Hello, I'm Jane Perrone, and every time I type the word house plant, it comes out as

Hauselpant. The struggle is real, people.

Hello, welcome to On the Ledge podcast, Episode 160. How are you all doing? This week, we will be looking at plant pigments with Professor Knox

McCunger as the latest instalment in my leaf botany series. And I'll be answering a question

about a silver ripple pepperomia., we'll be hearing from listener Mia.

How has your week been? Mine's been variable, to say the least. I've been suffering from

A, B, C. That's another bloody cold. No doubt caught from my children's return to school.

So I've been getting through quite a few boxes of tissues here at On the Ledge Towers.

But in exciting news, my Legends of the Leaf crowd funder is now at 30.

Let me just double check this.

I want to give you wrong information.

I think it's

at 36% last time I looked. Yes, 36% and 220 supporters. So if you're one of those 220,

thank you very much indeed for your support. As I've said before, this book means a lot to me

and I really want to make it happen and I hope you

do too. So do spread the word about the book. If you can't afford to pledge yourself, then maybe

tweet about it or stick up an Instagram post or story or why not phone a friend and just tell

them about the book. And thank you to Sophie who got in touch this week to tell me what the basic in

basic slag means. You may remember from part one of the potting mix ingredients episodes that I talked

about the mysterious ingredient called basic slag, which I found referenced in a book about

epiphytic cacti. Well, turns out that the basic, according to Sophie,

refers to the pH of a substance, more commonly called acids and alkalis now, but an older way of

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