Does my Begonia sense fear

I'm just saying
Does my Begonia sense fear?
Peter Tomkins, author of the Secret Life of Plants, and Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science at Virginia Tech, have one thing in common - they believe that plants can communicate. In wired.com, an online science magazine, there is a report about Prof Richard Karban at the University of California who is eavesdropping on the conversations between sagebrush plants and he is beginning to understand what they are saying. Often the babble is used to synchronise a defence against predators by triggering chemical changes that turn off attacks in the long run. Plants know. And they are not going to take things lying down.
"Plants have been almost universally looked upon as senseless automata, they have now been found to be able to distinguish between sounds inaudible to the human ear and colour wavelengths such as infra-red and ultraviolet invisible to the human eye" says Tomkins in his intro to The Secret Life of Plants.

The leaves of an ordinary sunflower will transpire in a day as much water as a man perspires. A climbing plant which needs a prop will creep toward the nearest support. Should this be shifted, the vine, within a few hours, will change its course into the new direction. These are facts and should fill us with wonder and awe. As reported in the online version of the Daily Mail, researchers at the University of Missouri found that "feeding vibrations" signals from caterpillars, effect changes in the plant cells' metabolism, creating more defensive chemicals that can repel attacks from caterpillars.

If we are to learn any lessons from this, I would say: we have to communicate with more than just the spoken word. We have to develop "reading" a lot more from verbal dialogues. We have to learn to ask more questions about things we take for granted.
If you care to, read Dr. Lyall Watson's Supernature, or The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects. You might also start taking Stephen King's possessed car, Christine, more seriously. Before you giggle at the indexical contents of Watson's book, you have to respect the fact that he holds doctorates in anthropology and ethology and additional degrees in botany, chemistry, geology, geography, marine biology, and ecology. His sometimes bizarre observations will make you wonder, doubt and then, out of respect for his almost unbeatable list of degrees question if a candle flame is alive. It will make you realise that mankind suffers from intellectual arrogance. It will make you agree, that we know very little about Nature and our Universe. We might also come to the conclusion that our reality is imprisoned by our language.
Cedric Serpes is Associate Professor at the Goa Institute of Management. He believes that the limitations we suffer with our senses are rooted in the mystery of frequencies.