1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be. 3 00:00:13,573 --> 00:00:13,773 Speaker 2: You know. 4 00:00:13,813 --> 00:00:15,973 Speaker 3: I started the show this morning by talking about the 5 00:00:16,013 --> 00:00:18,213 Speaker 3: little bit of time I had tramping through the Khudannggi 6 00:00:18,293 --> 00:00:20,893 Speaker 3: National Park over summer, a part of the country I 7 00:00:20,973 --> 00:00:23,453 Speaker 3: absolutely love. If you're not familiar with it, it's the 8 00:00:23,533 --> 00:00:26,253 Speaker 3: kind of northwest corner of the South Island, so the 9 00:00:26,253 --> 00:00:29,453 Speaker 3: top left corner of the South Island. It stretches from 10 00:00:29,693 --> 00:00:33,173 Speaker 3: Golden Bay, where my family lives these days, down onto 11 00:00:33,213 --> 00:00:35,653 Speaker 3: the west coast around Kadamere on the west coast. That's 12 00:00:35,653 --> 00:00:37,813 Speaker 3: where the heavy track goes to. So if you're driving 13 00:00:37,933 --> 00:00:39,933 Speaker 3: up the west coast of the South Island, that's about 14 00:00:39,933 --> 00:00:41,573 Speaker 3: as far as you can go before you get to 15 00:00:41,613 --> 00:00:44,533 Speaker 3: go back back down and back in land a little bit. Anyway, 16 00:00:44,533 --> 00:00:46,453 Speaker 3: it turns out I'm not the only one who is 17 00:00:46,573 --> 00:00:49,053 Speaker 3: drawn to the kind of landscapes and the kind of 18 00:00:49,093 --> 00:00:51,213 Speaker 3: flora and fauna you see in that part of the world, 19 00:00:51,213 --> 00:00:53,733 Speaker 3: because Rude Climb power stand man in the Garden has 20 00:00:53,813 --> 00:00:56,613 Speaker 3: also been on the South Island's west coast, and he's 21 00:00:56,613 --> 00:01:00,373 Speaker 3: been taken by some of the flora there. Kelter Rude exactly. 22 00:01:00,493 --> 00:01:02,973 Speaker 2: Jack Hello, it's so good to do that, Isn't it 23 00:01:03,453 --> 00:01:04,493 Speaker 2: such a great place? 24 00:01:04,693 --> 00:01:06,573 Speaker 3: It is wonderful that part of the country. And one 25 00:01:06,613 --> 00:01:09,213 Speaker 3: of the things I love about the Cahudangi National Park 26 00:01:09,293 --> 00:01:12,413 Speaker 3: of the Nico Groves where that whether bush meets the 27 00:01:12,453 --> 00:01:15,093 Speaker 3: ocean or meets the coast and you get those incredible 28 00:01:15,133 --> 00:01:16,373 Speaker 3: groves of Nico trees. 29 00:01:17,493 --> 00:01:20,013 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Well, the Nico as you know, it's 30 00:01:20,053 --> 00:01:23,253 Speaker 2: one of our palm species that occurs. That species only 31 00:01:23,293 --> 00:01:25,733 Speaker 2: lives in New Zions. It's endemic if you like. And 32 00:01:25,773 --> 00:01:28,213 Speaker 2: we've got two of them. But the one you probably 33 00:01:28,213 --> 00:01:29,853 Speaker 2: will have seen is that one that is kind of 34 00:01:30,053 --> 00:01:34,093 Speaker 2: tightly the leaves are going tightly up into the sky, 35 00:01:34,413 --> 00:01:35,733 Speaker 2: sort of like a V shape. 36 00:01:35,813 --> 00:01:36,893 Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean. 37 00:01:37,013 --> 00:01:41,373 Speaker 2: Yeah, Now that's a roppolo steel is sappy. That's the 38 00:01:41,453 --> 00:01:43,653 Speaker 2: name of Nico Farm, you know, that's what it is about. 39 00:01:44,133 --> 00:01:47,413 Speaker 2: And this is an interesting little plant because I've kind 40 00:01:47,413 --> 00:01:51,173 Speaker 2: of missed it since I left Auckland. Yeah, and there 41 00:01:51,253 --> 00:01:53,893 Speaker 2: it was, like you said, in there thousands on the 42 00:01:53,973 --> 00:01:57,453 Speaker 2: hills and it and it just totally grabbed me again. 43 00:01:57,493 --> 00:02:00,813 Speaker 2: So I look at that and then I thought, when 44 00:02:00,853 --> 00:02:03,493 Speaker 2: I went to the Chatham islands and places like that. 45 00:02:03,573 --> 00:02:07,133 Speaker 2: I saw a nico palm that had leaves we're bending 46 00:02:07,213 --> 00:02:11,093 Speaker 2: down more if you like the tropical look. Yeah right, 47 00:02:11,973 --> 00:02:17,693 Speaker 2: yeah right, And it's the same blinking species. Ah okay, 48 00:02:18,413 --> 00:02:20,813 Speaker 2: And I don't believe botan is now. I think they're 49 00:02:20,893 --> 00:02:24,053 Speaker 2: lying because they haven't really done their I think it's 50 00:02:24,093 --> 00:02:28,653 Speaker 2: a different species, you know what I mean. Anyway, yeah, yeah, anyway, 51 00:02:28,773 --> 00:02:32,613 Speaker 2: So these things, these decos, they of course they flower 52 00:02:32,773 --> 00:02:36,733 Speaker 2: in now spring and summer. And I saw those flowers 53 00:02:36,773 --> 00:02:39,293 Speaker 2: come out, and I think they will probably be on 54 00:02:39,333 --> 00:02:42,373 Speaker 2: the website, I bet you. And they are absolutely gorgeous 55 00:02:42,413 --> 00:02:46,093 Speaker 2: in color. It's just amazing. Yeah yeah, And here comes 56 00:02:46,093 --> 00:02:50,533 Speaker 2: to deep and now we're getting the seeds from last 57 00:02:50,613 --> 00:02:55,813 Speaker 2: year out as well. And guess what, blinking kenny everywhere 58 00:02:56,013 --> 00:02:58,933 Speaker 2: taking these ripe seeds out and putting them all out. 59 00:02:58,973 --> 00:03:01,853 Speaker 2: And that's their geek of course, Yeah, that's exactly. 60 00:03:02,573 --> 00:03:05,613 Speaker 3: They spread them around, Yeah, exactly. 61 00:03:05,213 --> 00:03:07,093 Speaker 2: And that's I should do that too, So I am 62 00:03:07,133 --> 00:03:12,533 Speaker 2: doing that now. But anyway, the idea is to actually, 63 00:03:13,213 --> 00:03:15,333 Speaker 2: if you want to, you can actually grow them here 64 00:03:15,333 --> 00:03:17,693 Speaker 2: on the porthills. We know because I've been doing it 65 00:03:17,733 --> 00:03:20,533 Speaker 2: now for a little while, but not with as much 66 00:03:20,653 --> 00:03:23,333 Speaker 2: very verev if you like as I do right now. 67 00:03:23,653 --> 00:03:26,733 Speaker 2: And then I thought, why don't I get that other 68 00:03:26,813 --> 00:03:29,973 Speaker 2: species that lives in the Kermaedek Islands in Raoul Island, 69 00:03:30,853 --> 00:03:33,293 Speaker 2: And it's got a Bowery name. It's a different name, 70 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:36,493 Speaker 2: so that's a different species, And gosh, I could find 71 00:03:36,533 --> 00:03:40,173 Speaker 2: it in garden shops and in places that actually sell 72 00:03:40,213 --> 00:03:43,333 Speaker 2: those things. Yeah, And then and then I realized you 73 00:03:43,373 --> 00:03:45,453 Speaker 2: can actually grow those at home if you've got a 74 00:03:45,533 --> 00:03:49,133 Speaker 2: Nico nearby. There are wonderful ideas on the website for 75 00:03:49,173 --> 00:03:53,173 Speaker 2: everybody on how to get those seeds to germinate very 76 00:03:53,213 --> 00:03:56,973 Speaker 2: gently and how to grow those plants. Oh wow, I thought, 77 00:03:57,173 --> 00:03:59,933 Speaker 2: wouldn't that be nice in my guiden? And then I thought, 78 00:04:00,813 --> 00:04:02,173 Speaker 2: how long is that going to take? 79 00:04:03,013 --> 00:04:06,373 Speaker 3: Because they take for a Nico take forever to grow, right. 80 00:04:07,053 --> 00:04:10,453 Speaker 2: It takes forty years for a Nico bound to start 81 00:04:10,493 --> 00:04:11,133 Speaker 2: a trunk. 82 00:04:13,813 --> 00:04:16,213 Speaker 3: But this is why it's so important to plan them. Now, 83 00:04:16,333 --> 00:04:18,533 Speaker 3: what's what's the old edited? When was the best time 84 00:04:18,573 --> 00:04:19,813 Speaker 3: to plan a tree? Yesterday? 85 00:04:20,813 --> 00:04:20,973 Speaker 2: When? 86 00:04:21,373 --> 00:04:23,973 Speaker 3: When when is the next best time? Right now? Whatever? 87 00:04:24,173 --> 00:04:26,853 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, but this is the point you all say, ah, 88 00:04:26,893 --> 00:04:29,413 Speaker 2: that takes too long, So I bought a bigger plant 89 00:04:29,733 --> 00:04:32,133 Speaker 2: from one of the things of a Jakes and it's 90 00:04:32,173 --> 00:04:34,933 Speaker 2: still is like three of these little rings that you 91 00:04:34,973 --> 00:04:38,613 Speaker 2: see around the back of is in one year. So 92 00:04:38,693 --> 00:04:43,333 Speaker 2: it takes absolutely incredibly long, but you got right, two 93 00:04:43,413 --> 00:04:46,533 Speaker 2: or three rings a year do the Mets. It's slow, 94 00:04:46,893 --> 00:04:51,293 Speaker 2: but honestly, you're leaving a legacy that is so New Zealand. 95 00:04:51,453 --> 00:04:53,493 Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree. I think that's what it is 96 00:04:53,493 --> 00:04:55,693 Speaker 3: about the Nico. You really feel like you're part of 97 00:04:55,733 --> 00:04:58,893 Speaker 3: the South Pacific when you see it Nico. Yeah, I 98 00:04:59,013 --> 00:04:59,573 Speaker 3: thinks rude. 99 00:05:00,373 --> 00:05:03,453 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 100 00:05:03,573 --> 00:05:06,773 Speaker 1: to news Talks. It'd be from nine am Saturday. Follow 101 00:05:06,813 --> 00:05:08,373 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.