Antique Hyacinths

I havent been on this list long enough to know if you permit discussion of perennial 
bulbs or not, but I am going to tread the antic hay and try it nonetheless. The antique 
variety hyacinth bulbs I purchased from Scott Kunst at Old House Gardens have 
begun to burp their colors in my rented yard, and I am enchanted with them. The 
ones open right now are the double Chestnut Flower (1880), a very pale pink with 
faint primrose undertones very well adapted to warm sites in my yard; the double 
dark blue General Kohler (1878); the single Distinction (1880), an electric beet-red 
that seems to last longer in the coolth; Gipsy Queen (1927), a pale 
orange-salmon-yellow-green that blooms and blooms and blooms and blooms; and Perle 
Brillante (1895), a pale violet-blue with sky blue highlights. There is also Jan Bos 
(1910), which you can get anywhere, and which I hated because it was touted as red 
when it is not red at all, not even near-red; it is brilliant deep cherry. But touted as 
brilliant deep cherry, it deserves to be planted by the hundreds.  The double white 
Madame Sophie (1929)  is starting to open as I write, and it is an odd shape, the 
florets widely spaced like the florets on a hosta. If you do not grow hyacinths you 
should. By planting them all over the yard, in different microclimates, you can have 
them for many weeks. Old House Gardens is located at 536 Third St., Ann Arbor MI 
48103; ph/fax 313-995-1486; email OHGBulbs@aol.com and no, Scott doesnt 
employ me.

Rand
Rand Lee, Horticultural Writer & Editor
President and Founder, American Dianthus Society 
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Editor, American Cottage Gardener ( http://trine.com/GardenNet/ACG/)
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