Weeds beautiful?

I remember as a small child blowing on the white puff and watching it fly away, and my grandmother used to dig the plant up and cook it with some meat and make dandelion greens, they was sure good, I think the meat was ham hocks, or joal bacon, and the flower parts she would wash real good and roll them in flour and fry them, they tasted like a mushroom. We have dandelions in our yard and I was telling my hubby about how she used to cook them and as he is from Louisiana he thought I was making a joke. I sure would like to have some she cooked if she was here, but I will never for get that field full of the while puffs that was fun blowing on.

I agree that the dandelion is a pesky weed. In earlier times, or so I'm told, that the dandelion was grown for dandelion wine. Never tasted it, but that's what my father-in-law said his grandparents always did.

I think a big field full of dandelions in early spring is beautiful. Its so pretty to see all the bright green and the bright pretty yellow flowers. Notice I said in a field, I don't want them in my yard, they have a way of spreading and taking over.

I love dandilions. I love them when they are yellow and the yards are full of them. I think they are pretty. I tease my neighbor when he complains about them. I tell him that they are God's flowers because He puts them where he wants them.

Yes,if we look at the this in diffirent way maybe we will find something great.It's also like that in our life,isn't it?

I noticed the abundance when I was there visiting. I decided that Minnesota was environmentally friendly for not poisoning the environment to kill those little yellow flowers. My granddaughter calls them "Yellow Lions". I had considered a discussion about them, and may still do one.

I work in a garden store. What I tell people is simple. A weed is a plant you don't want. I just moved into a new house where the previous owners planted chives. It's spread and I hate it. To me it's nothing more then a weed. I think a field of bright yellow dandelions is beautiful.

I think dandelions are so pretty. Even grown I still like to blow on them and watch them float around. I think it is so pretty that I even put a real pretty background of this very thing on my myspace this week. Thank you for the pretty picture.

That is a very good photo. I have often wondered why we don't want dandelions in our yards. They are kind of pretty I think.

I ADORE dandelions!!

After almost 30 years in the southwest, missing all the flowers and wildlife from the midwest, I'm so happy to see dandelions and other "weeds" that I'm just ecstatic about them. Everything that grows in my yard is nourished and encouraged. I don't mow the dandelions if I can help it and when they go to seed, I pick them and wish on them as I blow the seed into the breeze. Breezes!!! We never had them in Arizona, the air is so still and hot.

Dandelions are NOT ugly. Go live in the desert for a few years and you'll come back a changed and more appreciative person.