Episode 72: Dutch houseplant adventures part one
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
I recently visited the Netherlands as a guest of The Joy of Plants; it was an informative and fun trip, and a brilliant opportunity to understand the fascinating world of Dutch ornamental plant production. This week I’m talking about the plants I saw at the Flora Holland trade show during day one of the visit - next week I’ll cover the greenhouse growers we visited. Former OTL guest (I think we can now call him a regular…) James Wong was there too so we got to geek out over houseplants together - fun!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Jane Perrone, the host of this very same podcast all about house plants. It's on the ledge. |
| 0:28.2 | This week I'm bringing you part one of my adventures in the Netherlands. Now, my son, when I told him I was going to the Netherlands, |
| 0:39.4 | thought I was going to a place called the Nether in Minecraft, which is one of his current |
| 0:44.7 | obsessions. I had to explain that, no, it's not a virtual world within his Xbox, but it's |
| 0:50.3 | actually a genuine real place. But specifically, I was visiting a place not that far from Amsterdam called Alcimer, |
| 0:58.4 | where there are many greenhouses packed with wonderful plants that I wanted to see. |
| 1:04.2 | So this week we'll be hearing about my adventures at the Flora Holland Trade Show at Alasemir, |
| 1:09.9 | which is a brilliant, enormous, gigantic show |
| 1:13.9 | filled with all kinds of companies promoting their house plants. I went with the joy of plants, |
| 1:21.2 | which is kind of like the outreach arm of the Flower Council of Holland promoting Dutch growers of plants. |
| 1:29.1 | Just to be totally transparent, they paid for my flight and a night's hotel room, |
| 1:33.9 | but they didn't pay me to go along. |
| 1:36.0 | And of course, they've had absolutely no control over what comes out in this podcast. |
| 1:41.2 | So it's all my very own unique thoughts,iltered by anybody else i'm sure you'll be |
| 1:46.9 | delighted to hear oh and you'll also be hearing from my old buddy james wong who was also on the |
| 1:54.2 | trip so i've got some audio of us chatting about houseplants at the show yes we do sound like two kids in a candy store, I'm afraid to say. |
| 2:07.8 | So this week I'm going to be bringing you some of the trends, the plants and the people I met at the show. |
| 2:15.4 | Next week, I'll take a look at the nurseries that I visited and what I |
| 2:19.8 | discovered there. Also in this episode, I'm answering a really fascinating listener question that |
| 2:25.6 | had me completely stumped when I first heard it. So I shared the question with Facebook group |
| 2:31.9 | members of house plant fans of On the ledge and as usual you came up |
| 2:35.8 | trumps with lots of answers so listen out for that a bit later if you happen to live in europe then |
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