Hyacinth

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The garden hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) are one of many spring flowering bulbs that make their way into gardens around the United States.

As early as 1842, Burnett's Illustrations of Useful Plants described it as follows:

"The Hyacinthus orientalis of botanists, a favourite flower in gardens, a bulbous plant, found wild on the mountains of Persia, and remarkable both for its fragrance and the facility with which it varies in the colour, size, and construction of its flowers when raised from seed.

Few spring flowers are more worthy of cultivation than the hyacinth, whether we regard its varied shades of rich colour, or the sweetness of its perfume."

In the past two hundred or so years, sentiment toward the flower remains unchanged. It grows, pretty much without care, in USDA zones 4-9.

© 2009 Patricia A. Michaels