00:02hi guys i wanted to show you this sort of really cool eclectic side balcony garden that we've got
00:09going on here that actually luke is in charge of that's my hubby and he's got a few quirky choices
00:16and he's actually had some success with one of them so this is basically the garden uh we've got
00:25as you can see we've got a few different things here we've got a gumboot plant here with some
00:30succulents and then we've got a couple of skull planters that he got this one's got a really cool
00:37sort of cactus thing with really bad sharp spines and then this one is venus fly traps and we've had
00:47a ton of rain here on the gold coast just recently so all our balcony plants have done really well
00:53like we've had mushrooms sprouting and they just love rain but this one these venus fly traps or at
01:00least these two have put up flowers i did not even know venus fly traps flowered and in fact i
01:06didn't
01:06really know much about venus fly traps until they landed on this little side balcony garden here
01:13but i did look up a little bit more information about them apparently they can count well not
01:20literally count but apparently they need their trigger hairs so they've got trigger hairs in there
01:25apparently they need at least a couple within a 20 second period to be triggered basically before
01:33they'll close because of course they're carnivores and they eat insects and so they're sitting there
01:38waiting for some insect to crawl inside and then they'll be able to close over that insect and they
01:43metabolize them but closing takes a lot of metabolic energy so they don't want to close
01:49up for no reason so that's why they need i think two trigger hairs to be triggered so it knows
01:54that
01:55it's an insect as opposed to just a little bit of falling debris or a raindrop or something like that
02:00but i think they're just i i mean they're really cool just having them as a collection here in their
02:07little pots but anyway so there is a little bit of a eclectic collection that we have going on here
02:13but i think these are the stars of the show with their beautiful flowers
02:18there is
02:19so
02:20you
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