Forget-Me-Not 'Indigo Blue' Seeds

Indigo Blue is a forget-me-not with flowers a shade deeper than the usual sky blue, made for weaving through tulips and carpeting the ground beneath shrubs in spring. Sprays of tiny five-petalled flowers sit above soft, grey-green leaves, and the plants self-seed gently so the display returns year after year with little help. Myosotis alpestris 'Indigo Blue' grows to about 40 cm in flower, which suits the front of a border, window boxes, spring containers and woodland edges, and its early flowers feed bees when little else is open.

Sowing and growing

• Sow May to July, outdoors in a seedbed or in trays, for flowers the following spring.
• Sow thinly and cover very lightly, about 3 mm deep.
• Germination takes 10 to 21 days.
• Sun or partial shade, in moist, reasonably fertile soil; move young plants to their flowering spot in early autumn.
• Grows to about 40 cm tall and 20 cm wide.
• Flowers April to June.
• Hardy biennial: it flowers in its second year, then sets seed and often sows itself.

What you receive: a packet of about 150 seeds from Piccolo Seeds, with growing instructions on the back.

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