Also known as wood hyacinths, or Hyacinthoides hispanica, these plants naturalize easily, and are tolerant of sun, shade and the dry soil often found under large trees.
Ledebouria socialis, the silver squill or wood hyacinth, is a geophytic species of bulbous perennial plant native to the Cape Province of South Africa.
Its yearly spring sale features more than 100 species, including anemones, snowdrops, fritillaria, wood hyacinths, amaryllis, allium, iris, narcissus, tulips, daffodils, and others.
Its eight to 12-inch tall stalks are crowned with white, pink or blue flowers that may be called wood hyacinths or Spanish bluebells.
Lawns were a tender, thin green, and she spotted the sassy yellow of daffodils and the sleepy blue of wood hyacinths.
Later bloomers include the parrot and lily-flowered tulips, wood hyacinth or Spanish blue bell (Hyacinthoides hyspanica), quamash (Camassia cusickii) and Allium giganteum.
Spanish bluebells may also be listed as English bluebells, blue squill or wood hyacinths.
Literally a million daffodils, crocuses and wood hyacinths have blossomed.
In summer her garden no longer teems with wood hyacinths, chrysanthemums and daffodils.
The first was on May 6, when about 400 visitors came to view thousands of tulips, daffodils, Muscari, alliums and wood hyacinth in bloom.