Help me avoid killing my indoor hyacinth, LOL!

[Trying2Heal]

Once a hyacinth's flowers have bloomed and are now dying, what do you do? Do you have to throw the whole plant away? Just snip off the dead flowers?

Plant it in the garden.

But don't plant it out straight away if you've had it in the house - a bit of a temperature shock. Carry on watering it, give it a bit of fertiliser if you feel generous. Then in spring when the leaves are dying down you can plant it in the garden, with the depth of soil above it equal to about twice the bulb's height. It will flower Spring 2022 and every spring thereafter, not such a thick dense flower spike, but still attractive - especially 20 years down the line when you have dozens of them from having 3 indoors each winter!

You can snip the flower spike for tidiness. Kindest to the bulb if you let it retrieve all the nutrient from the stalk, and let it go brown and withered before cutting.

I always plant spent hyacinths in random places in the garden. By the next year I have totally forgotten where i have planted them, and it's a lovely surprise to see them appearing.