Music about flowers/trees

Tie a Yellow Ribbon (hate it, but appropriate).

And Hearts of Oak.

Sorry if these have been suggested already!

Nelliemoser, you've just made me giggle - last summer I bought my mum a tub with bedding plants in it. She asked what one was and when I said petunia both her and my dad burst into song with I'm a little petunia in an an onion patch! I'd never heard it before (or since) and they thought the look on my face was hilarious... so, thanks for the memory

Flowers in the rain

Seb2015 I guess you are quite a bit younger than I am.
No culture this generation.

Here you are! For your edification and delight is The petunia song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4u7ZcOWnA
Not to be missed.
The song is even before my time.

Rocking around the achristmas Tree

The last rose of Summer (words by a thomas Moore)

Apols for typos in the one before last

To a wild rose
Jenifer Juniper

Kiss from a Rose by Seal
I'll be with you in Apple blossom time - Andrews Sisters
Edelweiss (from the Sound of Music) Vince Hill also sang it

How about Gracie Fields "Biggest Aspidistra in the World" or "Daisy Bell"? Both pre our generation, but how many younger folks would know them?

White Rose of Athens by Nana Mouskouri.

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem

I talk to the Trees
Down at the old bull and bush
Red roses for a blue lady
I'll pick a rose for my rose
Paper Roses
A white sports coat and a pink carnation

Woodstock, Scott McKenzie: "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair" etc.

Also, Bobby Vinton "Roses are red, my love".

I have a superabundance of ideas - I knew I could rely on you all.

Down by the Sally Gardens.

Don't eat the daisies.

Just thought of a lovely song that Nana Mouskouri used to sing and will make people really have to think hard about it, and that's the White Rose of Athens. By the way, what a lovely idea to do this as a quiz.

All the best.

We sang this tonight in my singing group, and needless to say, I thought of this thread when it came to singing "tree" :

"You say it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me
Yes, its only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me".

(Ella Fitzgerald).

Will you please stop talking about 'generations'. It makes me feel ancient. If you listened to Children's Favourites, Family Favourites and even Forces Favourites you would know so many of these songs. I feel like a lonely little petunia in an onion patch and now can't stop singing it!!

Has anybody mentioned Burl Ives with:
'The buzzin of the bees
In the cigarette trees,
The soda water fountain.
The lemonade springs
And the bluebird sings
In the big Rock Candy Mountain.'

Then there's Paul McCartney's 'Little Willow'

If you want roses there's 'The Yellow Rose of Texas'

No this has to stop. Singing at 2am is not good!!!

Oh - it is good - singing is always good for you!

Oh Grandma2213 - Burl Ives - that has taken me right back to Children's Favourites and Uncle Mac

Lily of Laguna

There are loads of roses ideas for you here, LG. Let us jnow how the quiz went!

Quiz is on 28th - I am gradually ploughing my way through the prep. Anyone got any ideas for rounds themes? I have 3 "paper" rounds: photos of everyday objecta from a close-up perspective; and limericks (with last line removed - people have to supply it - or a good substitute!); and anagrams.