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May

20

Muscari

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I mentioned before that the cute little blue flowers of muscari or grape hyacinth were the first to bloom in our garden this spring as they also where the first to sprout last spring…

Did you know that you can still buy muscari at your local florist? For those that want to bring early spring back to life in your garden :-)

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Muscari in a pot from the florist

It’s as simple as that: if days are too hot for comfort, you can actually buy a "piece of early spring" in a pot!

This is actually a muscari I just bought this week and I just love the display of the muscari bulbs in the soil of the pot.

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Jun

18

Grape hyacinth

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I didn’t see them at the florist yet, but in our garden there is against all odds already 1 cute little blue flower: the grape hyacinth (which should start blooming in full force after the crocus… nature has its own ways: flowers don’t read our Spring flower bulb chronology…)

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Muscari armeniacum

Muscari are bulbs producing spikes of blue flowers resembling little blue grapes. That’s where the name "grape hyacinth" comes from. Yet muscari blooms much earlier than normal hyacinths, muscari flowers are much smaller and these flowers don’t have any perfume.

Growing muscari is very easy. Grape hyacinths are ideal to grow in pots and they are lasting: each year you have another pot of little blue flowers.

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