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I love forget-me-nots. I saw a big patch of them in my mother's garden the other day, but here in my garden, I've got veronica flowers, which look a little like them, but are more of a weed. I think they also have the name Grey Field Speedwell, which sounds very grand.

It's the first official day of spring here at the bottom of the world. I did a watercolour painting of forget-me-nots to celebrate. And added a pair of forget-me-not embroidered baby shoes to today's shop update, too. Happy spring, or autumn.

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22 responses to “forget-me-not”

  1. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    Those shoes are gorgeous! Nice painting too – hooray for spring! Perfect blue sky day here 🙂

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  2. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    Argh! The shoes are sold already. They would have been gracing our soon to be baby girl’s feet otherwise.
    Our forget me nots died in the major heat we had this summer. Sad.

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  3. annri Avatar
    annri

    oh, i love forget-me-nots too. the blue is one of my favorite shades. happy spring!

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  4. Margaret Oomen Avatar
    Margaret Oomen

    happy spring melissa
    i am going to really enjoy seeing it through your eyes in your new home

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  5. Sarah S Avatar
    Sarah S

    Yay, spring has finally arrived! Looking forward to Daylight Saving starting at month’s end too. That name Speedwell reminded me that it’s the name of one of the rabbits in Watership Down – it grows in my herb garden but its pretty so I dont weed it out.

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  6. Veronica Avatar
    Veronica

    Happy Spring! Isnt it wonderful. Ive just been looking at a painting of Veronica/Speedwell flowers in The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. I think your blog is a mondern day version of her nature notes. 🙂

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  7. Veronica Avatar
    Veronica

    Ah… i mean MODERN, not mondern

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  8. Emma Avatar
    Emma

    “My spring is just this:
    a single bamboo shoot,
    a willow branch”
    Issa
    Spring is here – huge sigh of pleasure.
    Emma x

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  9. Joan Browning Avatar
    Joan Browning

    These are darling shoes. Did I see you in House and Garden once. Happy springtime.

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  10. gracia Avatar
    gracia

    Yes, quite possibly my favourite flower… and those little shoes! Charming, all of it. Happy spring!

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  11. Rattling On Avatar
    Rattling On

    Love the embroidery on the shoes. Forget me nots are such a lovely shade of blue, you captured it well.

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  12. Carol Avatar
    Carol

    Hi Melissa – forgetmenots self seed really easily & will pop up every year once you have them, so steal some of your mothers 🙂

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  13. Barbara Avatar
    Barbara

    Forget-me-nots are definitely one of my favourite flowers! I haven’t got a garden but have some on a pot on our balcony! Those slippers are so lovely!

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  14. knofje Avatar
    knofje

    Lovely babyshoes..
    Happy spring to you!

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  15. Anna Avatar
    Anna

    so lovely. happy spring to you, hope you had a more spring like day than I did today (constant cold and rain)!

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  16. Karen at sew and sow life Avatar
    Karen at sew and sow life

    exquisite post!

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  17. jenny Avatar
    jenny

    They are beautiful. Here at the “top of the world” the forget-me-not is our state flower. They are one of the only wildflowers I’m still seeing as we make our abrupt transition from summer to autumn. I hope they stick around a bit longer.

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  18. tai Avatar
    tai

    I always love the shoes you make, but I think these are my favorites. So sweet.

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  19. Brenda Avatar
    Brenda

    I love forget-me-nots too. I have some growing and think your design captures them well. I bought a veronica plant, but it hasn’t bloomed yet. Maybe next year. We are heading into fall.
    Glad you are getting spring.
    The shoes are so sweet.

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  20. barchetta Avatar
    barchetta

    Hi! I follow your blog from Italy, (I’m an italian girl); where I live we call those flowers in the right same way, litterally with the same words and meaning: non ti scordar di me = forget-me-not
    I love those flowers since when I was a child, they means spring also for me, so it just surprised me that in a place so far, as N.Z. , they’re called the same way…what a little beatiful world!
    ciao! 🙂

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  21. bridget Avatar
    bridget

    melissa! don’t tempt me into having another baby just so she can wear your baby things ( as happened with celeste & the irresistable little woolen hat you made, it still tempts me!) i love those forget me not slippers, love them.

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  22. tundra gypsy Avatar
    tundra gypsy

    very cute.

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