Family: Liliaceae
Popular name: Dutch hyacinth

Most significant cultivars

About 100 cultivars are cultivated, but fewer than 25 of these individual cultivars represent 90% of the total world production.
Hyacinths are often used in small groups of 3 to 5 bulbs of one cultivar, or are planted in larger groups or in beds using either solid or mixed colours.

Deep blue

•  ‘Atlantic’: blue
•  ‘Blue Jacket’: deep blue
•  ‘Delft Blue’: blue
•  ‘Ostara’: deep violet-blue

Mauve-violet

•  ‘Amethyst’: lilac-blue
•  ‘Anna Liza’: blue
•  ‘Splendid Cornelia’: blue

Red

• ‘Amsterdam’: deep carmine red
•  ‘Hollyhock’ deep red double flowers
•  ‘Jan Bos’: carmine red

Pink

•  ‘Anna Marie’: bright pink 
•  ‘Fondant’: pink
•  ‘Lady Derby’: salmon pink
•  ‘Marconi’: deep pink
•  ‘Pink Pearl’: brilliant bright pink

Yellow

•  ‘City of Haarlem’: bright yellow

Orange

•  ‘Gypsy Queen’: salmon orange

White

•  ‘Carnegie’: pure white
•  ‘L’Innocence’: pure white
•  ‘White Pearl’: pure white

The colours and flower shapes of all these cultivars are utterly superb. Special attention, however, should be given to the double-flowered ‘Hollyhock’, the yellow ‘City of Haarlem’, the pure white ‘Carnegie’ and the recently developed salmon-orange ‘Gypsy Queen’ which offers a very distinctive colour for hyacinths.