I always plant my forced hyacinths in the garden afterwards, giving them a good feed. I usually put them in places where there aren't many bulbs and they've all flowered again albeit a tad smaller but I just think it's a bonus. Seems a shame just to throw them away.
What a lot of doom and gloom! I've got a huge clump of pink hyacinths under my apple tree after planting out just three flowered blooms ten years ago - they produce more and more blooms every year, a tad smaller I agree, and like all the spring bulbs they get fed with tomato feed after blooming until the foliage dies down. The only downside is that the dying leaves are a magnet for snails....but then you know where they are and can pick off and dispose regularly!
The blue ones get planted around the basking hippo my fun-loving son gave me some years ago, to represent water, and cause a laugh or two from visitors.
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I always plant my forced hyacinths in the garden afterwards, giving them a good feed. I usually put them in places where there aren't many bulbs and they've all flowered again albeit a tad smaller but I just think it's a bonus. Seems a shame just to throw them away.
Thanks Janet. It's a shame my family hate the smell of them.
What a lot of doom and gloom! I've got a huge clump of pink hyacinths under my apple tree after planting out just three flowered blooms ten years ago - they produce more and more blooms every year, a tad smaller I agree, and like all the spring bulbs they get fed with tomato feed after blooming until the foliage dies down. The only downside is that the dying leaves are a magnet for snails....but then you know where they are and can pick off and dispose regularly!
The blue ones get planted around the basking hippo my fun-loving son gave me some years ago, to represent water, and cause a laugh or two from visitors.
Where's the doom and gloom?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.