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On The Ledge

Episode 203: a visit to the Millennium Seed Bank

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Millennium Seed Bank holds a treasure trove of plant genetic material from around the world, including many of our favourite houseplants: I headed into the vault to find out how and why seeds are banked. Plus I answer a question about ‘stuck’ aroid leaves.

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Before you switch away to another podcast, fear not, because I'm talking seed banks,

1:02.2

not the boring money kind.

1:06.0

In this week's show, I visit the Millennium Seed Bank, home to seeds from more than 190 countries around the

1:15.1

globe, plus I answer a question about stuck leaves. Before we get started with my visit to the

1:26.0

Millennium Seed Bank, let me get my virtual dustpan and brush out to do a little bit of housekeeping.

1:32.1

Thanks for all the fantastic feedback on last week's dual orchids episode,

1:36.6

and if you've been inspired to give dual orchids a try,

1:40.7

Reschmer has been generous enough to offer a discount code for On the Ledge listeners.

1:46.3

Visit Uglyplantlink.com and use the code on the ledge 10 for a flat 10% discount across

1:53.3

all Jewel Orchids until December the 5th, 2021, one use per listener and there's no minimum order.

2:01.3

So thanks to Reshma for that and I do hope that some of you are going to be starting an exciting new collection of dual orchids from now on.

2:10.8

A heads up if you are in the UK, one of our listeners Tom Cran, has organised a fantastic event on Saturday, December

2:19.1

the 11th at Midday at Thornbridge Hall and Gardens where he happens to work.

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