March in the Northern Hemisphere

[Véronique Macrelle]

very happy with the development of the leaves on my Arum. It's much prettier when there are fewer slugs! I hope I'll finally see a fleru of A. creticum, which is magnificent this year.

[Véronique Macrelle]

in the greenhouse:
- Viola eizanensis is starting to flower: it's fragrant.
- Ficaria verna ‘Ken Aslet’: I thought it would provide me with some pollen for cross-breeding, but no.
- a yellow Helleborus, unnamed.

[Jeffnz]

Your yellow hellebore is an anemone form, was this your own seedling?

[Leena]

Veronique, beautiful yellow Helleborus! And also other interesting plants.

[Véronique Macrelle]

the yellow Helleborus and this double white come from the production and selection of Sandrine and Thierry Delabroye.
https://www.les-vivaces-de-sandrine-et-thierry.fr/
they open a few doors when their hellebores are in flower (hundreds of them!), often unnamed.
 It's a good opportunity to compare shapes and colours.
I avoid flowers that look upwards, though, as I find they get damaged in our winter rains.
 I like this shape of anemone.
 I don't usually buy such expensive plants, but it was between 2 Covid confinements . and at the 1 open house they were able to hold (there weren't many people there) I felt I had to support them ...



Are hellebores self-fertilising? In 3 years I've never had any seeds formed on this yellow, despite manual pollination.

[Jeffnz]

A visit from bees is required for pollination, even then there are flowers that do not get pollinated and therefore no seed set.