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Should I kill or cultivate forget me nots?

jayne10bjayne10b Posts: 105
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I’ve got some forget me not in a bed which looked quite nice last year when nothing else was growing. 

It has spread significantly this year and should look even better, but I am a bit nervous that if I don’t weed it out this year , it might get out of control.

What are others experience of it?  Do you live with it, find it helpful and are able to keep it under control, or do you try and kill it wherever you see it?
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I let it flower for a couple of weeks until I get bored with it . Then I pull it out .If there's any clumps in the way, I pull them out when they're small.
    I wouldn't worry about it. It's easy to control - but you never get rid of it. The clue is in the name😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I do the same, but my patch isn't very big. I thin them out when they get congested.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Spring without Forget me Nots, is like a sausage sandwich without brown sauce.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Unthinkable!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Let them grow away here as well and just pull them out in places when they are old and don't look good anymore.
    Happy gardening!
    https://www.youtube.com/user/sustainableveg/videos
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited 25 February
    That's what I like about them too. Summer can't be far away when you're hoiking out forget me nots!
    I like the way they slide out of perennials too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    they are good food for early bees
  • JohnjoeJohnjoe Posts: 77
    I love them, they can grow anywhere and I don't mind at all, one of my absolute favourite flowers. I have a mat of them poking from under a huge clump of Arum Lilies (when in flower) and they spread slightly over the lawn, a lawn I am hoping to plant your common old daisy clumps into this spring.


  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I loathe them  :D
    I'd always remove them if they were in any garden I had. I hate that peely wally blue colour.  We're all different eh? 

    Mind you - I don't like sausage sandwiches either, and brown sauce only gets used in mince for cottage pie or bolognese/chilli.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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