Open your stomata and ready your roots for another episode of Plante Podcast Extraordinaire on the ledge.

I'm your filthy fingernailed host, Jane Perrone, here to guide you through the jungle that is the world

of houseplants. And in this week's show, I take a trip to the wonderful county of Hartfordshire to meet

Sarah Gerard Jones, aka the plant rescuer. And I answer a question about an avocado that just doesn't want to be

bushy. A reminder right at the top of the episode that there will be no episode next week.

That's June the 4th because I'm taking a break for

half term when my children are on leave from school. I will be back on Friday, June the 11th.

If you are in the Leicestershire area of the UK on May the 31st this coming Monday, then do check out the Leaf House Plant Festival where I'll be

doing a house plant kinnick at 3 o'clock on the Monday. The show is also on on the 30th of May,

the Sunday and I'll put all the details in the show notes, including a discount code for booking tickets. Thank you to

Root and Rose in the US, T-Boy 63 in the UK, and a Lady Eleanor Glanville. I thought she was a

lepidopterist from the last century, but perhaps is one of her descendants. Anyway, Lady Eleanor Glanville left a review and

is from the UK. So thanks to all three of you, all of those lovely words, just warm me old cockles.

So thank you so much. And also, thanks need to be given to Tony and McKenzie, who became legends,

and Mary, who became her crazy plant person,

joining the more than 300 people who've become Patreon subscribers

with their hard-earned cash.

Find out more in the show notes.

There you'll also find info for making a one-off donation via PayPal or co-dash-fi.com. This week's guest Sarah Gerard Jones and I have an awful lot in common. We both in our 40s. We both own Betty Whippets. We both live in houses with north-facing plant rooms.

And we live less than an hour's drive away from each other.

But Sarah is known as the plant rescuer because she's got a very strong urge to rescue the plants that other people would put in the bin and breathe new life into them

via a bit of good old-fashioned TLC. In my very first opportunity to leave the On the Ledge

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