After-Christmas Hyacinths

I don't know about 'After-Christmas', these hyacinths might not even make it by February. So much for letting them grow in their own time to make stronger plants.

Temperatures have been running at little over the growing threshold for the past few weeks (most plants do not grow at temperatures below 6 deg C - this is why you will see your daffodils growing in spurts during the warmer spells of winter). I am surprised. For some unknown reason I had thought this temperature limit might not apply to hyacinths.

Of course, it's always possible they do not like the multi-purpose compost (I did not use bulb fibre, to keep costs down).