Forget me Not
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Forget-me-Not (Myosotis) - Beautiful perennial and biennial marsh and alpine plants, children of the mountain and marsh land from many parts of Europe and our own land, and of high value and charming in all ways for gardens.
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Alpine Forget-me-Not
Alpine Forget-me-Not (Myosotis Alpestris) - A compact plant of the loveliest blue flowers, thriving on the rock garden, in moist gritty soil. It should be surrounded by half-buried pieces of sandstone. There are various forms, some very dwarf, with white and rose flowers. Princess Maud is a robust variety with rich deep blue flowers.
Myosotis Azorica
Myosotis Azorica - zorean Forget-me-Not)A beautiful somewhat tender kind, with dark blue blooms, 6 to 10 inches high, and, coming from the extreme W. Azores, will not survive except in warm corners of the rock garden. It grows freely in light soil, and may be raised from seed or cuttings. Not easy to grow, and only by raising from seed.
Early Forget-me-Not
Early Forget-me-Not (Myosotis Dissitiflora) - Beautiful and early flowering, 6 to 12 inches high, with large handsome flowers deep sky-blue, continuing till midsummer. It is best in broad masses in open spots of the rock garden, or wherever spring flowers are much valued.
Myosotis Palustris
Myosotis Palustris - Although common in wet ditches and by streams and canals throughout Britain, M. palustris should be grown in the garden among shrubs in peat beds, or for edgings, or as a carpet to taller subjects, in small beds or borders in moist soil. There are forms of this, one with white flowers, another with larger flowers than the type, whilst one is called semperflorens, from its long season of flowering.
Myosotis Rehsteineri
Myosotis Rehsteineri - One of the prettiest Forget-me-Nots, an effective close-to-the-ground creeper, practically forming a dense cushion of blue for several weeks in April and May. The plant thrives and spreads like a mossy Saxifrage, but keeps flat to the ground.
Wood Forget-me-Not
Wood Forget-me-Not (Myosotis Sylvatica) - A beautiful woodland plant, and of great value for the wild garden. It should be abundant in a wild state by wood walks, in copses, and sows itself freely in such places. For the garden, sow seeds in beds in August every year. Britain. Seed. There are a white, a rose-colored, and a striped variety.
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