Saturday, December 24, 2005

The indoor Christmas garden--part 3

Christmas cactus blooms in the bay window

Hyacinth forcing vases
I use them and a number of jam jars for forcing the hyacinths,
which will be ready tomorrow for removal from their long chill

Here is a serious and amazing hyacinth forcing vase collection

3 Comments:

At my house, I grow hyacinths in my bulb beds. My favorite are the purple and even though I have added white, pink, red, and even pink and white variagated, I still love the deep purple ones. Even when it is too cold to be sitting outside, after they bloom, I

By Blogger zelda1, at 9:49 AM  

whoops, something happened. To finish, I still sat, bundled up just to smell the hyacinths.

By Blogger zelda1, at 9:50 AM  

The Victorians used them to make their houses smell nice.

I used to buy the pre-chilled kind that require only brief chilling when you get them, but not I buy some of the antiques that require minimum chilling, anyway.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:46 PM  

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