My neighbours call my front yard, "Dandelion Row", I prefer Dan de Lion! I used to dig the roots up and make dandelion root tinctures for friends with liver and other problems. Haven't done that in a few years, but still resent it when people call them weeds. Dandelion root tincture is good for all kinds of things, as well as the green leaves being quite good in salad, and healthy!

Our backyard was so full of, ahem, weeds that we let it die down this summer, no water, nothing, and now we have a host of birds everyday coming in for a pit stop, pickin' away at all of the little seeds.

I'd love to see the high plains the way they were before they got plowed under and powdered to dust.

katlaughing