Taraxacum officinale | dandelion
Designing with this cushiony yellow wildflower
When the first wave of dandelion flowers hits in spring, they are the most wondrous blaze of gold. Looking at our garden, with all of the emerging perennials and allium shoots, it is the humble dandelion that is suddenly doing the heavy lifting. Weaving around all of the other plants in a beautiful forking river of warm yellow. If I’d have weeded, I would have been denied this natural superbloom.
Then, after a time...