Helleborus 2015

[Yann]

Ralph nice to see the Helloborus grow well in the Kent's soil 
Waiting the repair of my camera i'cant shot mines.

[Irm]

This Ashwood picotee is also very nice, I think

very nice seedlings  also the yellow.

[Leena]

Thank you Irm, it is so exciting to wait for the new plants to flower.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Helleborus lividus, the least hardy of the genus and hence grown in a pot.

[PeterClegg]

Lividus is the only hellebore I struggle to keep alive, I have tried various compost mixes well drained and little water but not bone dry , I have to grow new plants every year to hybridise with .

[Leena]

My H.multifidus from wild collected seeds now, the picture of it's flowers earlier in the previous page.

[Leena]

In the previous page I posted three pictures of yellow Hellebores which flowered now for the first time, and I like them very much.
The first has slightly different form in petals, and when it came up the leaves were also yellow.
Two pictures of the second which has more rounded petals, the flower picture was taken earlier and the picture of the whole plant yesterday.
I think the one in the fourth picture is still my favourite, it is difficult to decide.

[Leena]

I also like this one, though it has rather small flowers which droop a little.

[PeterClegg]

Looking for opinions on this hellborus foetidus foliage , had to cut bits off to shrink the file size but you still get the idea ,

[johnralphcarpenter]

I don't know what is going on here - this has just come into flower; supposed to be Helleborus torquatus 'Flamingo' from Staudengärtnerei  Peters. Doesn't look much like my other plant of the same name, and why now???

[johnralphcarpenter]

Looking for opinions on this hellborus foetidus foliage , had to cut bits off to shrink the file size but you still get the idea ,

Peter, what exactly are you questioning about the foliage?

[PeterClegg]

Hi Ralph
had anyone seen similar foliage on foetidus was my original query if badly worded  , I had not seen any like it before this plant but I heard from Will Mclewin who has seen this type of foliage before in cultivation and in the wild , I thought I may have something unique but sadly not.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Hellebore season well under way here - this Helleborus x ballardiae 'Shooting Star' is always early, but suffers from the common fungal disease that hellebores are prone to - easily distinguishable from Hellebore Black Death, which is a viral disease. Must find time to cut off the infected foliage.

[Yann]

Ralph it seems that most of UK is now infected.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Some discussion of precocious flowers elsewhere on the Forum. These Helleborus x hybridus in a sheltered spot are very early - I haven't even removed the old leaves yet.