[LivvyW]

I have two small patches of muscari. I am hoping they will increase in time.

Do i have to do anything to them to propagate them or will they do it themselves.

I know they increase by baby bulbs (?) around the original bulb, do i have to dig them out and divide them.

Also should i be deadheading like i do with my daffs? Or should i be letting them set seed.

The variety i have are a lovely two tone a purple base and bright blue top half. The leaf is reddish at the base and lots of single leaves seem to have come up around them but no flower. Could this be next years flowers.

Sorry for too many questions.

Thanks in advance.

[tam]

They will increase without any help. We pull ours out by the bag full. You can split big clumps if you like but they will spread sideways themselves so unless you want a new 'clump' elsewhere no need.

There will be hundreds of tiny bulbs. We cleared an area last year and still got more up this spring where it's impossible to get all the babies out.

We dead head, looks neater. I don't know how readily the grow from seed but the new bulbs are more than enough for us.

They die right back in winter and then come up again so you won't see next years flower yet.

[sunshineband]

We leave the seed heads on and new little ones pop up all over, including spaces in between the bricks on the path etc 

[DavidT]

They are weeds, really. Once you have them you are stuck with them.

[sunshineband]

They are weeds, really. Once you have them you are stuck with them.

But good weeds 

Well I think so

[DavidT]

They are weeds, really. Once you have them you are stuck with them.

But good weeds 

Well I think so

If you have somewhere big enough for them to do what they want, then fair enough. But in a modern garden, they are thugs. Along with Spanish bluebells and Leycesteria.

[sunshineband]

I agree with you about the spanish bluebells 

[DavidT]

Not the Leycesteria?

[sunshineband]

I quite like this in moderation but I guess it is a bit thuggish 

[DavidT]

Compared to Liriope, it`s an angel.

[sunshineband]

Compared to Liriope, it`s an angel.

Never grown this -- given it's price I would have thoguht the opposite 

[DavidT]

Eerr, Liriope is Muscari. AKA Grape Hyacinth.

[sunshineband]

Eerr, Liriope is Muscari. AKA Grape Hyacinth.

  Silly me-- I got mixed up with that plant with black grass like leaves and purple spikes of flowers.

What's it called again?

[DavidT]

Omphalodes?

[sunshineband]

No, but that triggered the name

Ophiopogon nigrescens 

Knew it was in my brain somewhere