Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. I am your host, Jane Perrone. High Priestess of Houseplants.

Okay, that's rubbish. I'm not the High Priestess of Houseplants, but it sounds good, right?

Well, welcome to the show. This is not the episode I was expecting to bring you, but sometimes life takes a strange turn. I am currently

self-isolating with my family after a confirmed COVID case. Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm double-jabbed,

so hopefully all will be well, but this episode is not going to be what I was planning to put out because with two children now off school, I have had a bit of a telescoped working week.

So what are we going to be talking about this week?

I am going to bring you my thoughts, a monologue, dare I say, about taking your plants outside for a

holiday because it's holiday season, despite the fact that for many of us that might be a staycation.

How do you give your houseplants a great staycation? That's the topic of this week's show. And I'll also

be answering a question about moss poles, some of which are not made of moss. And we'll

hear the first meet the listener with my new set of questions.

Many thanks to Harmonite from the US for leaving a very kind review for On the Ledge on Apple Podcasts.

And if you haven't ever left a review for this here podcast, please do consider doing it.

You can express yourself any way you like and I love to read the inventive ways that you talk about the show in your reviews. So I do read them all and I'm very glad for all of them.

So please if you can do a review, I know Apple Podcast of them. So please, if you can, do a review.

I know Apple Podcasts can make life hard when you're trying to do a review.

Nonetheless, if you can beat Apple Podcast's system, then you can give yourself a big pat on the back and I too will be very grateful.

I have been doing lots of house plant Zoom consultations. This is one of the

rewards for my Legends of the Leaf book. And it's been really, really exciting to see inside

some of your homes. I've had tours. I've had PowerPoint presentations. I've answered lots of

questions. And it's been enormous fun already. So if you have one of those

consultations lined up, you are in for a treat. It's been great, great, great, great fun. One thing that

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