A NEW DESIGN!  This is a popular flower in my designs and I wanted a design that incorporated both the blue and the pink forget me not.  I will have another design that I created from the same photo but a different symmetry. 

 

Indelible Impression - The Forget-Me-Not flower represents true faithful love, fond memories and hope.  It is also a flower essence of the heart chakra.

 

The dainty forget me not was also a favorite flower of Princess Diana.  Earl Spenser, Diana’s brother, gifted her these flowers when they were young and she continued to favorite them throughout her life.  These flowers have been subtle tributes to the “Queen of Hearts”, in royal wedding bouquets and backgrounds in photos.  These flowers are included in the Kensington memorial garden for this beloved princess.

 

In Christian folklore God named these dainty blue beauties forget me nots because when he asked the timid flower her name, she was so shy that she told him softly whispered, “I have forgotten”  God named these flowers forget me not so she and no one would forget this delicate beautiful flower.

 

Medieval German folklore declares that devoted couples garnished themselves with forget-me-nots to pledge they would never forget each other when separated.  

 

There is another German legend on how this flower received it’s name.  God had completed the creation of earth, He named each animal and plant.  God had thought He had named everything when a diminutive voice next to where He was standing asked, “What about me?”  He kneeled down and held the sweet, delicate and dainty plant and said, “I shall never forget you again therefore your name shall be Forget Me Not”

 

There is a third German myth about a couple taking a romantic stroll along the Danube River.  They spot the beautiful blue blooms of the forget-me-not.  The handsome and romantic gent attempts to pick a bouquet for his love, but tragically slips and is swept away by the river’s fierce current.  As he is carried away by the current he cries out to her, “Forget me not my love!”  It is believed this is how the flower was named.

 

Twentieth century German Freemasons replaced the square and compass symbol with the forget me not to avoid revealing themselves to the Nazis.  You can still see the forget me not used in combination with the square and compass insignia.   It also signified to always remember of the impoverished.

 

King Henry the IV, banished in 1398, embraced the forget me not as his crest and axiom.  The flower and name were embellished on his knight’s collars and to show support of him his followers adorned them as well.  Legend has it that in the aftermath of the clash at Waterloo left a blood saturated field which metamorphosed into a field of forget me nots.

 

The war dead are memorialized with forget me nots in Newfoundland.

 

Symmetry is another manifestation of the balance of Yin and Yang, of the unimpeded flow of ch'i.

 

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