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On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts

Episode 311: Teeny Tiny Terrarium Plants - I choose my top five

On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts

Jane Perrone

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.9782 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Need teeny tiny plants for your terrarium? I've got you. I pick my top five plants that will fit into the smallest of glass containers. 

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Jane Perrone. This is on The Ledge podcast, and we're here to talk about houseplants. Get in. I do hope you are well.

0:29.3

And if you're not well, don't worry.

0:32.5

I am here to cheer you up.

0:38.9

I am within acceptable parameters.

0:42.2

I would almost say I'm within excellent parameters.

0:47.3

That's how well my week is going.

0:49.7

This week's show is focused on TTTTP, teeny tiny terrarium plants.

0:58.6

I've picked my five favourites for you to add to your underglass containers today.

1:08.0

And I answer a question about the ultimate tricky house plant spot.

1:14.6

Now let me just say before we really get started on this episode, I am on the record

1:20.1

as saying that I wasn't that in Titoriums. If you remember back to my Sarah Gerard Jones, the Plant Rescuer, and T. Francis

1:30.6

episode, that was the wonderful, rather sweary video episode that we did a while back. I think it might

1:38.4

have even been the 300th episode. Gosh, I've lost track. Anyway, T's Jungle and the Blant Rescuer, they're both into

1:48.6

terrariums. And I said at the time, terrariums, not so much. But I did have a childhood

1:54.3

filled with growing plants in fish tanks, which was, which obviously is a terrarium. And I did have a fish tank that was

2:05.4

left over from my children's various pet hobbies when they were younger. And so I have now

2:14.2

got a terrarium, which I'm just kind of experimenting with and throwing things into.

2:21.1

It's not aesthetically anywhere close to the kind of things that you see these really

2:27.7

professional terrarium makers produce. However, I'm having fun with it and seeing what plants do well.

2:33.3

It's here in my office,

2:34.6

and that means that in the wintertime, it got very cold. It gets down to about 10 degrees centigrade

2:40.7

in here because there's just a heater stopping it, you know, getting too cold overnight. So I have

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