Day 162: I love grape hyacinths. Although they do spread, they don't do so with the obnoxious vigour of English Wood Hyacinths (aka bluebells), and because they're short, their foliage doesn't overpower the other plants in the garden after the blooms have faded. That said, they can be difficult to remove from places where they're not wanted because even the tiniest pinpoint bulblet is capable of establishing a new colony within just a few years. When mine get too thick in any given spot, I shovel them out en masse, taking care to lift the soil with as little disturbance of the clump as possible. Invariably, the following year will see a few grasslike leaves emerging, a rebirth to which I choose to turn a deliberately blind eye until they need dividing again.
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