What’s a dandelion summer season?

In response to M. C. Beaton, who wrote about it throughout the cozy thriller, The Skeleton throughout the Closet (2001), a dandelion summer season is a scorching summer season, foretold by an abundance of dandelion blooms throughout the spring.

We’ll must take her phrase for it on account of I searched and searched on-line to confirm a second provide¹ for this little little bit of British data nevertheless acquired right here up with nothing, apart from for a lot of particulars about dandelion-the-weed, dandelion-the-useful-herb, and a e-book known as Dandelion Summer season by Lisa Wingate (2011), which I am now curious adequate to study to see if it confirms this definition or has nothing to do with it.

(I see that Dandelion Summer season gained the 2012 Carol Award for Women’s Fiction from the American Christian Fiction Writers. Properly, there goes my plan to name an award after myself.)

Anyway,

M. C. Beaton wrote in her cozy thriller:

“Nation people on a regular basis talked about if you happen to observed quite a few dandelions, it was going to be a scorching summer season.” “Dandelion Summer season,” talked about Fell and laughed.

Spherical proper right here, when people see quite a few dandelions they normally suppose, “Geez, that particular person doesn’t care about their backyard on account of they let dandelions develop in it.”

Properly, that merely isn’t true in my case. I care about my backyard. It’s merely that I’ve planted 1000’s of crocuses in my backyard for early spring bloom, so I don’t use herbicides to kill off dandelions on account of these chemical compounds would kill off the crocuses too. And no individual wants that.

“Nonetheless the dandelions?!” people ask. “What do you do about dandelions?”

I don’t do one thing about them.

Open your eyes within the summertime and go trying to find these dandelions. You don’t see many in bloom throughout the summertime, do you? I can say from experience that dandelions flower for lower than each week or two throughout the spring. Then, if you happen to occur to mow them off and preserve your grass cut back three inches or taller, they’ll fade away by early summer season.

I should clarify. The dandelions will nonetheless be there—they’re perennial flowers with deep faucet roots—nevertheless they gained’t be flowering. They’ll merely be lined up by the backyard.

So even with out killing off the dandelions, I really feel I’ve adequate backyard.

I even have adequate dandelions to search out out if it’s going to be a dandelion summer season, if that little little bit of nation data applies to my area of the world.

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And let me know if you happen to occur to’ve heard of dandelion summers or just suppose you had a dandelion summer season this yr.

1. I am now a second provide if any person searches on-line for “what’s a dandelion summer season!” ↩︎