A gardening expert claims that talking to plants in a Geordie accent helps them thrive more than any other regional pronunciation.

Chris Bonnett had staff at his nursery in Essex speak to plants in different accents every day as an experiment.

Mr Bonnett says the ‘Geordie’ plants, which were subjected to Geordie Shore, Cheryl Cole and Ant and Dec, grew almost 10% more than those in other groups.

There was, more or less, average growth across the Australian, Liverpudlian, Yorkshire and American groups.

While the Scottish, Chelsea and Mancunian plants were stunted.