<p>Your plants might not understand your language, but they are sure to catch your accent!<br /><br />A new unique experiment has concluded that plants like being spoken to - and are particularly partial to a Geordie accent.<br /><br />Essex and Welsh tones also bear fruit, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />The experiment, carried out at an Essex nursery, found that for reasons only known to themselves, plants don’t like upper-class accents.<br /><br />Prince Charles, who in 1986 was widely ridiculed for telling how he liked to talk to his plants, should also perhaps garden in silence, the report said.<br /><br />Gardening website owner Chris Bonnett began by creating ten groups of bedding plants, each containing around 100 plants, and placing them in different areas of his nursery.<br />He and his staff started to speak to the plants in a variety of accents.</p>.<p>Appropriate TV programmes and songs were also played. In all, eight UK accents were <br />tried, along with American and Australian ones.<br /><br />However, it was the Newcastle accent that triumphed, with these plants growing almost 10 per cent more than some others.</p>.<p>“It’s long been thought that plants thrive if you talk to them so we decided to find out once and for all which dialects they respond to best,” Bonnett said.<br /><br />“After just a few weeks we started to see differences emerging with the Geordie and Welsh groups shooting up while the Chelsea and Mancunian plants seemed to particularly struggle.<br /><br />“We kept all other variables as constant as possible. So the plants all had the same amount of sunlight, water and nutrients,” he said.<br /><br />“By the end of the summer it was clear that the accents had a huge effect. There was, more or less, average growth across the Australian, Liverpudlian, Yorkshire and American groups.<br /><br />“The Geordie and Welsh groups visibly thrived and displayed enhanced growth while the Scottish, Chelsea and Mancunian plants were stunted,” Bonnett added.<br /></p>
<p>Your plants might not understand your language, but they are sure to catch your accent!<br /><br />A new unique experiment has concluded that plants like being spoken to - and are particularly partial to a Geordie accent.<br /><br />Essex and Welsh tones also bear fruit, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />The experiment, carried out at an Essex nursery, found that for reasons only known to themselves, plants don’t like upper-class accents.<br /><br />Prince Charles, who in 1986 was widely ridiculed for telling how he liked to talk to his plants, should also perhaps garden in silence, the report said.<br /><br />Gardening website owner Chris Bonnett began by creating ten groups of bedding plants, each containing around 100 plants, and placing them in different areas of his nursery.<br />He and his staff started to speak to the plants in a variety of accents.</p>.<p>Appropriate TV programmes and songs were also played. In all, eight UK accents were <br />tried, along with American and Australian ones.<br /><br />However, it was the Newcastle accent that triumphed, with these plants growing almost 10 per cent more than some others.</p>.<p>“It’s long been thought that plants thrive if you talk to them so we decided to find out once and for all which dialects they respond to best,” Bonnett said.<br /><br />“After just a few weeks we started to see differences emerging with the Geordie and Welsh groups shooting up while the Chelsea and Mancunian plants seemed to particularly struggle.<br /><br />“We kept all other variables as constant as possible. So the plants all had the same amount of sunlight, water and nutrients,” he said.<br /><br />“By the end of the summer it was clear that the accents had a huge effect. There was, more or less, average growth across the Australian, Liverpudlian, Yorkshire and American groups.<br /><br />“The Geordie and Welsh groups visibly thrived and displayed enhanced growth while the Scottish, Chelsea and Mancunian plants were stunted,” Bonnett added.<br /></p>