Episode 285: A Jungle In Your Living Room - getting children into houseplants
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I talk to Michael Holland about his new houseplant book for children, and I answer a question about mealybugs on cuttings.
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| 0:23.3 | Visit BetterHelphelp.com slash new direction today to get 10% of your first month. Hello, I'm Jane Perrone, and this is episode 285 of my venerable podcast on the ledge. |
| 0:53.8 | Venerable, because it's been here since 2017. |
| 0:59.8 | In this week's show, I talked to Michael Holland about his book, |
| 1:04.0 | A Jungle in Your Living Room, |
| 1:06.0 | finding out how to get kids engaged with the subject of indoor gardening. Plus I answer a question about |
| 1:14.6 | mealy bugs. I don't know about you but January felt like it was about a million years long. So I'm |
| 1:25.7 | glad to be entering February and hoping that the extra light that's |
| 1:30.9 | coming our way in the Northern Hemisphere will start to do good things for my house plants which |
| 1:35.8 | are definitely not enjoying the lack of light. I've got a piece coming out in the Financial Times |
| 1:43.2 | UK newspaper this Saturday, all about |
| 1:46.2 | helping your plants cope with this time of year. So do check that out. I don't know if it will |
| 1:53.5 | be freely available or not, or whether it'll be behind a paywall. But if I can link to that |
| 1:57.5 | on my socials, I will. You can also dig back into the On the ledge archive where I talk about this in episode 118 of the show and also 113 and 68. |
| 2:09.5 | Yes, this is a topic I've covered a few times. |
| 2:11.5 | I'll put links to those episodes in the show notes for you to check out as well. |
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