Remember buttercups from when we were kids?  I know you remember the legend about holding the little flowers under your chin and if you like butter your chin glows yellow.  This is from my memory, and when I looked it up in Wikipedia it said exactly that!!!  The petals have a luminous sheen that reflects the color onto your skin.  It also said that the flowers and leaves can be poisonous to livestock, and I am assuming to us.

 

Well, I think this is the biggest buttercup I've ever seen.  Pretend you are holding a giant beach ball, and barely touch your fingertips together.  That's how big this one plant is.  And the flowers radiate from the center.  Pretty, huh?  

 

It's ok to pick them and admire the flowers, but don't let them grow in your vegetable patch, because you don't want to eat the flowers or the leaves.  That's your garden tip for today.  DON'T eat buttercups.

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!!