I don't remember seeing that view before, schoolhouse. So very pretty!

Enchanting, I only have a couple of plants blooming this year, they're on the edge of a border in the gravel path I've left them to go to seed. When ready I'll pull the plants and broadcast the seed in amongst some Rhodie's. Yours are absolutely lovely School.
Annette

Those are lovely, nicely done. Your clumps are so large. Mine stay much smaller.

One year I had a "river" of forget-me-knots winding through the back garden. Pulled too many of the seedlings so not many this year. Think I will drag the seeded plants through the front bed to get some more spring color there.

Edited to add: I think they would look very nice with rhodies, Annette.

Thanks. I have them all over the garden and really love them for their airy blueness in the Spring. However, after they bloom they do get a little ratty looking and I think that's when I tend to pull more than I should instead of cutting the seed heads off before they become ripe.

A "river of forget-me-nots", I'm thinking of this right now. On one edge of the inside of the privet arch I see three small plants blooming, obviously planted by seed somehow. Do I leave them to mature and spread more seed or do I pull them so I don't have them escape beyond to other areas of the orchard. Not that it wouldn't be pretty, it's just that I'm not sure I want Forget-Me-Nots growing down there.

So beautiful!! Can't wait for ours to bloom, so thanks for sharing your!!

Nancy.

Thanks again.
This morning when I went out to get the paper, I walked on down to the privet arch and pulled the five or so FMN plants before they went to seed.

schoolhouse_gw - can I ask why you pull the FMN up? I leave mine and only pull them after they have dropped some seed to replace themselves. If you don't let them self sow how do you replace them each year?

Very pretty :)

flora, I have many FMNs (not just in this sunken garden), enough that there are always plants the following year. I only pull them where I do not want them, i.e. between paving stones, in crevices where I don't particularly want them to take hold, areas of the garden I'd rather they did not grow. I never have to replace them, as you say they self seed heavily.

Do you really pull the whole plant up? I don't do that, unless in cases stated above. Yes, they do get ratty looking but I let them die back naturally.

Yes, I pull the whole plant. Once the seeds have formed and dried a bit I pull, shake the plant and then put it on the compost heap.

Tidy, yet airy and casual. Only downside is that they get sticky and ratty later on when seed forms.