I was searching through the extra fridge in the back room just now and came
across a happy surprise. I came across a plastic Lowes bag and inside was
one lone hyacinth bulb!! Gathering up the things I had removed to start
with, and the bag, I proceeded to go to the kitchen and hunt under the sink
and found my blue glass hyacinth forcer. Filled with clean, cold, well
water, the bulb carefully set in it's perfect position on the hyacinth jar,
it now sits in my nook in bright indirect Eastern and Southern sunlight to
start forcing. Now we'll see just which bulb it is....(I had to handle the
bulb with a paper towel as there is something coating these particular bulbs
that itch me like itching powder!!) I'll let you all know what color it is
when the buds break. This will be a first for me! (I suspect it might be
"Woodstock" which is a dark magenta purple with red highlights, but we'll
see). The fairies have been jokesters with me on this one. I actually went
back to Lowes to deliberately purchase some reduced hyacinth bulbs just for
the purpose of forcing and they were all gone...........

madgardener up on the cold ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee