Talk to them,please

• Guest 649

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  21 March 2009     22:2917873
  #1      
  As you all know part of my income is from working in very big gardens and that is where I have been all this week and again next week.
  Anyway I am asked alot about plants and what to do to help them grow.
  i t was only this week that I was stoped and the person said "Vic I have a big plant in my garden it is growing but each year it does not flower done all the right things in looking after it but it is just not working.
  "Well do you talk to it or sit down beside it and feel it.
  "No I do not the family would think I have gone mad."
  I went on to tell him that if i have plants like that i just talk to them even sing to them and feel them.
  Plants are like us in some ways they get lonely and feel isolated at times, so you must make them feel that they are needed so talk to them and put more plants around them make them feel at home.
  And let me tell you it works works.
  from Vic M
• Guest 640

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  22 March 2009     07:5817881
  #2      
  Yes Vic you do hear some of the experts saying that on TV.
  
  When chatting to plants though one always has to be careful that the neighbours arent watching, because if they are they may very well make attempts to have you certified by the men in white coats. Not everyone understands that plants need chatting up and they might think youve gone totally gaga.
  
  Of course not everyone has the talent to get plants to respond. Remember the song from Paint Your Wagon, sung by Clint Eastwood... it went
  
  "I talk to the trees
  but they dont listen to me"
  
  so poor oul Clint couldnt pull it off!
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 649

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  22 March 2009     09:0017884
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  Yes you are right, but I work in very big garden with over forty trees six lawns big pond and a medow and lots more there are no neighbours, now we are geting ready for our bee keeping, I was down there on saturday for over 10hours it was great and today i am in my own garden I am taking it all apart and renewing it all, some cost with that but I hope after it will look good.
  
  Vic M
• Guest 645

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  22 March 2009     11:1317896
  #4      
  I take it that Vic has resorted too talking to the trees and plants because either a) they are the only living species that will listen to him and his diatribe or b) that they don't answer back or take the mick.
  
  Perhaps Vic should start his own plant life forum where the daffs and tulips can have their say....help me I'm going as daft as Vic....
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  22 March 2009     11:2217897
  #5      
  I have always thought Peonies might offer a superior intellect in the plant world, perhaps on a par with the rather clever Rosemary and Lavender. Fly by night crocus might be a little too shallow for proper debate........
• Guest 673

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  22 March 2009     12:0417900
  #6      
  I remember Terry Wogan introducing the song "I talk to the trees" as being from the musical "Paint your Wogan!"
• Guest 649

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  22 March 2009     19:3617914
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  I have been working in my own garden today,
  yes I was talking to one plant about the sun was out so please will you flower, and you know what I have just been out to it again and it is in flower. .
  
  Vic M
• howard mcsweeney1

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  22 March 2009     20:4017925
  #8      
  sounds like you were stalking it vic.
  
  best if you leave it alone.
• Guest 672

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  22 March 2009     21:1517934
  #9      
  I think it's called Mother Nature Victor plus some nice warm sunshine.
  
  You may be right Howie. were getting close to the root of Vics problems I think.
  
  Ian...
  grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  22 March 2009     23:2917953
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  ian
  you must be using the same cheap scriptwriter as me.
  
  maybe we should club together and buy some decent lines?
• Guest 649

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  22 March 2009     23:3017954
  #11      
  No they are good well done.
  
  Vic M
• Guest 649

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  22 March 2009     23:5517959
  #12      
  My wife has just told me she had a rubber plant and that would not grow, so she said to it "If you do not grow you are going in the bin". having heard this the rubber plant went mad and now is a car tyre, true story lads
  
  Vic M.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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