Forget Me Not Native Wildflower Seed

MYOSOTIS SYLVATICA

Forget Me Nots are tiny blue heartbreakers. Soft, romantic, instantly recognisable, and very good at making a shady corner look like something from a medieval love story.

Symbolising eternal love and devotion or a story of unrequited love. Whatever your tale, forget me nots hark back to a by-gone era, knights in shining armour, wars waged over love and jousting competitions just to win some attention. Now its all online dating, friends with benefits and splitting the bill.

Saying that, invading and conquering can get a little tedious as well as being rather time consuming. If you want to gain affection scatter some of these. Wait a while, pick up a couple and huzzah, a true romantic, a modern day knight in shining armour.

Forget Me Nots like partial shade, light shade, or gentle sun, with soil that does not dry out too much. They are ideal for woodland edges, shady borders, pots, and wilder corners.

Rip - Clear weeds, grass, and debris. Rake the soil so you have a loose, open surface.

Scatter - Scatter the seed thinly over the soil.

Sow - Press the seed gently into the surface so it makes contact. Do not bury it deeply.

When to sow - For best results sow from August to November. You can also sow from March to May, but autumn sowing is best for strong spring plants.

Where to sow - Choose a partly shaded or lightly shaded spot with low competition. Forget Me Nots are perfect under shrubs, along shady edges, in pots, and in woodland style planting.

After sowing, keep the soil lightly moist while the seeds get going, especially in dry weather.

Once you can see green shoots, keep big weeds and thick grass away. Forget Me Nots do not need feeding and do not want to dry out completely.

After flowering, you can leave some plants to set seed if you want them to come back. They can self seed happily, so pull out extras if they start getting a bit too romantic with the whole garden.

Forget Me Nots usually flower from April to June, creating soft blue clouds of tiny flowers.

They typically grow around 15 to 30 cm tall, making them perfect for shady edges, underplanting, pots, and spring displays.

They are usually biennial or short lived perennial, but they oftenb self seed where happy. That means one sowing can lead to little blue surprises in future years. Romantic, reliable, and just clingy enough to be charming.

Yes, Forget Me Nots grow very well in pots.

Use a medium pot with drainage holes. Fill it with peat free compost, ideally not too rich, and keep it lightly moist. You can add a little grit for drainage, but do not make the mix too dry.

Scatter the seed thinly, press it in gently, and place the pot in partial shade or gentle sun. Keep lightly moist while the seeds get going. Once growing, water when the compost starts to dry out.

We want your seeds to grow. If you follow our sowing instructions, give them a fair chance, and they still do not grow, we’ll put it right.

Eligible customers can choose either a refund for the seeds that did not grow, or replacement seeds of the same value.

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