Why Did I Never Find One?
By Darkwing
@Darkwing (21583)
February 22, 2008 10:32am CST
I'm talking about the Four Leaf Clover!
When I was young, I used to comb the lawn and the countryside looking for a Four Leaf Clover, because various friends professed they had found one, and I was told they brought you luck. I was desperate to find one... I searched high and low, but to no avail!
So how come this luscious green token was avoiding me, and yet my friends had found one? I continued, every year of my shool days, searching for my lucky Four Leaf Clover, but still it eluded me. Grrrrrrr, where was it? Was I now destined to bad luck for the rest of my days... I so wanted my very own lucky charm.
What reminded me of this... well, it's St. Patrick's Day in three and a half weeks time, and surfing the Net, I came across a website called Clovers Online. lol. They supply REAL Four Leaf Clovers and Shamrocks. Surely they're the same thing, but I thought I'd take a look at this site. The Company are based in Florida, USA, and ship worldwide. Not only that, they have numerous Four Leaf Clover and Shamrock Products, including genuine Four Leaf Clovers embedded in clocks, snow globes, pendants, keyrings, plant kits and a Teddy wearing a pendant with a Four Leaf Clover embedded. They claim all their Clover and Shamrock leaves are the genuine article, so WHERE did they find them? Good grief, I spent my childhood searching for one, solitary Four Leaf Clover, which was to be my lucky charm, and never did I find it. So, I think I'm going to have to choose and purchase something from this range of products and treat myself.:)
If anybody's interested in the site, I just stumbled across it through fate, I guess. lol. But, here is the link to sooooooooo many Four Leaf Clovers!!!http://www.fourleafclover.com/Perhaps my luck is changing at last. he he he. It's about time I found the little beast!
Have you ever combed the countryside in the hope of finding a Four Leaf Clover or a Shamrock leaf?
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11 responses
@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
9 Mar 08
That sucks you've never found one!!
I still love hunting for four leaf clovers LOL.
I do it usually anytime I see a patch of clovers anywhere.
It's just one of those little things we did as kids that I still love to do to keep me feeling young LOL.
I haven't been to that site but I have seen some products similar to what you've described before. I imagine they probably grew a LOAD of their own clovers to sort through.
Just for you...
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@Darkwing (21583)
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9 Mar 08
I still search occasinally too... it's a bit like dandelion clocks... I just can't resist picking them off when I see them, and blowing the seeds! :) At Beltane and Midsummer Solstice, I always sit out in the garden and make daisy chains, and then hang them on the lilac for the faeries. I'm still amazed that often, by the next day, they've gone... no wind, and the lilac is sheltered, in the corner of the garden, but the chains still disappear! That's one of my gifts to the faeries. :)
Anyway, back to the clover... I think this company has collected cuttings from white clovers in the wild previously and farmed them. Then they harvest some for the production of their own goods, and package some to sell as a Home Grow Kit. That's not the same as finding them though. I'll have to visit some places where there's farm land, because I think they grow more readily in those areas.
Brightest Blessings.
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
9 Mar 08
That's awesome and that sounds like so much fun making the chains!! I never got the hang of it!
Oh - and I love blowing the dandelions too :)
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@Norfolk_Jim (214)
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7 Mar 08
I've found ever so many of them over the years but I'm not aware of them having brought me any luck. Its kind of hard to know if I'd have been more unlucky without them as luck is so subjective! I can still find the odd one. The other day one of my students was moaning that he'd never found one so I looked down for a few minutes and found one for him. I think your lucky to find one! In that regard I must be very lucky. I used to press them in books and I once set one in plastic laminate. I even thought of making little 4 leaf clover book tags but I think someone else had the same idea. Possibly they are more prolific in some areas than others. I never bothered to find out why a few have 4 leaves, is it genetics or a fault at the bud stage? Maybe if I ever get back to work, if I spot another, I'll remember this little discussion and get you one. I wont promise though because I am so absent minded at the moment, I forget more than half my day, twice a day, LOL. Do you know where the idea they are lucky came from?
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@Darkwing (21583)
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7 Mar 08
Hi Jim... thank you for visiting this discussion. I think you might be right in saying that the four leaf clover might be more prolific in some areas than others. Your part of the country is certainly a good growing area, so that would figure. Awwwwww, thank you for considering me.. that's a sweet thought. You're very lucky to have found so many... I searched high and low for one but it never showed itself. From what I can gather, yes, it's genetics that determine whether the clover has four leaves or not, as it is a mutant.
Brightest Blessings, my friend and thank you for our contribution.
According to legend, Eve carried a four leaf clover from the Garden of Eden, and this is possibly where the origin started. Also, white clover was held in high esteem by the early Celts of Wales as a charm against evil spirits, and it's apparently, the white clover that produces four leaves, on occasion. Druids considered the four leaf variety a sign of luck, and the mystique continues today, since finding a real four leaf clover is still a rare occurrence and omen of good luck.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
25 Feb 08
I only ever found one in my Life and I was 12 then
I took it home and I kept it pressed in a book
I had it for about 5 weeks when my Brother decided to destroy it as he was a little Sh*t like that and there it was gone I never found one again after that
Love you xxxx
@Darkwing (21583)
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25 Feb 08
Awwww, your brother was a bit of a pain in the rear, wasn't he? The site I found the gifts on, tells you how to preserve a four-leaf clover once you've found one! I shall have to start looking again whilst I'm on one of my walks.
More bad news this morning, from K, not concerning him but I'll probably start a discussion on it. I hope this year improves... it's not been too great so far. :(
Brightest Blessings, love and hugs. xxx
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
27 Feb 08
Oh yes...I remember crawling around for hours, days, one holiday searching for a 4 leaf clover. I remember bemoaning my lack of success to anyone who would listen. It was so frustrating because there were 3 leaf clovers everywhere and I just couldn't understand why I couldn't find a 4 leaf one....I mean, you didn't hear about 3 leaf clovers...just 4 leaf, so where were they?. I was about 5 and believed in magic. I vaguely remember my mother explaining how it was a rare plant found only in Ireland but that wasn't what I wanted to hear....lol.
@Darkwing (21583)
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28 Feb 08
Well, my friend, it would seem from the responses to this discussion that your Mum was wrong. lol. Several people seem to have found them in America, and in England too. I think she must have been confusing it with the Shamrock, which has three leaves, but is said to be lucky also. That is an Irish Emblem.
Don't let me start you off crawling around on your knees again now, will ya!!! :)
Brightest Blessings and all the Good Luck in he World to you, my dear friend. xxx
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@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
4 Mar 08
I have only ever found one in my lifetime. It was a lot of fun looking. I still look sometimes.
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@Darkwing (21583)
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4 Mar 08
You were one of the luckier ones, then, my friend. Did it actually bring you luck, do you remember? I still look occasionally, if I'm somewhere I see clover growing but I don't go out of my way any more. I might get the "grow your own" kit, and I'll have loads! ha ha ha
Brightest Blessings.
@quetzalcoatl2435 (222)
• Indonesia
23 Feb 08
There was a time when I had found not 1 but 2 on my lawn. But since then, I haven't seen any of them. Maybe it's just that I haven't been looking hard enough... But it's somewhere out there. Maybe someone successfully genetically engineered clovers to have 4 leaves?
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@mummymo (23706)
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23 Feb 08
Awww Darkwing my dear friend I was forever'finding' four leaf clovers when I was little - but then again I cheated - I used to split one leave into two! I have no idea where this company would find so many of these but the cynical part of me reckons that they have bred the plant in such a way that they grow with 4 leaves! I hope you have great fun with whatever product you choose sweety - you really deserve one after all that hard work! xxx
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@Darkwing (21583)
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23 Feb 08
Ha ha ha! I think it might have been noticeable that you split one of the leaves. The company sell seeds for four-leaf clovers... a grow your own kit, so I guess they must have been cultivated at some time, or perhaps they're a special variety of the plant... who knows!
I'm undecided as to the product at the moment.. there's so much to choose from. lol. Brightest Blessings. xxxx
@dangnabit67 (2021)
• United States
22 Feb 08
Its about patients. They are there but it takes time looking.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
22 Feb 08
I have no idea if a 'real' shamrock and four leafed clover are the same thing or not, but I used to find the clover all the time.
I grew up in NH and was able to find them right in my yard or at my friends' house. You did have to look, but it sure wasn't impossible.
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