new Hellebore

[Tim Murphy]

Chris, does the foliage resemble bocconei, or has that quality been lost in the hybridising you've done since the original cross?

I don't particularly like double flowered hybrids (although I grow a lot of them because they sell well), but I can't find a lot wrong with your plant in the second photo. The veining makes it very attractive.

[ian mcenery]

Chris I just love Julie. What is the parentage?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful pictures Chris !
Like Ian Mc I've also fallen in love with Julie !  What a beauty !

[chris]

Ian here the parents of 'Julie', and these parents came from:
the first is a cross from H.torq.'Dido' with a good red, the second is H.torq.double white x H.'Picotee'

[Joakim B]

Chris
The parents of Julie is also pretty.
I love the dark one it is really special to my untrained eye.
Have You made them Yourself? Thanks for Your patience with all our questions.
Kind regards
Joakim

[chris]

Joakim, here the parents of the anemone flower,these two and also the anemone are verry small flowers +/- 3cm across, 'Jullie' is a medium size 5-6cm

[ian mcenery]

Chris thanks wonderful plants all of them

[ian mcenery]

Here is my H Ballardii. It was in the greenhouse but Ihave put t out on the terrace where we can see it better.

[Joakim B]

Thanks Chris
It is amazing to follow the genes backwards.
It is very educational.
The pics and the flowers are very pretty.
To me it is imposible to guess how the parents would look when seeing the seedling. From the parents it is easier to see the seedling.

Maybe it is like for humans. If You see a child it is not always possible to know how the mother and father look but when You have all three there it is easy to see the resembelence.

Very nice to follow a plant in so many lines backwards.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Joakim B]

A nice one Ian
Good to have it close to enjoy it better.
Joakim

[Geebo]

Ian,I bought an H.Ballardiae and an Eric Smithii last year in spring the were verry good plants and flowered for a long time,then the H Ballardiae slowly but surley give up,ending up with the sad looking remains of an expensive plant  .The H.Smitthii is very healthy and full of flowers for the last month  ::)I wonder is Ballardiae a weaker of the two and difficult in cultivation ?
Thanks Chris for the Pics and sound advice on your breeding program.Will I ever get time enouf left to get such results,I keep trying 
post a pic of H.Er Sm 05-01-07
Cheers,
Guy 

[ian mcenery]

Geebo I have only had this plant just over 12 months and because it was a hybrid of Lividus I put it in a pot to protect it and it has done well - so far anyway. Though with some of these Niger hybrids they may be short lived particularly as most are grown by cell culture rather than as a result of hybridisation so I will have to wait and see. Also keeping this in a pot may not be really necessary since at the moment I have been growing my own Lividus seedlings in the scree which are surviving so far and as ballardii should be hardier than Lividus it might be OK outside in a sheltered and well drained spot - maybe a shaded part of my scree. I also have ericsmithii and nigericors and it is the latter that has done least well this year.

[chris]

just make new crosses every year, Geebo. Here another few

[Joakim B]

Stunning!!!!!!
It is nice to see such good plants and not just the standards we get here in Sweden if we are luckey.
Great work and so pretty.
I get dream eyed here with a silly smile.
Thanks and keep up that work of making the heleborus a lot prettier and thereby the World a bit prettier 
Kind regards
Joakim

[Staale]

Seeing all theese lovely plants at a time when my garden is covered in snow isn't healthy!
Having so many experienced Hellebore breeders around maybe someone can give me a hint as to what I can expect from my sowing. I have sown seed from two different seed exchangses of black flowered hybrids, presumably open pollinated. I hope the offspring will be on the dark side, but do I stand a fair chance to get some proper black flowered plants?