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What do you think of this place? It's not bad is it?
This is Acorn Nursery which is in Surry 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.
Come to think about it, you know, 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, 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 frog mouth? 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? Gee 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. Nearly there.
Nearly. Not quite.
Oh, gotcha.
Now more or less in position.
And the idea is I'm sitting it 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 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.
You can do it too.
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 grey.
The building's grey. They fit together.
The pink of the flowers matches the soft grey 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.
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.
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 alright, 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 only 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 it 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 recognised 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.
But a rexie, 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 you'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 water plants in.
Fantastic, a water breaker.
Good long handle so you 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,
the 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.
When we return, kids, how to make spaghetti bolognese.
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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 bird's ear.
There was one called Happy Wanderer.
In fact, one of the plants in here is Happy Wanderer,
the sort of mauvey 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.
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We're 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 you start,
this is a busy road here, so you've got exhaust from cars and pollution.
We're right on the ocean here, this gets salt sprayed,
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 areas 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 tabura.
Normally it grows about three or four 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, will 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 tobira.
Fabulous plant, that pitosporum tobira.
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.
I think 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.
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, we're 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.
Obviously, the nurseries changed a bit over the years, Robbie.
Unbelievable, Don, unbelievable.
As you can see, the truck, that's an owl ender we had.
Look at the kerosene tin.
That's what you sold plants in in those days?
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, in the plastic pots.
They're heavy, man.
Look at the weight in that.
With the old siren, 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 rose. What a classic.
One could well argue that people's bowels were much healthier in those days, Robbie.
Gee, they'd rot here across here, and there were 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.
It fits neatly, and then we tie that up with plastic nowadays.
Years ago, it was raffia. It was.
And now with plastic, you can nearly guarantee 90 to 95 per cent strike rate
alive buds in the red stock.
What do you think of this mess, Don?
Oh, that's every little three-year-old's dream, that.
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 postal 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.
Oh, good. 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, and we all say the good old days,
but, my 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.
They couldn't. You couldn't do those things, but we did.
After the break, how to prune your hydrangeas,
and we'll look at the wonderful tawny frog mouth.
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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.
You just 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,
because that will flower really well come Christmas.
It's only pruning off the dead heads and then 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.
Well, it's not often you get something for nothing,
but you're just about to, and, of course,
it's courtesy of a lot of very generous Australian people
who've got something they don't want,
and they're happy for you to have it for nothing.
So here we go.
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That's in Artama, New South Wales, Mrs Stewart.
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Now, how's this for a real beauty?
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Or a box of 20-year-old racetrack magazines.
I'm sure there's somebody out there that just has to have these.
Jenny Collins has got them. Bunbury, Western Australia.
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Now, what about this?
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Now, that's in Epping, New South Wales, Stephen Ng,
and the number is 02868 5718.
Three rooms of long pile light beige carpet
with or without rubber underlay, alfoyl bladders,
wherever they are, they sound fascinating.
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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 Wollongong.
The number 042 292942.
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,
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Sandy Sutcliffe, that's in Geebung in Queensland.
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Now it's time for Qantas's Amazing Australia,
where John Dengate is just about to look at one of the most fascinating
and one of the cutest of all of the Australian animals.
.
It 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.
.
The majority of tawnies over the last 70 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 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,
it 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 Berks 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.
You know, I just close the doors and I look out at my plants.
I could be in the jungle.
On an afternoon, I come out here with a little lunch and, you know, 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.
Yeah, we've made our own mini twister there. I mean, 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 is falling from me fully.
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, 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, isn't it?
Yeah, that's good.
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, Mom, top of the world. Top of the world, Mom.
Yeah, it's good, and I tell you, it's a great place to be on New Year's Eve because you get that beautiful spectrum.
Right across the harbor, and the water lights up so beautifully.
Oh, 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 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, all right.
That was it.
So you're going to be Liza Minnelli's father-in-law.
Oh, you heard about this? This is what Don was referring to, is this picture of my stepson, Simon, with Liza.
The paper's got it all wrong. In fact, Don, 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 up the Academy Awards,
and they just 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.
Yeah, there's a lovely Wadkins there, and several of the older variety performers over there.
Harry Seacombe.
Well, Harry's still with us. Hello, Hannes Egan. 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.
Seventy pounds import duty on this item, sir.
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And I got the bloody thing to take slides of the Queen and fill the Greek and a few other pommie ruins.
That's the law, sir. Seventy pounds.
What have you got in this case?
Personal effects.
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 because...
This is a kum... I've always wondered what a kumquat is.
That's it.
Is it flowerless?
Yeah, the orange-blossom flowers, which are perfumed and lovely, but it's just a really good pot plant.
I regard those effectively as orange flowers because they last for many months.
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 perfect.
Just like Spain.
Exactly.
Yeah.
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.
Oh, and speaking of plugs, Twister Tales, the 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.
Yeah. 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.
Yeah.
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, you know, 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,
you know, and you hear that wonderful applause coming or laughter.
So you're just a junkie, an applause junkie.
Yeah, an applause junkie. I guess you can say that. Yes, I love it. I love the applause.
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A little 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 there. Look at that. Hardly, it's not even reaching the ground, most of it.
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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,
why not write into Burke's backyard for one of our fact sheets?
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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 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 Weruna 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.
So you must see next week's Burke's Backyard for the complete definitive look at Greece.
I hope you enjoyed this week's program. See you all again next week.
Hurrah.
In Burke's 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.
Here is a Minister, Ray Groom, says the line must still maximise its financial performance.
He has ruled out subsidising 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 South Wales Premier Bob Carr and Tasmania's Premier Tony Rundle
jointly announced plans for the return of the historic vessels to both states.
And the state's Farmers and Graziers Association groups have been challenged to be more active in fundraising for special causes.
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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