Posts Tagged "dandelion"

Dandelion: Swine’s Snout and Witches’ Milk

Posted by on Apr 10, 2020 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Dandelion: Swine’s Snout and Witches’ Milk

The witch who used swine’s snout in a magical brew may really have been a skilled herbal healer: swine’s-snout is another of the many aliases of dandelions, from the snub-nosed shape of the closed seedhead.

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Dandelion: Grow Anywhere

Posted by on Apr 20, 2013 in flowers, plant parts, spring, sri lanka, Unmowed Blog | 2 comments

A walk down 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, on a cold spring afternoon. Cement, blacktop, cars. Bare branches. Not much green. Nothing in bloom.  But a closer look revealed a spark of color. This was my first sighting for the year of my favorite botanical sight: the yellow petals of a dandelion. One of the countless reasons I love dandelions is that they can make themselves at home anywhere. Anywhere on Earth, it seems. They grow on every continent except Antarctica (and I’m sure they’ll be blooming there before long.) They grow on mountaintops, in sand dunes, along...

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