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I’m now going to play a little concerto for my cucumber

Do veg thrive on Verdi, will flowers blossom if they hear Handel? As The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra release a CD to encourage growth in the garden, Michael Leapman finds out if plants really do love the sound of music.

When Prince Charles told a television interviewer 25 years ago that he was in the habit of talking to his garden plants, and moreover that they responded, some thought he was plain bonkers while others saw it as an engaging eccentricity. The most charitable among us argued that he must have been speaking figuratively.

If you murmur sweet nothings to the nasturtiums, we reasoned, you are likely to be the kind of person to give them the love and care that they need to thrive. You do not have to pretend they are listening. The “response” that Prince Charles detected would be in the way they burgeoned and blossomed, rather than pillow talk from the flower bed.

For although plants are complex and mysterious in many ways, they neither hear nor speak, except in children’s literature. Yet from time to time…

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By Michael Leapman 7:00AM BST 05 Apr 2011

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