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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 Rude.

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Speaker 2: Climb Past is our men in the garden. Good morning sir.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Jack. And yes he is in the garden.

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Speaker 3: Apart from getting rid of a lot of junk and

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Speaker 3: wood and all that, but also some work to do,

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Speaker 3: some work to do with.

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Speaker 2: You certainly do well. This is the time to get cracking,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is actually, to be quite honest, it's the time

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Speaker 3: to do some to do some bulbs and corns as

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Speaker 3: I call them, you know, thinks that we quite often

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Speaker 3: have later on.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't have tulips at home. In fact,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I'm embarrassed to say I actually have.

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Speaker 2: I grow very few flowers. But I think now is

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Speaker 2: the time to start growing some more flowers. My sister

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Speaker 2: is an excellent flower grower. In fact, she actually sells

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Speaker 2: bunches of flowers from a little honesty box outside her

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Speaker 2: place because she grows so many flowers. But no, I

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Speaker 2: haven't really grown heaps. I just have sort of high

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Speaker 2: strangers and that kind of thing. But now I'm looking

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Speaker 2: to expand, so very happy to do that.

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Speaker 3: Is that is that the famous the famous place where

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Speaker 3: you can buy these things in Nelson.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's a that's a one A media.

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Speaker 3: Yes, there you go. Yeah, that's difficult, isn't it? Anyway?

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Speaker 3: If you really Julie actually just called me when you

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Speaker 3: said that we're going to do things like like bulbs

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Speaker 3: and all that. He says, don't forget to tell them

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Speaker 3: that you've got to keep them under control for eight

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Speaker 3: weeks and chilled conditions.

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Speaker 2: It's difficult, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: So that starts Yeah, eight weeks, that's good, especially abnrs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, no, so so well, I've got all

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Speaker 3: this stuff of course on the website. But I always

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Speaker 3: like to tell you the story about the sixteen hundreds

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Speaker 3: when the Dutch where you found out that if you

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Speaker 3: do if you do tulips with viruses, you can actually

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Speaker 3: get really strange looking, beautiful, beautiful bulbs. And those things

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Speaker 3: used to be sold for something like, oh, three thousand

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Speaker 3: florins per bulb. That is a heck of a lot

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Speaker 3: of money. Yeah, sixteen hundreds, that's can you that's a

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Speaker 3: skilled craftsman in those days only got three hundred florins

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Speaker 3: if you're like per year, isn't that amazing.

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Speaker 2: It is absurd. Yes, one of the streets it was,

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Speaker 2: but that's great. Yeah, yeah, that's the Dutch.

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Speaker 3: For you anyway. So, yes, they grow well in the

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Speaker 3: South Island and very cool winters, but they do need

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Speaker 3: winter chilling for eight weeks when you put them in

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Speaker 3: the fridge, and in mild climates it's placed to plant

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Speaker 3: later in the year, say May or June. So but

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Speaker 3: it's getting there so you can order them now. And

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Speaker 3: I think that is a really important thing to do

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Speaker 3: because there's so many species around. The other thing that

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Speaker 3: we have is Narcissus or Narcissi or narcissusus. Oh, I

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Speaker 3: don't know anyway, forty they have roots that go way down.

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Speaker 3: Have you got Narcissus in the garden? No, you need to.

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Speaker 2: Death yeah dea, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, No, I don't,

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Speaker 2: I don't. I mean this is this would be a

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Speaker 2: great way to bring a bit of christ Church back

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Speaker 2: to my place.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Hagley Park, remember.

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Speaker 2: I know, well, I don't need to remember every time

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Speaker 2: I'm down there in spring it's for splendent. That's how

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Speaker 2: you know. Spring is sprung.

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Speaker 3: There you go, so there you go. This is again,

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Speaker 3: this is what you do right now. That's the other one.

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Speaker 3: And the last one I was going to talk to

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Speaker 3: you about is Loco m which is a plant that

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Speaker 3: not many, you know, like New Zealander's gardeners will know

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Speaker 3: what it is. But it's a thing that I used

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Speaker 3: to know from the Netherlands. We call it the snowflakes

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Speaker 3: in those days, and it's a really lovely little, tiny

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Speaker 3: white flower with some green dots on it, on stuff

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Speaker 3: like that. And they had this very special place in

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Speaker 3: my heart because where I would do bird watching as

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Speaker 3: a twelve year old fourteen year old, I saw them

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Speaker 3: because they were a really rare and endangered native species

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Speaker 3: in the Netherlands. But and here comes the thing. They

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Speaker 3: flower in spring, so this is best if you're like

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Speaker 3: put into the soil now in early April, and that

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Speaker 3: is the time to get you locoing and you'd love them.

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Speaker 2: You are very good. I hate you know. You know

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Speaker 2: that you and I together have sort of become the

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Speaker 2: one stop shop for all things pomegranate related in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Now you know it happened, right, Oh, I've known it,

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Speaker 2: so it's realized. I'm really pleased we've sort of become

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Speaker 2: the pomegranate one stop shop. And so I've got an

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Speaker 2: email from Robert who's just sent me an email this

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Speaker 2: week with a photograph of his pomegranate tree. He said,

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Speaker 2: it's taken just on fifteen years for our pomegranate tree

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Speaker 2: and Palmerston North to set fruit, and only one over

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Speaker 2: the years that's flowered profusely. We had decided it was

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Speaker 2: just an ornamental variety, but this year we got our

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Speaker 2: first ever fruit. Another month or so, Togo, hopefully it'll

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Speaker 2: be right. And he sent me through a photo it

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Speaker 2: looks very much like the pomegranate at our place. So

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Speaker 2: there you go. I think it's a phenomenon with them.

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Speaker 2: I think that you just get maybe you just get

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Speaker 2: one the first year when it finally does fruit. So

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Speaker 2: he's hoping. Anyway, we're we'll check in each week and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll have more pomegranate yarns this year. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's the key stuff. You go.

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Speaker 3: You remember, we'll talk about it next week.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye, sounds good, Take care, broad climb past in

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Speaker 2: the garden. All of those varietal recommendations will be up

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