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• Sam 92 Posts: 68

  January 2016

  Hiya it's a blue hyacinth I think you can keep it indoors or outdoors if you want to put it outside wait til it's finished flowering and in October time pop it in a hole 3x deep as the bulb, if indoors keep near the surface yes hyacinths are fragrant they tend to flower Christmas time if kept indoors and spring time if kept outdoors

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• Ynnead Posts: 250

  January 2016

  Thanks. I think I will keep it indoors. Seems the flower spikes should be bigger though.

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• gardenninggranny Posts: 803

  January 2016

  Yes hyacinth.  Plant out in the garden when it's finished flowering and mark with a label.  Wait until the flower head has died down before you cut it off and let the leaves die down naturally before removing the slimy remains - this is why you need the label, because after that it will have disappeared until next spring.

  Be warned - hyacinths in the garden are a magnet for snails so you may need to check, and collect them up from time to time.  The bulb should then naturalise and the numbers increase, year on year.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  January 2016

  After a few years in the garden it wil look like a blue bell, the flowers get less and less,still pretty though if you plant a few in a group.

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• gardenninggranny Posts: 803

  January 2016

  That's a myth Lyn, I have several clumps of pink hyacinths that started as a group of 3 and have multiplied to be twenty or more.  They continue to produce full hyacinth flowers, perhaps a tad smaller than the original, in great abundance, after fifteen years.

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