[Alisdair]

A "little blue job" just into flower last week at the Soller Botanic Garden in Mallorca. All they knew about it was that it had come originally from Tunisia.
I wondered whether it might be Scilla lingulata?

[oron peri]

Yes it is.
In the right climate it sets first the inflorescens to follow by the leaves.

[Alisdair]

Thanks, Oron; I suppose I should go the whole hog and call it Hyacinthoides!

[John]

I have a pot of this which multiplies freely but doesn't flower brilliantly here in London!

[JTh]

At first I thought that the one Alisdair showed was the same as another Scilla I saw in the same botanical garden in Soller, which was labelled Scilla numidica, which I took a not very good photo of, but I see now that the last one seems to be more pink than Alisdair's, and the leaves were out. I am slightly confused, though, it seems as if the accepted name today is Barnardia numidica (ref. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=300284). There is a nice photo of this flower at http://www.flickr.com/photos/botanicdesoller/2867136445/in/photostream/ (the Soller botanical garden's photostream).