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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm here to pick you up and we got a passenger
princess today.
No car jokes, please.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I see that.
I see that there's a crispnessin the air.
There is Like I've got my jeanson.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
A little fake fall feel today yes.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, they call it false fall.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
There we go.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving orwhere we're headed.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
All we know is it's always a fun ride and on this
week's episode we have apassenger princess my hubby, mr
Pedal Pickers himself.
Hey everyone, daniel's in thehouse.
I'm happy to be back.
It's been a while since you'vebeen on.
Yep, probably since spring,Dahlia Daniel's here, yes, and
(01:12):
of course, Stephen's here aswell.
So this is the first time we'vebeen together.
Since our vacations, Daniel andI, we got, I'd say, a really
good vacation in.
We went for almost two weeks tothe Florida house.
Oh it was perfect for me.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It was the best weather, we were able to go to
the beach every single day.
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm happy for y'all Right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The weather was great , we did work while we were
there too.
I know you didn't get a, youknow.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was cheated, my damn back, runked my time.
But you know, here's the othergood thing.
At least it wasn't duringChristmas.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A big, you know a really busy time.
That's the bright side.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, Because I was able to go twice a day and you
know, get therapy.
And yesterday I got a twinge init.
I was like, oh, my God, you gota what?
A little tightening, a littletinge in my back and I was like,
oh God, I mean I go into apanic now.
I feel something I'm like no.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I mean I go into a panic now Like I feel
something.
I'm like no, yeah.
So Stephen threw out his back,if you don't know, a couple of
weeks ago and you sounded when Icalled you.
You sounded just horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, he ripped some muscles right.
I don't know what he did.
He doesn't know what he did.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You didn't see me trying to walk First of all,
when I would get out of my bed.
There was not a good way.
So I sleep.
If you're facing the end of thebed, I sleep on the right side.
Well, my right side was myissue.
I should have probably switchedsides, but for the way I sleep,
(03:02):
there was no way to get out ofthe damn bed, and so I would try
to hold the nightstand, the bed, and then I'm like having much.
So I just end up like screamingyeah.
I'm like, oh my gosh, it was.
And then I walked like Beenover.
A gimp, like my right leg, attimes couldn't touch the floor.
(03:25):
It was not funny, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You went, though and did acupressure not some
puncture, something needles?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
yeah, this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I couldn't believe it worked out for you well, you
know, I'm a skeptic and I, youknow, I do believe in
chiropractors, so that was myfirst thing.
And then we have mutual friendsthat go to this person and they
were like we really think youshould go to him and I'm like
(03:58):
you know what, I would have goneto anybody at that point.
I mean, it was just like I amin pain, I don't care, so I
couldn't, was just like I am inpain, I don't care, so I
couldn't even drive.
Dylan had to drive me, and sohe's a Japanese man from Hawaii,
and I can't say enough goodthings about the man, but it was
(04:28):
so different than anything Ihad experienced.
Right, I was like you know thatthere's that one part of you.
I'm in pain, but, you know, isthis shit gonna work?
right there's that country partof me.
I'm like you're not eventouching remotely where I'm
hurting, yeah and um.
But you know, I bought into itand one of the pressure points
that was my issue was the Idon't know what it is tendon
(04:52):
ligament whatever, somethingbehind my right knee in that
joint, yeah, and he pushed on it.
I didn't think I was going tohave a leg.
Didn't think I was gonna have aleg.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I thought the leg was gonna atrophy off the way he
put, like his thumbs and all ofhis weight on it.
Were you screaming like ow at?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
times I was like tears, you know.
I mean, it was never where thepain was.
I'm like does he know what he'sdoing Right?
And then he would say you knowhe would do all this.
And then he did hot and coldtherapy.
Mm-hmm, I'm like, you know, Iam.
(05:35):
Part of me is open to anything.
Part of me is like is this shitgoing to work Right?
Just putting it bluntly.
And he would say when you getup from the table, you're going
to be very dizzy, so be careful.
And he would make me walk like10 times, you know, to the door
and back and door.
You know, and I was dizzy whenI got up.
(05:57):
I wonder why, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And then he said Did he give you a glass of water
when you walked in?
No, Nope.
Poison.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Nope.
And so I went to him one timeand he said I think you need to
do this little regimen I have,and it's it was an interesting
regimen.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, or maybe the things you couldn't do.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It was interesting, so he said so I had to go to him
.
I think it's six times in threedays, yeah, so like twice a day
, morning and night.
Yeah, and I like going at nightbecause you know I would go at
like 10 because then I couldrest a little better.
(06:44):
Yeah, because then I could resta little better, because then I
felt everything was starting towork.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So the first time he said no, no sex, Not even by
yourself, no, not even alone.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Which is most of the time for for me, and that's the
truth.
None of that, and no drinkingand no dairy product yeah so and
it worked, and I was like youknow, I'm a why person.
Yeah, yeah, like, I just like.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Daniel's a why person I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Like I wasn't immediately, why I wasn't Daniel
why?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's my favorite word, but why but?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
why, but why, yeah no ?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But why, you know, I'll tell Wes.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll say, okay, I heard what you said, but why,
but, why, but, why yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay, I did not do the irritating Daniel way, but
why I waited like a day or twoand I said, just curious, you
know what is the thing with thedairy?
Yeah, and he explained to methat the Western people Western
world.
People always want to know why.
(08:04):
He said sometimes it's justbecause it is.
He said why is the letter A inA?
It just is that was his answer.
So he didn't give you adefinitive like because it
causes this.
No, but I Googled.
It causes inflammation, right,it does.
It does In dairy, yeah, in somepeople it causes a lot of
inflammation.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Wes and I have cut out a lot of dairy in the past
couple years and now I'venoticed if I eat cheese it'll
make me break out within a dayor two.
No, but I love cheese.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That was the whole problem Right, but it was just
three days.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
No, no, no, no, no, or six days, eleven days.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Oh, you had to follow the regimen for 11 days 11 days
, do you know?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
that's like three lifetimes when you can't have
cheese or sex.
That's funny.
I mean the alcohol wasn't aproblem because I never drink,
yeah, but no, he was amazing.
I'll go to him once a monthjust to maintain so you're all
better now.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So, yeah, so it ended up.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You followed it through and it ended up working
its way out did I mean, Ithought this is not gonna end
like I didn't even know if I wasgonna be able to ride in the
car to savannah yeah I gave updriving but I was like I don't
even know if I can ride, yeah,Well, but it.
You know I am a believer inacupressure.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, I hate, your back's been jacked up and you
haven't been to Florida with us,or the cottage this year, since
last July.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Not since last year, so it's been a whole.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
July.
We missed you there.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh, I'm sure you did.
You better be so glad I wasn'tthere with this, just but we had
fun.
It would have been so bad foryou if I'd been here, I know I
will say one of the things youknow with airbnbs.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know we rent, we've talked on here.
We rent our cottage as anairbnb and you always have to do
a little bit of maintenancewhen you go on these trips.
That's why we have startedgoing for like 12 days because
it gives us a little time to dolittle cottage work.
Decompress, we get in a littleactual business work and we have
vacation while we're there.
But this time we had to get anew refrigerator and I was kind
(10:23):
of stressed about this processof getting the refrigerator but
it ended up being so easy.
We got it from Lowe's Shout out.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Lowe's, you didn't send me a picture.
Oh, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I thought I did.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I saw it come out of the bank account.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's great, but we, literally you, didn't spend a
lot of money.
We literally walked in.
It's perfect too.
Yeah, we walked in, found thefridge, checked out they could
have had it there in like twodays, but we picked like three
or four days later.
They brought it on time, got itthere.
It was smooth.
I hadn't had anything deliveredlike that in a while and I was
(10:57):
like oh, how is this going to go?
Are they going to show up ontime?
Is it going to arrive?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know that whole thing, but it did it up on time.
Is it going to arrive?
You know that whole thing, butit did.
It was easy Well.
I'm glad y'all had a nicevacation, thank you.
Did you detect any bitterness?
No, I'm glad y'all did.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
While we were there, you did try to get in a little.
The goal was to try to get in alittle vacation and go to
Hilton, but it ended up beingmore of a work event, but it
ended up being more of a workevent.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But we had a nice time.
We didn't know how any of thiswas going to work going in
because of my back but there'sseveral funny stories so we were
going to Hilton Head.
The idea was to stay in ourcondo but it booked Right, so we
couldn't stay there.
We couldn't even go therebecause it was booked the whole
(11:46):
time.
So I got this wild idea that Ibooked with the Marriott.
And then I wanted to look intotimeshares.
Right, I had four.
I bought four in the 90s Fourweeks is when they did it a
little different.
I bought four weeks at threedifferent resorts in Hawaii,
(12:08):
kauai and Maui.
So, needless to say, my ex hadthose and blah, blah, blah,
forged my signature, sold those.
We used to throw that littletidbit in there, which was fine,
because those were veryexpensive properties and I
(12:28):
didn't want those.
So you know, then I talked toyou about it.
I was like and we have mutualfriends that are invested in the
points program- and you wentdown there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let me just sum this up he went down there and got
sucked right in.
I was, I was.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I had told Dylan.
I was like I'm not buyinganything.
I said, but I'm going in withan open mind.
They got you down there.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And then I left it up .
Wes was hounding you for days.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I ended up leaving it up to Dylan.
I said you get to call Do youwant this or do you not?
And then how I came about?
Points, because they'll sellyou on points and it's a lot of
money, you know, it's tens ofthousands of dollars.
And I was like, well, I don'tneed in your president's club,
(13:20):
you know.
So what we did was we looked up, okay, what would we most
likely use realistically?
And we were like we would go toSpain and stay at a resort in a
two-bedroom condo.
How many points is that for?
Nine or ten days.
And in Hawaii we looked at nineor ten days in Maui for a
(13:44):
two-bedroom condo and and thenso I just rounded up, the next
room is for us, yeah.
I just rounded up to the next,you know, and so I went down I
was like, okay, that's, if we dothis, that's what we'll do.
And then it was their 40thanniversary.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So they give you something free.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well then, I looked at where the points.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Looked it up to see when they were incorporated.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I looked at the points where they started, when
they first started selling, howmuch it was per point Right, and
then what it is now, and thenwhat I bought at To see how it's
going to go down in value.
Yeah, it actually has went wayup, so our friends that bought
them could make a lot of money,even if they just sold it back
to Marriott.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So it really he got sucked in the scheme, but that's
fine.
You a lot of money, even ifthey just sold it back to
Marriott.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So it really he got sucked in the scheme but that's
fine.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You know, it is a good thing, you can go on some
vacations.
And they gave us that is whatit's for.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They gave us a bonus of 6,000 points, so we have two
free European or Hawaii trips ontop of that, so in the next
year we could go on threevacations.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, we can't even make it to Greece.
We've been talking about goingto Greece for two years now.
You're going to be 60 by thetime we make it to Greece, and
now you have all these othervacations that we can go on.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, well, dylan's point was he was like I wanted
that because I know he knows meand he knows that I will go on
vacation at least once every twoyears.
Because you have to go at onceevery two years.
He's like now.
I know we're going on vacation.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's true.
That is true.
That's true for a workaholic.
Yeah, it will make you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
All you're doing is prepaying for vacation.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You're prepaying for your vacation and I'm glad you
could do that and did it, and Ican't wait to join you on the
trip.
So, also, while you were there,let's see what else my favorite
part of the trip.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, well, okay.
So here was another thing,because we talked about Airbnbs
a lot.
So you and I have been talkingbecause it's time to remodel
both of our units.
Yeah, and we were like do?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
we got to do some upgrades yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Do we buy another unit?
My thought was I'll just sellthat one, because I know I can
sell it for close to $400,000.
So I was like, well, if I canbuy something for $500,000.
That's already renovated, readyto go yeah, then that makes
financial sense to me yeah, well, just let me tell you for 500
000 you're not getting anything.
(16:21):
No, nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I want nothing better than what you have.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, no it's almost impossible to be that close to
the beach unless, like if youspend 500 000, you are walking
down streets like 20 minutes toget to the beach well on hilton
head.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Most of it's developed yes or protected yeah,
and I think that's what it is.
On hilton head there's noreally new construction going on
because it's all been developedor protected, like you said,
and a lot of the places onHilton Head aren't actually
close to the beach.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know you got to walk.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And our resort sits back from the beach because of a
little marsh but we own to thebeach and it's right there.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I just didn't realize this was eye-opening to me
because we looked at threedifferent properties.
This was eye-opening to mebecause we looked at three
different properties and it wasthe first time I was like we
have a little gem.
We liked that.
I don't know how we liked that.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
on that we did because the other one that was
$600,000, I wouldn't have paid$300,000 for Well.
I remember showing my parentsour condo when we first decided
to buy it and they didn't havemuch to say about it because
that place needed a little ofwork.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah Well, we bought right when it was coming back up
.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Should have bought more.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
We should have oh yeah, Our resort was, you know,
it's still the building itselfyou can tell was built in the
80s, but it kind of went througha down period and it was being
used right before it was comingout of it that previously for
people long-term rentals,long-term rentals and rental
programs for um hospitalityemployees and um european kids
(18:06):
coming yeah, coming over for thesummer.
It was like a housing complexand then people found the value
in it and they started I guessit was just time for it to turn
like generationally and so theystarted selling them off and
it's turned around like crazy.
I mean it's such a gem now itis.
We went into and the deal wegot off.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
We went into one and dylan andI, we walked through it and we
really liked it, like you wouldyou, you two would love it where
was it?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
was this in the complex or a different place?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
palmetto dune, okay, and we were both, like you know,
whispering oh, we like maybe wewill, because it had two suites
, had two living room, diningroom, kitchen, all open a
laundry room, an outdoor showerand a patio that backed up to a
lagoon.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I was like love it, love it, it was like 700.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm like, well, this is a little over, but this is
like we could live there, right.
So I was like, okay, maybewe'll do this, but I put my
realtor hat on then because thisis a good point.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
If you're looking for you, tell me this if you're
looking for second homes orvacation homes the other aspect
or you know something to have onan airbnb to do your homework,
go ahead so I, you know, I wentinto it with, oh, my little
house shopper hat on.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Is it going to be their monthly fee?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I'm like I want to buy it and then so I look at the
HOA and I'm like, oh, it's $800a month.
Okay, that's not horrible.
Yeah we're good, you know, andthere's a shuttle that's
complimentary that takes youeverywhere, even to Shelter Cove
, I mean everywhere you want togo and you would keep renting it
too right, I would yeah.
So I'm like this is good, yeah,I can do this.
(19:57):
Well then I said okay, stephen,put your realtor hat on.
What's the?
And I looked at the buildingitself, all the buildings.
It was townhomes, so I was onlyconnected to one.
I was on the end, but thenthey're very lovely place.
But it was that.
I don't know what it's called.
It's an exterior, it's likepress board.
(20:17):
You see that on 80s buildings.
And then I look and there'slike a lot of rot around the
edges.
I could put my finger throughit.
I mean this is a beautiful,beautiful property.
But I'm like finger through it.
I mean this is a beautiful,beautiful property but I'm like,
damn, that's a lot of money.
And then I look up and I'm like, wait, each unit, you know all
these roofs and you've got allthese spread out.
(20:40):
So that's a lot of roofing.
And then I'm like this sidingis on every home in here and see
, I had thatcdonald's and it wasa nightmare.
So, my, really.
So I said, okay, does the hoacover all of this?
Yeah, yes.
But I'm like, okay, what's the?
(21:02):
But they just do straightassessments for like all the big
stuff.
So when all that siding has tobe replaced, painting a new roof
, all of of that, you're gettingone big bill divided up, yeah.
And you know how much the billwas for this year.
How much $20,000.
Dang, I'm like get me back tomy rickety one, because we're
(21:25):
going to fix her up, I mean froman investment standpoint.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So they don't have a reserve there, because that's a
big resort.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm sure they have a reserve, but I don't know that
you know, yeah, and it you knowwhen, when properties get older,
if you have not built thatreserve up, it's almost
impossible to get it built backup.
And like, while I was therethey were dredging some of the
lagoons.
Well, that's a fortune.
You know what it costs to get apond dredged?
(21:56):
I mean, I'm like no, no.
It looks like they're about tobe doing a lot of work in the
next 10 years, or so it wasreally good for me because I got
to see what is out there and,like we are, have a much better
property than we realized yeah,yeah so it made me feel good.
And then we spent some time insavannah at the new savannah, so
(22:17):
tina and mark came down yeah,and because savannah is only
like 45 minutes from from.
There so we spent a lot of timein the new store and it is so, I
mean it's just's just comingyeah.
It's coming along so well.
I mean, I walk in and now Ifeel I feel like, oh yeah, this
(22:39):
is going to be a home store.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Beautiful store downtown Savannah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's just feeling like the sign and the awning and
everything is just all comingtogether and the best part is,
is we're not there doing thework Right?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I know.
But I've told you.
I know what's happening.
You're getting a little jealousthat this is a fresh new store
and all these things.
I am.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'm getting a little chilly.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
We are retail addicts .
We want to have 300 retailstores and we just love creating
a new store.
And I'm like, mm-hmm, you'regoing to be a little jelly.
I'm going to have to hear itfor two months, yeah, because
each time we've done the homestore and the garden store.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I mean, I can remember us sitting out in our
cars just looking and going oh,it's so pretty, it looks so good
, and now I'm going to be doingthat there and it's not mine,
but it is a little tiny bitright.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's a little bit of ours.
You get to enjoy it for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
But I'm so happy for them.
I'm happy, I'm excited for themand I just feel like it's a
great market.
The more I go down there, I'mhappy, I'm excited for them and
I just feel like it's a greatmarket.
The more I go down there, I'mlike this is good, yeah.
Yeah, there's a need, yeah,there's a need for us there, and
I feel like there's a need forour garden store there too.
(24:06):
So maybe that's next.
I think so I love it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I can't wait and their own on track to open.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
So far it's going pretty smooth and the guy doing
all the, the construction guydoing all the work.
I was like you know, mike, whatkind of person is he?
So I met him and he was like,so smart, like I'm like he just
gets it, yeah.
And I'm like, oh my god, I ityeah.
And I'm like, oh my God, I mean.
I literally said, thank God,you're not a dumbass.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And he can do things Because it is in retail.
You're creating a facade,You're not building your custom
home To live in To live in.
So you know, you get somepeople contractors that go way
too in deep for no reason andyou're like, no, we are talking
(24:56):
this, like come on now.
So it is good when you findsomeone and y'all just happen to
randomly find this person Like.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
One of the questions was like, can we just paint over
this wallpaper?
I'm like hell, yeah, spray it,we'll put shells right over that
.
It doesn't matter when.
You wouldn't do that in yourhome, you know.
But I mean retail.
Like you said, it is all facadeand you're going to it's.
You know there's a much shorterlife on it in a retail store,
(25:27):
right?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Because you're going to have to redo Right and you're
always changing and puttingholes and things and all of that
.
So I'm excited so they're ontrack to open around the first
of october so we're.
You know.
We'll definitely keep youposted.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I can't wait to get down there myself and see it and
I was there for the firstshipment too, which was exciting
yeah, it was fun I know theysaid things are rolling in and
you had the excuse that yourback was hurting, so you didn't
have to do anything.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I know that was a lot .
I'm glad, though, that it washurt before then, because I know
me, you would have hurt it.
I would have been like helpingthe guy, yeah, and there we
would have been in a mess.
So no, I just stood there and Iwas like.
At one point I was like I gottawalk to the antique store.
I feel stupid, I'm not, I can'tstand here, you're not a
(26:16):
supervisor.
Just standing there watching, Ifelt like such a puss, you know
when you can't help.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Right, just standing there watching.
Well that's all exciting, andnow we're back to reality.
Reality is here, so we havesome exciting fall things coming
up that we have to talk about.
First off, we just announcedFigFest.
Figfest is back for our secondyear, our second annual FigFest.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And if you're a new listener, it is not as weird as
it sounds.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's a two-day open house for everyone.
We invite everyone from acrossthe country and you listening to
come join us.
So if you weren't here lastyear, don't know about Fig Fest.
It's a two-day event.
It's happening September 27thand 28th that's a Friday and a
Saturday and it starts at ourgarden store and you can find
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more details on our website.
It's not on our app.
You have to buy a ticket on ourwebsite so that we can have a
head count and find all thedetails there.
But FigFest is a two-day event.
It starts at our garden store.
We're going to have a meet andgreet.
You can make your own bouquetto take with you, hang out and
(27:31):
of course, we're going to havegiveaways and shopping discounts
and all that.
Then, friday evening, we'regoing to continue over to the
home store where we're going tohave cocktails and refreshments
and, again, giveaways andshopping discounts and you'll
get to hang out with us and it'sa lot of fun.
Last year it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It was a good time.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And then on Saturday it continues.
On the 28th of September, we'regoing to venture over to the
warehouse the Nested FigWarehouse so you'll get to see a
preview of some of ourChristmas collection for 2024.
You'll get to shop the outletstore the Nested Fig outlet
store where we have bang outdeals.
And you'll get to shop theoutlet store the Nested Fig
outlet store where we have bangout deals.
And you'll get to shop theregular warehouse too.
And if you're coming from outof town, you can either take
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things with you or we can shipthem to you, just like we
normally would.
So you can still shop even ifyou're coming from out of town,
because we already have peoplethat are like flying in and
stuff.
So that's really exciting andthat will be Saturday afternoon.
So you have to join us for FigFest.
If you're local, semi-local oryou need a good little getaway,
(28:40):
it can be a couple little longweekend getaway.
But make sure if you do want tocome, you go to our website.
The tickets are only $25.
That's helping us cover thedrinks and food and really get a
good head count for how manypeople to expect and that sort
of thing.
But it's on our website atthenestedfigcom.
But that's not it.
(29:00):
So this year we're also teamingup for a separate event with
Daniel over here at PedalPickers so exciting, yes.
So we're going to have youinvited.
You have to buy a separateticket.
It's a separate event to ourflower farm for dinner in the
Dahlias.
(29:20):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So September 28th, from 4.30 pm to 7.
We are going to have dinner inthe Dahlias, wesley and I are
going to give everyone a farmtour and we're going to have
some drinks and hors d'oeuvresand then at the end of the
evening we are going to be ableto cut our own flowers.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Does it include?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
a house tour.
It does not include a housetour.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's a farm tour, maybe make appearance.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yes, romeo, the goats will be around the emus.
Yes, but not a farm tour.
Maybe make appearance.
Yes, romeo, the goats will bearound the emus.
Yes, but not a house tour.
I can't handle everyonetromping through the house, but
we're excited.
But yes.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Because we've had people ever since we bought the
farm.
We want to come see the farmand there was even history with
the farm A lot of people in townhad been out here before when
it was kind of a mess, butlooking for some treasures from
the old business that used to behere.
Yeah, and now that we'vecleaned it up and ever since
everyone's wanted to come to thefarm and we're finally opening
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the gates, yeah, it is soexciting.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
So, like Daniel mentioned, this is going to be
from 430 to 7 on the 28th.
You're going to arrive, you'regoing to get to make flower
accessories if you want, you'regoing to have cocktails and hors
d'oeuvres and we're going tohang out.
Then we're going to do aninteractive farm tour where you
can see how he grows things andwhat's growing and that sort of
(30:46):
thing.
Then we're going to gather fora dinner and it's a full dinner.
We're using one of our favoriterestaurants that specializes in
like farm to table style mealsthey source from other local
farmers yeah, for their food.
So it will be really good andit's a full dinner, um, and you
know, we'll have drinks and thatsort of thing, and then you get
to cut flowers if you want, andtake home with you.
(31:07):
So it's, it's going to be somuch fun I can, can't wait, I'm
really excited and I'm excitedwe're finally getting to do this
because, like you said, we getasked all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Can we come see the flower farm, and Wes has been
wanting to do a dinner like thissince the beginning, yes, and
I've always pushed it offbecause it just gets so busy,
but now the business has builtitself up to a point where we're
ready.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, we've gotten a little more settled.
I was probably ahead of thegame trying to get it, but for
like four or five years I'vebeen like we need to do dinner
in the flower field.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You're serving like frog legs and chitlins.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
No no.
That's going to be a reallygood meal.
Frog legs and chitlins, that isbe good.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
That is not good.
Yeah, maybe in Six Mile, whereyou come from.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, so if you want to join us for Dinner in the
Dahlias, this is a separateevent and you need to go to
PetalPickerscom and I'll put thewebsite down in the show notes
as well.
But it's PetalPickerscom andgrab your ticket.
Tickets are selling quickly.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
We've already sold half of the tickets in 21 hours.
Yes, wow, so that's crazy.
So thank you everyone who'scoming.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, it's amazing, it's going to be fun, I mean
it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
We're going to have music and friends and hang out
with us.
It's going to be nice, but alsoit's a farm setting, so it's
going to be casual, it's verycasual.
We're hanging out, we'retalking.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
We're having fun In the flower field.
So you know, wear your tennisshoes.
Don't come out here in highheel because you're on a flower
farm.
It's going to be casual farm.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
We'll be sending out an email to everyone who buys
tickets to kind of remind themof the details.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh, I wanted to dress up, so we would love to have
you the chai heels on girl.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, we would love to have you come join us for
dinner and you know this is ourfirst one and hopefully we get
to do it again, you know,seasonally or something.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, I've been a little stressed about this
because it's just the first timeand we're trying to line
everything up and it's allcoming together, though, so it
is exciting, and once we getthis one under our belts, we do
hope to do more events andactivities here on the farm.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Right, yeah, I'm just so excited about the whole
weekend coming together andhaving the fig fest and the
dinner in the dahlias.
Yeah, it's going to be so muchfun.
So grab your tickets to both.
We can't wait to see you.
We're going to make it fun allweekend long.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And after the dinner in the dahlias later into
October, we are wanting to dosome you picks to have people
come out, yeah.
So that's going to be adifferent event.
It's not going to have the nicemeal, they're going to be
shorter, it's basically come andcut some dahlias, but we are
also excited to announce that,because yeah you're announcing
(34:07):
you haven't really well, thatwould be so fun to do with your
kids too.
This is really the first placeI've announced that.
I've teased it on Instagramthat we're doing it, but I
didn't know for sure, 100%, ifwe were going to be able to do
it or not, because this summerhas been really hard on our
dahlias.
Now they are pulling throughand it looks like we're gonna
(34:30):
have a nice fall and we stillhave thousands and thousands of
dahlia plants yeah, blooming butso the you pick will be later.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You'll announce dates later on that and that will be.
You can just pay a price,you'll get a bucket and you come
out and um, cut your ownflowers to take with you.
There won't really be like farmtours or anything, it'll just
be a stripped down.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Come harvest flowers um, take with you.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
There won't really be like farm tours or anything.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It'll just be a stripped down.
Come harvest flowers with thison the farm.
And you're going to have thoseon your website as well.
You have a new little sectionfor upcoming events on the
petalpickerscom and you can seethe dates for that, and you'll
be announcing those soon.
Yep, okay, what you got overthere, sir.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh, I've got the riddle.
I forgot to ask a riddle, soboth of you are going to get a
chance to answer this.
Oh, let's do it.
I say Daniel will get it Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
I don't know.
I listen to all these riddlesall the time and most of them
are so stupid I would never evenbe able to figure them out.
There is some that I pick upquickly.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
He doesn't really think that way, that method.
His brain doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
What question can you never say yes to?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
What question can you never say yes to Dum?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
dum, dum dum.
How are you?
Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum,dum dum.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
What question can you never say yes to?
I just said it.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
He ignored you because that was wrong.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's wrong.
But you can't say yet how areyou?
Yes, you can.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
It might be stupid, but you can, so I got to think
deeper.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
What question can you never say yes to?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, I mean that's easy.
Like I mean that would makesense.
Like what's your favorite color?
Yes, it's easy.
Like I mean that wouldn't makesense.
Like what's your favorite color?
Yes, yeah, you can say that.
But what question can you neversay yes to the one that's not
asked?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Oh, that's a good one , that's true.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's not it.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm not good at this.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Are you asleep, oh?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
are you asleep?
Are you deceased?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh that, are you deceased?
Oh, that's true.
So there's more than one answer.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, there are I mean seriously okay, you know
some of them are.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
You could ask a baby yeah, like still in the womb.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They can't one that can't even speak.
Yet I went through the bank.
Maybe your dog.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I went through the bank the other day and I forget
what it was, but it was lame,lame.
I went through the bank theother day and I forget what it
was, but it was lame, lame, lame.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Y'all are running out of good ones, I'm sure they
just have a calendar that they,we need a calendar.
That's, you know, the riddle ofthe day.
You can get those that you peeloff.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I don't know how they keep up with that at the bank,
but you know there's otherpeople like me.
That's like is it, this Is itthat.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Oh my God, there are people like me that's like is it
this, is it that?
Yeah, oh my god.
If I was an employee at thebank, I know I would throw
something at them.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
They ask me oh my god , these dumbasses ask us, oh
they give me tit, they give mehints.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Oh really, yeah, they kind of I think it probably
gets them out of the mundane.
Yeah, how are you?
Thank you, you know it's aconversation.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well, you're fun, anywhere you go, I try to make
it fun.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I'm not like that stupid, but like some people I
might laugh.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That's funny.
So tell us, daniel, back to you, what else do you have coming
up on the farm this fall season?
What are you up to?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
So right now we have our fall bulb sale.
Oh yeah, the fall bulb salethat up.
To.
So right now we have our fallbulb sale.
Oh yeah, the fall bulb sale.
That's on our website now it'sopen.
At petalpickerscom we areselling ranunculus, anemone,
corms, tulip bulbs and peonyroots.
So they have been sellingreally well.
So I'm glad this yeareveryone's really excited about
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that.
yeah, and I think part of it isremember I went to italy and
then amsterdam and thenetherlands this spring I think
that's the last time you were onoh, probably after your trip
yeah after your trip, and so Igot to see all that, and I've
just become really close to oneof the suppliers that supplies
the entire United States.
(38:36):
He's the only person that canget the bulbs from Italy for the
Italian ranunculus and theItalian anemones and I saw the
facilities.
I met the owner.
I had dinner at the owner'svineyard, on the side of a
mountain of the Mediterranean.
Yes, it was pretty crazy, butnow I do feel like I've seen it
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and it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
And I've seen other farms in Italy growing it and
stuff.
So I'm trying to help spreadthat out for other people to be
able to have the experience ofgrowing it there.
For in the ranunculus there'smany different types.
You can grow Right, and fromwhat I've grown here on our farm
and what I've seen from otherfarms across the country, the
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Italian ranunculus is the best.
So we're excited, and everyoneelse seems to be too, so we're
also getting ready to start ourranunculus here on the farm.
We're still a few weeks out.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
And I think it's worth mentioning a couple of
things about your bulb cell.
Well, first of all, I feel like, if you're a homeowner, it
always kind of throws people offwhen you say, like the fall
bulb sale, because these areactually things, you buy them in
the fall but you're going toget blooms in the spring.
Yes, this is going to be.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
So these are stuff that you plant in the fall.
That's why we're selling it inour fall bulb sale, right.
But until you say that, you maynot know.
And then they will bloom inspring.
Now there are certain things.
If you're up in the northernpart of the country, you may
want to plant your ranunculusand anemones in early spring,
(40:12):
right, and then it'll bloom whenthe weather starts to warm up
there, right.
But if you planted it in fall,say in Minnesota, they would
freeze.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Right, so you get too cold, yeah, and you send out a
planting tips with everythingthat you ship out.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Everything we sell.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I think the other thing worth mentioning is you
did something really cool on thewebsite and it's really.
It doesn't matter if you're ahomeowner and just want to grow
a few ranunculus and try it, orif you have a flower farm or
whatever and you want to buy inbigger quantity.
You broke it up this year soyou can get everything sort of
(40:50):
in like.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah, we have a discounted pricing structure.
So just the more you buy, themore you save.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, so you can buy things in like 10 packs.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
We used to always sell everything in 10 packs, and
now this year we're offering a10 pack, a 20 pack and a 50 pack
.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
So it's worth checking out.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
We have all kinds of people that have been ordering,
whether you're a flower farmeror you have a couple of feet in
a raised bed, or if you want toput some ranunculus corms in a
big pot on your patio we haveyou covered.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah, and that's really good.
And you have tulips on there,as well as the ranunculus, the
anemones, you even have peonyroots, and these are all things
that you grow on the farm andyou're going to be growing these
same varieties Like these areone you order for the farm, yes,
but we've ordered additionalquantities to be able to share
(41:46):
and resell to anyone who wantsit, because you can't go to your
local garden center or a boxstore and get these varieties
Right right.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I don't really know that.
You know, ranunculus is noteven that common.
A lot of people don't even knowwhat it is until they see our
flowers blooming in spring, andthen that's everyone's favorite
flower, right?
I don't think they realize thatyou can grow them at home and
they do great, and we give youthe instructions on how to do
that.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
And they'll be growing the same plants right
along with you Now yours, on howto do that, and they'll be
growing the same plants rightalong with you, now yours,
depending on where they are inthe country.
Yours may bloom before theirsbecause we're further in the
south, you know that sort ofthing, but you're going to be
growing the exact same thingthat you grow on the flower farm
.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
So I have a question because I feel like our
listeners probably are askingthis because I don't know it.
Okay, it's not a tuber.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
It's not a bulb, it's a corm.
Ranunculus is a corm and so areanemones.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
But explain what that is.
It's like a tuber, it's justdifferent.
Yeah, it's just a differentstructure than a tuber or a bulb
.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Okay, you know, you've heard of like rhizomes
yes, another one, it's justdifferent, but it's basically an
energy source root, like a seed, like a root, like a root, but
more like a root.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
But it has enough energy that it'll sprout.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Okay, the plant in the spring.
So it's a bulb, it's likeWesley, has a horticulture.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, I should know the difference between these.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
I honestly should this is taught.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Definition A bulb is more like an onion.
Yes, like layers yes.
Corms have different structures, but it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
See a ranunculus corm almost looks like a little
octopus, yeah.
And then an anemone corm lookslike an acorn, yeah, so they're.
They don't look anything alike.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
So it really is hard to explain okay, what a corm is
okay, but I just feel likepeople would would what you're
saying Corms are usually smaller.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Gladiolus are corms Right.
Oh, are they yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yeah, okay, so I've dug those up, so they're just a.
It's a different shape of atuber basically Right or a bulb.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
You can pass it off by saying bulb, no one would
know the difference.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Pass it off by saying bulb, but no one would know the
difference.
It's just, that's technicallyaccurate?
Speaker 1 (44:01):
okay, yeah, and I think it has to do with what is
like stored in in the source thecorn or the bulb um, sort of
thing like a.
Um, like tulips and daffodils,those are bulbs.
They develop their flower inthe bulb.
(44:22):
Really, yeah, if yourefrigerate a, it's really easy
to see on, like paper whites ordaffodils.
If you refrigerate one, andbefore you plant it, if you cut
it in half, you can see the tinyflower bud in the bulb and I
think, like corm, send up aplant and then bloom.
It's just the different makeupof the structure.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Here's the definition from the dictionary A corm is a
rounded underground storageorgan present in plants such as
crocus, gladiola and cyclamens,consisting of a swollen stem
base covered with scale leaves.
I don't know about that lastpart how do you spell it C-O-R-M
, c-o-r-m.
(45:04):
Corm, but every time I say iton Instagram, it autocorrects
Shaped corn.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Corm.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
I've just, I honestly have never heard the
terminology corm.
I mean tubers of course, bulbsof course Right, so it's just a
different.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Here's another definition.
What's the distinct differencebetween a rhizome and corm?
The main distinction betweenbulbs, corms, tubers and
rhizomes is that bulbs aremodified leaves that store
nutrients, whereas corms areswollen stem bases.
There you go, which that doesmake sense, because on
(45:47):
ranunculus and anemones like the, stem goes straight down and
like attaches to the corm,whereas bulbs are leafier things
.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, they come out Leafs.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, the leaves come out.
Yeah, that makes sense.
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah, but all of them have leaves that come out first
before the flower.
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
But it probably turns into the stem.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, but yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
It appears to be a leaf, but it turns into the stem
.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Well, you, you know, like an autumn fern in the
spring Sends up.
But, that's not a stem, that'sa leaf.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
It just looks like a stem until it unfurls Nevermind,
so anyway.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
We went down that path.
But, somebody you know.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Someone learned something new, because they
didn't know what that was, andwe still don't, but at least
we've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
But somebody out there was confused too.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Corm sprout stems from the top and buds form on
the stem.
So it's like that kind ofstructure where a bulb sends up
the bloom from within the bulb.
So there you go, all rightMoving on.
Anyway, I'm jumping out now.
That was interesting.
That was some food for thought,so okay.
(47:04):
So you have your fall bulb salegoing on.
You can find that also atPetalPickerscom.
There and grab your fall bulbs.
They'll start shipping inOctober, peonies in November and
who doesn't want those gorgeouspeonies?
I mean, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I will say I get a lot of questions about people
who have condos and stuff andthey want to plant.
They want to order from us, butthey want to plant it on a
patio in a container, Right.
And so peonies are the onething that we just don't
recommend you planting in a potor container.
It's not, it's never going tothrive there.
It would have to be a huge pot.
(47:41):
It wants to be in the ground.
But you can definitely growanemones, ranunculus and tulips
in a large terracotta pot orglazed container.
They're going to do fine, aslong as they have great drainage
.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Peonies are super in, in my opinion, because I've
always grown when I had a house,when you had a yard.
A yard, they um, they're easy.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
As long as they're in the right soil, you know the
right place, they're easy, youdon't want peonies to get to
stay wet all winter, like youwant the water to be able to
drain.
So if you notice after a rainyou have a wet spot in the yard,
that is not where you want toplant a peony It'll never be
happy but somewhere else that'sa little raised up, drain's good
(48:28):
Full sun.
All of our bulbs for our fallbulb sale want full sun.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Yeah, they want to get warmed up in the early
spring, and that'll make themthrive.
So, think Italy yeah, get yourranunculus.
So then what else is going onon the farm?
So it's, we're going intodahlia season, so you're going
to be in that.
You're growing some otherthings too, like mums, right,
we're growing heirloom mums thisyear.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
So everyone can see that right now they're just
green plants.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
We are still growing them, but that is something
we're really excited about.
We did a trial last year andkind of selected some of our
favorite varieties of heirloommums and now we've grown an
entire tunnel full of them and Ican't wait to show everyone,
because mumsums, especially likethese heirloom mums, are just
(49:20):
different and that's what's coolabout them they're.
They have different flowerstructures.
Some are big, some are small.
it just kind of covers likethat's a big family of plants
but, we've selected some thatare going to look really great
in fall arrangements, likebronze ones, chocolate ones.
How big are they?
(49:41):
The flowers?
Speaker 1 (49:44):
They're large.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
They're pretty large, some of ours yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
It's not like the mums you get from box stores or
your garden center for falldisplay.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
These are big that's what's different, that's with
ours being heirloom mums.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
They're more of a show flower.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
More of a showy flower.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
yeah, I mean they're like the size of a sunflower
that you would have in anarrangement.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
There's certain practices you can do to make
them get even larger.
They love fertilizers, so themore you fertilize them, the
bigger they're going to get.
And then you can disbud soit'll send up like a spray.
It's going to want to branch onall the stems, but if you
disbud it where you just leavethe center, one bloom on the
whole stem, that's going to makethat flower actually be a lot
(50:31):
larger than if you allowed it tohave multiple flowers on one
stem.
Yeah, I feel like it's all theenergy into one flower instead
of like seven or eight, I feellike moms, especially like those
that are showy.
I feel like they're probably,when you see that written,
they're probably discounted bythe moms that you get at like a
(50:52):
box store you know that you, youknow the yellow, the typical
mom right yeah, when you seethese flowers, it's more like
one you've never seen before,and some of them are so cool and
distinct and different youwouldn't even know it's a mum
just by looking at it.
You'd be like what flower?
Speaker 1 (51:11):
what is that?
And that's what's really coolabout specialty flower farming
coming back as an industry inthe US, because it really has
since you started eight yearsago.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
It is coming back in a big way and it's making all
these different flowersavailable across the country
that people have never seenbefore.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
They don't even know what it is Because for so long
and still is today, but for solong all the flowers came, were
imported mainly.
And so they're growing yourstandard flowers that they know
will ship so well.
They have to go through thesupply chain, and it can be days
and days, and days over a weekbefore it makes it from the
(51:56):
field to the store and then tothe end consumer.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
And some just get a bad rap.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
And so that eliminated a lot of cool flowers
that are really awesome,because maybe they don't travel
well.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
Yeah, they're breeding more for them to last
in a box and to last two weeksafter it's gone through the
transportation system.
And so I know people get rosesfor Valentine's Day and they say
, oh, I just love the smell ofroses.
Yeah, you're not smelling.
what a rose is supposed to smelllike You're smelling flower
(52:33):
petals.
Yeah, that's the scent.
You could go to any floweranywhere and it just smells like
plant.
But people associate it.
You know the roses that I justlove that smell.
A real, true garden rose smellslike perfume, it's sweet, it's
(52:54):
overpowering.
And all of that has been bredout of the flowers that are
imported into the country.
Right, because for them to getthe genetics for that flower to
last three weeks, they had tolet go of other genes Just
during the breeding process.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
It's crazy.
So it's so fun to see you know,with us having the garden store
and stuff, it's so fun to seethese flowers coming back, these
heirloom flowers, and well, Ihave a great example.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
yes, I've hated hated lilies for so long because that
is a great example.
It is a great example, I think,because it's funeral flower,
it's that's what you like.
I do not want a lily anywherenear me.
This is the way I've been foryears, because that is what they
(53:43):
were used for Casket sprays,funeral flowers, right, and your
lilies, oh my word, amazing.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
Yeah, and double pollenless lilies oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
It is one of the most exotic, beautiful looking
flowers I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
I'm trying to get my hands on some bulbs so that we
can sell them in our spring bulbsale.
But they're honestly, they'vebecome so popular so quick.
They're not old, they're onlylike.
I don't.
I'm making up a number, butthey haven't been around that
long.
I haven't even had access tothem except just a few years For
these double lilies, and ittakes a long time to multiply
(54:23):
the bulbs to be able to supplydemand.
All the flower farmers acrossthe country are trying to get
their hands on these lilies, sowe'll see if I'm in a gap.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
They're a wow.
I mean, I have my bulbsupplier's cell phone number.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
They're a wow, we're buddies.
I mean, that takes lilies fromfuneral flower to a beautiful
wedding flower.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
I sell them for weddings here and the wedding
florist liked them.
Yeah, that blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
I wish you could almost name some of these
flowers, like give them adifferent name, like drop the
lily part, drop the part it is alily they would.
You know, there is the stigmawith some of these flowers.
Speaker 3 (55:04):
Like you're talking about same with gladiolus oh my
gosh, but I just posted on myinstagram I love it we're
ordering it.
I do actually love gladiolus oh, I love.
I have nothing really againstthem, but a lot of people scream
funeral flower Right To me whensomeone says that I get it, but
(55:24):
also I'm like you're thinking afuneral arrangement from a
regular tourist.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Glads don't really make me think of that.
Glads make me think of mygrandmother Right.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
They grew them.
Speaker 3 (55:37):
Yeah, that's true, it is so true but they've come out
with all new colors and creamsand peaches and, like it,
changes the way you think aboutirises too in our glads that
we're bringing in.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Some of them have double peddled, so it did they
do different and I and I guessthe glads last longer.
Yeah, they're coming fresh.
Yeah, the glads last longerbecoming fresh.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, the glads, the lilies they do.
They have a long base life, sothere's a lot of value in that
and they're perennial here inthe south.
It kind of depends on where youlive if it'll come back every
year.
If the bulb can freeze in theground.
Speaker 1 (56:12):
But here they come back.
Glads do very well here, verywell.
I'm so glad you're growingthose.
I forgot.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
I know I forgot to mention the lily.
This is the first time we'vetalked about the lilies, but I
was at the store and I saw thelilies and I said, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (56:31):
I only got compliments because we ship some
.
We had a few weeks where we hadenough extra that we weren't
selling to wedding florists andso we offered them on our
website and I got complimentsfrom those because people said
they lasted forever.
They were stunning.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
And they're exotic looking.
They're not.
They don't look like anythingyou saw at your grandmother's
funeral.
They're completely different,right?
So we have to change ourmindset on the old school.
You know, mom lilies all that,it's not the same right,
especially with the.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
You know the specially cut flowers and you
gotta.
And when you arrange itgorgeous in your house, you're
not gonna think you know flowerbut I feel like now we have to
scream that because so manypeople Things get bad rap.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I'm excited about that.
So I think that's going to wrapup this week's episode.
Did you have anything elsegoing on on the farm you wanted
(57:28):
to share with us before we kickyou out of this?
Speaker 3 (57:30):
We got a lot going on at the farm, but I'm ready to
get back to it.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, so you can keep up with Daniel on Instagram at
Petal Pickers I'll put hishandle down in the comments
below as well, if you're notalready following him and he
shows you, like day to day, whathe's doing on the farm, what's
being planted, what's you knowbeing harvested, which I think
is really cool, because if youfollow Daniel regularly on the
(57:56):
Instagram, you can see like, oh,he's planting this now and then
, depending on what it is, itmight be months later.
You can see him harvesting itand you can go oh, I remember
when he was planting that and itwas just, you know, not even a
sprout yet, or whatever.
Speaker 3 (58:12):
And I try to be relatable because stuff happens
all the time on the farm.
I tell people all the time whenthey say I don't have a green
thumb, I say, well, who does?
I kill just as many plants as Igrow beautiful flowers with,
like that's gardening is part ofit.
So I'm here to show everyonelike, hey, I kill plants too.
(58:33):
You just keep doing it Right,then you can have.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
Some things just don't like us.
Yeah, that's true.
The next one will Well you haveto learn what grows really well
In your home and in your yard,and even if you move up the
street it's going to bedifferent.
Speaker 3 (58:47):
And it should be fun.
That's part of it.
Speaker 1 (58:50):
Trial and error, trial and error.
Watch you and see what you do.
You, you can talk to people.
Speaker 3 (58:55):
If you find someone else that loves to garden, kind
of have like a little connectiongoing on and say oh, you know,
what do you like growing you?
Speaker 2 (59:02):
started out with your whole gardening love of
gardening, I mean.
I distinctly remember itpropagating.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (59:09):
That's where it all started.
It started with the donkey'sear Right.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Oh yeah, At our old house that's where it started
and then it went to clivia.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
Clivia's Plants we still grow those from seed.
Speaker 1 (59:23):
That's when we were at our old little bungalow.
Speaker 3 (59:25):
And it only takes like five years for it to bloom,
yeah, yeah, he would be like oh.
Speaker 1 (59:31):
I'm going to plant these.
It only takes five years tobloom.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
And I'm like I ain't waiting five years for nothing,
but he does no, I I get myclivius when they're ready with
their blooming for day.
I'm like, oh, I want one nowyeah.
Speaker 1 (59:46):
So yeah, do you have any new ones out there?
Speaker 3 (59:49):
no, um, I do have some plants, if you need one I
do it's time for a new yeah, allright.
Oh yeah, you killed the lastone.
That's okay.
It lasted years.
It's a really hearty plant.
Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
You should just keep it and then bring it.
Once it's done blooming, bringit back out here, to throw it in
the green house.
Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Throw it in the green house and get it out, yeah
that's true.
Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
That's true, we're out of town.
We're going to wrap this uptoday.
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We would love to see you thereand we'll see you next week.
Thanks, guys.
I'm here to pick you up and we got a passenger
princess today.
No car jokes, please.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I see that.
I see that there's a crispnessin the air.
There is Like I've got my jeanson.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
A little fake fall feel today yes.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, they call it false fall.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
There we go.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the
behind the scenes of our lives,friendship and business.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
You never know who's driving orwhere we're headed.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
All we know is it's always a fun ride and on this
week's episode we have apassenger princess my hubby, mr
Pedal Pickers himself.
Hey everyone, daniel's in thehouse.
I'm happy to be back.
It's been a while since you'vebeen on.
Yep, probably since spring,Dahlia Daniel's here, yes, and
(01:12):
of course, Stephen's here aswell.
So this is the first time we'vebeen together.
Since our vacations, Daniel andI, we got, I'd say, a really
good vacation in.
We went for almost two weeks tothe Florida house.
Oh it was perfect for me.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It was the best weather, we were able to go to
the beach every single day.
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm happy for y'all Right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The weather was great , we did work while we were
there too.
I know you didn't get a, youknow.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was cheated, my damn back, runked my time.
But you know, here's the othergood thing.
At least it wasn't duringChristmas.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A big, you know a really busy time.
That's the bright side.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, Because I was able to go twice a day and you
know, get therapy.
And yesterday I got a twinge init.
I was like, oh, my God, you gota what?
A little tightening, a littletinge in my back and I was like,
oh God, I mean I go into apanic now.
I feel something I'm like no.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I mean I go into a panic now Like I feel
something.
I'm like no, yeah.
So Stephen threw out his back,if you don't know, a couple of
weeks ago and you sounded when Icalled you.
You sounded just horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, he ripped some muscles right.
I don't know what he did.
He doesn't know what he did.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You didn't see me trying to walk First of all,
when I would get out of my bed.
There was not a good way.
So I sleep.
If you're facing the end of thebed, I sleep on the right side.
Well, my right side was myissue.
I should have probably switchedsides, but for the way I sleep,
(03:02):
there was no way to get out ofthe damn bed, and so I would try
to hold the nightstand, the bed, and then I'm like having much.
So I just end up like screamingyeah.
I'm like, oh my gosh, it was.
And then I walked like Beenover.
A gimp, like my right leg, attimes couldn't touch the floor.
(03:25):
It was not funny, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You went, though and did acupressure not some
puncture, something needles?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
yeah, this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I couldn't believe it worked out for you well, you
know, I'm a skeptic and I, youknow, I do believe in
chiropractors, so that was myfirst thing.
And then we have mutual friendsthat go to this person and they
were like we really think youshould go to him and I'm like
(03:58):
you know what, I would have goneto anybody at that point.
I mean, it was just like I amin pain, I don't care, so I
couldn't, was just like I am inpain, I don't care, so I
couldn't even drive.
Dylan had to drive me, and sohe's a Japanese man from Hawaii,
and I can't say enough goodthings about the man, but it was
(04:28):
so different than anything Ihad experienced.
Right, I was like you know thatthere's that one part of you.
I'm in pain, but, you know, isthis shit gonna work?
right there's that country partof me.
I'm like you're not eventouching remotely where I'm
hurting, yeah and um.
But you know, I bought into itand one of the pressure points
that was my issue was the Idon't know what it is tendon
(04:52):
ligament whatever, somethingbehind my right knee in that
joint, yeah, and he pushed on it.
I didn't think I was going tohave a leg.
Didn't think I was gonna have aleg.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I thought the leg was gonna atrophy off the way he
put, like his thumbs and all ofhis weight on it.
Were you screaming like ow at?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
times I was like tears, you know.
I mean, it was never where thepain was.
I'm like does he know what he'sdoing Right?
And then he would say you knowhe would do all this.
And then he did hot and coldtherapy.
Mm-hmm, I'm like, you know, Iam.
(05:35):
Part of me is open to anything.
Part of me is like is this shitgoing to work Right?
Just putting it bluntly.
And he would say when you getup from the table, you're going
to be very dizzy, so be careful.
And he would make me walk like10 times, you know, to the door
and back and door.
You know, and I was dizzy whenI got up.
(05:57):
I wonder why, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And then he said Did he give you a glass of water
when you walked in?
No, Nope.
Poison.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Nope.
And so I went to him one timeand he said I think you need to
do this little regimen I have,and it's it was an interesting
regimen.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, or maybe the things you couldn't do.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It was interesting, so he said so I had to go to him
.
I think it's six times in threedays, yeah, so like twice a day
, morning and night.
Yeah, and I like going at nightbecause you know I would go at
like 10 because then I couldrest a little better.
(06:44):
Yeah, because then I could resta little better, because then I
felt everything was starting towork.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So the first time he said no, no sex, Not even by
yourself, no, not even alone.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Which is most of the time for for me, and that's the
truth.
None of that, and no drinkingand no dairy product yeah so and
it worked, and I was like youknow, I'm a why person.
Yeah, yeah, like, I just like.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Daniel's a why person I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Like I wasn't immediately, why I wasn't Daniel
why?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's my favorite word, but why but?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
why, but why, yeah no ?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But why, you know, I'll tell Wes.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll say, okay, I heard what you said, but why,
but, why, but, why yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay, I did not do the irritating Daniel way, but
why I waited like a day or twoand I said, just curious, you
know what is the thing with thedairy?
Yeah, and he explained to methat the Western people Western
world.
People always want to know why.
(08:04):
He said sometimes it's justbecause it is.
He said why is the letter A inA?
It just is that was his answer.
So he didn't give you adefinitive like because it
causes this.
No, but I Googled.
It causes inflammation, right,it does.
It does In dairy, yeah, in somepeople it causes a lot of
inflammation.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Wes and I have cut out a lot of dairy in the past
couple years and now I'venoticed if I eat cheese it'll
make me break out within a dayor two.
No, but I love cheese.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That was the whole problem Right, but it was just
three days.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
No, no, no, no, no, or six days, eleven days.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Oh, you had to follow the regimen for 11 days 11 days
, do you know?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
that's like three lifetimes when you can't have
cheese or sex.
That's funny.
I mean the alcohol wasn't aproblem because I never drink,
yeah, but no, he was amazing.
I'll go to him once a monthjust to maintain so you're all
better now.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So, yeah, so it ended up.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You followed it through and it ended up working
its way out did I mean, Ithought this is not gonna end
like I didn't even know if I wasgonna be able to ride in the
car to savannah yeah I gave updriving but I was like I don't
even know if I can ride, yeah,Well, but it.
You know I am a believer inacupressure.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, I hate, your back's been jacked up and you
haven't been to Florida with us,or the cottage this year, since
last July.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Not since last year, so it's been a whole.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
July.
We missed you there.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh, I'm sure you did.
You better be so glad I wasn'tthere with this, just but we had
fun.
It would have been so bad foryou if I'd been here, I know I
will say one of the things youknow with airbnbs.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know we rent, we've talked on here.
We rent our cottage as anairbnb and you always have to do
a little bit of maintenancewhen you go on these trips.
That's why we have startedgoing for like 12 days because
it gives us a little time to dolittle cottage work.
Decompress, we get in a littleactual business work and we have
vacation while we're there.
But this time we had to get anew refrigerator and I was kind
(10:23):
of stressed about this processof getting the refrigerator but
it ended up being so easy.
We got it from Lowe's Shout out.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Lowe's, you didn't send me a picture.
Oh, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I thought I did.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I saw it come out of the bank account.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's great, but we, literally you, didn't spend a
lot of money.
We literally walked in.
It's perfect too.
Yeah, we walked in, found thefridge, checked out they could
have had it there in like twodays, but we picked like three
or four days later.
They brought it on time, got itthere.
It was smooth.
I hadn't had anything deliveredlike that in a while and I was
(10:57):
like oh, how is this going to go?
Are they going to show up ontime?
Is it going to arrive?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know that whole thing, but it did it up on time.
Is it going to arrive?
You know that whole thing, butit did.
It was easy Well.
I'm glad y'all had a nicevacation, thank you.
Did you detect any bitterness?
No, I'm glad y'all did.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
While we were there, you did try to get in a little.
The goal was to try to get in alittle vacation and go to
Hilton, but it ended up beingmore of a work event, but it
ended up being more of a workevent.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But we had a nice time.
We didn't know how any of thiswas going to work going in
because of my back but there'sseveral funny stories so we were
going to Hilton Head.
The idea was to stay in ourcondo but it booked Right, so we
couldn't stay there.
We couldn't even go therebecause it was booked the whole
(11:46):
time.
So I got this wild idea that Ibooked with the Marriott.
And then I wanted to look intotimeshares.
Right, I had four.
I bought four in the 90s Fourweeks is when they did it a
little different.
I bought four weeks at threedifferent resorts in Hawaii,
(12:08):
kauai and Maui.
So, needless to say, my ex hadthose and blah, blah, blah,
forged my signature, sold those.
We used to throw that littletidbit in there, which was fine,
because those were veryexpensive properties and I
(12:28):
didn't want those.
So you know, then I talked toyou about it.
I was like and we have mutualfriends that are invested in the
points program- and you wentdown there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let me just sum this up he went down there and got
sucked right in.
I was, I was.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I had told Dylan.
I was like I'm not buyinganything.
I said, but I'm going in withan open mind.
They got you down there.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And then I left it up .
Wes was hounding you for days.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I ended up leaving it up to Dylan.
I said you get to call Do youwant this or do you not?
And then how I came about?
Points, because they'll sellyou on points and it's a lot of
money, you know, it's tens ofthousands of dollars.
And I was like, well, I don'tneed in your president's club,
(13:20):
you know.
So what we did was we looked up, okay, what would we most
likely use realistically?
And we were like we would go toSpain and stay at a resort in a
two-bedroom condo.
How many points is that for?
Nine or ten days.
And in Hawaii we looked at nineor ten days in Maui for a
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two-bedroom condo and and thenso I just rounded up, the next
room is for us, yeah.
I just rounded up to the next,you know, and so I went down I
was like, okay, that's, if we dothis, that's what we'll do.
And then it was their 40thanniversary.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So they give you something free.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well then, I looked at where the points.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Looked it up to see when they were incorporated.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I looked at the points where they started, when
they first started selling, howmuch it was per point Right, and
then what it is now, and thenwhat I bought at To see how it's
going to go down in value.
Yeah, it actually has went wayup, so our friends that bought
them could make a lot of money,even if they just sold it back
to Marriott.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So it really he got sucked in the scheme, but that's
fine.
You a lot of money, even ifthey just sold it back to
Marriott.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So it really he got sucked in the scheme but that's
fine.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You know, it is a good thing, you can go on some
vacations.
And they gave us that is whatit's for.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They gave us a bonus of 6,000 points, so we have two
free European or Hawaii trips ontop of that, so in the next
year we could go on threevacations.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, we can't even make it to Greece.
We've been talking about goingto Greece for two years now.
You're going to be 60 by thetime we make it to Greece, and
now you have all these othervacations that we can go on.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, well, dylan's point was he was like I wanted
that because I know he knows meand he knows that I will go on
vacation at least once every twoyears.
Because you have to go at onceevery two years.
He's like now.
I know we're going on vacation.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's true.
That is true.
That's true for a workaholic.
Yeah, it will make you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
All you're doing is prepaying for vacation.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You're prepaying for your vacation and I'm glad you
could do that and did it, and Ican't wait to join you on the
trip.
So, also, while you were there,let's see what else my favorite
part of the trip.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, well, okay.
So here was another thing,because we talked about Airbnbs
a lot.
So you and I have been talkingbecause it's time to remodel
both of our units.
Yeah, and we were like do?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
we got to do some upgrades yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Do we buy another unit?
My thought was I'll just sellthat one, because I know I can
sell it for close to $400,000.
So I was like, well, if I canbuy something for $500,000.
That's already renovated, readyto go yeah, then that makes
financial sense to me yeah, well, just let me tell you for 500
000 you're not getting anything.
(16:21):
No, nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I want nothing better than what you have.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, no it's almost impossible to be that close to
the beach unless, like if youspend 500 000, you are walking
down streets like 20 minutes toget to the beach well on hilton
head.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Most of it's developed yes or protected yeah,
and I think that's what it is.
On hilton head there's noreally new construction going on
because it's all been developedor protected, like you said,
and a lot of the places onHilton Head aren't actually
close to the beach.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know you got to walk.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And our resort sits back from the beach because of a
little marsh but we own to thebeach and it's right there.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I just didn't realize this was eye-opening to me
because we looked at threedifferent properties.
This was eye-opening to mebecause we looked at three
different properties and it wasthe first time I was like we
have a little gem.
We liked that.
I don't know how we liked that.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
on that we did because the other one that was
$600,000, I wouldn't have paid$300,000 for Well.
I remember showing my parentsour condo when we first decided
to buy it and they didn't havemuch to say about it because
that place needed a little ofwork.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah Well, we bought right when it was coming back up
.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Should have bought more.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
We should have oh yeah, Our resort was, you know,
it's still the building itselfyou can tell was built in the
80s, but it kind of went througha down period and it was being
used right before it was comingout of it that previously for
people long-term rentals,long-term rentals and rental
programs for um hospitalityemployees and um european kids
(18:06):
coming yeah, coming over for thesummer.
It was like a housing complexand then people found the value
in it and they started I guessit was just time for it to turn
like generationally and so theystarted selling them off and
it's turned around like crazy.
I mean it's such a gem now itis.
We went into and the deal wegot off.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
We went into one and dylan andI, we walked through it and we
really liked it, like you wouldyou, you two would love it where
was it?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
was this in the complex or a different place?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
palmetto dune, okay, and we were both, like you know,
whispering oh, we like maybe wewill, because it had two suites
, had two living room, diningroom, kitchen, all open a
laundry room, an outdoor showerand a patio that backed up to a
lagoon.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I was like love it, love it, it was like 700.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm like, well, this is a little over, but this is
like we could live there, right.
So I was like, okay, maybewe'll do this, but I put my
realtor hat on then because thisis a good point.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
If you're looking for you, tell me this if you're
looking for second homes orvacation homes the other aspect
or you know something to have onan airbnb to do your homework,
go ahead so I, you know, I wentinto it with, oh, my little
house shopper hat on.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Is it going to be their monthly fee?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I'm like I want to buy it and then so I look at the
HOA and I'm like, oh, it's $800a month.
Okay, that's not horrible.
Yeah we're good, you know, andthere's a shuttle that's
complimentary that takes youeverywhere, even to Shelter Cove
, I mean everywhere you want togo and you would keep renting it
too right, I would yeah.
So I'm like this is good, yeah,I can do this.
(19:57):
Well then I said okay, stephen,put your realtor hat on.
What's the?
And I looked at the buildingitself, all the buildings.
It was townhomes, so I was onlyconnected to one.
I was on the end, but thenthey're very lovely place.
But it was that.
I don't know what it's called.
It's an exterior, it's likepress board.
(20:17):
You see that on 80s buildings.
And then I look and there'slike a lot of rot around the
edges.
I could put my finger throughit.
I mean this is a beautiful,beautiful property.
But I'm like finger through it.
I mean this is a beautiful,beautiful property but I'm like,
damn, that's a lot of money.
And then I look up and I'm like, wait, each unit, you know all
these roofs and you've got allthese spread out.
(20:40):
So that's a lot of roofing.
And then I'm like this sidingis on every home in here and see
, I had thatcdonald's and it wasa nightmare.
So, my, really.
So I said, okay, does the hoacover all of this?
Yeah, yes.
But I'm like, okay, what's the?
(21:02):
But they just do straightassessments for like all the big
stuff.
So when all that siding has tobe replaced, painting a new roof
, all of of that, you're gettingone big bill divided up, yeah.
And you know how much the billwas for this year.
How much $20,000.
Dang, I'm like get me back tomy rickety one, because we're
(21:25):
going to fix her up, I mean froman investment standpoint.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So they don't have a reserve there, because that's a
big resort.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm sure they have a reserve, but I don't know that
you know, yeah, and it you knowwhen, when properties get older,
if you have not built thatreserve up, it's almost
impossible to get it built backup.
And like, while I was therethey were dredging some of the
lagoons.
Well, that's a fortune.
You know what it costs to get apond dredged?
(21:56):
I mean, I'm like no, no.
It looks like they're about tobe doing a lot of work in the
next 10 years, or so it wasreally good for me because I got
to see what is out there and,like we are, have a much better
property than we realized yeah,yeah so it made me feel good.
And then we spent some time insavannah at the new savannah, so
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tina and mark came down yeah,and because savannah is only
like 45 minutes from from.
There so we spent a lot of timein the new store and it is so, I
mean it's just's just comingyeah.
It's coming along so well.
I mean, I walk in and now Ifeel I feel like, oh yeah, this
(22:39):
is going to be a home store.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Beautiful store downtown Savannah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's just feeling like the sign and the awning and
everything is just all comingtogether and the best part is,
is we're not there doing thework Right?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I know.
But I've told you.
I know what's happening.
You're getting a little jealousthat this is a fresh new store
and all these things.
I am.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'm getting a little chilly.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
We are retail addicts .
We want to have 300 retailstores and we just love creating
a new store.
And I'm like, mm-hmm, you'regoing to be a little jelly.
I'm going to have to hear itfor two months, yeah, because
each time we've done the homestore and the garden store.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I mean, I can remember us sitting out in our
cars just looking and going oh,it's so pretty, it looks so good
, and now I'm going to be doingthat there and it's not mine,
but it is a little tiny bitright.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's a little bit of ours.
You get to enjoy it for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
But I'm so happy for them.
I'm happy, I'm excited for themand I just feel like it's a
great market.
The more I go down there, I'mhappy, I'm excited for them and
I just feel like it's a greatmarket.
The more I go down there, I'mlike this is good, yeah.
Yeah, there's a need, yeah,there's a need for us there, and
I feel like there's a need forour garden store there too.
(24:06):
So maybe that's next.
I think so I love it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I can't wait and their own on track to open.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
So far it's going pretty smooth and the guy doing
all the, the construction guydoing all the work.
I was like you know, mike, whatkind of person is he?
So I met him and he was like,so smart, like I'm like he just
gets it, yeah.
And I'm like, oh my god, I ityeah.
And I'm like, oh my God, I mean.
I literally said, thank God,you're not a dumbass.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And he can do things Because it is in retail.
You're creating a facade,You're not building your custom
home To live in To live in.
So you know, you get somepeople contractors that go way
too in deep for no reason andyou're like, no, we are talking
(24:56):
this, like come on now.
So it is good when you findsomeone and y'all just happen to
randomly find this person Like.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
One of the questions was like, can we just paint over
this wallpaper?
I'm like hell, yeah, spray it,we'll put shells right over that
.
It doesn't matter when.
You wouldn't do that in yourhome, you know.
But I mean retail.
Like you said, it is all facadeand you're going to it's.
You know there's a much shorterlife on it in a retail store,
(25:27):
right?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Because you're going to have to redo Right and you're
always changing and puttingholes and things and all of that
.
So I'm excited so they're ontrack to open around the first
of october so we're.
You know.
We'll definitely keep youposted.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I can't wait to get down there myself and see it and
I was there for the firstshipment too, which was exciting
yeah, it was fun I know theysaid things are rolling in and
you had the excuse that yourback was hurting, so you didn't
have to do anything.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I know that was a lot .
I'm glad, though, that it washurt before then, because I know
me, you would have hurt it.
I would have been like helpingthe guy, yeah, and there we
would have been in a mess.
So no, I just stood there and Iwas like.
At one point I was like I gottawalk to the antique store.
I feel stupid, I'm not, I can'tstand here, you're not a
(26:16):
supervisor.
Just standing there watching, Ifelt like such a puss, you know
when you can't help.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Right, just standing there watching.
Well that's all exciting, andnow we're back to reality.
Reality is here, so we havesome exciting fall things coming
up that we have to talk about.
First off, we just announcedFigFest.
Figfest is back for our secondyear, our second annual FigFest.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And if you're a new listener, it is not as weird as
it sounds.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's a two-day open house for everyone.
We invite everyone from acrossthe country and you listening to
come join us.
So if you weren't here lastyear, don't know about Fig Fest.
It's a two-day event.
It's happening September 27thand 28th that's a Friday and a
Saturday and it starts at ourgarden store and you can find
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more details on our website.
It's not on our app.
You have to buy a ticket on ourwebsite so that we can have a
head count and find all thedetails there.
But FigFest is a two-day event.
It starts at our garden store.
We're going to have a meet andgreet.
You can make your own bouquetto take with you, hang out and
(27:31):
of course, we're going to havegiveaways and shopping discounts
and all that.
Then, friday evening, we'regoing to continue over to the
home store where we're going tohave cocktails and refreshments
and, again, giveaways andshopping discounts and you'll
get to hang out with us and it'sa lot of fun.
Last year it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It was a good time.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And then on Saturday it continues.
On the 28th of September, we'regoing to venture over to the
warehouse the Nested FigWarehouse so you'll get to see a
preview of some of ourChristmas collection for 2024.
You'll get to shop the outletstore the Nested Fig outlet
store where we have bang outdeals.
And you'll get to shop theoutlet store the Nested Fig
outlet store where we have bangout deals.
And you'll get to shop theregular warehouse too.
And if you're coming from outof town, you can either take
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things with you or we can shipthem to you, just like we
normally would.
So you can still shop even ifyou're coming from out of town,
because we already have peoplethat are like flying in and
stuff.
So that's really exciting andthat will be Saturday afternoon.
So you have to join us for FigFest.
If you're local, semi-local oryou need a good little getaway,
(28:40):
it can be a couple little longweekend getaway.
But make sure if you do want tocome, you go to our website.
The tickets are only $25.
That's helping us cover thedrinks and food and really get a
good head count for how manypeople to expect and that sort
of thing.
But it's on our website atthenestedfigcom.
But that's not it.
(29:00):
So this year we're also teamingup for a separate event with
Daniel over here at PedalPickers so exciting, yes.
So we're going to have youinvited.
You have to buy a separateticket.
It's a separate event to ourflower farm for dinner in the
Dahlias.
(29:20):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So September 28th, from 4.30 pm to 7.
We are going to have dinner inthe Dahlias, wesley and I are
going to give everyone a farmtour and we're going to have
some drinks and hors d'oeuvresand then at the end of the
evening we are going to be ableto cut our own flowers.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Does it include?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
a house tour.
It does not include a housetour.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's a farm tour, maybe make appearance.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yes, romeo, the goats will be around the emus.
Yes, but not a farm tour.
Maybe make appearance.
Yes, romeo, the goats will bearound the emus.
Yes, but not a house tour.
I can't handle everyonetromping through the house, but
we're excited.
But yes.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Because we've had people ever since we bought the
farm.
We want to come see the farmand there was even history with
the farm A lot of people in townhad been out here before when
it was kind of a mess, butlooking for some treasures from
the old business that used to behere.
Yeah, and now that we'vecleaned it up and ever since
everyone's wanted to come to thefarm and we're finally opening
(30:22):
the gates, yeah, it is soexciting.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
So, like Daniel mentioned, this is going to be
from 430 to 7 on the 28th.
You're going to arrive, you'regoing to get to make flower
accessories if you want, you'regoing to have cocktails and hors
d'oeuvres and we're going tohang out.
Then we're going to do aninteractive farm tour where you
can see how he grows things andwhat's growing and that sort of
(30:46):
thing.
Then we're going to gather fora dinner and it's a full dinner.
We're using one of our favoriterestaurants that specializes in
like farm to table style mealsthey source from other local
farmers yeah, for their food.
So it will be really good andit's a full dinner, um, and you
know, we'll have drinks and thatsort of thing, and then you get
to cut flowers if you want, andtake home with you.
(31:07):
So it's, it's going to be somuch fun I can, can't wait, I'm
really excited and I'm excitedwe're finally getting to do this
because, like you said, we getasked all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Can we come see the flower farm, and Wes has been
wanting to do a dinner like thissince the beginning, yes, and
I've always pushed it offbecause it just gets so busy,
but now the business has builtitself up to a point where we're
ready.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, we've gotten a little more settled.
I was probably ahead of thegame trying to get it, but for
like four or five years I'vebeen like we need to do dinner
in the flower field.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You're serving like frog legs and chitlins.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
No no.
That's going to be a reallygood meal.
Frog legs and chitlins, that isbe good.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
That is not good.
Yeah, maybe in Six Mile, whereyou come from.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, so if you want to join us for Dinner in the
Dahlias, this is a separateevent and you need to go to
PetalPickerscom and I'll put thewebsite down in the show notes
as well.
But it's PetalPickerscom andgrab your ticket.
Tickets are selling quickly.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
We've already sold half of the tickets in 21 hours.
Yes, wow, so that's crazy.
So thank you everyone who'scoming.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, it's amazing, it's going to be fun, I mean
it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
We're going to have music and friends and hang out
with us.
It's going to be nice, but alsoit's a farm setting, so it's
going to be casual, it's verycasual.
We're hanging out, we'retalking.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
We're having fun In the flower field.
So you know, wear your tennisshoes.
Don't come out here in highheel because you're on a flower
farm.
It's going to be casual farm.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
We'll be sending out an email to everyone who buys
tickets to kind of remind themof the details.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh, I wanted to dress up, so we would love to have
you the chai heels on girl.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, we would love to have you come join us for
dinner and you know this is ourfirst one and hopefully we get
to do it again, you know,seasonally or something.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, I've been a little stressed about this
because it's just the first timeand we're trying to line
everything up and it's allcoming together, though, so it
is exciting, and once we getthis one under our belts, we do
hope to do more events andactivities here on the farm.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Right, yeah, I'm just so excited about the whole
weekend coming together andhaving the fig fest and the
dinner in the dahlias.
Yeah, it's going to be so muchfun.
So grab your tickets to both.
We can't wait to see you.
We're going to make it fun allweekend long.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And after the dinner in the dahlias later into
October, we are wanting to dosome you picks to have people
come out, yeah.
So that's going to be adifferent event.
It's not going to have the nicemeal, they're going to be
shorter, it's basically come andcut some dahlias, but we are
also excited to announce that,because yeah you're announcing
(34:07):
you haven't really well, thatwould be so fun to do with your
kids too.
This is really the first placeI've announced that.
I've teased it on Instagramthat we're doing it, but I
didn't know for sure, 100%, ifwe were going to be able to do
it or not, because this summerhas been really hard on our
dahlias.
Now they are pulling throughand it looks like we're gonna
(34:30):
have a nice fall and we stillhave thousands and thousands of
dahlia plants yeah, blooming butso the you pick will be later.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You'll announce dates later on that and that will be.
You can just pay a price,you'll get a bucket and you come
out and um, cut your ownflowers to take with you.
There won't really be like farmtours or anything, it'll just
be a stripped down.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Come harvest flowers um, take with you.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
There won't really be like farm tours or anything.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It'll just be a stripped down.
Come harvest flowers with thison the farm.
And you're going to have thoseon your website as well.
You have a new little sectionfor upcoming events on the
petalpickerscom and you can seethe dates for that, and you'll
be announcing those soon.
Yep, okay, what you got overthere, sir.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh, I've got the riddle.
I forgot to ask a riddle, soboth of you are going to get a
chance to answer this.
Oh, let's do it.
I say Daniel will get it Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
I don't know.
I listen to all these riddlesall the time and most of them
are so stupid I would never evenbe able to figure them out.
There is some that I pick upquickly.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
He doesn't really think that way, that method.
His brain doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
What question can you never say yes to?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
What question can you never say yes to Dum?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
dum, dum dum.
How are you?
Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum,dum dum.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
What question can you never say yes to?
I just said it.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
He ignored you because that was wrong.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's wrong.
But you can't say yet how areyou?
Yes, you can.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
It might be stupid, but you can, so I got to think
deeper.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
What question can you never say yes to?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, I mean that's easy.
Like I mean that would makesense.
Like what's your favorite color?
Yes, it's easy.
Like I mean that wouldn't makesense.
Like what's your favorite color?
Yes, yeah, you can say that.
But what question can you neversay yes to the one that's not
asked?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Oh, that's a good one , that's true.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's not it.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm not good at this.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Are you asleep, oh?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
are you asleep?
Are you deceased?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh that, are you deceased?
Oh, that's true.
So there's more than one answer.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, there are I mean seriously okay, you know
some of them are.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
You could ask a baby yeah, like still in the womb.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They can't one that can't even speak.
Yet I went through the bank.
Maybe your dog.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I went through the bank the other day and I forget
what it was, but it was lame,lame.
I went through the bank theother day and I forget what it
was, but it was lame, lame, lame.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Y'all are running out of good ones, I'm sure they
just have a calendar that they,we need a calendar.
That's, you know, the riddle ofthe day.
You can get those that you peeloff.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I don't know how they keep up with that at the bank,
but you know there's otherpeople like me.
That's like is it, this Is itthat.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Oh my God, there are people like me that's like is it
this, is it that?
Yeah, oh my god.
If I was an employee at thebank, I know I would throw
something at them.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
They ask me oh my god , these dumbasses ask us, oh
they give me tit, they give mehints.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Oh really, yeah, they kind of I think it probably
gets them out of the mundane.
Yeah, how are you?
Thank you, you know it's aconversation.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well, you're fun, anywhere you go, I try to make
it fun.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I'm not like that stupid, but like some people I
might laugh.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That's funny.
So tell us, daniel, back to you, what else do you have coming
up on the farm this fall season?
What are you up to?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
So right now we have our fall bulb sale.
Oh yeah, the fall bulb salethat up.
To.
So right now we have our fallbulb sale.
Oh yeah, the fall bulb sale.
That's on our website now it'sopen.
At petalpickerscom we areselling ranunculus, anemone,
corms, tulip bulbs and peonyroots.
So they have been sellingreally well.
So I'm glad this yeareveryone's really excited about
(38:15):
that.
yeah, and I think part of it isremember I went to italy and
then amsterdam and thenetherlands this spring I think
that's the last time you were onoh, probably after your trip
yeah after your trip, and so Igot to see all that, and I've
just become really close to oneof the suppliers that supplies
the entire United States.
(38:36):
He's the only person that canget the bulbs from Italy for the
Italian ranunculus and theItalian anemones and I saw the
facilities.
I met the owner.
I had dinner at the owner'svineyard, on the side of a
mountain of the Mediterranean.
Yes, it was pretty crazy, butnow I do feel like I've seen it
(38:58):
and it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
And I've seen other farms in Italy growing it and
stuff.
So I'm trying to help spreadthat out for other people to be
able to have the experience ofgrowing it there.
For in the ranunculus there'smany different types.
You can grow Right, and fromwhat I've grown here on our farm
and what I've seen from otherfarms across the country, the
(39:21):
Italian ranunculus is the best.
So we're excited, and everyoneelse seems to be too, so we're
also getting ready to start ourranunculus here on the farm.
We're still a few weeks out.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
And I think it's worth mentioning a couple of
things about your bulb cell.
Well, first of all, I feel like, if you're a homeowner, it
always kind of throws people offwhen you say, like the fall
bulb sale, because these areactually things, you buy them in
the fall but you're going toget blooms in the spring.
Yes, this is going to be.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
So these are stuff that you plant in the fall.
That's why we're selling it inour fall bulb sale, right.
But until you say that, you maynot know.
And then they will bloom inspring.
Now there are certain things.
If you're up in the northernpart of the country, you may
want to plant your ranunculusand anemones in early spring,
(40:12):
right, and then it'll bloom whenthe weather starts to warm up
there, right.
But if you planted it in fall,say in Minnesota, they would
freeze.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Right, so you get too cold, yeah, and you send out a
planting tips with everythingthat you ship out.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Everything we sell.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I think the other thing worth mentioning is you
did something really cool on thewebsite and it's really.
It doesn't matter if you're ahomeowner and just want to grow
a few ranunculus and try it, orif you have a flower farm or
whatever and you want to buy inbigger quantity.
You broke it up this year soyou can get everything sort of
(40:50):
in like.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah, we have a discounted pricing structure.
So just the more you buy, themore you save.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, so you can buy things in like 10 packs.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
We used to always sell everything in 10 packs, and
now this year we're offering a10 pack, a 20 pack and a 50 pack
.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
So it's worth checking out.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
We have all kinds of people that have been ordering,
whether you're a flower farmeror you have a couple of feet in
a raised bed, or if you want toput some ranunculus corms in a
big pot on your patio we haveyou covered.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah, and that's really good.
And you have tulips on there,as well as the ranunculus, the
anemones, you even have peonyroots, and these are all things
that you grow on the farm andyou're going to be growing these
same varieties Like these areone you order for the farm, yes,
but we've ordered additionalquantities to be able to share
(41:46):
and resell to anyone who wantsit, because you can't go to your
local garden center or a boxstore and get these varieties
Right right.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I don't really know that.
You know, ranunculus is noteven that common.
A lot of people don't even knowwhat it is until they see our
flowers blooming in spring, andthen that's everyone's favorite
flower, right?
I don't think they realize thatyou can grow them at home and
they do great, and we give youthe instructions on how to do
that.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
And they'll be growing the same plants right
along with you Now yours, on howto do that, and they'll be
growing the same plants rightalong with you, now yours,
depending on where they are inthe country.
Yours may bloom before theirsbecause we're further in the
south, you know that sort ofthing, but you're going to be
growing the exact same thingthat you grow on the flower farm
.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
So I have a question because I feel like our
listeners probably are askingthis because I don't know it.
Okay, it's not a tuber.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
It's not a bulb, it's a corm.
Ranunculus is a corm and so areanemones.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
But explain what that is.
It's like a tuber, it's justdifferent.
Yeah, it's just a differentstructure than a tuber or a bulb
.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Okay, you know, you've heard of like rhizomes
yes, another one, it's justdifferent, but it's basically an
energy source root, like a seed, like a root, like a root, but
more like a root.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
But it has enough energy that it'll sprout.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Okay, the plant in the spring.
So it's a bulb, it's likeWesley, has a horticulture.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, I should know the difference between these.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
I honestly should this is taught.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Definition A bulb is more like an onion.
Yes, like layers yes.
Corms have different structures, but it's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
See a ranunculus corm almost looks like a little
octopus, yeah.
And then an anemone corm lookslike an acorn, yeah, so they're.
They don't look anything alike.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
So it really is hard to explain okay, what a corm is
okay, but I just feel likepeople would would what you're
saying Corms are usually smaller.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Gladiolus are corms Right.
Oh, are they yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yeah, okay, so I've dug those up, so they're just a.
It's a different shape of atuber basically Right or a bulb.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
You can pass it off by saying bulb, no one would
know the difference.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Pass it off by saying bulb, but no one would know the
difference.
It's just, that's technicallyaccurate?
Speaker 1 (44:01):
okay, yeah, and I think it has to do with what is
like stored in in the source thecorn or the bulb um, sort of
thing like a.
Um, like tulips and daffodils,those are bulbs.
They develop their flower inthe bulb.
(44:22):
Really, yeah, if yourefrigerate a, it's really easy
to see on, like paper whites ordaffodils.
If you refrigerate one, andbefore you plant it, if you cut
it in half, you can see the tinyflower bud in the bulb and I
think, like corm, send up aplant and then bloom.
It's just the different makeupof the structure.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Here's the definition from the dictionary A corm is a
rounded underground storageorgan present in plants such as
crocus, gladiola and cyclamens,consisting of a swollen stem
base covered with scale leaves.
I don't know about that lastpart how do you spell it C-O-R-M
, c-o-r-m.
(45:04):
Corm, but every time I say iton Instagram, it autocorrects
Shaped corn.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Corm.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
I've just, I honestly have never heard the
terminology corm.
I mean tubers of course, bulbsof course Right, so it's just a
different.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Here's another definition.
What's the distinct differencebetween a rhizome and corm?
The main distinction betweenbulbs, corms, tubers and
rhizomes is that bulbs aremodified leaves that store
nutrients, whereas corms areswollen stem bases.
There you go, which that doesmake sense, because on
(45:47):
ranunculus and anemones like the, stem goes straight down and
like attaches to the corm,whereas bulbs are leafier things
.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, they come out Leafs.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, the leaves come out.
Yeah, that makes sense.
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah, but all of them have leaves that come out first
before the flower.
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
But it probably turns into the stem.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, but yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
It appears to be a leaf, but it turns into the stem
.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Well, you, you know, like an autumn fern in the
spring Sends up.
But, that's not a stem, that'sa leaf.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
It just looks like a stem until it unfurls Nevermind,
so anyway.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
We went down that path.
But, somebody you know.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Someone learned something new, because they
didn't know what that was, andwe still don't, but at least
we've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
But somebody out there was confused too.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Corm sprout stems from the top and buds form on
the stem.
So it's like that kind ofstructure where a bulb sends up
the bloom from within the bulb.
So there you go, all rightMoving on.
Anyway, I'm jumping out now.
That was interesting.
That was some food for thought,so okay.
(47:04):
So you have your fall bulb salegoing on.
You can find that also atPetalPickerscom.
There and grab your fall bulbs.
They'll start shipping inOctober, peonies in November and
who doesn't want those gorgeouspeonies?
I mean, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I will say I get a lot of questions about people
who have condos and stuff andthey want to plant.
They want to order from us, butthey want to plant it on a
patio in a container, Right.
And so peonies are the onething that we just don't
recommend you planting in a potor container.
It's not, it's never going tothrive there.
It would have to be a huge pot.
(47:41):
It wants to be in the ground.
But you can definitely growanemones, ranunculus and tulips
in a large terracotta pot orglazed container.
They're going to do fine, aslong as they have great drainage
.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Peonies are super in, in my opinion, because I've
always grown when I had a house,when you had a yard.
A yard, they um, they're easy.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
As long as they're in the right soil, you know the
right place, they're easy, youdon't want peonies to get to
stay wet all winter, like youwant the water to be able to
drain.
So if you notice after a rainyou have a wet spot in the yard,
that is not where you want toplant a peony It'll never be
happy but somewhere else that'sa little raised up, drain's good
(48:28):
Full sun.
All of our bulbs for our fallbulb sale want full sun.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Yeah, they want to get warmed up in the early
spring, and that'll make themthrive.
So, think Italy yeah, get yourranunculus.
So then what else is going onon the farm?
So it's, we're going intodahlia season, so you're going
to be in that.
You're growing some otherthings too, like mums, right,
we're growing heirloom mums thisyear.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
So everyone can see that right now they're just
green plants.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
We are still growing them, but that is something
we're really excited about.
We did a trial last year andkind of selected some of our
favorite varieties of heirloommums and now we've grown an
entire tunnel full of them and Ican't wait to show everyone,
because mumsums, especially likethese heirloom mums, are just
(49:20):
different and that's what's coolabout them they're.
They have different flowerstructures.
Some are big, some are small.
it just kind of covers likethat's a big family of plants
but, we've selected some thatare going to look really great
in fall arrangements, likebronze ones, chocolate ones.
How big are they?
(49:41):
The flowers?
Speaker 1 (49:44):
They're large.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
They're pretty large, some of ours yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
It's not like the mums you get from box stores or
your garden center for falldisplay.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
These are big that's what's different, that's with
ours being heirloom mums.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
They're more of a show flower.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
More of a showy flower.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
yeah, I mean they're like the size of a sunflower
that you would have in anarrangement.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
There's certain practices you can do to make
them get even larger.
They love fertilizers, so themore you fertilize them, the
bigger they're going to get.
And then you can disbud soit'll send up like a spray.
It's going to want to branch onall the stems, but if you
disbud it where you just leavethe center, one bloom on the
whole stem, that's going to makethat flower actually be a lot
(50:31):
larger than if you allowed it tohave multiple flowers on one
stem.
Yeah, I feel like it's all theenergy into one flower instead
of like seven or eight, I feellike moms, especially like those
that are showy.
I feel like they're probably,when you see that written,
they're probably discounted bythe moms that you get at like a
(50:52):
box store you know that you, youknow the yellow, the typical
mom right yeah, when you seethese flowers, it's more like
one you've never seen before,and some of them are so cool and
distinct and different youwouldn't even know it's a mum
just by looking at it.
You'd be like what flower?
Speaker 1 (51:11):
what is that?
And that's what's really coolabout specialty flower farming
coming back as an industry inthe US, because it really has
since you started eight yearsago.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
It is coming back in a big way and it's making all
these different flowersavailable across the country
that people have never seenbefore.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
They don't even know what it is Because for so long
and still is today, but for solong all the flowers came, were
imported mainly.
And so they're growing yourstandard flowers that they know
will ship so well.
They have to go through thesupply chain, and it can be days
and days, and days over a weekbefore it makes it from the
(51:56):
field to the store and then tothe end consumer.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
And some just get a bad rap.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
And so that eliminated a lot of cool flowers
that are really awesome,because maybe they don't travel
well.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
Yeah, they're breeding more for them to last
in a box and to last two weeksafter it's gone through the
transportation system.
And so I know people get rosesfor Valentine's Day and they say
, oh, I just love the smell ofroses.
Yeah, you're not smelling.
what a rose is supposed to smelllike You're smelling flower
(52:33):
petals.
Yeah, that's the scent.
You could go to any floweranywhere and it just smells like
plant.
But people associate it.
You know the roses that I justlove that smell.
A real, true garden rose smellslike perfume, it's sweet, it's
(52:54):
overpowering.
And all of that has been bredout of the flowers that are
imported into the country.
Right, because for them to getthe genetics for that flower to
last three weeks, they had tolet go of other genes Just
during the breeding process.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
It's crazy.
So it's so fun to see you know,with us having the garden store
and stuff, it's so fun to seethese flowers coming back, these
heirloom flowers, and well, Ihave a great example.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
yes, I've hated hated lilies for so long because that
is a great example.
It is a great example, I think,because it's funeral flower,
it's that's what you like.
I do not want a lily anywherenear me.
This is the way I've been foryears, because that is what they
(53:43):
were used for Casket sprays,funeral flowers, right, and your
lilies, oh my word, amazing.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
Yeah, and double pollenless lilies oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
It is one of the most exotic, beautiful looking
flowers I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
I'm trying to get my hands on some bulbs so that we
can sell them in our spring bulbsale.
But they're honestly, they'vebecome so popular so quick.
They're not old, they're onlylike.
I don't.
I'm making up a number, butthey haven't been around that
long.
I haven't even had access tothem except just a few years For
these double lilies, and ittakes a long time to multiply
(54:23):
the bulbs to be able to supplydemand.
All the flower farmers acrossthe country are trying to get
their hands on these lilies, sowe'll see if I'm in a gap.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
They're a wow.
I mean, I have my bulbsupplier's cell phone number.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
They're a wow, we're buddies.
I mean, that takes lilies fromfuneral flower to a beautiful
wedding flower.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
I sell them for weddings here and the wedding
florist liked them.
Yeah, that blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
I wish you could almost name some of these
flowers, like give them adifferent name, like drop the
lily part, drop the part it is alily they would.
You know, there is the stigmawith some of these flowers.
Speaker 3 (55:04):
Like you're talking about same with gladiolus oh my
gosh, but I just posted on myinstagram I love it we're
ordering it.
I do actually love gladiolus oh, I love.
I have nothing really againstthem, but a lot of people scream
funeral flower Right To me whensomeone says that I get it, but
(55:24):
also I'm like you're thinking afuneral arrangement from a
regular tourist.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Glads don't really make me think of that.
Glads make me think of mygrandmother Right.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
They grew them.
Speaker 3 (55:37):
Yeah, that's true, it is so true but they've come out
with all new colors and creamsand peaches and, like it,
changes the way you think aboutirises too in our glads that
we're bringing in.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Some of them have double peddled, so it did they
do different and I and I guessthe glads last longer.
Yeah, they're coming fresh.
Yeah, the glads last longerbecoming fresh.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, the glads, the lilies they do.
They have a long base life, sothere's a lot of value in that
and they're perennial here inthe south.
It kind of depends on where youlive if it'll come back every
year.
If the bulb can freeze in theground.
Speaker 1 (56:12):
But here they come back.
Glads do very well here, verywell.
I'm so glad you're growingthose.
I forgot.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
I know I forgot to mention the lily.
This is the first time we'vetalked about the lilies, but I
was at the store and I saw thelilies and I said, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (56:31):
I only got compliments because we ship some
.
We had a few weeks where we hadenough extra that we weren't
selling to wedding florists andso we offered them on our
website and I got complimentsfrom those because people said
they lasted forever.
They were stunning.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
And they're exotic looking.
They're not.
They don't look like anythingyou saw at your grandmother's
funeral.
They're completely different,right?
So we have to change ourmindset on the old school.
You know, mom lilies all that,it's not the same right,
especially with the.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
You know the specially cut flowers and you
gotta.
And when you arrange itgorgeous in your house, you're
not gonna think you know flowerbut I feel like now we have to
scream that because so manypeople Things get bad rap.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I'm excited about that.
So I think that's going to wrapup this week's episode.
Did you have anything elsegoing on on the farm you wanted
(57:28):
to share with us before we kickyou out of this?
Speaker 3 (57:30):
We got a lot going on at the farm, but I'm ready to
get back to it.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, so you can keep up with Daniel on Instagram at
Petal Pickers I'll put hishandle down in the comments
below as well, if you're notalready following him and he
shows you, like day to day, whathe's doing on the farm, what's
being planted, what's you knowbeing harvested, which I think
is really cool, because if youfollow Daniel regularly on the
(57:56):
Instagram, you can see like, oh,he's planting this now and then
, depending on what it is, itmight be months later.
You can see him harvesting itand you can go oh, I remember
when he was planting that and itwas just, you know, not even a
sprout yet, or whatever.
Speaker 3 (58:12):
And I try to be relatable because stuff happens
all the time on the farm.
I tell people all the time whenthey say I don't have a green
thumb, I say, well, who does?
I kill just as many plants as Igrow beautiful flowers with,
like that's gardening is part ofit.
So I'm here to show everyonelike, hey, I kill plants too.
(58:33):
You just keep doing it Right,then you can have.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
Some things just don't like us.
Yeah, that's true.
The next one will Well you haveto learn what grows really well
In your home and in your yard,and even if you move up the
street it's going to bedifferent.
Speaker 3 (58:47):
And it should be fun.
That's part of it.
Speaker 1 (58:50):
Trial and error, trial and error.
Watch you and see what you do.
You, you can talk to people.
Speaker 3 (58:55):
If you find someone else that loves to garden, kind
of have like a little connectiongoing on and say oh, you know,
what do you like growing you?
Speaker 2 (59:02):
started out with your whole gardening love of
gardening, I mean.
I distinctly remember itpropagating.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (59:09):
That's where it all started.
It started with the donkey'sear Right.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Oh yeah, At our old house that's where it started
and then it went to clivia.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
Clivia's Plants we still grow those from seed.
Speaker 1 (59:23):
That's when we were at our old little bungalow.
Speaker 3 (59:25):
And it only takes like five years for it to bloom,
yeah, yeah, he would be like oh.
Speaker 1 (59:31):
I'm going to plant these.
It only takes five years tobloom.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
And I'm like I ain't waiting five years for nothing,
but he does no, I I get myclivius when they're ready with
their blooming for day.
I'm like, oh, I want one nowyeah.
Speaker 1 (59:46):
So yeah, do you have any new ones out there?
Speaker 3 (59:49):
no, um, I do have some plants, if you need one I
do it's time for a new yeah, allright.
Oh yeah, you killed the lastone.
That's okay.
It lasted years.
It's a really hearty plant.
Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
You should just keep it and then bring it.
Once it's done blooming, bringit back out here, to throw it in
the green house.
Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Throw it in the green house and get it out, yeah
that's true.
Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
That's true, we're out of town.
We're going to wrap this uptoday.
Thanks for listening.
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us on the farm and hang outwith us.
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