Muscari, also known as grape hyacinths, are beautiful springtime flowers that hail from Europe and Asia. These bulbs produce ...

Some spring-blooming bulbs inspire songwriters (“Tiptoe Through the Tulips″). Others even move poets (“I wandered lonely as a cloud … / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils”).

John Parkinson, the early herbalist, wrote that muscari "will quickly choke a ground for which cause most men do cast it into some bye corner". Muscari armenaicum, the one that most people will ...