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Doris_Pinks
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Hellebores?
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March 01, 2006, 15:30:41 »
We are moving house (hopefully to a bigger garden! ;D) and I have a couple of large lovely hellebores, do not wan't to leave the new peeps with an empty garden, so the question is can I split them?
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Palustris
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Re: Hellebores?
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March 01, 2006, 15:41:47 »
Yes, you can divide them. This is normally done in March, after flowering.
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Doris_Pinks
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March 01, 2006, 15:48:25 »
Thank You Eric! :-*
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Larkspur
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March 01, 2006, 16:17:23 »
You can also grow them in containers, which might be handy for when you move. ;)
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grawrc
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Re: Hellebores?
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March 01, 2006, 16:48:05 »
I've split them and also moved them - in midsummer no less - because I desperately needed space for something else. They seemed totally imperturbed.
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Robert_Brenchley
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March 01, 2006, 17:43:55 »
You can move them any time, they're as tough as they come.
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March 01, 2006, 19:43:43 »
But also v beautiful and gorgeous in flower from late October till March or April here.
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Robert_Brenchley
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March 01, 2006, 20:43:19 »
That's interesting, mine never flower before January.
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Mrs Ava
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March 01, 2006, 21:46:47 »
And following on from DP's question, my little nursery is flogging them off cheap cheap...but I can't remember how cheap...I think 2.50 a plant. Good value?
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March 01, 2006, 23:22:05 »
Yes ours aren't supposed to either according to the tag but they do. Mild spot in the garden? Who knows? I just enjoy it.
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rosebud
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March 02, 2006, 12:56:35 »
Mine are the lovely green ones and flower untill mid April they are so beautifull i just love the colour, we bought a white one for 1-99 at a garden centre it is about 8inches high and has 2 flowers on it so i think that is a good bargain eh! .
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Doris_Pinks
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March 03, 2006, 08:52:26 »
Oh thanks all, now to figure out how to get all my babies out of my garden without it looking as if I have taken everything! :o ;D
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flowerlady
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Re: Hellebores?
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March 03, 2006, 12:18:23 »
DP don't worry about it, I have a huge amount of plants in pots, in fact all my hellebores are in pots.
These days I think people appreciate that gardeners invest great amounts in their plants, are do understand that a lot will move when they do !!
Good luck with the move, are you going far?
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supersprout
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Re: Hellebores?
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March 03, 2006, 13:43:14 »
I bought a house from a landscape gardener one January, and there were lovely (and rare!) hellebores in the front garden, which she said she would take away when it was time. It was a delight to look out of the kitchen window at them that first year, most were pink and purple. I still remember coming back one March evening and finding big divots where all the hellebores had been :'(
If you take them with you it would be kinder DP ;D, good luck with your move!
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Palustris
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March 03, 2006, 14:02:39 »
And if you get really stuck you can always ask me for some nice fresh seeds from a variety of plants and take pot luck as to the colours!
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March 03, 2006, 17:55:04 »
I was always led to beleive tha thellebores hated being moved and sulked badly for some time after being divided and /or moved. Now i have heard from 3 different sources that its OK to move them preferably with a large rootball on them. Whats going on? Arent they supposed to have deep roots that resent disturbance?
I am not complaining. My original 2 plants (parents of numerous and varied seedlings that have yet to flower ;D) are now in the wrong place and was thinking i'd have to bin them and start again. Now it seems I can save them(?!)
So March/after flowering is the best time to move them then? I'll have to choose the latter because due to the cold winter, its march and they havent flowered yet!!! (Helleborus x hybridus the lenten hellebore).
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Robert_Brenchley
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March 03, 2006, 18:15:27 »
Any time I want to move the things, or get perennail weeds out from around them, I just dig them up with a good-sized ball of soil, and put themm back where I want one. I've never had one wilt on me yet. Maybe if you washed the soil off the roots they wouldn't like it.
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Doris_Pinks
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March 03, 2006, 21:27:24 »
Eric, yet again a :-* for that, I may just take you up on your offer! :)
Flowerlady, nope staying in the same town, bigger house, bigger mortgage, we are MAD! ;D
Supersprout, :'( I would have been gutted!
Richard, mine are JUST beginnig to flower their little socks off! Hurrah!
Robert, thanks for that, I am timid about moving plants I am not sure of!!
Dp
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Robert_Brenchley
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Re: Hellebores?
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March 03, 2006, 21:50:46 »
Mine were all dug up during the Christmas holidays, and they're flowering beautifully now. I'll try to remember to get a pic.
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Robert_Brenchley
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March 06, 2006, 21:09:33 »
These were moved recently, and you can see it hasn't inhibited them.
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