Hellebores 2009

[Carol Shaw]

David took these pix. on Sunday and, as he hasn't posted them, I decided I would

[johanneshoeller]

A present from a friend: a Helleborus with more than 20 flowers.

[Maggi Young]

Some more of my hellebores taken on the 16th March....... click the pix to enlarge these.....
1 -a spotted flower - bug-chewed 
2- the reverse of a dark plum flower
3-These are much darker than they appear in the pic
4-good markings inside and outside the blossom
5- a good white
6- H. foetidus.... a seedling from 'Wester Flisk'
7- I am partial to spreckled flowers 
8- I don't mind spotted ones, either, this is a lightly spotted white

[Maggi Young]

 1 and 2 -shots of a large dark flower that I like a lot...
3- a pale spreckle
4-a small pink spreckle
5-hellebores and Colchicum leaves
6-still more hellebores to come 

[Roberto Gamoletti]

here the image of a late flowering double hybrid

Roberto

[Gerry]

That's a splendid thing Roberto.

Gerry

[gote]

It is too early to be sure but all those of my orientalis that came out early had the flowers killed. The late ones seem OK. Niger seems to be OK Thibeticum seems to be slightly disturbed by the latest frosts. Viride is OK. No flowers have yet really opened.
My experience of Thibeticum thus far is that it is never killed by cold. Not even fully develped flowers are killed but they will show some disturbance being less magnificent then usual.
Göte

[gote]

I wonder if anyone will see this since it is so late in the year.
Anyway, Yesterday I took a look to see which Hellbores had survived the winter.
Most of them are self sown seedlings. However,
#3 is a Hrwington hybrid once bougt at Wisley.
#4 is viride from north east Spain
#5 is a seedlilng from 'Jupiter' bought many years ago from Klose.
All the rest came by themselves.
Göte

[Maggi Young]

If anyone needed to be convinced that to grow from seed , or to allow your plants to seed themselves, is a good idea... the fact that these beauties which have survived a winter in which you have lost other plants are so pretty must be a fine example.

[Stephen Vella]

I thought I would bring this one up from the dead for us Aussies and New Zealanders that have Hellebores out at the moment

Hellebores in my garden, some originally from breeders in the U.K and some from Australian breeders. Enjoy.

double cream

cream with pink veins

primrose

yellow picotee

black dark nectarines

pink anemone

white spotted anemone with frills

double white with pink veins

double cream with pink veins

white red centre

[Stephen Vella]

and some more

Pink 'with dark centre

Apricot, its as good as it gets here.

White picotee

Lemon

[johnw]

Fantastic Hellebores Stephen!

johnw

[Stephen Vella]

Thanks John,

Some more from a recent buy from Peter Leigh at Post office nusery here in Aus.

And a tissue cultured  H x ericsmithii and H x sternii.
enjoy

[David Nicholson]

Lovely collection Stephen.

[Paul T]

Just caught up with these... wonderful, Stephen.  Particularly the double black, and double yellow with red veins.  Does the black with dark nectaries always have that many petals?  Interesting effect, if so.  They all put most of mine to shame, that is for sure.  Excellent selection of colours you've posted. Thanks for sharing them.