Can you imagine a river of blue flowers flowing through your yard? If you were to visit the Dutch Keukenhof Gardens in the spring, there is an area called the “Blue River.” A broad, azure river is ...
Sometimes to get your early spring garden ready, you need to start in the fall. A little work now will ensure bright, ...
One of the best blue flowering plants is the Valerie Finnis grape hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum "Valerie Finnis"). This spring-blooming bulb is short (only 6 to 8 inches tall) but packs a colorful ...
Q: The foliage of grape hyacinths looks nice for a while when it comes up in the fall, but right around now - when it starts to look straggly and unattractive and catches leaves - I get an itchy ...
Q:We are infested with a fast-spreading grape hyacinth population. We travel a lot. Other than the tedious and impossible task of picking the many and tiny bulbs by hand, how do we get rid of them? A: ...
Q: Can grape hyacinths grow in window boxes or pots? I have a patch of these small bulbs that continues to grow wider and wider, but there are weeds and grass mixed in, so it looks rather messy. I was ...
It's almost time to plant up grape hyacinths, the pint-sized bulbs which offer a mass of blue or white flowers come spring. Often seen as the regular hyacinth's pint-sized poor relation (although they ...
For the past few years I have grown quite a lot of bulbs in pots. The idea is to grow them under cover to protect them from rain, but keep them cool so they do not flower too early. Fat chance this ...
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I'm not sure why you'd want to do anything. Grape hyacinths (Muscari) are among the first plants to bloom in spring, with grape-cluster-like flower clusters above 8-inch-tall stems. They're frequently ...
A fun spring-flowering bulb is the grape hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum). This small bulb has arching dark green, grasslike foliage, which appears in late fall, almost as a reminder to the gardener. The ...
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