Showing posts with label hyacinths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hyacinths. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
New blooms for New Year
They didn't quite make it in for Christmas, but my forced hyacinths decided to join the party for New Year. (Note to self - must make a note of when I start them off next year, so I can guesstimate how to adjust the timing to get them to flower for the start of the festive season).
Not bad for pound shop bulbs - a cheap present for myself. Trying to forecast the colour was a bit like guessing delightful plastic content of a Christmas cracker. Their hyacinthy scent has replaced defunct piney wafts from my crispy tree in the living room, breathing a bit of floral life into 2013. It's the first time I've forced hyacinths in water and have to confess that I have become quite taken with the aesthetic qualities of their fleshy, slightly creepy, white roots in the glass vases.
Look at that blue! What a great colour to bring in the year.
On which note, thought I'd better show you something amazing which I spotted outside my window this morning.
Happy New Year and a fruitful and floriferous 2013 to all!
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