When / how to plant out Christmas gift hyacinths?

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Hello all

I have been given some hyacinths as a Christmas gift. Currently they are still flowering indoors. I’d like to plant them outside for the future, but I’m not sure what / when / how to do this?

TIA

I wait until the leaves are beginning to die down, so about April/May I think. Until then, they sit in my unheated greenhouse largely ignored.

They won't flower as densely again - they'll look like a rather robust bluebell - but I've been planting them out every year for ages and now have quite a few coming up each year, and they look rather good in bulk.

Do they have to sit out in the light until the flowers / leaves are all dead? I don’t have a greenhouse (nor a garden in fact - just a double strip of flowerbeds out front of our apartment building.

Do they have to sit out in the light until the flowers / leaves are all dead? Yes because the leaves need light for energy, and you want the plant to be making food to store in the root, and to build up next year's flower.

You may have to plant them out straight away - but spend a couple of weeks acclimatising them by putting them out in the day and bringing them in at night. Plant them out at the beginning of forecast warmer weather.