My hyacinths are drooping?

I dug up the flowerbed in the side yard yesterday and replanted the hyacinths in the front yard to make a nice arrangement. Now the newly planted flowers are drooping and touching the ground. What should I do? Did i leave the roots exposed too long as I was weeding the flowerbeds? How does one safely dig up, deweed, and replant? We just moved in and the flowerbeds were both covered in weeds..I was trying to save them but I might have killed them!
My hyacinths are drooping?

FlowersBirthday FlowersSympathy FlowersMoving plants in flower is rarely going to go easily... they need their root systems intact to get water up to the flowers. Probably the best thing to do now is to simply remove the flowers and let the plants settle in to their new homes.





In the future, move bulbs when they%26#039;re dormant. Just mark the place where the bulbs are when they%26#039;re up, and then when the leaves are gone, you can move them.
Reply:Hyacinths are a spring bulb. Growing hyacinths is a process that starts with bulb selection. The bulb is actually planted and left dormant before any flower is seen. Based on the growth climate, growing hyacinths are relatively easy. Follow these 6 steps to grow hyacinths in your yard.





Step1- Choosing a bulb





When making your bulb selections look for a solid, fat bulb. Avoid mushy bulbs or ones with any soft spots. Also check for a rotten smell. To make a nice area of hyacinths you should buy about a dozen bulbs.











Step 2- Planting





Plant your hyacinth bulb in a sunny area. The soil should be light with good drainage. Sandy soil works well for hyacinths. Dig holes 5%26quot; deep and 6%26quot; apart for each bulb. Put bulbs in with pointed side up and flat end down. In the north plant early in the fall. For warmer areas put in the refrigerator for three weeks before planting in the late fall. Avoid planting in very wet areas as the bulbs will rot.








Step 3- Dormant Period





Those who live where there is a cold winter you do not need to do anything during the hyacinths dormant period. The bulb, by nature, is a package that has all the food and water the plant needs to get it through the winter. In climates where there is no cold period you may need to dig up bulbs that haven%26#039;t grown well in the past and put them in the refrigerator to force dormancy.








Step 4- Growth





Once the hyacinth start sprouting in early spring, the only thing to do is to wait for the flower to bloom. You may notice that as the years go by the flower heads become thinner. This is natural for hyacinths.








Step 5- Maintenance





The main maintenance task for hyacinths is deadheading. Deadheading is simply pinching off old blooms to encourage new growth and transfer energy from making seeds. However, if you bought a self-sowing variety do not deadhead because you will lose the seeds. The only other concerns for hyacinth bulbs is the occasional animal or rodent. If you notice missing bulbs and see signs of them being dug up, put up a barrier or fence to discourage intruders. If no signs of digging around missing bulbs are apparent then you





may have a rodent problem. In this case you may need to protect the bulb by digging it up and putting a wire mesh in the hole to surround the bulb.








Step 6: Miscellaneous Tasks





You should by now have a nice looking hyacinth patch. You can now enjoy the flowers. Cutting off flowers to put in an inside vase is common with hyacinths as they have a pleasant smell. You may also need, from time to time, to dig up the bulbs and split them to stop overcrowding. This is simply done with a garden spade by chopping the bulb in pieces.








These six steps should produce a wonderful addition to your landscaping. The only other things to do are occasional watering if the season has been dry and the introduction of a fertilizer if growth is weak. Other than that you should be able to enjoy your hyacinths for years to come.
Reply:the droop is normal for same day planting. they will get better you need to look into %26quot;spooning%26quot; hyacinths to increase them in the summer after the flowers die down dig up the bulbs and clean them off. take a grapefruit spoon and scrape the basal plate(round area inside roots on bulb ) work the area down until you are almost into the scales of the bulb and make 3 cuts across the ring of roots into the scales. allow this to dry and callous over for a few days, then plant them about 4 inches deep . over the course of the rest of the summer the bulbs will get lots of small bulblets which are clones of the mother bulb. come the fall, tease the mess apart and plant the bulblets like full size bulbs in a year or so, youy will get gobs of starts.
Reply:I think it would have been best to wait until the blooms faded to move them. But don%26#039;t give up. Keep watering them, don%26#039;t fertilize.





Mine have come and gone. The blooms don%26#039;t last very long, but they are so pretty while they are here.make up