{"id":9189,"date":"2011-10-22T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2011-10-21T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T04:00:53","slug":"forget-me-nots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/forget-me-nots\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget-Me-Nots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blue along the drive ...<\/p><\/div>\n

I have posted several times recently about spring this year—which I think is more about the way I’m noticing<\/em> it, after much of the past year seemed caught in an earthquake-induced stasis against which seasonal change did not register …<\/p>\n

Or putting it another way—it felt, for a long time, as though “winter” was a state of mind, one that was going to endure forever.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I’ve really been noticing this year’s<\/p>\n

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... and in the garden<\/p><\/div>\n

spring. And today I realised that various parts of my garden have become a mist of blue—the delicate, joyful blue of forget-me-nots. Now I know that a lot of people regard forget-me-nots as a weed—together with a few other plants that are perennial in my garden, such as Flanders poppies and columbine—but I feel that any “ordinariness” potentially associated with forget-me-nots through the rest of the year is more than compensated for by seeing that mist of blue across my garden every spring.<\/p>\n

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Up close ...<\/p><\/div>\n

And like all good things, forget-me-nots, too, should be shared; hence the pics. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I was also delighted to spot the purple irises in their midst, which are not just the first for this year, but also the first blooms I have had since I planted them out seven years ago. I transplanted the roots from my mother’s garden, together with the surrounding Michaelmas daisies, but although the “daisies” (really an aster in the case of the Michaelmas kind, I believe) have flowered vigorously every year since, the irises have required more patience.<\/p>\n

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... and 'it's a first': those purple irises flowering against the blue<\/p><\/div>\n

A friend told me a while back—when I was a-worritin’ that I wasn’t spending enough time in the garden because of book commitments—that “gardens are patient.” So perhaps it’s fitting that gardeners are patient, too. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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