The second week of November is a good time to try forcing bulbs indoors to enjoy as fresh blooms during the Christmas season.

You should either plant hardy spring flowering bulbs like daffodils, iris, tulips, and hyacinths ... need to be dug up and stored correctly to save them for the next growing season.

Muscari botryoides, also known as grape hyacinths, are spring-blooming bulbs that produce small stalks bearing clumps of bright violet-blue flowers that somewhat resemble clusters of grapes.

Here is how to select, plant and display your bulbs. Use early bloomers under deciduous shrubs and trees where they can enjoy dappled light. Winter aconites, early daffodils, grape hyacinth ...