Episode 52: online houseplant buying tips and tricks
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Buying plants online is ridiculously easy - a few clicks and some fancy foliage plant or flowery specimen is on its way to you in the post. But it's a process that's fraught with potential problems. I recently did an interview for the BBC* about problems with online garden centres, but it was such a short chat that I really didn't get the chance to give many of the tips and suggestions I have up my sleeve, so I thought it was a good time to return to the subject here on On The Ledge.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to On the Ledge episode 52. I'm Jane Perrault, lover of many a houseplant and killer of a fair few |
| 0:24.3 | too. Yes, let's get it out there and be honest, we all kill houseplants. And that's okay. |
| 0:32.4 | This week we're returning to the subject of buying houseplants. I was recently a guest on you and yours, the BBC |
| 0:41.0 | Radio for Consumer Show, doing a very brief interview about problems with online plant delivery. |
| 0:47.9 | I'll post a link to the interview in my show notes if you want to have a listen, but it got me |
| 0:52.2 | thinking that I got very little chance to say |
| 0:54.6 | a lot of the things I wanted to say about this topic. So I thought we'd devote some of this |
| 0:59.1 | episode to talking about mail order houseplants, where to get them, how to get them, and what |
| 1:05.8 | to do when things go wrong. And also look at house plant swaps and the etiquette of that. And we'll also be hearing |
| 1:14.2 | from Paul Holt, creative director of North One and West Six Garden Centres, who has his own tips for |
| 1:20.4 | buying houseplants in person and also an insight into how the big Dutch nurseries work when it comes to nurturing young plants for the British and |
| 1:31.0 | European markets. But before we go any further, I just wanted to tell you about a couple of other |
| 1:37.2 | podcasts that I've been enjoying. One of them is called Verdant North and this is a US-based |
| 1:42.8 | gardening podcast by a group of folks from Minnesota. Can I call |
| 1:47.5 | them Minnesotans? Is that a thing? And they love chatting about growing everything. And I had a |
| 1:54.2 | great chat with them in a couple of recent episodes and we had a great laugh talking about |
| 1:59.2 | house plants and all sorts of other issues, |
| 2:01.7 | including my perennial vegetables and my green roof and lots of other things that I might not |
| 2:07.8 | generally talk about here on The Ledge. |
| 2:10.1 | So this is a podcast that's definitely worth a listen if you like your gardening fun. |
| 2:15.8 | You can check out my interview and the other episodes of the podcast |
| 2:19.2 | at verdantnorth.net.net. That's verdant as in green and verdant. And next up, this podcast has |
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