grape hyacinth

Any of various plants of the genus Muscari, native to Eurasia and having narrow leaves and dense terminal racemes of rounded, usually blue flowers.

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grape hyacinth

(Plants) any of various Eurasian liliaceous plants of the genus Muscari, esp M. botryoides, with clusters of rounded blue flowers resembling tiny grapes

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grape′ hy`acinth

any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, having round blue grapelike flowers.

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grape hyacinth - any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes

liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber

genus Muscari, Muscari - sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae

common grape hyacinth, Muscari neglectum - prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers

Muscari comosum, tassel hyacinth - large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers

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4MUSCARI "DARK EYES": This is a pretty two-tone version of the more widely grown "grape hyacinth".

YOUR LIFE: GARDENING : POTS OF COLOUR; Pippa Greenwood plants spring bulbs

* START looking for `prepared' hyacinth bulbs in garden centres, also muscari or grape hyacinth bulbs.

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SET E Grape Hyacinth - compact cluster of blue bell-shaped blooms.

200 FREE BULBS

Buy 100 spring bulbs, which consist of five tulip Apeldoorn, 20 Allium molly, 20 alstromeria, 15 grape hyacinth, 20 oxalis, 20 Anemone de Caen for just pounds 12.99.

Gardens: SAVE pounds 5 ON BUMPER BUNDLES OF BULBS

In vitro axillary bulblet regeneration of Turkish yellow grape Hyacinth, (Muscari macrocarpum Sweet) from twin scale explants.

EFFICIENT IN VITRO BULBLET PRODUCTION OF ENDANGERED HYACINTHELLA Micrantha (BOISS.) CHOUARD

Grape Hyacinth Bulbs (Muscariarmeniacum) This plant supplies much-needed early spring nectar for bees.

Plant Now for Early Spring Bee Food

'Renown'; daffodils like 'February Gold', 'Ice Follies', or 'Salome'; and minor bulbs such as grape hyacinth (Muscari), honey garlic (Allium siculum), Siberian squill (Scilla siberica), and Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanico).

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Painted in the off-the-shelf pastel tints of household emulsion named in their titles (Grape Hyacinth M560-3, Crystal Rapids P420-2, and Kiss Goodnight M120-2), their slotted-together forms suggest three-dimensional doodles, rough maquettes writ large that feel rather like sculptures o^generic abstract works.

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MUSCARI (GRAPE HYACINTH) THE grape hyacinth brings a burst of blue to spring, either crammed into pots or in drifts between deciduous shrubs.

FLORAL BORDER

The grape hyacinth, so–called because its bells are almost spherical and clustered tightly round their stems, is regarded by some gardeners as a pest.

MY BLUE HEAVEN; Winter has only just arrived but that doesn't mean we can't dream of spring. Get your bulbs ready and let Mother Nature paint your garden azure once the snows have melted

The grape hyacinth, so called because its bells are almost spherical and clustered tightly round their stems, is regarded by some gardeners as a pest.

It's time to sing the blues; Whether you go for deep ocean hues or paler sky-like tones, pick and plant your bulbs now to create a vivid sea of colour come next spring

"Here at the garden, we've had violets flowering in October, a poppy out for Remembrance Day, a grape hyacinth in November and quite a few primulas basking in the autumn sunshine at the beginning of this month."

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