Hello and welcome to the show that shines in light on houseplants.

It's on the ledge.

With me, Jane Peron.

In this week's episode, I'm demystifying the process of photosynthesis with my guest, Dr Polly Schiffman.

A reminder right at the top of the show that this is the last episode before I take a wee break.

We as in small, as they say in Scotland. So I'm not doing any episodes in the month of August. I'll be back with a new episode on September the 2nd. If you're a Patreon subscriber,

your membership will be paused for the month of August. And if you pay annually, you'll get an

extra month added on so you don't lose

out and welcome to new patrons Kay and Hannah who became legends this week and to all of the

Patreon subscribers who filled out the survey legends Nancy was lucky enough to have her name pulled in the random draw for merch.

Nancy, I've sent you a message asking for details for delivery of that swag bag, so do get in touch.

And if you're not currently a Patreon subscriber, but want to find out more, just check out the show notes at janeperone.com.

Cracking straight on, this week we resurrect my leaf botany series for part seven,

in which terrestrial ecologist Dr Polly Schiffman joins me once again,

but this time we're talking about photosynthesis.

Now, I think we've all got a basic idea of what it is, but how does it really work? And what does it mean for our plants? And for us,

that's what we're finding out this week. Dr. Schiffman's been on the show before, talking about

gutation and cam. She works at California State University, Northridge in the US.

And if you want to go back to that gutation and cam episode,

I'll put a link to that in the show notes,

along with all the other leaf botany episodes.

So let's harness the power of the sun and get cracking on our photosynthesis chat.

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