Linatag - 25 August 2010 04:53 PM
The purple violets are my favorite too! My son is a big fan of the dandelions. I know a lot of people hate them, but we think they’re a very cheerful flower.
Fortunately we’re not in a subdivision so we don’t have to worry about neighbors being uptight over our nonstandard grass. We can enjoy our violets, clover and dandelions in peace 
I am in the woods, so my neighbors can’t even see my yard. As far as dandelions, I copied this from the article to which I posted a link earlier in this thread. I have to agree:
“It seems that the world around me has been brainwashed into scorning dandelions on the lawn. Why must a yard be monochromatic? Why should everything that naturally comes up be wiped out and replaced with just one kind of grass? Who made up these rules? We are seeing that our world is confused about a number of things and I think that this disdain for dandelions is one of them. This lowly little flower is quite beautiful and is related to the larger sunflower. If dandelions were not free I believe that more of us would be ordering them from mail order catalogs and planting them in rows like marigolds.”
Farmer’s Daughter over the years has identified a lot of strange plant diseases and other plants that pop out of the soil from out of nowhere for us that we were unable to identify. 
