No garden passion is, everything is wonderful in its own right and time - wish I had more space for the collections I'd love to have, but as it is everything overgrows everything else - & more things will somehow get here and planted somewhere. Do you think anyone would notice if thee grassy area (can't call it a lawn under the trades description rules!), got a bit smaller? Again!!!
Depends how subtle you are about digging it up. Will OH mind? Less to mow and trim.
I was out tidying my hellébores up yesterday. Labels long gone but I have some luscious black flowered ones and some deep purple and deep red plus cream with spots and 2 out of the 3 clumps of the green flowered foetidus have been flattened by the doglets chasing rats. Bah humbug.
No sign of babies to grow on so far but I have 3 more big clumps to trim back today so we'll see and I'll be collecting seeds when they ripen..
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some advice, then, please FB. I have a beautiful double yellow hellebore which appeared to selfseed last year - of course I potted up the seedlings, but how long will they take to flower, and will they come true?
I also have a very beautiful double pink one....but I still love the "common or garden" pink ones which range from palest through to quite a deep pink, with speckled inner petals, and the white ones which also selfseed everywhere.
They take about three years to really get going with flowers. One piece of advice about them ...they absolutely hate having their roots exposed to the air. So, and this is just me, I tend to take a bucket of water with me when digging them up (Sept/Oct is the best time as that is when they begin to grow new roots.) I drop the dug up plants into the water to transport them to the potting shed.
H. niger will not grow here, try as I might and sadly neither will the x sternii hybrids which are being sold at present. Expensive things to plant and watch die.
Having said that we do have quite a few hundred of the orientalis hybrids of all colours except a beautiful peach coloured one which we have only ever seen once and did not buy.
We also have Hh. tibetanus. foetidus, lividus, purpurascens and some other species which have lost their labels.
I am certainly no expert on Hellebores. Lavished with wilful neglect, and the odd top dressing of compost, they just get on with it.
I expect seedlings to take two or three years to get flowering. A 1 yr seedling I potted, and then positionedin a semi shaded place, produced a few flowers the 2nd year, and made a nice clump this year. Then I dug it up for kef.
I will be taking any seeds produced off the doubles, sowing in plug trays and then hoping for some lovely offspring.
For the first time ever I have Helleborus niger, still alive from last year, increased in size and lots of flowers. Previously I've bought them, flowered once, never seen again.
Hi nutcutlet. Exactly the same thing has happened to me before. I've thought that my Helleborus niger just got too dry in its shady site during summer, and didn't pull through. I've never got it to establish, unlike the Oriental hybrids and H. argutifolius that are far more reliable. Helleborus lividus has been good for me too.
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No garden passion is, everything is wonderful in its own right and time - wish I had more space for the collections I'd love to have, but as it is everything overgrows everything else - & more things will somehow get here and planted somewhere. Do you think anyone would notice if thee grassy area (can't call it a lawn under the trades description rules!), got a bit smaller? Again!!!
Depends how subtle you are about digging it up. Will OH mind? Less to mow and trim.
I was out tidying my hellébores up yesterday. Labels long gone but I have some luscious black flowered ones and some deep purple and deep red plus cream with spots and 2 out of the 3 clumps of the green flowered foetidus have been flattened by the doglets chasing rats. Bah humbug.
No sign of babies to grow on so far but I have 3 more big clumps to trim back today so we'll see and I'll be collecting seeds when they ripen..
some advice, then, please FB. I have a beautiful double yellow hellebore which appeared to selfseed last year - of course I potted up the seedlings, but how long will they take to flower, and will they come true?
I also have a very beautiful double pink one....but I still love the "common or garden" pink ones which range from palest through to quite a deep pink, with speckled inner petals, and the white ones which also selfseed everywhere.
They take about three years to really get going with flowers. One piece of advice about them ...they absolutely hate having their roots exposed to the air. So, and this is just me, I tend to take a bucket of water with me when digging them up (Sept/Oct is the best time as that is when they begin to grow new roots.) I drop the dug up plants into the water to transport them to the potting shed.
H. niger will not grow here, try as I might and sadly neither will the x sternii hybrids which are being sold at present. Expensive things to plant and watch die.
Having said that we do have quite a few hundred of the orientalis hybrids of all colours except a beautiful peach coloured one which we have only ever seen once and did not buy.
We also have Hh. tibetanus. foetidus, lividus, purpurascens and some other species which have lost their labels.
I am certainly no expert on Hellebores. Lavished with wilful neglect, and the odd top dressing of compost, they just get on with it.
I expect seedlings to take two or three years to get flowering. A 1 yr seedling I potted, and then positionedin a semi shaded place, produced a few flowers the 2nd year, and made a nice clump this year. Then I dug it up for kef.
I will be taking any seeds produced off the doubles, sowing in plug trays and then hoping for some lovely offspring.
For the first time ever I have Helleborus niger, still alive from last year, increased in size and lots of flowers. Previously I've bought them, flowered once, never seen again.
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Hi nutcutlet. Exactly the same thing has happened to me before. I've thought that my Helleborus niger just got too dry in its shady site during summer, and didn't pull through. I've never got it to establish, unlike the Oriental hybrids and H. argutifolius that are far more reliable. Helleborus lividus has been good for me too.
My lividus didn't make it through last winter
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.