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Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and other spring-flowering bulbs can be forced indoors, allowing you to see spring blooms even in the colder months. Although forcing bulbs may seem ...
How to Grow Hyacinths. ... After the foliage dies back, you can dig up the entire plant. Look for tiny offset bulbs growing at the base of the main plant. ... Forcing Hyacinths. Hyacinths are some ...
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Cuttings taken in the fall can be moved indoors to force them into bud break. [3] Pruning during the growing season is an effective way to force some plants, such as asparagus, which are grown for their new shoots. [4] Forcing as a horticultural technique has been recorded as early as 1608. [5]
Hyacinths are among the most popular bulbs selected for the process known as forcing, whereby plants are induced to flower earlier than their natural season (in this case, Christmas). It involves depriving bulbs of light and warmth for a period of several weeks, before growing them on in a bright, cool place such as a kitchen windowsill.
Bletilla striata, known as hyacinth orchid [2] or Chinese ground orchid, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae, native to Japan, Korea ...
Muscari botryoides is a bulbous perennial plant of the genus Muscari and one of a number of species and genera known as grape hyacinth. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant. The flowers are close together, and are almost totally round. The lower fertile flowers point downwards, while upper ones, usually paler and sterile, point upwards.
It is one of a number of species and genera known as grape hyacinth, in this case Armenian grape hyacinth [1] or garden grape-hyacinth. [2] The flowers are purple, blue (with a white fringe), white (cv. 'Album') or pale pink (cv. 'Pink Sunrise') and the plants are usually 15 centimetres (6 in) tall.