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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 7-11 inches
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Blue
Other: Dark blue with purplish stripe
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Other: Contact with bulbs may cause an allergic skin reaction.
Propagation: Seeds: Start indoors
Other info: can take many years for hyacinths to go from seeds to bloom
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Offsets
Bulbs
Other: Plant hyacinth bulbs in fall, 6 to 8 weeks before a hard frost is expected and when soils are below 60 degrees F. This is usually during September and October in the North, and October and November in the South. Dig a hole 6 to 8 inches deep. Set the bul
Pollinators: Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM

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Common names
  • Hyacinth
  • Common Hyacinth
  • Dutch Hyacinth

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Location: Iowa

Date: 2022-03-25

Date: 2022-03-25
Location: Killeen,Tx
Date: 2023-02-21
Location: Iowa
Location: Iowa
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2016-04-14
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-04-09
Forced
Location: West Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-03-13

Date: 2022-04-01
Uploaded by Flowerlover6
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2016-03-08
Potted plant at the Philadelphia Flower Show 2016.
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-04-09
Forced in water

photo credit: Krzysztof Ziarnek

Date: 2004-04-17
Location: 2012 Philadelphia Flower Show
Date: 2012-03-06
Location: Keukenhof Gardens, Netherlands
Date: 2018-04-25
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2015-04-04
Planted Fall 2013 (in the back yard)

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
  • Uploaded by Joy

Courtesy of RoozenGaarde/Tulips.com

Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissio
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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-12-13
far right - forcing overwinter
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-03-30
No fertilizer for hyacinths -> no flopping.
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2015-03-31
Location: 2012 Philadelphia Flower Show
Date: 2012-03-06
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-05-01
Hyacinthus orientalis 'Blue Jacket' - 1st year, dry spring, frost
Location: Mackinaw, IL
Date: 2011-10-15
Hyacinth 'Blue Jacket' bulbs, with watch for scale
Location: Keukenhof Gardens, Netherlands
Date: 2018-04-25
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2021-10-14
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis 'Blue Jacket')
Location: central Illinois
Date: 4-8-14

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-12-03
Location: Southeastern NH
Date: 2016-04-17
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-12-14
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Comments:
  • Posted by BookerC1 (Mackinaw, IL - Zone 5a) on Jul 5, 2012 2:46 PM concerning plant:
    Will return for 2-3 years, but gradually loses vigor and becomes more scraggly. Beautiful, intense blue color is a great foil for daffodils and other light-colored early spring bulbs. Fragrance is incredible! For cut flower, cut when first blooms open and place immediately in water. Even one will scent an entire room.
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Dec 4, 2011 12:58 PM concerning plant:
    Good to force. May be translocated outside after force, will bloom in following seasons. Regularity lends well to geometric designs.
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