'Audrey' from 'Little Shop of Horrors.' We've ALL been there, LOL!
Posted on 09/06/2025 2:41:04 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The belief in talking to plants has existed for centuries. Ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks and indigenous cultures, believed that plants responded to energy, emotion, and sound. In the 1840s, German professor Gustav Fechner suggested that plants might have feelings, laying the foundation for a more spiritual relationship between humans and nature.
By the 1970s, the book The Secret Life of Plants popularized the idea that plants could react to music, emotions, and verbal communication. Although some claims were controversial, they triggered scientific curiosity that continues today.
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True or false? Have fun, flame away
Cleve Backster had some thoughts on this...
My plant pretty much died on me. I gave into a mystic woman and it came back to life. She did nothing but left it hanging on a hook. Perhaps I drowned it with too much water but I could tell it didn’t like me-can’t blame it.
Just be worried if the plants talk back
I remember this nonsense back in the 1960s. The claim was made by Vaughn Meader, a comemidan who gave us the spoofs of JFK the 1962 comedy record “The First Family”, and was said to have started the “CAROLINE, CLOTHE YOUR HORSE!” when JFK was in the White House. Hard to believe it but 35 thousand people signed a petition for Caroline to “CLOTHE YOUR HORSE!”
Only the old timers who remember those years will know what I am talking about.
And if they decide they don’t like you. At all.
Gardening *ping*
Audio Adrenaline's song Houseplant Song was a take on preachers a decade prior slamming rock n roll using a paper written by Dorothy Retallack that rock n roll harms plants. LOL In 1986 my youth pastor planned to take us to the Mylon Lefevre and Broken Heart concert, the head pastor got wind of it and stopped it. The youth pastor told those of us old enough to drive to take the others, which we did. LOL That Sunday the head pastor had a sermon based on Retallack's paper about how wrong loud Christian music was.
The funny thing was that for the closing hymn, the music director had us sing from the hymn book a song recorded by Elvis called Without Him ... written by Mylon Lefevre. LOL
To this day a lot of us are some of the most dedicated Bible readers and church volunteers in different churches. Every now and then we talk about that concert 4 decades ago being one of the main things encouraging us.
What if it says, “Feed me!”?
Linked to our Garden Thread. Thanks for the ping!
Not only do I TALK to my houseplants - they all have NAMES. I have had a number of them for decades. ‘Audrey.’ “Miss Peach.’ ‘Bubba.’ ‘Pegasus.’ ‘Jane.’
All are thriving. :) So, I am on the ‘pro-talk to your plants side!’
I would like to meet Bubba!
Isn’t this something the hippies did in their communal garden plots?
“...What if it says, “Feed me!”...?”
...Then you name it Audrey 3.
Don’t know about plants, but we can confirm that talking to leftists totally doesn’t work.
That’s the most common cause of people “killing plants.” My mom taught me that when I took on my first houseplants when I was in college.
I learned to tell by looking at the leaves when it was time to water them.
'Audrey' from 'Little Shop of Horrors.' We've ALL been there, LOL!
Post #16! :)
‘Bubba’ is a MONSTROUS Jade Plant that I bought in a 3” pot ages ago when I worked for Jung’s.
He’s well over 3 feet tall and wide, now. I DREAD the next time I need to re-pot him; that’s going to be an All Hands On Deck adventure!
‘Miss Peach’ is a Christmas Cactus (who blooms as she sees fit!) who sits right next to him. I think they’re in L-U-V. They’re both ‘succulents’ but from opposite sides of the tracks. I’ll never separate them! Hence:
“I...I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart...”
LOL!
Plants feed off carbon dioxide. Hence, it’s not the sound of your wonderful voice, but your exhale that helps them.
Nevertheless, it appears this kind of attribution to plants is as old as the hills and part of pagan beliefs. It seems to be a fundamental of anthropology and theorized to be how people attempt to figure out and survive in the world around them when there is no benefit of education - as in paleolithic times.
Lots on this subject in the Golden Bough by Frazer. Will help you understand the lunacy of eco freaks.
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