@aronow Oooh, we didn't get a wish, but the number of blows it took to clear all the seeds away was meant to tell you the time. I like that there are different stories about them!
@eclectech dandelions were my favorite as a young child. My mom knitted me a yellow dress, and there was a picture of me, the happiest child, in a meadow full of yellow dandelions - me one of them 😂
Making wreaths from them is very common here.
Was the blow to know the time accurate? :) Would it work to tell the parents, if one was late for dinner?
@eclectech I’ve never heard the term, perhaps it’s regional? I’m in the UK, mainly lived in the midlands and Oxford areas… dunno where you are, but plausible?
@Drarok ooh, it's getting complicated now, as we definitely have some examples of people from the midlands using it (we are talking very small sample mind you, and there will be generational impact on it). I might have to try and narrow it down with a more nuanced poll next time I post a dandelion pic!
Getting some great alternative names though; Fluffs and Windy Puffs 😍
@eclectech I just recently learned that some people call them clocks. We always just called them dandelions no matter their state or sometimes dandelions heads.
@eclectech Ah ok. Honestly I don't remember if there were rules like this. I just blew them around a lot and liked to put cuttings of the stems into a glass of water to watch them building spirals.
@morph I'm wondering if it's very geographically targeted. I'm glad in the original post I edited my original "blow on a dandelion clock" to seed head, as I would definitely have made even less sense than normal to quite a few people.
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