Muscari neglectum 'Baby's Breath'
- Common Name: Grape hyacinth ‘Baby’s Breath’
- Height: 15 cm
- Spread: 3 cm
- Exposure: Full Sun, Part Shade
- Colour: pale icy-blue
- Bloom Time: Early Spring
- Plant Type: Bulb, Perennial
- Soil Moisture: Average, Dry
- Plant Uses: Alpine and Rock, Attracts Bees, Cut Flower, Deer Resistant, Fragrant, Ground Cover, Rabbit Resistant
- Zone: 3A
- Fragrance: yes
- Recommended: ground cover
- Description:
Muascari neglectum ‘Baby’s Breath’ (grape hyacinth) with their abundant, almost white, baby-blue blooms and lovely fragrance, baby’s breath is a great early spring perennial. The flower buds are a vibrant lime green colour that bloom to reveal the icy-blue flower. Plant baby’s breath in the fall, at a depth of about 5 cm, in well-drained soil, and provide them will plenty of water before the first frost. Then you can simply wait till early spring and enjoy their beautiful blooms!
- Other: Baby’s breath muscari is reliable and low maintenance. It is rarely bothered by pests. After they finish blooming, there is no need to cut them back, you can just leave them to die back on their own. It make an impact they are best planted in drifts. However, they do well planted in groups and with other perennial spring bulbs such as miniature narcissus, crocus, or dwarf iris. They make lovely additions to rock gardens or borders, are great cut flowers, and can even be naturalized into turfgrass.
