Once your hyacinth bulb has finished blooming, immediately remove the flowers but keep the leaves. You can store bulbs in a dark, cool location until growing season next year. Hyacinths ...

Growing hyacinths indoors allows you to enjoy earlier flowers than if you were to plant them in the garden. This technique is known as "forcing", and can be tried with other bulbs, too (narcissi ...

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos ... Workers hoping to halt the hyacinth’s growth broke the plants apart and dredged them from the river banks; they soaked the blooms in gasoline and ...

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Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. Procure hyacinth bulbs now for “forcing,” a term that refers to causing a bulb to produce a flower before it normally would. Once you have your ...

During the last century it was especially fashionable in winter for flower lovers to force hyacinth bulbs in special glass containers that were manufactured for this purpose. The original glass ...

Deer also avoid the smaller, very hardy and versatile grape hyacinth "muscari" which will grow in sun or shade. Its flowers are small and bell shaped, arranged in a cone, and held erect on six ...

Black is a particularly elusive colour in the flower world and can command astonishingly high prices. In 1997 Thompson & Morgan purchased three hyacinth bulbs from Holland for £150,000.