Gardening Songs

[steantval]

Black Rose - Thin Lizzy

[Reggaebass]

Bed of roses , Bon jovi 🙂

[grumpyguts]

Ok so that's a lot of suggestions - thank you. 

Maybe I'll just play the bassline to Walk on the wild side and get the Vox to sing Can I Dig it? Yes you Can.

[fleabag]

Err... Ace Of Spades ?

soz....I'll get me wellies

[casapete]

Garden Party - Rick Nelson

Octopus’s Garden - Beatles

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Every rose has it’s thorn - Poison

Build me up buttercup - Foundations

Thorn in my side - Eurythmics ( maybe not the best wedding song though)

[Bobthedog]

Safe in my garden - Mamas and Papas

The Secret Garden  - Quincy Jones

I build this garden for us - Lenny Kravitz

[SICbass]

Kissed by a Rose 🌹 by Seal?

[SICbass]

Theme from Shaft “Can you dig it?”

[Leonard Smalls]

 

[Earbrass]

Has nobody suggested Percy Grainger's English "Country Gardens" yet? Easy enough to do a rock version. 

[Happy Jack]

Do indoor plants count?

 

[Bilbo]

Jazz standards. 

 

A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing

Lotus Blossom

Honeysuckle Rose

 

Others

You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Anything by Robert Plant, Rose Tattoo, Guns N Roses, Spruce Springsteen and The (Weed) Killers. 

[Stub Mandrel]

The Biggest Aspidistra In The World.

[Stub Mandrel]

For lapsed gardeners... The Return of the Giant Hogweed.

 

Suggested band:

Robert Plant

Herbie Flowers

Bloomdido Bad de Grasse 🙂

Ron Tree

[casapete]

Okay, if we’re getting into band names - anything by

The Wallflowers

Bush

The Raspberries

Savage Garden

The Bluebells

Ash

Shed 7

Hothouse Flowers

Supergrass

and of course, anything by the actor Lorne Green (theme from ‘Ringo maybe?)

Back OT, how about Daisy Daisy (give me your answer do), Roses are red, Lily was here, Dead Flowers, Border song, Thyme in a bottle (okay, I know...)

 

 

[SubsonicSimpleton]

 

[cybertect]

Gardening at Night - REM

Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC

English Garden - Roddy Frame

Eric The Gardener - Divine Comedy 

In the Garden - Van Morrison

In Bloom - Nirvana

[tauzero]

"Where the wild roses grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue is probably another one to avoid. If they ever get divorced, though, it would be pretty good for that.

[KevB]

Genesis - I know what I like (youll need to listen to the lyric though), Return of the giant hogweed.

Resurrection Shuffle - Ashton, Gardner and Dyke

[ahpook]

Green Fingers - Siouxsie and the Banshees

and...

 

[Leonard Smalls]

There's always "You picked a fine time to leaf me Lucille"...

[Stub Mandrel]

Octopus's Garden

[Stub Mandrel]

Who needs a D-tuner - see what Danny Thompson does at the end 🙂

[jacko]

a lot of the Grateful dead's output seem to be about flowers..

Sugar magnolia, Scarlet Begonias,  China Cat Sunflower, Ramble on Rose, Jack Straw, Infrared roses, It must have been the roses,  Let it Grow. and so on.. 

[el borracho]