Muscari, also known as grape hyacinths, are beautiful springtime flowers that hail from Europe and Asia. These bulbs produce ...

Some spring-blooming bulbs inspire songwriters (“Tiptoe Through the Tulips″). Others even move poets (“I wandered lonely as a cloud … / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils”).

Specialty bulbs, sometimes called minor bulbs, reflect the many other spring bulb treasures that can be planted in fall to herald the next growing season. Because many are diminutive, they are perfect ...

Pietro John Carmel Muscari, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, departed this life after a short illness, at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, on April 6, 2013. He was 67 years old. He was born on July ...

Liriope muscari (pronounced luh-RYE-oh-pee mus-KAR-ree) is a tough, evergreen herbaceous flowering perennial from East Asia that grows in clumps 6 to 12 inches tall and spreads 12 to 18 inches across.

Are you ready to plant something besides daffodils and tulips? You might want to look at planting a few muscari. They do not receive as much attention as other bulbs because they are not as large and ...

John Parkinson, the early herbalist, wrote that muscari "will quickly choke a ground for which cause most men do cast it into some bye corner". Muscari armenaicum, the one that most people will ...