Hellebores 2013

[Guff]

1-3 ETH seedlings

[Guff]

Same ETH flowers from above post.

[zephirine]

Helleborus abruzzicus is starting to unfurl...

[Maggi Young]

Very nice it is too, Zephirine!

 

[johnralphcarpenter]

A few hellebores flowering now

[Stephen Vella]

Some Aussie bred Hellebores.

[Stephen Vella]

These were kindly given to me as seeds from John Grimshaw and Mitchell Carl that had pollinated from bought plants back in early 2000. The seedlings looked as good as the imports. So many colour variants, I was a liitle late in the season to capture these but the vigour and size of blooms are amazing.

[Stephen Vella]

My attempts of developing a double yellow. They mostly turned out anemone forms

cheers

[Guff]

First two flowers are the same flowers from my last post, fully open.
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10137.msg273686#msg273686 - reply 76 above

1-3 Elizabethtown hellebores seedlings

[Guff]

1-3 Elizabethtown hellebores seedlings
4 Pine Knot Farms seedling

[Jeffnz]

Stephen
Next season cross the primrose anemones and this will give about 20% doubles, sometimes greater %'s or alternatively back cross to the double used to create the anemome forms.
My experience with the production of primrose doubles by crossing a primrose single with a double is that the outcome of the F1 generation will mostly be singles with some anemones, the key is to back cross with the original double and the F2 generation is where you will get the full double forms.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Helleborus 'Walberton's Rosemary' today; an innovative cross between Helleborus niger and Helleborus x hybridus.

[Leena]

Here are some pictures of my hellebores from last May. These are the oldest ones grown from seed, but most of my seedlings haven't flowered yet, and I'm waiting to see many new next spring (not to speak of others sown last year and this year)
The dark reds are grown from seeds I got from a friend in Sweden, pink, blue lady and blue metallic lady are from seeds from jelitto.

[Leena]

These flowered for the first time last spring, and they are grown from seeds bought from Ashwood, I like them very much, they are the best.

[Maggi Young]

Some lovely colours, Leena. I especially like the ones with the most buds per stem - I'm greedy that way!
A yellow flowered hellebore that Diane C. got  for me from Ashwoods some years age always has LOTS of  flowers per stem - I just love it.