2006-10-25 21:48:11 · 10 answers · asked by Gemma G 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
There are different varieties of dandelions but all have a photoperiod of around 12 hr light and 12 hours dark. This occurs in the spring and early summer. It also occurs in the fall like now (we're getting close to 12 hr days and nights again) and if other conditions are right they sometimes bloom a second time around now.
2006-10-26 01:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by college kid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a day called 'dandelion day' when all the flowers are supposed to be their best, and you can rush out into the morning dew and pick them to make drinks like 'dandelion and burdock', 'dandelion wine', etc. I think it's either July 11th or 12th - not sure which - though dandelions are out before then. Certainly the first week of July is the best one for picking loads. In these days of horrible hot summers and high humidity all the year round, they flower earlier - although this year they were spot-on, due to the late spring. There are still some around now, and I've seen them at Christmas - baffled climate altered by stupid people - us.
Of course you may want to know so you can crush them to death, or dig them up from your lawn, once and for all ... not make dandelion chains at all.
Oh, and don't believe that tale about them and wet beds - one of the Old French names is 'Pis-en-lit', and our name for them comes from the more formal French 'Dents-de-lion' - because of the leaves, I think and the shaggy yellow heads.
And yes, the young leaves are quite tasty in salads.
Have fun looking!
2006-10-25 23:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dandelion Time
2016-10-07 02:33:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the spring and the summer! Dandelions are a nice little wild flower! The greens are good to eat!
2006-10-25 22:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine bloomed first in spring at the same time my tulips bloomed. My tulips were yellow, and with the mass of yellow dandelion blooms at the same time, made the tulips totally un-noticed. I could have saved the money I spent on the tulip bulbs! (Central Ohio, zone 5)
2006-10-26 05:23:24 · answer #5 · answered by judy a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale) is a perennial weed. It flowers in summer, quite early on. I've got one flowering now, at the moment, due to the warm weather.
2006-10-25 21:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, no longer as many as previous years regardless of the shown fact that. something else seems to have taken their place this year. It has an attractive burnt orange flower yet like a number of weeds this is becoming interior the incorrect place, ie, the backyard.
2016-12-16 14:35:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess that would depend on where you live.when i was little my grandmother and i would gather the greens for cooking in early spring when the plants were young and unblooming,usually by the middle of may they would be flowering and last thru out summer.we live in the northeast.
2006-10-26 00:33:20 · answer #8 · answered by kimmi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the spring, one of the first ones in the spring
2006-10-25 23:36:38 · answer #9 · answered by CJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
around early spring..beneficial for ladybugs and provide early spring pollen for their food
2006-10-25 21:54:34 · answer #10 · answered by becca j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋