Since you mention it, I suspect that my (surviving) plants have done less well since my working hours have prevented me from playing (live) music in their "hearing". Mind you, I only speak to them nowadays to apologise for forgetting to water them, so I expect that they are seriously discontented in any case and it will be entirely my own fault if I am strangled one night by a militant lemon tree.

Having said that, most of them are 20 or so years old; and they are certainly capable of making a more constructive contribution to the average discussion here than many of our resident or guest vegetables.