Why do I love a forget me not for example?

I can tell you why I love a forget-me-not. I have a degree in Botany, and plant taxonomy was one of my strongest subjects. It caused me to study the classification of flowering plants in detail, and, as they are classified largely on their reproductive biology, I got to look at the flowers and fruits of many species very closely. Apart from seeing patterns in plant reproduction which helped me to see evolutionary relationships between species, genera and families, it also got me admiring what I saw as the true essence of beauty, which was form and function in perfect synergy. A lot more, in other words, than seeing pretty colours and shapes in harmony. Later, I went off on my own to search for plants in their own ecosystems, and one day in 1972 (I still have my field diaries) I found the alpine forget-me-not, Myosotis alpestris, one of the rarest of all British plants, in Upper Teesdale. That was the icing on the cake.