Helleborus 2018

[Shauney]

A pretty little hellebore!
It's helleborous torquatus ' little stripey'

[meanie]

I'm not really a lover of Hellebores (please don't be offended - we're all different and that is to be celebrated) but I went to a local nursery yesterday for sand and grit and I walked out wih a Hellebore. And I paid full price! I know that it's not rare but Helleborus argutifolius has me smitten................
Helleborus argutifolius by longk48, on Flickr

It's the foliage. It makes it look like H.foetidus with attitude...........

[Leena]

Hellabores have started to flower and there are two new double ones which I like very much. Mainly because the flowers face sideways so you can see them, but also they are very nice colour.
The first one is second generation from Elisabeth Town Helleborus, sown 2013 and the second one is from SRGC seed exchange 2012 as H.hybridus double white, though it turned out pink. It has really nice way the petals are, and also colour.
The same year 2012 from seed ex is H.niger ex semidouble, very nice (Corydalis behind it is 'Beth Evans')
Nice dark one from Ashwood seeds, it has small darker spots inside the flower though you can't see them when the flower is facing down.
The last picture is my biggest yellow Helleborus grown from Ashwood seeds.

[fleurbleue]

beautiful garden sights, Leena 

[Gabriela]

Yes, super beautiful It is funny to see grown from seeds Helleborus flowering. I have my first products flowering this spring - from a double purple H. torquatus. Just one double and all the singles variations on the purple/greenish.






I'm looking forward to more seedlings flowering in the next years 

[Leena]

Thanks Nicole.
Gabriela, I like the middle picotee flower, it is very nice colour!

I'm looking forward to more seedlings flowering in the next years 

So am I, I have lots of seedlings growing now, many will flower in next couple of years if all goes well. Plants from seeds i got from Nicole don't flower yet, but are growing well.
I have lost some seedlings almost every winter, but I'm glad that the hardiest are left now.

[fleurbleue]

All the same with your seeds Leena, but some young sturdy plants which should bloom next spring 

[Leena]

Some more Helleborus from yesterday.

[Leena]

This Helleborus was sown in 2011 from seeds a friend of a friend had taken from the wild in Kalofer, Bulgaria.
I have thought it could be H.odorus, what do you think?
It is mostly decidous in hard winters but may keep it's leaves in a mild winter. Flowers are yellow/lime green (more yellow when they emerge), small and cup shaped.

[Maggi Young]

How beautifully your garden has emerged from the snow, Leena. You are showing a wonderful Spring display.

[Leena]

Thanks Maggi. I have enjoyed so much of the spring flowers, right now Anemone nemorosa has started to flower, and Hellebores last quite well even in hot weather.

[fermi de Sousa]

It's Hellebore season in southern Australia.
We have a few and this little colony of dark purple Helleborus x hybridus started from 2002 when we planted the parent plant here.
The gardening editor of The Age newspaper in Victoria wrote an article about a friend of ours, Peter Leigh, who runs Post Office Farm in Ashbourne, near Woodend in the Macedon Ranges (about 30 minutes from our house
I have taken a pic of the article which I've included
cheers
fermi

[Michael J Barrett]

Hi Fermi, Peter and Post Office Farm Nursery certainly got some well deserved exposure over the weekend, the Gardening Australia segment was beautiful done as well as Megan’s article. Peter has bred some magnificent hellebores, thankfully we here in Australia have got access to world’s best quality,  not like the frustration we suffer with some genus, that here are rare, and in other countries available at the local garden centre.

[fermi de Sousa]

This is a primrose-coloured Helleborus x hybridus from Peter Leigh in 2015.
We had to move it last year and it has recovered enough to flower.
Our group has a visit to Post Office Farm Nursery next weekend so we can get more!
 
cheers
fermi

[cohan]

Something about this past winter did not suit my hellebores: it was not especially cold, but  a less typical pattern of warmer and colder. My 3 hellebores-- all the same no label niger cultivar/hybrid from a mainstream florist grower- which have done well for a handful of years, and remained evergreen, all died back to the ground after snowmelt and have just slowly put up a few leaves by mid-summer  at least they aren't dead, which I thought they might be!