Helleborus liguricus

[Palustris]

Picked these seeds up at Blackpool, yesterday. Anyone any info and more important, how to get the seeds to germinate.
TIA.

[Maggi Young]

This any help to you, Eric?   http://www.hellebores.org/liguricus.html

http://www.hellebores.org/growing/propagating.html

[Palustris]

Lovely thank-you. I normally just dig up the self sown seedlings of my Hellebores rather than collect and sow . The mice always eat them when I try to grow them 'properly'.
I just wondered if there was any mileage in damaging the seed coat as one does with some seeds to induce germination?

[Maggi Young]

Graham Rice has some advice for "old " seed, which yours  is now....
http://grahamrice.com/hellebore/propagation/oldseed.html

[Palustris]

Ta muchly!