Bulbs: Hyacinths Spring 2009, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Hi, again, Chris, and thanks for the cornell link.

I spent some time looking at Plant Files Hyacinths and now have determined that you have the 'National Collection' for the United States! Yours are quite splendid and varied! And I hope you are going to write a book on them!

And, Gem, I have been thinking of you and your bulbs this month. Those wonderful perennializing daffs you sent me a couple of years ago are really blooming beautifully under my dogwood in the back and everytime I look out the kitchen window I think of you!

For anyone lurking and interested in the results of Cornell's trial for "Best Hyacinths for Perennializing", here's the results list from Old House Gardens website (see the link below for more details).

1. ‘Atlantic’, 1986 = 90 (35, 30, 25)
2. ‘Fondant’, 1983 = 83 (28, 36, 19)
3. ‘City of Haarlem’, 1893 = 72 (32, 19, 21)
4. ‘Gipsy Queen’, 1927 = 70 (26, 17, 27)
5. ‘Carnegie’, 1935 = 66 (22, 25, 19)
Coming in seventh was ‘Lady Derby’ of 1875 with 63 bloom-stalks (the top performer in Clemson), and all the rest of the top ten dated to the 1940s and 50s. Heirlooms rule!

And lots more info on Hyacinths in the Old House Garden's Hyacinth Newsletter: http://www.oldhousegardens.com/HyacinthArchives.asp

And if you look down the OHG webpage you will see a reference to a 'Steve' from 'Fort Worth' and I wonder if that's the same 'Steve' who has all the beautiful bulbs here on Dave's?

Happy gardening to everyone. It is really a pretty day here! t.

This is a little mixed pot of bulbs I made up last year. I just previewed it and see that it's sideways and I can't figure out how to take it off and make it straight! Sorry, it was straight when I viewed it on my viewer! )-: