Who's Driving- Blooming Bulbs with Daniel from Petal Pickers

 This week on Who's Driving, Daniel from Petal Pickers joins the ride and we discuss how to get the best blooms from your tulips, daffodils, amaryllis, and paper whites.

   As the holiday season approaches, what could be better than adorning your home with fresh, fragrant greens?  We discuss what to do and what not to bother with when it comes to getting your cut greens last the longest

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Transcript

Generational Differences and Language Usage

Speaker 1 0:00

Come on get in.

Speaker 2 0:02

We got a full car today. I know we got my hubby joining us and you're looking. All kinds of fun back there, ooh thank you Really.

Speaker 1 0:12

You need to get your eyes checked. I don't think he does.

Speaker 2 0:15

It's time, it's time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.

Speaker 1 0:22

And I'm Stephen Merk. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.

Speaker 2 0:25

Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.

Speaker 1 0:31

These are the stories we share in topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip.

Speaker 2 0:37

Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.

Speaker 1 0:45

Buckle up and enjoy the ride. You never know who's driving, or?

Speaker 2 0:49

where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride and on this week's episode we have my hubby, daniel from Petal Pickers joining us and we're going to talk about bulbs. Holiday bulbs fall bulbs.

Speaker 3 1:04

That's right. It's been a while since I've been on, but now it's time. We're going to talk all about tulips and how you can put them in your refrigerator to have better blooms in spring if you live in the South. We're going to talk about daffodils. Amarillo's, that's right.

Speaker 2 1:22

Paper, whites, all kinds, all kinds of fun things.

Speaker 1 1:25

The holiday bulbs are. You know? I say this every season. I'm like oh, this is my favorite. And then the next season.

Speaker 2 1:33

I'm like oh, I think this is it I know I say that like weekly about whatever flowers blooming. Before we get there, though, I was scrolling through social media and I saw a new little topic that we need to talk about. Did you know? Evidently for Gen Z? You know there's all these generation things. Which Gen Z? I need to look this up.

Speaker 3 1:54

What generation is everybody?

Speaker 1 1:56

I'm Gen X.

Speaker 2 1:57

Okay, so Gen X and I'm borderline Gen X and millennials Like. Gen X is technically 1965 to 1980 and millennials are 1981 to 1996. You're a man, you're, so I was born in 81, but technically I get to go in the Gen X because I'm the youngest. Like if you have older siblings then you get to go in that like one, because all of my stuff was passed down from the older generation, like I still had the Tonka trucks that were metal and would cut your fingers and you have the work ethic of a Gen X.

Speaker 3 2:38

Yeah, so Well, I'm a true millennial yeah because, and I know a lot of people my age that I went to school with. They were lazy. Yeah, I don't know how I'm not lazy.

Speaker 1 2:49

Because of Wesley.

Speaker 3 2:50

No.

Speaker 2 2:51

No, he's naturally not.

Speaker 3 2:52

I've had a job since I was like 15.

Speaker 2 2:54

That's true. I think my parents just pushed it.

Speaker 1 2:56

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 2:58

None of my brothers are lazy either.

Speaker 1 2:59

You always worked, that is true.

Speaker 2 3:01

So you're a true millennial. Millennials are 1981 to 1996. And then Gen Z is 1997 to 2012. So on social media I saw someone talking about this. Like in their work culture or whatever Gen Z now thinks it's offensive if you put a period at the end of a Senate. What Like when they have these work communication things you know everyone uses, like chats and messaging systems. Now they find that offensive.

Speaker 3 3:35

Like I put exclamation points at the end of everything that means you're yelling when I do an email and I have to go back and edit it and sometimes I will literally have to remove like six to eight exclamation points. But I think that's just my, it's excitement, it's being a homo and just everything's exciting.

Speaker 1 3:54

Yes, yes, it's dramatic. You don't mean it yelling, you mean it excitement, yeah.

Speaker 2 4:00

So yes, that was the thing.

Speaker 1 4:03

Wow, what's the reason? That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard here should I play it?

Speaker 2 4:07

Let's see if I can play it.

Speaker 4 4:09

I don't hear a text, friends, and we're texting and you put a period at the end of your sentence. What's that? Probably a Gen Z thing, because I didn't realize that putting a period at the end of a sentence is rude. We're doing like this thing at work where you're supposed to give like open feedback to someone on the spot, and I had someone, a Gen Z, who was paired up with me and they're basically like I find it rude. When you like, send me messages on the internal message system, because you always put periods at the end of thing, periods in the end of things, literal periods on the end of sentences, proper grammar, and they're like, yeah, like it's rude and Twen is using proper grammar. Rude If we're friends.

Speaker 1 4:41

I don't think that's the dumbest thing.

Speaker 2 4:44

And I hate.

Speaker 1 4:45

I hate whoever that person was.

Speaker 2 4:47

That said that, but in the comments it's like a common thing, so yeah it's yeah, but we're missing the explanation.

Speaker 3 4:54

It's just rude period yeah but it's correct.

Speaker 2 4:59

Well, the comments are very funny, but yes, it's like you're being.

Speaker 1 5:06

It's the end. Yeah, this is what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 5:08

You're being too direct or something stern.

Speaker 1 5:12

Well, I usually am being direct. That works out. That's exactly how I'm in it, period.

Speaker 2 5:21

They found them aggressive. This person said my 24 year old daughter informed me that periods were aggressive.

Speaker 1 5:28

Well, I can go with that too. I'm good with that I can be aggressive.

Speaker 3 5:34

Is it Gen Z? Yeah, that's the younger one on TikTok, and one of their sayings is period yeah, and they say that over and over. That's kind of the opposite effect, though.

Speaker 1 5:46

Yeah, I don't know. I just want to punch them in the face. Whoever said that?

Speaker 2 5:50

Well, that's all of Gen Z, evidently.

Speaker 1 5:54

OK, they need help.

Speaker 2 5:55

Well, a lot of us need help.

Speaker 3 5:57

So that's, I'm going to side with the Gen Z and just be with the younger crowd.

Speaker 2 6:02

Oh good, you do that. We're going to beat your ass in a minute. Be off.

Speaker 3 6:07

That Don't tempt me with a good time Right.

Speaker 2 6:14

OK, I have another one that's kind of a long generational type thing, and I think you fall into one and then, like Daniel, and I fall into another.

Speaker 4 6:26

Speaking of you call me old.

Speaker 2 6:28

No, it's just how you.

Speaker 4 6:29

He sure is.

Speaker 2 6:30

He did. No, it's how you view things. How do you feel about being called sweetie or hun?

Speaker 1 6:39

I think it's completely sweet and I think it's hospitable and I love it.

Speaker 4 6:46

I can use an example.

Speaker 3 6:48

Let me say what I think.

Speaker 1 6:49

Let me, let me use an example. Ok, this is a McDonald's example. This real world happened to me. So I was an owner and I own the one right here next to your house, and I was in the restaurant working on paperwork, in the lobby which where I spent, you know, 12 hours of my life, seven days a week, and a McDonald's corporate person, which happened to be from California not knocking anybody, but not from the South, right, you know was doing her job in field service, checking out restaurants, and she rolled through my drive through.

Speaker 2 7:27

Mm, hmm.

Speaker 1 7:28

And she parked and came in and she was like hi, I just wanted to let you know I just came through your drive through. I had great service, it was very fast, the food was awesome and she's like. But I wanted to let you know that your your cashier in the first window called me, sweetie, like three times. I said oh my gosh, thank you for telling me. I said I will. I'll give her a pat on the back for that because I knew where she was going with me.

Speaker 1 7:58

She was like, um, you're okay with her calling your customer sweetie? I said, yep, sure I am. I said, not only am I okay with it, I really appreciate it and I encourage it because this is South Carolina and that's what we do.

Speaker 2 8:13

Okay, because she offended me. Yeah, before, and I know, before Daniel gets into his. I think there's two things going on with, like sweetie and hun and how you feel about it. I feel like there is a Southern thing and then there's a generational thing as well.

Speaker 1 8:30

And you can use it in a sarcastic manner. Right, and you can use it in a disrespective manner to women.

Speaker 2 8:37

Well, okay, so how do you feel about it, Daniel?

Speaker 3 8:40

Okay. So if grandma says, hun, that's fine, right, that is acceptable, but that is in its own thing. If anyone else and I've actually got it a lot at Drive Thruz, which is random, yeah, if someone says sweetie, hun, cutie, that is so trashy to me, like, did you just jump off the stripper pole? I'm not sure, like redneck that's how I feel about it.

Speaker 2 9:10

Yeah, that's just a generation, and so I feel like kind of along the lines like we have some older customers who will come in and it's very endearing if they call it, like I think, hun or sweetie. But you have to be like you have to be like in your 80s.

Speaker 2 9:28

And then I'm like oh sweet grandma called me sweetie and hun. Yeah, if you are anything like, especially if you're like in your 40s, probably 50s or younger and you call me, that it's icky to me and like, if you do it to someone like Stephen uses it a lot like you call people hun and sweetie. And if you do it to like, like when we're eating at a restaurant and the waitress or waiter or whoever brings over something and you're like thanks sweetie, thanks hun, that's cringe, it is so cringy to me and it feels like to me, like you're talking down to that person.

Speaker 3 10:07

The me too movement. Yeah, I thought we stopped that. Yeah, like why?

Speaker 2 10:11

are you calling this person sweetie or hun?

Speaker 1 10:15

It's all how you do it, though I think if you're a perfect, it makes me want to crawl into the table.

Speaker 2 10:22

I think it's all different generations and where you come from.

Speaker 3 10:25

Yeah, it makes sense If you're.

Speaker 1 10:28

There's two sides to the coin, but I think and I think it's all how you do it If you're a creepy old man and you're in his Well, that's what you are?

Speaker 4 10:37

No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 10:38

But if you're saying it in a pervy kind of flirtatious way. Yeah, that's not appropriate. But as a gay man, I think you get a pass on that with with.

Speaker 2 10:50

I don't know, it's still it. It like when you say it and we're at restaurants, I get secondhand embarrassment like sitting at the table. I'm just like oh.

Speaker 1 10:59

I never stop it because I'm so southern, it's just I know.

Speaker 2 11:03

And you're going to be that creepy old man.

Speaker 1 11:05

Probably, but I'm okay with that.

Speaker 2 11:08

So let us know if you're listening. How do you feel like as a person if someone out in the public calls you hun or sweetie and not talking down, Not in a, like you said? There is the pervy kind of way to use it.

Speaker 1 11:24

There's an inappropriate way to be like no sweetie, that's not how we do things around here. That is being ugly.

Speaker 2 11:33

Aggressive Passive.

Speaker 1 11:34

That's being ugly. I'm talking if somebody's handing me a drink out the window at a fast food and they say have a good day, hun.

Speaker 2 11:43

I'm like well then I go back, like in that situation, I go back to what Daniel said, and that's redneck.

Speaker 1 11:48

Yeah, yeah, but we're in South Carolina Like thanks.

Speaker 2 11:52

thanks, hun, like I see your cigarette hanging out of your mouth and thanks hun Drinking a.

Speaker 1 11:59

Pepsi, yeah, I think it depends on where you are. Would I say that in New York City, no, okay Well, but in South Carolina at the Waffle House, you're good.

Speaker 3 12:11

I think all is true and I think it's different coming from a man versus a female Right.

Speaker 2 12:19

And.

Speaker 1 12:20

I wouldn't also probably wouldn't do it at Hall's Shop House because it's a more formal dinner experience.

Speaker 3 12:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2 12:28

And I think it's the, you know where you are, yeah, but if it's not appropriate for there, then why is it appropriate?

Speaker 1 12:34

It's more casual.

Speaker 3 12:36

You know, what I would just do instead is like thanks, girl. Is that the new equivalent?

Speaker 1 12:42

That could be offensive too.

Speaker 2 12:45

I don't know, I just say thank you, thank you. I don't why do you need the hun or the sweetie or whatever, but let us know how you feel. Our hotline number is 864-982-5029. It's also in the show notes down below. And text us or call us. How do you feel about that?

Speaker 1 13:02

But I bet you, that's just something I wanted to say and I think, as long as it's you're not doing it in a condescending way, I think, I think, and it also I wouldn't, I would never use it in written form because you can't tell how it's being delivered.

Speaker 2 13:17

Okay, you know, like I said, especially if you're Well, if there's all these exceptions and rules, you probably just shouldn't use it.

Speaker 1 13:25

No, there's exceptions to everything. Yeah, but there's like a lot of going on.

Speaker 2 13:30

It's Southern. Okay, let's get into some holiday things, and you brought up something right before we were starting this.

Speaker 1 13:38

That's wrong.

Tips for Preserving Fresh Garland

Speaker 2 13:39

That you've seen going around social media. We love to call out the social media. We need to have a segment for it. I don't know what it's called. The social media screw ups, uh-huh, misinformation. Misinformation on social media, and this is the perfect time to discuss it, because we're headed into the holiday season.

Speaker 1 13:56

Yeah, so everyone or a lot, not everyone uses fresh greens, which I love. That's what I prefer.

Speaker 2 14:05

For decorating, yeah.

Speaker 1 14:07

But they do try out and you know you've got fire concerns, yada, yada yada.

Speaker 2 14:11

Especially in the south.

Speaker 1 14:12

In the south it's harder.

Speaker 2 14:14

Yeah, because we're warm.

Speaker 1 14:16

Yes, and it's more costly. But so I'm going through Instagram and this lady is doing a little informative reel on Garland's. She's like oh, so it soaked them in water above a big tub of water for at least 24 hours.

Speaker 2 14:38

For your bathtub or whatever.

Speaker 1 14:41

And then you just pull it out and just shake it off and let it dry for 30 minutes and then you put it up and I'm like this is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

Speaker 2 14:52

Well, first of all, at the garden store, we've dealt with garlands and wreaths and that sort of thing for 14, 15 years yeah, 15 years.

Speaker 1 15:01

And I did it at garden centers before and growing up fresh greens all the time, because you had places to cut it, it was free.

Speaker 2 15:09

Right, I think people misunderstand the science behind cutting your greens and that sort of thing or the timeline or the timeline or that sort of thing. First of all, once you cut them, they're on their way out. It's just how long can you make them stay good? Soaking them, like you've seen, really isn't a bad idea. So you can soak them. It will help hydrate them.

Speaker 3 15:37

It's definitely not hurting anything?

Speaker 2 15:39

It's definitely not hurting anything to give them a good little hydration. However, that hydration that you give them, that's only going to last them maybe three days, like you're not really buying any extra One Jevity.

Speaker 1 15:53

And the other thing is it depends on when they were cut. If they were cut a week ago, 10 days ago, and you soak them, you're they're not doing anything because they're sealed, right the stem, the stems are sealed and you're really not doing anything.

Speaker 2 16:06

So when you cut something with all flowers or plants or that sort of thing, especially pine. When you cut them, then they start to callus over, Just like our skin. Yeah, just like our skin, they start to scab over. That's where the you know sap hardens on the end of the stem and so that's not taking up any water. Now they can take up some water through the foliage and that sort of thing, but really, you're, it's kind of like it's not quite as bad as washing the pumpkins and giving them them that because that can make them rot.

Speaker 2 16:38

You're not causing any damage, but you're really not helping them out.

Speaker 1 16:42

But my biggest concern with it is telling people just let them dry for 30 minutes. Well then, you got water dripping, you've got water dripping on your mantle, you could ruin pieces of furniture.

Speaker 3 16:53

Right. So I'm like if you have a big piece of garland, right?

Speaker 1 16:57

So if you choose to do that, you need to let it dry for at least 24 hours outside to get all that moisture out, so you don't damage something in your house.

Speaker 2 17:07

But you're not creating any longevity for the garland because you've already cut it.

Speaker 1 17:12

And it's not going to last a week longer than it would have.

Speaker 3 17:16

And let's be real, like there's certain things that are just going to be not worth the hassle.

Speaker 2 17:21

So yeah, why make it?

Speaker 3 17:22

complicated If you're bringing garland inside your home and you have the heat turned on. If you turn on your fireplace, you are instantly drying out your air inside your house. If you turn on your fireplace and you have fresh garland, not even above the fireplace, say it's on your like stairwell across the room, across the room across the house. Your fire is literally sucking the moisture out of your garland and the other side of the room. Right, because that's just how air works.

Speaker 1 17:52

And personally, if you're in the South or you keep your house warmer or you have a fireplace, I would go with Magnolia, because Magnolia to me looks good, good as it yeah. As it dries out, or boxwood, boxwood to boxwood, and Magnolia really hold their their look longer.

Speaker 2 18:13

Yeah, so the biggest key to getting it to last the longest is to keeping it cool and that's why, like up north, you know outside they do like porch pots that they're cut greenery.

Speaker 3 18:23

They literally have to throw it out still looking good just because of a change of holidays or seasons, right?

Speaker 1 18:30

I would love that.

Speaker 2 18:31

I wouldn't love anything else no you wouldn't, because it's cold, it's not wet the trade.

Speaker 1 18:36

I know it's not, but I'm saying that they have snow in April.

Speaker 3 18:39

But it would be so pretty.

Speaker 1 18:40

Yeah, it would be pretty, it's not worth the snow and cold Right.

Speaker 2 18:44

There are a few products that we've used at the garden shop that can help up a little bit with the longevity of your cut plants. Cut greens Again. Is it worth the hassle of doing it? Who knows, is it really worth it? To me I'm all about let's just do what's easy. Let's cut it and enjoy it. Cut it and enjoy it.

Speaker 2 19:08

Why do you want to go through all this other process to make it complicated? Then it's not as fun. But if you want to do that, there are some products, if you want to look them up, called like no wilt wilt proof, wilt stop, and basically you can spray this on the plant or you can mix this in, like we used to do this for our wreaths at the garden shop and we would mix it in like a baby pool of water and dunk the wreath and what this does is it seals up the wreaths and the greenery, the garland, whatever. It seals it up completely so it traps in the moisture, right. That can make a difference. But that's a pain still. But is it worth it? Yeah, it's still expensive.

Speaker 1 19:51

It is expensive. I tell you the best thing that we have, which goes back to the north versus the south is now with our wreaths at the garden store. We keep them in the walking cooler Right that. Yeah, keeping them cool we never had such pretty wreaths as we had last year, right Ever.

Speaker 4 20:11

Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 20:12

I think they were well made from the farmer that makes them, but they were also in that, cooler.

Speaker 2 20:18

Right, and that's why they last so well up north, because they have cool weather. I mean here we can have like one day it may be 60 and the next day it may be 80.

Speaker 1 20:29

Oh yeah, Hell, it confuses me. I don't know what to wear. One day I'm naked. The next day I'm wearing a fur coat.

Speaker 3 20:35

I've always thought it's interesting the whole wreath and garland industry to begin with.

Speaker 2 20:40

Right.

Speaker 3 20:41

We live so close, although I mean it's still at six or something hours away, but to Boone, north Carolina, and that is the headquarter of the entire country of Frazier fur which is the most coveted evergreen for Christmas.

Speaker 1 20:57

So pretty so it's.

Speaker 3 20:59

if you go up there, it's just mountains and mountains of people have planted Frazier fur and it grows really well up there and if you ever go up there the week of Thanksgiving, it is like a sight to see, because it is literally thousands of 18 wheelers that are all there picking up their orders to go across this entire country.

Speaker 1 21:21

Yeah, frazier fur, and they have the prettiest Christmas trees ever because of the elevation.

Speaker 3 21:27

But it's such a big industry in such a small community, I mean because it's way up in the mountains, it's just a ski community.

Speaker 1 21:35

Yeah, other than this, yeah.

Speaker 3 21:37

Yeah, and, but anyways, wesson, have you ever gone up there and picked up.

Speaker 1 21:42

I have never. I regret never going. I'm glad I didn't a few times when you got stuck for like six hours in line.

Speaker 3 21:50

But it's nothing really impressive to see like from the outside of the buildings. But they have like mega warehouses that are like acres big and they bring in this huge community of immigrant workers to, like, just for two months, run these operations Right. And they have like coolers that are how tall, like two stories tall, yeah, just huge coolers full of Christmas trees, wreaths and garland that they cut, starting it like the end of September, yeah, and they have automatic misters, they have their in coolers, like everyone's wearing gloves, mittens, layers, layers.

Speaker 3 22:34

It's crazy. Working in 37 degree coolers? Yeah, for two months.

Speaker 1 22:39

But see, that's the key. That's why I'm all we're cool. Yeah, that's why our reese are so good now, because there's a cooler Right.

Speaker 3 22:45

But we also, we use a farm to really cut it fresh, fresh, right around Thanksgiving. They're making it as fast as they can, whereas All this stuff at the box stores we're not joking, we've seen it in person that stuff is cut at the end of summer which you can look at it until I can.

Speaker 1 23:05

The quality, and I'm like I mean they already have the needles falling.

Speaker 3 23:08

But that's what they have to do.

Speaker 1 23:10

They're, you know because of the, yeah Well, the quantity that they have to ship it. They have such volume, there's no choice yeah.

Speaker 2 23:17

So it is best if you can go to a local tree farm, not one that's set up but like an actual tree farm not like a, you know a local like a local family, and those tend to be smaller operations and they are fresh.

Speaker 1 23:32

The easiest thing to do is just go on our website, the nested figcom, and just order a foe.

Speaker 2 23:38

Yeah, and we're going to offer some the real ones as well, so the fresh ones from our retail stores. The foe are more economical because they you know when you buy good ones, but I love the smell of fresh ones.

Speaker 1 23:51

Like I do too. But you can use the foe and mix in the fresh, the fresh I think it's nice just to.

Speaker 3 23:58

wherever you can mix in a little fresh, just do it.

Speaker 1 24:02

If you pull it off.

Speaker 3 24:02

You want to get some cedar and tuck it into your dining table for the holidays. Or if you want to have a fresh wreath on your door, but an artificial tree somewhere, you can mix in fresh and I just think that's where you can get. You can order a scented candle. It's either way, but they do smell good, yeah.

Speaker 2 24:22

Whatever works for you. But, yeah, I like to add in and that's what we were saying last night during the live sale we did a tour, holiday tour of our house. You can watch it inside the nested fig app. But I was saying there's a couple of places that I'm going to come back and add in some fresh, just a touch here and there. But closer to the season, like after Thanksgiving, yeah, and I'm going to do the same.

Speaker 2 24:46

So let's talk about speaking of holidays and tips and that sort of thing let's talk about. Well, first of all, let's do a little farm check in, because I get asked now what's Daniel do now that the growing season's done?

Speaker 3 24:59

I know I'm joking, but I'm sure you get asked because you've only walked out on the farm like six times a year which is hilarious to me. I've been very bad about.

Speaker 3 25:10

And I tell Wesley is who I come and vent to and tell him. So he literally knows everything every day that's going on the farm, like he knows. But it is funny I've been messing with him about not going out there with the Instagram and showing off the farm on his end of things. Not that he has to, but I'm just like, dude, you have a flower farm outside your front door, Well, and we're getting questions every day about bulbs.

Speaker 1 25:38

That's why we really, I mean every day, every live, which is fine, but I mean it's nice.

Speaker 3 25:44

They are a hangary for some holiday. They are ready.

Speaker 2 25:47

But before we do that, so tell us what's your rundown now to the end of the year.

Speaker 3 25:52

Well, so we just had our first freeze on the farm last week, and that ends our season. There are things we could do to extend our season, which is not too. We got a lot to get in the ground for next spring, right. So right now we're planting our little annual transplants like snap dragons or a layup you plurum dianthus. All of this stuff can go in the ground and grow outside all winter here.

Speaker 3 26:20

It doesn't grow tall throughout the winter, it's just sitting there, but it's actively growing roots on warmer days so that the plants have all the strength and energy they need when it does warm up in spring for them to shoot up and start blooming really fast, yeah, which is always so cool because I do walk out there.

Speaker 2 26:40

I feel like I go out to the farm more during the spring season, when I'm, like, ready for the flowers to start blooming.

Speaker 3 26:46

Spring is our busiest season and that's when we sell the most flowers, and it's something about just that reset and being in winter and everything's dull. I mean think, even in spring, when you get a 60 degree day, you're just like, oh, it's coming. Right it may still be two months away but you get excited for it.

Speaker 2 27:06

Yeah, but it's always impressive when I do walk out there and like the plants will be like four inches tall, I swear, and then like literally two weeks later, it's like a field. Yeah, they're like knee high and blooming and it's like how did that happen so quickly? Because they've just been sitting there ready to go getting their energy all winter. So I think that's one thing people don't understand, is the only thing that ends for you, really, at the end of the growing season is selling and marketing and harvesting of flowers and harvesting.

Speaker 2 27:39

Yeah, but the farm operates fully year round.

Speaker 3 27:43

Yep, we have employees all throughout winter and, like right now, we're cleaning up. There's a lot of projects to be done. We're going to do a new irrigation project this winter, just since the farm's expanded and grown. We got to reconnect some stuff and then we're building.

Speaker 1 27:58

We got a grant from the government for to build a new high tunnel, so that's going to be impressive and exciting, yeah, and how hard was it to get that grant, to get grants from the government, Because you know it's really I mean, it's hard to go to the DMV.

Speaker 3 28:13

Some can be really hard when you have to like write a grant, but this one is kind of facilitated through our local extension office. And so people are being paid to help me get that, so that this one was honestly just like applying and signing some paperwork. A couple of times they had to come to a site visit and approve what we were wanting to do, and then we have to pay for it up front, but we'll get reimbursed a set amount of money on the back.

Speaker 2 28:39

It won't cover the whole thing.

Speaker 1 28:40

Yeah, but anything helps.

Speaker 3 28:42

Yeah Well, I didn't even really need the high tunnel, I just thought you can use it. That's free money.

Speaker 1 28:48

Right, yeah, well, but you will use it. Yeah, you'll use it, oh yeah for sure.

Speaker 3 28:53

So we have a lot of stuff during the winter like that. And then I think start digging dowelia tubers literally today and tomorrow and it'll take us longer time to dig them all up. Right, but we have until we have all winter to dig them up. It's just nicer to do it now, when it's warm and dry.

Speaker 1 29:11

No, are those dowelia tubers to sail or to re propagate Both?

Speaker 3 29:16

So, yep, it's going to be. We're going to get the good pretty ones off of our clumps, which is usually like one or two per clump, and then the rest of it we just kind of hack in half and then store over winter and that's what we plant next year.

Speaker 2 29:29

So the pretty ones get shipped to people that which is so silly.

Speaker 3 29:34

I know I hate our industry because in Europe they don't do it like that. You get a chunk of tubers and you're happy and you plan it and honestly it's going to grow, it's going to grow better, being a clump of three tubers that aren't pretty, versus in America. I don't know the dowelia societies made it, but you know if that's how it is everybody.

Speaker 1 29:55

We play by the rules. Yeah, everybody wants everything pretty.

Speaker 2 29:58

Yeah, in the US it's a literal root with dirt on it. So I would. But they want it pretty If I were buying it.

Speaker 1 30:04

I would rather have it intact, personally, because I'm thinking it will do better yeah they'll all do the same, I mean, but it's just like. It's natural, though. Yeah, it's keeping it.

Speaker 2 30:14

It's all those things, and then you will start also like planting, because you started last year doing tulips hydroponically.

Speaker 3 30:24

Yes, In December we started, so you start planting those, getting our tulips ready, but right now we've already received all of our tulips for the season and we put them away in our cooler to give them cold storage. So this is a question we get a lot on Instagram from our customers is about tulips. They don't understand, like where, if you live up north, don't they perennialize? And so all the northerners see us throwing our tulip bulbs away after we cut the flowers and they're like are you not going to save those?

Planting Tulips and Daffodils

Speaker 3 30:57

Yeah, they get very distraught about there is a line in the sand, yeah, and if you are too warm, like us in South Carolina, our tulips don't get enough cold during the winter for them to form a flower inside the bulb, right? So what we do on our farm which makes us special is that we can offer Tulips for sale is we force them. So we're taking our tulip bulbs and putting them in our coolers for 16 weeks, four months. Yeah, in our walking coolers I literally built an extra cooler just to cool tulips and Then we plant them. So we plant our tulips at the end of December and throughout the month of January Outside, right, and then we're also potting them up to force them hydroponically in our workshop.

Speaker 3 31:46

Mm-hmm, but a lot of people don't understand that. So if you want about tulips from us, we have them available on our website at pedal pickers. Calm, we will ship you the tulips and then just immediately they're already bagged up. Just take the bag, toss it in the vegetable drawer of your refrigerator for a few more weeks and then in January you can plant them. Yeah, and that's if you live in the south, if you live up north, going and throw them in the ground, because the ground is Going to naturally be your refrigerator.

Speaker 2 32:15

Mm-hmm, that's the difference. So yeah, it's just the time lot.

Speaker 3 32:18

It's the amount of time of cooling that they need at 41 degrees. Right, that's the magic number. Yeah, it's almost the same with peonies. That's why in Miami, florida, they can't grow peonies is because they don't have enough days where the temperature is 41 degrees Whether it's at night or less for the peonies to form a flower right. So the peonies would grow leaves in Miami. They're not gonna blow, but they're never gonna bloom because there's not enough cold period, right.

Speaker 1 32:48

Well, last year was the first year of the hydroponic. Yeah, tulips.

Speaker 3 32:52

Yes, and it was a home run.

Speaker 1 32:55

It was nervous about they were what grabbed my attention first. They were gorgeous. Oh yeah, they were gorgeous and I feel like. I feel like they were a little taller, yeah, which is nice.

Speaker 3 33:08

So for some, hydroponically, you have to really dial down. Some varieties need 18 weeks, some need 17 weeks, some need 16. If one needs 18 weeks and you only give it 16 weeks of cooling, is gonna bloom shorter, yeah. So that's the key to having long stem tulips is to maximize their weeks of cooling right. So if you buy tulip bulbs at a garden center, you can take those and put them in your refrigerator and Make sure they've been cooled for 16 to 18 weeks and plant them in your garden. You're gonna have really tall.

Speaker 2 33:45

Yeah, okay, let's go back really quickly and let's define for the home gardener what they should do, because this is what we get on Instagram. They want to know when they should plant them and that sort of thing. So let's just recap, for if you bought bulbs today, november, and you get them in the home Gardener, how would you plant them up north, go ahead and stick them in the ground?

Speaker 3 34:08

Yep, right, when you get the tulip bulbs, come home from the garden center, put them in your raised beds and your containers in the ground. It doesn't matter when, would you say, up north is. I would say, take the top of Tennessee.

Speaker 3 34:22

Yeah, it's like not Tennessee, like anywhere north and I see in North and then draw that line Straight across the to the west coast, right and anywhere north of there. You can plant your tulip bulbs in the ground. They'll automatically get enough cooling. They will become perennials. They will bloom every year anywhere south of that. We just don't get cold enough in the winter, right? So not only is your tulip possibly gonna bloom short, but it's not gonna get enough cooling to form a good flower the next season or the next season, so it's not really gonna perennial eyes. Now, there's certain there's always.

Speaker 3 35:03

There's always exceptions and I'll just give this tip because they are commonly found if you get the Darwin Hybrid variety of tulips.

Speaker 4 35:12

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 35:12

They're single tulips, but they're large blooms, really pretty. We sell them on our website. Yeah, those actually have perennialized for us here on our farm. Yeah, so they will come back and bloom every year, but that's really the only one. I would recommend in the south is something about that varieties, genetics.

Speaker 2 35:31

It is less of a cool time. Yeah, just needs less, hmm. But if you're in the south, you buy tulips.

Speaker 3 35:37

Now you want to take them home put them in your refrigerator somewhere where they're not gonna freeze, yeah, but they can be. 33 is fine. So I just say your vegetable drawer, it's usually protected. Yeah, it helps. Keep your vegetables from freezing right and throw them in there, and then you don't know how long it's been and you really don't know right how long, how much cold you're gonna get in January, february.

Speaker 3 36:03

So if you're really concerned, like if you're buying them now at a box store, I would keep them in there for four months, yeah, and then plant them. What is that would be till. February, I would plant them before the end of February. Yeah cuz it's gonna warm up too fast otherwise.

Speaker 1 36:18

Right before March 1st. You need to get them in the ground ours have been in our cooler Right.

Speaker 3 36:24

Ours have gotten right now already over half the amount of cooling that they need. Yeah, if you buy them from our website because you are buying them.

Speaker 2 36:32

If you, technically, you would want to start buying them a little bit sooner. But if you're buying them from Daniel, for example, he's doing the cooling for you partially Partially, depending on when you buy them, right? But I'm just saying, like, at a box store, they may not. They haven't been cooled at all, they've been sitting on a shelf, yeah, so you don't know.

Speaker 3 36:52

So a lot of people in the South by their tulip bulbs 50% off at the box stores. And then they're like a couple months from now and they plan them and they think they failed. But really it's just the box stores did them a disservice and Didn't tell them how to take care of it, didn't tell them that, didn't cool them Right while they were sitting on the shelves.

Speaker 1 37:13

So the hard thing it to really explain to a lot of people, because I've had to go through this, you know, at the lofts where I live, because I'm on the board and people think, oh Well, the tulips come back every year and I'm like no, they they'll come up. You'll see a green leaves yeah but they're not gonna make a flower because it didn't get cold enough long enough.

Speaker 3 37:35

You know what I've heard and I talked to our suppliers like that's a big thing. I just went to this conference last week for a national flower farming conference and that's what I do there. I talk with our suppliers and they explain everything how it works in Holland and the US just does not have the perfect climate really anywhere for tulips, right? I mean, maybe there's little pockets here and there.

Speaker 3 37:59

But, even up north, the bulbs get weaker and weaker each year. So people up north, I've heard I'm not from there but they'll plant tulips, but they may have to replant them, like every so many years. Because they just kind of get less and less and less, and that first year is always gonna have the best bloom in the biggest, and that's just because, and that's why all the tulips come from the Netherlands, because that is their perfect climate, right.

Speaker 2 38:26

All right. So, moving on from tulips, get your tulips now and put them in the refrigerator, if you're down south, and plant them like February. What about daffodils?

Speaker 3 38:35

So daffodils are a little different. They're easy breezy do perennial eyes over throughout most of the US Right, and we tried to sell a lot of daffodils last year because we were planting a lot on the farm and I think people just are still a little underwhelmed or think they're overrated. They'd rather have something else because I was shocked, but we did sell a lot. So thanks to everyone.

Speaker 1 39:00

But there's so many different varieties that are beautiful.

Speaker 3 39:03

I never see the varieties that we sold last year anywhere out in public, and so we were selling double flowered ones, whether they were yellow or white. We had peach colored ones. They were beautiful. Yeah, they were gorgeous. This year I only ordered in one variety. It's a white, double flowered one and these all have long stems so you can pick them outside and bring them inside indoors as a cut flower right as they're blooming. Yeah, so daffodils are easier than tulips. They will come back every year if you plant them out in the garden.

Speaker 2 39:38

And you can just go ahead, even in the south, and plant those now, like December, january.

Speaker 1 39:43

They don't take, you don't have to, they don't have to be cold as long.

Speaker 2 39:47

Not as long. They just automatically form their claims.

Speaker 3 39:50

Yeah, they must have a lower number of chill hours that they need because they come back every year. I have a good piece of information along the lines of daffodils, tulips, and then this can lead us into our amaryllis. Okay, but this is how bulbs work. So the plant sends up its flowers, right, and then it has its leaves. The flower does its thing, and then people want to just mow them down, whatever, because they don't like looking at the leaves that are starting to turn yellow.

Speaker 1 40:21

That's true.

Speaker 3 40:22

Or brown. The problem is those leaves that are left after those bulbs flower are storing and receiving from the sun, photosynthesizing all the energy that that bulb needs to make a flower next year, right? So after your daffodils bloom, if you're over them because the blooms turn brown, right, the leaves are still green at that point, but people will weed, whack them or mow over them. You're doing a major disservice to your plant.

Speaker 2 40:53

Right.

Bulb Care and Forcing Blooms

Speaker 3 40:53

You have just robbed it of all that energy for next year. You took its nutrients, yep Right Just cut it off, it probably will still do something next year, especially a daffodil.

Speaker 2 41:06

Yeah, some are just easier, but not really because there's some I hate where they're planted on their farm and I'll go cut them down and they're slowly disappearing, yeah.

Speaker 3 41:17

Yeah, yeah what about irises.

Speaker 2 41:19

That's the totally different.

Speaker 1 41:21

Is it totally different?

Speaker 3 41:21

That's like a rhizome. Yeah, is that what you call that? Yeah, it's a little different than a bulb, yeah, but do they need to stay up too. That's what I'm asking yeah, I mean, I mean.

Speaker 1 41:30

I'll leave it until they start to that, right yeah, because they need the same.

Speaker 3 41:34

Yeah, so this is, let's go into amaryllis.

Speaker 2 41:36

Okay, so back up. So basically what Daniel's saying is with your bulbs, once they're done blooming, if they're in your garden you want to leave those until they turn yellow? The fold leave the foliage until it turns yellow. Once it's turned yellow, you can cut it down.

Speaker 3 41:51

Yes, you have to let it get ugly first and then cut it back.

Speaker 2 41:55

So that's why I'm very careful like where I want the daffodils, on the farm or in your flower, because if it's front and center you may not want to look at the foliage for an extra month that they turn in yellow because it kind of looks.

Speaker 1 42:10

That's kind of the same for tulips. You mean, you really need to decide where you want them. Or treat them as an annual and repaint them In the South especially.

Speaker 3 42:19

But let me tell you, there's this house near our store and every year they plant thousands of tulips and they let them come up in their yard and when they're done, they just go yank them. It's an annual here. It wasn't going to come back as a perennial anyways, but it sets their yard apart from everyone else's Right. It's gorgeous, so yeah. We're all about doing stuff like that.

Speaker 1 42:44

Yeah, I mean it's just a sad reality. Here in South Carolina, tulips are annuals, yeah.

Speaker 2 42:50

So let's talk about holiday bulbs. So, like our paper whites and amaryllis, because that's totally different, because you're forcing these to bloom inside.

Speaker 3 43:00

So the first thing is a paper white is a daffodil Right. It's in the same family, it's just a different type of daffodil.

Speaker 1 43:08

I didn't know that, but they look like mini daffodils if you look at them.

Speaker 3 43:12

The blooms are just. My variety is smaller. Yeah, in the sense a little different but, it's in the same family, right?

Speaker 3 43:20

But you can force them, so you can also force amaryllis to bloom, so that's what we bring into our homes during the holidays. They have all the energy they need inside the bulbs. You put them in a little bit of wet dirt and they start to sprout, right, and they bloom inside for us to enjoy. It's pretty easy, although this year I've been getting a lot of people. Can you give us a tutorial on Instagram on how to pot up our bulbs? And I'm like I can and I'm going to probably this weekend and I understand, but it's literally the simplest thing.

Speaker 3 43:51

You fill a pot with some dirt and you wet it and then you put the bulb on top. Yeah, you don't really have to plant them deep, right, the bulb can be sticking up out of the soil, and I think that's probably where most people have a little concern. They don't want to plant them too deep or whatever. Yeah, and they will just take off and start growing. So they're super easy.

Speaker 3 44:11

I get the largest amount of questions about what do I do after my amaryllis is done blooming. So, like a amaryllis can start blooming at the end of December, it can send up more flowers in January, if it's a later bloom in one even February, and you enjoy it all winter, right, and then it's done. It has lots of green leaves and what I tell everyone to do is just, while it's still cold outside, put it next to a sunny window so it can get the most energy from the sunlight and just continue to photosynthesize Once it's warm up. You have no more frost in your forecast. Here in the south, we can actually plant amaryllis and paper white bulbs in our yards and then they will naturally bloom in the summer.

Speaker 2 44:57

Yeah, from there on out.

Speaker 3 44:58

See, in the winter. We are four. These are forced holiday bulbs. We are forcing them to bloom, Right? A lot of people think it's a lot of fun to force their own year after year, like, if you save your bulb, how do you get it to bloom again indoors, because you can't just leave it outside? So here's the trick. Here's what you got to do In August. You've had your amaryllis plant near the sun or in the shade, outdoors or next to a window.

Speaker 4 45:28

Yeah, the whole season is a houseplant.

Speaker 2 45:30

Right.

Forcing Amaryllis Bulbs for Holiday Blooms

Speaker 3 45:30

And taking care of it, watering it, giving it a little fertilizer. In August, cut the leaves off, take it in some, put it in the dark somewhere. It can be a cold closet. If you're up north and you've started to get the cold fronts come through, maybe the corner of your garage, but they like to be stored dry in between 40 and 50 degrees for three months. Yeah, and that is what it needs to form a new flower inside the bulb and for it to be tricked into forcing a flower when you then, after three months, like right now, you bring the bulbs inside and start watering them and it starts all over again.

Speaker 1 46:11

So you don't want to put it in the refrigerator.

Speaker 3 46:14

Yeah, you could.

Speaker 2 46:15

Yeah, you could do that to cool it down.

Speaker 3 46:17

You could, but it has to be dry.

Speaker 1 46:20

Yeah, right, so like in a paper sack or something, but like hours that are already growing.

Speaker 2 46:26

We left them in a pot from last year and just kept them kinda going. We threw them in our flower cooler in the summer.

Speaker 3 46:34

Yeah, it was actually before August, Actually. They've been in. I'm shocked how well they're doing, but we cut those leaves off and we put them in the cooler, probably in May or June.

Speaker 2 46:44

Yeah, well, that timeline of August, you can do it at any point.

Speaker 3 46:48

That's kind of the minimum.

Speaker 2 46:49

Yeah, but you can. You still gave them the same amount of cold period. You can skew that because you're forcing them to whatever. But see, hours are already. They're gonna bloom in like a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 47:02

They'll bloom by next week.

Speaker 2 47:03

Yeah, so see, the August timeline is to get them to bloom, like during the holiday season, whereas you backed it up and said they're gonna be blooming at Thanksgiving. Yeah, basically, so you can skew that August timeline however you want. It's basically you have to manually force them into a dormant period, so keep them green and then, when you're ready, to whatever.

Speaker 3 47:26

I say July or early August, either one, cut the foliage off Cut the foliage off, chop the roots off or whatever. You don't need wet soil underneath it.

Speaker 2 47:36

And don't water it anymore. You're making it go dormant.

Speaker 3 47:39

Yes, and then you want it to dry out before you put it in the refrigerator.

Speaker 2 47:43

Yeah, put it in a refrigerator, a dark closet, that maybe stays cool, I'd put it in lunch bags or something.

Speaker 3 47:49

Probably not a plastic.

Speaker 1 47:51

No, like a paper sack, like a paper sack where it can breathe.

Speaker 3 47:53

If there is a little bit of moisture still in the bulb, right. But you want it to be dry before you put it in the fridge.

Speaker 2 47:59

Keep it there three months and then you're giving it, that's giving it its natural winter that it would have. You're just skewing it season. You're being tricky. You're being tricky, and then you pull it back out, plant it and it thinks it's been through a winter and it grows.

Speaker 3 48:14

So everyone was asking me last year and I was honestly like here's an article because I didn't know I'd read it but I'd never experienced it or forced one myself, and so we forced them, we put them in the cooler this summer we just pulled some out and our like Wes was saying we brought them inside, watered them what was that? Two weeks ago, yeah.

Speaker 1 48:31

Yeah, and I'm jealous. They're about to blend Like, oh my God.

Speaker 3 48:34

They've already put up stocks that are over a foot tall with the bloom.

Speaker 3 48:37

And then my large bulbs too, that some of them already have two or three blooms coming out of that same bulb. So that was interesting for me to see. Now here at Petal Pickers we get the largest. We source the largest amaryllis bulbs that there are on the planet. Like I, have my connections with my suppliers and we only get the largest ones. They're listed in centimeters, so ours are 38 centimeters plus, also called Jumbo bulbs, and so the difference between that is I've seen ours send up four spikes of flowers and then each amaryllis bloom has like five or so flowers on it.

Speaker 2 49:19

Yeah, four to five flowers on it.

Speaker 1 49:21

So they're beautiful.

Speaker 3 49:22

They're gorgeous, and last year is when we really started getting the feedback like, oh my God, this is the most gorgeous amaryllis I've ever seen, right so.

Speaker 2 49:31

Oh yeah, because our customers and we'll offer the amaryllis on. We'll probably do it in a live sale on the Nestifig, but if you want to beat that and go ahead and get your amaryllis, paper whites, tulips, daffodils, you can go to Daniel's website at Petal Pickerscom and I'll put that in the show notes as well. If you want to order and get on the bulb growing, bulb forcing, and if you want to force paper whites.

Speaker 3 49:56

I haven't read up on that so much, but literally they're the container the container that has the amaryllis bulbs also had paper whites in it and they're coming up just like the amaryllis are, so I think they also to force them into bloom inside during the holidays. You want to give them like a three month Cooling, darkness, dry. Those are the three thing it needs to trick the bulb into thinking it's in winter.

Speaker 2 50:22

Yeah, and it's dormancy period and some coolness.

Speaker 1 50:25

And I love to plant those at the garden store.

Speaker 2 50:27

That's one of my favorite things, the smell of paper, whites, but you. Now they have varieties that have a lot less scent to them.

Speaker 3 50:36

Okay, we're going to be honest, because I was even sold them is like no scent Paper whites still have a sense. They still have a scent. It's just the variety I sell is known to have the least scent.

Speaker 1 50:49

Yeah, it's not. I don't think it's a fence.

Speaker 3 50:51

You have to go up to it and sniff it to smell it, versus it like filling the entire room.

Speaker 2 50:57

Yeah, well, some of the older varieties would feel the whole. So it is an improvement.

Speaker 3 51:02

I actually like the smell. Yeah, I also like the smell of gasoline.

Speaker 1 51:09

I like when you plant paper whites. A lot of people don't understand this, but the garden store when we plant them, we create a cage, like in the pot, with like curly willow or something, and as it grows it keeps the greenery from flopping, right, if you do not have some sticks or something in there, we just make it part of the design, right, so that when they grow they just look gorgeous.

Speaker 3 51:39

We need to do a reel on this, but I've heard you can pour a little bit of vodka on top of that, I think it works. You think it works?

Speaker 2 51:49

We're going to try that yeah.

Speaker 1 51:50

You put vodka and it helps the greenery stand.

Speaker 3 51:53

It makes the paper white stand back up, kind of like tulips through the same way. Right, I don't believe that.

Speaker 1 51:58

I don't believe it either, but let's try it, let's try it.

Speaker 2 52:01

Let's do it.

Speaker 3 52:02

I'm surprised. Have you not seen that? I have seen that Vodka makes me lay down Exactly.

Speaker 1 52:08

That is too funny.

Speaker 2 52:11

And then for your.

Speaker 3 52:12

Amaryllis to keep it straight, because it will naturally bend towards the window, towards the sunlight, you just slowly rotate it around Just turn it. Give it a quarter turn every couple of days.

Speaker 1 52:22

They're easy, and if you go out of town and it shanks one way, all you got to do is turn it opposite and it will straighten up.

Speaker 3 52:31

You know, some things get all crooked when they do that. But Amaryllis will straighten right back up and they'll straighten up in like a day, mm.

Speaker 1 52:38

Hmm, yeah, one year, wesley, I had never taken any home and we had a lot of extras. He's like you're taking some of these home because I love Amaryllis. We did a huge and I took like 20 something Amaryllis and I didn't do any. That was my Christmas decor and I have to say that was before my double ones.

Speaker 3 53:01

That was like the single yes, but they were gorgeous. Yeah, they are.

Speaker 1 53:05

I mean, it was beautiful. It was truly a beautiful Christmas decor.

Speaker 3 53:11

You know all winter.

Speaker 2 53:12

People love them in January, when there's going on.

Speaker 3 53:15

Yeah, what else? Do y'all have any more questions about the fall bulbs?

Speaker 2 53:21

Um.

Speaker 3 53:21

I don't think so.

Speaker 2 53:22

I think you covered it.

Speaker 1 53:23

I mean, we literally get this question every day on Instagram.

Speaker 2 53:27

And I think it's one of those things again kind of touching back on the greenery, and that don't don't make it complicated. They're really. I mean, plants want to grow, plant them. They're going to do their thing. If you're up north, it's very easy, yeah, especially for bulbs.

Speaker 3 53:41

And what I like to do on certain things is just like in your mind, pick a date. So for me, on a lot of things in the summer, I hack my heirloom mums back July 4th. I cut my dragon wing begonias in my yard back July 4th and by it for different reasons, but it's making a branch, it's giving them fresh, new growth after they've been beat down all summer. And now my amaryllis bulbs I'm going to cut them off and put them into storage July 4th.

Speaker 1 54:11

So you cut your. We won't go into this, but I'm just. You said it. You trim your dragon wing begonias back at home, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 54:20

Yeah.

Speaker 3 54:21

I've really because they look like crap through the get a son. They can take the sun, but they get so leggy and like yellow. In July 4th Most people whether it's before, during or shortly after go on some sort of trip out of town, so that is when I would hack them back to just like four, four, six inches tall. Just cut them back.

Speaker 3 54:46

And then they just and then it takes two weeks for them to green back up with new leaves, but then it about a month later they'll start blooming again and then all fall. They are gorgeous, Really. And that's when you're going to be outside on a patio or somewhere enjoying them anyways, right?

Speaker 2 55:04

So it's a lot of plants like that around the middle of July, when they're just like. Leggy and tired and especially if you're going on vacation in the summer.

Speaker 3 55:12

You put water in them already.

Speaker 2 55:14

Yeah, if you're going on vacation in the summer, cut it all back, because then it takes less water for them to grow, you know, to keep them alive, and then they'll flush out within like a few weeks and they'll be gorgeous. For your fault, I don't think I ever knew that. Yeah, all right. Well, I think we're pulling up to our stop here. Is there anything else you'd like to add?

Speaker 1 55:35

No, this was great Thanks for all the information Daniel, Thanks for joining us, baby I feel like a teacher today.

Speaker 3 55:42

It was good and we learned and we learned, and we should.

Speaker 1 55:48

we should have known some of it that we didn't you know, but you don't share it. Well, I saw I have to drag information out of him.

Speaker 3 55:56

Yeah, wes does know all this. He has a horticulture degree and when I ask him questions he's like I don't know, I don't know. Like you're just not listening to me. I know, you know he drives me crazy.

Speaker 1 56:05

I'll go to like some botanical garden somewhere and I will see this plant that I love. I send a picture that isn't labeled, which drives me crazy, and I'm like what is this? He's like hell, if I know. I'm like who has the degree, but it's horticulture is so broad.

Speaker 2 56:26

Yeah, there's so many different plants and different plants. You know, like I my horticulture degrees from Mississippi State, so I'm in the South where, if you go, like if someone up North asks me something, I mean people love to ask me, how's this going to grow in Arizona. I'm like I don't know. I never lived in Arizona. I don't know how it's going to grow. Okay, I have a new business venture for Petal Pickers.

Speaker 3 56:47

So I would like to start making garden themed t-shirts to sell on our website. Uh huh, just a couple to start off with. But let's ask the listeners, okay, if they have any ideas, and then we can take that and kind of create like something cute or whatever. But on Instagram the other day it's not being sold as a business, so like I'm totally stealing their idea. But it's not TM or anything. Yeah, so, but it was just a basic shirt and it said Dahlia Daddy and I was like, oh, that's me yes.

Speaker 3 57:21

I want to be a.

Speaker 2 57:22

Dahlia, daddy, you are a.

Speaker 3 57:23

Dahlia Daddy.

Speaker 2 57:26

I like it, I know. So I think they would sell. Yeah, so send Daniel on Petal Pickers on Instagram, send him your thoughts on t-shirt designs, or you can text us or call us here on our hotline as well 864. I have that on my phone.

Speaker 4 57:42

I have an ID 9 8 2 5 0, 2, 9 and the and they can be a little risque.

Speaker 3 57:47

Yeah, I've got one.

Speaker 1 57:48

I know where you can plant your tulips.

Speaker 3 57:52

That's good. I just hit the table, I didn't do that it took me a second, but I like it, yes, I'll dig up some more. I'll text you. We need to get back. Steven probably has this covered.

Speaker 1 58:08

Yeah, we got, we got this.

Speaker 2 58:09

We need to also get back on having merch for Farms, nanny.

Speaker 1 58:15

Yes.

Speaker 2 58:16

And who's driving and who's driving.

Speaker 1 58:19

We just got all kinds of. We just need to open up a merch store.

Speaker 3 58:22

Well, actually I'm going to do the t-shirt, so yeah, I got you girl.

Speaker 2 58:26

I got all the information on where to do it and everything, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 58:29

And I got everything you need to say. Just come up with the graphics, all right.

Holiday Season Promotions and Closing Remarks

Speaker 2 58:35

That's going to wrap up this week's episode of who's driving. Remember it's the holiday season and if you're looking for a holiday for our gifts, check us out online at the nested bigcom. Get our app. If you want to see more of us and watch us live, you can download our app in the app store. Search the nested big. If you want to gift or get yourself some bulbs for the holiday season, check out pedal pickerscom. I'll have all of this down below in the show notes as well. And remember, as always, leave us a review wherever you're listening to your podcast. It really helps us get discovered and we'll see you next time.

Speaker 1 59:12

Thanks guys, bye.

Speaker 4 59:14

Bye.