Training Plants Week here on On the Ledge podcast continues today with Hoyer Liniaris, and this one couldn't be much different from yesterday's

plant, Senesio Rolianus, because it's got the thinnest possible leaves. They're only about one or two

millimeters across, and they're long at about three to five centimetres with a deep groove down

the back. It's almost like they're rolled in on themselves.

And they feel kind of tactile, slightly furry, greyish green, and they hang down in long stems from

the plant. I've heard of somebody getting these up to a metre long, which is pretty impressive.

And it seems very suddenly this plant is on sale all over the shop. And I guess you can

take a mark of its success that you can now buy a fake, an artificial Hoyer linearis from Debenhams in the UK,

which is a department store here. So yep, once you can get a fake one, that means that the real one

is proving very popular.

Now, the Hoyer family or the wax plant family, are lots of the other species in this family,

and there are dozens, if not hundreds of them, look rather different.

You might well know Hoyer Carnosa, the wax plant, with its oval waxy leaves.

The one thing that Hoyer Linaris has in common with the

other members of the wax plant are the flowers. Now on Hoyer Linearis these are pale green buds

opening to white and they have that characteristic star shape that you'll know from anyone who's seen

a Hoyer flower before. I got my cuttings from

James Wong when I visited his a flat for the podcast, as you may remember, and they rooted

fairly easily in the standard way. I stripped off the lower leaves and placed the stem into some

very gritty compost and enclosed the whole thing in a clear plastic bag and away they went very easily.

And mine are planted about how many cuttings have we got here, one, two, four cuttings in a pot. I've already taken

cuttings of these for somebody actually, so they've already been cut back, but they're doing

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