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Published by Ms. Eugen Köhler, 1887/© Purix Verlag Volker Christen / Bridgeman ImagesIn her fun-loving Newfoundland accent, the Camosun College herbology instructor announced: “For your homework, I want you to go for a walk and figure out which plant is willing to speak to you.” I rolled my eyes and silently lamented the fact that I had already paid for the 10-week course.
“Dandelions are one powerful plant,” she began in her loud-and-lilting voice. Two hours later she ended the lesson. “If we listen carefully, this plant could give us an opportunity to understand a voice of the Earth,” she said.Ramona Kaminskas, at 20 months old, blows seeding dandelions in sunny spell on May 21, 1984. Bright yellow dandelions capture the imaginative spirit of children everywhere.Bright yellow dandelions and their popular puffballs speak to children everywhere.
In search of a broader, dandelion-ologist perspective, I spoke to a variety of people including an ethnobotanist, a highly respected Canadian environmentalist, a master gardener, a pharmacist, a landscape designer, three children, a Croatian grandmother, an Italian grandfather, a beekeeper, a Canadian backyard gardener, a professional gardener from the famed Butchart Gardens, an elderly Chinese herbalist, a Hawaiian horticulturalist and a Maritime herbologist.
Passing a few obligatory pesticide-bans is one thing; but shifting the appreciation spotlight to a 99-per-center, working-class blossom? If only there was a way to ignite the power of social sympathy for a more balanced take on an unreasonably classed “underdog” in the stunning biodiversity of flowers.
According to world-renowned ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, dandelions have a long history of service to humans.
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