
Your Guide to Forget-Me-Nots
Blue forget-me-not flowers add a sweet touch of color to your garden bed

Annual M. sylvatica reaches up to 1 foot high and spreads as wide as 2 feet. Its yellow-eyed blossoms appear in winter or early spring, depending on the severity of the winter, and continue to bloom as long as weather remains cool to mild. Varieties include ‘Rosylva’, with pure pink flowers on a more compact plant; ‘Blue Ball’, which 6-inch, almost spherical plants well suited to containers; and the Victoria series, featuring blue, pink, and white blossoms. Perennial M. scorpiodes generally remains under a foot high but reaches 2 feet or more across, spreading by creeping roots. The blue springtime flowers typically have a yellow eye, though white-and pink-eyed forms exist. Named cultivars in white and various blue shades have been catalogued, but except for the long-blooming ‘Mermaid’, they are not in general circulation.
Forget-me-not flowers come in shades of blue, pink, and white.