Helleborus 2015

[Leena]

Last year I posted pictures of leaves of my two young Hellebores, here.
The seeds for these plants were collected in mountains near Plitvice in Croatia, and last year Tim Murphy suggested that they may belong to torquatus/multifidus complex.
They are now flowering, and they are the earliest of my Hellebores to flower. The flowers emerged as soon as the snow melted. The other has more yellowishgreen flowers and the first flower was damaged some by cold, the other one has greener and more cup-like flowers.
The smell is faint but not bad.
Do these look like H.multifidus? And if, which subspecies?

[ian mcdonald]

Our native Hellebores. Both grow in woods not far away. Img 189 H. foetidus, under exposed. Img 188 H. viridis.

[Leena]

Helleborus abhasicus, and the second photo is of a Ashwood Peach/Apricot spotted seedling which is going to flower for the first time.

[Irm]

I have some Ashwood Apricot/Peach hellebores going to flower for the first time this year, I hope some of them will turn out as lovely as yours.

Here in Berlin, the Ashwoodys are in flower now 

[ian mcenery]

Here   is one I have had for a few years with petaloid stamens.

[Leena]

Irm, very nice colours in your hellebores. I have several which are grown from Ashwood seeds and are now in bud for the first time, I'm hoping to see some new colours.

Ian, how different looking hellebore, beautiful.

[ian mcenery]

Irm, very nice colours in your hellebores. I have several which are grown from Ashwood seeds and are now in bud for the first time, I'm hoping to see some new colours.

Ian, how different looking hellebore, beautiful.

Thank you Leena that's what attracted me to it. I also grow some of those that Irm shows I think Aswood call them "Neons" and they seem to come well from seed. If you haven't got that I may be able to send you seed in the summer

[Irm]

Irm, very nice colours in your hellebores. I have several which are grown from Ashwood seeds and are now in bud for the first time, I'm hoping to see some new colours.

Please show them, when they are in flower !

and I have one more ... 

[Leena]

Thank you Leena that's what attracted me to it. I also grow some of those that Irm shows I think Aswood call them "Neons" and they seem to come well from seed. If you haven't got that I may be able to send you seed in the summer

Thank you Ian, I would love to try it. I have sown my Ashwood hybrids in 2010 and 2011, mostly from seeds they sold named Apricot/Peach/Primrose yellow, picotee or spotted or with dark nectaries, but not Neon. However the seeds were labeled there seems to come very nice different shades, although from Purples all so far have been pink, but now one looks darker in bud.

Please show them, when they are in flower !

I will, Irm. They are now coming up and are in bud so it may still be couple of weeks before the flowers open up properly.
Very nice white you have there, picotees look so elegant.

[PeterClegg]

Last year I posted pictures of leaves of my two young Hellebores, here.
The seeds for these plants were collected in mountains near Plitvice in Croatia, and last year Tim Murphy suggested that they may belong to torquatus/multifidus complex.
They are now flowering, and they are the earliest of my Hellebores to flower. The flowers emerged as soon as the snow melted. The other has more yellowishgreen flowers and the first flower was damaged some by cold, the other one has greener and more cup-like flowers.
The smell is faint but not bad.
Do these look like H.multifidus? And if, which subspecies?

Hi Lena
I took a stab at odorus at the time but you should definitely know once the mature foliage emerges , if they are multifidus subsp multifidus the foliage should be very divided(with my limited knowledge of species helleborus )

[Leena]

Thanks Peter,  will post more photos when the leaves have emerged.
I have to admit that these are not as spectacular as hybrids, but it is exciting to grow something that is a real species from the wild.

[PeterClegg]

A new one this year

[PeterClegg]

Another first time bloomer .

[PeterClegg]

From a yellow double and green picotee single cross , sorry about the single posts but for some reason it will not let me make multiple picture posts even when they are below 200kb

[David Nicholson]

Three class acts there Peter.