'Bluesylva'
'Mon Amie Blue'
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| May 2, 2011 |
These need shade. I put them in as a groundcover by the dry creek bed. Hopefully there is enough afternoon shade there to the right of the big maple.
They were planted in the hot summer of 2010 and languished. By spring 2011 they started to spread, but only the 'Bluesylva' apparently.
(I had added a different cultivar, 'Mon Amie Blue', which is a smaller, lighter blue, so this patch would have a mix of lighter and darker forget me nots.)
These are short lived perennials, so let them reseed --- plants will persist in the garden for many years by freely and sometimes aggressively self-seeding.
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| May 6, 2012 They are spreading and coming into their own now |
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| May 17, 2012 I thought this was kind of hokey but cool! |
Wow, in 2013 these were beautiful.
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| 5/12/13 You can see these from a distance with the pop of orange geums in front |
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| 5/12/13 |
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| 5/12/13 |
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| 5/12/13 |
They are spreading and popping up all over now, which is fine! I want to have lots of them throughout the gardens, and I even dug some up to spread them not the Blueberry Garden.
In 2014 I continued to spread these about, by digging up clumps and replanting them. The pagoda dogwood that stood in the original patch died, and was taken out, so there won't be much shade from above here. I put in annual cleomes and they do a good job of hiding the forget me not foliage after it has gone by in summer.
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| 5/12/14 |
Blue forget me nots and orange geums -- love these together.
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| 5/17/14 |
It will look nice when there are forget me nots spread here and there in all the back gardens and not just this one pool of blue. I saw a garden in W. Hartford on a spring tour, and she had let the myosotis pop up everywhere and it was nice.
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| 5/31/14 |
I dug up clumps and spread them about the garden and in 2015 they started coming up in different spots. I had seen forget me nots scattered all about a garden on a tour, and the repetition looked nice. I'm starting to get that now, and the original patch by the dry creekbed has spread into quite a river of blue.
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| 2015 -- 5/6 to 5/22 |
