I was chuffed to come upon this lowly dandelion, made lofty by Fabergé, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts when I visited on 1
Wednesday Vignette: Fabergé dandelion
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Forget Your Perfect Offering #2: Weeds
“We haven’t a clue as to what counts in the secret landscape behind the landscape we look at here.” — Charles Wright Weeds without love. Torn
Earth Knows No Desolation
“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.” – George Meredith * My neighbours have plumy ornamental grasses whose seven-foot tall
The ground all mucked up with plants
“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.” — Dorothy Parker
Coltsfoot
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is an early spring bloomer that many people mistake for dandelions, although it blooms before dandelions bloom, and if you look at