This is different from the usual blue muscari - I like the flattened flowers and subtle colouring.
Muscari ambrosiacum
Another closer view
Galant.....
Very nice! What a great Muscari, don't think I have ever seen that one except in books etc...are they difficult to grow well?? Hard to find the bulbs??? It is so cool to see the different things you have and grow, versus things I see often in this country. And so far you have given me some great things to look up, and read about...lol ;o)
Lovely pictures!!!
~jamie
I agree Jamie this is an unusual one. It seems to be as easy to grow as the other muscari though. The one I 'd really like is macrocarpum as it's scented. I have around 550 plants and it's getting to be difficult to find something different. Thanks!
Ann
Are those flowers actually open? They look like they are still in the bud stage. Bizarre. Can't say I've ever seen that species for purchasing on this side of the big pond.
Yes the lower flowers are open. Here is muscari pseudomuscari azureum.
And this is muscari latifolium
WOW!!! I really like your amazing variety in Muscari....when you say 550 plants, you mean everything, not just rock garden & alpine plants -Right??? I look forward to the pictures you will share if we have that many to look forward to...;o)
I still must say though- that top Muscari gets my vote as most unusual - and unique!
~jam
Jamie - I have 550 plants of all sorts including perennials, shrubs, bulbs and trees. I'm particularly interested in alpines at the moment and I'm always on the lookout for anything rare and unusual :)
Galant....
I am drawn more and more to the rare and unusual as well, part of what I love about this Forum is that I have seen many plants here that I now get to try to track down, order, and enjoy in my garden. Like that Muscarii at the top of this thread...what was its name....gotta search for it...:o)
Jamie
Galanthophile, those are great shots of muscari! close up they are really amazing looking--rather otherworldy....esp the ambrosiacum. when I look at that "same" muscari in a picture on the John Scheepers (big bulb supplier) web site their ambrosiacum looks like a whole different creature-infact, I had grown some of their's once- but they didn't look like yours at all! much longer inflorescence and more yellow and pink rather than that green-blue cast. I wonder if they are the same....
http://www.johnscheepers.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Product&_category=Muscari
at the time that I grew them, I remember I just thought they looked odd..funny how we like odd and unusual more and more! so where did you get your bulbs???
ok maybe i can get this right this time!This message was edited Apr 30, 2005 7:39 AM
This message was edited Apr 30, 2005 7:43 AM
Believe it or not I got these in a packet of "Unusual flowerbulbs for naturalizing" from my local garden centre for only 50p. They are from a company in Holland called Kapiteyn and they have a website www.kapiteyn.nl
As they grow older the tips of the flowers are more brownish and the individual florets have a bluish tinge - very lovely
