Episode 146: helping houseplants cope with a heatwave, plus a Hoya question
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When it's unusually hot, you may feel the strain: your houseplants can struggle too. I offer up some tips to help your plants cope with a heatwave, and Doug Chamberlain of Vermont Hoyas joins me to answer a listener question.
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| 1:21.1 | before her brain explodes from heat exhaustion? |
| 1:24.8 | Yes, it's steaming hot here in On the Ledge headquarters. I'm sitting in the office |
| 1:29.8 | with the blinds down, the fan off, and my feet in a basin of cold water. So in this week's |
| 1:37.9 | episode, I will be providing some tips for helping your house plants through a heat wave. And I'll also be getting |
| 1:46.6 | Hoyer expert Doug Chamberlain of Vermont Hoyers back to answer a listener question about |
| 1:53.5 | a plant identification issue and also chat about some of the rarer Hoyers that he is finding are attracting high sales prices at the |
| 2:05.0 | minute. Yes, my prediction that Hoyers are the next big thing does seem to be coming true. |
| 2:13.0 | More on that shortly, but first, some housekeeping. Let me get my virtual dustpan and brush out. |
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