4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Do you remember that one key moment when you realised you wanted - or needed - to be surrounded by plants? In popular science writer Ruth Kassinger’s book Paradise Under Glass: The Education of an Indoor Gardener, she chronicles her transformation from very reluctant gardener to the keeping of a verdant conservatory - what she calls ‘her personal tropical paradise’.
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0:00.0 | I'm Jane Perrone and this is the podcast where we talk about plants, house plants. |
0:29.5 | In this week's show, I'm talking to author Ruth Cassinger about her book Paradise Underglass, |
0:36.7 | and I'm introducing the first part of the On the Ledge Sew Along. |
0:40.7 | We'll be finding out where to source your seeds. |
0:43.9 | And finally, I'll be answering a question about mould. |
0:48.3 | Yes, mould. |
0:52.7 | I've been bowled over by the response to my appeal to get a hundred people to support me on Patreon in time for my 100th episode because, well, we're on episode 87, but I've already broken that target with 102 patrons. |
1:09.6 | Yippee! Thank you to my new patrons this week, Matthew, Harry, |
1:14.8 | Bogg Mossington, Wendy, Amy, Michelle, Joe, Rebecca and Callum, who've all become leg ends. And to Julia |
1:23.2 | for upping her pledge to become a legend from a crazy plant person. |
1:28.8 | I wouldn't be able to do this without you guys. |
1:31.1 | So thank you very much to all of you. |
1:33.5 | And in the very near future, |
1:35.5 | you will be receiving the exclusive digital artwork |
1:38.9 | that I've promised to my patrons |
1:41.4 | as a celebration of that reaching that 100 mark. |
1:45.8 | And I've decided that I need to set a new target for my 100th episode, |
1:49.8 | given how well it's been going already. |
1:52.4 | So I've been thinking hard about this, |
1:54.2 | and I've decided that I've got to go ambitious on this one. |
1:57.6 | So I'm thinking I'm going to try to get 200 patrons in time for my 100th episode. |
2:06.3 | Oh, that sounds like a bit of a scary goal. But look at it this way. Even if you just pledge a dollar a |
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