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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.

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Speaker 2: At Climb past A. Very good morning, sir, Hello root, Hello, hello, hello.

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Speaker 3: Don't you hear me? There you go?

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Speaker 2: I got you, Sure, I got you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you did there, but I was

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Speaker 3: on this particular.

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Speaker 2: And don't let me touch buttons, that's all. That's all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny, that, isn't it touching? But especially when

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Speaker 3: you got five million on your desk.

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Speaker 2: Your hands in your pocket and the role really.

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Speaker 3: Now you realized I was with with with the beginning

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Speaker 3: of the what do you call it, the habit of humanity? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: at megan with Maggie's Gun Show. Fantastic, that was literally

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Speaker 3: all twenty five thirty something like that. Yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're fantastic, hear that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's lots of really cool people doing stuff

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Speaker 2: in that space. But but you know, I remember building

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Speaker 2: or being part of a crew that built a house

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Speaker 2: in a week, you know, that type of thing. That

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Speaker 2: would have been ten years ago. So they're not I

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Speaker 2: don't know if they're doing much of that now, but

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Speaker 2: they're still so active in that space. And again, my

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Speaker 2: thanks still rained for that wonderful text just a moment ago.

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Speaker 2: Now are you driving? Does it drive you mad when

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Speaker 2: you're listening to the weather forecasts and the news and

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Speaker 2: people are going, right, tomorrow's the first day of spring

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Speaker 2: and you you want to throw something at the screen.

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Speaker 3: Of course, yeah, I thought, so, this is nonsense.

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Speaker 2: I didn't mean to raise that to just get you,

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Speaker 2: and I figured that.

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Speaker 3: I said, yes, sir, I said to Jack, I said, look,

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Speaker 3: I've had enough of it. You know, people who just

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Speaker 3: don't understand what storytelling is about and how this blenet operates,

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Speaker 3: you know, And I find it strange that's scientists of

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Speaker 3: New one and all these groups actually keep on going

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Speaker 3: and no, you know, you get TV three saying yeah,

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Speaker 3: but this is the official start new of the Left Spring.

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Speaker 3: But it's not as it no, not exactly not Just.

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Speaker 2: To be clear, when is the first day of.

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Speaker 3: Spring twenty third of September. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 3: it again. And if you're in the middle of say

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Speaker 3: of New Zealand, say Wellington, yep at six twenty in

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Speaker 3: the morning, I think you want you're going to go

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Speaker 3: to that sort of stuff too. I don't mind. It's

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Speaker 3: just a matter of this is when you have this,

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Speaker 3: the time of day and night is the same if

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Speaker 3: you like, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Wonderful? Right, Oh, let's get into the garden. A couple

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Speaker 2: of quick texts. I'm so tempted to answer this myself,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to restrain myself. Hi, just wanting to

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Speaker 2: know win to prune a large mature plum tree and

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Speaker 2: a fig tree from Carl.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's easy that the plum tree is very simple.

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Speaker 3: It's after fruiting, right, so that'll be summer if you like.

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Speaker 3: You know when when you when the plum trees is

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Speaker 3: when the plums have gone. Basically that's a good time

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Speaker 3: to do it. So this is exactly the wrong to

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Speaker 3: have to do it right now. But that's that is

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Speaker 3: a good one. But he also wrote about the fig

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Speaker 3: tree right yes, now, vic tree is now late winter

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Speaker 3: early spring. There you go.

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Speaker 2: Boom, Okay, so plum tree like me, I'm too late.

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Speaker 2: I gotta wait till next yep.

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Speaker 3: If you've got fixes right now, yeah, because it's still

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Speaker 3: it basically hasn't got any flow of leaves on it

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Speaker 3: and things like that. Right light pruning can be done

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Speaker 3: midsummer if you like. But that's about it.

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Speaker 2: Now someone's also sent through ticks with regard to roses. Hey,

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Speaker 2: christ for it, Why are my roses still flowering? Same

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Speaker 2: thing happened last year and they're in livin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are varieties of roses that can actually do that.

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Speaker 3: If they're in the right spot, nice and sunny and

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Speaker 3: out of frost, if you like, they will go for

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Speaker 3: know if that's a new variety or a thing that

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Speaker 3: it's becoming more and more common these days. There you are,

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Speaker 3: might have something to do with out climate, saying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely right he oh, if you've got a

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Speaker 2: and eighty ten eighty is that number? Hollow gale?

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Speaker 4: Hi, I'm worrying about my futures. They've never stopped flowering,

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Speaker 4: and usually they flower or summer a pretty scungy in

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Speaker 3: You could if you like, if that's what you're so

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Speaker 3: like to do. But if you like the look of futures,

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Speaker 3: why not leave let them go? I mean, you go on, they're.

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Speaker 4: Just flowering like they normally do all summer. Will they

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Speaker 4: flower all summer?

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Speaker 3: I have no idea. I cannot tell you that exactly.

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Speaker 3: But some again, some varieties of plants are starting to

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Speaker 3: like that, and taking different times of the year to

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Speaker 3: do it or go longer. As we just discussed with

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Speaker 3: the roses, for instance, I would just enjoy it, and

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Speaker 3: I would if I were you. If you want to you,

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Speaker 3: if you want to cut, you know, prune them, if

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Speaker 3: you like, do it at the time when there's no flowers.

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Speaker 4: Well, there won't be a time when there's no flowers,

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Speaker 4: that's the problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well when when you know, when the numbers have

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Speaker 3: gone down a bit. That's really what I'm trying to say.

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Speaker 3: But no, I was you got it? Why don't you

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Speaker 3: do this program? You're really good at this. But you know,

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Speaker 3: and and the best thing is this a few ship

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Speaker 3: that you've got in the pot.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's a hybrid future timer, the big one

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Speaker 4: with orange tuebilla flowers.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh. And so it's outside is it against the

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Speaker 3: stone walls? Yeah? Yeah, Okay, Well how do you how

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Speaker 3: do you water? Do you water it?

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Speaker 4: No, not really. But generally if they if I've sort

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Speaker 4: of got the hose, I might give them a water,

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Speaker 4: but they don't seem to really need it.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: But but the point is that if you do use

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Speaker 3: that watering idea, why not use a water with some

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Speaker 3: liquid fertilizer. And that means exact so you can have

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Speaker 3: all sorts of liquid fertilizers. My favorite one for flowering

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Speaker 3: plants like yours is seawed tea. From the wet and

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Speaker 3: yet seaweed tea. You mix that up with a bit

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Speaker 3: look of very weak tea. Literally that's quite a nice one,

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Speaker 3: and you use it as a watering thing. And at

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Speaker 3: the same time you put the potash in there, and

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Speaker 3: that means, oh, we can flower on, we can keep

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Speaker 4: Oh well, so when would I do there?

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Speaker 3: I would do that from in a couple of weeks

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Speaker 3: time onwards. So when you get your first spring development

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Speaker 3: that little bit of fertilizer, and.

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Speaker 4: I'd cut it back at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah good too, Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: Can I add a comment please? I wonder whether what

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Speaker 2: you've done with your futures is also create like a

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Speaker 2: little micro climate, because your comment about the fact that

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Speaker 2: the futures are planted near the wall and it's a

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Speaker 2: masonry wall, and what you'll get is essentially passive soul again, right,

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Speaker 2: so the wall will absorb some of that energy and

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Speaker 2: it will be warmer there than it would if they

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Speaker 2: were located somewhere else. And is them grow as well

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Speaker 2: or continue flowering?

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you're right, because we've got one against a

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Speaker 4: creoso all that's flowering madly too.

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Speaker 2: Right, How interesting? That's great, that's great.

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Speaker 3: It makes It makes quite a few degrees difference.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, it would do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, nice one.

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Speaker 2: Nice to talk.

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Speaker 3: Lovely to talk to you. Ga.

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Speaker 2: You have a great day. Now let's do the controversy.

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Speaker 2: I'll read the text and will reply after the break, right,

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Speaker 2: you can calm down here we go. Sorry, but both

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Speaker 2: of you are wrong. Can I just add that I

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Speaker 2: actually didn't Sorry, both of you are wrong. The first

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Speaker 2: day of spring is when the weather makes its first

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Speaker 2: upwards turn from the coldest time of winter. This year,

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Speaker 2: the first day of spring was approximately the seventh of August.

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Speaker 2: Every single person in nation knows this. M Kiwi by

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Speaker 2: the way. Anyway, we'll contemplate that. Calm you, calm yourself,

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Speaker 2: and we'll be back after the break, right, I wrould

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Speaker 2: you want to respond to that?

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Speaker 3: I'd love it. I think this is exactly the reason

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Speaker 3: why I was always going on about the time. And

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Speaker 3: doing it. One is, there's actually many ways of doing it.

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Speaker 3: If you have a story like this, especially in where

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Speaker 3: was this in which area we're talking about, I've lost it.

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Speaker 3: I've lost it. I've lost the text. Don't worry. So

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Speaker 3: if you if you're talking about looking at what he

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Speaker 3: wrote in terms of the storytelling, yes, it's a storytelling

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Speaker 3: thing from a certain area in a certain part of

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Speaker 3: the right at least that has its complete story around it.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't say one.

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Speaker 2: Of September, remember, not an arbitrary date.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not an arbitrary date. That's lovely. And the

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Speaker 3: other one that that I was talking about was basically

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Speaker 3: the time of of if you like the equal amount

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Speaker 3: of day as equal amount of light, both of them

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Speaker 3: between are fine. But you're saying first of September because

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Speaker 2: My calendar to see when the first December falls and

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Speaker 2: the hope that it's not a Sunday, and we have

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Speaker 2: this conversation about the start of summer.

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Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, But those are exactly That's what I do

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Speaker 3: with kids and teachers. You're making these stories up and

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Speaker 3: there you go. You do it.

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Speaker 2: It's great, fantastic. Someone has also text her and said,

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Speaker 2: I've also heard the first day of springers when the

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Speaker 2: first staffodils come out. Well, I've seen deathdels around.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and they actually go met winter almost round. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And and that sort of timing is also to do

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Speaker 3: with not That's another thing that I hate people saying,

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Speaker 3: because there's what is it with, for instance, with dafodils.

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Speaker 3: The dafodils are late this year, means we're going to

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Speaker 3: get a bad summer, right have you? Can you do

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Speaker 3: you think plants can can actually predict the weather for

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Speaker 3: the next three weeks or four weeks. No, it can't.

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Speaker 3: It can only it can Plants can only what do

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Speaker 3: you call it, do their thing as a result of

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Speaker 3: what happened in the past. They can't predict it, you know,

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Speaker 3: all that sort of It's just hilarious.

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Speaker 2: But no, I like that, right, now a couple of

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Speaker 2: other tics come through. We can take calls, but we'll

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Speaker 2: take the texts as well. Can you please ask Jason

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Speaker 2: what time of year we would prune cut back a

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Speaker 2: Pahota cowa tree there in Papa.

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Speaker 3: More, Pokawa. I would do that in after all the

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Speaker 3: flowering has been happening, So you do it in winter time,

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Speaker 3: I would say, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because I've noticed we have one of our place that

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Speaker 2: we're starting to see the sus new buds arrive.

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Speaker 2: Now, is it too late to spray a dwarf peach

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Speaker 2: Right, Christmas beetles inundated last year during camping. Is that cyclical?

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Speaker 2: Fantastic And just a quick note before we talked to Trisha,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic, right, Oh, Trish talk to us about the birds.

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Speaker 5: And I feed them every morning and every night. Yes,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I've just put some seed out because I

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Speaker 5: So the seeds, I didn't I didn't realize it was

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Speaker 5: and small. It's wild wild value wild bird seed about

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Speaker 5: some seeds that's are black that they don't eat. And

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Speaker 5: And I've got you know, I've got three bird feeders

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Speaker 3: Oh you're wonderful. I think you're wonderful. Look first of all,

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Speaker 3: What I would do is can you can you can

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Speaker 3: hanging up somewhere. No, No, others like to be on

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