Our April showers show no signaling of stopping just because we entered a newfangled month — form of a bummer from this Dominicus - starved nurseryman ’s view — but at least they did bring lovely May flowers , including one of my favorites : The forget - me - not .
Years ago I transplant a couple of draw a blank - me - not cluster from my female parent - in - jurisprudence ’s pretty garden in Portland to our moist , fishy front yard , where they gayly reproduced with wild abandon ( warning : They can be invading ) .
Every spring , despite zero care on my part , these unfearing , long - blooming members of the Borage family return to electrify my garden and make honeybees with their nice blue flower petal .
Today , beneath glowering swarm , they gave me a shiny send - off on my sunup run / paseo , and down the road another radical of forget - me - nots — a deeper tad of blue than my own — recreate me along the fashion .
Some 50 different specie exist , and I believe mine are true leave - me - nots ( Myosotis scorpioides ) , an introduced perennial from Europe that has naturalize like the dandelion and daisy .
As the name implies , these flowers — popular in square-toed times — symbolize recollection and love . One amorous story ( or verse form ) loop with the forget - me - not go something like this : After gathering these flowers for his madam , a knight swam back to her across the river and the weight of his armor pull him down — but not before he tossed the fragrancy to his lady love and pray her to forget him not .
I love to abridge sprig of forget - me - nots and put them in petite vases around the menage . In the yesteryear , I ’ve dug efflorescence plants as present to friends or my daughter ’s teachers at the death of the school year .
Another playfulness blank out - me - not bodily function : Snip the finespun little flowers off , use tweezers to fix them stem - side up on a paper towel between the pages of a freehanded phone book , carefully compensate them with another paper towel , and press them until totally juiceless ( you may also use a flower mechanical press , if you have one ) .
One yr I made pretty bury - me - not wit by trace a heart - shaped cookie cutter with pencil on cardstock and then paste the blossom one by one onto the line so they organize a heart shape .
At the time , I shroud them with tangency paper , but this year I ’d wish to do this and then make color copies of the conception on card . You could also use the forget - me - nots to produce a piece of pressed - flower art to grace your paries .
Forget not to smell and admire your May flowers !
~ Cherie
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