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🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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I am joined by epiphytic cactus expert Mark Preston to talk about how to take care of Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving cacti, aka Schlumbergera and Rhipsalidopsis. And I answer a question about baby spider plants.
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1:45.0 | Music On The Ledge Podcast is back. It's episode 84 and I am your host, Jane Perrone. You know what? This week I don't know whether it's Christmas or Easter. It may be partly because I've had a week off the podcast and I'm not quite back in the groove yet. But it's also because in this week's show, we're talking about Christmas, Easter and indeed Thanksgiving cacti. |
1:53.3 | I've got expert grower Mark Preston on hand to answer my questions about the differences between these groups of plants and finding out |
2:02.7 | some top tips on how to get them to flower, not drop their buds and generally look fabulous in our |
2:09.4 | homes. This is actually the first part in a two-part interview because Mark had so much interesting |
2:14.7 | stuff to say that I'm bringing him back in episode 85 to talk about |
2:19.7 | the other members of the Ripsalidae clan, that's Hattiora, Ripsalis and Lepysmium. |
2:26.0 | Also in today's show, I'm going to be answering a question about spider plant babies. |
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