Pink muscari
Mark BROWN (Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:20:38 PST)

This spring when in Turkey driving back to Istanbul and the airport the motorway was ,mile after mils lined on both sides with muscari by the billions.We had a quick look through them and great was our joy when whites,palest icey blues,grey blues,and many shades of pink were found.No sulphur yellows nor pinkish reds were found but who knows what would have been found if we were not raceing back for a plane?I grow many selections of Hyacinthoides non-scripta found over many years of gleaning the local woods here in Normandy.I have bracteate forms only in blue as yet but have many bicolors,reverse bicolors,striped ,spotted,pink,amethyst smokey lilac and a few different pink forms.My greatest treasures are a semi double blue and the soft primrose yellow forms that turn up amongst the whites if you look hard enough.And of course then there are all the different shades of blue in various degrees of intensity and somme that flower a good month before the others,they never flower at the same time these cultivars which is a joy too.
Oh yes ,gul is turkish for rose by the way.This is a turkish plant.