Discussion: volunteer hyacinth

It's funny when they get out into the lawn, isn't it? I think they have really small bulbs, which are probably fairly close to the surface. If it's wet enough, you might be able to feel for the blub with your fingers.... I would wait until the leaves are gone, and then dig it up then.

That's what I was thinking, but I'll have to mow around it until then if it's anything like the crocus.

I don't have ANY other grape hyacinths... wonder if my neighbor does and a squirrel relocated it.

Why not get some more to keep it company. Less to mow.

Those are all over my parents' yard. Except we never knew what they were so we were calling them bluebells. I didn't know they were something you would plant; ours were just always there.

Grape Hyacinth and English Bluebells look very similar. I have mostly English Bluebells in my yard but Janet's picture looks more like the former.

J-J saw some in Rhonda's garden yesterday and asked about them, because he seems to have a lot of them in his grass and wondered what they were.

Bunches of grape hyacinths, plus a few of these white things, whatever they are. But as you can see, not exactly a pride-inducing crop of grass.

From misc

The "white thing" looks like a narcissus. I have some planted in a little corner where I'm thinking of moving the grape hyacinth.

Narcissus it is. I thought they looked a little like daffodils without the middle part, and I just learned from wikipedia that daffodils are a kind of narcissus (or maybe an alternate name for the same thing).

I have daffodils, narcissus, and jonquils (looks like a small daffodil and blooms a bit earlier) planted in various places. I'm pretty sure they're all related. :-)

"Daffodil" is the common name. The scientific name for the genus is Narcissus which includes dozens of species. Some people use the name "jonquil" interchangeably with daffodil, but usually it refers to one particular species. We need a Venn diagram. :)