would be the Blue Nile Rose.
Although it does only flower every seven years.

but I do know this :

Dum dum dum dum...

Several musicians have roses named after them: Paul McCartney, Barbara Mandrell, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, Freddie Mercury...

I do hope you've got some jasmine growing.

(Go, Ernie!)

we've been having lately, maybe this would work for you:

Still, it's good for the lawn, eh?

Pulp – The Trees

“Yeah, the trees, those useless trees produce the air that I am breathing.
Yeah, the trees, those useless trees; they never said that you were leaving.”

A study conducted by the eminent dendrologist – Jarvis Cocker – reached the two-fold conclusion that, while trees produce the air that we all breathe, they are unlikely to inform you if your spouse or long-term partner is on the verge of ending the relationship.

Speaking at a conference of Dendrologists in 2001, professor Cocker said: “Trees are able to sense failing relationships by means of a little understood process related to the production of phloem sap. However, I was unable to find any evidence that they attempt to communicate this perceived disharmony to the effected parties, either via chemical signals, variations in fruit or foliage, or by manipulating the wind blowing throw their leaves to form crude sentences in the English language. I must therefore conclude that trees are useless and that throughout the many years I have devoted to their study, they have been silently mocking me.

Pete Seeger - Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

Professor Seeger’s conclusion – “Girls have picked them every one” - has since been widely discredited.

In a 1983 article, Seeger’s most vocal opponent – the anthoecologyist Pat Benatar - said: “Professor Seeger chose to focus his study on a concreted area where flowers are unlikely to have grown for some time. His explanation for the absence of foliage is based on the hearsay that girls like flowers and therefore cannot resist picking them. This runs contrary to my own findings - that girls like tight spandex, leather trousers and Harley Davidson motorcycles. In summary Professor Seeger has presented no compelling evidence that girls are responsible for mass defoliation.”

The debunking of Seeger’s findings eventually resulted in a US-wide ban on scientific studies where the initial question or hypothesis rhymes with the conclusion.

COMPOST CORNER!

My sunflowers are not doing very well so Roger Daltrey and Kenney Jones have offered to stand in for them.

it can really get out of hand and there'll be nothing but flowers and you'll really wish you had a lawnmower. Talking Heads featuring Johnny Marr (from Manchester, England) and Kirsty McColl (from Croydon, England). When floppy, parted fringes were in:

FLOWERS

The Rolling Stones – Flowers

Brian Jones is missing his leaves, possibly as a result of over watering.

The God Machine - The Flower Song

“I wish I was a flower blowing in the wind”

Robyn Hitchcock – The Devils Radio

“Kate said: “The flowers of intolerance and hatred
are blooming kind of early this year.
Someone's been watering them.””

Ooberman - Bluebell Morning

Eels – Daisy Through Concrete

“I’ll walk myself
down sycamore street
The sun beats down
no shoes on my feet
and I stumble on
a daisy through concrete.”

and in a similar vein - Concrete Blonde – Roses Grow

“Up through the cracks
Up through the broken glass
In the hot red light of a black and white
Roses grow.”

The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers – Bellflower

Saint Etienne – Speedwell

Katy Carr - Flower Shark

HERBS

Mudhoney – Judgement, Rage, Retribution and Thyme

Mark Arm: “20 years later I finally came up with a response to Simon & Garfunkel and their saccharine ways. I think they heard me.”

Scott Walker – Rosemary

R.E.M. – Find The River

“Coriander stem and rose of hay.”

TREES

Goldfrapp – Hairy Trees

Crowded House - English Trees

Josef K – Applebush

“October in a land
that's in my back yard
there's a people who succeed
they don't try hard
Well they've found a way
to live with ease
eating from the bush
instead of the tree.”

GARDENS

The Family Cat – Airplane Gardens

The Divine Comedy - Eric the Gardener

“Julius Caesar knew
that when his life was through
something of him would stay behind
Not in a roman tomb, or in an Italian womb
but buried deep in English slime
For Eric the gardener to find.”

from America :

You may not have come across this one before :

An exquisite song by Maggie Holland. June Tabor has covered it.

It's a great excuse to include this lady

Knitting is the new rock'n'roll!

Anyone?

thought not...