Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast and this week we're charming snakes.

The plant kind.

Greetings, listeners, my name is Jane Perrone.

I'm the host of On the Ledge podcast, the house plant podcast that takes you deep

into the world of plants in your home. And in this week's episode, I'll be chatting about

sanzavarias, aka the snake plant, those wonderful, tough succulents, with expert Dr Colin Walker.

And I'll be answering a question about repotting hesitancy.

Ellen, Margo, Caroline.

What unites these three people? They've earned themselves a place in my good books for becoming patrons of On the Ledge.

And it is this band of more than 300 people who really helped to keep the show alive. So thank you to those three new patrons this week. If you want to find out how to join them, just check the show alive. So thank you to those three new patrons this week. If you want to find out how to

join them, just check the show notes, janeperone.com. And thanks also to, I don't know how to pronounce this.

Is it Nan Katie did or Nancatchy did? I don't know. Anyway, you're from the US and you wrote a lovely

review for On the Ledge, so thank you

to you. Snake plants, aka sanzavarias, are the Mr. T of the succulent world.

Chunky, funky, and oh so tough. And they are something that I've been wanting to delve into on

on the ledge for many a moon. And finally this week it's happening. I'm bringing back Dr Colin Walker,

president of the British Cactus and Succulent Society, biologist and expert on this genus to talk

all things snake plant. From propagation and pollination to that taxonomic controversy will cover

it all. The taxonomic controversy, I'll just preface that by saying that I'm still

calling Sansoveria, sanzavaria, despite the fact they've now been placed into the genus

Dracina following genetic research into their DNA. As we'll heal from Colin, it doesn't have to

spoil our fun of this wonderful group of plants,

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