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On The Ledge

Episode 223: Tradescantia with Avery Rowe

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

I chat to Tradescantia expert Avery Rowe about all things inch plant, and I answer a question about baby Saxifrages.

For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/tradescantia

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0:00.0

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0:41.9

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1:18.7

In this week's show, I chat to Avery Row about all things Tradiscantia, and I answer a question about baby saxophages.

1:34.8

A warm welcome to the show with a particular hat tip in the direction of Janie, Mercy, Haley, Rachel and Ryan, who all became patrons this week.

1:48.5

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1:55.8

Tradiscantiers, we all grow them, we all love them, but sometimes it's not that easy to make them look their best,

2:04.7

and there's often a lot of confusion around which one is which.

2:10.2

And that's what we're going to tackle in today's show with guest Avery Row,

2:15.6

who is a real expert in the house plant species and cultivars of this genus.

2:23.2

Just a quick note before we get into that interview.

2:26.5

Tradescantiers have many common names.

2:29.1

I tend to call them Tradescantias, which works.

2:33.0

But you might also see them named as inch plants, spiderwort,

2:38.7

zebra plant, or wandering dude. In France, the plant is called miser, which means misery.

2:47.0

Read into that what you will. But there is one common name that is often used for this plant,

2:53.2

similar to Wondering Dude,

2:55.0

that you won't hear on On the Ledge podcast.

2:57.9

It's a bigoted term for the plant,

3:00.8

which has no place in the 21st century.

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