Verily, I say unto thee, this is the On the Ledge festive Q&A special.

Hello, and welcome to On the Ledge episode 206.

I am your host, Jane Perrone, and you know what, it's getting festive round here, I'm wearing a sparkly spider brooch.

I know, very Christmassy.

I also have a cup of tea by my side that might transmogrify into a glass of mould wine as the afternoon slips inexorably towards evening.

And I'm going to be answering your festive plant-related

questions and will also be hearing from listener Sally in a welcome return for Meet the

listener. Thanks for all the lovely feedback about my interview with Ulrich Haag in last week's episode.

Lots of people enjoyed the Apuntia story.

And if you want to read more about why Apuntia glockids are particularly lethal,

well, you'll have to wait till my book, Legends of the Leaf comes out

because there's a whole

chapter on a puntae, microdaises, the bunny is cactus in that book. Speaking of which, a bit of

housekeeping here, this is the last episode of On the Ledge for the Year 2021. I know, we really should

be going around in flying cars by now, shouldn't me? Well,

that's what I remember thinking back in the 80s when I thought about the year 2021. Anyway,

last episode is this one for 2021 and I will be back in 2022. When, Jane, when we be back? Well,

I'm afraid right now, I can't precisely answer that.

I have still not finished my book. It is close. It's getting there, but I'm not finished yet, and I've

got to get this book. I'll leave a space there for a swear word that would have been inserted had this

not been a swear free show. I've got to get this book finished because I know there's hundreds

of people waiting for it. So I've got to put the podcast on pause. I'm planning that that will

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