Dutch Mill Greenhouse, like a lot of local businesses, is an important part of the make up of Marysville, OH…my hometown! They’ve been here for many years, become part of the community and a great resource to the community. Whether you’re looking for tree, shrubs, veggies, flower, seeds or dirt they are my place to go. The family owned business has been in the industry for many years and their knowledge, experience and service show it.
Do you have a green thumb?
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Speaker 1
All right. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Good Stuff podcast, where we talk about the good stuff going on here in Marysville, Ohio. Community for us and maybe you out there maybe looking to move here. Well, my business might be helping you buy or sell a house. I really enjoy selling people on the community and it's a whole lot easier when I get to talk to people like this guy here, Mr. Bob Berbee.
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Speaker 1
So. Yep.
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Speaker 2
Glad to be here.
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Speaker 1
Well, thanks for being here. So today we're in the green house. I want to talk about green house plants. What is today? It's the 24th February, so it's time to start thinking about stuff growing, right?
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Speaker 2
Always time to start thinking about plants.
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Speaker 1
Always. Do I like it? I do a lot more than I used to. So it's kind of an always present thing to me these days. Yeah. I told you about all the stuff I've got in my office that I've been growing and trying to.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, you all. You talked about the new greenhouse that you just built and all that fun stuff and.
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Speaker 1
And that. Yep. Yep. Last year, you know, COVID being stuck inside, I started bringing more plants and stuff inside, which you've said has been a common thing for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2
A lot of a lot of people are starting to grow their own seeds and wanting to grow their own vegetables. Obviously don't need to talk about the prices of all the food, but it will be a lot of savings if you can grow your own food yet.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, well, it doesn't take any time either. So it's really easy.
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Speaker 2
Now, right, Justice? Patience is.
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Speaker 1
Key. Patience. You know, that's one thing people say. You've got a green thumb. I said, No, I just have a memory. And patience. Yeah, as long as you remember the water stuff. And it's not rocket sun and water and nutrients.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, there's a few other things, but yes, it's the gist of it.
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Speaker 1
But, you know, there's that I would love to hear somebody say one time most things. 90% of the work takes 10% of the time and like perfecting things is that last like takes forever to really dial things in. Right.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So anyway, that's all my point was there if people just water things and remember to do those things, success rate would go way, way up.
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Speaker 2
Yes.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. It's good and humid in here.
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Speaker 2
It is hot. I take.
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Speaker 1
Those down. I like it anyway. Don't. Lots of good things going on here. You guys are great members of the community. How long you guys been here?
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Speaker 2
So our retail store will be 22 years this spring. Our warehouse. Leo Barry Barber Company has been here for almost 40 years.
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Speaker 1
That's lineage before that, right?
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Speaker 2
And many years before that over in the Netherlands.
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Speaker 1
When Netherlands always wanted to go. Yep. So yeah, been here for a while. You've probably seen them. So I guess for the more I go to a green house and buy plants and go to different places and look to see who has what. What's the like 32nd elevator pitch for Like what? What are you guys known for other than the bulbs and like.
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Speaker 2
So we are known for basically a family atmosphere. We really cater towards new gardeners as well as very experienced gardener. So you could come in here and just buy a few things to get your vegetable garden or your herb garden going, or if you just want a hanging basket, something pretty, we supply those. Or if you want a full landscaping tree, shrubs, perennials, we carry a little bit of everything here.
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Speaker 1
A little bit of everything. Yeah, that is true from the say. Now, how many greenhouses do you have all together?
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Speaker 2
So currently we have six greenhouses, two of which are strictly for retail, and then we have four that we grow our our plant material.
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Speaker 1
And they definitely seems like it's grown every day, you know? Yep. Driving by more and more like this one here is what, three years now?
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Speaker 2
So this will be our third season in here. And what's funny about this greenhouse is that when we built it, it was supposed to be just for growing and we just saw people flocking right to it. And then we're like, Oh crap, let's hurry up and turning it into a retail. So. So now. Yeah. So now it's a little bit of a growing slash retail greenhouse, which is turned out.
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Speaker 1
Perfectly for us. Good. Yeah. And so that way, I don't know how much was my uncle here? My uncle's company built this. I don't know how much he is.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, that's ironic. Yeah. Dennis built this greenhouse, so I think it took him probably two months to build this from. But of course, there was a lot of ground prep and water and electricity, right, to to get it. So. But they were in here dead of winter, January, February. And I would I'd feel so bad for these guys.
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Speaker 2
I mean, it is freezing cold out and they're like, no, I was like, you guys need to know we don't need to take a break. This is like, this is what we do. I'm like, Oh, yeah, I mean, my fring, my fingers, I mean, I couldn't function. And they're out here just.
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Speaker 1
Oh, they're used to it. Yeah. I helped him once on one prep and ground, like frozen ground training drives steaks in the ground for, like, I forget what kind of greenhouse it was, but for like, the arches going up or something and driving in the frozen ground. Yeah. Which I prefer that over the other time I helped him one time I think know I don't see any in this one.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Like the troughed up there. That the gutter. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Gutter. When I helped him once it was like a hoop to hoop and it was like 95 degrees out. He's like get out of the end and get all these, you know, the Pearland and like the support structures and he's like, All right, now, now we go get a handful, a big bundle and walk them back 14 feet in the air.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, all it was was the gutter. Yeah. Really? You want me to walk like heel toe over this stuff and like, they were burning and like. Yeah, Anyway. Yeah. So those guys.
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Speaker 2
Hard work and they're not like, I mean, it's a lot of heavy, heavy stuff here, so. Yeah, Yeah.
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Speaker 1
And I'm, you know, I've been meaning to ask what all this stuff is back here and obviously on the bad guys you can't see it. There's a lot of high tech look and waterlines and filters and stuff.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. So that stuff is actually a lot of our well equipment as well as our fertilizer injector as well as our it's a lot of irrigation so everything water so so.
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Speaker 1
That's these things dripping down.
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Speaker 2
Basically if you guys can see these little drips. So those are what we call our drip. So we just put our hanging baskets right on top of here and then we can literally water 500 baskets at any given time. Another one of those equipments is what we call floating. Well, so we actually pull all our water out of a pond, which of course you can't see.
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Speaker 2
And during the summer months the water goes down and we've got a well that does floats and fills it as needs so called a floating well, so which is nice that we have it set to one side of our pond so and we pull out of the other side of the pond. So it kind of filters out all the the gallbladder or slices.
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Speaker 2
Exactly.
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Speaker 1
Cool. Very interesting. So anyway, I'm biased then this is the place I come to for my plants and unity, mulch and soil and all that stuff. And so a variety of things you can come come get, you need to. So an interesting thing that we re planning to talk about today. So as a real estate agent helping people buy and sell houses and do those things is important.
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Speaker 1
But one of the things I feel like I can bring the most value to people is how to prepare for that day. Because, you know, as human beings we are emotional creatures and especially at the real estate things get. I want to move now, and especially with the last couple of years, how crazy the real estate market's been.
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Speaker 1
Sometimes there's not a whole lot of time to plan and do things. But one of the things I feel like I can bring to the table most valuably for people outside of the consulting of how to get through the transaction is preparing to sell your house. A lot of people think, Oh, I'm going to redo my bathroom or my kitchen or my whatever, my landscaping.
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Speaker 1
Well, if you want to sell your house in a month, that's not realistic or in six months, that's even a challenge. So anyway, being able to help people plan and think, what's their five year plan of, yeah, what my kids are going to be out of the house or we're going to need a new house because our family is growing in the next five years, so we need to sell this one.
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Speaker 1
So in line with that conversation, Bob had a statistic that he's with me yesterday.
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Speaker 2
So statistically your landscaping value should be 10% of your home value. So hypothetically, you have a two $300,000 home. Your landscaping should be technically 20 to $30000. No, I know that sounds like a lot of money, but that could include your patio. If you've got a firepit, all those things would, you know, technically add on to that value.
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Speaker 2
So and I know that sounds like a lot of money, but I mean, it really depends on what kind of, you know, the nicest landscaping that could, you know, invite a lot of new homeowners or could scare a lot of homeowners because, again, a lot of younger people are buying. And that that scares them. Landscaping scares people so.
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Speaker 1
Well and I I think it may maybe this is a bad analogy. I think it's somewhat similar to having a basement. People have a basement and then, ooh, I want to have it finished off and I want something different. You know, I think there's there's especially with the cookie cutter copy and paste subdivisions, sometimes I drive by a lot of them and it looks like the especially on certain ones you'll see the side of the house, It's just like a wall with like two windows and the exhaust for the second story laundry with all the lit and stuff that gets stuck.
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Speaker 2
Yes, yes.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. The front might be all, you know, kind of done up. But anyway, so there's a lot of times those big neighborhoods don't seem to really pay attention to a statics and the quality of those things. And so to me, when I hear 10% of your home value associated to your landscaping, I think part of that comes with the caveat of like if you want to have a nice house and obviously not everybody's going to be really into landscaping and do all of those things.
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Speaker 1
But looking at houses, I see that have, you know, 0.1 of a percent of their value is in their landscaping. I heard somebody with a garage door company the other day say, your garage doors, you smile to your house. And I think that's really the curb appeal. A lot of times real estate, I say these people make their decision for your house or 50% of their mind up in the first like 3 seconds they're there.
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Speaker 2
But as soon as they put it in there.
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Speaker 1
So they see the curb appeal and oh, well, and obviously, if if curb appeal doesn't matter to them and they don't, landscaping isn't a big deal, well, then maybe it's not a big deal for you. But anyway, always, always, always. I think it's better to have a better first impression for your guests, for yourself when you come home for whatever.
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Speaker 1
And I, I obviously, I'm in a green house right now talking to Bob, so I like plants and things.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, I think the the first thing or the most thing we hear most often is I'm selling my house. Just give me mulch. Because again, Moses, you know, dirty, quick, easy. It's clean. It really pops. And the next would be flowers. Of course, I just need something to put on the front stoop or put into the flower bed.
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Speaker 2
So, I mean, something is better than nothing, obviously.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So, I mean, obviously, if you're not selling your house, if you're planning to, it's still important. But just everyday life, I think having having a outside that matches the inside, matches the structure, the character of your house is never a better thing. I feel like I'm rambling on about this topic.
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Speaker 2
All right. Well, we'll go to the next one.
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Speaker 1
The next one? No, I really like this one. I think so. Anyway, I guess what's so outside of mulch and flowers if you working right side of your house just in general, like when somebody comes in and they say, or maybe do you have people that come in here and say, my my landscaping is kind of near?
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I mean.
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Speaker 1
I don't know anything ever. Tell me.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, every so we usually start with, you know, where is your property located? Are you doing the front of the house back to the house sides. What? Directly to the face. We need to filter out a lot of questions before we even start asking them what kind of plants they even like. So you can't really plant houses in full sun or you can't plant daylilies in the shade.
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Speaker 2
And I know those are two really basic plants, but it's a prime example of you can't just pick what you like in plant it. There is a lot of preparation in when you're doing landscaping or if you want to do it successfully. So we we filter out a lot of questions. Do you have windows that you don't want to block?
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Speaker 2
Do you have neighbors that you don't want to see? So there is a lot of questions that we ask and know it blows their mind because they're they're expecting to come in and buy plants and leave right away. But we want to set our customers up for success. And we can't we don't feel we feel guilty if we just say, oh, yeah, I'll go buy these hydrangeas or this fire is it's not fun for us.
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Speaker 2
We want these customers to be successful and to enjoy because if they're happy with their landscaping, hopefully they'll want to do more.
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Speaker 1
So you're not into the quick buck of just making money selling any.
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Speaker 2
Obviously, it's just not our style. We again, we we want our customers to be happy and again and we feel as successful Customer is a happy customer is a repeat customer.
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Speaker 1
Well, that's kind of where I was saying earlier with just watering plants, making sure they've got good sunlight and a the couple of basic things that they need getting, you know, it's like with business coaching, sometimes they all get into things and my coach will say, you just need little wins like this, you know? So I think sometimes when I hear people that aren't big, they they have a desire to have a green thumb, but they don't being able to learn those basics and, oh, I can do this.
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Speaker 1
I did keep something alive and then take one little step farther and one little step farther.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, I like that. What you said about the just a little when just because so many times it's my mom was the the gardener. My grandma was the gardener, and I don't know what I'm doing. So again, if we can just give them the tools to be successful and like you said, get those little wins and you know, first it might be a pepper or tomato or even a houseplant.
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Speaker 2
And next thing you know, they're buying more and more and more. So yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. And building that confidence because that's, you know, that's one thing I love. I listen to a podcast a long time ago about a guy who was a professional amateur. He would go learn enough about a new topic just to become an amateur and understand something. And, and I kind of resonated with that, that I like learning how things work and the concepts and the principles behind things and flowers and plants and gardening and landscaping and all of that is definitely one for me that one, I think probably one of the best benefits of it is it does kind of force you to slow down and learn what's going on and pay attention to something
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Speaker 1
that's living and yeah, and just, you know, there's plenty of science out there that I've heard of that says nature is good for you. And that's one of the reasons I brought a bunch of it into my office. Yeah, you know, I.
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Speaker 2
Mean, green you I mean, a lot of people are bringing a lot of those plants inside. And with the houseplant craze going on right now, it is high demand and people just want to be surrounded with, like you said, nature. So if that's inside or outside, so.
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Speaker 1
Oh, so a quick, quick side note on this kind of side of things, where is there for a while? I know there was a trend of these $500 plants, crazy expensive.
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Speaker 2
So I know we talked about this. They're called rares or rare houseplants. There are plants that are two, three, four or five even thousand dollar plant. And it's mind boggling, mind boggling, which I own a few of those because again, I'm an addict, so I have to have these plants and they're they're super cool. They're typically slower, more unique, variegated, all the things.
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Speaker 2
And I think like I mentioned to you, it's no different than like the bourbon crazy like, I need to have that one bottle of bourbon or whatever it may be. I will stand in line on the hopes that I get it. And there are these types of plants out there as well where people are addicted to houseplants and having the things that somebody else might not have.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So is it still kind of ranging in popularity?
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Speaker 2
It's probably plateauing right now because a lot of people have gotten these and they're getting smart where they can propagate their own and all of a sudden you're buying this $500 plant and grow it out for six months a year and I'm going to chop it in half and now, boom, I've got to I can possibly sell these.
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Speaker 2
And of course, there's Facebook groups out there of course, that I belong to. And this is kind of see, and that's where I follow the trends and saying, okay, this plant was $500 last year, now it's $400. So and again, I would assume, you know, similar to the bourbon and anything, it doesn't have to be bourbon or houseplants.
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Speaker 2
But, you know, once the demand is is starts to decline, obviously the price will will match.
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Speaker 1
Yeah I know somebody that they're I their son moved away to different you know down there on the other side of the world and left one of their expensive plants. And so she was in charge of it and like one of the leaves started to die and freak out. Well it was just a funny, funny way of looking at it.
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Speaker 1
She said that was $250 because she could have, you know, propagated that back out. It or whatever. I can't remember what it was, but that specific plant just, you know, one little shoot off of it. Yep. So, yeah, I was kind of I mean.
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Speaker 2
Once if you get to that level of the the rare plants where you're spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars, I if you're not ready to spend that money, you start with a snake plant, a pothos, get your feet wet. Get those little words before you go full board and buy the right plan. No one should be buying these $500 plants without Sorry.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Go deep.
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Speaker 1
Dive on the.
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Speaker 2
Other side of things.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. I went from like, let's just figure out how to do plants to the other side. Sorry, but. So let's switch to community stuff.
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Speaker 2
Got it.
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Speaker 1
So you guys been here for a long time? I see you guys involved in the community. Why did you guys involve yourselves?
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Speaker 2
I mean, of course, we. We are very blessed to to be in a position that we can give back as much as we can. We love Marysville, obviously. We've been here for 40 years. We've watched it grow. Yeah. Again, we we feel personally that, you know, without the customers we would not be in business. And how else can we, you know, give thanks?
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Speaker 2
And by giving back to the community in many different organizations.
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Speaker 1
Part of the community. Yep. Totally agree. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
I know that's the cheesy answer. But again, that's really just how we feel.
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Speaker 1
Well, sometimes that's that's life. That life. Life isn't that complicated if you really boil it down, right?
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Basically the basics.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. It's always, you know, that's one thing at a it's really interesting, you know, some of the things I even take for granted. I love being here. I've been here for 30 years almost. And the new people that come in and are able to get plugged into the community and really just seem like it was I talking to you the other day and it was just saying, Yeah, people are coming in and loving it and, you know, they're engaging and it's an easy place to to like jump into and build relationships and the quality of people.
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Speaker 1
And so I think that's, you know, one reason I try to talk about the community as much as I can and work to sell it because there are a lot of great people here. Yeah. And, and you know, basic to life that's, that's kind of a foundation is, you know, having people to spend you spend your life with and quality community to be a part of so that off the soapbox really excited for this year I feel like there's a lot of things going on.
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Speaker 1
You know I maybe it's just a feeling or maybe it's a made up thing, but I really feel like there's a lot of kind of energy out there, like I know or whatever you want to say. How far post-COVID we are, how small it is, or whatever. It really seems like there's kind of this pent up energy of like people are going to start doing things like starting to do things.
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Speaker 2
People are ready. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So really anxious to see what you know. Oh, one of the cool, cool. It's all cool, but unique. Maybe there is a, you know, not Noah or the Giant from back in the day, from from here. That was.
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Speaker 2
You know. Well, it's pictures on the fifth and main there. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yep. They're on where one of the lovely historic buildings uptown has gotten some beautiful, rehabbed windows and it's looking really good. But yeah, he's on there anyway, there's going to be a Nora Noah or festival, I believe, later this year or so. And here in Marysville. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Oh, cool. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So it sounds like it's I talked to somebody who knows the guy organizing it, I believe, and said there's going to be like he's talking to jugglers and like, it's like.
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Speaker 2
Like don't they have like a, like in the historical museum uptown? Don't they have a lot of his stuff in there?
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Speaker 1
I believe they have. I've been wanting to go the last couple of years. I've wanted to go. And every time a year it's like now. And I don't think their hours are like, Yeah, yeah. So but yeah, last time I was in there, I believe they have like his bathtub now or something. So yeah, I believe there's a fair bit of stuff in there.
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Speaker 1
Very cool. Maybe I ought to go in and check it out and do a video showcase. Come in. Okay. So anything new here in the greenhouse that you guys are?
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Speaker 2
Yeah. So, jeez, new stuff. So, I mean, obviously, we will be growing still the same quality hanging baskets, some things that we did a couple of years ago and didn't do last year. Are these like super hot peppers like? Yeah, right. Like when I say super hot, I mean I'm talking like Ghost Pepper is the mildest and then it just like, goes up from there.
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Speaker 2
We're kicking around the idea of doing like a hot pepper eating challenge this fall.
00:21:31:27 - 00:21:32:28
Speaker 1
I will not be a part of that.
00:21:33:08 - 00:21:59:09
Speaker 2
But yeah, I know neither. What I will. I mean, you could be the emcee, maybe. Yeah, maybe. But no, there. There is a following for the super hot. I mean, I think they're making like, a lot of, like, chili, like, like flakes type stuff. I mean, there is this one series of hot peppers that are growing. It's called Seven Pot, and the name is meant because one pepper is hot enough to produce like seven pots of like chili.
00:21:59:09 - 00:22:01:19
Speaker 2
Like this one pepper. I like stupid hot.
00:22:02:23 - 00:22:04:00
Speaker 1
So I have not heard of that.
00:22:04:00 - 00:22:24:05
Speaker 2
But anyways, so that's something that we're excited to bring back. I think we got like 20 hot pepper. Like, why don't you hire me like, super hot? So that's exciting. Of course, we we've got a lot of houseplants that we're, we're propagating in the back, of course, more than ever, actually. We're like we're we already have more growing than we sold, like all of last year.
00:22:24:05 - 00:22:33:21
Speaker 2
So, like, we're we're crazy excited about that. We've got like an amazing staff this year that we're really excited and careful.
00:22:33:21 - 00:22:37:28
Speaker 1
Don't say that too well. People get jealous right now.
00:22:37:28 - 00:23:01:14
Speaker 2
We have a we have a great staff. We're really going to focus our efforts on like customer experience this year. Just really want to make sure everybody has fun is wants to just like hang out here. So we're going to put in like seating areas where people can just like, chill, like, just come in here, have work. Yeah, yeah, come here, work, have lunch.
00:23:01:23 - 00:23:21:04
Speaker 2
Just enjoy being here and not necessarily buying anything. We don't care if you buy anything. Just we just want. We just want you to be here and enjoy, like, literally what we get to see every day. Yeah, We wanted to see how people experiencing that. I just have lunch here, read a book. We don't care, just chill. So that's what we're putting a lot of efforts into this year.
00:23:21:04 - 00:23:35:17
Speaker 1
Very cool. Yeah, that. Yeah. I mean, like that greenhouse that I've been working on. Like, just going out there. Oh, yeah, I just like it. I mean, there's nothing in there right now. I'll just hang. I didn't hear. It's. It's outside. It's sunny and warm and.
00:23:36:18 - 00:23:42:16
Speaker 2
Well, I'm sure you've experienced like, when it's. What is it, 30 degrees and the sun comes out. I mean the.
00:23:42:29 - 00:23:43:06
Speaker 1
Heaters.
00:23:43:06 - 00:23:51:21
Speaker 2
Aren't going it, it's, it gets balmy in here but it just like suck. It's like 20 degrees outside. And here I am in 70 degrees and yeah, like.
00:23:51:25 - 00:23:52:00
Speaker 1
Yeah.
00:23:52:00 - 00:23:55:20
Speaker 2
Sweat. Exactly. Yeah. So this is I literally get to do this all the time.
00:23:55:20 - 00:24:05:21
Speaker 1
So and I always think people think I'm crazy, but like, just the smell of like, yeah, the, the warm, damp air with soil. Oh, I like that earthy smell.
00:24:05:22 - 00:24:06:17
Speaker 2
Yeah. Oh, it's great.
00:24:06:27 - 00:24:08:25
Speaker 1
Something kind of primal or whatever about it.
00:24:09:06 - 00:24:16:01
Speaker 2
Oh, it's just like it just brings out the senses. You just. You just. I just come in here. It's mild. I mean, it's just fun.
00:24:16:08 - 00:24:34:04
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, Yeah. I'll never forget. I was right. I went to school in the U.P. in Michigan and there's like, and I, there's like, no farm fields up there. And I remember coming home, like, at the end of it and, you know, maybe it's spring break. I can't remember exactly what I was coming home for, but they were telling the fields in like, I haven't smelled this in forever.
00:24:34:04 - 00:24:41:17
Speaker 1
Yeah. Oh, anyway, yeah. Something, something really good about it. So. Well, that's pretty cool. I'll definitely come hang out here and Yeah.
00:24:42:00 - 00:25:14:13
Speaker 2
So we are going to do like a little, little tag line here, like March 16, 17/18, I think it is 56 or something like mid-March. We're going to do like a little spring preview. We're actually going to offer tours like really show people like possibly the back greenhouses where we grow and propagate a lot of things. Even the warehouse where we ship out, you know, millions and millions of bulbs, we got to get really geeked out in one way, show people what we do, because people don't know that we actually have a warehouse to when we ship out bulbs.
00:25:14:13 - 00:25:17:15
Speaker 1
So then where do they go from here?
00:25:17:22 - 00:25:38:12
Speaker 2
Well, they go all over primarily out of all places. You know, the Franklin Park Conservatory, the other garden centers around locally, landscapers. That's just locally here in Ohio. And then we ship out to every all 30 states, Bermuda, Canada, Puerto Rico, all over. So.
00:25:38:27 - 00:25:40:21
Speaker 1
You know, they like go to the White House or is that like a.
00:25:40:24 - 00:25:45:27
Speaker 2
Yeah, well, it's not a secret. The Pentagon has ordered bulbs and still does Georgetown University.
00:25:45:27 - 00:25:46:25
Speaker 1
I can cut that out if you.
00:25:46:28 - 00:25:47:28
Speaker 2
Know, that's like I know.
00:25:47:28 - 00:25:48:10
Speaker 1
It's like.
00:25:48:16 - 00:25:56:13
Speaker 2
It's not it's not a secret. We supply a lot of bulbs to a lot of places. I just don't brag about it. Sort of.
00:25:56:22 - 00:26:00:02
Speaker 1
It's called humility. It's a good, great, good, great to have, you know.
00:26:00:03 - 00:26:03:10
Speaker 2
So, yeah, I mean, we we shipped out a lot of you were.
00:26:03:10 - 00:26:19:19
Speaker 1
Just saying, you know, it's so we like to get geeked out on it. It's Yeah, it's because you do a good job. No, thank you. Yes. I mean, I'm not a bomb bomb expert by any means, but I, I assume if the Pentagon and the White House is ordering bombs and they go across the world, something. Something to it.
00:26:19:21 - 00:26:44:14
Speaker 2
Something. Yeah. So no bulbs are are really I mean, they have always been popular for hundreds of years and now they're just becoming more and more popular again, like especially with clubs and dahlias. I mean, they're just fun and easy to grow and they're they're Yeah. And the cut flower craze right now is extremely popular but had a lot of help to do.
00:26:44:21 - 00:26:51:07
Speaker 1
So anyway. Yeah, you guys tours. That sounds really well. Tours and people coming in just to hang out and have lunch. Are you like food trucks?
00:26:51:28 - 00:27:16:27
Speaker 2
Well, you know, we we are definitely thinking about the future on what that looks for us. We don't know. We've got some ideas we aren't really quite on. We're on a busy road. Yes, but we're not like a destination for like food or anything like that. Yet we feel at some point we definitely will be once we all will be surrounded by homes at some point.
00:27:16:27 - 00:27:31:13
Speaker 2
Yeah, then we'll years. Hopefully that would be ideal, but I have a feeling it'll probably be sooner than that. And you know, we we want to be set up for for the long term. We're not going anywhere anytime soon, obviously. So.
00:27:31:23 - 00:27:39:21
Speaker 1
Awesome. Yeah. Uh, I think that was all I had on my list. Anything you want me to.
00:27:39:25 - 00:27:40:17
Speaker 2
Do it, You won't.
00:27:40:27 - 00:27:43:19
Speaker 1
Let me. I just didn't want to cut you off.
00:27:43:19 - 00:27:57:29
Speaker 2
No, I. Today I did. I prepared some questions for Derek. This time I'm nervous. They're pretty easy. Like, we'll start out with the easy one. What is your favorite plant.
00:27:57:29 - 00:27:58:15
Speaker 1
Mhm.
00:28:02:13 - 00:28:26:08
Speaker 1
And. And that's it. I like it. Maybe not the easiest. So right now I in my little jungle of an office, I've got my red mangrove trees growing in my nose. Yeah. So those I'm really geeked out on just kind of how they grow and remind me of Florida and all that stuff and man.
00:28:27:10 - 00:28:33:07
Speaker 2
I well maybe I'll ask you another question. What are you excited to grow in your new greenhouse then?
00:28:34:04 - 00:28:34:26
Speaker 1
Our food.
00:28:35:12 - 00:28:35:19
Speaker 2
Okay.
00:28:35:28 - 00:29:04:04
Speaker 1
Food mostly right now to get get a good good long to to learn how to get a good long harvest period out of food. You know, it seems like the way our summer goes and our schedule goes, it always turns into, oh, like last last year, everything was looking good every morning, not every morning, but almost every morning I go out, we eat everything for five or 10 minutes and just, you know, slow and steady wins the race and then it get dry or whatever.
00:29:04:04 - 00:29:22:21
Speaker 1
And nothing was no weeds were grow inside, kind of laxed. And then we get busy and I'd come back and boom, yeah, it's like golf and weed. So being able to kind of get a little bit more out of it before the weeds take over and just learn and kind of the cycle of of an annual, you know, all of that.
00:29:23:05 - 00:29:40:26
Speaker 1
But the favorite plant, I think I will have to say my grandmother is where I got a lot of my plants from. She had I mean, she had a jade plant that was this big like it was you know, she was good at it. So I've still got a few vines and jade by it and snake dung and all those things, but have it night blooming.
00:29:40:26 - 00:29:44:15
Speaker 1
Serious, serious, serious, whatever. Okay. You know.
00:29:44:22 - 00:29:45:22
Speaker 2
I don't think I, you know.
00:29:46:19 - 00:30:06:01
Speaker 1
I've got a time lapse of the flower coming open. Dennis the Menace. Okay. Oh yeah. It, it blooms like once you know, once and then it's out gorgeous like star shaped and it, it was my wife got it thankfully was like an October so that one just because it reminds me grandma and whatnot that's probably my favorite one if I had to say.
00:30:06:01 - 00:30:14:07
Speaker 2
Yeah I think they had some of those. I think maybe a the Franklin Park Conservatory where they had like a live stream going so like people could like, just watch it. It was bonkers. Yeah.
00:30:14:07 - 00:30:18:03
Speaker 1
Like three or 4 hours it, and then the plants got ugly.
00:30:18:03 - 00:30:19:18
Speaker 2
But yeah. Doesn't it smell.
00:30:20:01 - 00:30:25:09
Speaker 1
Kind of this one? I don't. I've never smelled it. Okay. I think there is a version of it that does. Yeah.
00:30:25:26 - 00:30:39:24
Speaker 2
So that's. Yeah. All right. Not, not plant related just because I want to know and don't say marriage. So if you could live anywhere, but, like, you can't say marriage, because I know that's going to be your answer.
00:30:39:24 - 00:31:03:16
Speaker 1
Yeah, because it's okay. Yeah, the things that I say. So they go public or not? My how do I, how do I respond with my classifying or narrowing down? Is my wife coming or not?
00:31:03:16 - 00:31:05:01
Speaker 2
It's a two part question now. Okay.
00:31:05:01 - 00:31:25:01
Speaker 1
So you know, with her, I don't know how. So I would go to like Alaska if it wasn't like for the wife or kids Alaska that you'd be in Michigan, Minnesota, that kind of thing. Yeah, that, that that would be the general area. I would go, I love the climate. You know, like the the tropical rainforest, what would you call it?
00:31:25:07 - 00:31:34:11
Speaker 1
Cause Juneau, Alaska, when we were there, that was a rainforest. I don't know if that's just a name for it, but it just moss everywhere. Everything's green and lush.
00:31:34:12 - 00:31:34:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:31:35:16 - 00:31:45:01
Speaker 1
Anyway, um, that's not really her thing, so, you know, it's. I'm not sure what the other part of that she'd like to go to that in a big city. You go to Columbus, okay. Downtown.
00:31:45:01 - 00:32:03:23
Speaker 2
Downtown area. I think she did mention that the other night. Yeah. So and then I guess a Brando question. Um, and you don't have to answer this if you don't want to. What is a common misunderstanding about realtors? You know, you don't have to answer.
00:32:03:23 - 00:32:30:17
Speaker 1
Oh, that's a Oh, I'm, I Well, I'm going to give it to one. A lot of I, I don't know what the numbers are, but the majority of real estate agents are independent contractors that generate. They don't if they don't need if they don't kill, if they don't bring the bacon home and produce business, they don't get paid.
00:32:31:28 - 00:32:52:13
Speaker 1
The perception a lot of people have about real estate agencies. They work for a company and the company pays them. Yeah, and there's like a base salary or something. And, you know, so some people will say, Well, I'll work with anybody in your office. Well, I know that effort that I, you know, that gas of running around to show your house or my time of putting your listing together and then you changing your mind or whatever those kind of things are.
00:32:53:19 - 00:33:18:25
Speaker 1
And so similarly, people think that the company is just giving us leads and business to work and and whatnot. And it's, you know, and that's part of the reason I do what I do and do some of these things is to get out there. And because I, I, I enjoy building relationships and serving the community and serving people through work and the other thing is, I think everybody thinks the tagline to that, everybody thinks we're all the same.
00:33:18:25 - 00:33:24:07
Speaker 1
Like we can all do the same things. We can all just, you know, try and open a door.
00:33:24:07 - 00:33:33:09
Speaker 2
I think, like you mentioned, the more people you know, the more people that trust you should make life a little bit easier. And getting those things that you need.
00:33:33:09 - 00:33:55:25
Speaker 1
Yes. For and for anybody, I think the more people you know, the better relationships you have. Life is better lived with people, Right? So, yeah, this so I think just like always, a lot of times I've said just like taking care of your landscaping. So when you do decide to move or sell or whatever, it's already done. You know, you don't have to spend a bunch of time and feel like you're just blowing money.
00:33:55:25 - 00:34:06:18
Speaker 1
I mean, one of the most common things sellers will say is, Man, I wish we would have done all this and fix this house up before we moved, right? Yeah. So that's my recommendation. Don't wait. Do it now. Enjoy your house, right?
00:34:06:18 - 00:34:32:11
Speaker 2
Yeah. Well, we have that argument with our with our kitchen right now. We really want to get it done. And then Matty, my wife and I will. It's like our kids will just destroy this kitchen if we do this now. So, I mean, we got a four year old who literally it will just run. I mean, if he's on a like a little scooter or whatever it is, cars just running things.
00:34:32:11 - 00:34:34:11
Speaker 2
And I'm like, I'm not going to spend this kind of money.
00:34:34:11 - 00:34:36:01
Speaker 1
To break a cabinet. No.
00:34:36:13 - 00:34:51:01
Speaker 2
Yeah. Scuff it up. So, I mean, how do you feel about that? Like you said, just do it now. But I am or like the van. We desperately need to do that. Our bed is trash. I think we I think we talked about this. I mean, there is.
00:34:51:01 - 00:35:02:09
Speaker 1
Well, that's a little different. Yeah. Yeah, that's a little different. You know, But I guess I'm not really sure if there's a good way to do a kitchen without. But doing all of that, this is like a halfway version.
00:35:02:09 - 00:35:07:17
Speaker 2
Yeah. I feel like I need to re baby proof the house just so like, you don't touch this.
00:35:07:23 - 00:35:25:16
Speaker 1
Well, it sounds like. Well, I. I don't know. I'd say give it another few years maybe, but I mean, I had two brothers and we had three boys. I don't know. I was going to say, sometimes teenage boys can be rough on stuff and we had plenty of room to play around outside because I live in the house like, yeah, that I grew up in.
00:35:25:16 - 00:35:39:17
Speaker 1
And I'm the more and m
ore I do things, the more I feel like I've been rough around the house since I've owned the house than my parents and us kids ever were like this, scratching the floor and just, you know, moving stuff around. So I don't know, maybe.
00:35:40:08 - 00:35:48:27
Speaker 2
Do you ever apologize to your parents? I feel like here lately I've been apologizing to my dad a lot. Like, Sorry, Dad, like.
00:35:48:28 - 00:35:51:07
Speaker 1
Do I or should I? I'll agree. Yes.
00:35:51:29 - 00:36:04:11
Speaker 2
I just feel like I constantly in finding myself like, Dad, I'm sorry if I was anything like. Like my kids are to be like. I'm just sorry. So, Dad, if you're listening, I'm sorry again for what I put you guys through.
00:36:04:11 - 00:36:11:17
Speaker 1
So I like that. Yes. No, I definitely can relate to that feeling as a parent of understanding that.
00:36:11:25 - 00:36:31:04
Speaker 2
Or another thing is I remember the first time my parents babysat our kids and it was and this is, you know, a newborn like dad, right? The bath temperature needs to be this. And then he's like, I got this. I'm like, Dad, no, the temperature, it says it needs to be here. And like, all right, this is how you, you know, does the diapers need to go on?
00:36:31:04 - 00:36:36:17
Speaker 2
And, you know, bedtime is at this time. And then I'm like, Dad, just fill the tub. It's fine.
00:36:36:18 - 00:36:37:16
Speaker 1
You know, make sure they don't drown.
00:36:37:16 - 00:36:48:22
Speaker 2
It's yeah, they should or not. So it's just comical that, you know, the first child, you would do anything. And obviously the third child who knows where he's at at this time. So it is again, this is one of those things that is always funny.
00:36:49:00 - 00:37:00:01
Speaker 1
Oh, for sure. For sure. All right. Well, we are at 40 minutes, so I'm going to guess anybody hanging on here probably is ready for us to be done. Yep, maybe. Man, that went quick.
00:37:01:06 - 00:37:02:06
Speaker 2
I felt like I was pretty good.
00:37:02:21 - 00:37:27:05
Speaker 1
That's pretty good. Pretty good? I think so. Well, you all can let us know down in the comments. So if you haven't already subscribe like comment, do whatever you feel is appropriate, but we encourage you to stick around. I do ask that you share it with somebody else and if you know anybody that would be good to talk to, I'd love to be introduced to them or have made the connection.
00:37:27:05 - 00:37:38:11
Speaker 1
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