Having a yard well supplied with Hyacinthoides of many colors, which I let grow almost everywhere they decide to appear, I went out in the rain yesterday and inspected about 100 flowering plants to see if the stamen color is ever anything but the flower color. I am reporting back that in one case I saw a light blue flower with dark blue stamens, and in one other case, a blue flower with very pale, almost white stamens, and in all other flower spikes, the tepal color was the same as the stamen color, be it white, pink, or blue, light to dark. The open flowers vary from wide bells to narrow, straight bells, the spikes from upright with spirals of flowers opening along the stem to 'one-sided' curved; width of leaf and overall height appear to be related to bulb vigor and otherwise do not vary widely; all plants appear to be in peak bloom right now. This garden was first planted in 1865-1880s, restored in the 1940s, again in the 1980s, and no new bulbs of this genus have been added since the first two peak gardening periods. If desired, I can supply hundreds of bulbs for the next bulb exchange, though not sorted by color. . . Kathleen