Not quite bluebonnets

Yesterday we got a bunch of Grape Hyacinth bulbs. I plan to put them out in the area Tom has been developing as Daddy's garden -- anchored by the hydrangea Kathie gave me last year in Daddy's memory.

These are very winter-hardy bulbs, and I see the flowers all over the place up here in the spring, sometime filling a small yard, looking like a field of wild bluebonnets in Texas. They are a bit like mini-bluebonnets, which is another reason to put them by Daddy's garden. (For those who don't know, the bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas.) We tried real bluebonnets here once, but they didn't do at all. Bluebonnets are hard to grow anyway, apparently, and add the stresses of a Wisconsin winter and it's all over. I hope these will eventually spread and make a naturalized blue show in the spring.