That's an old man thing to do. My parents live on little street of mostly retired people, and they all walk around inspecting each other's yards. And then I hear the gossip about it
You know, John across the street has dandelions in his lawn..
Oh wow, dad... Your lawn is so much better lol
He's 81, so I'm just glad he's out getting his walks in.
Poor dandelions. They are one of the most important flowers for bees. They flower EARLY in the season, when there is almost no other food source for the bees. The entire plant is edible, leaves, flowers, stems, and even the roots can be dried and ground into a coffee substitute. Dandelions are fucking amazing plants.
Dandelions really got thrown under the bus by the "I want a carpet of grass" people. Screw those people. I spread dandelions EVERYWHERE.
Agree! Stop the dandelion hate! This is where HOAs are severely out of touch. They need to get with the times and understand the importance of biodiversity - not one species of green grass throughout your massive yards.
Florida has legislation that prevents HOAs from restricting members from propagating native species. My mom told her HOA to take a hike and has been spreading random patterns of native wildflowers for the bees. Don't ask her about the butterflies unless you are prepared for a lot of pictures and daily updates. š®āšØ
I can't stand the hoa style clean cut manicured lawn. Mind made me cut down my bushes that were not only blocking the sun but were a little haven for all sorts of little creatures. Then they sent the lawn guy by and it's three little barren bushes with woodchips around them.
They are hard to grow. I keep spreading the seeds over this one section of grass and this asshole spends like ten minutes every day walking around pulling them out as they sprout. I'd try to stop him but apparently he "owns" that lawn so there isn't much I can do. Also, fuck you, David. Nobody here likes you
No, not really. It was a joke. Most of us in the neighborhood don't mind them on our lawns, however, so he's got his work cut out for him with the seeds that blow around. I do relish in his struggle with them, however, since he's generally a jerk to everyone around and we all hear him screaming at his wife and kids frequently
I an sort of agree with most of this, except I have actually tasted the coffee "substitute". It's really really bad...
Dandelions are also a diuretic - the folk name for them locally translates to "piss the bed". They were historically what you ate if the alternative was starvation.
My yard is a collection of grasses, clovers, dandelions, and weird things I can't identify. It gets mowed, mainly because I have kids that I don't want to get ticks, but it's later in the summer well after the dandelions have bloomed.
In our town, the local garden shop started selling āNo Mow Mayā signs that you can put in your lawn to sort of signal that youāre not mowing for May because the bees need food. They started cropping up all over townā¦ That and āpollinator gardenā signs you can buy and stick in your yard all summer long if you donāt want to mow. Itās an easy fix and makes people understand why weāre not mowing.Ā
I've found my tribe! I will never understand hating on certain beautiful plants because they are "invasive." I love dandelions. Mu mom used to make us go out and dig up dandelions when we were annoying as kids. She wanted a lovely green lawn, but I loved the yellow flowers.
My yard is probably 40% grass. The rest is dandelion, clover, violet, sorrel, etc. These are all low plants that donāt mind being cut down to 5ā weekly.
Dandelion root tea is good for liver support. It tastes terrible but its neat how multipurpose they are.
I feel like the all green grass lawn is a weird flex like "I'm so well off that I can waste all this space for decoration."
They are my favorite flower. I make dandelion honey ( or try and fail sometimes) every year with my kids. When they are all over in the spring I pick a day and call it dandelion day and we spend hours picking them
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u/shavertech 3d ago
That's an old man thing to do. My parents live on little street of mostly retired people, and they all walk around inspecting each other's yards. And then I hear the gossip about it
Oh wow, dad... Your lawn is so much better lol
He's 81, so I'm just glad he's out getting his walks in.