50 Best Country Songs About Flowers
Country music with flower themes that stick in your head
There’s a strange mood that comes with songs tied to flowers. They feel warm but can sting a little, like a bouquet handed over too late or a field you find only after a storm. Country tracks built around petals and stems don’t always stay soft. Sometimes they smell like spring mornings. Sometimes they smell like the inside of a truck where someone left the window cracked and the rain got in. There's a pull in them that can sit somewhere between hope and something heavier.
You hear it in the way a steel guitar slides under a line about roses wilting on a kitchen counter. Or in the way a fiddle cuts sharp through lyrics that should sound sweet but come out with an edge. The same flower that shows up in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can shift meaning depending on who’s singing it and what kind of night they’re remembering. In country, it’s never just the flower. It’s the field, the dirt, the wind that bent the stems, the hands that picked them.
Some of these tracks feel like they were written with dirt still under the songwriter’s nails. Others seem made for jukeboxes in the kind of bars where the tables are scarred with initials. Together, they carry the scent of stories that grow wild and don’t care if they get messy. Here are the best country songs with flower themes.
Top 10 Flower Country Songs
1. 'Rose Garden'—Lynn Anderson
2. 'Flowers on the Wall'—The Statler Brothers
3. 'Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses'—Kathy Mattea
4. 'Wildflowers and Wild Horses'—Lainey Wilson
5. 'A Good Year For The Roses'—George Jones
6. 'The Rose'—Conway Twitty
7. 'Like a Rose'—Ashley Monroe
8. 'Dead Flowers'—The Rolling Stones
9. 'Flower Shops'—ERNEST with Morgan Wallen
10. 'Virginia Bluebell'—Miranda Lambert
Songs About Flowers and Love #11—20
11. 'Roses in the Snow'—Emmylou Harris
12. 'Yellow Roses'—Dolly Parton
13. 'The Lily of the Valley'—Willie Nelson
14. 'Bluebonnets (Julia's Song)'—Aaron Watson
15. 'The Yellow Rose of Texas'—Gene Autry
16. 'Wildwood Flower'—The Carter Family
17. 'Paper Roses'—Marie Osmond
18. 'Dozen Roses & a Six-Pack'—Cole Swindell
19. 'A Rose From A Bride's Bouquet'—Porter Wagoner
20. 'First Rose of Spring'—Willie Nelson
Country Music Floral References #21—30
21. 'Keep the Flowers'—Megan Moroney
22. 'Bring My Flowers Now'—Tanya Tucker
23. 'Save The Roses'—Lee Brice
24. 'Pansies'—The Chicks
25. 'Like a Rose'—Lucinda Williams
26. 'Weed Instead of Roses'—Ashley Monroe
27. 'Dogwood'—Whiskey Myers
28. 'I Just Came to Smell the Flowers'—Porter Wagoner
29. 'I Overlooked an Orchid'—Connie Smith
30. 'Red Daisy'—Billy Strings
Country Songs About Flowers in Metaphor #31—40
31. 'Ponderosa'—Lainey Wilson
32. 'Acony Bell'—Gillian Welch
33. 'Lavenders and Loving Gestures'—Brent Cobb
34. 'The Time for Flowers'—Emily Scott Robinson
35. 'Liar's Roses'—Tammy Wynette
36. 'Roses Are Red My Love'—Bobby Bare
37. 'Pickin' Wildflowers'—Keith Anderson
38. 'Wild Rose'—Kaitlin Butts
39. 'Gas Station Roses'—Joshua Ray Walker
40. 'Old Flowers'—Courtney Marie Andrews
Country and Western Floral Songs #41—50
41. 'Black-Eyed Susan'—Town Mountain
42. 'Wildflower'—Christian Hayes
43. 'Bed of Roses'—Caylee Hammack
44. 'Pushing Up Daisies'—Brothers Osborne
45. 'Mayflowers'—Ashley Monroe
46. 'Blue Bonnet Breeze'—Dolly Parton
47. 'Two Dozen Roses'—Shenandoah
48. 'The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)'—Johnny Cash
49. 'Lilacs and Daffodils'—The Stanley Brothers
50. 'Just Like a Rose'—Laura Cantrell
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