Hyacinth

[Ladygardener]

I'm really pleased to have gotten one of my Hyacinth to bloom for Christmas. These are not prepared ones but ordinary garden ones, some of which are new to me this year and some left from previous years and dug up. I planted them in pots sept/oct, hid them under darkness and brought them into the light when the shoots were a couple of inches. I brought this one and some others into the house in november. I have more blooms coming. i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif

[Jasmine]

Well done LG - I never get hyacinths right if I do them for indoors and mine never get a decent sized stalk.
Bet the smell is gorgeous.

[Rosefriend]

Well done LG - it was something that I was intending to do and just forgot. As Jasmine says I bet the smell is gorgeous....

RF

[carolann]

Lovely LG I can never get them to flower for Christmas
and I love the smell of them.

[4pygmies]

Oo, you lucky thing! I forgot too! I love them though as they are one of the few flowers strongly scented enough for me to smell.. I did put some in a large clay pot outside but I'm not sure they will have survived the extreme weather we've had....time will tell!

[Barbara]

Well done LG timing is everything with them isn't it.

[prodigal gardener]

Ooooooo Lovely ;D

[Ladygardener]

;D thanks everyone, this is my 1st year to get it right. ;D I think I'll be having a succession of them through the next month or so.

[Dutchy]

Well done LG.
I have some too but are far more lazy than you.
I wait for the shops to sell them and get me a few that are already up and going.

[Tig]

Smashing result LG

I won't try indoor growing again as OH is sooooo opposed to the scent of them - I ended up putting them outside in the cold

x Tig

[Barbara]

It's a scent you either love or hate I think.

[Ladygardener]

It's not actually too overpowering this one although I would'nt mind how strong it is, I love the scent of it. More are opening now, does anyone else at all have any? I do seem to remember Dr. Bill having some around this time in past years.

[Dutchy]

The white ones are almost gone and will soon be bunged in a simple pot and left outside to see if they make it and when so end somewhere at MssK. The blue ones are out full now and yes OH and I love the smell and when it is too overpowering we just move them to another place in the room further away from us.
I always have the lazy variety of Hyacinth indoors and think I will buy some more soon and maybe some dafs and grape hyacinth too.

There must be more people who have Hyacinth indoors now.

[Ladygardener]

It's good to hear you have some blooming too Dutchy . I'd have thought lots of folk would have them they're so lovely, especially when there is so little to grow yourself for this time of year. I guess because so many places import flowers all the year round now it's not the same but I do love the hyacinths.
I now have blue ones and a few white ones blooming in different rooms. I'm also waiting on a pale pink one to start showing it's flowers, it's taking it's time 'tho.

[Jilly]

Can anyone offer some advice, I got a bowl of hyacinths as a tree present, it was obviously meant to be planted up before Christmas as the bulbs, bowl and compost are all separate & the instructions are all about potting up & putting in a dark cupboard for 10 weeks, (not a lot of use now)
I'm tempted to just pot them up in a normal pot & put them outside, they do say they're prepared bulbs, but I'm not sure they will be very happy left until the autumn i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/undecided.gif .

Jillyx

[Dutchy]

No they won't be Jilly.
Pot them up now but get them deeper in instead of half above, all in I'd think ( maybe 1 inch under potting compost but not as deep as you would in full soil) and then place in a sheltered place outside. Maybe allow them to get used to outside cold as they have been hardened before and spend a lot of time indoors. If you get frost of well over minus 7 it might be a tad much in one go but they should be fine with it in a week time.
Or pretend Christmas is in Spring and treat them as prescribed now.
When they flower it still will be good to have them indoors.

[Jilly]

Thanks Dutchy, we think alike i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif I'll pot them tomorrow & as it's forecast as below freezing overnight all next week here, they can sit in the porch for a week or so.
It's a very pretty pot, but no draining holes, so I'll put that away & remember I've got it for next Christmas

Jillyx

[Ladygardener]

Planting them as Dutchy says is certainly worth a try Jilly. They should bloom in springtime and Hyacinth are lovely no matter when they bloom.

[Tig]

The pot I rescued has flowered already! Sooo much scent ...



x Tig

[Ladygardener]

How lovely it is Tig, beautiful colour too. All your plants are so healthy looking.

[Jasmine]

My half price pot from M&S is just coming out and the kitchen is beginning to fill with the scent of hyacinths.

[snowowl]

You did well LG to get an unprepared bulb to flower.The smell from them is realy amazing isnt it.

[Ladygardener]

Thanks Snowowl, Jasmine they're lovely, you got a good bargain there. All my ones that I brought indoors are almost finished flowering now. Just the ones outside in the pots to go but it'll be ages before they bloom.

[Jasmine]

Have your outside ones even shown their noses yet LG - mine haven't - I looked today.
Might get some more potted ones on Friday.

[Ladygardener]

Oh yes they have Jasmine, in fact they're about 3 inches and already if you look down into the centre of one of them you can see the flower.

[Jasmine]

That's good LG - I think the foot of snow for 2 weeks has really set things back here.

[Ladygardener]

They'll soon pick up Jasmine.

[Ladygardener]

Just a little update after giving it a lot of thought. I'm thinking that the Hyacinth that bloomed for me are the new ones I bought and those which did'nt and are showing no signs of buds might well be the ones I dug up from previous years. I looked back at my book and realise that I actually bought several packets of new bulbs in September, Carnagie and Multiflora and those are the ones I had success with. As previously said none of them are prepared.

[Jasmine]

That's interesting LG. Helen Yemm said it was prepared bulbs that didn't do very well in subsequent years. I wonder if my 2 recent M&S pots were prepared bulbs Maybe they're like tulips and better just bought fresh every year if you want to be sure of flowers.
I have planted potted hyacinth out in previous years and have wondered where some of them have got to. Will have to take more notice this spring and see what comes up where.

[Jilly]

Because my birthday is in February I usually get a big pot of Hyacinths as a present from work, (usually from M&S). When they've finished flowering I always plant them in the garden.
They sometimes take a couple of years to settle down & flower again properly, but it's certainly worth doing.
I buy new bulbs for pot displays every year (to be certain of flowers) but after that they all go into the garden too. Daffs seem to be fine & flower the next year, some of the fancier Tulips do disappear but I get about 50% success.
Mind you, as I'm planting the finished bulbs in about May when the borders are stuffed they just get plonked in where ever I can find a gap, I might get more success if I did it properly i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/rolleyes.gif .

Jillyx