Serendipitous Garden Companions

I really thought that I would be past any more forget-me-not (aka myosotis) macros this year. The plants are leggy now and up to 18" high, and the flowers themselves are mostly past their primes. There are drifts in both front and back yards, and they still make a nice showing although not for much longer.

But I was out weeding. We have weed barrier plus mulch in the garden, but for some arcane reason, some sort of ground cover has planted itself since last year. I don't know what it is or why it has shown up all of a sudden. It looks okay, but it's a weed, and that cannot be a good thing, so I have been trying to pull it up.

It comes up easily because it has just seeded itself in the mulch. But it's a battle to pull it all because it is so ubiquitous.

While getting low and pulling this very low-to-ground weed, I came across a violet juxtaposed with a runtish forget-me-not. 

I went inside to get my macro lens.

The purple violet was about 3" off the ground, so the myositis flowers were very small and low.

The above photo is a combination of 3 shots at wide aperture, each shot focusing on a different part of the flower, which I blended them manually into 1 image in Photoshop.

As I wrote above, by and large the myosotis are leggy, but the drifts make a nice showing. They look more impressive in reality than in the photos which I am now going to post: the first two from the front yard, and the latter two from the back yard.

They will have to be pulled soon, particularly those on display out front. I will let some in the back go to seed, which I will then scatter about for next year. They are biennials, growing into plants in the first year and flowering in the second.