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Bloom will appear in flushes.

When flowering diminishes, shear back to 6 inches to encourage repeat bloom that will take about 3 weeks. Repeat for copious bloom until frost.

How to Grow Forget-Me-Not Flowers

In mild winter areas, anchusas can be started the summer or fall before and grown outdoors over the winter for early flowering. Elsewhere, sow seeds outdoors several weeks before the last frost, or start in pots indoors and transplant outside after frost danger has passed. A splendid source of blue in the garden, use anchusa wherever you want to soften the strident tones of hot colors such as orange and yellow.

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It combines well with white. Because summer forget-me-not is compact, use it as an edging for beds and borders. Summer forget-me-not, Cape forget-me-not arieties: Blue Angel is 10 inches tall, and Blue Bird grows to 18 inches. Both form compact mounds.

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See more pictures of annual flowers. I draw the line, however, when it comes to any form of Myosotis; they are the one plant not allowed on our property. I don't even like to see them used in a gifted flower bouquets lest the flowers escape and plants invade the yard. One of my many annoying habits is to insist folks to get rid of forget-me-nots whenever I come upon these plants.

The rant I summarize here today can really come across as lunacy in person, I am sure. These plants tend to grow in wet, what used to be called swampy, areas, and they spread by underground runners.

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They have a longer period of bloom than the other variety and are not nearly as invasive. These go to seed, and in the late summer the plants germinate and start the spread. And I mean spread. Just look up some articles on them. Everyone lavishes much praise on the cute, diminutive blue flowers, but if you read with the eye of a seasoned gardener, you instantly know biennial forget-me-nots present a real danger. Just by way of a quick example, an article I found on the internet notes, "Once you have forget-me-nots in your garden, you're likely to always have them. Another points out that "The self sowers may become invasive unless spread is controlled by dead heading.

Hopefully, this article will find its way into the Google listings and future inquirers about the plant will read my lone warning: Do not plant Myosotis sylvatica.

Not in the ground. Not in a basket. Not in a planter. Not with green eggs or ham. Ah, but what about the thousands, if not tens of thousands of Alaskans who have already planted Myosotis sylvatica in their yards? I know many have because one year a prominent state bank celebrated its anniversary by mistakenly giving away free packets of Myosotis sylvatica, an act for which there should be a federal regulation to prevent in the future. And, a number of prominent politicians have handed out Myosotis sylvatica while running for office.

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Seriously, how can you vote for someone who mistakes the state flower for a noxious weed? Anyhow, all of these free packets were planted by Alaskans who thought they were doing the patriotic thing, even though Myosotis sylvatica is not the state flower. Every single one of these seeds germinated, too, because this is one extremely easy plant to grow, which explains its ability to take over a garden in a couple of seasons. The Alaska Botanical Garden is still dealing with the problem some 15 or so years after it was mistakenly planted in one bed and spread before being discovered.

Do you really need to ask? While the first rule is to never, never, never let any flowers of Myosotis sylvatica go to seed, the second is to pull Myosotis sylvatica as soon as you first notice their hairy leaves in the spring and again in the fall after the seeds germinate. Cut plants left when you see the beginning of the myriad blue flower buds in late May.