purple hyacinths

I do love purple hyacinths.

There are masses of hyacinths in bloom now, mostly purple but a few other colours as well, beginning of January.

Exquisite but very brief iris flowers.

The bulb in the black vase on the right started to rot a little (I filled it too high with water so the bulb was sitting in water) and therefore shrank so it fell into the vase. These vases have very large openings and need the largest bulbs. I had to replace the rotting bulb with one from another vase.

I have too many hyacinth vases to fit on the windowsill - and these are just the ones in bloom and starting to bloom.