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Nothing surpasses the first
hyacinths for scent, It's like time travel for the nose having wonderfully fragrant
hyacinths in full bloom in the middle of the winter, it always seems like
the greatest luxury. Plant 3 or 4 of one colour per bowl. Don't be tempted to
mix
Outdoor hyacinths are best planted near to the house where you will see them and smell them, even the large varieties are very close to the ground. Alternatively I plant them out of the way but near a path, there's a large patch now at the bottom of the garden near the compost heap, (no, not to get rid of the smell), but for cutting and bringing into the house. I can't ever remember buying a hyacinth bulb and planting it into the soil directly, all of ours are ex-container grown ones that spent their first year in the house. If you start before about the middle of September (but the sooner the better), you can have flowering Hyacinth bulbs for the house in flower at or just after Christmas. If you can get them planted before November, then they will have a chance to start growing before it begins to get very cold which will help them to flower all the earlier, they'll certainly be up early in the new year and long before the outdoor ones have woken up.
Hyacinth Care
Hyacinths to Buy
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