Helleborus

Christmas rose I believe.
I had ordered six white for my late sister for when her summer flowers are done. I wanted her to have nice flowers whilst I am away on a mini hol at the Insistence of my son. A place called Mercia in Spain, its only a two hour flight.
Its cold and damp here in winter and so a little warmer for my Rheumatoid will be hopefully beneficial over Christmas.
They were delivered as a little bigger than plug plants.
K

 

Hiya Kate--There re so many varieties...which ones did you order?

 

Hellebores are a plant I have wanted to add to my gardens for years, I'm just not sure I have a spot they would like.

 

I love them too and don't have one. I'd LOVE to find a seed packet with lots of varieties

 

You will love them! it is so neat to go outside, when nothing else shows much sign of life and see them flowering! I bought mine at WalMart, they are a purpleish color and then an old Italian lady in Atlanta gave me a piece of her whitish/green one that I smuggled home in my suitcase

 

Sjoerd: Well, I sent a message to the grower but got no reply. I was asking about the name, maybe he did'nt know.......
I went to watch the QVC video where I bought them..not much joy there hard to hear him he gets so excited about plants.
http://www.qvcuk.com/Hayloft-Plants...t.505160.html?cm_sp=VIEWPOSITION-_-6-_-505160
K

 

For Sjoerd, and anyone who wanted to know the name of my Heleborus I got the answer back.
Heleborus Niger praetor double.
K

 

NICE

 

Very nice. I have a million of them....well, maybe not that many...yet.....lol

 

Kate that one is a beauty,..i only have three ,..Double Ellen 'Red',..and Double Ellen 'Picotee',..third one is 'Bears Foot',..have a picture somewhere .

Double Ellen 'Red'.


Double Ellen 'Picotee'.

 

Kate, Here are a few of mine. I don't have the names on them at the moment....








I love them so much I could eat them.....

 

Those are some very pretty flowers, Kate, Barb and Philip! Beautiful flowers that I wished I could plant but, with my plant nibbling pup, I don't dare as they are suppose to be toxic.

 

Maybe he will grow out of it. How old is he now?

 

Those are pretty ones, Kate.
Thanks for the link.
That Philip has some beauts as well, doesn´t he.

 

All of them are beautiful.

Can I ask - did you all start yours from seed? Are they easy to grow from seed? Or did you buy them already started from a nursery?