Hello, I'm a Dandelion, A Sunflower and more!

"Hello, I'm a...." was the introduction to an attention getting paragraph; the means for  Paula Kok-Den Boer to write about and show the features and benefits of the ubiquitous and maligned dandelion. That original post has been inserted in numerous blogs, online posts, and more; with only a small percentage vaguely acknowledging its author. Even TruthOrFiction, the online resource for "seeking truth and exposing fiction since 1999", has entered the discussion pointing to Paula Kok - Den Boer as the author of the dandelion post.

The dandelion is vindicated in her post as she itemizes its value:

• "Either the soil is too compact / hard / stomped, and I want to loosen it for you with my roots."

• "Or there is too little calcium in the soil - don't worry, I will replenish that for you with the dying of my leaves."
• "Or there is too little calcium in the soil - don't worry, I will replenish that for you with the dying of my leaves."
• "I'm here because your soil needs my help so best you let me grow without disturbing me! When everything is fixed, I will disappear again, I promise!"

Paula's post is accompanied by original photographs from her garden, but somewhere along the way the "dandelion" text now has attached a vintage style image in the style of botanical books with prints intended to be extracted and framed. Which in fact is an image taken from "Cavallini Dandelion Decorative Wrap", printed on their signature Italian archival paper and obtained from the Cavallini & Co. archives of ephemera. However, it is possible Cavallini did not extract those images from a book. And in fact it seems they may have removed the originating attributes.

Elsewhere we have found it to be a vintage roll down school chart from the 1970's (!) used in Germany and Austria. These were part of a series of 98 charts illustrated by Heinrich Jung, Gottlieb von Koch and Dr. Friedrich Quentell. The originals were offset print on paper laminated on linen.

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