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Happy New Year, coming to you
from Studio A. Here at proven Winners

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Color Choice Shrubs. It's time for
the Gardening Simplified Show. We're going to

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establish a resolution constitution for you this
year on today's show with Stacey Hervella,

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Me, Rick Weist, and our
engineer and producer Adrianna Robinson. Happy new

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Year to both of you and here
we go. This is going to be

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fun resolutions, not from us,
from you, and we thank you very

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mulch. I loved the first resolution
right off the top Stacy from Anne.

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She says, Happy New Year.
I'm in six B and have been gardening

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for thirty plus years. My new
year's resolution is to start a cut flower

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garden. I've felt guilty for cutting
flowers to bring them indoors to enjoy no

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more. Well, I think that's
a great resolution. I think that it's

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just as important to stop feeling guilty
about stuff you're cutting, as well as

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giving yourself a place to you know, cut other stuff. But cut flowers

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are the fastest growing segment in agriculture
right now. Cut flower growers, and

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I think we've said it on the
show before, it's the ultimate luxury to

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be able to go into your own
backyard and pick a fabulous bouquet. So

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kudos, Ann. I can't wait
to hear how that turns out. Good

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work, Anne, and I love
this one from Nadine. She says,

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my name is Nadine. I am
from Belgium, Flanders. I was in

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Holland this past year. I wish
I would across the border into Belgium.

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What a wonderful place. Nadine says. I am a blind gardener. My

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resolution for next year is to sew
more flowers and hopefully succeed. Kudos to

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you, Nadine. Way to go. Yeah, that's a really interesting situation.

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I'm wondering what she's going to plan. We'd like to hear from you

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again, Nadine. That's fantastic.
Also, you know, it was interesting

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to me. A lot of the
resolutions related to something that I bemoaned last

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year and I'm working on and have
resolved, and that is irrigation and drip

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irrigation. Althea says, my resolution
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I'm so overwhelmed and clueless it actually
scares me. But I know if

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I plan to be a successful gardener, I have to learn and it'd be

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great if you guys speak on this
topic. Cecilia says the same thing twenty

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twenty four. Resolution is all about
garden beds and pots have to be on

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drip before I plant anything, and
Carol Rose says the same. One resolution

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is to follow my plans and then
install drip irrigation. Well, you can't

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argue with that. I have had
drip irrigation before, and for me that's

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the ultimate luxury. Because I do
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the results of a well watered garden. It's kind of like cleaning your house,

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you know. I don't like the
process of cleaning. I like that

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it's clean. Similarly, I like
plants that look watered and healthy, but

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I do not personally enjoy watering.
I'd rather weed than water. And so

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I've had a garden under irrigation and
it is fantastic. You just you do

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nothing and you get all the credit, and you know, and it uses

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less water because it's a very low
water emission. So it sounds like it's

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a resolution for a lot of people
to get away from those kinky hoses and

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install some drip irrigation. I love
this one from Brandon, I've got to

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share this here a minute, Brandon
says. My resolution, which started about

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a month ago, is to make
and throw more seed bombs out of my

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car window on highways and interstates.
It sounds a little dangerous, but every

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winter I make seed bombs with native
prairie plants to make these areas a little

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more attractive, mostly to help out
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I take care not to throw them
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adjacent to farmland to avoid spreading them
into crops. But he's doing more of

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that this winter, and his sore
shoulder is there to prove it. I

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like that few seeds germinate and survive
to maturity. But when you see something

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you've planted a couple of years prior, puts a smile on your face.

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Happy New Year from your southern Hoosier
neighbor in Indianapolis, Brandon. That is

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not a resolution. That is a
revolution. Wow. Yeah, Brandon's an

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MVP Most Valuable Planter. Ah,
So way to go, Brandon. I

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love I love that resolution. Lisa
is going to continue resolutions from last year

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to continue digging in trench edging around
garden beds now. Of course, last

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year we discussed the topic of edging, and I'm doing more of that too,

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that trench edging along grassy area.
So it sounds like some people are

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looking at edging as a resolution also, well, hopefully we inspired them.

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But it is a nice thing to
have an edged garden, especially if it's

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a low maintenance edge. Exactly if
there is such a thing to live,

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if there's such a thing, here's
a limb a rick for all these resolutions

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that you've sent us, and again, thank you very much. You can

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find us on Instagram, of course
YouTube if you watch us on YouTube,

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our website Gardeningsimplified on air dot com. All right, here it goes.

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I keep my expectations on a tether
and keep my eye on changing weather no

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matter how it goes. The consolation, I suppose is that we're all in

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this together, and that's very true. So go ahead, stick your neck

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out. No room here for self
doubt. And so to improve, we

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resolve our garden skills to evolve and
our dreams to grow and sprout. So

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that's the first lima rick for twenty
twenty five. That's delightful. Thank you,

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Thank you very much. All right, Don says Happy New Year to

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both of you, looking forward to
another year of gardening with you for twenty

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twenty four. I want to bring
my garden plans with me when I purchase

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new plants. Now. I have
seen this also from other folks who jumped

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in on the resolution thing, and
that is this year, I'm going to

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have a plan, and then I'm
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issue is, in spring, we
get so inspired. We walk into the

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greenhouse or the garden center. Everything
looks good. It's kind of like going

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to the buffet when you're hungry.
Right, Yeah, that's exactly right.

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And then you overdo it. All
those good intentions go out the window and

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you say, oh, but there's
this. I didn't expect to see this

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this year. And then next thing
you know, you're at home trying to

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sort it all out, which is
a great feeling. I love that.

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Personally, I'm all for it.
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And plants on trial, I mean, we talk about fabulous plant It's

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true that we'd love to have you
put in your garden, and then before

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you know it, you're walking around
in the yard with a shovel in one

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hand, a plant in the other
and trying to figure out where you're going

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to put it. But that is, of course, you know, and

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I'm not so sure. I'm not
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can keep. Well, you can
try, if that's what you really want

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to do, But I think that
takes out a lot of the fun of

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going to the garden center. You
know, It's like, does anyone go

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to Costco with a list and only
get what's on their list? No,

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never happens. It should we should
have the same freedom at the garden center

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as well. You've got a jumbo
pack of everything from Wendy Rick, the

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Mulchman, Vice more Power Rick,
you get the reference. Yes, Tim

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Allen right made me laugh. I
have a resolution to redo the west bed

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and some hardscape projects that I've been
talking about for years. But what I

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loved here from Wendy is she said
one other thing. I love Stacy's pins

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she wears. I think they were
her grandmother's. Can she do a piece

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on them, even if it's only
online since it's not gardening. The one

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she had on today was beautiful,
Happy New Year, love your show.

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Ah, that's so nice. Thank
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Instagram post. Yeah, maybe we'll
do an Instagram post of some of Grandma's

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holiday jewelry. Even though the holidays
are over, I have a bunch of

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it, so it's not all holiday
themes. Great, right, Jack,

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or maybe it's Jacques. I don't
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that? I don't want to mess
it up for you, Jack or Jacques.

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I think if it sounds like it's
short for Jacqueline. Oh you know,

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because if it was just like the
man's name, Jack would probably if

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who knows, So we'll go with
that, Shack. I resolved to remove

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all the weed barrier fabric installed by
the previous owner in my flower beds,

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utilize all the cardboard I've been saving
in the garage to sheet mulch to improve

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the soil Stacey. I put that
one in there for you. Oh,

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thank you, And I appreciate you
doing that, because you know, it's

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one of those things. I can
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sounds like a good idea, It
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any gardener who has ever had to
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previous well intentioned gardener or a previous
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It's a nightmare to try to get
it out and it's not even effective.

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It doesn't even really keep the weeds
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you go, so sorry, And
Jones says, simply, I want to

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buy less and divide more, divide
and conquer. You know, have you

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ever heard about a perennial exchange?
Oh, yeah, yeah, they It's

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such a great idea. You get
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your community or town, friends,
whatever, and you just divide and swat

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perennials. And that's a great way
to expand your plant palette. And I've

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thought of organizing one myself. It
is great, It is great. And

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we also got resolutions from people interested
in a topic that I touched on in

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a previous show, and that is
layering. There's different types of layering that

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you can do for propagation, but
also layering as it relates to establishing and

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planting your garden and combining plants together. And I appreciate and love that.

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Let's see, it was Meghan in
Rhode Island, So thank you Meghan.

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And yes it's on the agenda and
upcoming show this year on The Gardening Simplified

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Show to talk about layering. We're
gonna handle more resolutions a little later in

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the show. But next up plants
on trial. Let's see what Stacy's gonna

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roll out first for twenty twenty four. That's next here on The Gardening Simplified

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back to the Gardening Simplified Show.
The first one of twenty twenty four.

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And since it's a new year,
I thought it would be the perfect time

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to talk about a new plant.
I like that. You know, every

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year proven Winter's Colored Choice Shrubs we
have anywhere from twenty five to thirty five

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new varieties coming onto the market every
year. Now, that does sound overwhelming,

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but we like to say they're not
just new, they're better because even

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though they are really pretty, and
you couldn't be blamed for thinking that,

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we introduce something simply because it was
beautiful. There actually is another reason behind

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everything that we introduce, whether it's
that it's you know, doesn't produce seed

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and get invasive. It's a native
alternative to an invasive plant, it has

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a better habit, a new color. We look for all of these different

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features and ideally more than one,
and that's how we determine whether a plant

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is worth introduction if it meets all
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process. So, I know a
lot of people think, oh my gosh,

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more new plants. What am I
going to do? There's so many,

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But it's like an upgrade or an
update on your cell phone. That's

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kind of what it's like. Well
constantly it is. It is. And

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you know when people when people often
say like, oh, more new plants,

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why, it's like, well,
do you say that about your phone?

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You want your phone and just like
stay stuck in two thousand and five

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and not do all the cool stuff
it can do and have a great camera

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and all the helpful things. No, you like, welcome that in other

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aspects, but with plants, some
people just want the same old sable and

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if so, well, then the
show probably isn't for them. So,

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but there's always new plants. And
the one that I am covering today is

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juiced orange jessamine. Wow, and
you're going to have to explain to me,

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Stacy, why is it jessmine and
not jasmine? Right? I'm glad

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you asked that because I'm sure a
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wait, did I hear that?
Right? Did she say jasmine? Because

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it didn't sound like it, but
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this plant is a cesstrum. That
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R U M. And the common
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A M I N E. So
not jasmine jessamine. And no, I

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don't actually know where that name comes
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little research and it said jessmine and
jasmine are used interchangeably. They had here

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you go, Joint Resolution number five
thirty four that established South Carolina State Flower

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in nineteen twenty four and described it
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is interchangeable. Oh, interesting,
because the plants certainly are not exactly.

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If you grow juice orange jessamine expecting
a jasmine, you're gonna have a really

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cool plant, but you're probably gonna
be disappointed number one, because it's not

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fragrant. And so that's one of
the biggest issues is that this is not

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a fragrant plant. It looks like
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not. But let me give you
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like. So it is a compact
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tall and three to four feet wide, so much smaller than the average one,

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which is one of the reasons we
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compact and easier to use in the
landscape. But the main thing that this

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plant does is it is just covered
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And these the trumpets are small,
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vine, which has really large trumpet
shaped flowers. These are many small trumpet

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shape flowers that are arranged together in
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a honeycomb. They have like a
unique sort of geometric look to them,

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and they boom like that all summer
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So they have a lot of nectar. But what they don't have is

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fragrance. So that's why I would
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I would agree Stacy not using them
interchangeably. It's just something I read in

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my research, but very different from
the tropical jasmine plants that we would bring

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up from Florida. And they're super
fragrant, right, And so the flowers

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are yellow and not white, although
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yellowish flowers, so if you want
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it cestrum. Those two are actually
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and I have to say, first
of all, most people might be

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hearing about it for the very first
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understand that it is not a super
hardy plant. It's only hard to about

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USDA Zone seven B, and even
there in if you have a harsh winter,

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it might actually die back like a
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in our climates, but it will
still come back from the roots and it

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will still go on to flow or
just fine through the summer. It flowers

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on new wood, but it's also
very heat tolerant. It grows all the

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way up to USDA Zone ten.
It's native to South America so loves the

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heat, humidity, warm climates.
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you are not going to miss out
on this plant because it is an

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awesome patio plant. So I love
this plant because it takes all of my

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must have boxes for my annuals or
patio plantings. It's yellow, which I

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love hot colors, and it attracts
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for me. Those are my most
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so I did grow this from a
small one court plant like you could find

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mail order, and it grew really
fast and it literally did bloom all summer

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all the way up to frost.
And so it's such a great way to

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just keep having those flowers forms like
an annual, even though it's actually a

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shrub. So if it performs like
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you put in the compost pile if
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you potentially overwinter it and keep it
alive? Well, So that depends on

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you. You can absolutely try to
overwinter this. Generally speaking, the more

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heat tolerance something is, and this
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own ten. But the more likely
you will be able to overwinter it.

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Okay, Usually it's plants that need
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cool spot, much cooler than what
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in winter and bright and good air
circulation, So it's possible and you should

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certainly try. You might just wish
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bad, you know, getting powdery, maildew and passed out breaks, just

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because it's kind of struggling. It's
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is just to keep it alive until
next year. Yeah, and then you

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can reuse it. Yeah, So
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the other hand, if you do
find yourself going online and purchasing a twenty

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twenty five dollars plant that you can
grow and enjoy, I mean, compare

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that to most other annuals. Most
annuals are usually costing nowadays six seven dollars

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for a quart themselves. People are
buying hibiscus, jasmine mandavilla, and those

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are costing upward of thirty dollars.
Oh, yeah, and this is one

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that not everyone else is going to
have, so it's really going to bring

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a lot of unique color dimension and
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if you can attract hummingbirds butterflies to your

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landscape, that's ideal. Now,
I will say that my success with this

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plant I was fertilizing it regularly,
so as I fertilize my other annuals probably

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every other week or so, that's
going to definitely in a container give you

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the best flowering fertilizer and sunshine.
Hey, I got to mention this has

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nothing to do with the what do
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Jessamon Jessamine. That'sa but I've got
this cool new lambs Ear cardigan sweater that

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Stacy and Adriana gave me at Christmas
time. This thing's just fantastic and I'm

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able to dump my other mister Rogers
cardigan because of it. And it's got

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these great little pockets, so there's
a meant for it. Thank you,

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Rick, appreciated Christmas Happy. Well, you know, we just won't stand

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for anyone teasing you about your mister
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love clear. I appreciate it.
So a couple more things to know about

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juice orange systrum. It is deer
resistant, yes, I know, we

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love that y and I grew it
on my patio again with all my other

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deer resistant annuals, and they never
touched it, so that I took as

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a great sign. It's going to
want full sun. Another thing's definitely great

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for me. So you want at
least six hours of bright, uninterrupted light

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to be successful with this. Now
in the landscape, if you live in

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a hot climate, you can probably
get away with some shade, but if

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you're growing it, certainly as an
annual in seasonal color, you're definitely gonna

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want that full sun. And right
along with that, of course, good

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drainage. So this is not going
to be one that you're going to plant

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in a container that doesn't have any
holes or in a spot where it gets

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water. Full sun, good drainage
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keeps ones at the end just the
tips of its branches. So all in

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all, a really great plant that
I think is a lot different than what

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most people are used to seeing and
Stacey, if you live down south,

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you're in Florida, whatever it is
Texas, and you're warmer than let's say,

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Zone seven B. Is pruning concern
any concerns as far as pruning,

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it's concerned oldwood, new wood,
that kind of thing, or are you

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just good to go? It's a
good question. So it does flower on

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new wood, which is why it's
able to flower so much during the summer.

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Okay, And because we did select
this to have a more compact habit,

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it's not going to need as much
pruning as one more conventional variety wood.

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some pruning, managing it to do
what you want in your landscape. So

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that's it for the first plant on
trial of twenty twenty four juiced orange Jessamine.

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You should be able to find it
at a local garden center, especially

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if you live in an area where
it is hardy. If not, look

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online at the number of places that
sell proven Winter's Color Choice shrubs and find

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out what the fuss is about.
I think this is a great plant that

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definitely deserves to be better known,
and that is why I am making it

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Today's Plants on Trial love it.
I'm juiced about this one and I'm going

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to give it a try. Hey
jazzed about it. I'm jazzed and juiced,

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jazz juiced and Jessamine. We're gonna
take a little break. When we

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come back, we're opening up that
garden mail bag and we're gonna have more

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of your resolutions, so police stay
tuned. At proven Winter's Color Choice,

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We've got a shrub for every taste
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an easy care rose and unforgettable hydrangea, or something new and unique, you

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can be confident that the shrubs and
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for your success. Look for them
at your local garden center. Creating's Gardening

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Friends, and welcome back to the
Gardening Simplified Show. Everyone knows it's my

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favorite part of the show where we
answer your garden questions and we are going

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to be taking some time to also
share your resolutions. It was so great

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to hear from everyone. It was
fantastic, and you know, winter's a

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great time to plan to think about
it. There were folks who sent us

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messages saying, well, they love
to buy seeds, at this time of

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the year, so do I.
It's fun to look through a seed wreck

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or a seed catalog at this time
of the year. So again, we

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garden three hundred and sixty five days
out of the year. Yeah, if

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dreaming counts, and I think it
definitely does. Absolutely, you got it.

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Karen sent us a New Year's resolution. I love this, she says.

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This year, I vow to spend
more time enjoying my guarden. Amen.

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And we had a show on that
also, go back and look at

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it, the art of enjoying your
garden. We'll talk more about that in

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the coming year. Way to go, Karen, she says. Usually I

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sit down a cup of coffee,
try to actually enjoy my garden. But

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then I see a weed that needs
pulling or a flower that needs dead heading,

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and next thing you know, I'm
up and attending to the many tasks

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the garden REQUI you know I do
that too. It can be early in

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the morning and I've poured a cup
of coffee and then I spot something in

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the garden and next thing I know, I'm out there in my bathrobe with

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a cup of coffee. I'm weeding
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So we got to sit back and
enjoy our garden. The coffee's cold,

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it's full of dirt. You know
my recommendation in this situations in the coffee,

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I'm one hundred percent in support of
anybody enjoying their garden because really most

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gardening tasks can wait, and the
more important thing is to enjoy it.

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Well you can, but I have
I personally have a little bit of a

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cure for the weed situation. Okay, can you pick a weed? Go,

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sit back down and look at the
weed. It's always so interesting.

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Oh good, idea good I would
do. All right? Sounds good and

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Stacy. This from Trixie, who
lives in south central Texas newly named Zone

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nine A yes. Wow. By
late June, my garden looks wrecked.

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I need to stay focused on consistent
water, routine maintenance and weekly or bi

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weekly feedings, if for no other
reason then to have a nice garden,

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even if that's possible in the Texas
heat. Boy, I feel your pain,

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Tricksy, and a great job on
working on your garden in that kind

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of heat. Again, it goes
back, Stacy, to the fact that

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a lot of people are looking at
watering issues and that sort of thing moving

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forward. Absolutely, yeah, so
Stacy. A resolution from Drew says,

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I'm starting a new garden with a
blank slate at sixty five. It's not

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as easy. I understand that,
Drew. I'm right there with you when

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I put my last garden in,
but I'm motivated to give it a shot.

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Unfortunately, it's solid clay soil.
Oh, I'll be buying lots of

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sand and top soil. I would
recommend, Drew, no sand. No

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sand. You mix sand with clay, you get concrete, So don't mix

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that. Save yourself the time,
and don't mix the sand with the clay.

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Muriel says, I'm always thinking about
gardening. I just ordered seeds and

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some of the plants for next year's
garden. Muriel's resolution is to be less

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of a procrastinator in her garden in
the coming year. Peggy also included a

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shot a part of her garden New
year's resolution. Because of our age,

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our backs, the size of our
garden, we want to start replacing some

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of our higher maintenance perennials, spreaders
and large grasses. Less summer deadheadings,

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splitting fall clean up, fewer annuals. This is tough because I love them

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all with medium to small evergreen and
colorful shrubs. So yes, looking for

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medium to small evergreen shrubs and evergreens, very doable. Peggy. Again,

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over the course of last year,
we talked often about how plant breeders,

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the golden age of plant breeding.
We're finding a lot of plants that can

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fill the bill for Peggy. Right. And you know, Peggy included a

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picture of her garden and it was
one of those ones where I said,

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Okay, look at the picture and
my eyes popped out of my head when

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I looked at it. And we
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well as on the show notes at
Gardening Simplified on air dot com. You

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have to see Peggy's garden. It
is spectacular. Way to go. Peggy

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and says my new year's resolution is
to learn more about plant diseases and be

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more responsible about organic management. My
new year's resolution for Cindy is to enjoy

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the garden more as it is.
Last year, I scurried around so much,

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buying new plants and changing things.
I know why I did that,

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but I think it took away some
of the joy from the garden. To

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find solitude and relaxation. So busy
Miss some of the beautiful and simple enjoyment

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a garden can bring. And eastern
North Carolina is such a beautiful place to

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live. I intend to appreciate that
and revel in that. I like that

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a lot, Cindy, that's well
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reoccurring theme that we're finding from people, is again to embrace the joy of

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gardening, to enjoy their garden more, not be too hung up on the

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fact that we got a little problem
here, or we got a plant that

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basically kicked the bucket over here.
But we keep trying, and as I

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said in my limerick, we're all
in this together, right. And I

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think that Anne's comment about learning more
about diseases and pasts so that you can

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be a better manager of your garden
is such a great one for all of

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that, because if you do take
the time to learn a little bit,

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you know what's crucial, you know
what's not crucial, you know what you

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can procrastinate right exactly, And timing
is everything, Laura says, not really

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a resolution. But we're moving from
central Ohio to northwest Indiana, and I

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can't wait to visit Zeeland, Michigan. Now, of course here at Proven

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Winner's Color Choice Shrub Studio A.
We are broadcasting from let's call it Spring

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Lake or Grand Haven, Michigan,
very near Zeeland, Michigan. And Laura's

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been following these proven winned Proven Winner
sponsored youtubes and wants to know the best

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place to see tulips. So I
sent a note to Laura about the tulip

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fields in Holland, Michigan. And
usually most years, you know, if

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we get a really warm early spring, you can have a stemfest out there,

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but they try to hit it the
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Usually the first week of May is
when those tulips will be in full

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blooms. Well, and if you
mess the tulip festival, there's always the

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dandelion festival in Forculo. So that's
a fun one too. Bamby House says,

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I want to collect more rainwater.
So we talked about the hoses,

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we talked about drip irrigation, but
yes, what about rainwater. There's an

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another great responsible way to garden.
And Jackie wants to enjoy more colorful dwarf

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conifers. Now what I'm seeing here
is daisy is a trend that there's a

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number of people who have a renewed
interest in four seasons of gardening and evergreen.

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Yeah, you can't go wrong with
shrubs. I mean I eat and

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breathe them here, so I am
on board, and I'm glad to hear

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that so many other gardeners out there
are as well. And then finally here

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on this segment, make Go Grow
is the handle here for this person who

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says I'm joining Rick on the shed
organization wagon and any suggestions for organization systems.

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There were some folks who sent us
messages saying putting shelving in their garden

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shed was a game changer for them
and helped them organize. So maybe there

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are some shelves in my future.
Not a bad idea. I'm going to

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get that shed organized. Branching news
coming up next here on The Gardening Simplified

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center. Welcome back to the Gardening
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what resolutions fun looking forward to twenty
twenty four, and we want to thank

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everybody for your support. It's been
overwhelming. Podcast, radio, YouTube,

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Thank you very much. This is
going to be a great year and we're

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glad you're joining us in this year. Like the resolution from Kristin Stacey,

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Christen's here, Hi guys, faithful
show watcher, and I'd like to say,

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why would I buy a Word of
the day calendar when we can listen

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to Stacy? I like that.
That's so nice. Thank you, Kristin.

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Yeah, I'll tell you what Kristen. Stacey taught me more words last

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year than I had learned in some
time, and I think twenty twenty four

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will be the same. So I
agree with you. And also Kristin has

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a resolution to add new garden paths, just like I did this past year.

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So that's fantastic. Plant more proven
winners Vista in Kristen's landscape of course

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the Vista Supertunias. I'm a big
fan of Vista Supertunias and I would agree

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with that. Also want to mention
Froca also sent us a resolution planning to

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pre order annuals instead of making do
for the ones she can find at the

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greenhouse when she comes back in early
May home from warmer zone. So wintering

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in warmer zone, you know,
I feel that, and it's a problem

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because I get an idea in my
head about, oh, I want these

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annuals. They had them last year, I'm gonna do this, or I

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hope they have it, and then
I go and no one has it.

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Yeah, the supply chain is,
you know, it's not reliable. Unfortunately,

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except for things like Vista, Bubble
Comes super Tunia. There's a couple

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of things that you'll know you'll always
find unless they sell out. But yeah,

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you know, pre planning and pre
ordering. If you are very set

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on what you want, you know, your color scheme, you're not one

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of those composing on the spot kind
of gardeners, then it's a great idea.

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Strike while the iron's hot. Now
here's some ideas for branching news possibly

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you could do in the coming year. How about this. Shore Bird enthusiasts

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share their best imitations of seagulls,
sand hill cranes and other birds at Alaska

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at an Alaska Festival bird calling contest. So there you go, Yeah,

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Adriana I think wants to do this. The Homer Brewing Company Bird Calling Competition

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in Ketchemac Bay, Alaska, May
eighth through twelfth. So if you think

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you've got some really good bird calls, that would be a good place to

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go. Or how about July sixth
of this coming year the World Championship Snail

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Racing event in Congham, England.
The event was founded in the nineteen sixties

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and the Guinness Book of World Records
is now named the annual event the longest

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running Humane Snail Racing World Championship.
Oh, the addition of humane in there

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is very concerning, not because of
this particular race, but that there were

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in humane snail races happening before.
Apparently, oh, I must be they

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were happening, so now Guinness recognizes
it. The snails attempt to cover a

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distance of thirteen inches aw world record
of twenty two seconds was set by a

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snail named Archie in nineteen ninety five. And if you go to it,

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you'll get a tankard of lettuce.
That's your prize for the winning snail.

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Oh. I'll bet they really appreciate
that. It is. That's Shelarius,

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is what it is last year's runner
up. Was heard saying I'll get you

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next slime. Okay, let's see
here. Oh, I wanted to mention

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this top ten tasks that relieve stress
as we head into the new year tasks.

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So not top ten things that relieve
stress, but we're going to post

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this survey on our website, Gardening
Simplified on air dot com. So here

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you go, Stacy, Top ten
tasks that relieves stress. Number one.

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What do you think the number one
task is a task that you have to

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do that you're like, I'm going
to do this because it's going to relieve

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stress for me, and it can't
be gardening, right right? I mean

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I would say cooking for me.
You got it. Cooking by far was

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number one on the list. Nice
cooking top of the list, cleaning number

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two, gardening number three, doing
the laundry number four, folding the laundry

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number five, Mowing the lawn number
six. I can see that, doing

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dishes, organizing, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, and then last on the

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list, weeding. I think we
both enjoy weeding. The lad I do

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enjoy weeding. I'm surprise didn't just
get lumped in with gardening. But I'll

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take it. Yeah, and a
big thank you, very mulch to all

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of the folks who watch and listen
to our program, the podcast radio show.

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We just appreciate you so much.
And last year, here's a follow

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up to a story that we did. Let me see what the name of

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this chicken was. Peanut. You
remember Peanut. Last year, Peanut the

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chicken, the oldest chicken in the
world, died on Christmas Day. Oh

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yeah, sad story. Twenty one
years old. Peanut died at her home

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in Michigan on Christmas morning. So
was born in two thousand and two and

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is in the Guinness Book of World
World Records. That's extraordinary, is what

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it is. And I've been following
this as far as Peanut is concerned.

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And so, yeah, twenty one
years is a chicken. That's not bad

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sniff, as they say, the
plot chickens. So there we go.

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A story we'll post it on the
website of a gal who went into a

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good will store and bought a vase
for three dollars and ninety nine cents.

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Now I like this because I like
to go out there goodwill hunting also to

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these stores. It's just fun.
Found out that it was a rare vase

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and it sold at an auction for
one hundred and seven thousand dollars. Nice

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return on investment. Whoa, it's
a pretty cool vase. Bought it three

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dollars ninety nine cents. Let's see. It's a good will store just outside

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of Richmond, Virginia, I believe. And it was December nineteenth where the

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vase sold through the right auction house
for one hundred and seven thousand, one

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hundred dollar. The buyer a top
collector from Europe. Also in the news,

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Well, we'll put it on the
website. They've found a mole that

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they thought was extinct. They call
them Dewinton's Golden moles. They hadn't been

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seen since nineteen thirty six. They
used us let's see, they used a

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dog by the name of Jesse to
pick up the scent of the mole and

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tunnels and were able to find this
in South Africa. In South Africa and

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this mall generally operates in sand.
So there you go, the mole.

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The merrier. They found this mole
that they thought was extinct. And it's

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a beautiful mole too. When you
see the pictures of it, it really

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is golden and kind of shimmers in
the sun. You probably don't want to

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get me started on moles. I
know that they will be abstructive. I

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know they can be destructive, but
they are just fascinating, amazing creatures.

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They are amazing and hard workers.
Will put a link to some trends that

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are from the Royal Horticultural Society for
twenty twenty four and they're saying fruits that

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thrive in hot weather and weeds such
as cow parsley to decorate borders are some

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of the twenty twenty four trends for
them. I thought that that was interesting.

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And then finally in a future future
Gardening Simplified show, I'd love to

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hear from folks what their favorite gardening
movies are, or a movie that has

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a gardening trend or whatever. My
favorite lines as it relates to gardening from

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movies have got to come from Bill
Murray in Stripes when his girlfriend is leaving

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him and heading out the door and
he says, you can't go. All

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the plants are going to die.
You remember groundskeeper Carl Speckler in Caddy Shack.

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And then I love Walter Mathow from
Grumpy Old Men. He says I

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got a cactus in my bathroom,
but we got nothing to say to each

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other. Talk to your plants.
It'll help get you through this winter.

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And then Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy
in Batman. You must be new in

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town in Gotham City. Batman and
Robin protect us even from plants and flowers.

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So down the road. Love to
hear from you. If you've got

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a favorite gardening movie or a line
that relates to gardening from a movie,

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we'd love to hear about it here
on the Gardening Simplified Show. As always,

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you can send us your emails.
Just go to Gardeningsimplified on air dot

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com, look for the Gardening Simplified
Show on Instagram, and of course,

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as far as tuning is in is
Concerned Radio podcast or look for us on

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YouTube. Stacy, Happy New Year
to you, Happy New Year Ic,

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Happy New Year around it, and
happy New Year to all of you,