Fri Feb 03 2012
A recent letter's description of the dandelion as "cheery" suggests this might be the new lawn fashion advocated by the May 17 letter "Opposes use of lawn pesticides, herbicides."
Are we slaves to the outmoded ideal of a dark and sinister green monoculture? Why not the swaths of color on English village greens, the verdant idyll on which our Western Reserve town green is surely modeled? The Eastern U.S. celebrates its fall foliage spectacular, why not the golden spring? How far we have moved from the 1923 view of Wallace Nutting in "Connecticut Beautiful"?
"Coming as it does in early spring, (the dandelion) clothes an entire landscape with its gorgeous color, and rejoices the heart of man... It is our tulip in the grass." As my mother used to say, "Biodiversity begins at home."
Peter Manders
Hudson
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