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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 ...
Forcing Hyacinths Hyacinths are some of the easiest bulbs to force. Place pre-chilled bulbs in special hyacinth vase so that water comes to the bottom of the bulb.
Some tulips can grow up to 2 feet, and they are liable to tip over and uproot themselves." Some other plants to consider include hyacinths, crocus, muscari, scilla, dwarf iris, anemones, and other ...
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.
Forcing is the horticultural practice of bringing a cultivated plant into active growth outside of its natural growing season. Plants do not produce new growth or flowers (and hence fruit) during the winter, and many species only produce flowers or fruit for a very limited period.
This hyacinth has a single dense spike of fragrant flowers in shades of red, blue, white, orange, pink, violet or yellow. A form of the common hyacinth is the less hardy and smaller blue- or white-petalled Roman hyacinth. These flowers need full sunlight and should be watered moderately. [14]
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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.