Prince Charles Syndrome?

Hey Guys,

I'm a great Anglophile, and have often read that Prince Charley talks to his plants. I have always--since I was about a six-year-old kid!--
talked to mine. (I once cried for hours because my brother pulled out a 'Wandering Jew' plant that just volunteered under our hose bib, and I would go out each morning before school to see how it had grown the night before!) I also somehow think that they just MIGHT hear me, or in some preordial way there is something built into plants that "feeds" on the sound vibrations, because my plants usually garner comments such as "Why does your 'such and such' do so well and mine are dying?"

Okay...maybe they can't respond, but they are my babies, and I'll talk to them if I want. Does anyone else do this? (Or are the neighbors too close??!!)

My husband walked up last night as I was unpotting some rootbound babies and said, "Who are you talking to?"

sez I, "I thought I checked these fairly well, but this one has so many roots coming out the bottom of the pot I ended up tearing a bunch of them off and I was apologizing."

sez he, "I thought you were talking to one of the cats."

Neither of which either of us find odd. :)

Cool. I don't feel so alone in my "madness"!! I wish I had a cat to talk to....DH doesn't want animals until we retire, which will be about 5 more years!! :(

Connie, Not only do I talk to my beauties but I also give some of them an approving pat on their lovely blooms. My cats and I have long conversations with each other every day and my dog knows everything I say to her. But I draw the line at taling to the tropical fish, they belong to m.d.h. and he does give them instructions when he is trying to net them.
My sister in law threatens the odd new plant that is not thriving as it should. She tells it that if it doesn't start behaving itself she will pull it out and throw it away. She said it always works. LOL. She loves everything in her garden and tells them so and they all do their best for her.

Ferrymead,

Wow...the world of the internet is so wonderful when I can exchange thoughts with someone in New Zealand!! DH and I would love to travel there someday! I see you're in a great zone for plants...do you have pics of your garden? LOL hubby talking to the fish!

I talk to my plants all the time. I take a morning "garden walk" with a cup of coffee, and tell them all how lovely they look. Several years ago, I had some iris that just refused to bloom. So one day, early in the spring, I said to them, "if you all don't bloom this year, you are going in the compost heap, and I'll plant something else in your spot." They produced the biggest, prettiest blooms, I have ever seen. So they are there to this day, even though we don't live there anymore. We own the house and rent it, and the tenant this year commented on how pretty they were. hehehe