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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp

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Speaker 1: from News talks at.

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Speaker 2: Be your news talks It. One hundred and eighty ten

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Speaker 2: eighty is the number to call you, Linnen, Good morning

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Speaker 2: to you, Hello ya, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 4: I have two fruit trees that I planted from a stone.

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Speaker 4: Now they fruited this last season, and the trees have

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Speaker 4: no curlyly and yet the Golden Queen tree I bought

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Speaker 4: gets covered in curlyly. What's the reason.

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Speaker 3: The reason is that leaf curl is something that and

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Speaker 3: I suppose to do. Fruit trees that you're talking about

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Speaker 3: are all peaches or nectarines or something like that. Nectarine Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Well they're basically similar sort of group of trees. They

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Speaker 3: belong to the same families, if you like, and they

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Speaker 3: are both ready they are both normally attacked by a

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Speaker 3: fungus called leaf curl. Once a tree has flowered and

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Speaker 3: it sets and it gets new leaves, the leaf curl

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Speaker 3: will infect those new leaves. And the way to stop

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Speaker 3: that from happening is by spraying your fruit trees right now.

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Speaker 3: You're a bit late, but I would still do it now,

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Speaker 3: and I would spray it now.

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Speaker 4: I don't spray my trees.

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Speaker 3: In that case you will have leaf curl for the

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Speaker 3: rest of your life. Next Coller, please.

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Speaker 2: You need to spray obviously. Otherwise, yeah, you can't.

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Speaker 3: Get, you can't get, you can't do anything. I would

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Speaker 3: use copper, which is an organic material. It's not going

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Speaker 3: to be toxic.

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Speaker 4: Planted from a stone, they don't get curly leaf.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Then you probably have a variety that might be resistant

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Speaker 3: to that, which I don't know if it is, but

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Speaker 3: there you go.

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Speaker 2: If it works, it works.

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Speaker 3: If it works, you spray. You spray usually when all

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Speaker 3: the leaves are falling off in the autumn time, late autumn,

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Speaker 3: when about half of your leaves have fallen off, you

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Speaker 3: do a double dose of copper. And that's how you

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Speaker 3: look after leaf girl for the next spring.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thanks for you call, and Craig a very good

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Speaker 2: morning to you.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, or as my friends and I call me,

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Speaker 6: bunker Craig. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Christian for is with the

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Speaker 6: lake that's next to the Becket property is about an

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Speaker 6: acre and size and at the moment we've gone cleaned

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Speaker 6: all or of course some weeds oil. It's basically just

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Speaker 6: a beer boundary on the outside of the lake. What

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Speaker 6: would be a good plant to sort of plant around

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Speaker 6: the outsides of whatever, just maybe fall to some of

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Speaker 6: the sediments from the rest of the paddicts that flow

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Speaker 6: into it, and also have some also, what fish could

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Speaker 6: you put in there?

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, there's a yeah. So in other words, Key,

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Speaker 3: you designed my leg for me.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you're saying. But the best thing

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Speaker 3: is to go to an aquatic plants company, if you like,

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Speaker 3: in your area, and see a what grows where you

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Speaker 3: are in which part of New Zealand, and what grows well?

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Speaker 3: And what is the best one to do all that?

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Speaker 3: And there are all sorts of bits and pieces. You know,

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Speaker 3: You've got all sorts of horsetails and god knows what.

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Speaker 3: But if you want native stuff, you've got to go

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Speaker 3: to a specific aquatic plants company, and I bet you

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Speaker 3: if you go and look on Google you'll find it. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be able to give you more than one

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Speaker 3: or two plants. That's about it.

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Speaker 6: We just want to try and make it look a

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Speaker 6: little bit like what it would have been back sort

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Speaker 6: of like a couple of hundred years ago. Sort of

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Speaker 6: my natural tup thing rather than all the produced stuff.

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Speaker 3: Like you know what's craig, Craig, there is a thing

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Speaker 3: called there's a creak called the what do you call

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Speaker 3: that trust? The Wetland Trust, the New Zealand where I

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Speaker 3: happen to be the patron of the Wetland Trust. That's

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Speaker 3: why I struggle to get its name. But never mind

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Speaker 3: that that trust has got a lot of information in

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Speaker 3: books and publications online on what are the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: plants that traditionally live around things like wetlands and your

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Speaker 3: your legs. And honestly, they also will have the plants

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Speaker 3: that will give you all the biodiversity in your area

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Speaker 3: that you will attract because of planting the right things.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's good, Thank you very much for that.

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Speaker 2: Have a look at that, Craig, and we'll talk something.

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Speaker 2: Take care, buddy, and oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty.

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Speaker 2: Then I'm going to call pat Hello there, Hello.

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Speaker 7: One thing I want to add some answer, but I've

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Speaker 7: got an answer for the egg lady. I'm just using

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Speaker 7: old eggs.

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Speaker 3: Old eggs.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, somebody texted the pen But anyway, that's se last

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Speaker 7: year we had fakes there lives plump and juicy. This year,

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Speaker 7: we haven't had one fag. They've got to the stage

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Speaker 7: of not plumping up. They just were tiny little things

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Speaker 7: and then before we know, all the leaves have gone

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Speaker 7: and over river for this year.

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Speaker 3: Fertilized the tree at all.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure it's my son's tree, but I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: But don't don't tell me it's one of those sons

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Speaker 3: that I have, you know, actually sort of anyway, go.

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Speaker 7: On, he does fertilize the tree's a lot sure if

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Speaker 7: he's fertilized this one. It's actually in the sheep panic.

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Speaker 7: But if you could just give me some idea why

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Speaker 7: that fruit has not It just did not ripen and

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Speaker 7: did not plump up at all.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you. If it's in the sheep panic, I

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Speaker 3: bet you it has brilliant leaves.

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Speaker 7: You know, it was always looked good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, I can tell you

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Speaker 3: that if you, as a fig tree, live in a

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Speaker 3: sheep paddic, boy, do you leave grow? But the point

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Speaker 3: is that if you do not, if you do not

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Speaker 3: have the k for potash that makes the fruit grow,

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Speaker 3: you have a slightly out of balanced fertilizer regime. So

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Speaker 3: what you do is leave everything where as it is,

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Speaker 3: but get a little bag of sulfate of.

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Speaker 5: Potash sol fate postache so fate of.

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Speaker 3: Potash, and you put that. You put as soon as

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Speaker 3: these things start to come out in springtime, you put

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Speaker 3: the potash on maybe twice or three times, say once

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Speaker 3: in September, once in November, and once in you got it,

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Speaker 3: and once in early early summer. Just a bit handful.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, most helpful.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 6: Indeed, have fun.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, must talk to you, pet. Thank you for calling.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna take a short break. We'll be back in

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Speaker 2: just a moment of There is eight fifty your new

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Speaker 2: eight fifty three and l a very good morning.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, morning guys. How are you going?

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Speaker 6: Were good? Thanks?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, rut. Several years ago I bought two yellow hibiscus pushes. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and they over the over the years, I've you know,

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Speaker 5: I've increased the size of the pots because winter time

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Speaker 5: I put them back in the in the greenhouse for protection. Obviously. Well,

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Speaker 5: one of them, one of them just seems to struggle.

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Speaker 5: I nearly lost it earlier this year. One leaf came up.

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Speaker 5: I never gave up on a plant, even if it

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Speaker 5: looks dead. I just you know, I try and tend

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Speaker 5: it to get it back. This one, this one came

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Speaker 5: back beautifully. But now all of a sudden, I see

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Speaker 5: the leaves have started to shrivel up and looks like

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Speaker 5: they're going to drop off and back to this square

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Speaker 5: one again. So and so I'm just wondering. I've changed

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Speaker 5: the soil. I've put a bit of fertilizer. It gets

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Speaker 5: regular water. The other one is fine.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I suggest if things go wrong with the hibiscus,

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Speaker 3: I think that moving it and repotting it is probably

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Speaker 3: not a great idea, to be quite honest, because they

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Speaker 3: can be a bit touchy. Actually, too much or too

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Speaker 3: little water will usually do it. And not enough light,

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Speaker 3: too much light. They can be quite They can be

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Speaker 3: quite grumpy, you know, when you do things like this.

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Speaker 3: But it could also be it could also be a virus,

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Speaker 3: and it could be anything else as well. They can

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Speaker 3: have all sorts of problems. But generally speaking, hibiscuses, once

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Speaker 3: they are planted in the ground should be fine. Why

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Speaker 3: do you decide to put them in a in a

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Speaker 3: pot and then take them inside? Does it took cold

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Speaker 3: in the winter.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in the same here as you. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it's a lovely sunny day here in class church at

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Speaker 5: the moment, as you will aware.

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Speaker 3: Cheap as creepers, it's sunny, there's forty millimeters of rain

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Speaker 3: go on exactly.

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Speaker 5: But I know, you know, I've always wanted to plant

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Speaker 5: them out in the gardener. Planted a red one up

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Speaker 5: and that one does. Okay, Yeah, it just seems that

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Speaker 5: lately we always have these lake frost. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 5: why I sort of kept them in the pot and

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Speaker 5: waited and waited for you know, a good, a good

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Speaker 5: sunny spell to some Okay, that hasn't happened.

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Speaker 3: I got it. So in this case, you might have

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Speaker 3: been unlucky with this yellow one, this this what this

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Speaker 3: particular one. And in that case, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's a couple of things you can do. You can

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Speaker 3: keep on being the doctor and trying to work with it,

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Speaker 3: but if it doesn't work, there comes a time that

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Speaker 3: you'll have to toss it into the green ben a.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well I was going to give it another

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Speaker 5: change in the soil. But maybe it's, like you say, yeah,

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Speaker 5: too potentic.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, yes, well no, it's not pedentic. I mean I

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Speaker 3: do the same thing. I'm trying to save most of

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Speaker 3: these things too, but you have to remember they can

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Speaker 3: have viruses, and it depends on what the leaves are doing.

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Speaker 3: Some are curling, some are getting white in color, and

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Speaker 3: there's all sorts of different ways of checking that. But

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Speaker 3: if the one does it, then the other one does it.

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Speaker 3: I think you've just had an unlucky one with the

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Speaker 3: the patient.

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Speaker 2: Like my grumpy Camelia. Yeah, all the best, you all

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Speaker 2: take care, thank you very much. Hey, you're just seeing

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Speaker 2: a link to a story about a new garden being

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Speaker 2: developed at Hamilton Gardens, a medieval garden.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I heard about that, Yes, and I missed it.

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Speaker 2: Never mind, back next week we'll talk about.

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