Are you ready for some truly brutal plants this week?

Well, stick around for my visit to Big Cactus Rescue.

Welcome to the show.

I'm Jane Perrone, and this here is my podcast on The Ledge,

packed with so much plant information for your ears that you may well

need to listen twice a soups son of housekeeping just a reminder that i'm performing live at the

hampton court palace flower show this very night fr Friday, the 8th of July at 9pm

in the Marketplace Theatre with my special guest, Janelle Leon. So if you catch this episode

early and you're able to pop along, please come and say hello. I will have on the ledge merch to

hand out to anyone who reveals themselves as a fan.

If you can't make it to the show and still fancy getting your hands on some On The Ledge merchandise,

there's 15% of everything in my On The Ledge shop starting today and running till the 12th of July. All you need to do is visit the shop to take

advantage of that discount. Pick yourself up and on the ledge t-shirt, hat, tote bag, badge,

pop along to janeperone.com and click on the shop link to go straight through and make your purchases.

Right, plug over.

Let's get cracking with my chat to Martin.

Martin is a live sound engineer by trade, so before the pandemic, he spent a lot of time away

from home travelling, but when COVID hit, all of that disappeared. And so,

what did he fill his time with? Well, I think you can guess. I went to meet Martin in his

back garden greenhouse last week to find out about his passion for spiny plants and why you shouldn't take yourself too seriously on Instagram

do as always check out the show notes while you're listening

for any plant names that you might miss

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