The color makes a wonderful contrast with other blooming bulbs such as the lent lily or campernelle.
Muscari neglectum bulbs.
The muscari neglectum grape hyacinth is a strong strain that has won the heart of many gardeners.
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Its sweetly fragrant vigorous racemes have compact bud like florets that begin lime green and mature to extremely pale blue.
Until recently a form of this was known as muscari atlanticum and considered native to eastern england.
Muscari is a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to eurasia that produce spikes of dense most commonly blue urn shaped flowers resembling bunches of grapes in the spring.
Now however this is synonymous with muscari neglectum and believed to have been introduced.
It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant for example in temperate climates as a spring bulb.
Its small bluish purple flowers appear 2 3 inches above it s small fountain of grass like foliage and bloom some time in late february or early march.
The common name for the genus is grape hyacinth a name which is also used for the related genera leopoldia and pseudomuscari which were formerly included in muscari but they should not be confused with hyacinths.
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With spikes of blackish blue flowers it prefers open well drained soil.
Neglectum sport was found on the island of cyprus.
Muscari are perennial bulbous plants native to eurasia.
Muscari neglectum is a perennial bulbous plant one of a number of species and genera known as grape hyacinth and in particular common grape hyacinth or starch grape hyacinth.