Episode 141: Alice Vincent
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Alice Vincent (@noughticulture on Instagram) joins me to talk about two new planty projects: her book Rootbound, and an audio guide to sowing seeds - both perfect lockdown reading and listening material.
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| 0:59.0 | In today's episode, I talked to Alice Vincent, aka Nauticulture, about her new book, |
| 1:08.0 | Rootbound. It's a mix of memoir, botanical history and biography. And if you are somebody |
| 1:14.3 | who has got into plants in the last few years, lots of this book will resonate strongly for you. |
| 1:21.3 | We cover loads of ground here from while we both love nasturtiums to all the things you can do with sticky willie. |
| 1:29.5 | It's a plant. Keep it clean. And we also talk about Alice's other new project and audio book |
| 1:35.5 | all about sewing seeds. Fantastic. That's coming up shortly after a tad of housekeeping. |
| 1:42.8 | Thanks for all your lovely feedback on Diva Week. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm glad to hear that you all enjoyed the expert advice |
| 1:49.4 | from our clutch of growers who were so brilliant at giving you the lowdown on these plants. |
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| 2:04.0 | difficulties financially for so many people. Chris and Darien became legends, and Erica |
| 2:10.6 | became a crazy plant person. So thank you to you trio of lovelies. And thank you to Sutterbox from Belgium who left a lovely review |
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