I know it isn’t, but spring sure looks like it is right around the corner. The weather has been stellar here for the last week. Best of all, my daffodils and jonquils are up and blooming. My hyacinths are up and just starting to bloom. The bulbs from all of these come from our family home in Octagon, Alabama (I can only imagine the thousands of blooms there right now). The hyacinths actually came from my grandmother’s family yard, I’d guess in the early 1920’s. Bulbs are a wonderful thing to really tie you to the past. Easy to grow (just dig a hole and wait), beautiful and low maintenance!
I think the hyacinths are older than that. They came with Mammy when she married Papa Hinson. I am not sure when that was, but was well before then I think. We will have to ask Bill! Mad
Wow. I guess that would make since. I knew that they came from Mammy’s mother, but wasn’t sure when. Do you think around 1910 or so? (You finally got a comment to stick!)