Why?

[cheops]

Hi,
Hopefully have attached successfully a photo of my hyacinths coming into flower. As you can see in the photo the flower head is not as should be - that is a closely knit mass of small fragrant flowers. Instead the small flower are widely spaced and few. Can anyone venture a reason for this please? These bulbs were bought from a reputable source were of a generous size and only planted last autumn. Therefore the bulbs have lots of stored nutrients. They are planted in good fertile soil. Why the poor quality???

[Two_Sheds]

They look fine to me. Not quite open, but fine

[cheops]

Thanks for your input Two Sheds. But these small flowers that mass together to make the flower head of a hyacinth are not gonna be a mass??? There is so few of them and so widely spaced. Or am I wrong and as you say not fully open yet. Am I gonna look a fool lol?? Will be interesting to see.

[rustylady]

Why would you look a fool Cheops?

[RedThorn]

The fool is the one who asks no questions and keeps themselves in a a perpetual state of ignorance

[cheops]

Just thought that if they are meant to open 'sparsely' like that, but when fully open are a tight knitted mass then fool am I for jumping in so quickly. However that was a nice quote from RedThorn which spares me a bit. lol. In a week or more's time I will know whether they are poor sparse blooms or not. If not then happy days. If so I have a couple of thoughts as to why they have bloomed so poorly but I don't want to mention them yet and give people preconceived ideas.

[RedThorn]

it is early day's in the flowering so wait awhile and see then.

if you look at this pic you can see the early flowers are more spaced out

[Glutton4...]

Could they be young/immature bulbs? Just a thought...

[cheops]

Thx Glutton 4, but they are definitely not young immature bulbs. Bought off Parkers last autumn and I bought the bigger sized bulbs they had.

[rustylady]

Just wait for some nice warm sunshine then and the flowers will open properly.

I have a couple of dark blue ones on the allotment that grow year after year, and although the flowers are a little sparse the colour is lovely and the perfume heavenly.