R&P ~ what are your favourite songs about gardens, plants, trees, flowers, herbs, nature or Spring?

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BQ2: Does anyone know any songs about Owls?

{owls have been 'in' since the late 60s, but they seem to be especially 'in' right now!}

BQ3: Since I'm covering more than one of The Arts here:

Do you have any favourite art or illustrations on the subject?

* not a fav of mine, but a very good artist: http://www.peterpracownik.com/pages/green-man-art-...

http://www.peterpracownik.com/pages/green-man-face...

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Good morning gentlemen :)

Yes, it's really me ~ can't you tell? I'm a one-off!

Whenever I hear mention of Tiny Tim, I recall this "Garfield" cartoon of him romping through flowers http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1982/ga821205....

Listening to links...

@ J: Despite going through a 1960s addiction in my teens, and liking a lot of songs by The Kinks, I have to admit this is the first time I've listened to that one {aware of it, but never heard}. It's making me nostalgic for an era I wasn't even part of!

I was never into VU {except 'Venus in Furs', which I adore}, but I wouldn't mind that being on the radio...

Always nice to see a Dylan Thomas poem other than "Do Not Go Gentle"! On a different subject, I like "In My Craft or Sullen Art" http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singleP...

@ Colin: Of course 'Hanging Tree' counts ~ it's a tree :)

@ Captain: Keep your small onions to yourself young man!

The only songs there I already know are 'Flowers of the Forest' {Fairport Convention}, and 'Fox on the Run'. Several others there where I know a song or two by the bands, but not these songs.

The Levelers are a bit too '90s' for me, but I like the rhythms in that ~ reminds me of the album Capercail

Listening to links...

@ J: Despite going through a 1960s addiction in my teens, and liking a lot of songs by The Kinks, I have to admit this is the first time I've listened to that one {aware of it, but never heard}. It's making me nostalgic for an era I wasn't even part of!

I was never into VU {except 'Venus in Furs', which I adore}, but I wouldn't mind that being on the radio...

Always nice to see a Dylan Thomas poem other than "Do Not Go Gentle"! On a different subject, I like "In My Craft or Sullen Art" http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singleP...

@ Colin: Of course 'Hanging Tree' counts ~ it's a tree :)

@ Captain: Keep your small onions to yourself young man!

The only songs there I already know are 'Flowers of the Forest' {Fairport Convention}, and 'Fox on the Run'. Several others there where I know a song or two by the bands, but not these songs.

The Levelers are a bit too '90s' for me, but I like the rhythms in that ~ reminds me of the album Capercail

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... Capercaillie made with Will Mowat {Soul II Soul} which blended Celtic & African music.

Hello 1980s! The Cure passed me by, but I do like the music.

Now, I never got into REM, and I'm afraid I didn't like the first, but the second was interesting ~ taking the title of a trad song and making something new but keeping those 'folky' stylings in the lyrics.

Ooo... 'Orca' was interesting. I like the way it built, and I heard elements of 'The Green Manalishi' in there!

Not sure about the vocal on 'Tobin's Spirit Guide', but I like the lyrics and the music. Time to go twitch some weird owls...

@ Bob : Hello. Another one where I know the band but not the song, and that was really nice, thank you :)

Damn my perfectionist streak: I *really* wish I could remove that double post up there ~ it's using valuable comment space!

@ Mike H: A few there I know ~ I have another version of 'The Rose' ~ a beautiful song. I *adore* Sting's 'Desert Rose' {and the album it comes from}, and 'Kiss from a Rose'. I have Nigel Kennedy's version of "The Four Seasons" {he also did Vaughan-Williams' 'The Lark Ascending'}, and I like 'Mother Nature's Son'.

The only Tommy James song I know is 'Mony Mony', so nice to hear another one, and I really like the music. Ivy League weren't my thing, nor was 'Pieces of April'. Not a big Rolling Stones fan... I've never listened to The Guess Who ~ why is that never on the radio here?!

@ David V: We learnt 'Where Have all the Flowers Gone' in primary school!

I'm afraid 'Grazing in the Grass' and John Fogarty are not my thing. I only know one Iron Butterfly song {sure you can guess which one!} ~ very 60s. I'm going to have to steal 'East of the Ginger Tree' as a ti

as a title for a poem! I liked 'Not Even the Trees', particularly the opening lyrics. More The Guess Who(!) - I enjoyed that :) Gerry! Now that I really enjoyed!

Thank you for the poem - now I know where Ogden Nash got his inspiration from: "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all."

@ Missy: I know 'Sweet Leaf'! {great song}. I'm sure I've heard 'In the Garden' at some point, long ago... Johnny Cash ~ don't like the song, but he had a great voice. No Tony Orlando!

@ Beatle: {{{hug}}} ooo... 2 'man-sheds'! I've not heard that much MMEB {"Solar Fire" album, and 'BbtL'}, so it's always interesting to hear something 'new'. I don't know if I've been to Llanerchyrfa, but I have been to Brecon & the Brecon Beacons. Now, I'm not a Rush fan because of the vocals, but I did enjoy that {perhaps Jethro Tull could cover it!}.

We had M.C. Escher posters on the walls at primary school, and I recall Clannad had a picture on one of their albums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clannadpast.jpg

@ Ritchie: I always liked 'Octopus' Garden' :) and 'English Rose' is beautiful {and that's a great video}~ heard it for the first time only last year. I've never been into The Ramones, but I did listen! The Dead Kennedy's aren't my thing. I guess Mr Clapton had to get in there somewhere(!) ~ very pretty.

@ Punch: {{{hug}}} Nothing like a bit of S&G on a dreary Sunday afternoon to pick things up! I wouldn't advise legalising the stuff that's out on the streets now, but back then... Ahh... the trees they do grow high ~ I loved that interaction at the start! 'God is in the Roses' ~ beautiful, and I'm going to have to share it now :) You know I love 'Bella Donna', and it was really nice to hear how it started out. I had a 'best of' album first, then got "Bella Donna", and as soon as I heard that opening song, I knew I had

to have more albums! I'm sure I heard 'Nature Boy' on radio recently, and that quote is so true. There have been times in my life I can connect to 'Black and White Boy', and I really enjoyed it!

@ Shades: One of Sarah's most beautiful songs, from my favourite of her albums :) It also calls 'Fear' to mind ~ "Wind in time rapes the flower trembling on the vine. Nothing yields to shelter it from above."

@ Canadian Bacon: That happens to be in my top 10 GN'R songs!

@ Anna: More Vivaldi is always welcome. 'My Black Rose' was *wonderful* ~ thank you for that! And so was 'Dark Horse' {yes, horses count!} ~ we were talking about piano music last night, and it is one of my favourite things :)

@ KP: Thank you for coming Sir {the party's not over yet!}. My uncle had a PC like that ~ it exploded! I do enjoy 'The Mummer's Dance', and since it mentions nature *and* owls - "When owls call the breathless moon" {great lyric} - bonus to you sir! 'Last Rose of Summer' is one of the few JP songs I'm into, and though I haven't heard 'Imaginary' for a while, it has some interesting lyrics too.

@ Trickzta: Poor Joan - maybe the florist made an error?! I liked The Cherokees {takes me back to my 1960s addiction}. I couldn’t get into the vocals on ‘Songs of Wolves’, but I like the music. “Baby come back...” – that’s my knowledge of The Equals! I don’t know what a Slipper Tree is, but I enjoyed that. I haven’t heard ‘English Country Garden’ since I was little, but I prefer the first version.

‘The Owl Song’ – haha! Now, I never got into Nirvana {Grunge pretty much passed me by}, but I did listen, though it doesn’t do it for me...

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@ Captain F: Owls are my #3, after Wolves and Butterflies.

Here are my new acquaintances: http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/SilverWolfe...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/SilverWolfe...

And here’s another song, a Fleetwood Mac favourite ‘Running Through the Garden’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihtrb3WCc5I&fmt=18