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Sunday.
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What do you think of this place?
It's not bad, is it?
This is Acorn Nursery, which is in Surrey Hills in Melbourne.
And I've got to say, speaking as a nurseryman, this is one of the best retail nurseries I've
ever seen in my life.
It is very, very pretty, but the range of stock is fantastic.
And come to think about it, you know, at the end of the week, this is the time you want
to relax.
And it's winter.
I mean, winter can be, I don't know, it can be a miserable time in the garden.
But if you shoot out to your local nursery now, there's so much you can get, colourful
stuff that just makes the whole garden so much more pleasant to be in over the weekend.
So we'll show you a few tips here through the show tonight of just those wonderful bits
of colour that you buy now.
Just makes life worth living.
We've got some other beaut things on tonight's program.
Have you ever heard of the tawny frogmouth?
This is one of the most fascinating birds in all of Australia.
John Dengate is going to look at them.
They're everywhere, but most people don't see them.
And we're also going to look at the Cornish Rex cat, the short and curly of the cat world.
It's a fascinating cat and they claim it's a little bit less likely to cause allergies.
Jeff Jantz has a great spaghetti bolognese recipe, especially for the kids.
Now no adults are permitted to cook this, purely for the kids.
And tonight's celebrity gardener is, I suppose, one of the most successful showbiz people
we've ever had in Australia, Barry Crocker.
Now do you like chameleons?
There are some wonderful ones around.
Just have a look at some of the little miniature chameleons they have here at Acorn Nursery
in Surry Hills.
This is a stunning miniature chameleon.
By the way, if you're buying a chameleon, think about the miniatures.
They're just so petite and that.
But I want to pot it up.
But you might notice it's already in a fairly large pot.
But these things will sit in a pot for 20 or 30 years.
So when you're doing them, for goodness sakes, don't ever put them into small pots.
Now I've got a pot ready over here.
Now look at the size of this.
This is my idea of a decent pot.
So many people put their plants into small pots.
They spend their lives watering them and the plants never look any good.
Buy big pots.
You'll bless the day you did.
Then when you've got to move them, for goodness sakes, don't kill yourself.
Have a trolley handy.
This particular one is a very, very, very heavy pot.
Ideally, you need two or three adult men to lift it.
But anyway, we'll see how we go.
Oh, nearly there.
Nearly.
Not quite.
Oh, gotcha.
Now more or less in position.
And the idea is I'm sitting in here so that when you look along this veranda, you get
a nice vision of it at the end.
Now before we go doing anything to make it more heavy, what I'm going to do if I can
find them is I've got some old broken bits of fibro.
Now these are really important.
I sit these always under a pot just to get it up off the ground.
What this means when you put these under it is that the water can drain away.
If you don't, there's a pretty fair chance when you water the pot, the pot of water will
sit in the bottom.
Never get away and you'll have a sick plant.
Now with that one bag, we're almost at the right level.
If you didn't think to bring some sort of measure with you, you can just use your hand.
From that to the top of the pot is about that.
Let's have a look at what we've got here.
Oh yeah, that's fairly close.
So we'll put it in.
Now normally I suppose you'd be dealing with a plant that you can physically lift.
This is a bit big for most people to get out of the pot in any decent way.
Probably your best bet.
Tip the pot.
Actually I'll put on the cement so I don't make too much mess.
Just give it a bit of a tap like this.
Now hopefully when I do this, this is hopefully, I can just ease this out sideways.
We'll see what happens.
That's the root ball out.
Now all we've got to do, and this is the real easy bit, not, is put that in there.
Pulling it out that way, we haven't torn the root ball apart.
The idea is now see if I can get one hand under it, one on the base of the plant, and
we'll see how we go.
Now the next stage, and this is a really critical stage, you need to get the plant centered
very accurately.
You might notice we're going to be viewing it from there, and there's a lovely side here.
So this needs to come around maybe 90 degrees.
Not bad.
It's always good then to stand back.
Yeah, I'm happy with that.
Next thing we've got to get it absolutely dead center of the pot with a plant like this
which is fairly geometric.
If it's not in the center of the pot, it'll look silly.
If your eye isn't good, and probably mine's not, if your eye's not good, just have a ruler
here and measure, or some sort of measuring device and just measure all those bits.
But that looks fairly good.
Sod's law says that you're always about one or two bags short in your potting mix to get
the job done.
Now we'll try one more bag.
This is fairly good aerobic exercise.
If you're not used to lifting weights, by the way, put it on your leg when you lift like
this, because remember your legs are much stronger than your arms or your back or whatever,
and lean it into your body.
It's really good if you've got a radio mic on like I've got because it drives the sound
recorders crazy.
Now this potting mix will drop a bit.
A lot of authorities tell you when you plant a plant, you stamp all around it and squash
the mixes down, or if you're putting it in the ground, jump everywhere.
I've never liked doing that.
I like to leave it nice and loose like that.
But there you are.
Now that will grow in that pot there now for a good 20 years or so.
You might notice this pot matches that pot.
They're both round and they're both gray.
The building's gray.
They fit together.
The pink of the flowers matches the soft gray of the building.
This is a work of art.
And just think, I did it myself, but maybe on the weekend you could do something every
bit this good yourself and think how fit you'll be at the end of it.
Coming up after the break, how to fill a hole in a tree and we're going to road test Cornish
Rex Katz.
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You might remember on last week's show,
we looked at an old tree which had had a hole in it filled with concrete.
It's a terrible thing to do, and we mentioned that this week we would show you
what you should do about a problem like that.
Now we've got a classic tree here, existing in nature,
which really has, well certainly had the center rotted right out of it.
Now this is a scribbly gum, and you might notice that that's nearly three meters across
the area in the center where the center of the trunk used to be.
It's all rotted away, yet this tree would be, I reckon, over 500 years old.
Now it's still very, very healthy.
Look at the crown there.
So having the center rotted out of a tree is not necessarily bad for its health,
and this tree has got evidence of bush fires, bits of charcoal in there,
there's evidence of termite damage and so on,
and it's laughing off all of these conditions.
Now what do you do if you've got a tree with holes and so on?
Well, as you can see, basically they're adapted to having these things in them,
and the best advice I can give you as a tree surgeon is don't do anything.
Now if you've got a hole like this, for goodness sakes, leave it alone.
These sorts of holes form nesting tunnels for many of our native parrots.
They're also very good for possums to nest in and so on and so forth.
So this is part of the natural ecosystem in Australia.
Now what about the health of the tree, I hear you wonder.
Well, if you fill these holes up with concrete or whatever you want to choose,
it actually is not particularly good for the health of the tree.
There is no tree medical reason to fill these holes.
The only reason you would ever fill a hole of any sort in a tree is for cosmetic reasons.
In other words, you find it offensive and you want the tree to look more pretty.
But all right, let's just say that you don't really want the possums in here
and you do want to fill the hole.
How do you go about doing it?
Well, let us now assume that this little bit of log here is a hole that we wish to fill.
Now if you were going to fill it, the first thing you'd do is just get inside there
with a hammer and chisel and just remove any loose material which is sort of in the way or whatever
and make the entrance to it reasonably tidy.
Now after that, well a lot of tree surgeons coat the dead wood inside
with one of these products that contains copper naphthenate,
but it's not really registered for the use and although it is the best chemical,
you're probably better off to get some bordeaux powder to stay within the law.
Mix that with water and paint that slurry all on the inside of the wound.
Now after that, you can get these products.
These are basically polyurethane foam.
Now they're in pressure pack containers, so all you've got to do
is close over the top of the hole in the tree with some clear plastic,
leaving a small hole and then squirt this stuff inside and it just expands
and the clear plastic will hold it in that wound.
Now the end result is something like this one here.
This is a tree that's been treated and after it subsequently died,
it's been cut with a chainsaw.
This is the polyurethane foam here.
You can see it's very soft stuff.
So what you need to do as they've done here is to coat the outside of the hole
with something.
Now look honestly, you could just use a standard thick acrylic house paint
that's a nice brown colour.
That'll give some sort of skin to the outside and stop birds chipping into it
and all the rest of it.
That's your hole filled.
There are other products you can use.
If there's small holes left, you can use one of these caulking type compounds
which do come in all sorts of colours.
But the bottom line is you really are much better from the point of view
of the tree's health not to tinker with holes.
Maybe tidy them up with a hammer and chisel or something,
but leave it to the tree to repair itself.
Don't fill holes if you have to.
Well, I've just told you the way, but my advice is don't
because you're robbing countless lizards and parrots
and all sorts of creatures, possums and others of their little home
high in the tree or maybe low down wherever it is.
Tonight's road test is the Cornish Rex.
As you can see, they're a very friendly cat.
These cats have never met me before,
but they're having a good time playing with me.
Actually, this one's teething on me, I think.
What makes this breed so special is their coat.
It's all wavy and you've really got to touch one yourself
to experience what a wonderful feel it is.
They're good cats.
They like having a good time, as you'll see in tonight's road test.
What did you find most appealing about it?
Oh, the wavy coat.
I love the wavy coat, and it feels like silk
if you ever get the chance to touch one.
The Cornish Rex was developed from a single mutation
that appeared in a litter in Cornwall in 1950,
so they're a relatively new breed.
They first came to Australia in the 1970s
and were recognized officially in 1975.
Is this your first Cornish Rex?
Yes, it is.
I got it for my 21st birthday last year.
She recently had a litter.
They're about four and a half weeks old.
We also breed Siamese.
They're very lively, and we wanted a lively breed
to sort of match with our Siamese
because they do have to live together.
I noticed in here you don't have any curtains.
Is there any particular reason for that?
There sure is.
There'd be too many little bodies swinging from them.
So are they suited then just for a normal house?
I think so because most people only have one,
two at the most, but I've got a multitude.
It's harder to discipline them when there's a lot of them,
but they're very easy to discipline if you only have one.
It doesn't look like they eat very much.
Oh, they're enormous eaters.
They really are.
Rex, you have to make sure that they don't overeat
because they'll eat everything.
When I was a kid, I was told I was allergic to cats, dogs,
horses and other animals.
Hard to believe I became a vet then.
Well, maybe I should have had a breed like the Cornish Rex.
Research shows that people that are allergic to cats
are in fact allergic to their saliva.
So a short coat means less grooming by the cat
and less saliva around the place.
Genetically, of course, this breed's a very sound breed.
Their short coat does predispose them to cold, however,
so if you're going out for Cornish Rex,
be prepared that they're going to snuggle in under the covers
in winter with you.
They're very affectionate.
They're good with children,
and they're terrific with elderly people.
My mother's 85, and she absolutely adores him
because all he wants to do is sit on her lap.
They're very clean in their habits.
Once you've shown them when they're a kitten,
where their tray is, no problems whatsoever.
They always go in the same spot,
so you don't go moving the tray around
because they're not psychic.
How difficult are they to groom?
Very easy.
One brush a week is quite sufficient,
and I find that a rub-over with a stocking over my hand
is really wonderful.
It really puts that sheen on the coat.
This very little hair comes out, so no problems at all.
They're very active.
They're very energetic.
They've only got two speeds, flat out and stop.
Now it's time to water it in.
Now, you don't use one of these nozzles.
That's for washing the car or something.
I'd better still chuck the thing away.
This is the sort of thing you use to wash...
to water plants in. Fantastic. A water breaker.
Good long handle so I can stand back
and not splash the boots.
Look at that soft water. Isn't that beautiful?
So I just water this in now,
and the other thing you should notice
is that even though this is maybe not the perfect time of the year
to be fertilising, I will fertilise it.
It's going a bit quick.
We'll use Osmocote.
This is nine-month Osmocote.
You can use the little spoon in there
or you can use the thing, spoon that the Almighty gave you,
your fingers.
Just a little bit of this around. That'll work for nine months.
That is a fantastic fertiliser for most pot plants.
You'll notice that water was running off a bit there.
That was because the potting mix is dry.
When it's dry, it tends to shed water.
So I will add some Debco Saturade to this to...
See how that water's not going in?
Very naughty. Not going in quick enough.
It needs some Debco Saturade on that.
That potting mix will drop in the next week or two,
and then this will be absolutely perfect.
Job done.
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What do you think about this plant? Isn't this absolutely stunning?
Now look, some people say I don't like Australian native plants.
Well, if you don't, what about this?
This is a hardened birgia.
There was one called Happy Wanderer.
In fact, one of the plants in here is Happy Wanderer, the sort of moby purple one.
There's a one in here as well that's white.
It's called White Wanderer.
Climbing plant, absolutely fantastic.
And this mixture of the two varieties in the one pot is really fabulous.
By the way, in case you're wondering, this isn't an ad anymore.
You've come back out of the ad break and you're into Burke's backyard.
And we're now going to look at a segment for the kids.
I don't know about you, but I can remember when I cooked a few things
for the family when I was young.
It really gave me enormous pride.
So Jeff Jantz is now going to look at something that the kids can do for the family,
the spaghetti bolognese recipe that really does work.
This is the 90s, busy, busy times.
So why not give Mum and Dad a break and make dinner for them?
Make them the Young Adults Spag Bowl.
And Mum and Dad, if you try really hard, you just might be able to do this one yourself.
Kitchens can be a dangerous place.
So before we get started, how about a few safety tips?
And believe it or not, a sharp knife is a safe knife
because you're less likely to push hard, slide off and cut yourself.
And when you're chopping, get your fingers out of the way by simply curling them under.
Put your vegetables into a cold pan, then put in the olive oil, and then turn on the heat
because that way you're not going to splash yourself with hot oil.
Now the pan I'm using, it's not too tall, it's not too shallow, and it's nice and heavy based.
Now stir your vegetables on the heat until they go brown, maybe about 15 minutes,
then add your mince, break it up and cook it through until that goes brown too.
Now as soon as that's happened, add two or three tablespoons of tomato paste
and stir that through and fry that for about a minute, then hurl in everything else.
Now all of this has been done on high heat, but when the last of the ingredients goes in, turn it down to low.
Now what makes our bolognese better than mum and dad's is this little trick.
A small slice of lemon peel, add it in at that point, stir it through,
put the lid on and cook that for about an hour, but very importantly, check that it doesn't dry out.
Add a little bit of water if needed, but better still, beef stock.
When you're cooking your pasta, make sure you slip it gently into the boiling water,
and when it's cooked, switch off the heat first and then very gently pour the water out.
Do all of that and you won't burn yourself.
A little bit of freshly grated parmesan, some parsley over the top of that,
and kids, Giovanni's your uncle. Ciao!
You might remember a few weeks back we did our program on Spain,
and when we did we looked at a particularly wonderful plant, a plant called pitosporum tabira,
or if you like the Japanese, pitosporum.
A lot of people have written in and said, gosh that was a wonderful plant, I've never heard of it,
and the local nursery hasn't either. Do we have it here in Australia, and what exactly is it?
Well I've got the good news for you, we're just about to tell you all about it.
It is here in Australia, it's difficult to get, but it is available. This is it.
Now this you should know before we start, this is a busy road here,
exhaust from cars and pollution, we're right on the ocean here, this gets salt sprayed,
it gets every abomination known to man, and this is a footpath as well,
so these pitosporums have been hacked back, and they're still extremely healthy and doing very well.
The plant has lush green foliage, now you might remember those wonderful sort of orange blossom flowers,
rich perfume, really beautiful flowers, and yet this plant has not grown much in Australia,
so I suppose you think it's sort of a bit difficult to grow, it's as tough as old boots.
Not only that, it will grow from pretty much the coldest area of Australia,
right through into the tropics, maybe not in Darwin, although maybe it does for all I know,
but it grows almost all the areas of Australia with the possible exception of Darwin.
Now this is your normal form of pitosporum tavira, normally it only grows about 3 or 4 metres or something like that,
or you can trim it a lot lower, but look at this, this is a dwarf form of it.
Isn't this divine, very very dense, imagine this in flower,
it'd just be iced right over the top with perfumed white flowers.
The dwarf form has been around for a long time and it's been known as Wheeler's Dwarf.
Now if you're still bored with it, there's a variegated leaf form, very rare, hard to get,
but at least you get a little bit of extra foliage colour.
Now as I said, this plant will take any climate almost in Australia, except probably the very hottest,
but it grows almost anywhere, takes almost any soils, it'll take salt winds,
any number of abominations you care to throw at it, it just survives,
and it gives you flowers which are perfumed as well.
Its name again is the Japanese pitosporum or pitosporum tavira.
Fabulous plant that pitosporum tavira, still very difficult to buy though isn't it?
Currently it is, in the middle of winter it is, it's a great plant, wonderful hedging plant, great perfume,
very very hardy too, very very hardy.
The thing I want to say, looking at a modern nursery like this,
your actual range of colour in the middle of winter here John, is really very good.
Tremendous really, because 10 or 15 years ago the colour in the nursery was boring,
but at the moment there's pansies, there's cyclamen, there's chameleons and flowers, they're looking great.
Wonderful colour.
They've changed, and you've got one of the better little coffee shops around Melbourne here,
I believe you're up for an award or something possibly?
We got our fingers crossed, and yes we're serious about our coffee,
and we work very hard at that, and yes we've got our fingers crossed on that one at the moment,
and it's wonderful to sit here in the nursery and have a cup of coffee amongst the colour,
in the middle of winter even.
Well just to show you I suppose in a sense how good this place is,
we're just about to zip back, I'm going to talk to Robbie Engle about how things used to be,
because I know you've been in the industry long enough to see massive changes.
Dramatic, yes.
Robbie's a good friend of mine, but he's a little bit older than either of us,
he's seen even more changes.
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The modern nursery really is a fantastic place to visit,
and it has changed enormously from the nurseries of yesteryear.
Now have a look at this, this is your classic modern plant,
it's in a modern potting mix which is extremely light, you can pick it up with one finger,
it's in a plastic pot, again a very modern development,
and it has a lovely pictorial label, this really is wonderful packaging.
It's not that long ago that things were pretty primitive,
now where at Engle's nursery in Carlingford Road in Sydney,
and this is one of the classic old fashioned nurseries that has come from the past,
but still retains many of the classic old fashioned things,
for instance they still grow the plant from the very beginning,
they grow it under stock, they graft it, take it right through,
and finish up retailing it themselves.
Now this nursery was begun around about 1945 by Robert Engle Sr.,
and it is run to this day by Robbie Engle Jr.
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Obviously the nurseries changed a bit over the years Robbie?
Unbelievable Don, unbelievable.
As you can see the truck, that's an old inter we had,
look at the kerosene tin.
That's what you sold plants in in those?
That's what we sold.
So now you've got a covered in truck, this is luxury isn't it?
Couldn't believe it had ever come to this really,
and then the plastic pots, they're heavy mate, look at the weight in that.
You bent the handle over to hold onto the edge over.
You've got no other way mate, you've left the damn thing.
Yeah that is heavy isn't it?
Yes.
And it would have been nearly double that weight when you had sawed in it,
because that's still mostly potting mix.
And when it's wet, there's another 15 pound actually in weight when they're wet.
75 pound, that's a lot of weight.
It is.
And the prune tin for the rows.
What a classic.
One could well argue that people's bowels were much healthier in those days Robbie.
They'd rot here across you in the garden centres and tin hanging everywhere.
Oh dear oh dear.
What technique do you use to bud your citrus?
We call it a tea bud Don.
It's just opening the stock up with special budding knives naturally,
and we insert whatever variety of citrus that we want to put in that.
That fits neatly and then we tie that up with plastic nowadays.
A few years ago it was raffia, it was.
And now with plastic you can nearly guarantee 90 to 95 percent strike rate
of live buds in the root stock.
What do you think of this Miss Don?
Oh that's every little three year old's dream.
What did you use it for?
She's a bit of goo.
It's clay, mainly what we do when we send our roses away,
we bring them out of our trenches down there,
we dip the roots in them and that seals the root, the clay.
And then we take them from there up to our packing bench up there
and we use dry straw, wet straw and tie them up nice and tight
and that's how we dispatch them through post or rail.
Now that technique would have been used for hundreds of years I assume wouldn't it?
Well ever since I can remember when my dad...
I'm not saying you're that old, but that would have dated 16, 17 hundreds.
That's everybody used one.
Which days were better then working the vast hours
with those incredibly heavy pots and all the rest of it or now?
Well I don't think any of the younger ones would do it today
and I don't think I'd expect them to do it really.
They was too heavy and too hard, you know, we did it.
We all say the good old days, but by God mate we did it tough.
So I don't... you'd have to say today because they get a lot easier.
They do. I wouldn't expect anybody to do it, honestly. You couldn't.
Do they believe you when you tell them how difficult it was?
They look at you and say yes, he's gone, he's mad.
You couldn't do those things, but we did.
After the rake, how to prune your hydrangeas
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Hydrangeas really are amongst the very best flowering plants anywhere in the world
and if you haven't got one you should think very seriously about getting one or more.
The beauty thing about them is that they flower into the blues as well as the pinks
but blue is such a wonderful colour in the garden.
But it has a downside, the hydrangea, and this is it here.
In winter they get the old dead flower heads and of course the big thing is
how do you prune them?
So many people are just not sure what to do.
Well fortunately it's very, very easy.
No great science.
Simply deadhead them, just go through and prune back.
Now the cliché that they say is to prune back to a plump set of buds.
Now in this case there isn't a set there, there's one,
but that's a plump bud there so you prune there.
Just enough to remove the head.
In the old days what people used to do was prune really savagely
and that's a mistake if you do that.
You get a nice neat shape but they flower on this old wood.
I mean this sort of thing here, this stem, I won't even prune that at all
and they'll flower really well come Christmas.
It's only pruning off the dead heads and they're not too far.
This way with this little light pruning come Christmas,
this is the sort of display that you will see.
Isn't that stunning?
You won't get that level of flowering if you really butcher them.
So if you're a woman and you're watching and your husband
is one of those typical Australian men that butchers the hydrangeas every year
and you say, darling don't prune them so hard, you're right and he's wrong.
Well see it doesn't take all that long.
I've almost finished this particular bush now but I've got, well,
one or two more to do.
A little bit of a job.
Oh by the way if it's grown really lanky and horrible
and you just hate your hydrangea you can prune them almost to ground level.
It's not the ideal thing to do but they will come back into a wonderful shape after it.
I shouldn't talk so much should I?
I've got a lot to do here but I love it sitting here.
All men just love to get a pair of secateurs and start destroying them.
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So here we go.
Three sheets of plate glass, 1800 by 900 by 5 millimetres thick.
That's in our Tauma New South Wales Mrs Stewart.
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Now what about this?
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Three rooms of long pile light beige carpet with or without rubber underlay,
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Well what about this?
We don't normally do animals but a part bred Australian stud book pony named Glen.
The owner has raised him since he was six months old.
She obviously loves him a lot and she wants him to go to a really good home.
He comes with everything, free riding lessons, the lot.
Now her name is Karen Woods.
That's West Woollongong.
The number zero four two two nine two nine four two.
Or there's 40 to 45 44 gallon metal drums.
These can come in very handy.
Now they need cleaning but you could use them for barbecues, spit roasts or whatever.
Sandy Sutcliffe, that's in Geebung in Queensland.
Zero seven three two six five six three eleven.
Now it's time for Qantas's Amazing Australia
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Looks a lot like a stump with eyes doesn't it?
But this is actually a tawny frogmouth.
Now frogmouths are quite common in the suburbs
but their camouflage is so effective that they're rarely seen.
One of the big myths about frogmouths is that they're owls
but in fact owls have powerful talons and normal beaks
whereas frogmouths have normal feet and an enormous beak.
They are in fact a type of nightjar.
And while their nightjar ancestors used their beaks like an aerial trawl net
to pick insects out of the air
frogmouths used theirs to pounce on prey
and for a spectacular threat display.
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The majority of tawnies over the last seven or eight years that I've come across
it's usually been pesticide poisoning.
The ones that have come in with pesticide poisoning have always died.
There's no recovery from that.
And every year we have orphaned tawnies that come in
because their parents have died.
Until they were recently banned
organochlorine pesticides were used to control termites
under virtually every house in Australia.
In fact in most areas you couldn't get a council approval
until you'd had your block sprayed.
What seems to be happening is that the frogmouths are picking up those pesticides
from their food, storing them in their fat supplies
and during springtime when they rely on their fat to survive
the pesticides become reactivated and poison many of the birds.
Now the moral of this story seems to me is to go easy on pesticides.
If you're concerned about termites have your house inspected regularly.
If they find any get them treated in a focused way with arsenic.
That way you can control the termites without nuking your backyard.
And if pesticides are actually killing our tawny frogmouths
makes you wonder what they might be doing to our kids.
Coming up next tonight's celebrity gardener Barry Crocker.
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On tonight's Burke's Backyard we're in Acorn Nursery which is in Surry Hills in Melbourne.
One of the great things about good modern nurseries is that they're quite fun places for the kids to visit as well.
Which is really a wonderful change.
But now it's time for tonight's celebrity gardener and it's Barry Crocker.
And this man has been around in television on stage everywhere else for a long time.
He's one of Australia's great entertainers.
I've got to say a lot of fun having a chat to him and going well raking over some of his great memories.
With your own jungle here like this you'd hardly know that there's all the traffic beyond.
I know it sort of cuts it up tonight.
I just close the doors and I look out at my plants.
I could be in the jungle.
In the afternoon I come out here with a little lunch and a cup of tea and I can wander up into the other area up here.
Which is kind of like jungle in a sense.
As you know in my old house, it was living in the tree house.
Well this can sort of assimilate that in a sense.
That I can look back into the gardens of Hyde Park through my own foliage and believe that I'm back in Warunga if I like.
And you've established all this garden yourself?
Yeah.
With the help of a very dear friend of mine, Ian Crawford.
But as I understand it though, you were deeply traumatised there when that horrible storm came.
We've made our own mini twister there.
I was in the eye of a twister which is absolutely terrifying.
And the eight giant trees crashed into my lovely home in Warunga.
And of course there was glass and walls and bits and pieces.
So this is much easier for me to maintain.
Of course I have all this concrete above me.
And if a tree was going to hit me it would have to fly out of the ground at about 100 miles an hour and come through that little gap.
Don't tempt Providence.
Falling in love with love, falling for me pretty.
Falling in love with love is playing the fool.
So this is your new garden?
Yep. This is my new garden.
And the wonderful thing about it is I don't have to do it.
Someone else does it for you?
I say, do that chaps. Yes. Get it all in shape for me.
And of course I walk up here every day.
And I run up to the very end of the park and then I walk back.
And if I have any energy left I do a few little exercises to keep the blood going.
It's a great view though wherever you look.
I fell in love with love one night when the moon was full.
So what do you think of this Don?
Well it's not a bad view. You can see virtually all of Sydney.
Look at me Mum. Top of the world. Top of the world Mum.
Yeah it's good. And I tell you it was a great place to be on New Year's Eve because you get that beautiful spectrum.
Right across the harbour and the water lights up so beautifully.
Yeah. It's a great sight.
You actually begun both your life and your working career in Geelong.
Yes I was born in Geelong and I worked there. I had all different sorts of jobs.
You name it I did it. The best thing I ever did was being a sign writer.
I washed bottles. I cut up chips. I sold photographs door to door.
And one day I was working on the wharf and a bloke said, do you want to be in show business?
And I said, alright.
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So you're going to be Liza Minnelli's father-in-law.
Oh you heard about this? This is what Donna's referring to as this picture of my step son Simon with Liza.
The paper's got it all wrong. In fact Donna I'd like to use your show if I might to make my announcement
that I am engaged to Barbara Cartland.
Anyway this wasn't quite true.
It wasn't quite true. Simon was taking the Academy Awards and they had one picture as the press would do.
And they are just good friends.
A lot of great memories.
Yes this is my little wall of memorabilia I guess here.
Various moments from different shows and different people I've met over the years.
Johnny O'Keefe.
There's a lot of lovely Watkins there and several of the older variety performers over there.
Harry Seacombe.
Well Harry's still with us. Hello! Hello Hawks!
And of course Barry Mackenzie.
Barry Mackenzie was a great time in my life. We sort of launched the Australian film industry which I'm quite proud about.
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What have you got in this case?
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Just while we're here Don, you might have noticed this beautiful plant.
Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to thank Don Burke for this magnificent presentation.
Actually the kumquat works well here.
This is a kumquat. I've always wondered what a kumquat is.
That's it.
Is it flowers?
Yeah the orange blossom flowers which are perfumed and lovely.
But it's just a really good pot plant and I regard those effectively as orange flowers.
You've got the orange colour, fits with all your colours here really well.
So you've got the hot red gravel, red colours in a lot of these other things.
Just works perfectly.
Just like Spain.
Exactly.
Your own little touch of Spain.
Well I thank you. I thank you very much for this lovely gift and here's to Burke's backyard.
And freebies.
Oh and Don speaking of freebies, I hope you're going to come and see my one man show at the Paramount Theatre, the Lennox Theatre.
26th, 27th of this month. It's called Almost a Legend.
And speaking of plugs, Twister Tales, a Brian Brown and Alan White production.
Yes and I heard you played one of the great dead bodies.
I've got a picture. Hang on. I'll get a picture.
Well you see the series, it's on Channel 9 and Barry's in one of them and he just plays for the entire show I think, this dead body.
How did you find playing a dead body?
Playing a dead person was easy, just remembering some of my past performances.
And of all the bits you do, of all the things you've done, is the one area of performing that you derive more pleasure from?
No, I think it's just really standing in front of an audience. It's like a love affair if you're doing cabaret or a one man show or even a play.
And you hear that wonderful applause coming or laughter.
So you're just a junkie, an applause junkie.
An applause junkie, I guess you could say that. Yes, I love it. I love the applause.
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Cody Haughton, Shibby Chase. He's like a termite, gets into the cracks and then when he falls...
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When Waterlats continues, 7.30 Monday on Gwynn.
Tip, if you use terracotta pots or particularly concrete pots, they soak up an incredible amount of water. When you first put a plant in them, you really do need to water the pot.
Now watch this. I'm now going to water the side of this pot. Now it's already been watered a bit, but watch the water go in.
In fact, try this one. Look at that. Hardly, it's not even reaching the ground. Most of it goes straight into the concrete.
So concrete pots just soak up an incredible amount of water. Look at that. Most of that is not reaching the ground.
Just soak up water all the time. So be aware, concrete pots soak up water. Not that that's a bad thing, but you just need to water the pot sometimes too.
Or a few curly bits in tonight's program. If you need more information about any of those or maybe you just shot out to make a cup of tea and missed something,
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Well now it's time to announce the winner of the fantastic Qantas trip to Spain. Good luck to all of you.
This is where you get the six nights free accommodation in Spain. You can retrace our tour right around the country. Seven days free car, $2,000 spending money, the whole lot.
So if I could have Melissa, if I could have the winning envelope please. Oh that makes a change. The winner is Lisa Carretti.
Now that's Carretti with two R's from Wurruna in Western Australia. Congratulations Lisa and of course she can take a friend with her and have a fantastic time.
Now speaking of travelling, next week we're in Greece. Christos, the Melbourne taxi driver is going to show us around his home country.
You will see the lot. You're going to see Olympia, you're going on to Delphi. We'll take you off to the Greek islands. We'll look at Greek gardening.
You'll meet celebrity gardener Demis Roussos. It's a fantastic program. We had a lot of fun making it. Again went there with Qantas.
You must see next week's Berks Backyard for the complete definitive look at Greece. I hope you enjoyed this week's program. See you all again next week. Hurray.
With lots of country, a dog for two and a barbecue for hours down the side and veggies by the fence. All in Berks Backyard. In Berks Backyard.
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Good evening again. The TT line has been ordered to introduce the cheapest fares it can on the spirit of Tasmania.
The tourism minister Ray Groom says the line must still maximize its financial performance. He has ruled out subsidizing fares arguing it would amount to a new tax.
Mr. Groom has blamed low passenger numbers on the delay of the federal government's best rate passenger subsidy.
Tall ships are to make a return to Tasmania with more than 100 expected in 1998.
New York South Wales Premier Bob Carr and Tasmania's Premier Tony Rundle today jointly announced plans for the return of the historic vessels to both states.
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The Tamer Valley branch issued the call today after presenting $1,000 to St Giles and the St George's Special School saying it's important for farmers to be involved in their local communities.
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You.
It's not a permanent condition. It comes and goes.
We could have killed you, you know that?
It's a natural instinct for a man to defend his home and property.
Worth giving your life up for?
Well, not that particular property. It's rented.
What the hell are you doing up there all alone, asshole?
That's okay. You can call me Nick.
I'm a writer. I'm working on a book.
What line of work are you fellas in?
Let's stop at the next station, asshole. We need some gas.
How far are we going?
Climbelle.
Oh yeah? Nice town.
Got a nice bank, too.
You ever knock off a bank?
Me? Not that I can recall.
Well, this will be your first time.
We're gonna rob a bank.
You, me and Bee Gee.
What do we want to do that for?
Because that's our line of work.
Cool in there, writer.
Now, you remember where this gun is.
Right side, middle of the ribs.
Well, let me, boys...
Fill it up.
Regular or premium?
Regular.
Premium.
Why don't you check the hood?
Yeah.
No.
No, it's already been checked, thanks.
Any chance of my going to the John?
None.
Ever?
Just relax.
I'm relaxed.
Nice day for drive.
Tell me...
Where you boys heading?
Carmel.
Oregon.
Then right up to Oregon.
That's our home up there.
Nice country.
Eighteen even.
Pay the man.
You have my wallet.
Down here on vacation?
Business.
Vacation on a fishing trip.
Eighteen out of twenty.
Yeah.
Keep the change.
Which way to Carmel?
We know the way.
Thank you.