{"podcast":{"title":"Our Plant Stories","slug":"our-plant-stories-6074024","podcast_index_feed_id":6074024,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/ourplantstories/","website_url":"https://ourplantstories.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/bf3fc14c-8df1-4dfb-a87c-93bc7cbf9a73/zNWYke224QJFHHBPFVX7edSZ.jpg","author":"Sally Flatman","episode_count":77,"summary":"The Times Newspaper described this podcast as: ‘Innovative and fascinating… a deep dive into the stories about all things plant-related.’ A finalist in both the Independent Podcast Awards and the Garden Media Guild Awards, 'Our Plant Stories' explores how plants often root us to a place or a person, or perhaps a time when we needed the healing power of plants in our lives. Hearing another's passion for a plant, can leave us wanting to grow it and so we always learn how to do this. So whether your passion is for flowers, trees, shrubs, vegetables or houseplants - you will find a story in this podcast. Our Plant Stories is produced and presented by a former BBC Radio Producer: Sally Flatman. If you have a plant story you would like to share, then do contact: sally@ourplantstories.com and take a look at the website www.ourplantstories.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T16:19:21.948532+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024"},"episode":{"title":"Paul's Bananas","slug":"paul-s-bananas","published_at":"2026-06-16T06:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024/paul-s-bananas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024","url":"https://www.ourplantstories.com/episodes/pauls-bananas","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/13f0a8b3-7b87-4c60-8608-68bec6f13b16.mp3","summary":"In 2017 Paul Oldroyd bought a Japanese banana plant. He got it home in the passenger seat of his car. He didn't have a lot of money to spend on plants but he had a very large space to fill. He had taken on a one acre former commercial greenhouse that was six foot deep in thistles. Find out in this episode why that first banana plant has been so important to creating a community space - Oldroyd's Corner - in Beverly East Yorkshire. Maybe you'll want to grow a banana plant by the end of this episode - Paul in conversation with Florence Mansbridge, from the Eden Project will tell you how. Paul's partner, Jo Lax, who listens to Our Plant Stories told me about this garden and I love it when the stories come from listeners. If you have a plant story you would like to share - just get in touch. Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy","meta_description":"In 2017 Paul Oldroyd bought a Japanese banana plant. He got it home in the passenger seat of his car. He didn't have a lot of money to spend on plants but…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1813,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/our-plant-stories-6074024/episodes/paul-s-bananas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024/paul-s-bananas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}