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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well.

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Speaker 2: If you feel like a burst of sunshine, this man

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Speaker 2: will do it for you. Our next guest is one

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Speaker 2: of the country's favorite gardeners. He's been hosting Gardening Australia

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Speaker 2: for a decade and he's putting all his best tips

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Speaker 2: and tricks into a book called Costa's World. It is,

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Speaker 2: of course, Costa georgiadis Hello, Costa.

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Speaker 1: Amanda, wellly to speak to you and James. It's been

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Speaker 1: a while, hasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Wow, there's been a while since you've spoken to me.

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Speaker 3: Or it's just lovely to speak to Amanda.

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Speaker 2: A bit of Colin Ay and a bit from Colin Bee.

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Speaker 2: Last time we had you on we were talking about

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Speaker 2: your bees. I've got native bees at home and I

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Speaker 2: got mine at the same time as Chris Brown got his.

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Speaker 2: His are just thriving and mine and these things I

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Speaker 2: know I've read can just grow anywhere and will feed anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I've got one or two. I don't know what I've.

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Speaker 3: Done one or two bees.

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Speaker 2: I wonder what's happened. I think my teenage son and

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Speaker 2: his friends at one point were doing a flower challenge

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Speaker 2: where they were trying to swallow flower, and then flowers

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Speaker 2: like baking flower, and then they had they spat it

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Speaker 2: out and then he hosed got the hose out to

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Speaker 2: clean the area. Could that have killed the bees?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Look, I don't think so, Amanda. Maybe they're just

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Speaker 1: not multiplying as readily given the season as well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: now we're moving into the warmer weather, you'll find that

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Speaker 1: they'll start to multiply. They're a bit like I think

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Speaker 1: it was a Linda Evangelista who famously said, I don't

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Speaker 1: get out of bed for less than ten powers.

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Speaker 2: Oh they're up themselves, are they.

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Speaker 1: They don't get out of bed anything less than sixteen degrees.

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Speaker 1: So they're pretty. They're pretty. They're pretty strict about that.

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Speaker 1: So as the temperature warms up, what's what happens?

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Speaker 3: And it's in a shady area too, the little bee house.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not necessarily and you can put it anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's my brother's friend who brought them from

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Speaker 2: queens and he's head of the Native beers Anociation in Queensland.

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Speaker 2: He said that it's hard to kill them. They'll grow,

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Speaker 2: they'll they'll get honey anywhere. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? The main the main thing is that they need

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Speaker 1: that temperature. Like any further south than Sydney, they won't.

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Speaker 1: They won't do so well because they won't survive the cold.

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Speaker 1: And because you're you've not taken anything from them. The

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Speaker 1: main thing you could do really is just plant more

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Speaker 1: native plants to give them more sodder. And look at

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Speaker 1: look at your floral calendar, see what you've got flowering

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Speaker 1: each month, and try and have something for them.

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Speaker 3: Remember years ago when Prince Charles admitted he talked to

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Speaker 3: his flowers, and everyone said he's crazy. Yes, well, these days,

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Speaker 3: we've got like a weeping cherry blossom in our backyard

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Speaker 3: and I went past it the other day and we've

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Speaker 3: had it for about three or four years, and finally

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Speaker 3: it's starting to bud and I said, look at you,

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Speaker 3: look at you, magnificent species. And I was caressing its

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Speaker 3: buds and then I thought to me, don't make a face.

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Speaker 3: I'm just asking Costa, is that weird? Does that help plan?

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Speaker 1: Now? I think it's it's really valuable. I mean you

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Speaker 1: you are just issuing your own dose of horticultural therapy

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Speaker 1: daily there. And don't worry about the neighbors. They probably

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Speaker 1: think you're You're pretty out there already. So anything you add, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll just add more privacy and you know, some fairly

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Speaker 1: good social distancing. You'll keep that social distancing going long

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Speaker 1: after the mandates are lifted. So no, no, it's good.

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Speaker 1: It's good. And I think you know, the garden, the

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Speaker 1: garden and plants and indoor plants. I mean, they've been

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Speaker 1: there've been a solace for people over the last two years.

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Speaker 1: And I think you know, you talking to plants is

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Speaker 1: a good thing, Chesy. I want you to keep it up.

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Speaker 1: Don't give it up, you know, just because we get

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Speaker 1: through this period and say, oh that was so twenty

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Speaker 2: You talk about how important is to get kids started

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Speaker 2: in the garden. What should it be growing veggies, growing flowers?

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Speaker 2: What's the steps?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think all of the above, in the sense

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Speaker 1: that the more as adults that we can really inspire

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Speaker 1: that war in the children and that citizen science, that

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Speaker 1: idea of getting out there and looking at what's growing,

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Speaker 1: and looking under the leaves and seeing when the larvae

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Speaker 1: for the parasitic wasps are there and being able to

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Speaker 1: explain that they're going to eat all the aphids and

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Speaker 1: keep insect numbers down and like you talk to the plants,

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Speaker 1: not going down and ripping down the spiders webs, because

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Speaker 1: spiders a really important part of the food chain and

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Speaker 1: if we get rid of them, other insects will flourish

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Speaker 1: and damage plants. They won't be food for lizards and

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Speaker 1: food for birds. And so you can start to bed

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Speaker 1: in all of this wonderful the wonderful world of nature,

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Speaker 1: so that they become part of And I think you know,

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Speaker 1: growing things is fantastic because if they can eat it,

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Speaker 1: you can create tension and hope because you say, right,

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Speaker 1: we're going to plant these and they're going to pop

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Speaker 1: up in twenty days and by forty days we'll be

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Speaker 1: able to pick them, and you know it could be

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Speaker 1: beans or radishes or tomatoes or something. And then at

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Speaker 1: the same time you can say, well, now let's watch

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Speaker 1: this and we'll join the pollinate account, or we'll do

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Speaker 1: the big backyard bird count which was on last weekend,

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Speaker 1: and let's count the birds. And well, how do we

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Speaker 1: get the birds here? We need to plant the local plants.

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Speaker 1: Where do we get the local plants? Let's join gnior

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Speaker 1: land Care. What happens to we join GINI Lancare well

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Speaker 1: we can do bush care as well and go to

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Speaker 1: the bushland up the road and help people remove the

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Speaker 1: invasive weeds. What are invasive weeds? So you can make

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Speaker 1: these too.

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Speaker 3: Many questions, kid, go to bed.

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Speaker 1: Questions.

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Speaker 2: Just let's go to meccas.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to set up the like lawn and get

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Speaker 3: some cong read that's not true, Costa. We love your

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Speaker 3: passion and I always, we always love catching up with

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Speaker 3: the new book, Costa's World, is available today. Costa Georgia Artists,

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Speaker 3: thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jonesy, Thanks Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Lot of love Costa, Jonesy and Amanda's genation