Helleborus 2014

[Leena]

This is my nicest new Helleborus flowering for the first time this spring. it is grown from Ashwood seeds (Yellow incl red flush dark nectaries), obviously it is not yellow but I think it is even nicer than yellow.

[Anne Repnow]

Lovely, Leena, I can see why that is a favourite for you! A very special colour  .

[Leena]

Thanks Bolinopsis, the color is different than in any of my other hellebores (so far) and I like the single flowers, they look sideways and are not drooping.

[Stephen Vella]

Hello Leena and all,

Just catching up with this topic....some nice Hellebores to be seen and especially the species.

Leena you do have some nice Hellebores, that is a nice one. You'll find that the ones with short pedicels or flower stalk makes the flowers face outwards or even up and theres the ones that have stalks like swans that hang like bells. I like them both.

cheers

[Leena]

Leena you do have some nice Hellebores, that is a nice one. You'll find that the ones with short pedicels or flower stalk makes the flowers face outwards or even up and theres the ones that have stalks like swans that hang like bells. I like them both.

Thanks.
Now that you said that about pedicels, yes of course that is so, I just didn't think about why the flowers face down or sideways. I have to learn to look my plants more closely and also to enjoy the hanging bell-like flowers.

[kot]

A fragment of my collection of Helleborus hybr. . There are molds of various shapes and colors of flowers. Also spotted with flowers, double and anemone forms.
kot

[Jeffnz]

Leana
Looks like an escapee from their new Sunrise/Sunset/Daybreak strains

[Leena]

Kot, you have a lot of hellebore, it must be a very nice view when they are all flowering.

Leana
Looks like an escapee from their new Sunrise/Sunset/Daybreak strains

I googled them and yes it does, good luck for me.
This yellow came from the same seed batch as the red one.

[Leena]

Some more or my hellebores flowering right now.
First an old Blue Metallic Lady and then three hellebores grown from Ashwood seeds. The clear pink came from Ashwood Purple- seeds, and the two others from Ashwood Apricot/Peach- seeds, all very nice hellebores.

[Leena]

These two plants I have grown from seeds a friend of mine collected from the mountains in Croatia when she was on holiday there. I can't wait for them to flower so I could see what the flower looks like and what species they might be.

[PeterClegg]

Hi Leena
An educated guess by looking at the foliage I would say odorus ! you have many very fine plants in your previous posts .

[Leena]

Hi Leena
An educated guess by looking at the foliage I would say odorus ! you have many very fine plants in your previous posts .

Thank you Peter! I was hoping someone would identify these from foliage  , which is very nice even without flowers, but hopefully these are so big now that they will flower next year.

[ian mcenery]

These two plants I have grown from seeds a friend of mine collected from the mountains in Croatia when she was on holiday there. I can't wait for them to flower so I could see what the flower looks like and what species they might be.

Just to add some confusion to the id. The leaves look very like a plant I have as H croaticus.

Nice plants Leena and nice  to see fresh flowers at this time

[Leena]

Thanks Ian.
I forgot to add that these plants are deciduous, they go underground in early autumn and come up again in the spring unlike my Helleborus x hybridus which keep their leaves all winter. Does this fit to either H.croaticus or H.odorus?

[ian mcenery]

Thanks Ian.
I forgot to add that these plants are deciduous, they go underground in early autumn and come up again in the spring unlike my Helleborus x hybridus which keep their leaves all winter. Does this fit to either H.croaticus or H.odorus?

Leena I think both. When it flowers you will know

As the distribution I think overlaps perhaps one of the expert lurkers might give an opinion?