Planting and caring for muscari is very simple.

planting and caring for muscari

Muscari - a plant that belongs to the hyacinth family, it is also called mouse hyacinth or gwith a hell of a bow. Botanists know about fifty species of this plant.

Muscari looks very attractive - the plant itself is not tall, has a few basal leaves and very bright inflorescences of fragrant, cylindrical or tubular flowers. Their colors can be varied, blue or purple flowers are more common, blue and pink flowers are a little less common. Mouse hyacinth inflorescences have racemose apices.

Amateur flower growers know that planting and caring for Muscari uncomplicated, the plant is unpretentious and tolerates weather disasters well. Muscari can be propagated by seeds or children. Plants sown with seeds will flower in the third year. It is much more convenient to propagate Muscari by baby bulbs, of which an adult plant sometimes produces up to 30 pieces during the summer.

You can admire the flowering of Muscari for a whole month - from the end of April to mid-May. Abundant flowering creates a beautiful bright background.

Proper planting and care of Muscari involve growing plants on open and semi-shaded soils, sometimes even shaded, on soils with different properties. Plants are planted in groups or in a tape, the depth of planting the bulbs is up to 6 cm. The soil is prepared in the same way as for other bulbous plants.

For landscaping the area and using it in landscape design, the following varieties of mouse hyacinth are most suitable:

  • muscari broadleaf and colchis
  • muscari pale and grape-shaped
  • Armenian muscari.