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Hyacinths

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  • I have several clumps in the garden - each started as three or five bulbs that had flowered in the house.  They seem to just multiply ad infinitum.  I do feed them with tomato feed after they've finished flowering though, to promote the following year's flowers.  They are an absolute magnet for snails though, as they die down!  You may also want to mark where they are to save digging them up inadvertently when you are planting things out later in the year.

  • staffsmagsstaffsmags Posts: 230

    I like to get my indoor ones planted at end August to get them into flower for Christmas.   I love the perfume of them, too.

    I wonder when others get them started?   Mags

  • Fraid I' m usually late.  (What's new). Would love to have them for Christmas.  Incidentally the blue ones smell a bit to strongly and not too pleasantly when they are going over.

  • staffsmags wrote (see)

    I like to get my indoor ones planted at end August to get them into flower for Christmas.   I love the perfume of them, too.

    I wonder when others get them started?   Mags

     

    I plant mine mid-Sept/early-Oct....... getting the timing right is important to having them in flower for the big day.

  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    So what is the optimum planting time for Christmas flowering?  I think I might stagger them and see, then I'll know for next year image

    Thanks everyone image

  • OL, I did step-by-step of this for the BBC boards a few years ago, I could do the same again here if it wasn't boring peeps.

  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    Well it won't be boring me....I need all the help I can get.  I know how well my  Begonias have done following step by step advice from on here so am hoping for similar results image

    I love your pots by the way image

  • Sometime over the weekend or early next week then, OL image

    Thanks....pots were quite nice (well they were a prezzie) and made from real wood. Having said that they were quite inexpensive...from Home Bargains, a local cheapo outlet.

  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    Thanks David, I'll try and get some Hyacinths ready over the weekend and will follow your instructions image 

    The outdoor ones I think I'm going to put in pots so I can have them by the back door image

  • Okay....I'll just do the indoor ones, if that's alright.

    Be sure to buy 'prepared' bulbs for indoor growing. These are a tad more expensive as they have been kept in cold storage over the summer...when they are planted in the autumn, their body clocks tell them it's spring - hence prepared.

    You will ask at some stage, 'can I plant them in the garden after they have finished flowering indoors'..truth is, it takes  another year for their clocks to be put right.

    Hope that makes sense.

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