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Muscari armeniacum |
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| Common name |
grape hyacinth |
| Family |
hyacinthaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial bulb (Z3-9) |
| Flowers |
blue (April) |
| Size |
4" |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
From seed  |
self-seeds in our garden
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With zero effort, you too can have pretty blue flowers in early spring! I don't recall where our first grape hyacinths came from, but since then they have multiplied nicely, scattering themselves around our tough-on-plants driveway border. They put up their foliage in late fall, which persists through the winter. Then in early spring, a few weeks after the first crocus, the grapey flowers appear. Shortly thereafter, the foliage dies away relatively gracefully - not nearly as much of an aesthetic problem as tulips and daffodils.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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