Muscari & relatives 2017

[sokol]

Nice Muscari for the autumn. I did not know that it exists and I have never heard or red about it.

[pehe]

Nice Muscari for the autumn. I did not know that it exists and I have never heard or red about it.

Thanks Stefan.
It is mentioned in Rod Leeds book Autumn Bulbs.
The history about it is in short form:

In the the 1950'es Ray Cobb received some Muscari aucheri bulbs from Ronald Ginns.
Some of them flowered in the autumn and these were selected by Ray and he named them Autumn Glory and distributed them under that name. I was so lucky to get 2 of these bulbs from Ray via a kind SRGC forum member.
Some years later  I contacted Ray Cobb directly, and got the story from him. He also send me some bulbs of another selection, which he named Winter Cheer. As the name indicates, these flower later than Autumn Glory, but before the regular aucheri.
Ray mentioned that they could be hybrids, but he was not sure.

Autumn Glory and Winter Cheer are both self fertile and I have seedlings of both, but I cannot say if they are autumn flowering too. The Autumn Glory seedlings flowered for the first time in this spring, but until now no autumn flowers has appeared.

Poul

[sokol]

Thanks Poul! Now I understand, why I haven't seen it in any bulb list.

[Yann]

Muscari armeniacum is flowering!

[brianw]

I have some "grape hyacinths" in flower at present. Don't know what they are but nothing special, except I thought last year when I planted them they were a pale blue. This year they are much darker; the usual mid/dark blue. Another group I have are nowhere near flowering yet so can't check if I have the 2 groups confused.