BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 02:55 AM

No, BWM. You misread both Jeri's post & mine replying to it. He was mentioning the plants that are about tho dandelions aren't just now, & I was pointing out another name for one of them. Of course dandelions are bloody dandelions in anybody's language!

FYI, Qn·Anne's·Lace/Cowparsley are those tall spreading plants with the composite small white flowers at the end of a mass of tall stems.

Wikipedia:-- Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, keck, or Queen Anne's lace



~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST,Musket curious
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 02:30 AM

Too many syllables. Stick with "flowers" easier to sing.

Out of interest, I haven't noticed any loss this side of the pond if my paddocks have any relevance. The lawns have them too. Presumably, and I'm no botanist, different strains?

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 02:30 AM

Queen Anne's Lace? Cow-Parsley? WTF? Never heard them called either of those, by anyone in the UK. They might call them by those names dahn sarf in Southern-Softy-Land, but in the Backwoods of Lincolnshire, where they indeed proliferate, they're Dandelions plain and simple! :-) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 01:32 AM

BTW, isn't Queen Anne's Lace a much nicer name than Cow-Parsley, which that plant is usually called over here in UK?

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 11:50 PM

Mr Monsanto had nothing to do with me Dandies.

Mr Monsanto: May you rot in Hell.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 11:11 PM

Thank you, Mr Monsanto. May you rot in Hell.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 11:08 PM

Plenty of dandelions here in mid-coast Maine earlier in the season. And they were part of the colonial herb gardens and not ornamentals. Every part of the plant can be used.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 10:58 PM

I had a blanket of yellow in the... what was it, early June? Then it was a pile of poofy white. The milk weed was done blooming in early July, I think. Now it's goldenrod, Joe Pye, orange jewel weed, Queen Anne's lace and something that might be angelica out back.

I saw a few monarchs earlier this year, but I haven't seen many of ANY butterflies. I have such a huge crop of milkweed this year, I would have expected a load of monarchs.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 10:41 PM

Is anyone else missing the monarch butterfly this year?

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 10:25 PM

As Bill D said, this is a bit past their time. Earlier- maybe until a month or so ago - we had tons of them in southeastern Alaska (I like them) but they're not here now.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 09:47 PM

Isn't this past their normal blooming time? I usually have plenty early ... can't remember how many I saw earlier.

(Maybe the huge increase in climbing vines has robbed them of CO2)

Subject: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST,Gern
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 09:19 PM

Not to interrupt more pressing matters, but has anyone in the eastern US seen these former annoyances lately? Looking out my front window in Vermont, the dandelions ordinarily outnumber the grass. Not this year. Almost none have blossomed. Conspicuous in their absence here in New England. Any other gardeners noticing this trend. Is it cyclical or is it suspicious? Brought over by the British as ornamental flowers, they spread into a continental menace. Are they going the way of the polar bear? Will they take the thistle with them?