Heady Hyacinths
Like the camellia, the hyacinth was the quintessential Victorian "everyman's" flower. Its lushness of both fragrance and color, not to mention its affordability and ease of culture, made it the most popular bulb for forcing during that era. As . [... more]
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
 From Amazon.com: There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's [... more]
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Hyacinths And Thistles
From Amazon.com: Perhaps we've been spoiled by the prolific talents of Stephen Merritt. He's the brainchild behind the 6ths, Magnetic Fields, and Future Bible Heroes, which all prove that sentimentality didn't die out with the Tin Pan Alley songsmith. [... more]
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
From Amazon.com: There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's [... more]
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Keeping Up Appearances: Hints from Hyacinth
From Amazon.com: Hyacinth's prying eyes are rewarded in "A Strange Man" when she spies a male in a towel sneaking out Elizabeth's door for the paper. She wallows in the possibilities of sinking property values and "moral turpitude" [... more]
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Keeping Up Appearances: Home Is Where Hyacinth Is
From Amazon.com: When Hyacinth finds out that she and Richard will be transported to a party in Rose's new swain's limo, she quickly assembles a cocktail party to mutually impress him and her neighbors in "Cocktails with a Greek Shipping Millionaire. [... more]
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Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Springs Eternal (Vol. 5-8)
"The 'Bouquet' residence! The lady of the house speaking!": "Keeping Up Appearances" was a 44-episode, British TV sitcom that ran for five seasons between 1990 and 1995, with several specials filmed through 1997. The show's primary [... more]
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Bulbs of North America
Fall and spring are peak bulb planting times for gardeners worldwide. Tulips, crocus, daffodils, and hyacinth, the most commonly used bulbs, all originate in the Holy Lands. This year Timber Press published a landmark new book, Bulbs of North ... [... more]
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Another Project
Can a bio-filter work too well? Can it be more attractive? Read on to find out. How can a filter work too well? I decided this because the Water Hyacinth I had in the pond starved to death. Even though I would take them out of the pond each week ... [... more]
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Holy Thistle
This week, we'll learn about the Holy Thistle, Hyacinth, Iris and Madonna Lily. It always amazes me that plants or flowers we consider "native" originated in the Holy Lands. The Holy Thistle, Silybum marianum, is also called Lady's Thistle or .. [... more]
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Bulbs add colour to the fall garden
Plant drifts of autumns crocus, colchicum, cylcamen and lycoris to brighten the fall garden. Ask a random sample of southern Ontario gardeners to name their favourite spring bulbs and they'll quickly respond with tulips, hyacinths or daffodils. ... [... more]
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Veltheimias
Veltheimia is a winter growing, summer dormant bulb from South Africa which is both easy and a joy to grow. Veltheimia is a South African genus of two very variable species within the Hyacinth Family (Hyacinthaceae). Some books may still have ... [... more]
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