Several years ago I bought a forget me not at a nursery. It bloomed blue. I liked it so much that the next year I bought seeds to grow more. All these bloomed blue and in the space where the previous year's blue forget me not had been I had seedlings that bloomed white. So I had maybe 50 blue forget me nots and approx 10 white forget me nots. This year I counted on reseeding, encouraged it and now have about 100 white forget me nots and maybe 15 blue ones.

I am suprised how much I like the white ones, they have an airy, off-hand elegance that works well in my garden, perhaps even better than the blue. But I'm curious; how did this all happen? I would expect that it was because of a hybrid not coming true from seed except that the wild forget me nots are blue to begin with. I could understand white reverting to blue, but not blue to white. The little plant scienceI know just doesn't cover this.

Can anyone explain this mystery?

Springcherry