Five houseplant hot takes, one houseplant podcast host, one journey through time and space, and an extremely limited sound effects budget.

It's episode 312.

No pussyfooting around today.

We are getting straight into the hot tea that I am pouring from my brown Betty teapot for you all today. I'm bringing you five houseplant hot takes and yes possibly they do become

slightly more unhinged as we go but I'll let you be the judge of that. Are you ready? Let's go.

Houseplant heart take, number one. Some of the very best house plant experts are invisible.

Now, I don't mean literally invisible.

I haven't gone quite that unhinged yet.

I say yet for a reason.

Now, when I say invisible, what I mean is they are invisible

to the vast majority of you listening to this podcast.

That's because they are not on social media. Well, if you're lucky, they'll be maybe on Facebook. They may have a website,

but it's probably not going to be appearing at the top of your searches for a particular

plant. You are really only going to come across them if you go to the local

branch of your specialist plant societies or you hang out at specialist plant shows. Now, these

people, they're not all boomers, but a lot of them are boomers. They've been growing plants since well before you were born and possibly before your parents were born.

And some of them have a lot of privilege. Some of them have grown up in a time when buying a house was possible at a young age and they're probably retired on a full salary pensions.

So they have a huge privilege of time and money that they can spend on their houseplants.

But they're also, in my experience, generally incredibly generous at sharing that knowledge.

But they don't want to do it on social media.

If you go up to them at a show or talk to them, most of them will be more than happy to share.

They might be a bit surprised by how much you know.

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