Hello and welcome to On the Ledge, the 300th episode.

I'm your host Jane Perrone, and this is not only the 300th episode, it's also the first in the late night on the ledge series.

What does that mean?

Well, it's a bit like a late night talk show.

So excellent guests, fun conversations, and maybe a little bit of bad language.

So if you have children listening, maybe pick another episode.

Today I'm joined by two wonderful guests and friends of the show, Sarah Gerard Jones,

aka The Plant Rescuer, and Tea Francis, aka Tees Jungle.

And we're here to spill the plant tea with Sarah and tea.

I cannot wait.

But before we get started, we've got to have a shout out to our sponsors for this week's show, Ladybird Plant Care, which is a Brighton-based business run by the wonderful Tessa Copley, and she's a wealth of information about plant pests and the best way to tackle them, whether that's your house plant collection, your veg patch or your garden.

And it's all about using good bugs to save your plants from pests.

So if you're battling fungus gnats, slugs, thrips, vine weevil, or any other plant eaters,

introducing their natural predator supplied by Lady Bird Plant Care, of course, will soon send them packing.

So thanks so much to Tessa for sponsoring the show. And if you want to find out more about

Ladybird Plant Care, visit ladybirdplantcare.co.uk. And thank you, Tessa, for all your support.

And if you want to hear more from Tessa, you can hear her in episodes 176 and 177 of

On the Ledge where we talk about biological controls. Right, on with the chat, guys. Thank you so much

for joining me, Sarah and T. Lovely to have you both here. I should need to give you a bit more

of a fulsome introduction. Sarah, you're known for your wonderful work teaching us all how to rescue house plants

from your book, The Plant Rescuer, and your Plant Rescue Box Scheme,

to your appearances on Gardner's World and Alan Tishmarsh's Gardening Club.

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