In article kv%vd.525483$%k.127687@pd7tw2no, "Joe" wrote:

I live in Zone 3A and have a mixed rose border with lots of bulbs in it. I
applied a heavy mulch of leaves over my bulbs a good while after freeze-up.
This is the third year I do this mulching.

Now I looked under and lots of Muscari are poking up. Oh dear. There must
have been more heat still trapped in there than I thought.

What's odd is I thought this growth could not happen without a good hard
cold dormancy period. My tulips, narcissi and everything else are not
coming up. I certainly can't save the muscari from the rest of winter. So
I just put the leaves back.

Unlike the majority of grape hyacinths, Muscari botryoides as a rule
produces autumn grass, though it blooms in spring the same time as other
species. Having never gardened in a really cold place, I dunno if the
muscari grass will thrive in zone 3A, though I'd think it'd be done in by
a good freeze, unlike my zone 8 where it stays lovely & nice all winter
long.

-paghat the ratgirl

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