Evidence enough that dandelions have deep taproots. They're providing something for occasional visiting hover-fly and a bit of green on my prairie!!
It's currently 36.5°C (97.7°F) in the shade with an occasional zephyr wafting by. Last rainfall here July 22 and that was negligable
I've added the tag heatwave22 to recent photos that illustrate our "Twice in a lifetime" heatwave. Do join me if you have some photos to show your unprecedented heat. ( Sorry southern hemisphere!)
The only flowers that survive in drought are dandelions. They are the cockroaches of the flora world and it would take a nuclear explosion to get rid of them. The grass may die off but the dandelions soldier on. ha ha.
These are such pretty dandelions and quite different from ours. Having not to long ago gone through this same heatwave I am totally in sympathy with you! If in fact you got the one we had you should be getting some relief in the next few days because ours backed off a little bit after a week or so
Always amazing how the weeds carry on growing when every thing else is struggling. One day scientists will be able to extract that magic and put it into crops.
That's hot! Hotter by a few degrees than here and we've started getting occasional thunder showers so everything, especially the weeds, are green. Are the dandelions mixed with another yellow plant? The outer flowers don't look like dandelions but the center ones do.
@wendyfrost probably already have Wendy!! @pcoulson yup!! Nature will always win @koalagardens yup @joansmor it's a spiky pest @bkbinthecity it's such a pest but too dry to dig out @wakelys start of a poem?? @ludwigsdiana want some seeds???!!! @taffy some areas really suffering @narayani we went to Perth, and Monkey Mia, for my 60th. Warned we'd hate the heat and humidity- coldest and windiest January in ages!! I loved it..........It even rained on us in Margaret River!! @dutchothotmailcom I know!!!! @grammyn I think even they're stunted from no rain!! @onewing cockroaches of plant world!! Love it
Unfortunately! What politicians underestimated becomes a fact. We broke the windows in our Earth greenhouse and now we have the results. Extreme weather phenomena everywhere. You are wonderful to show this heat that flows in a constant stream.
@pcoulson yup!! Nature will always win
@koalagardens yup
@joansmor it's a spiky pest
@bkbinthecity it's such a pest but too dry to dig out
@wakelys start of a poem??
@ludwigsdiana want some seeds???!!!
@taffy some areas really suffering
@narayani we went to Perth, and Monkey Mia, for my 60th. Warned we'd hate the heat and humidity- coldest and windiest January in ages!! I loved it..........It even rained on us in Margaret River!!
@dutchothotmailcom I know!!!!
@grammyn I think even they're stunted from no rain!!
@onewing cockroaches of plant world!! Love it
I loved Babs' narrative @onewing