Forced Bulb 1

Hyacinth blooming...

 

Amaryllis kept its word

In Dec 2010, I bought a Amaryllis bulb in a pot. It grew with few leaves and nothing happened on flowering side, so left the pot in basement and to my surprise, last 2 weeks back I saw it growing with small flower bud. Now here it is with beautiful flowers.

Bulbs

Bulbs are turning out to be trial and error most of the times. One year squirrels enjoyed them, one year I left the pots of deck and figured chilling period is good but not snow. This year, I got them and forgot to pot them and left them in refrigerator. Last month I was able to pot them and due to the warmer than normal weather, I see that they started to grow. I will provide update soon on what happens next.....

Amaryllis in Pot

Here is the picture from the bulb package, I will wait and watch if the real flower will at least come closer to this :)

Pleasant Surprise

This is a real surprise, after the last bloom has gone for this hyacinth (you could see the older one too in the picture), I left this container in basement. Today when I went down I see that it bloomed again.


Note: Not sure if these forced flowers qualify for my harvest for the day, but this is all I have growing and in bloom today :). Please check more harvests for the day @ Daphne’s Dandelions

Tulips

The bulbs I chose turned out to be a red tulips, the flowers are beautiful and colorful...

Tulips bulbs with foliage

Tulip bulbs are with foliage and flowers are ready to come out.

Flower in January

Here is the Hyacinth, I forced this winter. In the middle of winter this flower is showing me some hope that growing season is not far away.

Spring Indoors...

With the tulips indoors, it feels as though the spring has already arrived. Bulb forcing was a wonderful journey to see these tulips grow from bulb to fully grown flowers and I wanted to share the same here.

Hyacinth here...

Here is one of the hyacinths I have forced this winter.