Is this Hyacinth?

I have recently taken over a garden and have rather a lot of the following in the borders:



The stalks and blue buds have just appeared.

Does anyone know what it is?

Thanks,
JB.

 

Looks like bluebells JB.

 

Looks like Muscari to me! But then again, haven't seen Bluebells for years! Sigh!

 

Definitely bluebells! I've been digging up lots in a customer's garden this week!

 

Yep, Bluebells!

Keep an eye on 'em though. If they are highly scented and drooping they will be our native 'English' bluebell. If scentless and upright they will be Spanish bluebells or cross hybrids and should be ripped out as they are decimating the natives.

 

Great, thanks for the ID folks, and thanks for the warning. I'll rip them out if they don't droop.

JB.

 

Native ones also have the flowers on one side of the stem only, whereas the invaders and crosses between it and native ones have the flowers all round the stem.

 

I seem to have loads of the Spanish type come up again this year even though I dug out loads last year.

That's a job for today methinks

Although they do look prettyish...

 

If there are no native ones within bee distance why not leave them and enjoy them in your garden? We live in an area where as far as we can see there are no native bluebells. The nearest ones we see are actually over the border in Wales. So the clump of pink Spanish ones stays where it is, until such time as we see proper bluebells around us!

 

yep bluebells, I've loads of them on one side of my front garden. Dug them up one year or so I thought!!!! hard to get rid of them if you don't want them.

 

I find them very invasive. The flowers are pretty, but there is so much foliage and it stays so long that it crowds out other plants if its in a border.