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Speaker 1: Gardening Australia will teach you how to grow that fruit

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Speaker 1: for a nice cocktail. The Gardening Australia Christmas Specials on

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Speaker 1: seven thirty this Friday and ABC and ABC I View

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Speaker 1: and Costa Georgia is joining us now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Lisa Clazie. How are you vote?

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Speaker 3: Very well? That friend? Is this the time? Can you

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Speaker 3: believe it? If you were chimber.

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Speaker 1: Planting a fruit tree for a cocktail? Is this the

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Speaker 1: time of year you would do it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, you know ideally you probably would have got

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Speaker 2: it in and get it get it established in the

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Speaker 2: slightly cooler months.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what sure.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of one of those things. If

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Speaker 2: you're going to be at home and you're able to

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Speaker 2: look after it, well, then I say, you know you

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Speaker 2: can go there. And you know. The thing the thing

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Speaker 2: with thin with gardening that people sort of don't don't

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Speaker 2: always adhere to, is it's it's kind of it's a relationship.

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, you don't have dinner, you don't have

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Speaker 2: dinner one Saturday night, thought, spend time in the garden

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Speaker 2: full tilt over the weekend, you know, putting all your

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Speaker 2: all your your cookies in the one bakeroom and then

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Speaker 2: don't go or do anything for three weeks and then wonder.

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Speaker 3: I get it now It's not it's not you, it's me.

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Speaker 2: So you know that that's kind of that's kind of

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Speaker 2: the thing, regardless when you're talking a tree, whether you're

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Speaker 2: talking your seedlings, you know, and then and then you know,

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Speaker 2: you don't you don't sit your your love interest on

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Speaker 2: the side of a major highway to dinner in the

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Speaker 2: belting some nice nice a nice position that that's that's

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Speaker 2: amenable to grow and connection.

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Speaker 3: It's a lovely metaphor. I'm enjoying. We like profound bring

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Speaker 3: you back in now.

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Speaker 1: There is a Christmas theme to Friday's episode, tell Us

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Speaker 1: about your garden bed gifts.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, look this. I've been talking to a few

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Speaker 2: of my favorite stories, not twenty three, but forever. This

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Speaker 2: was a lady who her name's really She lives in

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Speaker 2: the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney, and she's been

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Speaker 2: she's sort of literally classified as blind. She sees a

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Speaker 2: called farm at Forward, who grow food and provide food

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Speaker 2: boxes for the community. She gets her food through them,

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Speaker 2: and she's part of that community, and so they wanted

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Speaker 2: to give her a gift, and so we were going

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Speaker 2: to give her a herb and sensory garden. And so

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Speaker 2: we built this garden down. We found an area down

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Speaker 2: different sensory and herbs in there, because she loves herbs

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Speaker 2: and using them for cooking and for making teas and things.

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Speaker 2: So we built it. And then you imagine walking someone

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Speaker 2: that you feel underfoot, we've made it to the mulch.

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Speaker 2: I said, now put your hand down. And she put

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Speaker 2: her hand down and she smelted, and she said, oh,

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Speaker 2: you realize that gardening is evy for everyone, just because

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Speaker 2: Whereas she just gave us that pure joy and said,

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Speaker 4: That's a goosebump moment right there. I love that a cost.

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Speaker 4: So we have to ask you the question this time

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll just tell you an interesting thing. I'm growing

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Speaker 2: a real Christmas tree, which is the Wooly Bush. And

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Speaker 2: I went out to Murdock the other day to the

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm kind of encouraging people to go beyond

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Speaker 2: gardening's about, as memories.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how much stuff connected to gardening does invote memories.

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Speaker 1: When I think of Christmas, I think of point setters.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we have this. You would be familiar, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: with the flowering Mudja tree. I remember driving as a

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Speaker 3: Each side of the road, it was just a lot.

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Speaker 1: The two sides of the road was lined with these beautiful,

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Speaker 2: That is incredible because this time last week I was

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Speaker 3: So they're still there.

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Speaker 1: God, I might have to go for a little drive

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Speaker 1: this weekend and yeah, throw it all back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can vouch for it.

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Speaker 3: Definitely fantastic.

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Speaker 4: You've been in Perth just last week, so you know already.

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Speaker 4: I mean, by the time we get to October, it's

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Speaker 2: You're in soils that will grow the right plants.

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Speaker 3: So do you care?

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Speaker 1: I use it appropriately, don't try to make it do

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Speaker 1: something that's not going to do. The Gardening Australia Christmas

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Speaker 2: You know what.

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Speaker 3: The other thing that we are soil.

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Speaker 1: Gives us a really good one of is Christmas cherries

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Speaker 3: I hope you got some of those while you are

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Speaker 2: Cherries. I just from Sydney to Melbourne because we've got

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Speaker 2: drive and I tell you I was dosing them out

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Speaker 2: at about one cherry per five kilometers, so you can

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Speaker 2: imagine bloated, bloated, flatulent mess by the time I got ways.

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Speaker 1: Costa. Have a fantastic Christmas. We'll talk to you in

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Speaker 1: twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait.

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Speaker 3: Mary Willie Bush

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Speaker 2: This morning,