A Wish or A Weed?
When I was a young girl I loved to pick dandelions, make a wish, and blow the white floaters into the air. Did you know a dandelion grows roots as deep as fifteen feet, not fifteen inches but fifteen feet into the soil? For such a small delicate plant that is a deep root! A yellow flower appears on a stem that can rise up to eighteen inches from ground level. The flower is bright and fluffy but quite small. It transforms to seed head in just a few days, resembling a fuzzy bal
