A mix of brown and tomato, only a small amount - it forms a good gravy which then gets other things added to it I loathe tomato sauce too. The smell of it gives me the dry boak. Not a very good Scot, am I?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I love them, so don’t mind them popping up. Luckily mine are mostly centred in my gravel garden by the pond, so any wayward ones can be easily pulled up. This is the same gravel area that was just a plain ‘beach’ next to the pond 10 years ago and now it’s a home to any self-seeders, mainly Alchemilla and Aquilegias. I pull up a little path through but keep most of the plants (yes, not weeds thank you OH).
I tend to pull out about half of the self-seeded fgmns in the autumn and I still get a full display. In my view they are not really biennial. Plenty of new plants will emerge in my plots between now and the end of May.
My fgmns starting to flower now and there is still little in flower offering pollen or nectar. Mason and leaf cutter bees will be emerging soon and it's pretty much all I have to offer them at the moment.
I rely on forget-me-nots to start the flowering year with a carpet of celestial blue. When we gave the garden a radical makeover, I moved self seeded plants to the new bare patches in the sure knowledge that they would fill the area come spring. Those, plus cow parsley, are spring couture for the garden.
I don't like brown sauce, but I love forget-me-nots, my favourite shade of blue. I already answered on the page before, briefly, but I didn't say that I love them and their colour. How on earth could you loathe them @Fairygirl?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I'm with @Busy-Lizzie - no brown sauce for me (ketchup on sausage butties, but rarely on or in anything else) but I love forget-me-nots. Pulling them out is a chore (the sticky seed pods stick to gloves, clothes, hair, everything) but they're worth it.
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I loathe tomato sauce too. The smell of it gives me the dry boak. Not a very good Scot, am I?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...