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August 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

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Jeffnz:
Thx for the photos.
Gradational hellebore growers may see Cleopatra and hybrids there of as not being an acceptable move. I disagree, the same my be said for hellebore flowers that are round in shape and doubles, all a part of a change in breeding and seeing the opportunity to create something that is unique. Japanese hellebore breeders have created some truly outstanding new hellebores, particularly doubles. Unfortunately many of their off spring are not available outside of Japan, unless of course the likes of Peter goes to the trouble of visiting nurseries and bringing selected plants back to his nursery for subsequent breeding.
The double black is outstanding, for shape and colour, sorry but it is not really black just an intense purple. With my hellebores the reduction in cold winters has seen dark colours become less intense. We rarely get snow but used to have quite hard frosts over winter, the latter are not so hard or frequent as in the past, more is the pity

MarcR:
Jeff,

All blacks in horticulture are intense purple.  Very few of us look at flowers through a chromatometer. For most of us if something looks black, we call it black. In a paint store, a chromatometer can be useful to precisely match tints.

fermi de Sousa:

--- Quote from: MarcR on August 18, 2024, 01:08:39 AM ---Jeff,
All blacks in horticulture are intense purple.

--- End quote ---
All Blacks in Rugby are intense as well! :o
 ;D
cheers
fermi

fermi de Sousa:
We made a visit to Post Office Farm Nursery to get a few more hellebores (you can't have too many hellebores!).
1 & 2) display beds
3) a stock Plant
4) A bowl of flowers floating
5) one of our purchases - a double Helleborus niger
cheers
fermi

Jeffnz:
Hi fermi
Agree, on Saturday night we demolised the Argentians but our biggest rugby challenge of the still awaits us, South Africa at home. We have been traditional rivals, the up copming games will be brutual.

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