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Old 04-09-2012, 06:39 PM   #284 (permalink)
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Default Winter Hyacinth - High Pleasure Yield
On New Year’s Day 2012 I posted the following picture, which I had photographed 2 days earlier:
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...in the middle of winter in zone 6



It was picked from my yard, about eight or nine days before this picture was taken and brought in to bloom


Today I took this picture of the Winter Hyacinth it came from.

I am not sure, when the flowers opened outside, because I am never here during that time, but
that is supposed to happen late January to early February, beating Forsythia both in the early
bloom starting gate, as well as in duration of the ‘show time’.


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