IT’S ALMOST time to plant up grape hyacinths, the pint-sized bulbs which offer a mass of blue or white flowers come spring. Often seen as the regular hyacinth’s pint-sized poor relation (although they ...

The autumn grape hyacinth grows around the Mediterranean, all the way from Spain to Turkey and Israel. The autumn grape hyacinth is a small plant that flowers in autumn in response to the arrival of ...

Q: The foliage of grape hyacinths looks nice for a while when it comes up in the fall, but right around now - when it starts to look straggly and unattractive and catches leaves - I get an itchy ...

Question: I’ve been trying to get rid of some grape hyacinths in my shrub bed. I used a weed killer, but they didn’t all die. Then I dug them out, but they came back up this year. I want to try ...

One of the best blue flowering plants is the Valerie Finnis grape hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum "Valerie Finnis"). This spring-blooming bulb is short (only 6 to 8 inches tall) but packs a colorful ...

Q:We are infested with a fast-spreading grape hyacinth population. We travel a lot. Other than the tedious and impossible task of picking the many and tiny bulbs by hand, how do we get rid of them? A: ...

It’s almost time to plant up grape hyacinths, the pint-sized bulbs which offer a mass of blue or white flowers come spring. Often seen as the regular hyacinth’s pint-sized poor relation (although they ...

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