Here’s a picture I took today while pulling yet more dandelions (you can see a few in the centre there). Dandelions are the only weed that I can’t stand and I’m trying to get to them all before they go to seed as my daughter loves to blow them. Of course to her, they are just another pretty flower.
This reminded me of a little Dandelion related scam I pulled one summer when I was about eight or nine, when like my daughter I thought dandelions were just another pretty flower. While the other kids were out selling lemonade, I set about collecting as many dandelion seeds I could, decorating little seed envelopes and going door to door flogging them to unsuspecting neighbours. I think I made a good $2.25 and I can’t help but laugh about it. I sure hope my victims realized what they were planting
oh hilarious! When I was little we used to pick roses out of a neihbor’s garden (I know, I know!) and roll up the petals trying to squeeze the liquid out. We’d then go around the neighborhood try to seel it as perfume! I dont think anyone ever bought any! Oh children, they never realise! That being said, my daughter loves picking the dandelions out of my garden for me too. I try to encorage the yellow flower picking so they dont seed, she’d have way to much fun blowing them everywhere!