Hello and welcome to the podcast that makes your houseplants happy and possibly you happy as well.

I'm your host, Jane Perrone. Distilling four decades of house plant growing into a few minutes of audio. Isn't that clever?

And in this week's show, I am going to be answering your questions.

Well, I don't know, maybe not your questions, but questions that have been sent in by listeners.

And we'll be covering some really interesting ground.

Thank you to all of you who've been in touch about last week's episode on the price of rare plants.

I had some really interesting responses and great to see that most of you were fully on board

with what I had to say. Emma from Australia got in touch to say, it's so nice to hear more

about plants in a sensible way. Less hype about houseplants. Well, yeah, I mean, as anyone who

listens to the show knows, I do get quite excited about house plants, but I also do like to bring

things down to earth as much as possible. Yes, on the ledge, keeping it real since

February 2017. Anyway, Emma goes on to say, I really related to what you said about people spending

ridiculous amounts of money on plants. They only knew they needed a day ago when they saw someone

else had it. It's easy to have those feelings. A form of plant envy, but once you

really question yourself about why you have these feelings, it's easier to step back and say,

hang on a minute, I don't have the greenhouse conditions needed to grow that giant anthureum,

so that's a waste of my money and will only lead to plant disappointment. Yes, Emma plant disappointment is what

we're trying to avoid around here. So yes, be passionate about plants. Yes, get really excited

about plants. But do not allow yourself to drift into practices that are not good for you as a

person. I heard from one listener who has a friend who was waking up

every hour one night recently to check a plant website because they've been doing these kind of

ghost drops because plants are rare and therefore they're trying to put them out at times when

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