They may be common “weeds” but dandelions are bright and beautiful and the sight of them definitely cheers me up in this sunny springtime, when we are all staying home to protect the NHS and save lives in our small Dorset village.
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I love dandelions too. When you do macro photos of them and look very closely at them they are so beautiful…
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A delight for the eye.
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Dandelions are one of my top three favorite flowers.
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I wonder what the other favourites are, Claudia.
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They are sunflowers and zinnias. I love to grow them. I also like pansies, daffodils, honeysuckle (the scent) and thistles (the big purple kind that I remember from my childhood).
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Here are some flowers for you, Claudia


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So nice to see friends again! I am interested in your honeysuckle. Here we rarely see pink – it is white, and a vine that twines in hedges and bushes, very often. As children we learned how to pull out the middle of the flowers and suck out the sweetness. As for sunflowers, not too far from us they are grown as crops, and I love to see them in fields like this, they look just like your photo.
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The honeysuckle was in a hedge. I have seen paler versions. The sunflowers were being grown as a crop for bird food.
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Yes, the sunflowers here, I think bird seed, or sometimes they are for human consumption. I don’t know the difference in the flowers, I just love the array of sunniness across the landscape.
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Seeing the fields of sunflowers last year was one of my high points. It was not only so uplifting to see so many bright flowers in a dramatic setting at my favourite place of Rhossili, but it was the first time I had been able to walk the required distance to get there after a lot of prior health problems.
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That is an extra sweet feeling on top of the sight itself, the knowledge that it marks a return to life, to blooming!
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Thank you, Claudia.
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