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Speaker 1: Gardening Australia's Christmas Special is on Friday on the ABC

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Speaker 1: and ABC IVU seven thirty. Lock it in and Costa

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Speaker 1: Georgiatis is with us. Good morning, what a pleasure, Happy

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Speaker 1: Point Settier season our pleasure mate.

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Speaker 2: Talking to you, I was, I'm wondering, Okay, where's she

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Speaker 2: going with this one season? Listen to you.

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Speaker 1: I know about plaids because what it looks like My

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Speaker 1: mom buys me one every.

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Speaker 2: Christmas and it's and it's dead. Bye.

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Speaker 3: It was more like a bunch of flowers from the florest.

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Speaker 1: Now, Costa, what I am interested in though, because you

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Speaker 1: and I have talked about this before, because I used

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Speaker 1: to live in Lesmody and drive down Welshpool Road and

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Speaker 1: see these line both sides of Welshpool Road every Christmas.

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Speaker 1: The Mungey tree we call it, you know, the w

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Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. It's that that bright orange one that

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Speaker 1: blooms at Christmas time. We're going to meet an elder

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Speaker 1: who shares her knowledge of it on the Christmas Show. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's fantastic and this is I mean, I was

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Speaker 2: over on your Well, actually I shouldn't say this because

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Speaker 2: then you'll say, why didn't I come in and say hello,

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Speaker 2: I I was over there and I had such a

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Speaker 2: busy schedule that there's so much stuff going on and

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Speaker 2: your plants, like I was only noticing the other day

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Speaker 2: earlier this morning. But we've got all this Christmas messaging

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Speaker 2: going up and there's Christmas trees with white snowflakes and

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Speaker 2: all these things, and we can't hang on, hang on,

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Speaker 2: you know, We've got to move on. We've got to

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Speaker 2: move through this. And I love that you're talking about

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Speaker 2: and we've got this chance to illustrate, like what is

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Speaker 2: an incredibly iconic West Australian tree at this time. God,

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Speaker 2: if there was something to celebrate as as our Christmas tree. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's been there all the time. We've got to we've

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Speaker 2: just got to stop and go, Yes, it's time for

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Speaker 2: you to shine. Let's make this our Christmas focal point.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's beautiful. And to get to get the

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Speaker 2: story from Auntie's is really nice because those stories have

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Speaker 2: been ringing for a long time and we're finally answering

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Speaker 2: the door on them.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's the color of a West Australian Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Yeah, it's not wide, it's not snowflakes.

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Speaker 1: It's not you know, it's very it's a beautiful native color,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's thirty nine degrees in perth.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 4: The western summer is finally kicked in. Now a spy

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Speaker 4: of hours has spotted you in Kings Park recently, been busy.

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Speaker 2: A favorite place? Favorite place? Oh, well, we were, we

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Speaker 2: were there just I caught up with an amazing sunem

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Speaker 2: at Google. What an incredible like woman in horticulture. I

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Speaker 2: just love her. She's just doing great stuff. But we were,

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Speaker 2: we were just using Seu's garden as a wonderful backdrop

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Speaker 2: for the show to do all our throws. And so

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Speaker 2: I spent a day there just frothing because I and

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Speaker 2: just fueling, frothing and fueling up on everything that I

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Speaker 2: see there. And then we did another story the next

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Speaker 2: day up in up near yan Chip. We're doing a

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Speaker 2: story on spiders and invertebrates, which you know, they're the

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Speaker 2: amazing part of our food chain that we take for granted.

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Speaker 2: So any stories on spiders are really important for me.

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Speaker 2: And this is a special story that will go to

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Speaker 2: where later next later next year.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, any tips for looking after a real

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, you know when you bring it home, you

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Speaker 2: want to give a good, nice neat cut and get

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Speaker 2: it into some water so it still take up some water.

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Speaker 2: And change that water every couple of days and that'll

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Speaker 2: keep it nice and fresh, not shedding during during the

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Speaker 2: Christmas New Year period until when when do you have

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Speaker 2: to take him down? I'm a shocker.

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Speaker 3: After Christmas? There's a rule I'm not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I've gone so much juju that I've got

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Speaker 2: to repay for not packing it up early. Yeah. But

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Speaker 2: but yeah, that's a couple of simple things you can

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Speaker 2: do and metal keep that, keep that.

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Speaker 4: Happy, very good mate. If you're a doctor, people will

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Speaker 4: ask you about medical issues even at Christmas time. If

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Speaker 4: you're an accountant, I'll ask you at tax sing. We've

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Speaker 4: got you can I pick your brain. We've got a

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Speaker 4: hot spot in the garden home, full sun with a

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Speaker 4: white wall behind it, and we've lost a bogan villa

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Speaker 4: already this summer, and there's a kangaroo paw that's starting

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 4: Is it just a spot where you shouldn't plant anything

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Speaker 4: or is it just about water?

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Speaker 2: Orter? Yeah, this look if you if you understand and

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Speaker 2: respect that micro climate and say, right, it's not reflective heat. Yep,

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Speaker 2: that soil is going to get hit. I've got a

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Speaker 2: if I want to have something that can't take the

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Speaker 2: heat as much, I'm going to have to build that soil,

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Speaker 2: build the quality of that soil so that it can

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Speaker 2: hold it. Otherwise, you've got to look at at your

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Speaker 2: native grasses and they can handle it. You know, anything

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Speaker 2: you see in street plantings where you see nature strips

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Speaker 2: and things, and you know road verges where they've planted grasses,

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Speaker 2: have a look at those. Speak to your local land care.

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Speaker 2: They'll have a mixture of grasses, and those grasses will

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Speaker 2: bring the little birds in, they'll bring the butterflies in.

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Speaker 2: That there's a lot of benefits from planting out our

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Speaker 2: local species.

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Speaker 3: To handle thereat Law's tongue. That's my answer to everything.

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Speaker 3: They doesn't matter what you do, Paddy. I've got a

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Speaker 3: fragive patty out of the front.

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Speaker 1: That I didn't even touch the whole season, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's blooming beautiful again.

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Speaker 3: I've never touched it.

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Speaker 2: Frangies they love, you know. I mean the sandy soil,

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Speaker 2: the really low nutrient soil, like that's the equivalent of

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Speaker 2: where I am up here in Sydney and Bondai, you know,

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Speaker 2: sandy soil and the finger pennies, Like there's frenchies in

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Speaker 2: the old houses that haven't had the sort of reno

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Speaker 2: job done on them whatever, you've got them like half

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Speaker 2: a meter trunks, you know. And in season, you're walking

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Speaker 2: home and you're just like, where is it? Where is it? Oh?

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Speaker 3: There she is very bad. Lop off a branch and

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Speaker 3: your set. You're good to go. You're good to go.

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Speaker 4: And we've got one on the other side of you want.

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Speaker 2: To pick up.

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Speaker 1: Not really wait till it's fallen off of that US

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Speaker 1: permission costa. By the way, I'm looking at a picture

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Speaker 1: of you for the Christmas special. You make a very

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Speaker 1: fetching sound.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, oh, young.

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Speaker 1: Sandra, of course, because the hair is still jet black

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Speaker 1: and the beer yea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look, young Santa. This time of

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Speaker 2: the year, there's so much, there's so much to be

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Speaker 2: appreciated in the garden. That's the story. It's a summer

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Speaker 2: story to get out in your garden, get involved. You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm really pumped. You know, the show's got some great stories.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good story to kids about. Amazed that

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Speaker 2: this couple built twenty years ago and now they've opened

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Speaker 2: it up to the public. And I meet a couple

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Speaker 2: that moved out of their home. You know, they've reached

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Speaker 2: their nineties and they've moved out of their family home

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Speaker 2: and downsized. And Margaret just shows you how to pack, rack,

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Speaker 2: and stack plants into a small courtyard, which everyone can

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Speaker 2: use that advice. Small space growing is the way that

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Speaker 2: things are moving. And yeah, she's awesome, you love her.

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Speaker 1: And I can't wait to hear how you create a

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Speaker 1: festive seed ball for the garden.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait to see what a festive seaball

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Speaker 3: is and then how to create it faster. You have

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Speaker 3: yourself a fan. Fantastic Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Okay you two ways, Thanks Clozy.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to the Christmas Special seven thirty Friday

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Speaker 1: night on the ABC and a b c Ie.

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Speaker 4: You see, I got to spend send you some blood

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Speaker 4: from Karen from Meadow Springs. Actually stuck that you're on

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Speaker 4: the show this morning, So Merry Christmas from her too.

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Speaker 2: Karen Bye.

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Speaker 4: Always good to catch up with Costa.

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Speaker 1: Mary. I's just sorry, Mary says, it takes a special

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Speaker 1: kind of person to kill a bog of Billia clear.

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Speaker 1: It was very much getting the warning you ever tried to,

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Speaker 1: you know, deal with one trimming it.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna wear a has mask. You be careful that

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Speaker 3: yet or you could get stuck there well. Fraternity