Forget-Me-Nots

Sometimes the most humble self-sown annual makes huge contributions to a garden and gets absolutely no credit - it’s taken completely for granted, with rarely a photograph. That’s the yearly fate of my annual pink, blue, and white Forget-Me-Nots.

These pretty flowers only get mentioned in my diaries in early summer, when I'm ripping them all out and my clothes are getting covered with their sticky seeds. I’m sure they are dismissed as nuisances in many gardens - in fact I know a gardener (not a close gardening friend!) who won't allow any forget-me-nots in her rather large garden beds. Silly woman!

This spring my little self-sown forget-me-nots have been, as usual, quite delightful. They do so well filling up the spaces between the green growth of other, more showy plants. Finally they have their own page of recognition, and a photograph.

Ironically the ’forget-me-not’ name seems to have the opposite effect...