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Speaker 1: This is gam Nation. Were so lots of people got

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Speaker 1: pets during lockdown, and we indulged our pets, and then

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Speaker 1: when we all went back to work, everyone what happens

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Speaker 1: with my pets now? Well, it appears that plants are

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Speaker 1: the new pets. People are indulging their pets and are

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Speaker 1: getting plant sitters when they go away. Have you got

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Speaker 1: indoor plants?

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Speaker 2: No, we've got fake indoor plants.

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Speaker 3: There's one that I thought was so really water Really,

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Speaker 3: my wife said, that's not even a real plant, but

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Speaker 3: it looks real.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think urinating on accounts really, but they're

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Speaker 1: saying that plant parents even calling these people, think of

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Speaker 1: me calling these people. Plant parents are taking extreme measures

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Speaker 1: to ensure that they're loved ones the plants are looked after.

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Speaker 1: There's a plant sitter. His name's Jack Greenwood. What are

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Speaker 1: the chances who said he gets some unusual requests from

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Speaker 1: devoted plant parents while he's looking after the plants. I

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Speaker 1: had one client said he wanted me to write positive

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Speaker 1: affirmations and put them in the base of the pot

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Speaker 1: every day, right. Others asked me to talk and sing

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Speaker 1: to them or to play the music. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I do. He said, for a lot of people, their

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Speaker 1: plants are their pets. We were always told for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, the pets are the children, and now

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Speaker 1: the plants are the pets. What comes next? So they've

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Speaker 1: got names. A lot of people name their pets and

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Speaker 1: they're emotionally invested in their pets.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's like day of the trip. It's the plants

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Speaker 2: will take over. Remember that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they go to take over the trip.

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Speaker 2: Does anyone do that anymore? Watch it? Or you know

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Speaker 2: the plants they took over they.

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Speaker 1: Were evil plants.

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Speaker 2: They were evil plants.

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently half of all Australians named their plants. One

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Speaker 1: in five organize a plant city when they're on holidays.

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Speaker 1: It's hard enough.

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Speaker 2: We've got Joshua.

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Speaker 1: Who's he?

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Speaker 2: Joshua of the tree and rub it the plant? Oh really,

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Speaker 2: so as far as you've gone, Joshua the tree, we've

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Speaker 2: had it's a oh what's that one called a fcus.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to put it near drain pipes or

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Speaker 2: anything because they grow, really they grow like a But

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Speaker 2: it's been in a pot. We've had that since nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety six. It's nice moved around the country with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I did a thing on the living room

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Speaker 1: recently with Barry looking at the backyard and I said,

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Speaker 1: I don't have anything specially in my backyard, and then

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Speaker 1: when I actually looked at it, I really do. A

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Speaker 1: friend of mine gave me a plant when my mom

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Speaker 1: died called bad hair Day, and every year around the

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Speaker 1: time that mum died, which was October, it starts to

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Speaker 1: flower and we've taken cuttings from it and it's all

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Speaker 1: over the garden. And we had friends who lost her

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Speaker 1: daughter years ago before we knew her, but they have

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Speaker 1: a special garden at their home for her and they've

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Speaker 1: given us a cutting of that, so we've got that

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Speaker 1: in our garden. We also have a plant that a

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Speaker 1: friend gave us when Liam was born, and I remember

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Speaker 1: it nearly died right at the beginning. I thought, you

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Speaker 1: know what, it's terrible lot.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 1: Terrible lot.

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Speaker 3: Someone gives you a plant for your kids. And that's

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Speaker 3: why we've got jacaranda trees all around Sydney because there

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Speaker 3: was a nurse at a hospital and she used to

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Speaker 3: hand out it. When you had a baby, she'd give

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Speaker 3: you a jacaranda tree.

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Speaker 2: Lovely they're beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Only you would complain about the.

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Speaker 2: Beauty of a jack an leaves everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Brandon a jacarand is a beautiful thing. It is interesting, though,

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Speaker 1: if you're seeing your plant as your pet, because pet

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Speaker 1: has a short enough life cycle to the kids, you know,

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Speaker 1: going to cry over a goldfish or a cat. That might.

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Speaker 1: But if you've got a plant, I've killed them in

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Speaker 1: ten minutes. If you name it, then it's dead. What

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Speaker 1: happens then?

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Speaker 2: What was it? At school? I had a plant? Did

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Speaker 2: you Dad made me get rid of it and call

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Speaker 2: the cops?

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Speaker 1: Of course? What was its name? Two years in prison?

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Speaker 2: That's pink Floyd