© Janet Davis

Is it time to change our attitude

About the all-green lawn?

Well, imagine, if you will, a day

When all the turf is gone.

Not one blade left of Kentucky Blue,

No fescues and no rye;

Just a field of sunshine-yellow blooms

Beneath the bright-blue sky.

If we hadn’t all been raised to think

The dandelion’s a weed,

This cheery flower might not seem a blight,

But a groundcover we all need.

For covering ground is its aim in life,

At that, no plant is as good.

So let’s raise a toast to the dandelion

“The little weed that could”.

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