Helleborus 2020

[ruweiss]

Wow !!!

[fermi de Sousa]

here's the new set of Delabroye's nursery, just after my work i ran there before the public buy all these beauties 

Hmmm, it seems that orange is the new black 
cheers
fermi

[Leena]

Yann, from the picture it looks like you got also seedlings in one of the pots, many for the price of one.

[WSGR]

Harvington Smoky blues

Harvington pink more like red or burgundy to me.



Probably no more new one from me for this year.

[Hannelore]

Stays storm, hail and snow:

[WSGR]

Really love this green one!

[Gail]

Helleborus liguricus in flower - this one has a good fragrance, difficult to describe but definitely a hint of citrus.

[Yann]

Yann, from the picture it looks like you got also seedlings in one of the pots, many for the price of one.

Yes many seedlings but i don't think they'll keep the mother plant features if pollinated by bees.

[Yann]

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Harvington Smoky blues

Harvington pink more like red or burgundy to me.

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Probably no more new one from me for this year.

The first hybrid (unknown to me) is striking!

[WSGR]

Gail, I really love yours! The configuration is endless.

Yann: I kept wanting to buy a black one. That is actually more mysterious than the black! Love it.

I had a Harvington apricot double, but it was snapped by black spot and I thought I had taken photos yesterday, but my temperamental Samsung refused to store that photo. It' giving up its ghost. So I just google this one to give an idea. I removed the dead bit and I am dreading its demise.

https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/helleborus--hybridus-harvington-double-apricots/classid.2000023661/ Just think apricot!

[Maggi Young]

I just  found  out  about this  new  book via  Bobby J. Ward in the  USA!  It's  by  Will McLewin.....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helleborus-Helleborastrum-Problem-Will-McLewin/dp/1733146695/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%9CHelleborus+and+the+Helleborastrum+Problem%2C%E2%80%9D+by+Will+McLewin&qid=1581797387&sr=8-1

Bobby wrote  : "Just arrived, a copy of “Helleborus and the Helleborastrum Problem,” by Will McLewin of Stockport, England. McLewin questions the current taxonomy of 16 “species” of hellebores in the Helleborastrum section of the genus—plants whose distribution is centered in the Balkans but extend from Spain to Russia. The species in question are abruzzicus, atrorubens, bocconei, croaticus, cyclophyllus, dumetorum, hercegovinus, istriacus, liguricus, multifidus, occidentalis, odorus, orientalis, purpuracens, torquatus, and viridis. Of these species he argues there is significant morphological character variation within continuous colonies and between colonies; nor can provenance be ignored. McLewin proposes a different way of looking at the members of the Helleborastrum and provides description of three new taxa."

Helleborus and the Helleborastrum Problem  – 2019   by Will McLewin
Hardcover
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press; First. edition (2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1733146695
ISBN-13: 978-1733146692

Very well illustrated with many hundreds of colour photographs, quarto, pp x, 309, pictorial laminated boards. A highly technical book for the serious species enthusiast. It combines a genuinely functional revision of the difficult section of hellebore species by adjusting the species' delimitations rather than introducing many name changes and at the same time partially solving the 'impossible' problem of the meaning of the term species. It also reprints much of the text, in reduced format, of Brian Mathews' work of 1989.

[WSGR]

What a lovely book, Maggi!

I wish they had something as detailed as Galanthus as now I have the problem of telling Melanie Broughton and Merlin away!

I think true black is difficult to find. It's a bit of dark purple, dark maroon cross.

[Hans J]

here are some pics from my species Helleborus :

Helleborus bocconei ( ex Calabria )
This plant grows since year 2002 in my garden ....but not a fast grower ....

[Hans J]

much better grows for me :
Helleborus siculus ( seeds collect by me in year 2000 on Sicily )
Thats a group of 5 or 6 plants
Many people say it is the same like H.bocconei ...but I do not agree
They are for me really different !
H.siculus is a rare plant on Sicily ...I have it only seen on all my travels there two times

Have fun
Hans

[Leena]

Most Hellebores are in bud here, like in the first picture, but H.multifidus is always early.