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10 December 2008

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Promised plant prose

STUCK for a seasonal gift for the geek in your life? You could just visit for a product that reader Iain Brassington describes as “um… odd”. Feedback concurs: “There’s a school of thought,” the sales pitch runs, “that says that plants, like higher animals, have thoughts and feelings. They have an inner voice, and can tell you their life-stories, if only you could speak ‘plant’.”

Yesss. Do we need to engage an heir to the British throne to teach us? Probably not. It’s not a difficult language to learn, apparently: “There are…

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