. We have everything for the shade trees.
We have spruce trees, we have pine trees, we have
some furs left. We have a lot of different evergreens
anywhere from five foot up to twelve foot that are
bald and burlapped and ready to take home. And then
we have you know, from the ten to the twenty
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four foot that are in the field that we can
spade for you and bring out to your house.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, and where do you go for this?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Fifty six eleven South Calhoun.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So trees on the move in a phone number, Derek,
because you know, I would imagine there's gonna be some
of those people out there that know all the species
they want, they're gonna call and see if you have
it an inventory. Yeah, and it's it's always a really
good idea to be able to get in contact with
somebody and I'll have you give us the hours too,
but the phone number.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Is is two six two six seven nine fifty two
oh four, and then the hours are from eight o'clock
to five o'clock Monday through Friday. I'm not sure what
the weekend hours are right now because those vary, but
they do post them on Google, so whenever weekend you're
looking to go there, just check it out and make
sure that they're open.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Derek, thanks for coming on today and giving us this
all this wealth of knowledge on trees.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
You're very welcome. Thank you for having us. I love
it every time.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
We'll see you again soon, I hope, I hope so
as well. All Right, News Talk eleven thirty WISN. We
will talk again next week
When you need wisdom and advice. Seek out a guru
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
New Just Talk eleven thirty wisn Nick the Construction Guru.
I'm excited today I have a returning guest, Derek Johnson
from Trees on the Move. You know we talked last time, Derek.
I think everybody knows you guys from the Big Trees
are going down the road, and you probably get sick
of hearing it. But that's I remember the first time
I thought I was fascinated. But you guys do so
much more than just move big trees. Give us a
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little history on Trees on the Move and tell us,
you know, tons of commercial, residential, all kinds.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Of everything, everything that is outside. We wind up doing it.
So we've been in business forty seven years. We have
huge nursery. We have our own trees. We bring trees in.
We have about six thousand trees above ground. We have
quite a few in grounds still. We're actually doing a
huge sale coming up. It actually started two days ago,
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so our big fall sale, it's tell.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Us about that. Now, where do people go? How do
they get? You know, how does it all work?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So they just come on out to the shop there.
It's fifty six eleven South Calhoun and New Berlin. We
have salespeople that will drive you around in the golf carts,
take you a look at whatever trees you're looking at.
We have all different kinds from ornamentals, deciduous, some beautiful
spruces and pines, all varying sizes from five foot to
twelve foot. We're also doing our lot clearing sales, so
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that's all of our trees that are in ground. Some
of those are you know, twenty twenty four foot tall
and we can move those with a spade truck. Got
beautiful sales on those. But that's what we're running right now.
But we still have, you know, our residential sales where
we still have room for a couple more jobs this year,
just because we have so many crews. We are up
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to seventeen construction crews now, so keep those guys fed
and keep going until the frost sets in and we
can't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know, we were talking about a subdivision. We were
in and you know a lot of these newer builds
people are building them on farm fields. Basically they're old
farm fields a lot of them, which means that the
land was cleared to farm. And there's some gorgeous houses
going up. And you're on a postage stamp like a
(02:30):
frying pant sitting there with these little little bushes and
things like that. Now, you guys recently landscaped a home
in that area that we were talking about, and so
they can have it can look like like a real.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Lot, right, Yeah, it can look like it's been there
for ten fifteen years already with some of the stuff
that we put in. Yeah, it really shows that everything's mature.
You got, you know, a nice autumn blazed maple sitting
in front that's twenty four feet tall. You got some
shrubs that, you know, instead of getting to eighteen inch shrubs,
we put in like six foot shrubs. So they look
like they've been there forever. It feels like it's been
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home for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And they just come out pick out their trees. A
client comes out, looks at the different trees they want.
I'm sure you know I haven't been to your lot.
Now that I know, I want to come out and
we'll spend some time together because I want to I
want to see how you guys operate. But in Arizona
there's a place called Moon Nurseries, and I'm not advocating
them or anything, but basically the same thing. And with
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palm trees. Okay, yeah, but you look at the palm
trees and different prices. Obviously bigger trees are more money.
But interestingly, you really don't have to do anything as
a customer. You just point and say, okay, these are
the ones I want. Then you guys come out, you
plant them, you prefertilize them, get everything ready right, yeap,
Because nothing would bother me more than putting a big
tree up and then waking up on nice spring morning
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and looking at it and see, you know that one
didn't make it right? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Most definitely?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No, we go through and we make sure it's planted
correctly and everything for you. The only thing we ask
is that you maulch it when we're done. We don't
maltz because we don't know what kind of malts you
have at your house and we want everything to match.
And then just make sure you water. That's the most
important thing. Just water your trees constantly, especially when they
are first planted. You can over water. This time of year,
it's a little bit harder too, because you're trying to
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give as much water to the trees as you can
before winter sets in.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Gotcha get them healthy for the.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, and just have something. Yeah, it's getting colder though.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So have you guys been able to with the weather
the way it is? Have you been able to do
what you want? I mean, has this been a tough
weather year for you? It has for us.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean the beginning of the year was terrible, just
because the winter was an absolute terrible winter with no
snow and bitter cold it. It did a lot of
damage to a lot of evergreens out there this year.
So we did wind up having a little bit extra
warranty as far as summer and everything. We had a
little bit of rain. But no, I think it's been
a pretty good year for us. We were able to
get a lot done. And it's funny. I know it
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ruins everybody's weekend, but it rains on the weekends and
not during the week a lot this year. So that's
it's helped us.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot, I know, And that's exactly. I'm glad I
got validation on it because I'm I'm a sunny guy.
You know, It's got to be sunny for me. Otherwise
I feel it. I would never last in Seattle fifteen minutes.
Oh definitely, not even in what was it, Chaz, I
wouldn't last, not even there where I could have my
own way, right. Yeah, But you guys, you know, trees
on the move is a bit of a deception from
the standpoint that you do so much more than that.
(05:23):
Let's talk about some of the other things you guys know,
most definitely.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So we have multiple divisions. We have a forest tree division,
we have an irrigation division.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We have as okay, forestry division. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So taking down trees, pruning trees, just clean ups and
stuff like that in general.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So if you have a really big tree, trees on
the move, people to call to trim that tree.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah for sure. Yeah. We have bucket truck and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's part of the health of the tree too, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Most definitely? Yeah, and knowing when to cut it and
all that good stuff. So that's why we have a
certified arburist on staff and make sure anythings take care properly.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
If you have a lot of trees on your Is
it expensive to trim trees?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's all in the eye of beholding, right, And it's
really the size of the tree and how much you
need pruned. I don't think it's really expensive. It's much
cheaper to get your tree pruned than wait five years
and have to cut it down and get a new one.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, okay, that makes good sense. So it is something
if you have I know a lot of these out
where I live in o'conmak, there's a lot of I
have one hundred year more than one hundred year old oaks.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Right, prune we do only in the winter time, but yes,
we do prune them, okay, and that keeps them healthy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Insects all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Fro Yeah, exactly, that's when the insects are down to
a minimum. And also all the diseases and stuff they're
not out there because of the cold.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And you cover some of this on your website, right,
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, So people can go and
learn before they call.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They sure can. And there's multiple spots on the website
where you can look up exactly what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Cool, okay, I'm sorry I interrupted. So Forest Street Division,
then you said irrigation.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Irrigation division. We do both residential and commercial. We've been
doing irrigation for about fourteen years now, so it's starting
to pick up. We've got a couple of crews doing that.
And then we have a concrete division. Concrete division has
been around for about seven years. They do a lot
of residential, they do some commercial, but mostly residential. Beautiful
stamped work with the beautiful rock face on the steps
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and everything like that. It's some of the nicest concrete
work I've ever seen. Really really proud of those.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
How did you guys, I mean, they don't seem like
related fields to me. How do you get into that?
Is it just landscaping?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, it's amazing how related they are, and how often
we had to subcontract out concrete and you just can't
control the schedule when you're subcontracting, and you can't control
the actual quality of the work either. So Gary decided, hey,
we want to make sure we give the best to
our clients, so he started a concrete division to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Are you guys behind No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I think that we're on schedule and we actually still
have a little bit of room, say in November, to
bring in some more jobs.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. Have you know, has this been a particularly busy
year for you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's been an extremely busy year for or as we
h we're not planning on growing as much as we
did this year, but we added on three new crews
this year. So yeah, it's been that busy and we're
still a little bit, not really behind, but right on
the cusp of it.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know, I get to talk to a lot of
different kinds of contractors, and the general consensus has been that,
you know, the people that are established that I know,
like like you guys, and and and you know a
lot of my other guests, they're buried. Oh yeah, they're
absolutely buried. I think a couple of things are happening.
People are looking at the reputations of companies, so there's
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there's some discretionary income out there. I mean, not to
get political, but you know, it's great Trump's in office
because the economy is better, and you know, so that
money and and interest rates. I don't know, the Feds
aren't cooperating. I don't know what it's all about, but
people are saying, hey, let's stay in our house. We
don't need a seven percent mortgage on a brand new house, right,
So you know they're they're they're doing a lot of improvements. Yes,
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And I think buyers are going more savvy. They realized that,
you know what, Yeah, this guy's the cheapest guy. But
I've never heard of them before. These people have been
in business for fifty sixty years. Let's do business with them, agree,
And everybody's reporting that to me.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Everybody's telling me, yeah, no, I think over the last
five years, I kind of think it's been going that
way and we over the last five years, we haven't
had a slow period because of that, and I think
it's great. I think people are starting to realize how
much they have invested in their house and just to
clean it up and stay there is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And a lot of the older houses that may not
look as Pristina's, the new builds are built better. Yes,
so it's worth putting the money into them. Yes. So
I'm sorry I interrupted you again. This is an exciting topic.
So you have the concrete division.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And then and then we have a maintenance division. The
maintenance division, though is not residential, it's commercially Sorry for
everybody for that. But yeah, they do all commercial work.
And then of course we have our construction crews, so
many of those, and then we have our B and
B sales. So that's all of the trees that we
have on the lot.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, and you said right now it's the time to
buy trees.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Right now is definitely the time to buy that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You want to get them out of there before winter.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, we don't like overwintering things. We want them to
be in there forever home. That's where they are going
to thrive. If they stay above ground an extra year,
they don't do quite as well for us. So we
like to get them in the ground and make sure
somebody gets to use it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
How long is your show going on for?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Is going on until the end or middle of October?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Middle of October? Good selections?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Still an amazing selection still Yeah, like I said, over
six thousand trees above.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Ground, so especially I would think that people that are
just fresh built. Yes, you know, and you still got
the mud lot. Now is the time to go talk
to trees on the move, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now is the perfect time to come talk to us.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yes, you can still plant.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Planting right now is the best time to plant because
you're going to get the fall rains and everything everything's done.
It's the wonderful time for the trees to start growing
and the roots to propagate.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All and then in spring you'll have blooming tree.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In spring, you'll have a blooming tree.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's that's cool.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Be established.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I think a lot of times when people build,
they're not really putting. You know, I'm not going to
say I think. I know because I've talked to so
many people that are building. Like everything else, you have
a budget, and like everything else, when you're building, you
add more and then the house that was this much
now goes to this much. And you know, they don't
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think about the landscaping, right.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That does get held off to the last. That happens
all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And then you end up with erosion. You end up
with mud in the house, on the new carpet, you
end up with all kinds of things. And where I'm
going with this, Derek, is that you guys, because you're
involved in commercial and residential, you have the equipment and
you have the crews that can get in there and
make this happen in a flash, as opposed to and
I know a lot of small landscapers that are very good.
(11:53):
I'm not knocking them, but what takes you guys days
is going to take them weeks. Right, So you guys
just basically, you know, you could go away for the
week and come back in your house's landscape. You guys
are that big, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
And another good part about that that I'd like to
mention is we also have, you know, multiple designers on staff.
We have two landscape architects on staff, and with that
they can help you if you are in a new
home and you did kind of blow your budget, you
don't have enough left for landscaping, they can help you
on finding something that fits your budget. And also you
can phase out so that way, that was my next question,
(12:25):
meets your requirements because there are a lot of homeowner
associations to say, hey, you have to have this many
shrubs and you have to have your grass planted within
this amount of time. So we can figure that out
for you, and we can come in and we can
get what the bare minimum's done, and then phase two
we can start putting in the things that you like.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You just gave me post traumatic stress and I'm saying
hoas I will never ever buy anything with an HOA
ever again, I would not do that. I put in
an AI because I'm having an experience in Arizona at
a condoy own. And you know I did after looking
at the way it's been mismanaged. I looked on AI.
(13:02):
I went to AI on Google and I said the
question I asked, is isn't HOA a license to steal? Okay,
and boom, you know what. It came up and it said, well,
you know, ninety six percent of all hoas are been
accused of malfeasance. I'm like, oh, it's crazy. All right,
(13:23):
We're going to take a short break, Derek, and when
we come back, we'll talk more about I want to
talk more about your sale and kind of the inventory,
because I think that's going to spark spark a bit
in people's minds, because I don't think most people are
thinking about it. They usually think about doing this in spring, springtime,
and now it's the best time. And I want you
to tell us why. Okay, it sounds good to me.
All right. We will return after these messages on News
Talk eleven thirty WISN. News Talk eleven thirty WISN returning
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I have a returning guest, fascinating fascinating guests from Trees
on the Move. I'm sure that, like myself, most of
you have probably seen these huge trucks going down with
(14:36):
this pointed spade carrying these gigantic trees. And if you've
seen that, that is Trees on the Move. But they
do so much more concrete, division, irrigation, all kinds of
things like that. Derek and I were talking at break
and interestingly, I think most of us, you know, when
we're going to the big box stores or walking by
(14:56):
Walmart or that we'll see these greenhouses out in the
spring and start to get excited about, you know, doing plantings,
not only flowers, but bushes, small trees, Stein's Garden Center,
things like that. We'll walk around and see this in spring.
But talking to Derek, there's a good reason for doing
that right now, isn't.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
There multiple reasons. One is just to save the money.
You know, all nurseries like ourselves are trying to get
rid of our stock before wintertime. We don't like having
to overwinter them. They don't do quite as good above
ground as they do in ground.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I mean you could save easily forty to fifty
percent on all of your plantings at this time of year.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Holy that that's a bit that's not you know, usually
it's ten You had.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Fifty, yes, sir, Yeah, And I mean not only that,
but you're also given a chance to establish and get
their roots set in before winter hits, so that way
next spring they're starting to flower for you right off
the bat, instead of going through a shock where you
might not get any flowers in that first spring.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well, you know a lot of times and again, you know,
being a remodeling contractor, I will go into like home
depot and when I'm walking by, I'll see these dwarf maples.
What are the ones with the red leaves? What are
those cold the Japanese made companies maples? Okay, those are
those are cool looking trees, but they're real little they
And you know many times because I planted a lot
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of different bushes that I bought it. They don't make it.
They just don't make it. They do not.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, Japanese maples really aren't meant for a round here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's one to know.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You tell me, that's one of the good things about
going in and talking to a designer. We don't charge
for our designs. They're free if you do the work
with us, but you could always just ask us a
few questions. And you know, Japanese maples are one of
those ones that, yes, they can live up here, but
they need to be surrounded by stuff because they don't
like the wind, they don't like the cold, and that's
what will kill them off right away.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So and that's good to know because you can use them.
But with a landscape architect, they're going to tell you, Okay,
here's how we want to we want to put a
buffer here exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yes, I'll tell you where you can use it and
where you'll get the most beautification from it as well.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know another and guilty of charged another mistake. I
planted trees when I was twenty eight pines, white pines, okay,
and there were real little trees, so I planted them
too close together. Yes, and they're fine, but it looks
like one big clump of trees now. And bushes when
you plant them close you get this cool little barberry
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bush or something like that, and you put it up
against your house and you go, well, that looks really cool.
Well three years later it's encroaching the front of your house.
And definitely that's another good argument for getting a design.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, because it surely is. And that way because we
know what the grown height is and size and everything,
so we can put it where it needs to be.
And also for shade and sun we know, you know,
because we come out and we look at what parts
of your yard are doing to get the sun during
what hours and make sure that the correct plant is
in there for that environment. We also have such a
wide variety because we go to multiple nurseries, you know,
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seven or eight of them in state, and then we
go to a couple down in Illinois, some in Michigan, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So we're a fire that goes running vice plants. Oh
for sure, yes, yes, yeah, I never thought about that aspect.
So you have somebody literally picking the stock, yes, I mean,
because I'm used you know, what I'm used to, Derek
is seeing a semi truck pull up and again like
home deeper and I'm not knocking them, but you know,
and they pull all these plants out. I don't think
any they just call up and say, give me ten
(18:20):
of these, give me fifteen of these. You actually have
eyes on everything you sell.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh for sure. Yeah. Make sure it meets the quality
that we need to have for our clients.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So there is a different quality. I think that's important.
There definitely is. And you know, as and we talk
mostly residential, I'm sure it's same with commercial. But when
you're doing a landscape design, especially for those folks that
we were talking about that just build houses, they want
it to look good right away. So the placement of
the bushes are put in places that make sense when
(18:47):
they're little, but make no sense when they get bigger. Right.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I have clients that will argue with me for hours
on end on placement of plants because they do want
that full screen right away. Sometimes I'll give in and
say that's fine, but in five years it's going to
cost you some money for me to come and move
one out and to give them the spacing that they need.
But it's up to you. Really. I mean, the plants
(19:12):
will survive, they will make a wall for you, they
just won't be as healthy as they should be. They
won't look quite as good because they'll only have greenery
on two sides because the rest will be dead that
it's inside the other plantings.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Well, you know, it's interesting because we were talking, my
wife and I were talking about this because we have
a place up north and it's very thick with maples
and oaks and nice the scrub pines whatever they are. Yeah,
they're okay, But what's happened is these trees are also
close together that they shoot way up in the air
(19:44):
and create a canopy, which is beautiful, but that's not
really what you want on a lot. I got some
of our trees are sixty feet tall and there's a
canopy up there, and when the sun's out, I mean,
we don't ever turn on the air conditioning. It's part
of the charm of the whole place. But I don't
think on a residential when you have things planted that close,
those trees are striving to survive in groups, so they
(20:05):
keep going higher to get the sun. Yes, and there's
no branches on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
There no branches on the body because it doesn't get
any of the sun, so it doesn't grow any of
the foliage. But yeah, you definitely need to have the
proper space, and it's always best to give us a
call and have us come out and also check out
the soils and everything to make sure we're putting in
the correct plants for that too.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know that these are things that I think homeowners
just don't think about. And it sounds like, well, you know,
obviously stupid, you got to plant your plants and we
know how to do this and throw the dirt back in.
But there's a real science to it. So when you
see these yards that look pristine that's been planned since
they were small, right right, yes, certain, and when you
first put it in, it doesn't look adequate. I mean
I see it all the time in the new houses.
(20:49):
You know, I got these all these little bushes. But
you know, in years to come, it's not an overnight
sensation for you guys. It is if you want to
buy the big trees.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yes, if you want to pay the money, it'll look
fully established right away. But if you don't have that
money and we do put the smaller ones in, it's
amazing what you can do with perennials because perennials will
be fully grown within a few months, so you can't
fill in the bigger voids there until your shrubs come in.
And perennials are a fraction of the cost.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
As you know, I'm smiling because I had a burn
put in many many years ago and it was beautiful.
But this stuff now I'm constantly with out there with
a machete and a helmet on training. You know, it's
there's some maintenance involved, and you can minimize that with
a good landscape architect because you're going to have, if
nothing else, more room to prune around it. Yes, grouping
(21:37):
the plants when they're little, you have it's gonna look
like it's it's far apart. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Most definitely. Yeah, you're gonna have some spacing in there,
but if you have a nice Moltz or rock cover
or something like that, it does not look bad while
they're growing.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And I would imagine especially with you guys, with the
inventory that you have now. And by the way, mention
it again, fifty percent off on some of this stuff.
Big deal. That's a big deal. So a landscape, you know,
a good landscape architect could mix some of the mature
trees and some of the smaller trees to give you
a better bang for your buck and look more established right.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Away, most definitely. And then also just to put in
some of those ornamentals, because we have so many different
types of ornamental trees that stay nice and small but
have the beautiful branching patterns or beautiful flowers that you
want at the front of your driveway or at your
entry way just to give your house a little bit
of character. So we have those. We have the big
shade trees that'll be out in the middle of the
yard just to have a nice place for a picnic,
(22:33):
or to provide some shade near your swimming pool or
whatever the case. May be, and then the evergreens when
you need some privacy. You don't really want to be
looking at your neighbor's picnic area while you're on your
picnic area.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Or you could have a white vinal fence or you could.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, most definitely not quite as nice to look at.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know. I'm going to bring this up because I
got I don't know what it is. It's an ornamental
and it looks like one stick coming out of the ground.
And then when I got it, it had like a
ball of almost like fern type leaves on it, and
you know, part of the challenge, and it wasn't I
got it at Stein's. Okay, I'm just gonna I hate
(23:12):
to bring up the competition. I guess they're not really
not really, but you know the thing that you got
that little tag on there and it says put in
this much space and this much but it doesn't really
explain what you have to do. So, you know, we're
watering the tree and all of a sudden, I look
at it one day and it's just a stick with
a bunch of dead leaves on it, and I'm like wow.
(23:32):
So I called them up and they were going to
take care of it. But you know what, my wife said,
I can't just pull this out of here. Let's just
keep water and now it's perfect. It looks like a
stick with a firework on top of it. Okay, I
don't know what it is. Does that make any sense
to you?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, the leaves don't really make a lot of sense
to me. But there are a lot of trees that
are on standard now. So they take like a a
miss Kim lilac or a hydrangea and then they'll take
a tree and they'll chop the top of the tree
off and graft it right on there. So it sounds
like it could be something like that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And are those typically as healthy as a regular trees? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Sure, Yeah, they're great. They're absolutely beautiful because you get
trees are nice, and some trees do have the flowers
that the shrubs have, but hydrangeas and lilacs, the amazing
amount of flowers that they get, and especially the hydrange
is how long they hold them during the summer. There's
no trees that hold their flowers like that. So to
be able to have that as a tree, it's pretty darkned.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So hydrange it can stay out all winter.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure, what are these.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Things that I see people put out and then they
take them in their baby I got I want nothing
to do with it. I'm just asking, and then they
put them in their basement.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, anything that's tropical, anything that you know comes from
around Florida, Georgia, whatever that has those beautiful flowers, unfortunately
got to bring them in.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That takes a specific individual to have that.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yes, it does do that, Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I just met a gentleman who does that with palm.
He's got palm trees, okay, and then now they're too
big you can't put them in, so he's taking them
to some nursery and paying to store them.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
In the greenhouse over the wintertime. I've heard of people
doing that. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It is. You know, we got to have you guys
on again because there's just so much to talk about,
but let's give out your information. Keep in mind, Derek
has mentioned several times. I mentioned again fifty off trees.
Big deal. That's a big deal, mostly because I've just
purchased some trees, so I get it. Yeah, tell us
a yeap.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So it's twenty to sixty percent off, depending on you know,
the variety and the size, but we have all of
our ornamentals. We have anywhere. You know, lilacs, got some
beautiful crab apples, got a couple of red buds left.
We have amazing amount of shade trees from your your
your maples that are going to give you the beautiful
(25:39):
call fall collar oaks. We have everything for the shade trees.
We have spruce trees, we have pine trees, we have
some furs left. We have a lot of different evergreens
anywhere from five foot up to twelve foot that are
bald and burlapped and ready to take home. And then
we have you know, from the ten to the twenty
(26:00):
four foot that are in the field that we can
spade for you and bring out to your house.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, and where do you go for this?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Fifty six eleven South Calhoun.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So trees on the move in a phone number, Derek,
because you know, I would imagine there's gonna be some
of those people out there that know all the species
they want, they're gonna call and see if you have
it an inventory. Yeah, and it's it's always a really
good idea to be able to get in contact with
somebody and I'll have you give us the hours too,
but the phone number.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Is is two six two six seven nine fifty two
oh four, and then the hours are from eight o'clock
to five o'clock Monday through Friday. I'm not sure what
the weekend hours are right now because those vary, but
they do post them on Google, so whenever weekend you're
looking to go there, just check it out and make
sure that they're open.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Derek, thanks for coming on today and giving us this
all this wealth of knowledge on trees.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
You're very welcome. Thank you for having us. I love
it every time.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
We'll see you again soon, I hope, I hope so
as well. All Right, News Talk eleven thirty WISN. We
will talk again next week
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