Grape Hyacinth

For botanical and cultural information, see Muscari.

from the Victorian Gardener

Grape Hyacinth (Muscari) - A very pretty little family, mostly from S. Europe, easily grown in ordinary soil, and charming spring bloomers. They are all so much alike in their characteristics that a separate description for each one is not needed. The main thing is to get the best kinds and enough of these and use them rightly. They do not come well into the flower garden, as their season of bloom is not long, and it is therefore worth while naturalising them in free soils, and also using them as edgings in the flower garden. One of the best is conicum, which is free and handsome; botryoides and its forms are also good. I find the native racemosum as good as any.