Episode 55: James Wong's houseplants - part one

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

British-Malaysian botanist James Wong is sparking a one-man houseplant revolution. With no outside space to garden, for the last 18 months James has been focusing all his horticultural energies into many fascinating plant experiments inside his small London flat.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, it's steaming hot here in the UK this week, which is good because this week's
0:21.8	podcast guest is hot property.
0:30.1	Way back in episode 13 of On the Ledge podcast last year, I interviewed the legend that is Mr James Wong.
0:38.4	He is the guy who has had 125,000 likes on a single Twitter post about a nanopon that he made in his flat in London.
0:48.5	This guy is a one-man house plant revolution, and I was absolutely delighted when he invited me to his flat for a personal
0:57.7	tour of all the projects he's been working on and I'm lucky enough to be sharing those tips and
1:03.6	tricks with you this week now if the idea of that doesn't get you hot under the collar I don't
1:09.5	know what will I'm guessing that I'm going
1:11.7	to get a fair few new listeners to the podcast once this goes viral. So if you're new to On the Ledge
1:18.1	podcast, hello, I'm Jane Perron, your host. I've been growing house plants since I was a little
1:23.6	kid, but I'm always finding there's more to learn. And that's what I love about doing this podcast, because my listeners and I go on this incredible journey of learning about
1:32.4	our houseplants. If this is the first episode you've listened to, I'd advise you to go back
1:37.6	and browse through the back catalogue. There's loads of gems in there, including an interview with
1:42.7	the legendary gardener Alice Fowler,
1:44.9	a whole episode on watering, another one on tips for buying houseplants and loads more.
1:50.1	I'll put links to some of my highlights in the show notes at janeprone.com, so do check it out.
1:55.9	And of course, those of you who've been here since the start or joined somewhere along the way,
2:01.4	of course,
2:06.9	greetings to you too. You wouldn't miss this episode, would you? Well, it's nearly time to crack on with our interview with James Wong, but just a couple of teeny housekeeping bits of business
2:12.0	to clear up first. Welcome to this week's new Patreon subscribers, Aditya and June. You are both now legends. Well done. And you'll be joining the ranks of those who will be able to get extra Mr Wong. I'll be putting the vast majority of my interview with James here on the main podcast for everyone to listen to for free, but I like to offer a little extra
2:35.9	something for those of you who are pledged to give five bucks or more. And for these people,
2:41.8	there's an episode of an extra leaf available now. Extra Leaf number nine contains an interview
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