Spikes covered with grape-like, long-lasting blooms in a range of blues and whites; great as an edging or ‘shoes and socks’ plant, for forcing or for designing a ‘river’; fragrance reminiscent of grapes; naturalizes; armeniacum-types send up foliage in the fall which makes it a great ‘garden marker’ to help locate other, more difficult to find, spring flowering bulbs that need to be fertilized in the fall; critter resistant; Heirloom; 9/10 cm bulbs unless otherwise noted; whz 4-9.