London - Talking to your plants is supposed to be good for them.
But if you really want the best blooms, you should blast them with heavy metal music.
That’s the unlikely finding of a study by horticultural students who tested the effects of music on plants.
TV gardener Chris Beardshaw told Gardeners’ Question Time on Radio 4 that a constant diet of Black Sabbath worked wonders – but plants exposed to Cliff Richard songs all died.
He said: “We had one greenhouse that was silent and we had one that was played classical music, one that was played Cliff Richard and one that was played Black Sabbath.
“The ones with Black Sabbath – great big, thumping noise, rowdy music – they were the shortest, but they had the best flowers and the best resistance to pest and disease.
“Those in the Cliff Richard house all died. Sabotage was suspected but we couldn’t prove it,” he said. - Daily Mail