Hellebores are relatively easy to propagate from naturally dropped seed. The main problem is that most of the offspring of these rather promiscuous plants tend to be muddy variants of cream and mauve rather than the clear, rich colours of the parent plants.
Unless you’re trying to fill a very large area with a natural looking planting scheme, I’d ruthlessly go through the plants you’ve grown and only keep the best ones. If you have space you can collect seedlings every year and grow them on until they flower and eventually you will have a nice collection. You could also try pollinating some plants yourself to see if you can produce a few treasures.
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Hi all I've had about 30 hellebore seedlings potted up in 3" pots living in my cold frame for a year, they seem to have great root development but haven't grown hardly at all.
I have them in shadyish spot and well protected from wind, is there anything I could do to help them along.
Hellebores are relatively easy to propagate from naturally dropped seed. The main problem is that most of the offspring of these rather promiscuous plants tend to be muddy variants of cream and mauve rather than the clear, rich colours of the parent plants.
Unless you’re trying to fill a very large area with a natural looking planting scheme, I’d ruthlessly go through the plants you’ve grown and only keep the best ones. If you have space you can collect seedlings every year and grow them on until they flower and eventually you will have a nice collection. You could also try pollinating some plants yourself to see if you can produce a few treasures.
Plan is as you say to keep the best and hand over the rest to our local church plant sale. Anything with a flower on it usually get snapped up this time of year. I plant up the seedlings from underneath the pale colours as I prefer a lighter colour.
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Now showing strong growth. Hope to see flowers next year?
Hellebores are relatively easy to propagate from naturally dropped seed. The main problem is that most of the offspring of these rather promiscuous plants tend to be muddy variants of cream and mauve rather than the clear, rich colours of the parent plants.
Unless you’re trying to fill a very large area with a natural looking planting scheme, I’d ruthlessly go through the plants you’ve grown and only keep the best ones. If you have space you can collect seedlings every year and grow them on until they flower and eventually you will have a nice collection. You could also try pollinating some plants yourself to see if you can produce a few treasures.
I have them in shadyish spot and well protected from wind, is there anything I could do to help them along.