Plant of the Week: Grape Hyacinth

The grape hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum) just started blooming this week. I was beginning to wonder if they would. Their leaves of this little bulb come up first, and we had a few cold nights a few weeks back, so the tips of the leaves got frosted and didn't look so hot. (you can see this in the photo below)

We have Muscari in several places in our yard. The ones in the above photo are between the house and the sidewalk leading to the door. The next two photos show the ones in the lawn. They were planted about two years ago, so it's a young planting and isn't to the impressive mass planting yet. But they're still cheerful.

It's truly a shame scratch n' sniff blogs haven't been invented yet, because then I could share the  wonderfully intoxicating fragrance of grape hyacinths with you.