Description
How unusual – a scratch-off Save the Date recycled seed packet – fabulous! This recycled seed packet contains wild Field Forget-me-not seeds in a paper sachet (not foil and plastic) and is a fun way for people to remember your wedding date – all will be revealed under the gold circles! The packet is personalised with your wedding details – please let us know these in the Personalisation box above.
The seeds are viable for a few years, just store them somewhere cool and dry out of direct sunlight until you need to use them. A recycled envelope is also included for posting to your guests.
Forget-me-nots provide great forage for emerging early bumblebees.
About Forget-me-nots
Forget-me-nots are best sown in the Autumn so that they flower the following spring. They produce masses of tiny, delicate blue flowers with yellow centres. Once you have them they will self-seed all over the garden! The plant’s Latin name – myosotis – derives from the Latin for mouse ear, which the leaves tend to resemble.
Forget-me-nots have been around since the late 1300’s when Henry IV took the plant as his emblem. It was known as Scorpion Grass, according to the herbalist Gerard (1633), because its flowerhead was thought to resemble a scorpion’s tail. Therefore it was also believed to cure the sting of a scorpion, and snake and dog bites.
In German folklore, a knight picked Forget-me-not for his love as they walked by a river. He tripped and fell in but before he drowned he threw his love the flowers and cried “Forget me not!”
In days of old, blacksmiths kept a bunch of Forget-me-nots in their forge to protect horses from injury. In the language of flowers, Forget-me-nots are symbolic of true love.