Rebecca,

One of my neighbors makes dandelion tea. Since I don't use any chemicals, she comes and picks flowers before I mow.

My mother used to make Dandelion wine. I remember we would sit and pull the yellow fluff from the flowers and we had to be careful not to get any of the green leaves in it. My neighbor when I was a kid, used to make salad from the greens.

Multi colored dandelions would make the yard cheerful. Would be sort of sad to mow them though.

shizen said: had to enlarge the picture, lilli. they looked like daisies.

I thought the same thing, I've never seen such a beautiful clump.

I tried the new leaves in a salad and they are a little too bitter for my taste, but much better than ground elder leaves, which are also supposed to be good for you. I made some syrup from the dandelion flowers, it took me an entire afternoon to separate the petals from the rest (in part because I was greedy and picked several litres of flowers ) and the result was less exciting than I had hoped, but at least now I can say I tried it. In future, I'l stick with the rhubarb and elderflower syrups - much easier to make and tastier too.

Some warmer temps brought out a few more blooms.
Bluebeard's Ghost - Paul Black 2006

Brevity - Keppel 2012

Cat's Eye - Paul Black 2002

Eye Bright - J. D. Taylor 1979

Pippi Longstocking - Sterling Innerst 1985

Pumpin Iron - Paul Black

Reddy Set - Lucy Burton 2008

What Again - Allan Ensminger 1991

Tom ~ Nice littles, good pictures, too!

Very nice Tom. I think yours might be ahead of mine. Really enjoy your show up there. Keep them coming!

Thanks, Most of my bloom is near the house, the outer ones are just starting. These two warm days have them moving along now. A couple more open today.
Jive - Keppel 2002


My little lavender/blue and green seedling.

on the lavender/blue and green seedling. If it was offered in a catalog I would have it in my cart! Did I say

Edit: I forgot to say I love all your other littles.

Awesome!
I'll give to the seedling too

Thanks, I was going to dump it last year, but didn't. Not sure it's original enough, and the form isn't the best. It's from a Bluebeard's Ghost bee pod.

Pumpin Iron

IrisLilli said:I tried the new leaves in a salad and they are a little too bitter for my taste, but much better than ground elder leaves, which are also supposed to be good for you. I made some syrup from the dandelion flowers, it took me an entire afternoon to separate the petals from the rest (in part because I was greedy and picked several litres of flowers ) and the result was less exciting than I had hoped, but at least now I can say I tried it. In future, I'l stick with the rhubarb and elderflower syrups - much easier to make and tastier too.

One set of my Grandparents came from Denmark....and LOVED elderberry ANYTHING, syrup, soup, jam, you name it. All of their "kids"(my Dad, and his sisters and brothers,and ALL us "grandkids", thought that "elderberry = nasty" ....Rhubarb, on the other hand,

My mother used to make Elderberry jelly, and wine too. She only used the dark black ones, never the red. I made some jelly a couple of years ago, and realized I didn't like it that much, but I guess it's really healthy.

To me, anything made from elderberries tastes "musty"

Tom, your iris photos are so fine...also the irises!

dirtdorphins said:Awesome!
I'll give to the seedling too

Thanks Jan.
I have a quite a few new blooms today, but the sun is too bright for good pictures. I did manage to get a picture of
Dot Com - Bennett Jones 1996

I didn't notice the bug until I down loaded it onto my computer.
Baltimore Oriole by his orange

Finch stealing some of his orange.

The birds must love you garden Tom with the freshly cut fruit in the trees