Thread: Grape hyacinths
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Old 19-03-2003, 08:56 PM
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:54:49 -0000, "Jill"
wrote:

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~ I recently received a pot of grape hyacinths which have now finished
~ flowering (indoors)
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~ A friend would like the bulbs to plant in her garden.
~ Should I remove the flowers like one would with daffs before letting
~ them die down ??


If she really is your friend, I would advise against planting
muscari in the first place. I've been battling against a horde
of the d****d things for over ten years in my quite large gardens
and still they keep popping up

Pity really because they are a beautiful plant; but then that
can be said of almost every plant, couldn't it?...

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Then again I can't get bluebells to spread, either. About the only
things that do in my garden are welsh poppies, periwinkle (UGH!) and
primroses...


Bluebells - now that I've got them under control - and Primroses
which aren't as yet responding to my almost daily chats, are
probably my favourites.

I supposethat there's a moral there somwhere. No matter how
long one may garden, it's only rarely that perfection may be reached.