PROPAGATION. Detach bulblets after leaves wither. Self-seeds. Increases rather fast. Plant bulblets three to four inches deep.
SPECIAL USES. Rock gardens.
Muscari Liliaceae Grape Hyacinth
These slim-leaved plants come in a wide variety with a selection of flowering times from early March through May and have clusters of flowers that look bright and grape-like or soft and plumy.
armeniacum—Violet-blue flowers on six-inch stems. The variety cantab blooms in mid-spring, clear blue and sweet-scented. ‘Early Giant’ is larger and earlier. True blue.
botryoides album—Heavenly white and fragrant. The most compact and suitable for smaller gardens, or forcing.
comosum monstrosum (plumosum)—feather or tassel hyacinth—Lavender feather dusters in late May.
moschatum flavum—Out-of-the-ordinary purple flowers turning to yellowish in March and April. One of the smaller species.
pacemosum—Fragrant, deep-blue flowers on eight-inch stems.
parodoxum—Flowers of blue so dark they’re nearly black.