Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Am I blue?

These are muscari (grape hyacinth) that grow just outside our front door. They've taken over a plot of ground next to our driveway after I transplanted some a number of years ago. There are also some very old tulips and a few daffodils in this plot. The muscari have really thrived there. Soon it will look like a carpet of blue. These are the early flowers, so not yet as dense as they can be.

The annual blue wave of muscari is building. The flowers will die back before summer.

We also have a rose growing in the middle of the plot. Nothing fancy, but we moved it there from another location and it seems to do well. Tasha has worn a path down to the dirt through the little plot. It's the path she takes from the front door to the other side of the hedge to bark at people and cars. There's a little tunnel through the hedge that Callie and Bert made years ago. Tasha learned to use it, too. The yard is fenced in all around, so that tunnel doesn't lead out of the yard, just to a strip between the fences and the hedge.

5 comments:

  1. We grew them once in one of our gardens. I really like them. From memory they grow from rhizomes?

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  2. Spring has definitely arrived! Very pretty.

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  3. I love the early signs for of spring. Some of the most magical flowers.

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  4. Lucky you to have so many muscari! They are so colorful and a definite sign that spring is on it's way!

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  5. andrew, that or bulbs, I don't remember.

    bettyann, and in another week, the calendar will agree!

    mitch, true dat.

    mary, they pop up here and there. It's nice when they take hold.

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