I was out walking and saw so many dandelions. They are in season. A few years ago, I learned that the dandelion starts out as a yellow flower and then turns into the puff ball that we blow to make a wish.
When we blow on the buff ball, we are blowing the dandelion seeds into the wind…
Seems like we should hurry and make multiple wishes while ALL the seeds are flying off, right. Increase our chances of at least ONE wish coming true.
You can also eat them. My Italian relatives would go in the garden pulling the leaves and using them in salads and cooking them too. They taste like arugula.
So, here’s to DANDELIONS! Make a Wish!
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I like those leaves too.
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Thanks for the memories you gave me from childhood. Growing up north of Seattle, we spent every summer making wishes with balls of dandelion seeds.
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You only learned recently that yellow dandelions turned into the white blow-away balls? I must have grown up in a house with far more dandelions in the lawn than you did! 😛
And if you blow them, please do so near the property of the neighbor downwind, because each of those little white floaty things is a seed that will beget a new crop of the cursed things.
I guess I’m not very romantic about dandelions, am I.
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I’ve always seen dandelions, but I didn’t “know” about them. I had looked them up when I wanted to learn about the history of blowing on them to make a wish. Oh, I read THAT too, about the seeds!! What a surprise that was. Now, I’ll feel bad if I try to keep blowing on different ones for multiple wishes. LOL
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My parents lawn on the farm, and the orchard, was sunny with dandelions every spring. No one tried to weed them out, we just enjoyed them for their sunny color in May!
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I wouldn’t have guessed dandelions start as yellow flowers. Figured they begin and end as puff balls. Knew they were edible but not that they tasted like arugula. The tea you can make with them is supposed to be a superfood of sorts.
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We harvest them from the field here in Portugal and eat them. According to Chinese medicine, they are good for liver and eyesights.
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Interesting, I was reading about their health benefits too. Thanks for sharing this.
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There is also a saying, if wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
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I have not heard of that, thank you. I’ll look g that up. Nice to learn something new.
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Hi Judy, Thank you for pinging me. I just went over and saw your post. What lovely memories you have too. Happy Summer now!!
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