Re: Problem Gardener/dandelions


I've just been on holiday and I visited one of our more famous gardens at
Great Dixter.  (I don't know how well known this would be in America.  It's
often on tv in the UK.)  Although there are more formal areas, there are
also a lot of meadow plantings all around the garden, with lots of
dandelions.  However, where the meadow joined more formal areas the
dandelions continued into the formal bits.  It could just be that they'd
got behind with their weeding, but it looked deliberate to me and the
effect was quite charming (but maybe I was just in the mood to be charmed,
the sun was shining and I was on holiday).  Perhaps the thinking was that a
dandelion clock doesn't look much different from an Allium globe in shape
and we love those.

Louise in southern England



At 22:23 06/05/99 -0500, you wrote:
Thu, 06 May 1999 13:57:01 -0600
>From: Myrna Miller <mmiller@nemontel.net>
>Subject: RE: Problem Gardener/dandelions
>
>
>I really laughed when I read "dandelions" in your plant lists. We have had
>so much rain here in the past month that the dandelions and the lawn grass
>are just taking over all my flowerbeds. Beds that I weeded thoroughly in
>late March are infested with dandelions. (My husband says he likes them,
>for their cheery color, not that he'd be of any help, anyhow. Well, I could
>probably like them too, if they didn't seed the entire world.)  I live on a
>ranch, and my brother-in-law's wife, who lives next door, has invited her
>parents and my in-laws down for Mother's Day dinner....oh, gawd....now I am
>digging dandelions by the bushel!! No way you can get 'em all, either.
>
>Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
>
>____________________________________________________
>
>Craig wrote (much snipping):
>
>I can tell you this much, I
>>have some shasta daisies, sweet William, dandelions, creeping phlox, and
>>daylillies.  In my other flower garden I have bleeding hearts, miniature
>>roses, dandelions, climbing blaze rose, tea roses, hardy glads, tulips,
>>dandelions, the list is kind of like the Energizer Bunny....it goes on and
>>on and on (can I get a witness?).

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