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Eliza Waters 
So cute! 😁
Yes, they are! Thanks, John. 🙂
You’re welcome, Eliza. ☺️
Tiny gems!
Agreed! 💙
Delicate.
They are that, for sure. Thanks, Dawn. 🙂
… and you captured that!! ☀️kudos.
🙏🏼 🤗
A delightfully pretty plant!
Thank you, Anne. Tiny and charming!
How pretty Eliza. I have not come across this flower in Europe. Is it growing wild or in your garden?
Thank you, Cathy. It is a native to eastern US and is wild, though I suppose someone could cultivate them. They need full sun, moist, fertile and slightly acidic soil.
Reblogged this on Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie.
I have never seen these before, but they are lovely!
Thank you, another eastern US native, diminutive and charming! Thanks for reblogging, too. 🙂
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So pretty! They are like a variation of forget-me-nots!
Thank you, Dale. And they bloom at the same time!
True dat!
💙 My favorite childhood flower. They grew abundantly in my mother’s rock garden and I would lie down on the stone wall and enjoy the view the chipmunks had of them.
Also a childhood favorite of mine, they still are special when I see them. 🙂
I’ve read that ‘Quaker ladies’ sometimes is used as a name for these, but I’ve never come across it; there it is in your tags. They’re one of our earliest wildflowers. When I looked in my files, I found some images from as early as late January.
It is interesting what plants we have in common despite the climate difference. Three months bloom range!
Reminds me of my childhood….we used to have so many of them! Scarce these days at my place.
Same here. I think reforestation of pastures has led to their decline. They like fertile, moist, slightly acidic soil in full sun free of competition. I wish I had big patches in the lawn like I’ve seen elsewhere.
I have wide patches of Mazus reptans in my lawn instead which is nice also, but not the same. Do you think bluets have been replaced by these?
Since it is an aggressively spreading non-native, I can’t imagine much can compete with it, certainly not the fine-leaved bluet. Is the Mazus easy to control? The internet touts it as a lawn alternative, but lawns aren’t native either. It’s a tough call.
Oh! I adore these little dears!!
Ditto, they capture my heart! 🙂
Little beauties! We have some on our front lawn. Have you ever heard them referred to as “Quaker Ladies”?
Thanks, Laurie. Yes, I have. I grew up with bluets as their common name, only hearing them called Quaker Ladies later in life.
Adorable 🥰
Thank you, Val. Smile worthy, for sure. 🙂
Very pretty! Dale already wrote it…I was thinking: like four-petaled for-get- me nots.
Thank you, Alice. As they bloom at the same time, I can see why one would think that. 🙂
They just smile at me and wink as though the fairies are playing amongst them.
They have always been special to me, ever since I was a child. Charming little blossoms!
Well, I had to go to Google. I now wonder if the flowers I see in PA are Bluets and not Forget-me-Nots like I thought they were. I guess I’ll have to take a better look when I go up to PA again. I did look up Bluets and by their name Houstonia caerulea L. I think they might grow here.
Bluets have 4 petals and FMNs have 5, also bluets are only a few inches tall vs. 8-12″ on FMNs. That might help!
Thanks. I’ll check them out when I head up for the summer.
Stars that fell to earth. 🙂
A beautiful thought! ❤
Blue and yellow, colors of Ukraine? In any case, they are pretty flowers.
Thank you, Hien!
Lovely things. Although I’d heard the term, I didn’t know anything about them until I looked them up.
Thank you, Kris. They have been a favorite wildflower since childhood, heralds of spring. 🙂
I love these little flowers — and the name is perfect!!
Thank you, Debbie, they are quite charming!
In central Texas, bluets often aren’t blue.
Interesting! There are variations in flower color here, mostly in intensity of the blue.
Many here are pink.
Such pretty flowers. Lovely photo!
Thank you, Belinda!
Beautiful!
Thank you, Alex!
Such lovely little flowers. (Suzanne)
Thank you, Suzanne!
Oh, I love these little things. Used to have them at my former garden (22 years ago this month we left that property) .
They really are endearing, aren’t they? 🙂
Bluets, as opposed to the blues. What a difference one letter can make. 😊
Yes, good point! 🙂
I love their daintiness, very pretty, Eliza!
Thank you, Donna, one of my favorites!
They are beautiful, dainty little flowers!
Thanks, Denise, I’ve loved these flowers for as long as I can remember!