Muscari Species, Blue Bottle, Starch Hyacinth, Southern Grape Hyacinth

Muscaria neglectum grows in the meadow in my garden in Austria, where it is also common in the wild and blooms from April till May

Sothern grape hyacinth is an introduced native plant and inhabits many states besides Texas. I planted these for the first time this yea...Read Morer (2005). They bloomed very well and I hope that they spread next year. The ones in part shade did better than those that received more sun.

Update: 3/07/06 These have naturalized very well and I have about 3 times as many as I had planted last year. I have been very pleased with them. They are blooming now and have taken no special care. They make excellent border plants and never died back all year. They did look a bit limpish during the drought we have been experiencing and extraordinarily hot summer and fall.

A species of grape hyacinth that is widely naturalized in the South. Leaves appear in fall, preceding early spring flowers. Very tough a...Read Morend easy to grow, it will do well as far south as northern areas of zone 8.