Grape hyacinths come in many shapes and sizes, but the commonest forms, Muscari armeniacum and Muscari neglectum, are weeds - which is shorthand for utterly easy to grow. They can manage light soil or ...

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 ...