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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.

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Speaker 2: Ah Man in the Gardener's Rude Climb past. How are

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Speaker 2: you good?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? Have you seen any pollinators yet at your place?

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Speaker 2: Ah? I think I've said a few pollinators. Sort of

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Speaker 2: sounds likely euphimistic when you put it on those terms,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: But yes, yeah, I know, I know it was nearly

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Speaker 3: off of whatever it was nearly off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know things. It has to be said. Things

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Speaker 2: are going very well at the at the in the

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Speaker 2: Tame Garden at the moment, not very well. They're never

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Speaker 2: going very well, but they're going reasonably well. And then

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Speaker 2: everything is flowering, except I've got this weird situation, right.

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Speaker 2: So I've got a jackaranda tree, and you know the

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Speaker 2: jacaranda trees just grow like anything, right, So I've got

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Speaker 2: a jacaranda tree and it's flowered. So I've got all

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Speaker 2: the beautiful purple flower but for some reason, about two

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Speaker 2: thirds of the tree has no none of its green foliage.

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Speaker 2: So after winter, the green folie just didn't come back.

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Speaker 2: So it's just kind of beer. It is very stronge.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what happened that. Oh god, that could be

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Speaker 3: all sorts of troubles to be quite.

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Speaker 2: Honest, I know. But but but the things that don't

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Speaker 2: have the green foliage have no that they had flowers,

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Speaker 2: so it's very it's very weird.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, there might that might be something to

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Speaker 3: do with your root zone at underneath you know that

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Speaker 3: it doesn't get the feeding through that particular path. It

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Speaker 3: might be just something like that. That's really hard. I

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Speaker 3: really need to go and see that one day and

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Speaker 3: see what happens, because it could be a dieback, I suppose.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, this is it and a lot of

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Speaker 3: plowns are at the moment flowering as you as you

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Speaker 3: can see. And it's interesting because I started doing a

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Speaker 3: bit of research of this whole. If you like stuff

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Speaker 3: that you do with these pollinators, and sometimes you do

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Speaker 3: a biotic or sometimes biotic pollination, and and a biotic

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Speaker 3: has to do with wind movements so that the wind

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Speaker 3: actually does the pollination. But what I'm talking about, of course,

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Speaker 3: on my favorite lugs you know, you name it, butterflies

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Speaker 3: to bumblebees, to flies, to beetles. There's an incredible amount

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Speaker 3: of pollinators in everybody's garden and they are doing so well,

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Speaker 3: and I love that sort of stuff, So that's number one.

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Speaker 3: But when you're yeah, yeah, but when birds are getting

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Speaker 3: involved in pollinating, they are not really looking for bluish plants,

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Speaker 3: if you like, They're looking more for reddish flowers because

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Speaker 3: they can see red a lot better than insects. Insects

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Speaker 3: sea blue rights. It's a really cool way to look

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Speaker 3: at these things. So only ten of birds, only ten

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Speaker 3: percent of the pollinators are birds. That's not that much

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Speaker 3: if you think about it. But if you look at

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Speaker 3: tui and bell bird and things like that, and silver ice,

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Speaker 3: those are the ones that are doing the gig and

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Speaker 3: you know with co five flax, right and all that

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Speaker 3: sort of stuff. That's how it works. And what's really

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Speaker 3: interesting is, and this is one of the things I

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Speaker 3: want to tell people, when you see, for instance, blackbirds

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Speaker 3: having a go in your Fijoa trees, it looks as

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Speaker 3: if the blackbird goes for those red Fijoa trees flowers

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Speaker 3: and totally destroys them. It's not. They do the most

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Speaker 3: efficient way of pollinating there.

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Speaker 2: You are, of course, of course, because you mean to

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Speaker 2: partnot with the jos. You're right, okay, oh, very good.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Sir. Rou Climb passed in the garden for

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