When you're tired of snow and ice and itching to get back out into your garden, forcing bulbs indoors can help cure your spring fever in winter. If you head to your local garden center, florist, or ...

Every fall, I enjoy the ritual of buying and planting hyacinth bulbs to force into bloom in the middle of January. With hardly any effort, I can have hyacinths blooming in late January indoors! I also ...

Hyacinths are a beautiful flowering spring bulbs that can sometimes be overlooked by the popular daffodil and tulips. Hyacinths can fill beds and borders with colour, a heady sweet scent and gorgeous ...

Hyacinths are beautiful additions to Southern gardens. They provide vibrant floral color with tall spikes of eye-catching blooms and bright green foliage. Hyacinths are members of the Asparagaceae ...

This is the time of year that as a gardener I get restless. Most of the holiday plants are wilted, withered or dead. There are stacks of seed and garden catalogs by the recliner, and yet I long for ...

For sublime fragrance, showy flowers and a rainbow of vibrant shades to choose from, you really can’t beat hyacinths. Grow bulbs indoors to add a cheerful touch to a room, or plant outside for an ...

In the 1600s, when hyacinth bulbs were brought from Turkey to Europe, there was speculation that it was a new food. People thought the bulbs resembled a turnip, so they cut them in pieces and boiled ...

I thought I was so smart. Last fall, in the season of bulb madness, I hung onto about 25 Dutch hyacinths rather than plant them in the ground. I’ll just chill these on the enclosed, unheated porch and ...