Garden Songs That Green Thumbs Will Definitely Dig – Add These 7 Tunes To Your Playlist

For music lovers, almost everything is better when set to a tune. This includes gardening. Many gardeners enjoy their hobby while indulging in their love for music. Their gardening songs might actually be about gardening, songs about plants or nature... or have absolutely nothing to do with them.

There are plenty of songs about gardens - “Octopus’s Garden” by The Beatles or Van Morrison’s “In the Garden” come to mind, but not as many songs about actual gardening. Either way, it’s the music that matters, not so much the context.

Garden Songs to Add to Your Planting Playlist

If you, like me, enjoy listening to music or even singing in the garden, you might already have your own playlist. Heck, you may even be playing music for your plants! But since music is meant to be shared, here are my favorite 7 songs that green thumbs will definitely dig. Get it?

1. Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky

Every year for years, my parents took my sister and I to see the Nutcracker ballet around the holidays. So of course I pretty much have the entirety embedded in my mind but my favorite was always “Waltz of the Flowers” by Tchaikovsky. Give it a listen and you’ll see why.

2. Garden Song - Phoebe Bridgers

Indie darling Phoebe Bridgers sings the “Garden Song.” It's a song about growth - albeit her own personal growth rather than my peonies - but I love her voice and singing along with her (although I do hope my neighbors can’t hear me).

3. Garden Party - Ricky Nelson

An oldie but a goodie! 1972 “Garden Party” by Ricky Nelson. The song is actually about Ricky Nelson being booed at Madison Square Garden, a totally different “garden” than my herb and veggie one, but it’s catchy and I know all the words! Sung by others including John Fogerty and Booker T. Jones who gave it a more bluesy sound.

4. Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller

If you thought “Garden Party” was an oldie, then “Honeysuckle Rose” is truly ancient history. Composed and sung by Fats Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf in 1929! Waller’s recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 for good reason.

5. Roses - Outkast

On the theme of flowers, “Roses” by Outkast. Such a fun song to sing and dance to even though it’s really about the angst of high school. Great video too!

6. Peaches - Presidents of the United States

“Peaches” by alt rock band the Presidents of the United States. Another fun tune with some questionable lyrics and riffs “borrowed” from Bad Company’s 1975 song “Feel Like Makin’ Love”.

7. Tiptoe Through the Tulips - Tiny Tim

This song is a sweet song about a romantic rendezvous in a garden sung by a gangly, falsetto singing Tiny Tim playing a ukulele. He is hard to take seriously but the song is catchy and it does take place in a garden.

Music is a universal language that can cross language, geographical and cultural barriers so why wouldn’t it have an effect on plants? There is no evidence to suggest that plants “enjoy” music like humans do but, they may react to vibrations. (It's called nyctinasty!) So while you are jamming out or humming to some classical strings, your plants may be enjoying it too!