I have recently added to a discussion about my fuchsia plants that were out in the first very cold few days in 2022. They are usually out during the winter but looked as if they had died. So, I put them in a porch and gave them words of encouragement. And I have congratulated them about their green shoots.
I then added a piece to another RG discussion asking if any members either talk to their plants or feel that it is helpful (to the plants as well as the RG member!)
The Royal Horticultural Society has done research into this:
https://www.thespruce.com/should-you-talk-to-your-plants-3972298
and there are other positive thoughts on the subject, just to mention a few:
https://blog.gardenuity.com/talking-to-plants/
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25133531-000-does-talking-or-singing-to-plants-help-them-to-grow-better/
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/should-you-talk-to-your-plants.htm
I would be really interested in your thoughts and will pass the messages on to the fuchsia!
yes!!!
I am not an expert with plants but I often talk to them in the same manner as talking to my pets.
It must be so lonely existing without no one to talk too.
Everyday, I greet them and tell them how lovely they are and thanking them on making my abode extra!
Additionally, feel good talking to them and I am hoping that is ia also helpful in their growth.
Thank you, Prof Ana Monteza
Yes, I agree with you absolutely! I have just been outside and the night is very cold, wet and windy. I come in through the back porch (where the recovering fuchsia plants are) and told all the plants in there that it was such a wintery night and that they were in a much better place than the plants that were still in the back yard!
Yes I talk to my plants because they respond to my voice and this benefit my plants in the sense that it helps them to grow.
Thank you for your contribution, Zandile Montsheng.
Yes, that's how I see it and it appears that I'm not alone in my beliefs about this!
Dear Mary C R Wilson, I believe that plants as well as many animals love to hear talk, and/or listen to music. While it seems obvious for animals that they interact with the voice or with sounds in general, for plants it is a little more difficult to understand. The University of Florence and Pisa have conducted research which has shown that thanks to Mozart's music, the bunches of grapes ripen in advance by removing the parasites, increasing the polyphenols in the skins of the Brunello and therefore the quality of the grapes. Similarly, it has also been found that the Sangiovese plants in the vineyard grow 50% more than normal, limiting the use of chemicals that protect them from pathogenic fungi, insects, and predators. This phenomenon has been known and implemented in various Tuscan vineyards for over ten years. Personally, I talk to all the plants I meet every day since they are the only living beings who have never contradicted me and always prove me right. :)
Thank you, Dr Leonardo Cannizzaro for your very interesting response.
Yes, I'm sure that animals respond to being spoken to and know, by the tone of your voice, what message you are giving them.
We are licensed to look after bats; either rehabilitate them and release them, or look after them if they would not be able to exist in the wild, and my husband takes one to the teaching sessions to the general public that he gives.
We used to have a bat - Common Pipistrelle - that would converse with me and wait until after I had finished speaking before she would respond, at length sometimes. I've no idea what she wanted to tell me! Happily, I think I remember that she was successfully released, where she was found.
But one who can't fly lives with us for teaching purposes and whenever he is being cleaned out, and especially when he has his big tank clean and runs around a rug in the bathroom, watched by my husband, while I clean the tank, he sings like a songbird. You would not believe that it was a Common Pipistrelle bat; another one. This is not like the ultrasonic sounds they emit in the wild that we cannot hear (but children often can) and pick up with a bat detector.
But yes, I do talk to my plants. It keeps me happy and I like to think that it keeps them happy, as well.
I'd be interested in whether there's a way to kill or control weeds by talking to (or yelling at) them.
Prof Dr Karl Pfeifer
Thanks for this; if only they could get the message!
I find myself talking to insect pests on my plants: 'What do you think you're doing? I have sprayed my roses and they should now be 'out of bounds!' to the likes of you!' I'm going to spray you again, with a different spray and in the meantime, I'm going to wipe you off with my fingers!'
I have had a Radermachera sinica for years and it's never flowered. It has yellow flowers in optimum conditions, according to the label that came with it all those years ago. Which thought it had here. So, keep coaxing it!
It looks very healthy, though but I understand from the Internet that it is rare for it to flower as a pot plant.
But I keep encouraging it to give me a flower, PLEASE, little plant!
Ref for picture attachment from the Internet:
https://www.plantsnap.com/plant-encyclopedia/angiosperms/bignoniaceae/radermachera-sinica/
Apologies for me adding these pictures under 2 questions, but because I wanted to add them under the 'natural pictures' question and not many people follow this thread, they appear twice.
Karl Pfeifer
Prescient, very prescient:
https://www.farmingahead.com.au/weeds/news/1359919/sounds-like-some-exciting-weed-killing-research-has-been-unearthed
My fuchsia blew over twice in 24 hours. One time after I had moved them to the other side of the yard and told them that they would be safe and after one blew over again, I moved them right to the end of the row after some large plant pots and before the wall up to the large rhododendron. So, I apologised that one had still succumbed to the dreadful weather and told them that they should be safe in their new resting place.
Mind you, it has been dreadful; blowing in from the sea; it nearly blew us over, just near the sea front!
Dear Doctor
I do like the beauty of nature where there are colored flowers and green trees and green land covered by grasses.
I feel it is charming and enchanting to talk to a beautiful rose and wish be clam and no anger or pain feelings like this beautiful plant. So, it is very nice to tell this nice rose about my inside and my hopes and dreams.
TENHO MUITAS PLANTAS, EM DUAS CASAS, NEM DÁ TEMPO DE CONVERSAR COM VÁRIAS, E ALISAR E SORRIR PARA ELAS, E EU ME ACHARIA MALUCO. .MAS, SILENCIOSAMENTE, TELEPATICAMENTE, ELAS SABENDO OU NÃO, OUVINDO OU NÃO, CONVERSO COM ELAS EM SILÊNCIO, ELOGIO SUA BELEZA QUANDO PASSO PERTO, QUANDO AGOO, QUANDO LAVO AS PLANTAS DE MEUS JARDINS. UMA PERGUNTA INTELIGENTE E QUE PODE LEVAR A TRABALHOS SÉRIOS.
A MIM FAZ BEM ESSA ALEGRIA COM A BELEZA E CONVERSAS SILENCIOSAS COM MINHAS PLANTAS, NO JARDIM E AS PLANTAS DE VASO. E ELAS SEMPRE FICAM CADA VEZ MAIS LINDAS, TEM MUITOS FILHOTES, QUE ESPALHO COM OS AMIGOS, ETC. SE SUA PERGUNTA FOSSE: VOCÊ SENTE QUE EXISTE UMA TROCA DE ENERGIA POSITIVA, NESSA CONVERSA TELEPÁTICA ENTRE VOCÊ E SUAS PLANTAS? EU DIRIA QUE SIM!!
Dear Doctor
Sometimes I feel I need a glooming friend that I can uncover my problems to and feel this friend will keep what I tell secret... I found the best friend is the Jasmin flower in our garden which with its glorious fragrance makes me trust this plant and tell this flower all my complaints.
Dr Sundus F Hantoosh
Thank you for this. We used to use to burn Jasmin incense sticks and it was one of our favourite. I think we still have some. We must get them out again.
Appreciate your response.
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