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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b Brough.

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Speaker 2: Climb Passes in the garden for us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning sir, Good morning Jack. Are you all good there.

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Speaker 2: I'm very good and I've got big news for you.

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Speaker 2: Go on, big big news for you from the Tame

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Speaker 2: family garden. We got the first one this week. So,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's been wet in Auckland, very wet in Auckland,

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Speaker 2: wendy in Auckland. I mean, fortunately for us at the

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Speaker 2: very least, it hasn't been quite as weird as there

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Speaker 2: has been in other parts of the country. And I

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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking of all the people who have got

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Speaker 2: you know, damage and slips and worse at their place

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Speaker 2: at the moment. But for the first time, we have

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Speaker 2: a pomegranate growing on our pomegranate So how about.

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Speaker 3: So that is wonderful, That is actually beautiful. I wasn't

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Speaker 3: going to tell you, but I was going to talk

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Speaker 3: about pomegranate next week.

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Speaker 2: Oh please do. And if you've got any tips, I'm

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Speaker 2: preserving that single pomegranate.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Julie is working at the Botanic Guns

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Speaker 3: now as a guide.

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Speaker 2: Oh how good.

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Speaker 3: They have believe it or not. There is an enormous

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Speaker 3: pomegranate which is about two meters two and a half

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Speaker 3: meters high in the botanic guns and I identify Julie.

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Speaker 3: What do you think this is triro naturalist.

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Speaker 2: Oh and does it have fruit?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's flowers, flowers. I don't know what the fruits

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Speaker 3: are doing yet, but I'll cop an eye on it

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Speaker 3: because it's really nice to hear that you can do

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Speaker 3: it in Auckland, but we can actually do it in

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Speaker 3: Canterbury as well. So yeah, that's why. So we're starting

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Speaker 3: to learn. Yeah, yeah, So I.

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Speaker 2: Didn't think it would happen, certainly, not this year. I

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Speaker 2: thought it would be a few years away from anything.

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Speaker 2: Because even though it's been flowering, I moved the tree.

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Speaker 2: I had to move it a couple of meters orders

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Speaker 2: for my wife and so yeah, I moved it this year.

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Speaker 2: I moved it in winter and and here we go. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so do you go anyway? I will report back in

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Speaker 2: the coming weeks and months because yeah, yeah, exactly. But

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Speaker 2: you're focusing this morning on little creepy caulis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. I've got some lovely things growing at

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Speaker 3: the moment in our gun on the gum trees. That's

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Speaker 3: a silk moth, the ossy Australian silk moth, if you like,

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Speaker 3: and it's doing it's called the gum Emperor moth as well.

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Speaker 3: And I put some piggies there and and Liby will

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Speaker 3: put it on the website, no doubt about it. But

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Speaker 3: it was a really good year for those things too.

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Speaker 3: And the irony is that that particular creature, the aussy

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Speaker 3: silk moth if you like, occurs in the South Island

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Speaker 3: all the way down to Lincoln, so that's not far

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Speaker 3: from where we lived. That's probably the most sudden place

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Speaker 3: where it is. Yeah, So these are these are literally

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Speaker 3: silk moths. They belong to the silk moth family, the

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Speaker 3: ones that you know, the Chinese and the Japanese made

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Speaker 3: silk out of all these billions of years ago. But

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Speaker 3: the Australian silk is such a crappy what you call

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Speaker 3: it material that is too hard to make any clothes

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Speaker 3: of it at all. But it's still a fabulous thing.

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Speaker 3: So here it goes, and they grow to about twelve

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Speaker 3: centimeters long. Those caterpillars are beautiful. The colors are green, blue,

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Speaker 3: unbelievably nice legs, orange red, and they pretend to be poisonous.

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Speaker 3: That's probably what it is. It looks amazing. So that's

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Speaker 3: number one. And then three weeks later and they will

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Speaker 3: spin a cocoon. That is that cocon that I just

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Speaker 3: gave one out of ten or four. The cocoon is

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Speaker 3: hues and high and very very very haidy. To go

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Speaker 3: through the winter with that silk thing is basically as

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Speaker 3: I said, you can't make any clothes out of it,

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Speaker 3: but it is really really amazing. So November December, January,

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Speaker 3: right now, the crystalis is open and these enormous, enormous

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Speaker 3: moths come out, fifteen centimeter wingspan, beautiful orange colors with

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Speaker 3: brown and pink ice spots and things like that. And basically,

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Speaker 3: this is the thing you have to. You have to

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Speaker 3: if you ever get a good gum tree, or for

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Speaker 3: that matter, a liquid amber, which is a totally unrelated

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Speaker 3: plant on which they grow as well, get one of

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Speaker 3: those plants and see if you can get some trendslocated

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Speaker 3: to your your place, because the kids would love it.

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Speaker 3: They would love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sounds right, sounds wonderful.

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Speaker 3: That's where we are very good.

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Speaker 2: I will put some photos up on the news talk

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Speaker 2: people can get a bit of a better sense of

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Speaker 2: it as well. Hey, the other big news the jacaranda tree.

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Speaker 2: Remember how I was reporting to you that our jacaranda

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Speaker 2: tree was looking a bit worse for weir and the

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Speaker 2: only half of it was flowering and it was looking

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Speaker 2: a bit strange. The good news is that the other

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Speaker 2: half is flourishing all of a sudden, so it's almost

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Speaker 2: like half of the tree is on a different kind

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Speaker 2: of cycle to the Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: What can happen. Yeah, apparently that can that can happen.

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Speaker 3: But a little bit of fertilizer on the on the

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Speaker 3: root zone will help as well. That is great. And

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Speaker 3: finally you were talking about the weather to three four

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Speaker 3: days ago, I drove from west Auckland to Ruway here

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Speaker 3: in Northland in that amy zing storm. It was unbelievable. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was wonderful, Well, not wonderful. It was sad, but

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Speaker 3: it was great. Yeah. Yeah, but you're.

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Speaker 2: Probably relieved when you got there. Hey, thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for I got it. Yeah, I got this overly root

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Speaker 2: climb passing the garden for us.

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