Muscari - Grape Hyacinths
There are lots of Grape Hyacinth species and many more selected cultivars. I grow a fairly large patch of the common Muscari armenum under some old elms and the dark blue flowers are a delight for months in late winter and spring. The following grape hyacinths are less common but no less beautiful. They are happy almost anywhere there is good light in winter and spring either in full sun or under deciduous trees and shrubs. Planting 30cm apart would not be too far as they soon make large clumps.
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Muscari armeniacum ‘Valerie Finnis’ is a soft baby blue flowered form of the common grape hyacinth which I grew for the first time last year. It has all the virtues.
5 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $35.00
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This grape hyacinth with its beautiful sky blue flowers was in bloom in our bulb field for more than four weeks early last spring. 15cm x 10cm.
5 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $35.00
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Muscari botryoides ‘Alba’ is an attractive white flowered grape hyacinth, some 15cm tall, found growing wild in Italy and France.
5 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $35.00
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Muscari latifolium grows wild in light woodland in western Turkey. It has a single large leaf which frames a 25cm tall stems of dark blue flowers with a purple bloom.
5 bulbs for $8.00, 25 bulbs for $35.00
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Large soft lemon, brown rimmed flowers are produced on 25cm tall stems. Its fragrance has been described as a combination of gardenia and banana. In bud the flowers are blue but they open to quite long almost tubular flowers although still pinched at the tip. Sadly it is slow, more...
$9.00 each
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