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What the hellebores is going on?
i grow several (lenten rose)!hellebores ....some flowered well before christmas, most flowering now and some just emerging or not flowering at all. And vigour is variable too.......foliage strong and bushy in some and just showing in others. 
usually the hellebores flower en masse and never before quite like this. I think it has to do with the wet winter....even milder than usual too. I'm sure they will all settle again to normal flowering patterns.....I mostly remove flowers in summer; they never look quite right in the showy summer months
how have your hellebores been this year?
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Mine have been gorgeous too - and some have been flowering since around Christmas - and I've seen some great displays elsewhere in this region as well.
Are you paying a price for having an even milder winter than usual in Cornwall?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No problems, Ihave two and they have both flowered well.
I have the same as you Verd - a couple flowered before Christmas, a couple are flowering now, and the rest have not flowered at all
. Thought I had lost them, but all are now pushing up fresh leaves. i thought maybe I had overdone the mulching with leafmould in the autumn, but maybe it is a weather thing. Fingers crossed for next year
A fairly mild but very wet winter here SW Scotland and a similar pattern to Verdun. Some lovely large flowering clumps and others just showing through.
My daughter has dug hers up as they are filling her border, brought them all up to me to plant, must be a dozen huge plants, some I grew from seed for her. They are all in full flower at the moment.
Mine have been rubbish this year
They are all looking very tatty and not as tall as usual. I've been blaming the weather and slug/snail damage.
Mine were great, very early, still looking good though losing colour
No sign of any ?disease some of them had last year
In the sticks near Peterborough