Nemophila Species, Baby Blue Eyes

I've been using Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii) and it's cousin "five spot" for several years. It blooms for only a month or two, an...Read Mored gives in to the heat in June. I sew winter seed in January to increase it's coverage, but it re-seeds itself remarkably well even coming up from under heavy mulch. I first begin to see seedlings in December and have 3 - 4 inch pants by January.

My experiences with this plant are similar to rebecca101's. It does best for me direct-sowed in mid-spring or so. It started blooming a...Read More few days ago, which is pretty typical for it here. It lasts about a month here as well, and then simply dies. It is gorgeous, is easy-peasy from seed, and small pollinators love it. I love low-care annuals!

This is a tiny little plant with tiny little flowers. Didn't last long (either foliage or flowers), but was quite charming while it laste...Read Mored. Beautiful intense but light blue flowers. Rather nice foliage as well. I tried wintersowing but they died after transplanting. Worked very well direct-seeded though. Bloomed mid-June to mid-July.

This plant wintersowed nicely. The flowers were early and enjoyable in spring. The plants get leggy in summer. Great early season plan...Read Moret that can be replaced as season progresses.

Low-growing annual with feathery, unobtrusive foliage and sweet, modest soft-blue flowers about the size of a man's thumbnail.
...Read Morer /> Very easy to grow and very early -- one year I merely sprinkled the seeds around the base of a tree and they grew and bloomed, but this year I have kids trampling around that tree so I elected to sow them around the edges of a planter holding a new blueberry bush. They will fade in time for me to replace them with verbena in the summer. I don't know if they will self-sow, I think it's likely in the planter where the soil will be fairly undisturbed.