It doesn't look like it's in the cards for us to purchase spring bulbs for planting this fall, so I am trying to make the most of what is already in place. What we
do have is an abundance of
grape hyacinths, or muscari, to some. These lovely purplish-blue flowering bulbs naturalize like crazy, via seeds and dividing bulbs; which is great if you just want to fill a space fast. Sun or shade, they do just fine. Just don't plant them where their bulbs will sit in water. When the clumps start to get overgrown, carefully dig them up in mid-late summer, divide the bulbs and replant, or give the extras away to someone else.
Grape hyacinths are funny in that they send up their green leaves in late summer-early fall, which will stay green all winter. Here in central PA, that's nice to see, until it's covered by huge piles of snow, of course. They're also one of the first to bloom in spring, and that blue is so beautiful! In some varieties, each individual flower is rimmed with a tiny border of white--giving a scalloped effect, as though stitched by a careful seamstress.
If you don't already know someone who is giving some extras away, you can find them quite inexpensively
HERE.
Transplanting and dividing bulbs in late summer
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1 comments:
what a beautiful description of these flowers. For sure they do exactly what you said. I have moved them at least twice this year because we keep changing our flower beds, and they just keep right on growing. Thanks for sharing yours with us!
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