Those three sons had 17 kids combined. Look what the seventeen kids did.. Had lots of their own.
Can you believe one couple and all of their posterity?.. 
Forget me not, has been around for years. This year is the first year I planted and am kicking myself , trying to figure out why I haven't planted it sooner. It blooms so early and nothing can match it's dainty blue clusters of flowers. My neighbor Miss Terri tells me it can be invasive here in the South, because of it self sows, rather proficiently. Here is considered a herbaceous perennial. I put down more seed in hopes of more flowers. Other areas like Southeastern Idaho where I grew up my grandmothers had to plant it every spring. My grandmother Eva had a magnificent garden, that was featured in the local newspaper many times. I remember as a little girl on the back of the garage a small garden of just forget me nots. Blue as the eye could see. It matched the brisk days and bright blue skies of springtime in the Gem state. Everytime I see the little blue flowers it makes me think of the previous green thumbs in my life.
So the obvious dedcution, we all know where the majority of my ancestors came from.. England..
One of these I have not had such good success with is the sweet pea, that requires a cooler climate than I live in.
Sweet peas have a lot of fun colors and different levels of scent. Some can be intense while others, have a fragrance that is barely there.
They aren't perennials per se, but the ones pictured on the left are from my grandmothers garden. Every summer they would come back and creep up her old rusty iron fence. They reseeded themselves abundantly. Happy under the shade of the Aspens and the cool mountain summer nights in the Rocky Mountain Range. Her "Old-Fashioned" sweets were intensely fragrant. I miss those carefree days of working side by side with my grandmother in her garden.
