#plantsongs

#PlantSongs -- Cattails by Big Thief

#PlantSongs -- Jo by Haley Heynderickx  

And I still watch the fig tree You planted all grow And its fruit is the sweetest That I've ever known 

#PlantSongs -- ‘Cherry Blossom’ by ALA.NI

“Cast some cherry blossoms by the river Blowing through the flowing of my heart"

#PlantSongs -- The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be  by The Magnetic Fields

#PlantSongs -- Acony Bell by Gillian Welch

“The fairest bloom the mountain knows Is not an iris or a wild rose But the little flower of which I'll tell Known as the brave acony bell

Just a simple flower so small and plain With a pearly hue and a little known name But the yellow birds sing when they see it bloom For they know that spring is coming soon”

This is such a lovely tribute to a plant, Shortia galacifolia, that grows in the southern Appalachian Mountains. 

#PlantSongs -- Pine for Cedars by Dan Mangan

“And I do like the road But I'd be better at home I will pine for the oak streets And pine for the cedars and you”

#PlantSongs -- Yarrow and Mint by The Weather Station

Lyrics:

It was the summer of scent, yarrow and mint.  How could I forget the slight still scent of blue vervain or common plantain?  I learned to know the names they been called, years ago.  Flowering mullein.  Harbinger of Spring.  In the heat, the air lay heavy on the street.  Sweating with smoke, lilac, and gasoline.  What are you looking for?  Something you never even seen.  Better to know all those weeds that ever will grow beneath your feet.

#PlantSongs -- References to Sad Tomatoes

I heard R.E.M.’s ‘Crush with Eyeliner’ today, and I remembered one of the better insults in song, “She's a sad tomato / She's three miles of bad road”.