Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate house plants?

Yes, it's Jane Perrone here with On the Ledge, celebrating houseplants since 2017.

In the show today, we find out how you could become the custodian of two important house plant genera

and I offer up a clutch of top tips about terrariums.

Thanks to all of you who said how much you enjoyed the cam and gutation episode of last week with Polly Schiffman.

More leaf botany episodes are on their way after my two week break.

Just a reminder that there's no show on July the 24th or the 31st.

I'll be back on August the 7th with my 150th episode of On the

Ledge. Thank you also to Marcus, who got in touch to tell me about how much he appreciated

the Hilton Carter and Tyler Thrashar episodes. And Marcus is just starting to study horticulture

formally for the first time at the age of 41, but finds that as a black man, he's often the only one

in the room. And Marcus said, thank you for validating my choice of career. For the first time in my

life, I'm following my passions. Well, I don't think I need to

validate your choice of career. I think you've done a pretty darn good job of doing that yourself,

Marcus. But thank you for supporting this show and listening while you're driving and while you're at

work. Apparently my voice is relaxing. It's actually given me an idea, this email, Marcus.

Everyone slightly takes a nervous intake of breath at this point. Well, I'm going to, I've decided that because everyone

thinks my voice is so relaxing, I have picked a book from the 1800s about indoor gardening,

and I'm going to read some of it in an episode coming up and see whether

it's just an exercise in relaxation, how everyone finds it, whether it's something you might

want to fall asleep to or de-stress to off an evening. So we'll give that a try after I'm back

from my break. Listen out for that because it's going to be fun.

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