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advice please on growing on helleborus argutifolius seedlings

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    The books say to give the potted seedlings a feed to help them develop a good root system. Plant out when the roots come through the bottom of the pots.
    Sun to light shade is the optimum situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I think the slug concern might be the most pressing, if planting straight out.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Ah, if you have slugs which attack your Hellebores then that is another thing! They don't do anything much to mine. Other stuff gets reduced to nothing but the Hellebores are fine.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My hellebores of all sorts are very attacked. I gave some neighbours some argutifolius seedlings and they didn't last the week.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2023
    Thanks for everyone's thoughts
  • Sam 37Sam 37 Posts: 1,271
    Eustace said:
    @Fire I planted a tiny 2-leaved seedling in a pot, it flowered only in its third year.

    I have mine in pots too and I find that the seeds germinate even between the flagstones when they fall on the patio or on the ground.  They don't seem too fussy and always take about three years to bloom.
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