Hello, it's on the Ledge podcast and I'm your host, Jane Perrone, which rhymes with funny old crone.

Not a joke, just a fact. In this week's show, I'm talking to fellow podcaster, houseplant

enthusiast and garden writer Ellen Zackos about Hoyer's plant tattoos and the future of house plants.

Plus I answer a question about what plants to place next to a heater.

Yes, that one's a good challenge.

How are you all doing?

I do hope you're okay.

I'm so tired.

My eyes are like burn holes in a blanket, as my mother would say.

So I'm hoping for a restful weekend, a bit of repotting perhaps,

and blasting the aphids off my Oxalis Triangularis. I'd like to thank Taylor,

aka UCD, I think that's right. Hang on, I'm going to put my glasses on. That would help.

Yeah, UCD Plant Doc, aka Taylor, thank you for your five-star review. The line of which that jumped out at me was the one,

strap yourself in and prepare to have your glabrous hairs blown back. Wow, that sounds like

the catch line to my forthcoming. I'm being ironic here. Action movie featuring me in a load of houseplants.

Thank you also to Caro, Rachel and Erin, who all became legends, and to Yehua, who became a crazy plant person.

I am getting perilously close to 300 patrons now, and I've decided that when I hit that 300 patron target, patrons at all levels from

Crazy Plant Person right up to Superfan, I'm going to do a patrons-only Zoom.

So now's a good time to join.

And then you can join me for that Zoom, which will consist of me doing a bit of a kind of

a talk show and tell type thing and then some time for questions so back me now it could only

cost you a few pennies a month if you become a crazy plant person and you get to take part in that

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