{"id":3805,"date":"2010-09-19T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T09:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:19:51","slug":"plant-your-indoor-bulbs-for-christmas-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/plant-your-indoor-bulbs-for-christmas-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant your Indoor Bulbs for Christmas Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3807\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"hyacinthvase\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hyacinthvase.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been to buy my prepared hyacinths and some paper-white narcissi. Here&#8217;s what to do to get yours to produce scented flowers in time for\u00a0Christmas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a nice pot and plant up your bulbs leaving the tops of the bulbs poking out of the compost<\/li>\n<li>Water in\u00a0 and place the pots in a cool, dark place (maximum temperature 9 degrees); an unheated shed or garage is best.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the compost moist and check regularly<\/li>\n<li>As soon as you see the flower bud emerging bring the pots into a warm, light room and your bulbs should be flowering in time for Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Keep the compost moist at all times but don&#8217;t over water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hyacinths can also be grown in special hyacinth glasses which require no compost.<\/p>\n<p>Fill the glass with water but make sure that the bottom of the bulb doesn&#8217;t touch the water. Keep the glass in a cold, dark place until the bud is about 2ins tall by which time the roots will have grown down into the water. At this stage the glass can be bought into a warm, light room. Keep the water topped up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been to buy my prepared hyacinths and some paper-white narcissi. Here&#8217;s what to do to get yours to produce scented flowers in time for Christmas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1637],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-flowers-and-plants","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15621,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/15621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}