Amy Childs, Ed Miliband and Gavin Henson might be among the UK’s most well known faces, but new research reveals that when it comes to personality they are simply a turn off. So much so that Brits actually find the company of a houseplant more stimulating and enjoyable than the sight and sound of so-called ‘personalities’.

Subjects were played footage of Essex and Westminster’s finest, as well as a host of other celebrities and were told to leave the room when the tedium got too much.  Not surprisingly, our crotons, stephanotis and orchids (those are all houseplants in case you didn’t know) fared significantly better than many of the talking heads who fill our screens. The story was covered in Daily Star, The Sun and Mail Online with plenty of Twitter chat around the findings.

The research was released to launch the www.meandmyplant.co.uk Perfect Plant Match service for Flower Council of Holland, helping people to start beautiful relationships with houseplants, and giving away thousands of free Me & My Plant coffee table books.

We will be touring UK cities over the next couple of weeks with a Blind Date style Plant Match event, matching people and plants and spreading the green love.  If you feel your life could be a better place with a plant to keep you company check out facebook.com/meandmyplant for locations.