How to Plant and Grow Forget-Me-Not Cynoglossum Blue
Cynoglossum, also known as Chinese forget-me-not, is a flowering annual plant that produces small blue flowers with rich egg-yolk yellow centers. The flowers appear in late spring and persist into summer. Cynoglossum grows in a small shrub or mounding form reaching a maximum of 24 inches and a spread of up to 12 inches. The flower heads release their seeds after blooming and the plant will self sow, establishing plants for the following spring. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Hand trowel or cultivator
- Pruning shears
- 10-6-4 fertilizer
- Tsp. measure
Instructions
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Prepare a planting bed for your cynoglossum in the early fall or spring after the last hard frost has passed and temperatures are consistently around 60 degrees F. Choose location in full sun or partial shade.
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Till up the soil to a depth of 6 inches with a trowel or cultivator, removing any soil clods or rocks. Smooth the soil back to level.
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Sow your cynoglossum seeds onto the prepared soil surface and cover over the seeds with 1/8 inch of soil.
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Water the soil gently but thoroughly until the soil surrounding the seeds is drenched. Keep the soil evenly moist, and the seeds will germinate in between five and 10 days.
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Thin the young seedlings, if needed, once they reach 3 inches in height.
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Maintain lightly, evenly moist, but not wet, soil at all times. Let the top 1/2 inch of soil dry out before watering again. Depending on your climate and time of year, this may translate into watering once every five to seven days to once every two or three days. It will be rare for the plants to need more than 1 inch of water per week.
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Fertilize your cynoglossum plant once every two to three weeks with a single teaspoon of nitrogen-rich 10-6-4 fertilizer. Scatter the fertilizer over pre-watered soil, around the drip line of the plant, being careful not to touch the plant stems and leaves.
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Shear down plants in the late fall or winter after they have begun to die back and discolor.
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References
- Photo Credit a blue flowers of forget-me-not image by Maria Brzostowska from Fotolia.com
