Episode 306 part three: WIN a copy of The Atlas of Deadly Plants
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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My new book The Atlas of Deadly Plants is out this week, published by Greenfinch, so I thought I'd celebrate by offering up a series of mini-podcast episodes digging into some of the themes and facts from the book - just in time for Halloween!
In this mini-ep I'm offering you the chance to WIN one of five copies of the book. Visit the show notes to find out how.
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Check out Legends of the Leaf, my book on houseplants and my houseplant cards Houseplant Gardener in a Box here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to part three of my Atlas of Deadly Plants Minnesota series running up to Halloween. |
| 0:24.6 | And today it's competition time. So I have five copies, yes, five copies of the book to give away to you wonderful people. |
| 0:33.6 | How do you get your hands on a copy of the book? |
| 0:42.0 | Well, there's going to be two ways. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm going to put up an Instagram post, which will be live today at j.l.piron on Instagram. |
| 0:56.1 | If you go and make sure you're following me and put a comment on there with the word Atlas, then you'll be entered into the draw, and you can also email me at On theledgepodcast at gmail.com. You have until |
| 1:05.2 | midnight on the end of Halloween to enter the competition, and I will pick five winners at random to win the book. |
| 1:15.7 | How magical would that be to have a copy of this book to scroll through and delight all of your |
| 1:23.5 | senses? And to celebrate the competition, I'm going to give you three random facts from the book. |
| 1:30.4 | First random fact from the book, I think that Aramaculatum, Lords and Ladies, is probably the |
| 1:37.1 | wild plant in the UK that has probably the most number of common names. It has absolutely |
| 1:44.0 | loads from poison berry and hobble gobbles to |
| 1:48.3 | wake robin and my favourite and probably the most widespread which is cuckoo pint. Yes I said |
| 1:57.9 | pint not pint. Pint comes from the old English word pintel, which means penis, |
| 2:03.7 | well, cuckoo means lively. Yes, this plant's common name was literally lively penis, |
| 2:10.2 | and yes, it was used as an aphrodisiac. So that's fact one. Fact two, one of the lovely English common names for the fox glove, which we all |
| 2:21.9 | know and love as a very poisonous plant, it was known as flop dock and poppers. And there was a custom |
| 2:28.8 | where people would close off the end of the sort of the bell-shaped flower and push the ends together |
| 2:33.9 | until there was a |
| 2:35.4 | popping sound so that the bloom breaks. I really want to give that a try next summer when I get my |
| 2:40.9 | hands on a foxglove to see if I can make the flower pop. And the final fact is about a plant that |
| 2:47.9 | sometimes grown as a house plant or more often a conservatory plant and that's the |
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