I honestly can't remember when my flowered exactly, but must have been around Feb/Mar this year.
Like Turnip, the fresh growth is visible coming through from the base. Leaves a bit straggly and not too pretty.
So Dove, ought we leave the old leaves in place until the New Year? I also thought that the old leaves di something to protect the newly-emerging leaves. Are they very prolific in your garden then? Oh no, I got 5 for a raised bed this year and am now having visions of them taking over the entire garden
I love them nut, but my garden's tiny so everything has to have its space and not invade. Ah, if I had a large garden like some of you lot, I'd let so many of my perennials go mad!
I think its personal choice with most of them. Hellebores are pretty hardy but the flowers can be hit by frost. Personally I prefer leaves off but some customers want all left on and others like just the messy ones cut off. No hard and fast rules just do what you like the look of.
Jess, the reason I'm accumulating hellebores is because I keep buying them - it's becoming an addiction Most of mine are still in pots.
In my last garden I had one which self seeded a few babies each year which I potted up and gave to friends and relatives - it's unlikely that you'll have to hack your way out of the garden because of hellebores
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I honestly can't remember when my flowered exactly, but must have been around Feb/Mar this year.
Like Turnip, the fresh growth is visible coming through from the base. Leaves a bit straggly and not too pretty.
So Dove, ought we leave the old leaves in place until the New Year? I also thought that the old leaves di something to protect the newly-emerging leaves. Are they very prolific in your garden then? Oh no, I got 5 for a raised bed this year and am now having visions of them taking over the entire garden
They won't take over if you don't let them seed Jess. Their roots aren't invasive.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks nut - I took the seed heads off most of them in the Summer, as was a bit concerned about an invasion!
Good idea Jess, they make a lot of seed and are reliable germinators. They're everywhere here, along with the cyclamen.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I love them nut, but my garden's tiny so everything has to have its space and not invade. Ah, if I had a large garden like some of you lot, I'd let so many of my perennials go mad!
I think its personal choice with most of them. Hellebores are pretty hardy but the flowers can be hit by frost. Personally I prefer leaves off but some customers want all left on and others like just the messy ones cut off. No hard and fast rules just do what you like the look of.
Jess, the reason I'm accumulating hellebores is because I keep buying them - it's becoming an addiction
Most of mine are still in pots.
In my last garden I had one which self seeded a few babies each year which I potted up and gave to friends and relatives - it's unlikely that you'll have to hack your way out of the garden because of hellebores
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.