Episode 184: The Houseplant Expert by Dr David Hessayon - the book that launched my houseplant obsession
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Dr David Hessayon's book The Houseplant Expert has been inspired indoor gardeners for decades, including me! In this episode I talk to two fellow horticulturists who knew him well, and reflect on his legacy. Plus I answer a question about moving a 5ft cactus, and we hear from a ten-year-old houseplant fan in Meet The Listener.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready for your weekly dose of house plant chat and info? |
| 0:19.6 | Good, because it's on the ledge. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm your host Jane Perrone, and today I am offering up a pion of praise for my house plant hero, |
| 0:36.7 | Dr David G. Hesseon, author of The Legendary Tome, |
| 0:42.6 | that's been my companion for the last 40-odd years, the house plant expert. |
| 0:47.2 | Plus, I answer a question about transporting a very hairy cactus, |
| 0:53.7 | and we hear from young listener Ashton. |
| 1:00.4 | Can I have a whoop-whoop? Because I have exciting news. I may have screamed out loud last night |
| 1:09.0 | when Legends of the Leaf, my house plant book crowd funder, |
| 1:14.3 | reached its target. Thank you to all this more than 650 people who have pledged to support the book. |
| 1:22.3 | It's totally thrilling to know that the book is definitely going to happen. And this means I need to go away and |
| 1:28.7 | do some furious researching and writing so that I can get this book manuscript done. Then Unbound, |
| 1:37.2 | the publisher has to do their bit of editing, laying out, printing. So it's going to be a bit of a |
| 1:43.9 | long road to publication. I know you're all impatient to see this book. So it's going to be a bit of a long road to publication. |
| 1:45.2 | I know you're all impatient to see this book. |
| 1:47.4 | So am I, trust me. |
| 1:48.8 | But we want to make it really good. |
| 1:50.7 | So please hang in there if you've pledged. |
| 1:52.7 | If you didn't manage to pledge, don't worry. |
| 1:54.9 | There is still time. |
| 1:56.5 | You can pre-order the book for the moment until it gets to the point where it's going to be published |
| 2:02.5 | and then pre-orders will close. So plenty of time right now as I speak, May 2021, to get your |
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