Time lapse Dandelion
Dandelions!
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Pink Dandelion is a perennial.
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Pink Dandelion
Not your average backyard dandelion! Pastel pink petals surround the apricot-colored center of this uncommon dandelion. A wildflower from central Asia with the same medicinal and edible properties as our yellow one. The early spring blooms provide an important source of food for our native...
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I agree that your lawn looks lovely. We've actually helped along buttercups, daisies and clover in our front lawn with seeds, but had to draw the line at dandelions as my neighbour (who is lovely but 'fussy') would have fit!! We do have lots of dandelions at the back though. I think they're dynamic accumulators - I've heard it said that if you have dandelions in your garden it's a sign that you're lacking in something (can't remember what) and the dandelions are nature's way of rebalancing the soil.
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There are purple flowered dandelions and I used to grow a white one.
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I see several people saying the bees are all over them. I was walking in an orchard once where I kept bees, talking to the farmer, and said how my bees liked them. He told me, rubbish, he walked his orchard every morning and had never seen a bee on one. He was an early bird, like most farmers, dandelions don't start making nectar until the sun is well up, usually about an hour before mid day, and the bees now it. Notice you won't see the bees first thing. I remember as a boy in France on the train regularly seeing people walking the fields looking for young dandelions for their dinner, most English people wouldn't have touched them in those days, but my mother took a language degree and spent a year in France in about 1930. I like to leave the odd one at the edge of my beds and chop the leaves into the tilth when I am hoeing. Those deep tap roots are drawing up nutrients that are below the reach of my garden plants, but I draw the line at docks.
Purple Dandelion photographed by Jean Bernard Roussilhe
Purple Dandelions 1 by Jean Bernard Roussilhe
Purple Dandelions 1 Photograph by Jean Bernard Roussilhe
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