Rodger
I supplied Mt Tahoma Nursery with bulbs of ' Blue Boy' . It was raised
by the late Molly Grothaus of Lake Oswego,Oregon. She raised it from a
package of seed of Muscari aucheri. It is indeed very close to 'Valery Finnis' in
color but the leaves are wider ( as in M aucheri ) and it often produces
imperfect "spikes" ( racemes) made so by missing or distorted florets. M ' Valery
Finnis ' is I believe a seedling of M. armeniacum. 'Blue Boy ' only makes a few
seed capsules here and some of the self-sown seedlings from them have been
dark blue as with you.
The third very similarly colored grape hyacinth is 'Jenny Robinson' (aka
' Angel's Breath' ) but derived from M. neglectum and found in the wild. It is
my favorite of the trio.
Jerry John Flintoff
Vashon Island,Washington,USA
Zone 8
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