Don't diss my dandelions

Our lawn is beautiful this year…beautiful, that is, if you enjoy looking at dandelions.
 
To many, our lawn is a scourge, an eyesore in an otherwise lawn-manicured neighbourhood, and if you listen carefully, I’m pretty sure you can hear several elderly, retired neighbours tsking and sucking their teeth as they look out their windows and estimate how long it will take our dandelions to contaminate their pristine green carpets.  As an added bonus, we seem to have developed a healthy amount of forget-me-nots, plantain, and thistles.  Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of the thistles, Scottish connections notwithstanding, but the dandelions are growing on me (pun intended) as I learn more about the down sides of cosmetic pesticide use.

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