Bulbs: Mostly Hyacinths Spring 2010, 1 by chrisw99

chrisw99 wrote:
I love growing bulbs--especially hyacinths. I've been planting beds of hyacinths since 2002. Currently I have 10 beds growing. Bed 10 is my latest, planted in Nov 2009 and featured on another thread called New Hyacinth Bed 2010.

Still that leaves me with 9 other hyacinth beds to watch, and enjoy, and photograph. That's the reason for this new thread. BTW, it's not limited to hyacinths, other spring bulbs are welcome from anyone, but most of my posts will feature hyacinths.

My hyacinth beds seem to be blooming about 2 wks early this year. I usually think of Mar 10-15 as the peak of bloom here in my Zone 9 garden, but not this year.

I'll start with a photo of Bed 7 which was planted in 2008. The hyacinths in it are Skyline ( light blue and tall), L'Innocence ( heirloom that is white and tall and still widely available), and on the left side Crystal Palace( deep blue purple double flowered, a bit shorter then the others right now)

Chris