Episode 147: identifying houseplants
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever been flummoxed by a houseplant that came with a label marked simply 'foliage', this episode will help you start to figure out the name of your new addition. Plant expert Jaco Nel of app SmartPlant joins me to explain the clues he looks for when trying to name plants, and attempts a live plant identification. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2020/7/3/episode-147-identifying-houseplants
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast, episode 147. |
| 0:23.1 | And it's a mystery. |
| 0:25.8 | A plant mystery. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm your host, Jane Perrone, and we're talking identifying plants. |
| 0:35.8 | If you've ever been kept up at night wondering what on earth that plant |
| 0:39.6 | that came with a label only marked |
| 0:41.7 | foliage plant is, |
| 0:43.8 | then join the club. |
| 0:45.5 | We've all been there. |
| 0:46.3 | And this week we're going to try |
| 0:47.6 | to untangle some of the issues |
| 0:51.3 | around plant identification |
| 0:52.5 | with the help of an expert. Yaku Nell is one of the issues around plant identification with the help of an expert. |
| 0:55.2 | Yaku Nell is one of the fleet of experts who helped to identify plants sent into this smart |
| 1:03.9 | plant identification app. So we ask him to reveal his plant identification secrets and set him a challenge, which turns out to be a bit of a dozy actually. |
| 1:17.0 | I got an email this week, which constituted the only feedback I've had of the negative kind about my discussion of the Black Lives Matters movement in a recent |
| 1:30.9 | episode. And I wanted to just bring you a little bit of my response to this listener so that you |
| 1:38.5 | can understand, perhaps if you've felt uncomfortable with what I've said, this will help you to |
| 1:43.6 | understand where I'm coming from. |
| 1:45.3 | The listener has basically argued that they're confronted with politics everywhere they turn |
| 1:49.5 | from news, TV shows, sports at work. And so the podcast was an escape. And they're not sure |
| 1:56.3 | what BLM has to do with plants. And apparently this has ruined the podcast for them. So this was my |
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