Music to garden to?

[muckdiva]

Watched a bit of Chelsea Flower Show on TV last night and they'd had a competition for the best bit of music to garden to. What's your favourite listening whilst pottering amongs the plants?

Today I've been strimming to the sound of Rufus Wainwright's new album Release the Stars. Bliss!

[nick the grief]

I had a bit of a mix he other day.

Hells Bells - AC/DC
Why try Harder - Fatboy Slims greatest hits
The best of Steeleye Span - go on guess who it was by
Aerial - Kate Bush

So quite a mix

[JennieAtkinson]

Just the blackbirds singing for me.

[wellie]

Muckdiva, inspired thread!, and the other night on the Chelsea slot they played Mika 'Grace Kelly', which was nice! "I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky....I could be Bumble, I could be anything you like...."

I prefer to garden to the complete mix of Radio 2, all day, because I'm 46 and a half, and with the mentality of the presenters, who are older than me, I feel that if THEY can't grow up, then I don't need to either.

[terrier]

Dance of the Flowers
English Country Garden
Red Is the Rose
Green, Green, Grass Of Home
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud ( the Hippo song )

Usually I just listen to the music of the wind chimes.

[Dobby]

nothing but nature
if i have anything thow it would be radio 2
or Blackmores Night http://www.blackmoresnight.com/
not many people have heard of them but you can hear some of there songs
we got tickets to see them in york

[TEB]

Nice thread
Wishbone Ash - Argus esp Leaf and Stream
Savoy Brown
Man - Winos Rhinos and Loonies
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Virgin Classic Rock

[HeyWayne]

I don't usually have the radio outside - and there aren't any in the rooms at the back of the house, but I have considered taking my iPod to the allotment on occasion, but then thought better of it.

That said, I could listen to Aimee Mann for hours, anything by Pearl Jam lets me lose myself or the complete works of Nirvana allows me to transcend into my own nirvana (see what I did there!?).

Hang on a minute, I've got power in my shed........maybe I can have the radio "outside". Cool!

[poozie]

I have Aerial by Kate Bush, Artic Monkeys, Red Hot Chilli peppers, White Stripes, Mozart, The Killers, Carla Bruni and Kaiser Chiefs on my ipod. I use the earphones to keep the windy out of my ears on my rather exposed allotment. Aerial is beautiful.

[Palustris]

I hope you music listening folks use ear phones etc. rather than just turning on the radio in the house loud enough to be hear outside. there is NOTHING more infuriating to me than to be forced to listen to someone else's choice of 'noise' especially when it is constantly interrupted by the banal, mindless chatter of some self important ignoramus of a presenter.
I prefer the sounds of nature.

[TPeers]

I do agree Palustris, especially noise with a heavy back beat!

That said I listen to classic FM whenever the opportunity presents, generally their choice coincides with mine. I try not to have it too loud, hopefully I don't annoy the neighbours too much - they have never complained.

Terry

[Flummery]

One of the delights of gardening is that there ISN'T any radio/music/talk around.
However, what the Chelsea coverage was really after was music to show final shots to, so I'd go for Hubert Parry's 'An English Suite' - mainly because a few years ago we had a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales, well up in the hills and away from it all. We had a covered area to barbie in and did so several nights, with tea-lights in lanterns etc. The owners had a house a little way off with a fairly small walled garden which was lovely. We played this music on our CD player and the ambience was perfect. It always makes me think of warm evenings, good food and wine and a garden!

[noidea]

All I usually get is 'Mummy, I think I broke something, Mummy, can I dig a big hole? Mummy, can people eat grass? ' etc etc... some music would be lovely though.

C

[Nicos]

I'm the same as Jennie- any birds /wildlife will do!!

[TEB]

I was on the phone to a client the other day whilst wandering around the garden and she said whats that noise, what noise I asked, that noise its lovely, oh its bird song
I guess I have got so used to it that it fades into the backgound (sad I know), mind you the skylark singing his heart out this morning got my attention and I do hear the Swifts because we have a nest on the house and they chase each other screaming like school kids (and cra**ing on me washing ).