Muscari armeniacum, on its common name Grape Hyacinth is a genus of 30 species of spring-flowering bulbs in the hyacinth (Hyacinthaceae) family.

Little jewels of the garden, Muscari look absolutely breath-taking, like a sea of blue, forming low carpets of intense color with their spikes of tiny, downward-facing, bell-shaped flowers, specially if planted in huge drifts, spreading out along the edge of the woods or running along a fence line. Typically, they have flowers in shades of blue to purple, but the color range extends to include white and yellow.

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