Music about flowers/trees

Lily

BBevan, my father used to sing Lily of Laguna. Haven't heard it sung for years.

Lilia Marlene, if not already mentioned

What do you mean by rounds themes? Are they questions that go round the room, so everyone gets a go? Or questions about round objects?

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree..."

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.

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

Lily of Laguna

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

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

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!!!

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).

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.

Down by the Sally Gardens.

Don't eat the daisies.

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

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 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

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem

White Rose of Athens by Nana Mouskouri.

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

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

To a wild rose
Jenifer Juniper

Apols for typos in the one before last

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

Rocking around the achristmas Tree

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.