The flower stalk on my blue hyacinth has peaked!Rober Furber, early 18th century nurseryman and flower cataloguer, was the first person to recommend growing bulbs in glass containers of water.
Because, he declared, it is the "neater and cleaner way and more acceptable to the Fair Sex who must be pleased to see a Garden growing, and exposing all the Beauties of its Spring Flowers with the most delicious perfumes thereof, in their Chambers or Parlours."
And I can attest that the perfume is quite delicious!
The monthly floral prints from Furber's famous work The Flower Garden Display'd (1732) are some of the most familiar flower art around. Here's "February," with a blue hyacinth simliar to mine!
After lots and lots of rain, we got a dusting of snow overnight. It's already gone.
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