START ABOUT SÖRBY ENVIRONMENT & QUALITY TULPANES OTHER RANGE CONTACT OTHER RANGE Bulbs Hyacinth Krukpåsklilja-Tête á tête Cyclamen Summer flowers Hyacinth (Hyacinth) Making your own beautiful arrangements with hyacinths is fun and easy. Place the hyacinths in groups, single-colored or mixed together. Decorate with green leaves and a little moss. Care instructions: Buy hyacinth in bud. They quickly erupt in warm homes. Make sure to get them well wrapped if it's cold outside. Plant in groups or place them in beautiful outer pots one by one. Water sparingly but regularly. If the flower stalk becomes too heavy, it may need the support of a flower stick. Place the hyacinth cool at night, so it lasts longer. After the first flower stalk often comes one or two more. These are excellent as cut flowers. Blue Pearl (faint scent) Pink Pearl (faint scent) White Pearl (faint scent) Do you want to make it cozy before Christmas? Anna Gouteva gives her best tips on how to create a Christmas atmosphere with hyacinths. shows you how to succeed with classic plantings, tells you about scent codes and gives tips on a table setting that is really something out of the ordinary! Myths and facts The name of the hyacinth is shrouded in myth. It is believed to have come from the beautiful young man Hyakinthos from Sparta who would learn to throw discus with Apollo as his teacher. However, it did not go so well. Hyakinthos was hit in the head by a discus and died of the blow. On the ground, where his blood dripped, the most beautiful hyacinths grew. Old cultural plant Like so many other bulbs, the hyacinth originally comes from the eastern Mediterranean countries but is described as first cultivated in Italy in 1532. The wild species are much more sparse in the flower than the ones we grow today. The good Clusius (he with the tulips) was involved in spreading the hyacinth as well. In the 18th century, there were no less than 2,000 hyacinth varieties. Today there are fewer but there are still about 100 hyacinth varieties registered and it takes five years to produce a hyacinth onion in the size we want it for Christmas. The hyacinth became mouse candy Propagation of hyacinth bulbs used to be a long and time-consuming history. The side bulbs that formed on the mother bulb were removed, planted out in the field and allowed to grow for a few years. However, at that time there were no unexpected guests in the farm either. One grower noticed that some bulbs had many more side bulbs than others. When he looked at the onion, he saw that mice had eaten from a large pit in the mother onion. Around the hole a lot of side bulbs had now formed, many, many more than with the normal method. The mice had taught him how to propagate hyacinths on a larger scale in the fastest possible way. Today, it is the most common propagation method for hyacinths, which has made prices very low. Thank you mouse for that! Sörby Handelsträdgård Durovägen 135 806 28 Gävle Tel: 026-66 33 33 info@sorby.com Produced by 100 percent media AB