Self-Seeding

Forget-me-nots are easy, self-seeding flowers that bring lasting beauty to your garden. Like many ground cover seeds, they naturally reseed themselves. To encourage reseeding, simply leave the spent flowers on the plants after they have faded. This allows new flowers to bloom each year, ensuring your garden stays vibrant with minimal effort.

Beautiful Ground Cover

Perennial Forget Me Not flowers create a beautiful ground cover with their delicate blue blooms. These low-growing flowers are perfect for adding charm to shaded areas or filling empty garden spaces. Easy to grow and they offer effortless beauty year after year, transforming your garden into a serene, vibrant haven.

Perennial Variety

Forget-Me-Not is a hardy perennial that returns year after year with minimal effort. It thrives in moist areas and adapts easily to different conditions, making it a versatile choice for gardens. Its natural self-seeding ensures continuous growth, providing reliable, low-maintenance beauty season after season.

Aesthetic Cut Flower

This is not only a lovely wildflower for gardens but also an aesthetic cut flower. Its delicate blue blooms add a soft, charming touch to any floral arrangement, bringing natural beauty indoors. Perfect for simple yet elegant bouquets, these flowers offer timeless appeal for any setting.

Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis Sylvatica) - One of the all-time world favorites among wildflowers often used at funerals. Forget-me-nots received their name based on the romantic legend: a medieval knight, gathering blue flowers along a stream for his lady love, was suddenly swept away by flood waters. As he disappeared, he tossed the bouquet to his lady with the immortal words, "Forget me not." Myosotis Sylvatica seeds will grow in all regions of North America and is very easy to establish. Blue Forget Me Not flowers will grow in sun or shade and will start to bloom early.

Problems: No serious insect or disease problems. Susceptible to mildew and rust. Uses: Bedding. Border fronts. Rock gardens. Wild gardens and woodland areas or around ponds where plants can be allowed to naturalize. Interplant with spring bulbs. This plant is listed as a noxious weed in one or more Midwestern states outside Missouri and should not be moved or grown under conditions that would involve danger of dissemination.

Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis Alpestris Blue) - Your garden will never be the same! Start Forget-Me-Nots from flower seed to add a true blue to the early flower garden. This fairly low growing perennial is often used as a ground cover or edging plant. Each spring the garden will have a few more charming blue blooms!

Features a dainty yet rugged plant with so much charm and appeal it was selected as the state flower of Alaska. Thrives in open, rocky places that resemble its native alpine habitat. In the wild, Alpine Forget-me-nots establish themselves most happily in sunny, open meadows. This plant readily reseeds itself so expect to see more plants with each passing season. Perfectly sized for rock gardens and border fronts. Makes a dependable mixed border plant. Looks great in woodland settings. Especially nice for mixing with spring bulbs.

Forget-Me-Not seed | blue

How to grow

How To Grow Forget-Me-Not From Seed: Directly sow Forget Me Not flower seeds in prepared soil in the garden in spring. Press the seeds into the soil and very lightly cover the flower seeds with fine soil. Keep the seeds moist until germination. When seedlings appear, thin to 9 - 12 inches apart.

Water Forget-Me-Not plants weekly, and apply an application of a balanced liquid fertilizer in the spring. In cold climates, mulching in the fall will help the plants survive the winter. In milder climates, Forget-Me-Not plants need no winter protection.

• Sowing Rate: 2 ounces per 1,000 square feet or 5 pounds per acre
• Average Germ Time: 10 - 20 days
• Keep moist until germination
• Attracts bees and butterflies
• Depth: 1/16 inch

Flower Specifications

Forget Me Not prefers moist meadows and grassy slopes. Occurs in subalpine elevations up to tundra ecosystems.

• Height: 12 inches
• USDA Zones: 3 - 8
• Season: Perennial
• Deer Resistant: Yes

Forget Me Not (Myosotis Alpestris White) - What a charming little treasure for the spring garden! White Forget-Me-Not is quite easy to grow from flower seeds. It has multiple, somewhat bristly stems densely covered by delicate white flowers with yellow eyes, and hairy gray-green foliage. This perennial plant is a sweet little addition to the early flowering garden.

Forget Me Not seed | white

How to grow

How To Grow Forget Me Not From Seed: Directly sow Forget Me Not flower seeds in prepared soil in the garden in spring. Press the seeds into the soil and very lightly cover the flower seeds with fine soil. Keep the seeds moist until germination. When seedlings appear, thin to 9 - 12 inches apart.

Water Forget-Me-Not plants weekly, and apply an application of a balanced liquid fertilizer in the spring. In cold climates, mulching in the fall will help the plants survive the winter. In milder climates, Forget-Me-Not plants need no winter protection.

• Sowing Rate: 2 ounces per 1,000 square feet or 5 pounds per acre
• Average Germ Time: 10 - 20 days
• Keep moist until germination
• Attracts bees and butterflies
• Depth: 1/16 inch

Flower Specifications

Forget-me-not plants dry completely in the heat of summer and their seeds fall to the ground. These Forget-me-not flower seeds germinate the following spring to create even more beautiful new Forget-me-not plants.

• Height: 12 inches
• USDA Zones: 3 - 8
• Season: Perennial
• Deer Resistant: Yes