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When somebody out there does something nice for me,
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you know, I like to be able to look in the camera
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and say, thank you Deewana, thank you so much.
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I was at a book signing down in Foley, Alabama at Iowa,
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and this lady brought me a beautiful flower arrangement,
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and they were all from her yard.
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And I guess I jokingly said, would you share
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some of those bulbs or flowers with me?
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This came in the mail the other day
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and she, just grows beautiful flowers.
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She says, Iris is plant now enclosed about 20 of these.
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They make half sun, half shade for a vivid color.
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They need half shade and half sun for vivid color.
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Plant now they will bloom multiply five for each one plant.
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So we plant one and it'll multiply five times.
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And this is a picture of Deewana Childress.
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The sweet little lady that came to my book signing
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Deewana I thank you so much.
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And you know what they say?
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It's an old wife wives tale
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that you should never thank anybody for a plant
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because if you thank them, it will die.
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So just know that I'm thanking you,
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and then I'm taking it back.
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'Cause I don't want these to die, they're too beautiful.
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But I've got your address, and if they come up,
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I'm gonna send you a picture of the ones
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that we've planted here.
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And I'll just want you to see 'em and just know
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that the bulbs that you sent me are so loved.
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This is what they're supposed to look like y'all.
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See that's what I got to plant right now.
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So before I get the recipe done, I just wanted
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to thank Deewana, I just thought it was so sweet.
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'Cause I do love our gardens and I don't have a green thumb,
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I'm hoping Eddie's got two, two green thumbs.
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In fact let's take 'em out for a walk in the yard, Eddie
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and show 'em so far what we've got planted.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, we need to get some herbs anyways.
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What did you hear me say let's go outside?
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I need, what do I need?
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I need fresh thyme and rosemary.
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Get my scissors Eddie.
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Lulu you wanna come outside?
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And Eddie you, while I'm cutting the thyme and the rosemary,
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you can be showing 'em.
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Now Mike is over here working in this little area.
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I came out a minute ago and he said,
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there's a snake over here.
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And I said, well, how big?
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He said about this big.
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He said, it looked like a glass snake, but you know
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a snake is a snake is a snake.
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Now I love these impatiens,
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and dang it smells so good out here.
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- [Eddie] Yes, there's something,
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Well, I got all this Jasmine so boom.
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- Yeah. It's the Jasmine it's in, it's in boon now.
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And you just walk out here and it's
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like a wonderful rich perfume.
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See all the pots that Eddie has put stuff in.
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I wanna put these impatiens though in the ground.
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Because they will multiply.
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- [Eddie] All right, let's go this way.
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- Now smile for the camera.
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Our walkway started cracking,
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so we're having to replace that over here.
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So I appreciate it guys.
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Now this is, I love things
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that crawl on the back of other things.
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- [Eddie] Mandevilla.
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- Mandevilla, okay, but look, it's been broken.
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So I tied it up with a string.
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So oh-oh, he popped out of the string.
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I can't see the string anymore Eddie.
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So I've got to come back and fix him
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or somebody can step on him and break him too.
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So I'll be back to you buddy.
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And last season, Eddie and I planted, and Mike, really
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planted all these (distinct) hydrangeas in here,
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and I just think they are so beautiful.
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So we trying to keep some herbs in this area,
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(airplane engine roaring)
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- And we finally got birds, y'all.
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A male and a female Cardinal hangs around out here,
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and yesterday Eddie, there was, I think it was
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a redheaded Woodpecker, 'Cause he was a beautiful bird.
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He had a red head, gorgeous.
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So I'm having so much fun standing at kitchen wonder
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and looking out here and watching the birds
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enjoy what we've set up for 'em and we even went
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and got 'em a bird bath.
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And I see 'em down here, drinking and bathing.
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These two plants y'all, were my brother Boba's and
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- Yeah, I hope they're coming back.
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They alarmed me when they looked like
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they were about to suffer.
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Were they getting too much water, do you think?
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And look at the hydrangeas and these, Eddie,
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these were all bulbs weren't they?
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Were they bulbs or seeds?
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- [Eddie] They came in small plants.
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- Look how pretty they are.
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But my favorite is this blueish purple, but you can see how
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I just love this time of year dropping
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in color around with all the green.
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And these hydrangeas,
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they are like miniature hydrangeas Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Yeah. I hope they get
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- Why do they have such a small head?
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- [Eddie] I'm not sure, I really don't know the name.
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- There's so many different breeds, hydrangeas, isn't it?
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I'm gonna be doing a recipe after this video.
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So I really don't know how much it costs for.
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But let's get in here and get a little rosemary too.
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So I think that's it, Eddie.
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Right? Where is Lulu?
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I don't know if y'all can see here.
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Can we show them this old gate.
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We got it from Picker Joe's.
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- And he has some of the most beautiful, old pieces
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of architecture that he finds that came from Nepal.
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He finds some pretty stuff and you know, the prices
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are really reasonable too.
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I couldn't have had one built, but what
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we paid for that one.
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So, I appreciate Picker Joe's.
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So Deewana I wanna thank you so much
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for all these beautiful bulbs.
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I can't wait to get 'em in the ground
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and take a picture of them when they start blooming.
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So thank you so so much.
