“Hyacinth Breeze” – Spring 2013 – Whitney Avenue – Wilkinsburg, PA
A Plant a Day till Spring” will highlight one plant a day, starting on the winter solstice (December 21, 2013)… And ending on the vernal equinox (March 20, 2014)… If all goes to plan I will be starting with old Snowdrop photos from 2013… And ending with new photos of Snowdrops in 2014…
2 Days to Go
Hyacinth… I wanted to save it till late in this series because it is high up on my list… There’s something about the sweet scent of Hyacinth… Something about the way it travels in the breeze… In fact… “Hyacinth Breeze” is something I am constantly writing about… When fully blooming in the perfect atmospheric conditions the scent will knock your socks off… And by perfect I mean those days in early spring when the air is predominantly still and slightly humid… These conditions allow the scent to accumulate on the moisture drops… When the wind blows the scented moisture in the air travels around the house…
Growing Hyacinth is ridiculously simple… Plant them in the fall… 4 to 6″ deep… The bulbs are poisonous so squirrels will not dig them up… Hyacinth is a perennial bulb and will provide blooms for many years… The offspring will also bloom… But they rarely bloom as profusely and in fact resemble the wild version closely…
I wanted to share a few poems from the past… Hyacinth related of course…
– Hyacinth Breeze – I may rewrite this one… I can do much better now…
– Garden Prayer #1 – Not Hyacinth related… But written in Spring…
– The Eyes of Spring – One of the first…
– Garden Prayer #3 – I have actually written close to 100 garden prayers… But I have only shared 4… Some are better than anything I have ever posted… Some of them were written on paper and placed underneath whatever I happened to be planting at that time… My garden prayers are special to me… Some are meant for you… Some are meant for me… And some are meant for the trees…
plant petunias and question everything – chriscondello
If you want some science – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_(plant)
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chriscondello 
Hyacinths are one of my favorite flowers. It never feels like spring until they bloom. This past weekend the air was filled with their scent. It was intoxicating!
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