Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. I'm your host Jane Jane Perrone, and if you're looking for planty

information and chat, you're in the right place. Earlier this month, I was at the

Morven Spring Show in Morven in Worcestershire here in the UK, and I was delighted to be part of the very first

house plant festival organised by Green Rooms Market, which has recently been taken over by

Sarah Gerard Jones, the plant rescuer, who you may remember from her interviews on this

very podcast, and also Ian Morrison from the plant fertiliser brand liquid gold leaf.

Now they are doing exciting things with Green Room's Market and that includes this house plant festival.

So this was in a building at the Morven show and brought together loads of wonderful house plant

sellers plus talks plus workshops. It was a cornucopia for any house plant lover and I was very

glad to be there hosting the main stage on the Saturday and Sunday of the show and also also doing a talk about my book, Legends of the Leaf,

plus I recorded a podcast with the legends that are Ben Newell,

aka Worcester Terrariums and Johnny Belchandani,

better known as the bearded plantaholic.

And today you're going to hear a recording of that live podcast.

Very, very slight warning.

There are no swear words in here.

However, there is a plant name which sounds a bit rude.

So if you're not sure about whether you want to hear that,

it sounds rude, but it's just a plant name.

So I'll put a list of the plant names that we talk about or we do a little quiz with in the show notes.

So if you're not sure if you want young ears to hear that, then do go and check out the name first in the show notes.

But I would encourage you to listen because it's awfully fun and includes

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