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Visit BetterHelp, H-E-L-P.com slash new direction to learn more and save 10% off your first month. Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast, episode 152. It's Leaf Botany, Part 3.

I hope you're still feeling the effects of last week's relaxation episode,

but this week we're back to some modern day plant advice.

Plant ecologist Dr Julia Cook joins me to talk about the role of silicon in plants.

You have to say that carefully.

Silicon implants, not silicon implants.

That's a very different kind of podcast. I'll also be answering

our question about brown marks on leaves and we'll be hearing from listener M.W. Thank you to Laura

Ellie and Plantsman Moe and Kuyoiki in the US for some five-star reviews for the show.

And thank you to those of you who have joined the Patreon clan in the last couple of weeks.

That's Adele, Julia, Molly and Michelle, who haven't formed a girl band.

No, they've all become five dollar patrons and therefore legends. And Lydia, who's become a

crazy plant person. Thanks also to Claire, who gave a one-off donation on code dashfi.com. Instructions on how to do all of those

things are in the show notes. And there's a new option on Patreon now to pay annually, which gives

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