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Muscari

Muscari is more commonly known by gardeners as Grape Hyacinth. These bulbs are one of my favorite. I love the dainty, grapelike clusters of small flowers that appear early in the spring. The flowers usually come in shades of violet, purplish blue, pale blue, and white. The individual flowers are tiny, but erect and densely packed, which makes them really stand out in a garden bed. The foliage is grassy in appearance.

Grape Hyacinth like the true Hyacinths, like full sun or light shade with rich, well-drained soil. Because Grape Hyacinths are spring-blooming bulbs, they can be planted in lightly shaded areas under deciduous trees because they will have bloomed before the trees leaf out.

I plant my bulbs in the fall at a depth of 3 to 4 inches. Some varieties of Grape Hyacinths will propagate themselves to the point of becoming invasive. Because they propagate so easily, they are excellent for naturalizing. To propagate the bulbs, divide the clumps in nthe summer after the leaves turn yellow, but before the leaves disappear.