One of my favorite elementary school art projects was making popcorn hyacinths. We would shake popped corn in a paper bag filled with dry tempera paint, cut leaves out of construction paper, and glue ...

Every fall, I enjoy the ritual of buying and planting hyacinth bulbs to force into bloom in the middle of January. With hardly any effort, I can have hyacinths blooming in late January indoors! I also ...

If you live in USDA zones 4 to 8, you can leave your hyacinth bulbs in the ground over winter. Once your hyacinth bulb has finished blooming, immediately remove the flowers but keep the leaves. You ...

Last year I chose narcissus as my winter bulb subject. This year it’s the beautiful hyacinth, Hyacinthus orientalis. All I really had to do was look out our back window to receive this inspiration.