hi there i live in new york, last year i put in some hyacinth bulbs and had
very beautiful full blooms which made the borders of my flower bed look
excellent. but this year the bubd that have come up r very small and dont
look good i have even put some miracle grow but no change, can u please tell
me what can i do to get those beautiful big blooms again.
thank you,
sabaa

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"Sabaa Mundia" wrote:

hi there i live in new york, last year i put in some hyacinth bulbs and had
very beautiful full blooms which made the borders of my flower bed look
excellent. but this year the bubd that have come up r very small and dont
look good i have even put some miracle grow but no change, can u please tell
me what can i do to get those beautiful big blooms again.
thank you,
sabaa

There ARE bulb pests & diseases that stunt & deform hyacinths, but I think
that's rare, & would be obvious because they'd cause leaf deformities
rather than just smaller size. If yours are really stunted it may be that
they're in a slightly "too sunny" location. They need a lot of sun but at
the same time they need a bit of protection & a shady time at some point
during each day to increase their height, so dappled sunlight or full sun
mainly in the morning is best. Way too much shade or too cold a winter
might also impact them, but generally hyacinths stay shorter if in full
sunlight. If you originally planted them as bulbs & they looked big their
first spring but small this spring, then it could be that the bulb became
depleted & failed to store energy for the next year, which may mean the
leaves were cut back after flowering when they should be allowed to die
back on their own since post-bloom is when they revitalize the bulb. If on
the other hand you planted them as potted bulbs already in full flower,
the grower could well have "forced" them for the sake of an early-season
quick-sale product -- & if forced bulbs recover enough to naturalize
healthily, it can take a couple years.

But if all you're seeing is a "looser" floret which is actually as tall as
last year, that's fairly normal. When planted already blooming, then left
in the ground to naturalize, it's typical they come back in following
years decreasingly extreme in their density. When bought potted in full
flower, they've undergone greenhouse conditions & alternating light/shade
techniques for getting maximum height & density of floret. If they're
genuinely stunted that's likely a sunlight or depleted bulb problem, but
if it's the looser floret that though still quite large & attractive has
an airy see-into quality, you just have to adjust your aesthetic
expectation, & appreciate how they begin to look a bit more like normal
hyacinths & not like cheap gauds for a county fair. Personally I think the
densest cabbage-football blooms look plastic & aburd in a garden (they're
so-so for a flashy containers crowded with other excessive things), so to
me it is an IMPROVEMENT that hyacinths tend to naturalize with a more
"real" appearance.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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