When the beautiful goddess Flora gave names to the plants, the small sky-colored flower went unnoticed. Frightened that it would not be named, it quietly whispered: “Don’t forget me...” Flora smiled and decided: “You will be a forget-me-not!” Since then, this amazingly delicate plant has been able to evoke memories. So says the legend. And the proposed article introduces the reader to the diversity of the genus of forget-me-nots, their medicinal properties, use in folk medicine and landscape design.
Types and varieties of plants, appearance
The forget-me-not flower, the photo of which you will find below, looks perfect, which allows you to add it to a bouquet for any occasion. At the same time, not everyone knows that these beautiful flowers, which can be grown in your flowerbed and then placed in a vase, have many varieties. That is, when planting your home front gardens, you will come across the following varieties of popular flowers:
- Alpine. This is far from a garden forget-me-not. To grow such a flower at home, you will need special care and planting. Basically, the blue and dark Alpine forget-me-not is found in the Carpathians, the Caucasus and, accordingly, in the Alps. Such flowers bloom for a very long time, about 7 weeks, and at the same time they love sunlight very much.
- Lesnaya. Blue perennial forget-me-not, which has light fluffy buds. The plant reaches a height of 30 cm. It usually grows in fields, in the Carpathians and Europe. Its leaves are elongated and oval in shape with a soft green color.
- Bolotnaya. A perennial plant with branched stems up to 8 cm long. It blooms with pink and blue buds, and usually grows in Siberia, Mongolia, Transcaucasia, the Balkans and Central Europe.
- Forget-me-not field. These are field plants with low shoots and small flowers. It begins to bloom in May and blooms until late autumn. Typically grows in Asia, North Africa, Siberia and the Canary Islands.
- Forget-me-not Chekanovsky. This plant is listed in the Red Book on the territory of the Russian Federation. Today it can only be found in the Olenek-Lena interfluve, as well as on the left bank of the Talagan River.
- Resteiner's forget-me-not. Creeping forget-me-not, which when flowering forms a soft blue carpet. It is a perennial plant that does not require care.
About forget-me-not
Forget-me-not (Myosotis) is an annual or perennial plant. Belongs to the Borage family (Boraginaceae) . The flowers are small blue with a yellow eye in the center (rarely the petals are pink or white) collected in inflorescences. The stems are low, the leaves are large oblong. Leaf color varies from grayish green to bright green. The plant reaches an average height of 30 cm, although there are species of taller creeping flowers. The fruits of forget-me-nots, which are easy to care for, are black nuts that consist of four ovoid parts.
These plants tolerate spring frosts well, they are winter-hardy and shade-tolerant. Forget-me-nots grow in many places: in South America and South Africa, in Asia, in Europe, in Australia and New Zealand. Among many gardeners, they are valued for their virtually no maintenance and the unobtrusive beauty of their heavenly blooms.
Where and how does it grow
When examining in detail the forget-me-not flower, photos of which will be presented below, note for yourself the fact that under natural conditions an ordinary wildflower grows almost throughout Europe, Asia, Siberia, the Canary Islands and North Africa. Only some types of flowers have their own habitat for development.
The preferred terrain for forget-me-nots are meadows, fields, dry slopes and wet forests. Often representatives of the subspecies can be found along the roadsides.
Drawing a field bouquet with forget-me-nots
Today there will be another article about wildflowers
