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Just "listening again" to gardeners question time when a question came up from the audience regarding talking to plants

I do.

But it's mostly by accident. I'll wander round the garden and say things like "ooh - look how much you've grown" and "wow - what pretty flowers you've got" and (sadly) "oh dear you don't look very happy".

I never mean to. I talk to myself a lot, so I suppose it's just an extension of that. (I also talk to my computer, dinner when it's cooking, my bag when I can't find my keys.) hmm. ok worried about my sanity (or lack thereof) now.

Not normally, but I have an apple tree which for some reason did not set fruit for years. This spring my wife and I stood looking at it and I said "If it doesn`t fruit this year it`s coming down".  And this year it`s been smothered in excellent apples.

Absolutely, yes...but not sure to what effect other than to make the lottie neighbours think I'm crazy! :o
Was planting  loganberry and tayberry bushes this weekend and wished them well as I planted them then found myself apologising to them as I pruned them back!!
Plottie

Yup!  And me dad!!  And the bugs!!!  And the birds!!!!  Even passing aeroplanes!!!!!

Mum always told me 'empty vessels make the most noise', so that about sums me up!

Yep another natterer here!! I talk to anything that moves, come to think of it, I talk to anything that doesn't move too.  :-[ Gave my dining room table a good ticking off the other day when I stubbed my toe on one of its legs. Stupd thing jumped right out in front of me - honest!!  ;) ;)

I love talking to my plants at least they can't walk away when I get boring.  :P  Every time I buy seeds or plants I wish them a long and happy life and yes I apologise to them too when I have to prune them.  ;D

Eileen.

Come to think of it - don't all gardeners talk to their plants? Gardening, surely, is about communicating with plants (even if not in the literal talking sense). We have to check if they need more water or feed, or some pest or disease removed, or moving to a different place or pruning. When we check we are looking for signs of things that the plant is telling us (floppy or pale leaves, holes where something's eaten it, etc). Surely that's communicating. Therefore I theorize that all good gardeners need to be able to talk 'plant'!

Oh goodie, glad I am not the only one! ;D

I suppose I dont consiously do it. But sometimes yes. Occasionally to nurtureand praise, sometimes to scold or boss around (if they are misbehaving  ;D), but most often just to avoid being caught talking to myself!!!  

Yes I do as well,
Best of all a lady lives one side of me and a married couple the other. Both pesioners and they talk to plants etc but the hubby does not so he shouts over who are you talking to now then laughs and says your just like the wife.
Lovely to live in a place where people understand you.

Voted yes in this one but is more a case of wine.. soz not wine I meant a case of them telling me things.. although I dont hear voices as such.. is just a communication thang I have going on wiv me plants.. not just the plants either.. i find things in the wind and the calm.. see all sorts of mad and wonderful things, love it when the garden is busy.. and remember last year when a huge load of fying black ants swarmed me back gardey.. absolutely brilliant it was.. found out after that flying black ants are the mature adults, and that they mate in the air and the queens head down to the ground and burrow in and so it all begins again... bad news for adam ant though cus soon after mating he pegs it as does roger and william.. am just guessing what names male ants actually have..  sure they do.. but dont reckon there is an ant called cuthbert, but may be wrong as I am babbling.. so will hit post..

Ozzy

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I agree with Aqui, you must communicate with your garden i talk to my plants whether they like it or not ;D ;D ;D.
Seriously though i feel you get more out of them, they certainly let us know when something is wrong.
I rescued a lovely white rose many years ago, when we first moved to this village,somebody had thrown it on a heap  :o and i was out walking and had a rummage.
It still flowers lovely to this day, and i always say to it in the spring
shall we have another year of lovely flowers. ::)