there you go you sceptics ..those that poo pah that i cannot communicate with my plant life
...jesus..it's a whole new language ..some of you folk might well do to listen to the grasses singing so you would be able to free your mind of all the clutter and rattle and" trattle" that goes on in your minds and actually understand and enjoy the dreamtime... . so so real...and real than real itself ..merle dancing to the tune of" here comes the sun" Rooted in experience: The sensory world of plants (Image: Philippe Sainte-Laudy Photograph/Flickr/Getty) HAVE you ever wondered what the grass under your feet feels, what an apple tree smells, or a marigold sees? Plants stimulate our senses constantly, but most of us never consider them as sensory beings too. In fact senses are extremely important to plants. Whatever life throws at them, they remain rooted to the spot - they cannot migrate in search of food, escape a swarm of locusts or find shelter from a storm. To grow and survive in unpredictable conditions, plants need to sense their environment and react accordingly. Some people may not be comfortable describing what plants do as seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. They certainly lack noses, eyes, ears, mouths and skin, but in what follows, I hope to convince you that the sensory world of plants is not so very different from our own. Daniel Chamovitz SIGHT Like us, plants see light. Just as we have photoreceptors in our eyes, plants have their own throughout their stems and leaves Read more TOUCH Branches sway in the wind, insects crawl across leaves, vines search out supports to cling to: plants live in a very tactile world Read more SMELL 11:53 21 August 2012 All plants have a sense of smell. It allows them to communicate, and studies show that they ripen in response to the whiff of certain chemicals Read more TASTE A plant's taste is as interconnected with smell as it is in humans – but they use it to sense danger and drought and even to recognise relatives Read more HEARING Music isn't ecologically relevant for plants, but there are sounds that could be advantageous for them to hear Read more Source: NewScientist http://www.newscientist.com/special/plant-senses?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2012-2708-GLOBAL|plant&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&utm_content=Plant
