Plant Talk
Sound Advice
Plant Talk Productions
1976
Side 1 - 36415
A1 English Ivy
A2 Fern
A3 Spider Plant
A4 Schefflera
A5 Philodendron
A6 Palm
A7 Baby Tears
A8 Sun Loving Plants
A9 Brain Cactus
A10 Jade
A11 Croton
A12 Peperomia
A13 Iron Cross Begonia
A14 Dracaena Godseffiana
A15 Nepthytis
A16 Rubber Plant
A17 False Aralia
A18 Ficus
A19 Benjamina
A20 Norfolk Island Pine
A21 Wandering Jew
A22 Gardenia
A23 Sansevieria
A24 Piggy Back
A25 African Violet
A26 Coleus
A27 Keep It Green
Side 2 - 36416
B Sound Advice on the care & feeding of houseplants
A2 Fern
A3 Spider Plant
A4 Schefflera
A5 Philodendron
A6 Palm
A7 Baby Tears
A8 Sun Loving Plants
A9 Brain Cactus
A10 Jade
A11 Croton
A12 Peperomia
A13 Iron Cross Begonia
A14 Dracaena Godseffiana
A15 Nepthytis
A16 Rubber Plant
A17 False Aralia
A18 Ficus
A19 Benjamina
A20 Norfolk Island Pine
A21 Wandering Jew
A22 Gardenia
A23 Sansevieria
A24 Piggy Back
A25 African Violet
A26 Coleus
A27 Keep It Green
Side 2 - 36416
B Sound Advice on the care & feeding of houseplants
Production : Jim Bricker - Voice Molly Roth
Front photograph W. Remphrey Burchell / Burchell Studios
Back photograph Fred Butz
Back photograph Fred Butz
Molly Roth and Jim Bricker
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Track listing courtesy of rateyourmusic (I'm too lazy today for typing all these names)
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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa · Page 133
July 25, 1976
July 25, 1976
Molly Roth sweet-talks a plant as she is interviewed for a TV show. 'Grow, or I'll .break your stem' By DOC HOLLOBAUGH
Molly Roth says she was the hit of the Transworld Home Horticulture Exhibit For the uninitiated, the exhibit was held this past spring at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, 111., and everybody who was anybody in the lucrative world of xxxg green houseplants, and the paraphenalia that goes with them, was then. Molly Roth's contribution to the exhibit was a record called "Plant Talk, Sound Advice for the Care and Feeding of House Plants." The tongue-in-cheek subtitle is "Do you speak English, Ivy?" and includes appropriate conversations with wandering Jew, African violets, palms, ferns, spider plants and others. "We knocked them out" said Roth from her Green Earth plant shop in Lafayette, Ind., where she deals in facts and superlatives. Roth's theory to that most people talk to the things they love. "You talk to your cat, right? Well, there are people who sincerely believe that by talking to plants they set up good vibes." "I've talked to plants all my life. Sometimes I say, 'Grow, or I'll break your stem.'" As for horticulturists who scoff at the talk-to-plants theory, Roth thinks many of them may have brown thumbs. "Raising house plants to like raising kids. I've seen parents who are not In control. Plants scare some people like "A plant has to know who is boss." Roth has a 92,000 stereo system in her shop, "A twenty-first century looking number with purple lights." A sign says, "Play the free juke box, the plants love it" "My plants are gorgeous. They hear everything — golden oldies, add rock, country western, classical" 'Roth said. "Let me tell you about the album cover, babe. You'll love it
By the way, I got a letter from Marion, la., wanting a record. Where is that? "Well, hell get it as soon as we get the shipment Anyway, the girl on the record Jacket looks like Lady Godiva. This girl with long blonde hair falling all over her shoulders. She's standing In back of my Juke box with a watering can in one hand and... it really looks like Eve in her bunch of plants. Terrific. "I think I'm so darn clever, so I wrote the script for the record. I said to myself, 'Molly, this is just pure dynamite.' "There is a plant music record out but it's just pure classical. You know, Bach, Beethoven. I don't have it My plants have to be versatile. "If an add rock freak comes in and buys one of my plants, what happens when he takes it home if that plant has grown upon Bach? Disaster, right?" Beside*, her theory goes, if you get close enough to talk to your plants you're close enough to see if they need water or they have bugs
The girl standing In back of the Juke box with a watering can in one hand
(cover detail)
