Re the muscari, assuming you have a garden, just dig a hole wherever you think you might like them growing next year, and pop the contents of the pot in the hole you've dug, push the soil back round and tamp down with your hands. There is one thing to consider though - muscari tend to spread far and wide, and I consider them quite invasive, so if you aren't prepared to keep an eye out and control the spread, it might not be sensible to plant them at all.

You don't need to do anything with the crocus leaves, they should be left alone to die down naturally. Once they have, towards the end of May when last frost is passed, you can then just put bedding plants on top, the way he did, using the same planting method as described for the muscari, just you're doing it in a pot and not the ground. If you accidentally dig up crocus bulbs, just shove them back in under the bedding plants.

Hi Bamboo,
Thanks so much for your helpful comments and advice. I think I am going to need a lot more in the future - my husband, a keen gardener, died just over a year ago, and I haven't got much idea of how to go about things. I just used to sit back in the garden with a coffee and enjoy it!
Pat.
(Patfromblackheath).
I haven't quite got the hang of this site yet - I hope my thankyou gets into the system properly.

It has, you've done it perfectly. Sorry for your loss - if you actually live in Blackheath, I remember it well, used to live over that way years ago. Doesn't seem like you'll just be sitting back with a coffee and enjoying it so much any more - but think how fit you'll be if you take up gardening;-)) One other thing while I think of it, do you know if your husband fed the crocuses while they were still in leaf, before they died back? Bulbs store energy for next year's flowers while their leaves are present, which is why you shouldn't cut them off... If he didn't, and they flowered anyway this year, don't worry about it.

Welcome to Goy Pat, sorry for your loss, don't be afraid to ask there is always someone ready and very willing to help...
Your not far away I'm in Stamford, I sit in my son's garden when I am visiting gazing up at the Stump, he's just across the railway line......

Welcome to GOY, Pat. So sorry for your loss but nice to have fresh blood.

I was given a pot and some compost and muscari bulbs two years ago for Mother's Day. They didn't do very well so I decided I'd plant them outside. I knew, as Bamboo says, that they are very invasive so didn't want them in the garden. I took them down to our local park, sneakily dug a hole over some nice fresh mole excavations in a wild area, and shoved them in. They did flower a little last year but nothing this year. Was it the mild wet winter? Or did something eat them? Whatever the reason I don't expect to see them again.

Oh you naughty lady, I bet you provided the squirrels with something a little different, lol...

Ah, now I was thinking Blackheath, on the edge of Kent and South London!

I hope I didn't kill them all off! The squirrels I mean.

Yes and you are probably right Bamboo but if you look at the bottom of the question again her name and location are there...
Nope Arb they know what they like and what is distasteful, probably dug them up and hid them elsewhere... ..