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Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: Palustris on March 18, 2012, 11:54:43 AM

Title: Helleborus liguricus
Post by: Palustris on March 18, 2012, 11:54:43 AM

Picked these seeds up at Blackpool, yesterday. Anyone any info and more important, how to get the seeds to germinate.
TIA.

Title: Re: Helleborus liguricus
Post by: Maggi Young on March 18, 2012, 11:58:56 AM

This any help to you, Eric?   http://www.hellebores.org/liguricus.html

http://www.hellebores.org/growing/propagating.html

Title: Re: Helleborus liguricus
Post by: Palustris on March 18, 2012, 01:25:31 PM

Lovely thank-you. I normally just dig up the self sown seedlings of my Hellebores rather than collect and sow . The mice always eat them when I try to grow them 'properly'.
I just wondered if there was any mileage in damaging the seed coat as one does with some seeds to induce germination?

Title: Re: Helleborus liguricus
Post by: Maggi Young on March 18, 2012, 01:45:44 PM

Graham Rice has some advice for "old " seed, which yours  is now....
http://grahamrice.com/hellebore/propagation/oldseed.html

Title: Re: Helleborus liguricus
Post by: Palustris on March 18, 2012, 02:40:15 PM

Ta muchly!