Episode 51: Matthew Biggs

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode sounds a little bit different - as it's half term and I have a relative staying who is sleeping in my office where I usually record the podcast, I headed out to the potting shed for the intro and Q&A. I hope you enjoy the early morning background noise of birds singing!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 51 of On the Ledge podcast. This intro may sound a little different this morning
0:23.5	because I'm coming at you from my potting shed.
0:30.9	Oh, hang on, the pigeon's just landed on the roof.
0:33.9	Don't eat my brassica's pigeon.
0:36.2	Go on, off you go, pigeon.
0:38.2	Go on, off you go, pigeon. Go on.
0:41.1	It's gone.
0:42.9	Episode 51 should be a doozy.
0:45.6	I've got an interview with Gardening Royalty this week.
0:48.8	Yes, that's Matthew Biggs, author of many a fine gardening book,
0:53.7	and regular on BBC Radio for Institution
0:57.1	Gardner's Question Time. The reason I'm speaking to Matt is that we'll soon be appearing on
1:02.8	stage together at Gardner's World Live on Thursday the 14th of June. I do hope you've got your
1:08.2	tickets but if not listen on and I'll explain more about
1:12.4	what you can come and see. I'll also be answering a question about orchid leaves
1:19.8	and giving you a mini on the ledge sew along update in fact let's do the
1:25.9	sew along update now I wanted to tell you about
1:29.0	my colias and I'm so proud of these plants. I'll put some pictures up in my show notes, but they're
1:35.0	growing so well. They're about a foot tall now, just under a foot tall and they're just so beautiful
1:42.2	and they've been so easy to grow. I would really recommend you
1:45.2	trying some of these colias if you get the opportunity. I've got one still out here in the potting
1:50.5	shed. The rest are somewhere in the garden in pots and I've also put my begonia luxurians
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