Episode 68: preparing your houseplants for winter
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It’s the time of year when we do the houseplant shuffle - that desperate effort to get all the houseplants safely inside before they are ripped apart by winter winds or rendered crinkly with an overnight frost. In this episode I demonstrate how I get a plant ready to come inside, and talk to Norwegian nursery owner and houseplant collector Tommy Tonsberg about how he gets his plants through the long winter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Jane Perrone, your host, and this is the Ledge podcast and this week we're doing the house plant shuffle. |
| 0:28.6 | If you're not particularly familiar with this little dance, it's the thing you do when you've got too many house plants spread around your outside space to fit in your |
| 0:40.1 | inside space. We generally get up to this activity when our other family members aren't looking |
| 0:46.3 | so they don't realise quite how big our collection has got. But we're shoving plants on shelves, |
| 0:51.8 | hanging them from ceilings and covering every available surface |
| 0:55.6 | just to make sure that all our precious houseplants come in from the cold for winter time. |
| 1:01.7 | In this week's episode, I'm giving you a little insight into how I get houseplants ready for winter |
| 1:07.6 | and talking to Tommy Tonzberg, who is rather legendary for his ever-growing |
| 1:13.9 | house plant collection to find out exactly how he gets his houseplants through the harsh Norwegian winter. |
| 1:21.3 | Thanks to everyone who said how much they enjoyed trailing plants week last week, |
| 1:26.2 | our seven mini episodes covering those iconic trailing |
| 1:30.0 | plants from String of Pearls to String of Hearts. And welcome to the podcast. If you're a |
| 1:35.9 | newbie, I've had a lot of new followers on social media this week thanks to a lovely mention by |
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