Hyacinths are easy to grow in a garden and they're also one of the easiest flowers to force into bloom indoors in winter.

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 ...

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 ...

Hyacinths can fill beds and borders with colour, a heady sweet scent and gorgeous star-shaped flowers. Hyacinths come in a range of colours - yellow, purple, blue, pink, white, coral - and each ...

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 ...

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 ...