Hyacinths make gardening easy because they come up year after year and they produce a beautiful flower. People comment on them all of the time and think that I have a green thumb. But not so. I planted these last fall and that was it. Mother nature does the rest . This month they just popped out of the ground like magic.
I planted the Hyacinths just in front of a row of daffodils. See my post on daffodils.
The hyacinth flowers are getting to the end of their life cycle and will soon be gone. But keep the leaves growing so the bulb builds up nourishment for next years flowers. I wait until the leaves also die back and then cut them off. And then I plant some annual flowers like snapdragons and salvias to fill the space for the summer.
Another bonus is that the hyacinths and daffodils are virtually deer proof which is important where I am. And so are the snapdragons and blue salvias.
Enjoy the beauty of nature. Happy gardening.
