Indoor Hyacinth

[mikey4444]

I bought a Hyacinth bulb, in a glass vase, from Lidl before Xmas.

It has now finished flowering but I am unsure what to do with he bulb, to save it again for next Xmas. Someone told me to cut-off the flower and green leaves, level with the top of the bulb, and then put the bulb somewhere cool and dark.

But this seems a little drastic, anyway, what about the copious roots ?

[Tilly2]

Do you have a garden, Mikey?

[Prudie]

You need to let it die down on its own and then either store until you can replant it in the Autumn or plant it outside. There's no such thing as an indoor hyacinth, people just bring them in for early flowering.

[murraymints]

Lift from pot and leave to dry and wither away...remove Brown leaves and either plant in garden or store somewhere cool and dark and re-pot again around end Nov

[mikey4444]

No, not really Tilly.

[Tilly2]

I was going to suggest planting it in the garden but if you don't have a garden...

[mikey4444]

I shall donate it to someone who does have a garden, as I would hate to just throw it away. But I thought that I could just wrap it newspaper and put it away in a drawer somewhere. I found this earlier :::

"What do you do with hyacinth bulbs after flowering?
Once the leaves are dead, cut the entire plant back to soil level, so only bulb and roots remain. Move your pot to a cold, dark space. You may even want to put a paper grocery or black garbage bag over the pot to keep out the light. Don't touch your hyacinth until the spring"

[bhg481]

The plant uses its leaves to produce food from sunlight and stores it in the bulb ready to give it a start next year. Once the leaves have died off the bulb is ready for winter storage (as it would be if it were growing outdoors).

[mikey4444]

Thanks bhg....I know that you should wait some weeks after daffs have flowered, before cutting back the leaves.

By the way, I was visiting some friends near Saundersfoot yesterday afternoon and Spring certainly seems to arrived down there....daffs, snowdrops, and primroses everywhere !

[Eleena]

Hi Mikey,
I was tempted earlier to buy some daffodils for a vase, good job I didnt, I had a lot of shopping and just had a snow storm. They would have been in a bad state!

[hereIam]

I agree with Prudie at 18:58. I've done this myself in the past and they've flowered again the next year.

[237SJ]

I got a beautiful violet hyacinth from the market (3 bulbs actually) and I let it die down the put it in a stocking and hung it in the garden shed. The next year I replanted it but it didn't perform very well at all. This time, I have just bunged it straight into the garden so will see what happens (if anything) next year.