[Slowgrind]

Just set up four Hyacinth bulbs for that special day in December!
I'm trying the glass carafe type vases for the first time so hope that they prosper. Info on the net says to keep them in the dark until about two inches of growth is showing.
What could be simpler than that for a Christmas gift?

[arugula]

Oh slowgrind!  Isn't that word still barred?.............. for now.... 

[Slowgrind]

What Hyacinth? I hope not it took five attempts to spell it right!! 

[arugula]

What Hyacinth? I hope not it took five attempts to spell it right!! 

 

No, slowgrind, I was referring to the "C" word. SSSHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh! 

Clue: the next Bank Holiday! 

[DD.]

I've lost count of the number of years I've been doing this,  but I plant them in compost.

I plan to pick some bulbs up very soon when I go for my winter onions.

I wish the recipients would give the pots back, though!

[sunshineband]

We keep ours in the cold and dark out in the garage until it is nearl time to give them to recipients, and then top the compost off with some fresh moss from the lawn 

Sometimes we forget they are there and have lots for ourselves in the New Year 

[mumofstig]

oooh that's reminded me.........something else still to do.........and more bulbs to buy

[diggerjoe]

I love them but OH bans them from the house as he hates the smell says they smell like cats p** which amazes me as he could not smell the lilies in the garden this year and they were really scented.

[tesni]

I have the same problem    genetic I think, like rolling your tongue, some can smell a pretty scent others can smell nothing or a cats wee smell!  unless a flower is very strongly scented it is lost on me, roses smell lovely though