Dandelion, the first Nectar Source in Spring
In eastern NA (at least) the *Dandelion is the first provider of food (nectar) for our beloved bees*. But an obsession for the perfect lawn, combined with lawn company advertisements has transformed the Dandelion into a weed that must be killed in the spring. From early boyhood I have been closely observing nature and later chose wildlife and ecology as a profession, specializing in habitat. As a boy, I clearly remember that lawns were comprised of a *diversity of herbaceous plants*. Today, these plants are called weeds. The belief that Dandelions (and all the other broad-leaved herbaceous plants) are weeds amounts to man’s perversion of nature. In those early years there was no such thing as a perfect grass lawn. It simply did not exist and was not even a point of interest. But over the last 50 years I have watched suburban America...
