Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants

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We're rare plants collectors ourselves, so if you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out and ask. Tony gives helpful advice and his informative expertise explains how to keep your plants healthy, and in tip-top condition. This is one of Tony's biggest bugbears, who says home-made fertilisers are “a total waste of food or total waste of time. It contains essential nutrients like Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium and Fulvic, as well as Amino Acids, to help promote healthy leaves and new growth, strong roots and resilience against disease, the movement of nutrients through the plant and resistance to low temperatures, and soil biochemistry and increased availability and uptake of nutrients.

Well, not many, certainly when it's growing in its native coastal climbs in North and South Carolina, in the United States. So throughout the book, it's really about bringing together science and helping people understand why we do these things, not just telling people to do something, but really getting an understanding for your plants. And once you've broken the, the non-facts down, you can say, 'Okay, well, how do we fertilise our plants?

I could feel that this wasn’t just a wikipedia extract but really the author’s years of experience caring for multiple types of plants (be it indoor, outdoor, common or rare) all summarized into one book with beautiful photos proving that he knows what he is talking about. As for people who are already fairly experienced in these topics (I don’t know how many hours I spent watching Youtube videos on this already), I found a couple parts that I really haven’t heard about before, like the way to propagate Alocasia, I just never looked it up until now and it was super interesting to learn about it.

And the Corybas caudatas is an extremely rare orchid, which my wonderful friend Rogier had bottled it to hold aside and gifted to me a while ago. If you are a novice or have a great passion for houseplants, as I have, in my opionion, this is the best comprehensive houseplant book on the market today.Keith talks to me about his passion for horticulture, his own personal garden and all of his other many exciting interests. The music you heard in this episode was Roll Jordan Roll by the Joy Drops, The Road We Used To Travel by Komiku, and Overthrown by Josh Woodward. Because I think a lot of people think Malaysia's warm, let's put it in the warm and they just rot, they melt. Because I want to have that creative control because newsflash, I'm very controlling when it comes to having the book.

But actually the growers that grow for us, they know that we don't want them it's a waste of plastic, but also it's usually full of rubbish. Not Another Jungle is written by Tony Le-Britton and he shows you, using his own collection, how to grow and care for the world's most sought-after plants.And making sure that they take a plant home that's going to do well in the home that they have where they want to put it.

A lot of those leaves have little fishing wires on them, and there's me lying on the floor, pulling the leaves into the perfect position. Well, it could need watering every two days, if it’s getting optimum levels of light and it’s really warm. Without you, the listeners, this is nothing – and thankfully, because of you – this is very much something. Rogier said don't experiment with it, just leave it in a sandwich bag and put it somewhere that's very low light, and not too warm. And, he might just reveal his favourite RHS garden, although that is a little like choosing your favourite child!What they need is linked to where they grow naturally: “Just because they moved into a two-bedroom semi doesn’t change millions of years of evolution. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.