PlantFiles: Yellow Grape Hyacinth
Muscari macrocarpum 'Golden Fragrance'

Planted this beauty in winter 2009. It started blooming in Feb 2010. Fragrance is delicious but unless you plant a min. of 25 bulbs, it doesn't make much of a statement, IMO. Per Brent & Beckys. it naturalizes but I also intend to plant more in the future to create a fragrant drift.

This plant is far hardier than it is reputed to be, as it acts as a perennial in my Zone 5 garden. It prefers full sun but will grow in a partly shaded area, although it tends to get somewhat spindly and leggy without enough sun. It blooms about the same time as the common blue muscari, and makes a lovely combination when the two are planted together.

Although its appearance might not appeal to everyone, I would recommend growing it for the fragrance alone. The description of these bulbs, which I read at the time of the purchase, describes the fragrance as a cross between banana and gardenia, and I find this description to be quite apt. So whether you grow it for the novelty or the fragrance, this is a very interesting and little known bulb.