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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 be.

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Speaker 2: Road Climb Pass.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, A very good morning to you, Francesca. How

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Speaker 3: are you going.

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Speaker 2: I'm really good, Thank you. I love your topic today.

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Speaker 2: You're just going to talk about, you know, as we're

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Speaker 2: heading to the shortest day of the year, we can

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Speaker 2: just put a little bit of color and liven up

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Speaker 2: the garden a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think people don't always think about that. They go, oh,

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Speaker 3: it's winter or whatever, which is not until the twenty

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Speaker 3: first of May or June, of course, but that's another story.

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Speaker 3: But no, the point is that I always love going

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Speaker 3: to the botanic gardens or actually just walking around my

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Speaker 3: garden because my Julie is a bit of a gardener

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Speaker 3: and she has all sorts of lovely stuff there that

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Speaker 3: is actually flowering now, like such as I'll give you

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Speaker 3: an example, three dahlias, do you know, tree daily dahlia

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Speaker 3: They go they go tall, don't they absolutely, like four

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Speaker 3: or five meters and then against the blue sky that

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Speaker 3: exactly against the blue sky that we have at the

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Speaker 3: moment in Canterbury, it looks gorgeous. It's that pinky pinky color,

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Speaker 3: and it is absolutely stunning. And you know what, this

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Speaker 3: is the thing. You don't really need to do much

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Speaker 3: with them. You can prune them if you like. They'll

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Speaker 3: grow back up to the same height next year, no

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Speaker 3: hassles at all. So that's I think that's that's one

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Speaker 3: of my favorites too. Nereenes is another one. Julie has

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Speaker 3: a shiverst load of nereenes in the garden. Bright pink.

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Speaker 3: It's well, you know, I'm not pink is not me

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Speaker 3: really my color, but boy, it is spectacular. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: It's really nice. And here in the porthills where we

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Speaker 3: don't have frost that often or actually at all, almost

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Speaker 3: and you can grow these things still at least May

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Speaker 3: June July no problem. And after that, and especially when

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Speaker 3: it's not too wet, you can enternd plant them and

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Speaker 3: deal with them what you like. And they're not so easy.

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Speaker 2: They're not too fussy about your soil quality either, are they.

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Speaker 3: No, they have the crappiest soils in the world. As

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Speaker 3: long as it drains. This is amazing. So and they've

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Speaker 3: got selvia that is a Mexican bush, say Selvia leucantha,

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Speaker 3: and that really works well in the sun as well,

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Speaker 3: and it flowers up to a meter high. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: But here comes the thing. There are still bumblebees pollinating

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Speaker 3: those flowers, and there are not one or two, there

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Speaker 3: are dozens of them. And to me that shows you

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Speaker 3: that that means those bumblebees will be fine for next

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Speaker 3: year when they come out as fertilized queens. Is that

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Speaker 3: a safety or not? Yeah? No, not a no no,

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Speaker 3: you don't no, no, no. I don't think you would

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Speaker 3: keep that. It might have a nice smell, I suppose,

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Speaker 3: and you might be able to use it as a

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Speaker 3: bit of a yeah, a bit of a on flavor,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not one hundred percent sure. I wouldn't do

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Speaker 3: it until you've worked it out. I don't know, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. Smoke bushes this is another one.

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Speaker 3: It's that's actually I've just been reading up on that.

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Speaker 3: That's something that they've used for a long long time

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Speaker 3: in gardens, and there are so many different species. We've

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Speaker 3: got the purple range like the Royal purple and grace,

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Speaker 3: but there's now also lime green ones and this is

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Speaker 3: the time when they leave. They're not kind of falling

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Speaker 3: off yet, but they are doing these autumn color gigs

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Speaker 3: and they will be like that color for another at

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Speaker 3: least two months. So that is really really nice to

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Speaker 3: have in the book at the bottom of your garden

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Speaker 3: as well. And yeah, and then let's go to some

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Speaker 3: trees by the way, liquid amber. You know that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: always good autumn leaves, isn't it. And they take their

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Speaker 3: time to do it, which is really cool. And I'm

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Speaker 3: using it especially with birds around lots of food food

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Speaker 3: under the leaves that falling. So when I do bird bending,

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Speaker 3: like what I'm doing right now with some guys that

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Speaker 3: I'm teaching, you'll find that if those leaves fall on

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Speaker 3: the ground, underneath those leaves, you will find all the

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Speaker 3: food that birds need. And it is lovely and it

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Speaker 3: is colorful. And then finally that eucalyptus you've seen that

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Speaker 3: picture there, Yes, beautiful, Yeah, yeah, not only that it

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Speaker 3: has in the summertime, it's got these amazing gum emperor

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Speaker 3: moth caterpillars four inches long, violent green with red and

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Speaker 3: orange dots and blue spatters and prickly things on their back.

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Speaker 3: Just amazing. But now Belbert Dewey Khaka, everything in the

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Speaker 3: neighborhood comes and gets the eucalyptus flowers. Now you wake

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Speaker 3: up for that, wouldn't you?

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Speaker 2: I certainly would, Thank you so much. Rood has some

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Speaker 2: lovely ideas there. Nice to talk to you.

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