Unforgotten

Aside from dandelions, we have another flowering weed in the garden — common or Wild violets (Viola odorata)

Back when I built a little garden around the silk lilac tree out front and ringed it with rocks, in my ignorance, of which I have much,  I decided to leave a few volunteer violet plants. I am not so sure that this was the right decision because once you have them you really do have them.

They are now ubiquitous amongst the rocks, but at least they pretty much confine themselves to one side of the garden and to the rock border. Also, that side happens to be on the neighbour's half of our narrow, shared lawn. Still, it rather comes down to us to maintain.

This is what they look like just in case you wanted to know.

The flowers are much smaller than they appear in the photo.
This is also true of the forget-me-nots, below.

Actually, violets aren't so bad as long as they stay out of the cultivated garden, which so far, they have been mostly willing to do.

But right now I am more interested in the ephemeral myosotis (forget-me-nots).

They don't flower long, but every year  when they are done, I scatter the seeds randomly across both the back and front yards. They do grow like weeds in the sense that they require no care and grow happily in the mulch on top of the weed barrier. They don't seem to require soil.

To briefly recount, because I write it every year, these are descendants of forget-me-nots that my dad planted at our now geographically distant, former home, four decades ago. Yay Dad!

 

While I generally tend to process myosotis a bit darkly as in the first photo, I find that I also like the brighter look in the second photo.

We have a ton of myosotis out back as well, so I may take a few more macros before they leave us for the year if I can find a nice hour or two, for it has not exactly been a mild month so far. All of my flower photos be they tulips, violets or forget-me-nots have been squeezed in during brief breaks in the rain, wind and gloom that has recently prevailed.

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On a later day, we (mostly Sue) were doing some work in the garden. I thought I would take a quick phone photo for context with regard to the rocks and violets. This was taken before the first mowing of the season and before Sue pulled most of the dandelions. To repeat: this is the neighbour's half.

While I was at it, I made a little gif of the tulips blowing in the wind.