Monday, 3 March 2014

Hidden Gems...

It's at this time of year I wish I'd remembered to move the hyacinths which flower in all the wrong places in our garden.

They're dotted around and about amongst other plantings, and sadly in many cases hidden from view...

My favourite, a vivid blue, is now flowering underneath a rambling rose and to get a half decent look at it means getting in amongst its thorny stems...

Oh how I suffer for my art; and how I wish I'd had the sense to move them in the first place!

5 comments:

Tim said...

Miss'Lizabeth...
move them as they start to lose colour...
just dig a nice big rootball with them!!
Think of the size of a glass hyacinth vase and dig bigger...
water well in...
or...
wait for the next cloud!!

Just doing it with some crocusssssiz...
or croci if you prefer...
still flowering away merrily.

Susan said...

Your garden is more advanced than mine, but ours gets very little sun early in the year. My hyacinths have still not got their buds to full size, let alone opening, and although some of the daffs have bent their necks, they have not opened yet.

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Tim, thanks for the tip. This year I WILL do it!

Susan, it's the amount of sun making the difference, isn't it? A friend from the village passed the other day and commented that her daffodils weren't out yet, but like your garden, hers doesn't get the sun.

Jean said...

I love hyacinths, that blue is fabulous.
I never know when to move things. By the time it's the right time I've usually forgotten all about them!

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Yes, Jean, that's exactly my problem! But THIS year will be different.....