{"id":7400,"date":"2015-11-04T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2015-10-31T03:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:35:59","slug":"hyacinth-growing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bulb\/hyacinth-growing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyacinth Growing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"hyacinth \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3449783191\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3660\/3449783191_f6c6772375.jpg\" alt=\"hyacinth &amp; primrose\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Hyacinths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hyacinths like brilliant drainage<\/li>\n<li>Hyacinth need full sun and a good baking during summer<\/li>\n<li>Feed with a potash fertilizer in early spring to help roots and bulbs.<\/li>\n<li>Plant between September and December. Christmas indoor bulbs need to be &#8216;prepared&#8217; and planted as soon as available.<\/li>\n<li>Put an inch of grit in the bottom of a pot to help drainage and cover the top of the bulb with 3&#8243; of soil.<\/li>\n<li>Deadhead and allow leaves to die down naturally.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate by dividing clumps in early autumn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyacinth Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hyacinths can last for a fortnight in a vase. Add a drop of bleach to the water to prevent bacteria<\/li>\n<li>Blues and Yellows have the strongest scent but most varieties are well scented.<\/li>\n<li>Buy varieties with clear colours and deep saturated tones.<\/li>\n<li>Taller stemmed varieties generally look the best<\/li>\n<li>Avoid bi-colours that may be over bred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Multiflora Hyacinths<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-hyacinth-multiflora\/attachment\/roman-hyacinth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1557\" title=\"roman-hyacinth\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/roman-hyacinth.jpg\" alt=\"roman-hyacinth\" width=\"395\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/roman-hyacinth.jpg 395w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/roman-hyacinth-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have seen these multiflowered hyacinths in florists shops but never thought to grow them from bulbs. When I saw one in B&amp;Q bursting with 11 shoots from one bulb I parted with my money hoping for flowers on each stem. I have seen them called <strong>Roman hyacinths<\/strong>, Festival hyacinths and multifloras but they are to all intents and purposes a strain of the common Hyacinth.<\/p>\n<p>My first <strong>large bulb <\/strong>was crammed into a dumpy 4 inch pot so I potted it up into a 6 inch to give the lax habit more space to perform. The speckled effect is naturally in my bulb and not a fungus. The single bulb is already dividing into several offsets and I will be curious to see how well they grow on for next year. In the meantime I <strong>await the flowers and scent <\/strong>with interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Double Hyacinths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"season\">Hyacinth \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCrystal Doubles Mixed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 combines fully double blooms in the most elegant shades of pink and white with a wonderful springtime perfume. The densely packed flower spikes of these hardy hyacinths make superb cut flowers for a vase indoors. <\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Some Top Hyacinth Varieties by colour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City of Bradford or Sky Jacket &#8211; light blues<\/li>\n<li>Jan Boss &#8211; red or Pink Pearl<\/li>\n<li>Purple Sensation or Woodstock &#8211; deep purples<\/li>\n<li>Kronos, Ostara or King of the Blues<\/li>\n<li>City Of Harlem &#8211; yellow<\/li>\n<li>Aiolos &#8211; white<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Hyacinths Hyacinths like brilliant drainage Hyacinth need full sun and a good baking during summer Feed with a potash fertilizer in early spring to help roots and bulbs. Plant between September and December. Christmas indoor bulbs need to be &#8216;prepared&#8217; and planted as soon as available. Put an inch of grit in the bottom of a pot to help drainage and cover the top of the bulb with 3&#8243; of soil. Deadhead and allow leaves to die down naturally&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bulb\/hyacinth-growing-tips\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[24,38],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulb","tag-bulbs","tag-fragrance-and-scent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}