Dandelion - The Weed We Love to Hate
GardenLine / Yard & Garden / Dandelion - The Weed We Love to Hate If Statistics Canada were to conduct a poll asking Canadians what plant they hated the most, there's a good chance the dandelion would top the list. Like most weeds, dandelions are ... [... more]
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Questions & Answers
Q. I have dandelions sprouting up all over my lawn! I've always had a few, but it's never been like this. What can I do? A. The easy answer is spray. There are many products on the market today that you can simply spray over your entire grass, ... [... more]
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Wishing On Dandelions: A Novel
A poignant, beautifully written coming of age story: Wishing on Dandelions is a beautifully-written coming of age story with a poignant, emotionally-packed ending. DeMuth tackles tough subjects such as racial relations, interracial love, and recovery [... more]
CDN$14.50
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Dandelion Wine
From Amazon.com: World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those [... more]
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The Dandelion Seed
Not an eviction---you're just being re-planted.: My 2 year olds both walked away before the end. Maybe they knew I was thinking how helpful the story will be to start preparing them now for the inevitable difficult separation from the "growth stem& [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Nature Upclose: A Dandelions Life
Make Way For Dandelions: The illustrations in this book are lovely. They are very simple and accessable for young children, and manage to catch each of the changes through which the dandelion goes as it progresses through its life cycle. It's on the [... more]
CDN$8.50
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Dandelion
Warm and Happy Childhood Memories: Dandelion brings back such happy memories for me. I think I checked that book out of the library every Saturday as a child. It taught me that it is ok to be who I am. Kind of a childs view of "To thine own self be [... more]
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Dandelions
What a refreshing book!: I really enjoyed this story and the beautiful illustrations that accompany it. What a great way to teach children about a plant that is so often discarded by society. I especially like how it teaches us to see beauty in all the [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Question & Answers for April
Q. I'm suffering, or rather my lawn is suffering, from a major outbreak of dandelions. They are coming up everywhere throughout the grass. What can I do? A. You're not alone. I've noticed the yellow dandelion heads sprouting in lawns throughout ... [... more]
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#3 in a series of Children's Garden Themes
Spring is going strong and Mother's day will soon be here. Many a Mother receives beautiful cut flowers as a remembrance on this special day, but I am convinced that many moms would prefer a mangled handful of dandelions or wilted garden flowers ... [... more]
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Dauntless Dandelion
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.--Walt Whitman G. K. Chesterton called it a ... [... more]
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Street Corners, Dandelions, and Blackberry Hill
Thoughts on growing up in the city loving the wild, and on finding garden space in an urban environment. Recipes for Great-Grandma's Dandelion Greens, Wild Berry Jam, Dandy Beer, Brambleberry Cordial My allies are easy to find: the dandelion ... [... more]
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