I'm not too disappointed Verdun, though I swore when it fell out of the car when I opened the door. Hardly enough flowering hellebores this year to cross. That I am disappointed about.
Went to the GC today with my friend and got some seed compost also some general potting compost 4 bags for £10.00, it's nice stuff much better than B+Q's Verve as that has gone all twiggy sort of not rotted down properly so just need some warmer weather now so I can set some seeds away.
I did get a very good seedling quite different to others I have. I usually pull up most seedling but there were a few around a good hellebore I had so potted them up. It's difficult to choose which two to choose for crossing but will have a go soon..maybe a large bright purple with a yellow? Sound good or not???
If the colours were separate, lovely. Mixed together? no
OMG how I envy you all, I've just looked at the two websites given above. Such beautiful hellebores, I would spend a fortune on those if I had the chance, but no such beauties available here, just the plain white ones (although I like them too) and sort of wishy-washy reddish ones.
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I'm not too disappointed Verdun, though I swore when it fell out of the car when I opened the door. Hardly enough flowering hellebores this year to cross. That I am disappointed about.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I haven't crossed any but I've had some quite acceptable voluntary crossings. One of the many things I've never got round to
In the sticks near Peterborough
Was down in Bedfordshire today and saw a starling, first one for over a year!
How do you go about crossing Hellebores?
Went to the GC today with my friend and got some seed compost also some general potting compost 4 bags for £10.00, it's nice stuff much better than B+Q's Verve as that has gone all twiggy sort of not rotted down properly so just need some warmer weather now so I can set some seeds away.
If the colours were separate, lovely. Mixed together? no
In the sticks near Peterborough
OMG how I envy you all, I've just looked at the two websites given above. Such beautiful hellebores, I would spend a fortune on those if I had the chance, but no such beauties available here, just the plain white ones (although I like them too) and sort of wishy-washy reddish ones.