Bulbs: Hyacinths as perennials What's your experience?, 1 by chrisw99

chrisw99 wrote:
Debbie, you asked if the white hyacinths are more likely to perennialize--I also noticed that both 'L'Innocence' and her double sport, 'Mme Sophie', are good at coming back and multiplying.

I have another double white 'Ben Nevis' that has come back and a few bulbs have multiplied in another bed--not my test bed. 'Ben Nevis' seems to split and then the first year the new blooms are singles, but subsequent years they regain their doubleness--but maybe I am not carefully observing shoots from the same bulbs every year. I don't know anything about the parentage of 'Ben Nevis'--only that Stebbings says it was introduced in 1942 by M van Waveren.

Hy o 'Carnegie' , another single white, has come back evey year since 2003. The number of blooms from 5 bulbs started out at 4, for several years dipped to 3 for one year and then increased to 5. The blooms last year were noticably smaller . So it is not exactly a strong multiplier, but it does seem to persist.

Hy o 'Aeilos' also a single white, did well for 3 years, but has declined in number and bloom size the last 2 years.


Chris