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Muscari is a very bright, but completely unpretentious spring flower. So that with the arrival of the first warm sunny days, its gentle flowering will decorate your garden, plants start reproduction in August
What is Mouse Hyacinth?
Muscari bulbs can be found on sale under a variety of unexpected names. The British call it grape hyacinth for the external resemblance of inflorescences to a bunch of grapes. The French noticed that the flower resembles a lilac, therefore they call muscari earthen lilac. We know it under the names viper bow and mouse hyacinth. This does not mean that planting muscari will attract reptiles to the flower garden, and the opinion that snakes like to feed on the leaves of the plant is wrong. Also, do not be afraid that rodents will be found near the muscari. The flowers are called mouse hyacinth for the external similarity of these bulbous ones and, of course, for their miniature size: the size of the muscari flower brush is hardly larger than a human finger.
Decorative appearance
Muscari opens its buds in the second half of April. Flowering continues for several weeks, but the leaves remain green until late summer. The color of the flowers is blue, white, blue, purple.
Plants with pale pink and lilac brushes are less common, there are yellow hybrids. The plant is undersized, rarely reaching 50 cm in height. The flowering arrow rises above the long, thin drooping leaves.
Propagation of grape hyacinth
Muscari are propagated by bulbs and seeds. The upper flowers are sterile. Mouse hyacinth is undemanding to growing conditions. Under a flower bed, you can assign medium-sized land, areas in partial shade, but still flowers love light. It is better if the soil is neutral. Muscari can be grown in the designated area for 3-4 years without transplanting. The bulbs are taken out of the ground mainly to separate the babies. Each year, they form about 10 daughter bulbs, and in 2-3 years they can form as many as two dozen.
Features of the muscari bulb
Among the advantages of muscari, in addition to its unusually beautiful decorative appearance, these flowers require virtually no maintenance. If they are not transplanted for a long time, the flower brushes will be even larger, and the arrow will be higher.
For the winter, the bulbs remain in the ground, moreover, the muscari hibernates with leaves, since the flower is very frost-hardy. The peculiarity of the structure of the bulbs is that they do not have dense integumentary scales, so they cannot be taken out of the ground for a long time, and after that they must be immediately hidden in the soil again. Short storage of planting material in boxes, generously sprinkled with moistened peat, is allowed. It is advisable to dig them out only for reproduction: in order to share the bulbs with others, or, if the flower is very fond of, to take them more area on their site.
Earthen lilac in landscape design
To arrange a beautiful and lush flower bed of muscari, the bulbs are planted in several rows. The row spacing is left no more than 30 cm wide, and in the row between the bulbs they maintain a distance of 10 cm. The planting material is immersed to a depth of 6-7 cm.
Muscari are great as an independent flower bed decoration, as well as in group plantings. They are grown in tandem with taller flowers. For example, undersized mouse hyacinth will work well with tulips in the center of the flower bed.
On rounded flower beds, they are planted around the perimeter. And when the flower garden is placed in the corner of a fence or at another support - in the front row so that they do not hide behind taller flowers. Muscari is also grown as a curb crop. They will also be a wonderful framing of the bed along the garden paths.
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