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Diseased hellebore

Paul ScholeyPaul Scholey Posts: 9
in Problem solving
Does anyone have any advice on what might be causing this hellebore to suffer. Just one lone flower that appears, at the minute, to be unaffected?

This is one of the earliest of my hellebores to flower through winter and I had initially hoped that it was just the ravages of the weather, but I’m now concerned it might be Hellebore Black Death?

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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    I can't see what wrong. They look like mine after they have finished flowering, just clear out the dead leaves from around the base cut off the old leaves and flowers and it should grow again, mine have.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Those flowers are fading ... they’ve been pollinated and are forming seed cases in the centre.  
    What we think of as petals are actually sepals ... they change colour and fade after pollination but stay on the plant until the seeds are ripe. 

    Yours may have been nibbled a bit by wandering molluscs. 🐌 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Paul ScholeyPaul Scholey Posts: 9
    OK, thanks, that's a relief. I'll keep an eye out for the molluscs!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    They will have been hit hard by the cold too.
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