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[Oznell]

Happy hyacinth season to all.   I just came out of the kitchen where we have one blossom in a jar.  That heady, intoxicating, room-filling hyacinth scent is such a wow.

We have only 3, of an old-fashioned, deep blue type in our front garden, but their impact is great.

Easy-to-grow perennials, but bulbs can be toxic to humans and pets, so must be handled with care.

Color, scent, form.  It's no wonder hyacinths became a craze among flower-lovers...

[4kitties]

I adore hyacinth!💕💕

I have a greenhouse window over my kitchen sink and right now I have 3 pots of tulips, in orange, purple and yellow.  Also three pots of hyacinths, two blue and one pink.  And four small pots of miniature daffodil, crocus, grape hyacinth, and miniature iris.  We will plant them in the yard as they stop blooming.  

And five of my seven orchids are in bloom!

Mr 4kitties  and I have been enjoying them so much.  It has been pretty chilly and wet here this Spring and having all these flowering plants helps to perk us up!

[wagirl]

I LOVE them!!!

[Kachina624]

@Oznell    I can only imagine the heavenly scent in the garden you've pictured, not to mention the beauty.

[BlueFinch]

Hyacinths are so wonderful they inspired poetry, through the ages. Below is a well known favorite of mine that has had so many slight variations, it's impossible to know who to attribute the original to. Some say several may have been inspired by Persian Poet Saadi.

John Greenleaf Whittier published the version we're most familiar with titled, Not By Bread Alone ...  

If thou of fortune be bereft,

And in thy store there be but left

Two loaves -- sell one and with the dole

Buy hyacinths to feed the soul. 

[Spurt]

@Oznell 

Just gorgeous !!!!  

We dont have hyacinths here in Texas but we have LOTS of bluebonnets (except this year not as plentiful due to late cold front and no rain...)

[ScrapHappy]

When I was growing up, we'd always go to my grandparents for Easter.  We's always stop at the same place for flowers:  an Easter lilly for my father's mother and a hyacinth for my mother's mother. (usually purple).  She'd plant the hyacinth by her front porch, there we're always several.  I loved the scent when walking in the door.  When I see them and smell that same scent, it always reminds me of her.

[ECBG]

Beautiful!  Just look at all of that color!!!

[PA Mom-mom]

@Oznell  Thanks for posting these pics! I love them too! Unfortunately they have been sadly mistreated by cold, wind and rain here in eastern PA. Mine are pretty much over. 

[shoekitty]

I love hyacinths.  Mine have all bloomed.  They bloom here end of February to mid April. But mine were early because of weather.  We had unusually warm weather January and February. I love those lavender ones.  Can you imagine that heavenly smell with all those hyacinths?  Wow!