Hear hear re the lovely surprise in a corner you had forgotten about! Glad to hear someone voted for the pinks, though I still can't really like them -some of the very deep ones OK, but blue then white would get my vote.
I brought in some winter flowering bush honeysuckle twigs as the hyacinths were about over, they perfume the whole house too - not silly strong but gorgeous.
Hmm, bought some more hyacinths in a pot which were looking lonely, never could resist a plant offer -they'll do fine ………….
Yours look lovely Chicky. Thanks for the tip about kebab sicks. Mine grew a lot taller than yours and nose dived over the sides of the pot. I had to tie them up with garden twine, which rather spoiled the effect.
By the way, is it true that white ones are less fragrant than other colours?
Happy c-t, I have always found the white hyacinths less perfumed than the others, but thought maybe that was just me! Glad to hear someone else thinks so too - blue ones are always very rich and deeply perfumed.
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Hear hear re the lovely surprise in a corner you had forgotten about! Glad to hear someone voted for the pinks, though I still can't really like them -some of the very deep ones OK, but blue then white would get my vote.
I brought in some winter flowering bush honeysuckle twigs as the hyacinths were about over, they perfume the whole house too - not silly strong but gorgeous.
Hmm, bought some more hyacinths in a pot which were looking lonely, never could resist a plant offer -they'll do fine ………….
Yours look lovely Chicky. Thanks for the tip about kebab sicks. Mine grew a lot taller than yours and nose dived over the sides of the pot. I had to tie them up with garden twine, which rather spoiled the effect.
By the way, is it true that white ones are less fragrant than other colours?
I've got some hyacinths of the darkest mauve imaginable in a garden tub - this'll be their third spring - they're just peeking through
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Happy c-t, I have always found the white hyacinths less perfumed than the others, but thought maybe that was just me! Glad to hear someone else thinks so too - blue ones are always very rich and deeply perfumed.