Hyacinth
A few years ago (we still lived in the apartment) I bought Laurie a beautiful hyacinth for some flower giving occasion, valentines day or her birthday or something. Everywhere I looked online said that hyacinth purchased at grocery stores will not bloom again. Especially in the Arizona desert where it doesn’t get cold enough to encourage re-bloom. Well apparently something is working. I don’t get grandiose 12 inch stems covered by flowers as they do in cooler climates but I also don’t put them in my fridge for a month, they stay in the ground under the stately mulberry tree eternally. They do produce a few very fragrant flowers. Hyacinth is one of those scents that is wonderful as slight wiff in passing, but in the house it becomes very overbearing and almost repugnant. Perhaps this year I’ll fertilize them and encourage some larger blooms next year. Or maybe I’ll be lazy and just let mother nature take her course.
