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johnralphcarpenter
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Helleborus 2015
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January 03, 2015, 01:54:41 PM »
The season is well advanced; some pictures from today.
Helleborus x sahinii
'Winter Bells', a small plant still;
Helleborus orientalis subsp. abchasicus
; and some
Helleborus x hybridus
at the front of the house, originally from Washfield Nursery.
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Ralph Carpenter near Ashford, Kent, UK. USDA Zone 8 (9 in a good year)
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Here I will have to wait three or four more months to see hellebore flowers, but it is so nice to see them already starting to flower in photos . Thank you.
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Leena from south of Finland
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January 15, 2015, 02:18:59 PM »
Always nice to see first blooms of the year , a few of my first time bloomers
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Maggi Young
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January 15, 2015, 05:34:14 PM »
A real mid-January treat, Peter. Perfect flowers!
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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Very early ones.
Emma
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Unnamed double from a T&M offer a few years back.
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Leena
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January 16, 2015, 07:29:10 AM »
Very nice to see Helleborus flowers.
I liked especially the middle one in Peter's pictures. Do you know it's origin?
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Leena from south of Finland
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January 16, 2015, 09:54:25 AM »
Leena the middle flower is from one of my own hybrids , mother plant was an Ashwood type yellow and pollen parent was a wild torquatus double , it is the first from that cross to flower so I am hoping for a few more good ones to follow.
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Hello from East Lincolnshire
Re: Helleborus 2015
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January 16, 2015, 03:38:18 PM »
Here are two hellebores flowering with me at the moment, first is H. Lividus and second is a unknown variety of hellebore, if anyone knows what it is I would appreciate it. Thanks John
Hellebore Lividus
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Hellebore
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John, Toynton St Peter Lincolnshire
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Re: Helleborus 2015
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January 16, 2015, 03:54:13 PM »
John, your H. lividus is H. argutifolius and your second hellebore is a hybrid, H. x hybridus.
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January 16, 2015, 05:49:23 PM »
Hi Tim thanks for letting me know about the argutifolius, I bought it from a garden centre, you would have thought they would have know the proper name.
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John, Toynton St Peter Lincolnshire
Yann
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January 17, 2015, 10:07:35 AM »
Helleborus purpurascens
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Paul T
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January 18, 2015, 11:23:16 AM »
John,
You may have come across argutifolius as H. corsicus, which is what I still know it as. I think argutifolius is the correct name, but just wanted to mention the other as I think it is fairly commonly used? Can get quite tall in the right conditions too.... my sister had one that used to flower at nearly 1.5m tall each year, tucked between too buildings. It LOVED it.
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Paul T.
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Min winter temp -8 or -9°C. Max summer temp 40°C. Thankfully, maybe once or twice a year only.
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January 18, 2015, 02:31:24 PM »
Hi Paul yes it does get tall, it always cheers me to see it flowering. I know it's not the most spectacular of hellebores, but I like. As for the name like I said to Tim when I bought it the lable said hellebore lividus, so that's what I thought it was.
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John, Toynton St Peter Lincolnshire
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January 18, 2015, 06:11:11 PM »
H. lividus
and
H. argutifolius
are closely related. The former comes from the Balearic Islands and the latter from Corsica. I find
H. argutifolius
to be totally hardy here and it seeds around, but
H. lividus
is tender and needs pot cultivation.
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Ralph Carpenter near Ashford, Kent, UK. USDA Zone 8 (9 in a good year)
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January 19, 2015, 07:02:12 PM »
Hi Ralph your right about argutifolius seeding around, I have pulled up loads to stop me getting swamped by them. I wish Niger was as vigorous, I'd be as happy as Larry then.
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John, Toynton St Peter Lincolnshire
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