In spring young inventors turn to thoughts of flowers

So the latest in plant care: Booze and cellphones. No, you don't give the plants a cellphone and then call to talk to them, although you would need plenty of alcohol to have that make sense. First you plant your cellphone. While that is never a bad, if you wanted it to flower then you would use a new biodegradable case invented by a gent in the UK.

"Basically it's a biodegradable phone cover that has an encapsulated seed so when the phone is finished with you can take it off, plant the phone cover in the ground and basically it will biodegrade and you will get a sunflower, creator Peter Morris said.

So soon your Motorola could literally be pushing up daisies. Once it is what you want to do is get the daisy drunk. Not so you can take advantage of it you sick, sad, twisted little man. No, because a Cornell University horticulturist has discovered that plying potted plants with diluted alcohol — he apparently suggests whiskey, vodka, gin or tequila — stunts the growth of the stem but does not affect the blossoms. Ahem. That's not the only stem whose growth it stunts. Ahem. William Miller, director of Cornell's Flower Bulb Research Program says that as a result, the houseplant does not get so tall that it flops over. However, if the gardener is doing shots with his/her flora then he/she probably will flop over. Make it one for my daisy … and one more for the road.