Helleborus 2016

[Robert]

Yann,

What an interesting and delightful selection of Helleborus. We have nothing like this in our area. We have kinda' light and very dark, with of few pinks in between. Nothing like what you have shown. 

Thank you for sharing the photographs. It is inspirational. I even went out in the rain to see how our Helleborus are doing. Very dormant! No sign of any growth at all. Our plants certainly react to our climatic conditions differently than yours.

We rarely get extremely cold here in our part of California, however in an average winter the plants behave as though the climate was much colder. But then plants survive... I just found a Rhododendron commonae that I left out in the frost. I know that it is one of the few "hardy" Vireya Rhododendrons but it seems very happy enduring what for it must be cold temperatures.

[Jeffnz]

A selection of fantastic hellebores from all contributors.
Down under we are 4-5 months away from our flowering season but this summer I have had more than a few plants in bloom, mostly doubles.
A question, assuming I was starting from scratch and was looking for apricot shaded flowers what would the best parents to use ?
As a colour apricot is achieved by mixing yellow and red, there are now yellows that approach daffodil yellow but no true red hellebores. This may explain the absence of deep apricot shades, although there is a French nursery that seems to have bred a true apricot.
Hope someone can provide feedback. While I have some apricot shades they are always predominantly primrose as the main colour with a tingle of apricot which does intensify as the flowers age. 

[WimB]

Yann, I visited on monday and was once again astonished by the wonderfull variety of Hellebores he grows...he has become one of the (if not THE) best Hellebore hybridisers in Europe. I heard that he started many years ago with seeds and young plants from Maurice Vergote (the godfather of modern gardening in Belgium, he has educated a whole lot of nursery-men and women during the last half century in Belgium), who taught him what to cross to get new colours.

Anyhow: I brought the two below from him.

[fleurbleue]

Two beauties, Wim I visited his nursery some years ago and I didn't know what I have to choose among all these nice forms and colours

[WimB]

Two beauties, Wim I visited his nursery some years ago and I didn't know what I have to choose among all these nice forms and colours

Yes, you feel like a kid in a candy shop   

[Leena]

Yann and Wim, those are wonderful Hellebores!
Do you know if Thierry sells ever seeds?

[WimB]

Yann and Wim, those are wonderful Hellebores!
Do you know if Thierry sells ever seeds?

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think so. Maybe Yann will know for sure!

[Gabriela]

Yann and Wim, those are wonderful Hellebores!
Do you know if Thierry sells ever seeds?

Totally agree! All of them gorgeous.
Selling seeds  - It would be too good to be true...

[Tim Ingram]

Yann - we need about fifty or sixty of those hellebores for this area we have just cleared under the apple trees! I've seen some pictures on Facebook too, amazing range of colour and form. There are fine growers in Japan and N. America as well and a really good book on them published by Timber Press (Hellebores - A Comprehensive Guide, C. Colston Burrell & Judith Knott Tyler). Seed would be good but it still takes three or four years to get a strong flowering sized plant.

[Tim Ingram]

(PS: would also like to grow some of their epimediums!!)

[Yann]

Neither seeds nor seedlings are sold.
Tim if you wanna populate your woodland i think you should think up a nice budget
If a few hybrids are of interest i can bring some pots to the next AGS show.

[Tim Ingram]

I think you are right Yann! We will go slowly but I must try to cross the channel and visit the Delabroye nursery sometime - too much happens here in the spring though...

[Maggi Young]

This Welsh Nursery has some lovely hellebores - and I think they have some pretty seedlings for sale  from this sort of stock.... http://farmyardnurseries.co.uk/      Llandysul SA44 4RL

They had posted these photos on Facebook   "  bicoloured Hellebores... some to look forward to, available now as seedlings and seed, flowering plants next year  "






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[fleurbleue]

Desirable plants I think I'll order seeds

[Gabriela]

Very beautiful. Thanks for posting Maggi. I don't know when you have time to take the tour on all these Facebook pages! 
I am trying to stay away.