How to Find a Four Leaf Clover

ReadyMade magazine’s web site has a fun online project that teaches you how to find a four leaf clover.

4-leaf clovers, or “shamrocks”, are a mutation of the usually 3-leafed White Clover plant, Trifolium repens. One clover is actually one leaf of a larger plant, with 3 leaflets. Mutations can occur due to a low frequency recessive gene or environmental causes. Often the reason for mutation is differentiable from one clover to another. The mutation does not stop at the 4-leafed variety: 5-leafed clovers are not uncommon. However, the more leaflets, the harder they are to find (and the luckier they are): the record is an 18-leaf clover, and the highest I’ve ever seen is 10-leafed.

Click through to the project, and you’ll find that the author has a giant collection of four leaf clovers that he has pressed and mounted in a frame.

He must be one lucky dude.

We love ReadyMade magazine, especially since they mentioned Clean Air Gardening and the Brill Luxus 38 reel mower in their April / May issue!

(Five Star Rating) I never expected to fall in love with the (Brill) Luxus … At a mere 17 pounds, it’s sleek and light, and it practically purred through my lawn. www.cleanairgardening.com.”