A form of the common hyacinth is the less hardy and smaller blue- or white-petalled Roman hyacinth of florists.

Hyacinthus orientalis (common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth), is a perennial flowering plant, native to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.

The Dutch, or Common Hyacinth of house and garden culture (H. orientalis, native to southwest Asia) was so popular in the 18th century that over 2,000 cultivars were cultivated in the Netherlands, its chief commercial producer.

Hyacinthus orientalis (common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth), is a perennial flowering plant, native to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.

Dutch hyacinths, like many other bulbs, need a cold period to prepare them for spring bloom.

It took more than 100 years, but the newly fashioned hyacinths made their debuts, and the lowly hardy bulbs achieved a new accolade: Dutch Hyacinth.

I've tried forcing Dutch hyacinth bulbs for winter bloom, even buying special glass vases, but the result is always the same - tiny flowers, hidden among the foliage.

Hyacinthus orientalis (common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth), is a perennial flowering plant, native to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.

People living there make mosaics with the flowers of the Hyacinthus orientalis and set up the mosaics in front of their house.

This re-enacted the making of his 1989 sculpture Hyacinthus Orientalis, but from the point of view or perspective of a psychological personification of the internal drives and energies that had motivated the making of the original work.

(Hyacinthus Orientalis at Selborne, Dianthus chris eubank, Potato-tomato plant, Pear-hawthorn graft, variously shown in 1993 at the Lisson gallery, London and in 1996 at the Museum of Modern art in Oxford).