Superpower Plants with David Domoney - Garden America Podcasts & Radio Show [3.22.25] - Garden America - Gardening Podcast & Talk Radio Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello there, it's been a while. Wait a minute,
sounds like the beginning of a song. Hello, it's been
a while. We are back. Welcome to Garden America one
and all those on BIS Talk Radio. Thank you for
tuning in. I hope you enjoyed the replays the best
of We are back in the saddle back at the
iHeart Studios here in San Diego, California. Brian Mayne, of
course you're truly John Begnasco or Tiger Pelafox. We can't

(00:23):
wait to catch up. A lot going on this morning.
We've got a guest from across the Pond, which we'll
be calling us in a little while, and an old
favorites back with this. Somebody even clamoring for the cards,
the letters, the emails, Ladies and gentlemen. Tiger, get ready
for the switch. I present John Begnsco.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh, that's a good introduction here. I thought you forgot
all about me.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, I'll tell you that was a pretty lonely chair
while you were gone. We'd glanced several times during the
show and it was sad. He wanted to get a
cutout of you, big cutout and put it there.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
He was going to get one of those plush yeah,
plush dolls of John.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh, that would have worked too. He's a man.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
A few words, welcome back. He's still trying to find
his son.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
What Yeah, all of a sudden we started the show
and I realized, Hey, I don't even have I don't
have us up. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
And the reason so that we can monitor questions, comments
on the phones.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Monitor himself. He wants to make sure he's looking pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's true too. Well. He spends an hour in the
green room. Goodness, gracious, I get here at the crack
of dawn. He's already here, already here.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Wow, you look shocked at you.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, and they got my brownie shirt on.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's true. Or maybe a little Paul Bunyan. It works
a little.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I like Bronni.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, Bronnie's better.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
A lot going on. I was at the weddings going on.
The Pacific auction was had been moved from February to March.
I missed that went really well, it's long long.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah. See, we've tried to cut our auctions over the
year a little bit too. Of course, John says it
don't worry this instead of like thirty roses. This year,
there's going to be a twenty one.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
But no, you can drag can it?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah? I can't. But anyway, And then then my son
got married the next week. Well, and Tiger officiated at
the wedding. And I have to tell all our listeners,
Tiger did an awesome job. If you want to get
married or remarried, just give Tiger a call.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh yeah, Now, what do you think about that that
he puts you on the spot like that, because.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, I asked Tiger. I asked Tiger, you know,
have you done this before?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
He said yeah, about ten times, And I said they
all turn out good. He goes about eighty percent.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I've got an eight out of ten.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
So I'm thinking, if you're in baseball eighty percent, you're
a superseding you in the Hall of Fame undred Yeah,
I'm a hall in the Fame.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Right, the fame.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
But weddings maybe not so much.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
But as I discussed with Tiger prior to the wedding,
it's always good to know the room, know who your
audience is going to be, you know a little bit
about the background, so you can relate. Yeah, and I'm
sure you've had some twenty percent of the dogs that
you officiated just didn't It just didn't happen. Tiger was
in Toast Masters. I figured that out at one time.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I mentioned that he had a quote from C. S. S. Lewis,
which impressed me. And it was very professional, professional, heart
and heartfelt.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was a good group of people, and that's what
makes the big difference on it way I'm going to say, yeah,
the people. The people were fun.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Anybody like last minute come up and say hey can
you say this? Or here can you read this? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, exactly really well yeah, that sure, So it was
you know, it was good. It was great. But I
mean it was a good crowd and good friends, good people.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Good time with said by all.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, yeah, did.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You have a joke lined up at all? Do you
kind of come with a little like little zinger?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
You know? The the entrance itself kind of led to that.
There was a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
So I had a lot of bridesmaids and yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
So there was a lot going on, so just kind
of that eight and eight, right, Yeah, a big group
of people and a lot of explaining of what's happening
and who people are and so there.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Was there were a lot of last minute decisions.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
At the reception, back, just go with it.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
At the reception, I'm sitting at the table eating and
my daughter in law goes, they just mentioned your name.
You got to go up there and say something.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
No one ever told me, so I didn't prepare anything.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, that's always I've been in those situations before.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, it was fine. I mean it worked out.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
John did a wonderful job to speech father speech. For sure.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Usually the best man says something, so I didn't know
I was going to have to go up and say something.
But the best man was my oldest son, Joe, and
I thought he did a good job with Oh man,
I've downloaded my speech on chatche and he goes and
here it goes, still still load, still loading.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I forget about it.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
It was cute though, because you know Joe and Jesse
being brothers, you know, they're they working together and everything
for for many many years. I don't know, I mean,
maybe I'm calling out Joe here a little bit, but
he tends to play a pretty hard guy, you know,
like you know, he's a he's a tough guy, and

(05:27):
and he broke down during the speech, you know, And
it was it was very it was it was great.
It was great to see him, you know that way.
It's his brother the softer.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Now, if you get older, you tend to cry easier
about things like things that you Why did I just.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Cry about like when you get pricked by a rose?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
You know, I'm surprised I didn't you said that because
I was telling somebody the other day that, oh I
think I told you this.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Hey, that might be our guest. Yeah, well how about that?
Will you guys talk amongst yourselves. I will answer the
phone and try to be cold.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
What were you saying? Now?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, I had watched a music video and started crying
a music video.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, which song? It was.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Johnny Cash, really Johnny Cash music video?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And I touched you, huh.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, And I know it was just watching the video
and I don't I don't know. And it's happened a
couple of times recently. It's just something hits me. Yeah,
I kind of tear up.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah, I tend to tear up over things now
more than I think. It's just basically, as you get older,
you've got more of a history behind you. You understand
the world a little better, and I think you become
more appreciative, you know, yeah, for sure of a lot
of things.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
But you still don't cry over spilt milk.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Eggs nowadays though, if I if I you drop an egg?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Speaking of that, John, you have a lot of eggs,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I do?

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
What are you gonna hit him up?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, just just a curiosity. By the way, the eggs
that you gave us the last time a few months ago,
we're all gone. They were gone. Let me tell you
those were good eggs.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, they were really good.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I don't think I have extras, but I'll check because
Jn's a good.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Egg, didn't he?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, we get a Are your eggs laying right now?
Are your Are your chickens laying right now? Okay? Because
ours were not laying about a month ago. You know
it was very spotty, right, you know kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I had the same thing.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
The weather's turned all of that kind of thing now
and now that's they're rolling.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Hey, well you know what, I'm sorry. I was gonna say,
we don't have we got three or four minutes to
the break. Yeah, and he's holding we should bring him
mind bring him at least a little bit. Yeah, and
didn't mean to interrupt it, but at least get him
on you.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
No, we should, Yeah, he's calling. It's long distance, Brian.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Remember those days. Okay, let's see if we still remember
how to do this here and well, Tiger, I'm gonna
throw it to you right off the bed. David is
with us, calling all the way from across the pond
in England, Tiger. And of course if you get the newsletter,
a little bit about David's background was in there and
what we're going to be talking about tigers. So let's

(08:17):
let's get the show on the road, as they say.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, So joining us this morning is author David Dumeny
from England. As Brianan mentioned, he's a fellow at the
London Colleges of Horticulture, chartered the Fellow at the Charter
Institute of Horticulture and fellow at the Warwickshure College of Horticulture. David,
good morning, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Well, good morning to you. Yes, I'm here in Stratford
upon Avon, which is Shakespeare's pa. Oh really like my garden,
so yeah, and it's the afternoon here, but it's been
a bright morning. What's a going to like with you guys?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
It's a beautiful what have we got?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Seventy degrees by seventy seventies?

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Where where are you? Where are you at right now?
Is it? Is it warm and sunny?

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well, it's the beginning of spring for us here, of course.
And yeah, we've got all the all the buds coming
open on some of the early cherry trees that bours
i teos are in flower, beautiful golden flowers out there,
and we're seeing the start of a lot of leaves
coming out. So it's a it's a positive and hopeful spring.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, hey, David, have you ever been to southern California?

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, so the only places I've been in America went
to Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So pretty much our weather stays the same twelve months
out of the year, maybe maybe eleven months out of
the year. We change it up.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Every once, just for grinned.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
So, so I love to hear that you have this
emerging spring because it is spring, you know, as as
you know for us as well, and not a lot
changed in the past couple of months. But so it's fun.
It's fun because you we have this whole awakening happening
where you're at, and that's always we always love to
hear that from people that live in other areas East Coast,
United States, you know, obviously, other parts of the world

(10:09):
and stuff like that. Hey, David, we're gonna have to
take a break in just a minute here, but we
wanted to get you on so we didn't have you
holding for so long. And we're gonna be talking about
a book that you wrote, Plants with Superpowers. So when
we get back from break, I'll introduce the book. We'll
start chatting about you know, what's in the book and

(10:32):
some exciting things that are that are going on for you.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Okay, okay, sounds good. Stay with us. Those on BIS
Talk Radio Welcome Facebook Live. We're all in for a
real truth this morning. Ryan Main, John Becknascar, Tiger Pella Fox,
Welcome to another episode another edition of Garden America. Stay
with us, all righty, we are back from the break.
Thank you to BIS Talk Radio, Stephanie and the crew
keeping us on nationally every single weekend and of course
here on Facebook Live. As we continue, Tiger right back

(10:57):
to our conversation with David. Gonna be one. You're gonna
really want to listen closely to whether you're on Bistok Radio,
Facebook Live.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
All right, and on the on the line with us
this morning is David Doominy from the UK, author of
the book Plants with Superpowers. Just release this path this month, right.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
David, that's why it's just going out. My copies are
in the post. I should be getting a few of
them on Monday. And it is a book that contains
genuine superpowers of plants that we know every day. And
these aren't plants that are on the top of a
mountain range, of bottom of the sea, or in a
deep darkest part of a borneo jungle. These are seventy

(11:35):
five plants that you can grow in your own home
and garden, and each one of them has a secret
a personality that makes it very special.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
And and like you say, like these are sometimes plants
that you could be walking right by right now that
you don't even realize or see in a grocery store
and not understand it fully because you just see it
every day and you're like, wait a minute, So, I mean,
you know, it's so neat to kind of get into
the depths of the plant science and understand how they grow,

(12:07):
why they grow what they do. And you know, your
book really breaks it down because sometimes we hear plants,
oh they can they can grow here, and you're just like, oh,
that's great, it grows there, but you don't understand why
it can't or what has adapted to it to make
it grow there. And so what inspire you to get
going on that?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, I think with Royd my children, connecting and engaging
them in horticulture, with the passion of growing cultures up
in your own mind. Little things that we did as kids,
when we were all growing up, whether it's putting a
blade of grass, squeezing it in between your two thumbs
and making it into a trumpet, whether it's little snap
dragons and you squeeze at the side, whether it's sticky

(12:49):
grass you frow conkers, to play daisy chains, all of
those small, you know, exciting things when we were kids
where the world held a lot of new things that
we were learning. Now we keep a lot of those
within ourselves. I mean, scent, for instance, does throw us back.
So oxygenated hydrocarbons are released when grass is being cut

(13:11):
and we smell cut grass, and for many of us,
it's the center when we were kids of the school
playing fields being cut and it unlocks those memories. And
then I thought, wouldn't it be great if we could
find more amazing things to entertainers when we're older, like
gems and beauty of nature reawoken in our own mind.
So I collated this book and every single chapter, every

(13:34):
single plant will have something that amazes you, puts a
smile on your face and reconnects you with nature, especially
in the world that's so overdominated now with technology we're
swiping and scrolling. This book encourages you to look up.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
And you know, So, did you know some of these
kind of superpowers are ready or did you kind of
like just start to do a deep dive in like
research and find a lot of these out yourself.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, some of it, some of it I knew, some
of it I suspected. We went in not all of
them that came apparent with the as part of the process,
but it took me into different areas. It took me
areas of neurology, how the brain works. It took me
across to how electricity. Some plants have the ability to

(14:26):
charge your mobile phone. Other plants the ability that has
captivated their own unique nature from millions of years ago
that's still present today. I mean, take the Bemus fly
trap for instance. We all know the being a sly trap. Dianea,
Darwin's most favorite plant, evolved for sixty five million years.

(14:48):
It's been on the planet and it has evolved into
a super predator, particularly focused towards eating meat. And you
think to yourself, it's not its flower, it's a modified belief.
Is the mouth the flowers something you can different? I'm
looking at one of mine here now. So you've got
the sort of hair that looks like teeth, and then
you've got an inner place. When the trap closes, it

(15:11):
goes into a digestion and as kids, if you keep
poking the finger, it goes into digestion and it wastes
the energy of the trap. There is no meat inside.
So how does the plant, I thought, how does the
plant work out? Well, it's a little leaf that's blown
into it, or whether it's an actual fly. Now here's
the amazing bit this plant. It is a plant that

(15:35):
has the ability to count. And let me just explain
what I mean by counting, because you can all count one, one, one,
but you need a memory that go from one to two.
The venus fly trap has a memory and can count
up to thirty. How amazing is that?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
It's so?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Why is that important that it can count?

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Well? One it's gone. Is a sensors inside the leaf
little tiny hairs. So if a leaf blew into it
and didn't move much, then it hasn't triggered enough hairs.
So what happens is a little fly goes into it,
touches a hair, and it releases what's called a calcium clock.
The plant has the ability to count, says calcium. So

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what it does is that if a second sensor is touched,
gotcha within thirty with the thirty seconds or something like that,
it knows something's moving around in it. Then it closes
and after a couple more touches, it initiates the squeeze gotcha.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
So so it doesn't just close on the first touch
like you would think some like you like an impulse,
like a reaction. This actually has you know, you know,
lack of better terms, like you're saying like a brain
that kind of nos like hey, look at like you know,
I'm gonna I'm gonna wait around until this bug is
getting comfortable. So to speak, and then I'm gonna close
because otherwise I'm just wasting my energy.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
If I got a question for you in your research,
did you ever come across a bug or an insect
that the venus fly trap would trap and begin to
close and eat that was poisonous to the venus fly trap?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well, it really depends on what toxins are. I get
asked that this a lot. The difference in between toxicity
of plants across different species changes. So for instance, you
might say to yourself, I don't know the U tree,
which is taxes per car to the U tree. The
berries of the U tree, it's a seed that's right inside,
are extremely carbiore toxic. So if you had about eight

(17:30):
to ten of those seeds, you're dead. But how come
all the birds can eat it?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
As part of the process of eating it, it's the
gel around the outside, and it's never long enough in
they're stumbled. There's never a sufficient acid there to break
down the seed itself, so it just passes through. Yet
as part of the digestion system of a human being,
that part of breaking down releases that cardio toxic and
that's where the heart attack takes place, But I don't know,

(17:56):
I think there's something where some people's or bugs are
so hot. Odd, it may be difficult, but never again,
it's got plenty of mouths, and it's adapted in its
area specifically focused towards the soft midges mice, yeah, petoes
and things like that.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
And then there's all the other carnivorous plants out there
that do eat all kinds of other things too, and
they've adapted to that and you know, just found you know,
how they can can grow in certain areas. I mean,
we've talked about the ability for pollination before on the show,
where only certain you know, insects or certain animals sometimes

(18:35):
can pollinate a certain flower. So you know, they've adapted,
you know, over the years with all these fun, little,
fun little abilities. Hey, David, we're gonna take another break
when we get back from the break. You know, this
has seventy five plants that you kind of focused on,
and you know, lots of fun stories behind each one.

(18:57):
But I want to talk a little bit more about,
you know, kind of you know, where where this kind
of came from. So when we get back from break,
we'll continue chatting with David Doomney from the UK about
plants with superpowers.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
And of course we are monitoring Facebook live questions comments,
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(19:32):
so much, been a couple of weeks since we've been
back in studio. John is back with us Tiger Palafox.
I'm Brian Mayde. We continue in a very very interesting
so far Tiger as we continue with David.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, so David Dominie again plants with superpowers. You know,
some of these these superpower plants that you're talking about, David,
are just from you know, the tests of time, like
meaning you know they've been around for for you know, centuries,
and you know, now we're finding out about this information

(20:05):
and you mentioned, you know, in the book one of
them is that the Ginko tree. And you know, we
we know a lot of benefits of a ginko tree.
You know, there's all the health benefits. You know, the
tree is a beautiful tree, and it grows in a
wide variety of areas too, you know. But we also
found you know, it's it's able to you know, withstand

(20:28):
things that we we didn't even know just because of
certain areas.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
It was in right, yes, absolutely right. And first of all,
the ginko is the last of the ginkos. So the
ginkas that lived today are from a lineage that goes right.
They'll be back two hundred and fifty million years ago.
They were the prototypes of trees, and the gink bilover

(20:54):
is one of the last of the big families of
that time. And you can plant them and grow in
your garden. And the main thing is you could go
to a museum. I think that the oldest one is
that there's a fossil of a leaf of the ginko
that's one hundred and seventy five million years old. You
could walk to that museum, look at that leaf fossil,

(21:14):
and walk back to your own gardens touch living leaf
for real. That's how amazing that plant is.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Now.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
The plant also has a unique ability to survive a
lot of pollution, but probably the biggest surprise was it
actually survived an atomic bomb in nineteen forty five in Hiroshima.
When the explosion happened, about one point six kilometers away
from the epicenter of the of the explosion, there was

(21:44):
a temple which had a group of these ginkos planted,
and with the horrific devastation it destroyed the temples, irradiated
the trees, blasted off the bark, the branches, the leaves.
Months the trees started to sprout again, which was seen
as a big sign of hope in the area. So

(22:06):
I think that's a pretty good superpower by InKo to
be able to survive something like that, especially something that's
connected so long with this planet.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we we see that, you know,
with other with other trees, whether it's been a flood
or a wildfire that's scorched an area, and you know
what they can withstand and then sometimes you know, come
back from and when when you know, we cannot even
fathom the idea of being able to be out there

(22:39):
during that moment, you know, in in you know, with
the gink go specifically, like you say, it has such
a such a history, you know, beyond beyond what we
even know about it, and then you know just the
other benefits to it, you know, when it comes to
you know, finding these these plants that you're you're talking

(23:02):
about or you're in doing your research, you know, I
know that you've you've done a lot of studying. Are
you kind of more focus on you know, science when
it comes to the plants or how did you kind
of come around this? Are you more of a horticultures
and you just like the beauty of them?

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah? My my education and background I'm a horticulturalist, is
an understanding of the development and growing of plants. But
it takes you this book and the research of this
book took me into other areas as well, quite quite
a lot of different areas. When when you think about it,
what was history was obviously entomology, a taxonomist. There was

(23:42):
neurology and the process of electric well just say for electric.
For instance, a mobile phone with the right adaptation can
be charged by a potato. See the potato is nature's battery.
It's superpower? Is it is? It holds electoral chemical energy
obviously stored in a cidic start within the potato itself

(24:06):
and with a remember it as a school science project
with a zinc nail and a bit of copper wire.
What happens is there's a chemical reaction between the zinc
and the copper, which releases electrons, which produces energy, and one,
you know, medium sized potato something like that attatch to
an LED lamp to make that lamp light up for

(24:29):
forty days. So trying to explain all of that detailed
in three hundred words with in the segment of the book,
it's hard. Well, if I just take a look at
walnut for instance, Okay, look at the walnut looks pretty
much like a human brain, And it was believed for
a while, and that's how I got the thing. I
was always believed that the walnut was good for the brain.

(24:51):
So part of the research looking at how walnut particularly
engages with the brain, it suddenly takes me into areas
that I'm not an expert in, although I have a
fairly good understanding now, is that other than the shape
and the swirling features of the water, it's the linear
layer catid and the polythenols within the walnut itself actively

(25:14):
improves memory, cognition and motor function, but it also contains
poly and saturated fatty acids, which improves brain health, and
it's full of other compounds again that assist sleep. Let
you think about it, the way the brain work is
improved by the constituens of a walnut. The health of

(25:36):
the brain is enhanced by again the constituents and the
compounds within it that makes you sleep freshens the mind
as well. So walnut's superpower is to enhance the brain.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, and were something to the doctrine of signatures?

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, Yeah, We've talked about the doctrine and signatures, which
is where that concept of when a plant looks like
a body part, David, it's supposed to kind of somehow
help that body part.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Or be used to treat or be used to treat diseases.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Of that body part. And obviously through the years a
lot of those have been debunked, but some of those,
like you're saying with the walnut, actually have some truth
to it, right.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
They do. And that there's other things that the simple
there's one particular, the berry. Take the blueberry for instance,
obviously identified as a plant that has superpowers to help. Yeah,
I mean, the age defying antioxidants it contains in itself
is equal to five servings of other fruit and veggs,

(26:39):
so we know it's an antiagene, so it keeps us younger. Again,
polyphenals within there again supports against wrinkle and skin care.
And there has been studies that the blueberry may affect
a gene which regulates the fat and storage of abdominal fat,
so to make you look younger, feel younger and around

(27:00):
the waist. You shouldn't realize that that that plants have
a lot more personality rather than something that grows in
the garden.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Definitely, And and you know, it's so fun to kind
of dive into these because like you kind of are
mentioning these plants. None of these plants are you know,
on some top mountain top that nobody has any grasp
of knowing how it lives or where it lives or
we'll ever see it. These are things that you see
every day, and you know you might even consume every day.

(27:30):
I mean, I don't know if the blueberry pie that
I ate has the same benefits of what you just
talked about. I mean, I think it might also have
to do with what it was in, But I think
I feel.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Good eating activate the benefits of blueberry pie. You need
a scoop of an la.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
True that now now, now, David, is this your first
book that you've written, or have you written other books.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
I've written other books. But before we move on from that,
having having you just confessed that you've had a blueberry pie.
There was also some strong evidence that links blueberries to
being a natural form of viagra.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I think Tiger is well aware of that. It's about
two or three of those pies a week.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, it's just always have blueberries with me.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
My last book, the last book that I wrote, was
about mental health benefits of growing plants indoors house plans
somehow the interaction of the growing house plants. I mean,
as a human species, we're very different from from other creatures.
If we take pollinators and beans, for instance, they have
in half photo receptors, so they see different let you

(28:39):
see ultra violet lightly obviously patterns that we can't. But
as humans, we can see more different variant shades of
green than almost any other color. Is mainly because we
were either hunters or hunted and we're trying to identify
things in the woods in the forests. But I also
looked at certain ways of the production of oxygen byplants

(29:00):
in side rooms, and also the removal of certain toxins
that builds up from antipersper and cleaning products, you know,
opening the door, exchange of gases from exhaust schemes outside
title or epilene benzine from out high to the anxiety
and all the like. So I wrote a book that
highlighted fifty houseplants and you can grow inside your home

(29:22):
that improve your mental physical well being, and that was
a I created the big exhibit. Science is a bit
about We have this thing in the UK called the
Chelsea Flower Show.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't know where you heard it that we've been there,
have you?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, well, I cre.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
See the science exhibit of this. About three years ago
we won the Golden and one of the best in
show categories explaining that the science of growing plants inside.
And I create loads of videos on YouTube, so if
anybody's interesting, they're all for free at David Dominie is
my YouTube channel and you can get on there. We
create a a lot of information, fascinating interaction with humans.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
And plants that hey, David, sorry, you gotta cut you off.
We're gonna have to take another break real quick.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
We get back.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
We'll continue chatting with David about all the wonderful things
he's doing.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
And if you're on bistalk Radio, one more segment before
we wrap up our Facebook line. We'll keep on going.
This is Garden America back after these messages, paying some
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this is the final segment of our one We come
back at six minutes after the lots of show still remaining.
The runway is still along for us here as we

(30:35):
continue with our conversation with David from England, United Kingdom.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, we've got our listeners adding blueberries to all their
meals right now as they join us, join us around
the world and eating their snacks. So, you know, David
joining us from England, and you were just telling us
about all the wonderful educational things that you do. You know,
the books, the videos and like you said, you know
of people can find those YouTube videos and.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Somebody wants to know again if we could reiterate the
YouTube channel name.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, and I'll put it up for on the on
the link on the link. Okay, but also you do
a lot of tiktoks. I mean you are educating people
not just about plants, but about nature, as you kind
of mentioned with your other book, you know, and you
have this enthusiasm behind you. David, Where where is all
of this? Uh, you know, desire to educate come from?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Well?

Speaker 4 (31:29):
I think I think when you have a passion and
it's been my life calling is working with plants, and
every day you're learning something new from it. And I've
always felt deep down that there is a positivity, a happiness,
a passion and motivation that comes with connecting with nature.
And I'm on Facebook too, so I do Facebook posts

(31:52):
for short videos every day that that highlights some of
the magical things. So if you if you want to
see what gardening in the UK is like, I do
a little show on YouTube which is a year in
my garden, so you can follow me potting and plant
You'll probably see a lot of similarities and the things
that you're growing, although with a lot better temperature than
I've just been in freesing some mornings, but when we

(32:15):
come into summer, I'm doing so many different activities. But
it's a privilege to be connected with plants and nature
and becoming happier because of it.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah, and I mean, you know, sorry, Johnny, did you
have something d I was just going to mention quickly
that Lisa in reading says that she has the book
on order now, the recent book that we're discussing the
plants were Superpowers.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
And Tanya in San Jose Uh says, I'm loving this
guest with three exclamation points. David, she said, I'll also
have to order his book.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, go ahead, David.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
I was just said, that's very kind of them.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
I just posted the link to the YouTube channel, and
on the link to the YouTube channel, there's other links
takes you to his website, takes you to where to
order the book from as well, you know, and you
know there was the link. Yeah, so there's no hiding
from it at all, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
So so.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Over there in the UK, David, when John and I
actually visited to go to the Chelsea Flower Show, what
was that five years ago?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Now, you and I didn't go to Chelsea, we Hampton.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Court, Okay, but when we went to Hampton Court, was that.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Like it was June I belief, but like five years ago.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Years ago.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
You know, the the idea of gardening was pre COVID. Yeah,
it was pre COVID. The idea of gardening there was
so much more ingrained into the people, you know, meaning
meaning you know, it was just very a standard of practice,
like a it is, it is versus here. And when

(34:03):
I say here, I do just speak for southern California
because on the East Coast, I think that they have
that concept of it's spring, we need to guarden, I
need to get outside, you know. But anyways, over there
it is more of a lifestyle. And so when you're
when you're meeting people over there and you're talking about plants,

(34:23):
does it seem like the people there just have a
better understanding of what to do?

Speaker 4 (34:29):
David, Yeah, Yeah, So there is an it's quite a
culture the garden, the space out of the back and
every week there's different things with it. But the culture
of flower shows people getting together during those shows that
people turn up with their children, their dogs, it's it's
it's it's a pretty good get together and that's that's

(34:49):
really the magic of it. But they're very serious. I mean,
I I present on two or three national TV shows
here because we have a lot of gardening programs that
a commonplace on our evening TV, and I do some
of them where we're creating whole gardens in very short
period of time. If I've got to do one the
end of next week for again an hour and a

(35:09):
half to completely make over somebody's front gardens live on TV.
So it's real knuckled stuff. But sometimes if I go
into an audience of the Garden Center, and I'll do
one hundred shows in a year, you know, if I
go to talk about grow your own, for instance, there's
usually a silent hush for the first ten minutes with

(35:29):
everybody very knowledgeable about growing your own, with our arms crossed.
I know what did disguise from the Telly know about
grow your own? So I usually throw it open to
questions and answers, and then after about five minutes and
difficult questions, they everybody relaxes into it and then they
never let me go at the end. It's the one
that goes into early evening. But yes, you're right, there

(35:52):
is a culture in there because we're very seasonally based.
We mentioned this at the top of the show, is
that we're just coming out of a winter. Most of
us growing seeds now got a little bit of heat
in the greenhouse. So the excitement of spring is so
very special.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
And then we go into into a summer and their
unpredictable rarely last summer, but some of them are very
very hot, and then it goes into water. And so
the punctuations of the season. We look outside and almost
every week it looks different.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah. Yeah, And in your guys's commitment, your you know,
your level of commitment to the garden, I mean, you know,
you're you're the orangerie, you know, at those beautiful estates,
you know, building whole houses to house the plants that
you know are not native to your area and not
adapted to your area, just so you guys can have them,

(36:42):
you know, and you guys have have you know, gone
all over the world to collect plants, I mean at
the at the what was the q Q right Q
at the c Botanical Garden. The collection that you guys
showcase there is just mind blowing from all over the world.

(37:02):
And then you've created their own environments in that area
to kind of be able to showcase them off. Well.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
The plant hunters came from the UK, yeah, mainly, you know.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
So so I mean, do you do you kind of
feel like you're in that group right there, David, I
mean kind of you know this plants were superpowers. You're
you're bringing knowledge to people that you know they had
no clue about.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yes, I think I think it is case. We were
a kid, there was a thing called the Wardian case.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
What was a.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
It was a glass case that first used which then
transformed into bottle gardens and terrarians which kept plants alive.
So as they were bringing back from Australia and the
Indies and the like the Victorian Times. That's where this
whole concept of plant collections and I suppose Q gardens,
if you think about it, is almost a zoo but
for plants. Yeah, so so an opportunity for people to

(37:53):
go and see all kid house here and palm trees
which we don't have here, which you guys have at abundance.
So it's pretty much which it's pretty much like that.
But for most of mine and my audience that I
talked to on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and everything like that.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Hey, David, sorry to interrupt. When we get back from
the break, Sorry we had to take another break. When
we get back, we'll be able to kind of share
more of the info that you were in the middle of.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
You got to stay on time. We've got news coming
up on BizTalk Radio. We will return with David after
the top of the hour six minutes after for biz
Talk Radio, even quicker for Facebook Live. Do stay with us.
This is Garden America. Don't go anywhere, all right, if
you're on BizTalk Radio, welcome to our number two. We
are Garden America. Obviously we're on Facebook Live as well,
so we're going to keep on rolling with our conversation

(38:38):
with David and again a lot of interest, sold, a
couple of books, lots of compliments so far. And the
good news, David, we only take what five percent of
every book he sells, so you'll still be in pretty
good shape. David.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, So sorry to cut you off, David. You know,
I was so entrenched in listening to your conversation that
I forgot the time. But you know, before the break
you were were discussing some of the people, more of
your subscribers over there. Do you remember where you left off?

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yes, it is so. My thought is is gardening doesn't
have to be complicated. Everybody can grow and the think
of growing your own for instance, some of the posts
that I'm putting out as simple isn't because whatever happens
no matter where you are in the world, as humans
were inside the house, the temperature is pretty standard inside
my house as it would be in your house on

(39:28):
the other side of the world. So a window sill,
for instance, can do so much. So I do some
posts on how to crop and grow your own on
your own windows cell, whether that's Chili's or Mico Greens
or crest, or whether it's choosing the right plants if
you've got a dog in the garden. So although a
lot of the things that I write about Superpowers are
an amazing and slightly technical basis, a lot of the

(39:50):
information that I put online is to encourage people to
engage and enjoy gardening in small individual projects that then
lead into a bigger embracement of a hobby that will
give them a passion and happiness all their lives.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, and I mean the videos that you produce also
show people how easy it can be if you just
don't overthink it too. And like we said, you know,
between TikTok and YouTube and Facebook, you know, there's no
lack of being able to get a hold of these.
I am going to share the link to your book
right now on to our chat as well, you know,

(40:28):
but your website David Domini dot com. You also have
a newsletter that people can subscribe to.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Right yes, and it's all for free. I do a
newsletter that comes out with lots of different gardening activities,
links to interesting videos. It's all for free, and there'll
be something in there that that hopefully a little project
that you could start or engage with. And it's all
about connecting people to the gardens. And I mean sometimes

(40:58):
it's the simplest thing, uh. For me, it's it's it's
going out into the garden at the end of the ving,
especially in summer, just with a cold beer, no phone,
sitting down and watching the swifts. We get swifts that
between the telephone lines. It's the simple engagement with nature
that balances as that reduces caught us all in the body,

(41:20):
which is a stress hormone. And it just reconnects you
with nature and you feel happier, more enriched because of
it than sitting down looking down at the phone going
through individual videos. Having said that, I am using that
same technology to inspire people to engage with nature at.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
The same time, Yes, and in a very good way.
And you know, thank you for joining us this morning,
morning here, afternoon there, and we hope you have a
great rest of the day. And you know, again, thank
you very much for joining us.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
David, it's been a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Take care of you, bet, David Darwini.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
What was is it the Winston Churchill who had the
quote that we used sometimes about the wandering the garden
with your cigar and in the occasional aphists.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
No, that was uh, the Reverend Dean Hole.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Why do I always think I always feel.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Smoked cigars? Yeah, he was the one that uh wrote
a book about roses. And do you remember the title
of the book. It was very creative. It was called
a book about Yeah, he had the we've told the
story before, but he was visiting London, uh for business,

(42:49):
and and uh started missing his garden at home, and
so that that whole story came up like that because
he he heard he saw a girl on the corner
selling roses. So he bought a rose stuck in his
boot near as a boot near, smelled it and then said,

(43:12):
you know, I miss my roses. I'm tired of the
sounds and smells of Piccadilly. I'm going home. So he
went home and talked about being able to kind of
decompress and walk in the garden with a cigar. Casey
came across an aphis, and an aphis he could just

(43:33):
poke it with a cigar. That would take care of it.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
How exact do you have to be to hit an
aphis with a cigar? Right? You know what I mean,
You're gonna be burning some leaves.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
I g.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Anyway, when you're smoking a cigar.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Start to come out right.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
You know, in southern California, they're out year round for us,
but it is the time of year that they do
start to come out way more. They love that new
supple group.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
I still have not one a fit anywhere in my ear.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
No way, Yeah, graduating, really, I.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Mean, you've looked every inch. You've looked, You've lifted every rock, every.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Leaf, every Yeah, looked under the leaves still camp.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
You know that's interesting because I had that that city
mold happening with the palms. So I'm spraying and you know,
I'm looking pretty good, and went, wait a second, you
look underneath and that's what most of the damage is.
It's like, oh my gosh, really you have scale? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so I've ended up someone was able to treat others.
I just cut the leaf. They're in good shape, they'll

(44:32):
grow more.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
I see one of our listeners, John Clements, is listening
or was listening. I don't know if he is now,
but John, if you're still, I think he's going to
be doing a talk about citrus trees coming up here.
I think at one of the local garden centers. So
Johnathan you kind of share where that. Maybe I missed it.
Sorry if I'm late, but you know, it's always fun
to see uh people in action, right, John's always a

(44:54):
plethora of knowledge about pretty much anything garden.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
You know what I need to find and I can't
remember the name. I've looked it up before, so I
know you can get the trees now. But I since January,
I've been enjoying sumo citrus.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Oh have you?

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Yeah, the sumo mandarins. They're unbelievably good. And I have
three lemon trees and don't use any of the lemons.
I'm thinking, why don't I just plant something I'm gonna eat?

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
How have you gotten yours Albertson's.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Oh do you know which brand they're putting him under? Oh? Really?

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Oh okay, well I just recently because you know, when
you go and you see the quties and then there's
these other ones called peels, peels, pills. I haven't seen
the peel, seen the cuties, Yeah, the QTS peels, and
then I don't know, there's another brand. And you know,
Janine the other day brought one home and I'm like, oh,
you made a mistake because they're the real hard to
peel one, you know. So I just grabbed a bag

(45:51):
this week and I think they're the easier to peel one.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
So sumo. So they don't sell in bags because uh,
major market Fallbrook selsam for five dollars apiece, Oh my goodness. Yeah,
and even at Albertson's pie a piece five dollars. Yeah,
and you do need a treat in. At Albertson's they're
on sale for three ninety nine pound, which is still

(46:16):
kind of expensive because each one weighs practically a pound.
Really yeah, but they are so good. Have you been
eating them? You haven't been eating them?

Speaker 4 (46:23):
No?

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Oh wow, you're a mandarin.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
You don't know what you're missing. I think we're coming
towards the end of the season, but I would have
brought some in.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
No, you know, I mean rather healthy what you talk about.
But I do have a little story to tell you.
This goes back to probably the last time you were
on the air with us before you took your hiatus,
and you had brief this month, last month and February,
you briefly mentioned that, No, I woke up this morning
and I had bagel and cream cheese, and on and on,

(46:52):
and so I get home and Danis is, oh, oh,
bagel and cream cheese. When John mentioned that haven't had
that in years years, So what happens We go to
the store for the past once a week when we
go to the store, it's bagels and cream cheese. Begels
and cream cheese, I said, power of suggestion. Now, maybe
the Sumo mandarin will trigger something else now in the

(47:16):
area of fruit. But yeah, it's been bagels and cream
cheese ever since you mentioned that.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
You know, there is no citrus easier to appeal. Yeah,
they have. It's called sumo because Sumia wrestlers have a topknot.
They're here done in the right topknot and this is
on the citrus, so you can just grab that yank
it off and it just falls away. It just falls away.
But it's unbelievable. They're unbelievably good.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
We've got about a minute till our next break. As
we roll along here or are we caught up? We
hit questions and comments? If we apologize, we got so
wrapped up with David, so we can scroll back and
take a look. And if we did miss something on Facebook,
go ahead and post it again, whether it be question, comment,
whatever's on your mind.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Carl is asking for a secret here?

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Oh oh really.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Tanya also mentioned that she saw a pink pineapple at
this store. Have you seen those?

Speaker 3 (48:10):
I've seen them before. Yes, she said it was ten. Yeah,
they're they're pretty pricey. They tend to be a little sweeter,
but I mean pineapples can be pretty sweet. Oh yeah,
I will say, though you never you know, here, you
never get a pineapple like when you travel too.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
When we were in Costa Rica on the boat. Yeah,
and the guy could have been that fresh.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Because they have to package them and ship them and
you'll never get it.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Right now, we have to take a break for BIS
Talk Radio. This is Guarden to America, stay with us.
You'll be happy to know once again, the mics are hot,
don't touch them. We're back on the year. We're live,
We're live. We can't I don't think we don't even
have a seven seven second delay here, No dumb button,
there's no dump button. No, we got to be very careful.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
If that's really true. I'm surprised you would mention that.
But but I guess we don't have callers anymore other
than guess.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Well that exactly now when we have callers. Back in
the day, yes we did. I think we had to
use it a few times. Well except that one story
years ago when I was producing Bruce's show and the
guy called in from East County talking about how cold
it was. One choice word the guy used and Bruce

(49:24):
didn't even bat any.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
He said it was so freezing cold.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, so freezing cold up here an effort. Bruce said, yeah, yeah,
this time of year, that's what you're going to get.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
A good word to describe. Bruce was unflappable.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Carla was asking the secret about why don't have a fits.
I honestly don't know for sure, but my thought is
the organic food that I'm using he's got so many
beneficial micro organisms in it that it reacts the same

(50:04):
way that.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Worm casting, right, yeah, and that it.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
The plants grow great with it. But instead of a
fast growth growth like with a miracle grower chemical fertilizer,
it's a healthy growth. It's a slower, determinate growth that
allows the plant to build up their cell walls. And
aphids are sucking insects.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
So you can't get through those thick cell walls.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
They not as easily as they can through thin cell walls,
which occur when plants are growing really fast exactly, so
they'll just go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
And I think also which contributes to your success is
you know that idea of the integrated pest management concept
that you do just let nature kind of take care
of everything over there, meaning.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Because beneficial insects around.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Exactly, not just beneficial insects, but beneficial creatures, critters, you know.
And then like you're saying you allow natural growth versus
force growth.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Lots of uh lizards around.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Two yeah, oh yeah, I gotta love those lizards. We
see them all over the place.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
By the way, it just caught sixty nine and or no,
I'm sorry, seventy and seventy one go first.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Yeah, it's one area where you don't have the integrated
pest management.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
And this was since when when did you start keeping tracks?
It's a year a year?

Speaker 2 (51:34):
About a year, yeah, about a year. I'm my goal
is to reach a hundred and.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Then a you're gonna stop it for hopefully this you.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Know, like when are you guys going to learn your lessons?

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (51:45):
No, they won't. Yeah, created creating that good environment, yeah,
the good bacteria versus the bad bacteria, that whole thing,
and then.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
You know, I mean John's watering regime two also contributes
to just the overall health of the plant and growth.
Like he's not you know, forcing a lot and so
therefore again you know, you're not forcing a lot of
new growth, you know. Yeah, I think that there's a
lot of things that attribute to not having a lot
of pests because you don't have a lot of disease either,

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you know, out there on on your plants, which could
be problematic as well, because you know, then the disease
causes the stress of the plant, and then the stress
of the plant, you know, makes it weaker, and that's
when pests come in.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
So Hey, would you say that? I think maybe because
we had all the rain, I'm starting to get just
the signs of some very new growth on my plumeria. Yeah,
it's okay. March you're yeah, I know, you're good.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
After the first of March, oka pretty much February ends
are worry of frost or any kind of damage like that.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I have a plumerius starting the leaf out. Yeah, that
did not have leaves lest Yeah, so there you go.
Maybe it's happy finally.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, yeah, it's settled.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I'm not sure we're going to.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Have a variegated leaf one at the.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Get a new one.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
I think we were at the Plumeria show.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Right Belbow Park. Yeah, back in September I think it was.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Was that what we did?

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, September October.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
No, it wasn't that late, was it.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
It was it was toward the well, we can look
up a show.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
I'll take your word for it. Yeah, please do.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
But it was after summer.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Maya was the variety Maya and it had variegated leaves,
and I kept that in a pot because the year
before when I planted all the plumerium, you they all froze.
I wasn't sure what would happen, but in a pot
it did.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Fine, Yeah, you can move it around.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Did you get that picture I took the patio. I
wanted to give you a perspective of the the growth
of the Australian the bottle tree. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I didn't know what you were showing me at first,
and then.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
I big betsucker is yeah huge? How about that?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
It's not a sucker? Yeahs No, suckers come from under
the graft union.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
But I tran almost right away from that pot that
you had given me, and it's done very well.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Hey what is tiger breaking? I totally forgot it until
we looked up. But I brought in a cutting flower
from my paintbrush lily.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Now about three weeks ago in the newsletter.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Yeah, they the buds are just emerging.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Now this is starting to fade.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Yeah, this one was getting older. It's kind of fading.
They're much more vibrant colors.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Have you left them on like that and seen them
form berries?

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Seats?

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yeah, yeah, I normally leave them on. So let me
see here, like you could see if you're watching the video.
It looks good in the videos of my head almost.
I mean, you know, I think I think this is
the original plant, and then.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
We sat the one you lost for a while and
then found it.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Yeah, exactly. You know, I think this is the original one,
and then I these two newer ones that look smaller,
so I think they had their offshoots of it. But
you know, lots of fun and you know, the coloration
on these is just striking. I mean when they first
come out. If you can see in the video of
the underside, these are in the Amberyllist family, right, John,

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or they are Emeralists say or something?

Speaker 2 (55:20):
You know, I'm not. I don't think so. No, I
could be wrong, though I'm not sure it is. It's
a bulb and it's a hymanthus actually skatedoxis. Skatedoxas and
hymanthis are related. And the way you tell the two
is that, let me, let me make sure I get

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this right. Hymanthus has two leaves.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Oh okay, and.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Then the flower spike comes up in the center.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Methis, rightmanthis.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Is what never.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
I missed what you said sometimes, Johnagan, huh, yeah, exactly right.
And the other way to tell is.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
The scadoxas have a whirl of leaves instead of just
the two flat ones that come.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Out okay, Yeah, and like the amarillis is more of
like the the strappy leaf.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
You know, if you were if the plants are usually
category excuse me. Plants are usually categorized by the shape
of the flower, by their flower parts, you know, like
cruciferous vegetables have our Yeah, their flowers usually have four petals.
So this looks nothing like an amarilla's bloom. So that's

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why I wouldn't guess it was in the amberillist family.
But I could be wrong.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
No, I was just going to say, if I was
going to direct a science fiction movie and create a
planet and I wanted something that people didn't see every day,
plants have different regions and stuff, I might start with that.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Right, you know, just to give the It almost looks
like a carnivorous though.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Look, yeah, exactly. And as I mentioned, it looks like
you stuck a flower on top of a celery stock.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know if i'd eat that though.
There was some gooey sap coming out of it.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Hey, speaking of sap, we got to take a break.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Oh we have gooey sap.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
We're going to come back. We've got two more segments
in terms of Bistok Radio Facebook Live. Here we go,
It's guard in America. Back after this break, stay with us. Alrighty,
As I mentioned before the break, two more segments for
bis Talk Radio Facebook Live. We decided during the break
we make a lot of important decisions and we went
back and forth on this, but we did come to
an agreement that we should do the quote of the

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week for those people that join us late in the show.
They don't always get to hear it because we usually
do it the first segment or two. So John, the
Quote of the week, and well, I'll tell you what
you got people that are just clamoring for this.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Also before we do that, I checked this during the
break and Scadoxus is a genus of African and Arabian
plants in the emerialist family. Oh so it is you
were right, Tiger.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
An African and what was it Arabian? So what would
Arabia be? What country?

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Saudi Arabian?

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Well, but like what area the middle? But I mean
that's got to be like more along like the Nile
or something. Then of the coastal area, not in the
middle of the desert, like this has got to be
like more of like the tropical Arabian Africa areas kind
of a thing. Man, that's cool. Yeah. And and the

(58:29):
cool thing because it's a bulb, it probably traveled, you know,
because you know, meaning meaning a lot of times what
you'll have is you have a flood or something will
wash out an area, and those bulbs travel with whatever
it is. And so I could imagine where it was
native to it was really pretty when they boomed.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Well, you know Turkey, what we've mentioned before, it has
more tulips than any other country world and a lot
of the bulk plants come from that area. So anyway,
the quote reminds me a little bit of our talk
with David Dominie earlier in the show about spring hitting

(59:11):
over there. Did you notice he said Forsythia instead of Forsythia.
We don't usually don't say either one because we don't
have him. But I remember, even as a kid in Detroit,
as soon as the Forsythia bushes at the end of
the street would come in to bloom, you know, if

(59:31):
spring was here. So anyway, this quote is along those lines,
and it's from one of Brian's favorite people, Rachel Carson,
and she said there's something infinitely healing in the repeated
refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night,
in spring, after winter. In nature, nothing exists alone.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
What do you got to say to that, Brian?

Speaker 1 (59:59):
A period of silent here? Well, we all think about that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Let it's so can just trying to think of what
is the alone thing?

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Well, because one thing leads everything related, it's like a chain.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Yeah. Well, no, I'm trying to think was there anything
Is there anything that really is alone in nature? No?
It's very true, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Deep deep thought, deep question that evokes. Right, I don't
think there is is anything really alone? No, when God
wasn't happy being alone? True? True, But then we can
get into the whole philosophical concept of was he alone

(01:00:39):
really well, because you know that just gets we go
way back into a Sunday show. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Anyway, earlier someone asked me about the and Carlin mentioned
that that Johnny Cash made some uh serious videos towards
the end of his life.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
And the one that I told you that I was
crying on was the video hurt right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Which was a song that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Nine Inch Nails Yeah did Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Yeah, he at the end of his life, he was
he was troubled. He was troubled the end of his life, he.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Was I don't think he was was he Do you
think he was troubled as much as realizing maybe what
life was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
I think what happens to to a lot of people
is you realize the mistakes you've made at the end,
some of the time that you've wasted. You're not going
to get that time back again.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
You just reflect the same reason why you cry at cartoons.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Now, Yeah, I mean, did you guys have to do
the bad news today to the Foreman George for no
more grilling?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
I did not hear that this today.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
I mean the news came out I think last night.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Or like, do you know what your George Foreman was born?

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
I'm going to get she was born in nineteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Close same year I was born, really nineteen forty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Whoa, Yeah, I made the kids watch Woosers last night too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Oh did you some more Gene Hackman?

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Made them I did.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
I was like, you guys gotta watch this movie.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
You don't were to watch tonight? History the French Connection?
Oh yeah, yeah, do you know about that? I've yeah, yeah, okay,
that's Gene hack Geene Hackman, he's pop Eye Doyle. I
believe it's all about the mafia and the French connection
and the heroin and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Yeah, I think so, I never saw it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
I didn't see it either when I when it came out,
I'm like, yeah, what's this about. Now that I have
a very vast knowledge of all of these things, now
I want to the movie will make a lot more sense.
And then Dana says, I want to see The Poseidon Adventure.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Now I really liked that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Yes, I mean everybody was in that movie. Genie Hackman,
Shelley Winners, Red Buttons, Ernest borg Nine.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Shelley Winners was an actress that I just I was
always intrigued by anything she did, and in this one
she was pretty overweight.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
She was getting it's it's a movie about the Poseidon
was a ship that overturns in the position ocean liner
ocean liner, and these people are surviving and they have
to get out to get saved. To watch the original one,
I think they did a remake it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
While Yeah, I was gonna say I saw the other one.
Then I saw the new one, and it's the same thing.
But then there's some kind of like sea creature that attacks.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Now now, you know, watch the original one. I don't
know you you you might recognize a few of the actors,
but it's like an all star cast. Yeah, and the
Gene Hackman's in there as well. He plays a priest,
doesn't he he does, Yeah, in there and come on,
you can make it. You can do it. It's it's uh,
all of a sudden, all the Gene Hackman movies now coming.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Yeah, he was a good guy. He was also look
Luke Lether and Superman Lex Luthor Lex Luthor.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Yeah, that reminds me of the wedding when I, uh,
before I before I get I went up to say something.
I had to give a toast, right, yea, and I
mixed up Jesse and Kenna's name and I said Jenna
and Kessy. So when I went up to get my

(01:04:05):
talk later on, I started off and I said, you know,
I messed up, and I said Jesse and Ken. No,
I said Kessie and Jenna's name. And it was just
like a plan what I had done, of course. But
then when I ended the talk, I ended with the
same thing, right, And so my son comes up to

(01:04:26):
me afterwards, Joe and says, you know, that was a
perfect speech. He says, it was heartfelt, and you opened
with a little humor and you ended with a little humor.
And I said, well, you know, it was really humorous.
I didn't mean to do it at the end. No,
but see, you know what just happened because I started
to get choked up.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
And I've been in situations like that. We get we
you know, in front of people, and you realize it
and you've got to turn it into something. Of course,
being in radio, everything's a bit right, you know. You
can when if it's not on purpose, then you act
like it was on purpose, or you take the joke
and you turn it around, you make funnier. Yeah, but
that's good. See they thought, oh look at you. Funny guy.
By the way, do you what a funny guy?

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Do you have a word for Dana because she says
that she joined late here? She says, I joined late here. Guys, Sorry, WHOA?
So I've heard you. Really I was thinking you would say,
we'll send her review apology accept.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
It now you know you know what I've turned that into.
Now apologies under review? Oh your apologies under review?

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Oh I like that? Oh my god. Sports one now
because everything's under review.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Have you cut back all your roses by the way
I did earlier?

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
So are they all leafing out now? New leaves coming.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Now? They're they're not. I had a lot of late blooms.
I've got a lot of hips on the on the
on green planet hips.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Yeah, you shouldn't. You should have cut those off.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
I'm admitting to you know I didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
I'm admitting, well, I'm not going to blame you because
I think I I've cut back probably eight hundred roses,
but I have another eight hundred to go.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Mike Chrysler Imperial that we got on that road trip
is probably about six feet tall, maybe tall. I haven't
cut it back ever.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
See, this comes a point in time in gardening.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I have to cut No, I know you don't have to.
That's why I don't. I am going against it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
See, there's a there's a point in time when you
don't admit these things, and then after a while you've
done it long enough, you go, yeah, I didn't do it.
I messed up, you know. I didn't feel like it.
I want to. I wanted to see what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
I'm going to see what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
I want to see what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I'm never going to cut back my roses under.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
The same you know philosophy I am. When someone says
those won't grow, there we go, Really, I bet you
I can't see I'll bet you I can grow it. Yeah,
what about you got about a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
Of the break, Peggy Martin, Peggy mart still still you
know it's in a tough area. I'm making her.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Look like, are you talking about a bad part of.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Yeah, exactly. But she's doing great, but she doesn't get
the same care and benefits that some of the other
plants get.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
And because you think she can just withstand anything, well,
I'm making.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Her live up to her name. I'm you know, I mean,
I'm not gonna you know, you don't take a you know,
tough old dog and then pamper it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Right, Yeah, but recreating Katrina in your backyard and drowning
the roads, I don't know if that's such a good idea. Hey,
with that in mind, we are going to take a break.
One more segment coming up means nothing really to you
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(01:07:41):
This is Garden America. Time is running out, all right,
this is it. This is what they used to call
the epilogue when you watched shows in the seventies John Wright,
a Quinn Martin production, whether it was The Fugitive or
another TV show, the epilogue, the last do they call it?
Like in a play? Would there be an epilogue in
a play? The last scene?

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
I thought it was called the last act, could be
last act?

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
But epilogue on TV back in the seventies. You don't
remember that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
I might. I'm looking for a question from Linnelle.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
I might if I feel like it. I'll remember if
I feel like it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Carla said that her citrus was starting to bloom, so
she wanted to know if it was too late to
transplant it. I'm not sure what she means. Is she
going to dig it up from one area and move
it or are you going to put it take it
from one pot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Move it to another pot versus ground?

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Yeah, Or if you're going to take it from a
pot and put into the ground. If you're going to
do that, no problem. If you're gonna take it from
one pot, move it to another pot, no problem. If
you're going to dig it up out of the ground
and move it, you're getting close but to not being
able to do it. But you know, Huntington Beach when

(01:08:56):
if it's important, I would go ahead and do it.
I think it would be okay, but.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
Not a month from now.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
I'm I'm I'm going back. Leonor had a question, and
I think this is the one that they're referring to.
It says, I wanted to ask what could I use
to prevent these big insects to eat my citrus flowers.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
What's a big insect?

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Mm hmm, they're eating the flowers. I'm trying to think
per sunset west amberless family chrysanthemum walnuts.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
That is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Two.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Sorry, it's just Carla. Carla then wrote, yes, please the
Nord's question and mine about mandarin tree.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Well, I think Carlo's question was about the transplanting, right, Okay,
So Mike, by the way, Brian says, that wasn't a
Poseidon invention filmed in law.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
I feel like I heard that before.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
You know that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
I never thought of that. No, maybe I don't know.
And by coincidence, I had a rose open up yesterday
called La Joya. Really it's really a pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Rose, very expensive rose too.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Right well, I put it to a special part of
the garden that we don't let other roses, corin roses
get into that area.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
The commoners.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
They have to be special hybrid tees.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
You see that rose over there, what's he doing in
this neighborhood?

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
So I think we need If you're listening.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Leonar is talking about grasshoppers, okay, and and my guests,
unless you have another idea, Tiger would be you can't
do anything about them except sneak up behind them with
pruning shears and cut them in half.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Wow, yeah, you know. And besides John suggested the only no,
the only real thing. And people actually do this, Lenora,
believe it or not. Where they do get plagued with
a lot of those grasshoppers and other bugs like that,
is they use a cover. They use a crow, a roca,

(01:11:12):
a crop cover. It's a usually like a very lightweight
white netting material and they cover the whole tree with it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
It does allow sunlight and air and all of that,
but it doesn't allow those insects to infiltrate the area,
and so that is that is.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Really the only thing that you could do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Let's go back to sneeze.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Use a crop cover.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
I'm picturing John just you know, doing By the way,
the commercial Brian before I lose my transfer. The commercial
name of that product is Remay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Okay, yeah, thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
But sometimes you can also just buy crop covers, I
guess at different stores.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Alert to danger as most wild animals, birds insects are.
What's the success rate of sneaking up behind a grasshoper? Grasshoppers,
it's so easy to catch.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Man, They're stupid, you know, they're so they they are.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
You can catch a grashopper so easy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Okay, really, don't you remember?

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
Never try to crash a grass.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
I've never snuck up on a grasshopper with pruning shears.
Am I the only one.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
I don't know. I don't. I just feel like they're
not very good, very quick, not very fast. They are
fast and everything, yeah, they are fast, but they just
they don't see you coming.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
You remember the.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Story about the ant and the grasshopper going into winter,
and the ant was industrious and made it through the winter,
and the grasshopper froze to death because it was just
stupid didn't prepare for winter.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
There's kind of like the three pigs. The third pig
built his house of bricks.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Yeah. It's either that or they're just very trusting and
they don't feel anything as good attacking you. It could
be like that. A grasshopper is just like, no, this
guy's not gonna squish me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Yeah, grasshoppers are very easy to get, but sometimes they
travel in numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
They don't even know you did you know when you
cut them? I mean they're still trying to fly away.
There's only half of them there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
You have a dark side, Yeah, is where a lot
of those murder murdered podcasts start off.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Right, That's the only insect I have a problem with
in my garden as a matter of fact, not quite
but almost plagued with them.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
Really from a biblical biblical aspect, not that bad, Okay,
not that bad.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
We'll have to do warm between a grasshopper and a locust?
Do we know? You know?

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
I always wonder do you remember that? No, I'm not
ignoring because I'm thinking of John the Baptist right, who
ate locusts and honey in the desert, right, But I'm
wondering were the locusts in the grasshoppers that he ate
or where the locusts sometimes are referred to the pods

(01:13:55):
on carrab trees. Oh, you know the kind of taste
like chocolate. I think that there's a reference to those
being locusts. I could see eating that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, Okay, we got.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
About we got about a minute dot anything. Get anything
off your chest that you might anything bugging you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Carlos says John. Are the books that you mentioned in
the newsletter available on Amazon or the library.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
One minute minute remain?

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Yes, they're all available on Amazon. And you know, if
you go to Amazon, the I wrote about Anthony Egelin's
books and and if you want good horticultural mysteries, get
those books. Yeah, you can go to Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
And Okay, we're gonna we're gonna wrap it up. Thank
you for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
I'm gonna come back next week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Yeah, John's gonna come back next week. That's that was
our news they it just broke. Actually, enjoy the rest
of your weekend. Be safe, have a safe weekend, take
care of yourselves. We're back again next week. I'm Brian May,
John Beg, NASCAR target, Palafox guard in America lives on.
See you next week. Take care,

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