Dandelions hold a place in superstition and folklore.
If a dandelion blossom stayed open all night, it was believed to foretell of rain the following day. Sniff a dandelion, if your nose turns yellow, you are in love with a fellow, if your nose does not turn, no fellow is in love with you.
It was believed good luck to carry a few (just two or three) dandelions amongst your wedding bouquet, as it would bring prosperity to the marriage in money, children, and health. It was good luck for a young woman to wear a necklace of dandelions if she made them, but not lucky if someone gave them to her.
Bad luck to pick dandelions in a cemetery. Worse luck if they brought them home from a cemetery, and even worse if they gave them away after picking them in the cemetery, except to lay them on a loved one's grave.
Some would rub a dandelion between their hands and rub the yellow on any spot that ached or swelled.
Dandelions and the uses and myths around them are as plentiful as they are themselves.
Children have found many uses for dandelions throughout the years. Because of their plentiful supply, and supple stems, they have been braided into many a bracelet or necklace by little girls. Once they have turned to seed, children would blow them off into white swirls, for each blow it took to empty the puffball equaled one hour of the day that had passed. Long a favorite from the past and destined to continue as one.
I work part time at Johnson's Strawberry Farm & Garden Center so this year I decided to try planting something different other than my usual petunias and impatients. For this planter I chose Profusion Cherry Zinnias, Vinca, & Polka Dot Plants.
