Helleborus 2019

[Leena]

Helleborus season is slowly advancing here.
I have grown this plant from Holubec wild collected seeds from Passo Manova, Italy, and it flowers now for the first time. It is very floriferous, with two or even three flowers per stem. What interests me also is that it has red pistil, my other H.niger has green pistils.
The second H.niger is also grown from seeds collected from Italy, in the mountains near Lake Como. This one is more ordinary-looking to me.
The third picture is my biggest yellow grown from Ashwood seeds about ten years ago.

[Maggi Young]

I have grown this plant from Holubec wild collected seeds from Passo Manova, Italy, and it flowers now for the first time. It is very floriferous, with two or even three flowers per stem. What interests me also is that it has red pistil, my other H.niger has green pistils.

That's rather  lovely!!

[Leena]

Thank you Maggi.

[ashley]

Helleborus foetidus

[Jeffnz]

The flower shape of the yellow would be hard to beat, nectary colour?

[David Nicholson]

Is foetidus always very late Ashley?

[ashley]

I don't know if the timing is unusual David.  These were about the same as in my garden, but spring seems to have been relatively cool this year in SW Spain.

[Leena]

Ashely, your H.foetidus seems to be thriving.

The flower shape of the yellow would be hard to beat, nectary colour?

The shape is very nice!
Here is a closer picture of it, my oldest yellow Helleborus.
The second picture is of it's sister plant, and third is also grown from the same seeds.

[Leena]

This is also quite nice spotted yellowish Helleborus, flowering for the first time, but the second plant has become my favourite. It is still quite small, but it's flower is so nice, shade could be said cream-coloured. It is grown from seeds from Australia from a kid forumist.

[Leena]

Some more Helleborus flowers.

[Leena]

And more.

[Leena]

Some are very nodding  , but have nice spotting inside the petals (second picture).
I like also the faint spotting in the third one, and it has much better posture.
This double Helleborus was grown from seed ex seeds, and flowers now for the second time. It's flowers nod, but when the late afternoon sun hits them, they turn their flowers more up towards the sun. It has also very nice pattern of petals.

[Leena]

This double is also my favourite.
I have some Helleborus grown from Northwest Garden Nursery seeds, and the first ones flowered this spring. I lost many of the seedlings in winter 2016 which was very bad (no snow and very cold right after a warm spell in January).
The second and third pictures are 'Rose Quarz'
Fourth is 'Jade Tiger'
Fifth is 'Onyx Odyssey'

[Leena]

'Rose Quarz'
'Blue Metallic Lady'

[David Nicholson]

Lovely collection of Hellebores Leena.