{"id":9474,"date":"2015-01-02T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:20:06","slug":"oh-grow-op-my-grow-op-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9474","title":{"rendered":"Oh Grow-Op, My Grow-Op…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year for Christmas, my husband and I give each other bulbs to plant indoors, for the New Year. I always give Amaryllis bulbs, at least one, but sometimes two or three, depending on the price. My husband gives me Paperwhites and maybe an Amaryllis, as well. This year, I got both, plus six Hyacinthe bulbs. Hmmm, I wasn’t sure about them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Paper Whites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nI had already bought in potting soil and dug out the pots before they had a chance to freeze themselves together in the shed. In fact, this year the ritual went very smoothly – practice does make perfect!!. The pots, even the cracked ones, shone, after a good scrub; all the bulbs fit in all the pots and there was even enough soil to top everything up. That is, everything worked, except for the Hyacinthes.  Yes, I could just go out and buy another pot, but I wanted the task to be finished. What could I do? Then I remembered giving a neighbour of mine a small gift for her birthday one February. It was a Hyacinthe bulb in a curved vase, that showed the flower’s roots growing in water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Hyacinthe bulbs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nI could do that! I dug up, pardon the pun, some large plastic drinking glasses – OK, they are from The Beer Store. Sometimes, when we improvise, old habits surface \ud83d\ude42  I stuck each bulb with four toothpicks and balanced it just slightly above a full glass of water. Fortunately all the glasses fit on the kitchen window sill – the perfect stage for my botanical theatre!!<\/p>\n

I did, though, have to explain the “line up” to the kids. This was my grow-op, I said. Yes, some people can get “high” on Hyacinthes \ud83d\ude42 Maybe, you just have to be a gardener to understand the joy that can be found in a tangle of white roots and an emerging green shoot – the legal drugs that get us through Winter!!<\/p>\n

Have a stunning day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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