Cynoglossum Species

I picked this up in a 4" pot one day because I loved the true-blue flowers. It looks very much like Forget-Me-Nots. It's lovely and extre...Read Moremely easy to grow, but one caveat: it spreads like wild fire if you let the seeds disperse. And those seeds are really something else! They stick to EVERYTHING. You'll track them in on your shoelaces if you even brush up against the plant. This summer, on a lark, I decided to gather these tenacious seeds and throw them around the whole flower bed. Well...guess what? I have the plants growing all over the place...duh! I don't find them to be deep rooted, though, and they're easy to dispose of if they get out of hand. (Mexican Primroses, for example, can be real pests, but these aren't in that category.) It's a lot easier, though, if you yank them before they set seed and hitch a ride on you like those birds that hang out on rhinoceroses.

The John Henry tag LK0304 identifies Mediterranean Paracaryum as "Lavish clusters of flowers on silver-gray foliage. Adds color to garden...Read More's edge. How To Grow: Plant in part sun. Grows to 24" (61 cm) tall. Spreads to 36" (91 cm.) The image shows medium blue 5 petaled blossoms.