Can anyone tell me what type this is?
Its about 18 inches to 2 feet high.
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Well, it's a Hellebore Orientalis (aka lenten rose). What variety is a bit of a mystery.
valmarg
It's the cream-coloured version of the common garden hybrid. It probably isn't an official variety.
thanks, now I know. I have about 20 hellebores now at the bottom of my plot but I doubt they'll flower till next year.
Lucky you... I planted a lot of snowdrops in the shady dell at the end of my plot but as people kept digging themselves a few for Mother's day etc... I brought them back to the house...
:(
I'd go after them with a sharpened garden fork if they started snipping at my plants.
;)
How about this for a heart warmer? SUCH good value?
They are so lovely the hellebores, I lost some a few years ago, never got round to replacing them.
The one I have now is the tall green flowered one, it is pretty. I will have to invest in some more cheeky flowered ones :D
I need to be more careful where I put mine. A lot I had in sunny spots were devastated by the drought a couple of years back. Same goes for the Hostas.
Hellibores cross pollinate to produce an infinite number of colours and patterns.
If you want to produce a named variety, you need to isolate the required plant and preferably divide it as it grows and make sure that pollination is confined to those plants.
That is why your specimen probably does not have a name other than it's species name.
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Quote from: star on March 10, 2008, 14:43:16
They are so lovely the hellebores, I lost some a few years ago, never got round to replacing them.
The one I have now is the tall green flowered one, it is pretty. I will have to invest in some more cheeky flowered ones :D
I appeared to have lost mine for a couple of years and then they came back :o and have been just as good as before so if you didn't disturb where they were too much then any seed dropped might germinate
I thought the yellow variety was hellebore cyclophyllus :-\
QuoteI thought the yellow variety was hellebore cyclophyllus
H cyclophyllus is apple green flowered.
The one I have is helleborus foetidus, the stinking hellebore (unless its changed its name). The ones I lost were in the last garden we had, so someone else may have a nice surprise.
Quote from: star on March 13, 2008, 17:28:09
The ones I lost were in the last garden we had, so someone else may have a nice surprise.
Probably tarmacked or block paved over by now. :(
Quote from: Pesky Wabbit on March 13, 2008, 19:40:17
Quote from: star on March 13, 2008, 17:28:09
The ones I lost were in the last garden we had, so someone else may have a nice surprise.
Probably tarmacked or block paved over by now. :(
Cruel but probably true.
Love hellebores. Have loads of homegrown ones in my garden