Episode 192: houseplants and mental health
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Plants can boost your mental health - but it's easy to let your leafy obsession tip over into a damaging habit that impacts your wellbeing. I chat to Mental health nurse Amy March about how to deal with houseplant overwhelm, whether plant bans are a good thing, and how to develop healthy houseplant buying habits. Plus we hear from listener Ana Cristina and I answer a question about a bird's nest fern. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/houseplants-mental-health
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, which means it's time for more foliage-based fabulosity with me, Jane Perrone, |
| 0:23.0 | and on the ledge podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | In this week's show, |
| 0:31.8 | we're talking about house plants |
| 0:33.9 | and mental health |
| 0:35.7 | with Amy March of perky plants and we're hearing from listener |
| 0:41.2 | Anna Christina from Columbia plus I answer a question about a fern that's gone mankey yes technical |
| 0:49.0 | term there just a reminder there are two more episodes, including this one, until my summer break. |
| 0:59.7 | No show between July the 30th, 2021 and September the 3rd, 2021. |
| 1:05.8 | What will you do without me? God knows. |
| 1:08.5 | And what am I going to be doing? |
| 1:09.7 | Well, I'm going to be writing my book, Legends of the Leaf, |
| 1:12.5 | which is coming along very nicely. And I've managed to speak to several listeners who signed up for |
| 1:19.2 | the house plant consultation pledge reward level on the book, which has been great. But there are two |
| 1:25.4 | people I haven't heard back from. So if you are Jennifer from Oregon or Gina from Birmingham, |
| 1:30.7 | I've sent you two emails. |
| 1:31.9 | Please get in touch so we can set up your house plant consultation. |
| 1:37.2 | Thank you to those who've become new patrons in the last week or so. |
| 1:41.7 | Kimberly, Raymond, Megu and James all became legends, and they're |
| 1:46.3 | helping to keep on the ledge on the go. Thank you also to Sally in the Garden from the US, Riddle |
| 1:54.1 | 96 from the UK, Underbart Rowligt from Sweden and CDINBC from Canada who all left delightfully, |
| 2:03.7 | gorgeously wonderful reviews for On the Ledge podcast on their pod app of choice, |
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