Ellen and C.L. talk about three interesting edibles from the True Leaf Market catalog, explain what they’re working on and catch up with some listener emails. They end by talking about seven seed starting tips offered by our friends at Gardeners Supply Company, and invite listeners to join them at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle.

:30 What’s For Dinner: Our top picks from the True Leaf Market catalog

7:23 Eat/Drink/Grow:   What's new with the Plantrama team.

19:46 Insider Information: 7 tips for seed starting

We’re talking about garlic and crabapples, plants that are new to our hearts, and some interesting research on bulbs done at Cornell University. Plus some words of appreciation for all of our listeners…Plantrama people are the best!

 See the bulb research information here.

:27 What’s For Dinner: What C.L.and Ellen love for tasty meals.

5:14 Eat/Drink/Grow:   New Plants…new to us, that is.

15:21 Insider Information:   Bulb research from Cornell University

23:03 Love Letters and Questions:  We’re entering a dormant period, but here’s our shout out to all of our listeners.

Have you seen the photo of plastic forks, tines up, in the garden? Wondering about spraying fertilizer on the leaves of plants to give them added nutrients? And how about that auto-flowering type of Cannabis…should you be harvesting in July?

:36    True or False:  Plastic forks in the garden?
7:21   Eat/Drink/Grow:  Foliar feeding.
18:20  Love Letters and Questions:    Manny asks about Cannabis

Learn about eating juniper berries, bodacious begonias, pots for orchids and keeping cats away from plants.

:30 What’s For Dinner:  Juniper berries

6:49 Eat/Drink/Grow: Growing Begonias

17:50 Insider Information:  Do you need special orchid pots for your orchids?

20:40 Love Letters and Questions:    Mark: My cat continues to want to climb my large monstera and dracanea plants!

Link to American Begonia Society:  https://www.begonias.org/

In this episode Ellen and C.L. discuss the herb that gets no respect, parsley. We also talk about planning garden trips for the spring, what evergreens will grow in containers on a balcony, and providing supports for indoor plants.

:28  What’s For Dinner:  Parsley.

6:42   Eat/Drink/Grow: Plan a garden trip for next spring or summer.

13:55   Insider Information:  Plant supports for indoor plants

22:36   Love Letters and Questions:  Yolanda wrote to ask what evergreen she might plant in a large pot on an apartment balcony.

C.L. and Ellen explain that succulents are easy to propagate, and talk about why we should care about the life cycle of insects. The episode ends with a discussion about collecting rainwater for houseplants.

:30   Plant Noob:   How to propagate succulents  
9:41       Eat/Drink/Grow:   Life cycle of most insects…
18:42   Love Letters and Questions:   Paul writes: “A friend told me that I should be collecting rainwater for my houseplants.  True?”

For better or worse, in this episode Ellen and C.L. are delving into Pumpkin Spice. We start talking about allspice, and then do a deep dive into the plants that produce the flavors in the most popular seasonal latte offered at local coffee shops.  

:30   True or False:    Allspice is a mix of several spices.
3:44  Eat/Drink/Grow: Where do real pumpkin spices come from?
22:32   Love Letters and Questions    Megan writes to ask if dried herbs and spices can go bad.

Painted pumpkin faces in our illustration were done by our friend, artist and illustrator John Sullivan.

We’re celebrating fall with autumnal beverages, talking about applying fertilizer in the fall, and discussing cleaning up houseplants when you bring them back indoors.

:31   True or False: Winter is a good time to fertilize gardens.

4:38  Eat/Drink/Grow: Fall Cocktails and other garden or plant-based beverages.   

17:58  The Plant Noob: Cleaning up houseplants when you bring them back inside. Repotting now? Cut back? Fertilize? Insects?

26:24   Love Letters and Questions:   Liz asks about the shownotes.

Kale-tini

For Two Cocktails

2 cups tightly packed kale

1 cup water

juice two limes

4 oz vodka or gin

1 Tbls agave syrup

The Process:  Cut enough kale into pieces to fill a 2-cup measure. Cover these pieces with water and place in a food processor or blender. Puree for a minute.

Strain the solids out of the pureed kale with a fine sieve, pressing with a spatula to get as much juice from the leaves as possible.

Squeeze the limes and add the lime juice, vodka, and agave syrup. Mix well or shake in a mason jar to combine. Pour into glasses over ice. Garnish with a small kale leaf.

It’s time to take stock of the vegetable garden and consider what thrived and which crops were a bust. Ellen and C.L. discuss why Ellen loves to forage for chestnuts, and how she cooks them, plus we answer a question about dandelion foliage in the lawn.  

:35 What’s For Dinner:  Chestnuts!

8:02 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Veggie Garden Wrap Up

22:35 Love Letters and Questions:   Neil emails about the dandelions in his lawn. 

Link to Ellen’s recipe for chestnut soup.

Link to Ellen’s recipe for chestnut mousse.

Hear what plant people mean when they talk about “the canopy,” learn about a must-have book if you grow perennials, and find out what you can do in perennial gardens in the fall. Plus a look at what’s growing in C.L.’s “bunny bin.”

:40   Plant Noob:   What is “the canopy?”   
2:26  Insider Information: the “bunny bin”
5:54  Book Review: Herbaceous Perennial Plants – Fourth Edition by Allan Armitage
10:19 Eat/Drink/Grow:  The perennial garden in autumn.
22:13  Love Letters and Questions:   A shout out to Andree.

In this episode we talk about foraged silverberries, cherry tomatoes, saving seeds, and whether fall is the best time for planting. Ellen and C.L. end with a question from Jenna about possible uses for carrot tops.

:27 What’s for dinner: Silverberry and Cherry Tomatoes
7:27 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Saving Seeds. When to do so, how to save, pros and cons.
16:32 True or False:   Fall is the best time for planting.

22:14 Love Letters and Questions  From Jenna: using carrot tops.

Ellen and C.L. give you ideas for using all of that mint that has exploded in your gardens over the summer. We explain how to keep container plants through the winter without pot or plant death, and answer a listener’s question about transplanting in the fall.

:42 What’s For Dinner: What Can You Do With Mint?
7:43 Eat/Drink/Grow: Keeping Plants in Pots Through the Winter
19:47 Love Letters and Questions:   Sandra emailed to ask if September is a good time to move shrubs.

Learn the truth about calcium and the black blossom end rot on your tomatoes, hear about preserving the herbs you’ve grown, discover a better way to prone large shrubs, and find out why a Cannabis plant isn’t budding.

Our sponsor today is Territorial Seeds.

:40  True or False:  Lack of calcium in the soil causes blossom end rot in tomatoes
8:05  Eat/Drink/Grow: Preserving Herbs
16:42   Insider Information:  Limbing Large Shrubs UP
20:43  Love Letters and Questions:   Cannabis not budding

Ellen and C.L. talk about the difference between raspberries and blackberries, give suggestions for plants that grow well in the tiny spaces in rock walls, and discuss whether you should panic when you see bugs on a plant. We end with a listener’s question about a perennial garden filled with early-summer bloomers.

:30 What’s For Dinner: Raspberries  

6:32 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Plants to grow in Rock Walls 

18:19 Plant Noob: What to assume when you see an insect?

22:24 Love Letters and Questions:  Leddy wonders if the perennials she bought in May can be brought into flower again.

C.L. and Ellen and talk about ways to prepare eggplant, protecting your fall crops from frost, taking cuttings of shrubs and tender plants, and drying white hydrangea flowers.

:47  What’s for dinner:  Eggplant  
11:08  Insider Information:  Protecting fall crops if an early freeze is predicted.
16:56  Eat/Drink/Grow:  Taking cuttings of woody plants and tender perennials.  
26:26 Love Letters and Questions:  Kya writes to ask if she can dry her Hydrangea paniculata flowers

In this episode Ellen and C.L. give you a way to identify grasses, sedges and rushes, we discuss the mildew that you might be seeing on various plants, and answer a listener’s question about where to find unusual plants.

:39  Plant Noob:  Sedges, grasses and rushes.  

9:19 Eat/Drink/Grow:   A deep dive into MILDEW.

23:44  Love Letters and Questions:  Ellen asks where to find the plants we speak about.

Wondering if your zucchini can cross with the neighbor’s pumpkins? Want to know about planting where a tree used to grow? Ellen and C.L. talk about those topics plus finding inexpensive plants for shade and curling tomato leaves. 

 :37  True or False:   Zucchini can cross with pumpkins so that you get weird fruit.  
3:11  Eat/Drink/Grow:  Why a plant might not grow when put near where a tree used to be.
13:27  Plant Noob – Inexpensive plants for shade? An email from Madeline.
16:44 Love Letters and Questions:    Ted asks why on some days the foliage on his tomato plant is curled.

Hear about two cocktails that use edible flowers, learn about the ways vines support themselves or climb structures, and discover how to tell which flowers are male or female on your summer squash. Plus we answer a listener’s question about fall vegetable plantings.

:45 What’s For Dinner: Flower Power Summer Cocktails

6:08 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Vines – how they grow, when to go annual or perennial.

16:07 Insider Information:  How to tell male from female flowers on summer squash

20:42 Love Letters and Questions:  Keri writes saying that she has open areas in her vegetable garden where the plants have finished.

Ellen and C.L. give ideas for making your outdoor office (or Zoom Room) greener. We talk about the maintenance of daylilies, and answer a listener’s question about controlling mosquitos.

:32   Your Outdoor Office: Still working from home? You need greenery.
4:47  Eat/Drink/Grow: A Deep Dive into Daylilies. 
16:58  Love Letters and Questions: Paul asks if there is a natural way to help control mosquitos and if some plants really repel them.

Hear how to use all the summer squash from your garden, learn about the new foraging calendar from Amber Lotus Publishing, and listen to Ellen give her top plants for foraging in the Midwest and Northeast. In our main segment we’ll talk about why a plant might change growth habits, or develop different foliage and flower colors.

1:30  What’s for dinner:   It’s zucchini mania!

8:45   Insider Information:  Ellen’s Backyard Foraging Calendar is out!

11:32 Eat/Drink/Grow:   Why some plants “revert” changing growth patterns or color

20:31   Love Letters and Questions: Sara asks if Ellen will name her top 5 plants to forage for in the Northeast or Midwest

Order Ellen's calendar here: 

https://www.amberlotus.com/backyard-foraging-2021-wall-calendar

Wondering why your salad, broccoli or radishes are flowering? Thinking that the houseplants you put out for the summer aren’t looking fantastic? Learn about attractively arranging houseplants outside, summer orchid care, what “bolting” means in the veggie garden, and a good time to transplant a tree. 

:30  Plant Noob:  Why some vegetables “bolt”
8:53 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Summer orchid care, houseplants at summer camp, and using indoor plants for outdoor décor
22:55   Love Letters and Questions    Fred writes that he wants to move a small maple tree that was planted in the wrong place.

Ellen and C.L. discuss whether the use of mulch robs the soil of nitrogen, and we take a dive into the Polygonaceae family…smart weeds and knotweeds. We give you the scoop on two informative webinars for anyone interested in growing hydrangeas, and answer a question about the odd, jelly-like forms that a listener has found on some junipers.

1:42  True or False: Mulch robs the soil of nitrogen.     
6:21  Eat/Drink/Grow: Is your weed smart or knot? 
12:31   Insider Information: Hydrangea webinars given by C.L.    
16:33  Love Letters and Questions: Aliens in the juniper!   

With thanks to our Dramm, our sponsor. Find their great products at RainWand.com 

The Virtual Hydrangea classes that C.L. recorded are: Mopheads and Lacecap Hydrangeas, and  https://bit.ly/panicle_smooth Hydrangeas.

This episode will inspire you to make an omelet using vegetables you’ve grown or foraged for. Ellen and C.L. take a deep dive into peonies and all the questions people have about them not flowering, when to move them, how to control mildew and more. Finally, we clue you in about the fascinating (and mostly harmless) round growths on oak leaves, and advise a listener about the use of soap in the garden. 

:33 What’s For Dinner   Omelet Ideas, Farmed and Foraged 
6:36  Eat/Drink/Grow: Peonies They’re finished flowering but you’ve got questions!
21:35 Insider Information: Oak Galls
25:19 Love Letters and Questions: My wife likes putting Irish Spring soap in our vegetable garden…

If you’re wondering about growing blackberries or raspberries, want to know how to use a hoe for weed control or how to pinch your cannabis plants for bushy growth, this episode will help. Plus foraging for pineapple weed and growing pineapple sage.

:35    What’s for dinner:    Pineapple weed, pineapple sage

6:32  Insider Information:  When to use a hoe to control weeds in vegetable/annual/perennial gardens.   

9:33  Eat/Drink/Grow:   Brambles!    Black raspberries, blackberries, raspberries

22:53 Love Letters and Questions:  Tim writes to ask about pinching cannabis plants grown outside.

C.L. and Ellen have suggestions for edible flower petals, whether you want to use them for visual or taste appeal. Hear a discussion about taproots - what are they and what they mean for you – and hear if you need to be concerned about crop rotation.

:38 What’s For Dinner: Flowers petals!

5:53 Eat/Drink/Grow: Tap roots.

20:18 Love Letters and Questions: Amanda asks: “Can you recommend any books or reliable resources for crop rotation?

Ellen and C.L. talk about the possibility of pruning to reduce a plant’s size, plus information about milkweed.  We discuss pine needles in compost and how to keep a hanging basket looking great.

With thanks to our sponsor at Rainwand.com 

1:15      Plant Noob:     Can I make my shrub or tree smaller?

8:49      Eat/Drink/Grow: A deep dive into Milkweed.

17:15    True or False:   Putting pine needles in a compost bin.

19:39    Love Letters and Questions:  How to take care of a flowering hanging basket.

How to germinate milkweed seeds information here. 

This episode addresses if eggshells are beneficial in a veggie garden, along with roses: fertilizing, deadheading, insects and diseases. Plus a question about the tall verbena.

 :30  True or False:    Eggshells are good for the vegetable garden.

4:31 Eat/Drink/Grow:   Roses in early summer.  

25:16 Love Letters and Questions:      From Billie about Verbena bonariensis

If you’re wondering if you can still plant vegetables, or you’re seeing your new plants being eaten, this episode is for you. Learn what to do about holes and bites out of young plants, hear how to repot houseplants now, and find out which indoor plants should be sent “to summer camp.”

:39  What’s For Dinner  Planting in early June
5:00  Eat/Drink/Grow: Seeds that don’t germinate, seedlings that disappear, and young plants that are being eaten.
19:29   Insider Information: Repotting houseplants.
23:25   Love Letters and Questions:  A question from Bailey about putting a Norfolk Island Pine outside for the summer.

Hear about eating unripe apricots and growing the tiny, tasty cucamelons. Learn how to plant for better weed management, discover the exotic, fragrant Brugmansia plant and learn what thinning seedlings is all about.

:33  What’s for dinner:    Unripe Apricots and cucamelons.
7:04 Insider Information:  Planting for easier weed management.
13:43  Eat/Drink/Grow: Growing Brugmansia, aka Angel’s Trumpets
19:44   Love Letters and Questions:    Kipper wonders what “thinning” means.

Ellen and C.L. talk about how often plants need fertilizer, and several flowering vines  you should know and grow. They review a product that treats poison ivy and poison oak and Ellen explains the difference between elderberry shrubs.

:38   True or False:    I need to fertilize all my gardens every year, right?
8:43    Eat/Drink/Grow:  Flowering Vines  
17:37  Product Review:  Zanfel for Poison Ivy/Poison Oak
20:51  Love Letters and Questions   From one of the attendees of the Northweest Flower and Garden show: What’s the difference between the blue and purple elderberry flowers?

Learn when to cut back lavender, how to grow herbs in pots, and why your perennials may need dividing. Discover where to plant herbs. Hear about pruning lilacs and wisteria, brought to you by Dramm Rainwands.

:28   Plant Noob:  Dividing perennials  - how, why and when.
9:13   Eat/Drink/Grow:  Herb Garden Questions from the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival
20:57  Love Letters and Questions:  When should I prune lilacs and wisteria.

:32  What’s For Dinner  Dandelion Flowers

4:51   Eat/Drink/Grow:  The Edible Landscape – Vegetable Gardens and Perennial Edibles aka “Foodscaping”

21:35    Love Letters and Questions: I have a plant that won’t flower.

In this episode, brought to you by Dramm Rainwands, we talk about eating dandelion flowers, foodscaping, and what to do with a plant that won’t flower. Is fertilizer the answer?

Learn about planting in galvanized containers, if hyacinth beans are edible, and underplanting trees with shrubs. Hear Ellen and C.L.’s picks for their three top garden ingredients for cocktails, what plants like coffee grounds, and C.L.’s favorite variety of kale. Plus more questions that came in from the audience at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. 

:40 Just For Fun: Galvanized containers for plants.

5:25 Eat/Drink/Grow: Questions from Seattle Flower Show

16:04 Love Letters and Questions What is your favorite kale and why? And, Coffee grounds for plants?

This episode was recorded live at our appearance at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. This week, the second part of our talk on Flower Power and the Cocktail Hour. In this episode we give examples of flower-fueled cocktails you can make.

This episode was recorded live at our appearance at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. This week, the first part of our talk on Flower Power and the Cocktail Hour. We discuss great plants and how to create a flower-filled environment for gathering in the evening.

Ellen and C.L. discuss ways to use the mint you grow, the basics of harvesting garlic, and ways of supporting vegetables and newly planted trees. Plus we answer a listener’s question about spraying fertilizer directly onto foliage.

:33   What’s for dinner:  Mint beyond mojitos   
4:12    Insider Information:  Harvesting Garlic
17:46  Eat/Drink/Grow:  Plant supports.
26:40  Love Letters and Questions: Karen asks about spring fertilizer directly on plants.

In this episode Ellen and C.L. tackle a myth about box stores selling plants that have been raised with neonicotinoids, we discuss the amazing bamboo, and answer a question about saving a houseplant.

:34 True or False:   Box store plants are raised using neonicotinoids

4:54 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Bamboo

20:25 Love Letters and Questions: A listener asks if her money tree houseplant can be saved

Be inspired to make lettuce wraps for dinner, hear about growing coriander, and learn about plant pheromones. Plus hear how Ellen and C.L. advise Don about his ugly junipers.

:32  What’s For Dinner: “Lettuce Wraps”
4:30  Eat/Drink/Grow: Coriander
14:44   Insider Information: What are plant pheromones?20:09   Love Letters and Questions: Don asks what to do with ugly junipers.

This podcast will inspire you to create more chopped salads, explain leaf spot fungus, and provide a list of plants that will attract hummingbirds. We also explain some flower terminology and answer a curious listener’s email.

:40 What’s for dinner: “Chopped Salad”

5:18 Insider Information: Leaf spot fungus.

17:00 Eat/Drink/Grow: Plants to Attract Hummingbirds    

22:08 Did You Know:  Difference between a single, semi-double, and double flower forms.

25: 08 Love Letters and Questions: Meg writes: What does CL stand for?”

:32 Plant Noob: How to make your own plant-able pots for starting seeds in.

5:57 Eat/Drink/Grow: Perennials that don’t spread very much.

16:21 Product Review: Book: Growing Weed in the Garden by Johanna Silver

22:15 Love Letters and Questions Pippa asks about using products that make houseplants have shiny leaves.

Link to the YouTube video about making square newspaper pots:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlGQP81yfo

The list of perennials we covered:

Peony (Paeonia)

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Stokes aster (Stokesia laevis)

Monkshood (Aconitum)

Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)

Bugbane (Actaea racemosa)

Agastache ‘Blue Fortune' (Agastache foeniculum ‘Blue Fortune’)

In this episode C.L. and Ellen discuss research into growing plants in salty soils, aerating lawns with spiky shoes, and a plant that’s a three some. We end explaining why it’s possible to have too much manure in your soil.

:47    Did You Know: From the world of Plant Science: salty soils
3:50  True or False: You can aerate your lawn by walking on it with golf shoes.  
7:57 Eat/Drink/Grow:   Lichen: The plant that’s a threesome?  
14:44 Love Letters and Questions:   Tim writes, “Is it possible to have too much manure in your garden soil?”  

Link to the article about salty soils and bacteria: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/byu-scientists-discover-way-to-make-crops-grow-in-salt-damaged-soil

Get inspired to make a spring salad containing flower petals, hear about how a native plant in one area might be invasive elsewhere, and learn about a lemon-scented herb. The episode ends with a question about coconut coir. 

:31 What’s For Dinner: Spring tonic salads

4:28 Eat/Drink/Grow: A plant that’s native in one place (and oh-so-beneficial) might be harmful in another location.

13:01 Insider Information: All about the herb called Lemon Balm.

17:38 Love Letters and Questions Cory wants to know what coconut coir is used for.

This episode of Plantrama gives you a heads up about two great plants, talks about what happens when people find a new plant and want to either patent it or otherwise bring it to market. We end with advise for Helen about her boxes in San Francisco.

:30 Insider Information – Plant Reviews:   Burpee Silky Sweet Hybrid turnip and Agastache ‘Glowing Embers’ from High Country Gardens

6:01 Eat/Drink/Grow: What to do if you’ve found/discovered a new plant.

19:24 Love Letters and Questions: Helen writes to ask for our suggestions for plants in her boxes in San Francisco. She says, “Currently I have dead chrysanthemum plants in there and wanted something that would be more permanent.”

Discover why you should grow Cannas, hear about easy perennials to grow from seed (more plants!), and learn about the wild wintergreen plant…teaberry flavor from a foraged berry?

:28 Plant Noob: Cannas – how, when, where, why.  We mention ordering from Brent and Becky's Bulbs.

8:56 Eat/Drink/Grow: The easiest Perennials to grow from seed.  

20:31 Love Letters and Questions: Nathan emailed us to ask about wintergreen berries.  

Ellen and C.L. provide the 1-2-3 steps to planting window boxes, discuss some really bad plant advice seen online, talk about easy vegetables to grow from seed, and answer a question about winter protection.

:35 Plantrama 1 2 3: I want to put window boxes on the front of my house.

8:20 True or False:   Putting used diapers in the bottom of a hanging basket!

11:20 Eat/Drink/Grow:   Easiest Vegetables to Grow From Seed

20:22 Love Letters and Questions:   Harry asks ”Is it too late to wrap plants?”

In this episode you’ll learn how to make fritters (vegan and not), discover annuals that are easy to grow from seed, and hear about two opportunities to connect with your Plantrama hosts, live in 2020.

:28 What’s For Dinner: Fritters Foraged and Farmed  

Ellen’s Fritter recipe here.

6:50 Eat/Drink/Grow: Easiest Annuals To Grow From Seed    

21:31  Love Letters and Questions: Two opportunities to meet us and learn more about plants.

Northwest Flower and Garden Show

GardenComm Save the Date for the annual meeting in 2020.

Ellen and C.L. talk about a common insect that causes damage in many vegetable gardens: flea beetles. Next they address questions and issues that arise when houseplants have been put outside for the summer, review an inspiring new book, and answer Ryan’s question about possible ground cover crops for weed suppression in flower farms.

:28 Plant Noob: Flea beetles  

7:37  Eat/Drink/Grow:  So your houseplants are out for Summer Camp

18:12 Book Review:  The Urban Garden

22:12  Love Letters and Questions: From Ryan about weed control in a flower farm.

You can make a lasagna without pasta! We offer several ideas. Plus we explore seed starting terms such as thinning, damping off and seed leaves, and end with a discussion about the succulent flapjack plant (Kalanchoe thyrsiflora).

:30 What’s For Dinner:   Lasagna without the pasta.
5:26   Eat/Drink/Grow: Thinning, damping off, and “seed leaves” – some seed starting basic terms.
18:41  Love Letters and Questions Emma writes about a flapjack plant.

This episode starts with talk about bitters, what they are, why you want them in a cocktail, and how to make your own. We go on to talk about the basics for making a terrarium and end with a question from a listener about using heat mats for starting seeds.

:30 What’s for dinner: Bitters.  The link to Ellen's Recipes for bitters.

9:07 Eat/Drink/Grow:   Terrariums

23:57 Love Letters and Questions: Hannah writes, “Do I need to use heat mats?”

We begin this episode with the types of roses that are available for gardens, and which are the easiest to grow. Next we discuss the cottony bug that plagues many houseplants, the mealy bug. And we end with a question from a listener about the sensitive plant, a mimosa with leaves that close when you touch them.

:29 Plant Noob: The types of roses.

9:30 Eat/Drink/Grow:  Mealy Bug.

17:12 Love Letters and Questions Byron writes that he’s a parent and wants to find some Sensitive Plant for his kids.