gurvir joins us now from northeast washington with our garden expert derek thomas of thomas -- landscapes. hi, gurvir. >> reporter: the key word is minimum work. showed us these wonderful veterans being honored and you still have time today if you are out and enjoying this gorgeous day, derek, thank you for being here, to celebrate and decorate your own home for the holidays. even veteran's day. >> and what we're talking about today is getting home for the holidays, decking the halls. one of the quick things that i thought about, in light of veteran day, and remember all of those who are serving or have served for us, this is a tree topper. it's a star shaped tree topper. and a lot of times you think veteran's day is only one day. what you about if you were to get some spray paint from the hardware store, turn this into something wonderful for one of those trees in your garden, or several of them. once that's done, it's still usable for holiday time as a tree topper. >> i love it. >> speaking of quick changes. this is the time for hats because we are decking the halls today. >> reporter:

. >> earlier sarah simmons caught up with derek thomas to talk about violets. >> they are a bit illusiveple see them at the garden center and pass on because they look so delicate and they have the wonderful blooms. african violents are actually quite easy to take care of, if you know what you are doing. the biggest thing you want to do when you have a violet, this is the crown of the violet where all of the leaves and the flowers come out of you. do not want to ever water directly into the crown. because that could kill the plant. the other thing you want to make sure you are doing is you should set your water out overnight to let a lot of that extra chlorine get out of the water. use a tray when watering. and what you'll end up with a beautiful violet like this. and there is some really straightforward things that will keep the plant healthy. this is a younger plant here. what you want to do is you want to be -- any of the leaves that have gotten old, you want to make sure that you are removing that, so that you are taking off all of the old growth. and when the flowers start to fade,

thomas to throw to mayy. 15-7 oregon. cal defense came up with the big placement derek heel strips the ball from thomas and then recoveredin the end-zone. they did review the play. thomas was not ruled to have yet begun the active passing. bears went for two and trailed 15-13. a distressing turn of events for the bears early in the fourth quarter. good on the 24-yard field goal but moved before the snap and was called for illegal procedure. >> illegal motion, offside. >> he had to do it again from 29 yards out. and missed. wide right. the bears remain down by two. they had one quarter drive and other one drive that is in the quarter. and then the ducks sat on the ball the rest of the way. starting on their own 20 the ducks burned nine minutes and 29 second in 18 plays. michael james wrapped it up. oregon survives 15-13 to go 10- 0 at 5-5 and 3-4 in conference. the bears are playing for bowl eligibility in their last two games. >>> another nationally significant game today at auburn where calm newton started against georgia after falling behind 21-7 newton brought the seventh ranked tigers back. they went up by 11 in the

cal brings the pressure, thomas loses the football and big derek hill false on it.he bears get within two and they are thinking upset at memorial stadium. fourth quarter, georgio delvechio drills a 24-yarder to give cal the lead. but wait, there is a flag. delvechio gets called for an illegal shift penalty after stutter stepping before the kick. back it up 5 yards, this time he hooks it wide right and the corey mains 15-13. that would be cal's real last chance at taking the lead. oregon keeps the ball for the final 9 1/2 minutes to run out the clock and hang on for a 15- 13 win to improve to 10-0. >> is this one of those wins where you wipe your brow with a 2-point win? >> we won, that's all we care about. >> well you got to care about the way you played. it was slow in the beginning, you didn't have the type of offense you typically have. what was goin' on today. >> we don't care about that. keep asking those questions, doesn't matter. the only thing that matters is we've got 2 more points than them and we're 10-0 right now. >> stanford was also held to a season lo