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Math 3: Deep Dive Into Our Favorite Plants 9 Views
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Whether you've got a green thumb and some magic beans or you kill everything you touch, there's a plant out there that's perfect for you.
Transcript
- 00:13
If you're going to have a garden you have a ton of options for [man using a wheelbarrow to move vegetables and a child]
- 00:16
which plants you're going to grow so it's a good idea to learn about some of
- 00:19
them let's get to know a few good news unlikely the first date you won't
- 00:23
have to worry too much about who's paying bad news it will always be you [man paying a check for a meal sitting beside a plant]
- 00:27
plants don't have wallets so this purple flower is called salvia there are
Full Transcript
- 00:32
hundreds of species of salvia and most of them have the long spiky flower we [images of different types of salvia flowers]
- 00:36
see here luckily they only produce spiky flowers and not actual spikes so you
- 00:41
won't have to surround your garden with safety warnings salvia love the sun [warning signs near salvia plants with spikes]
- 00:45
they don't need much water they grow well with roses and they attract bees
- 00:49
and butterflies it's always nice to have a plant that gets along well with others [salvia and roses attracting butterfly's and bees]
- 00:53
Unlike the stink bush which no one seems to like get it together stink bush
- 00:58
one very popular flower is the rose although the red rose is particularly
- 01:02
well known they come in all sorts of colors like yellow pink white and purple [images of differently colored rose flowers]
- 01:07
so for all you poetry fans roses are red isn't strictly true but roses are
- 01:12
sometimes red but sometimes yellow pink white or purple doesn't really have the
- 01:17
same ring to it whatever their color roses like strong Sun and moderate water [coop pointing to a list of things roses like to have on a chalkboard]
- 01:20
they also come in over 100 different varieties some that grow on bushes some
- 01:26
that grow on vines and some that grow on the ground luckily none grow on the [bunch of roses growing on the wing of an airplane]
- 01:30
sides of airplanes because those would be really tough to water this is a
- 01:34
sunflower if they're given lots of strong bright sunlight moderate water
- 01:38
and lots of room they can grow to heights of up to 15 feet unfortunately [a growing sunflower in the sunlight near a basketball court]
- 01:43
even with that kind of height they're not great at basketball having no legs
- 01:46
or arms tend to be a disadvantage flowers aren't your only options when it
- 01:51
comes to planting your garden there are also plenty of vegetables to choose from [a big selection of vegetables]
- 01:54
like eggplants peppers and tomatoes they need lots of sunlight and plenty of
- 01:58
water especially those tomatoes that said despite their love of sunlight and [girl holding a bunch of tomatoes on a vine]
- 02:02
water tomatoes grow a lot better in the garden than on a beach sorry if that
- 02:06
ruined your dreams of playing beach volleyball and gardening at the same [woman on a beach doing gardening while a volleyball passes her]
- 02:09
time it was a weird dream anyway we're actually kind of glad we ruined it!
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