Cut the stems, dip the ends in hot water and then they’ll last as a cut flower in a vase longer than anything else. I’ve had some last for close to two weeks.
I found your channel by searching for care guides for these lovely flowers, and I stayed for both of your energy/banter between one another, and information! Looking forward to more videos from you both!
Great show and thank you for sharing the progression of the plant from seed to years old maturity! Fascinating and stunning flowers, especially the double black one. Lovely!
Helleborus are best raised from seed. Although they can be dug and divided in late autumn they resent it and will take quite a long time to get their vigour back so only do it if you have a special colour that you wish to increase and don’t do it often. Regards Stephen
Ordered first time from Post Office: got a great variety, all excellent quality, healthy plants with roots going gangbusters. Thanks for the interview! 😊
I recently came across helleborus moving to the Midwest US and have fallen in love with them. ❣️ I splurged and bought 5 Frostkiss Moondance(?) but almost brought home 9 of them! I have no experience at all with helleborus so these videos are much appreciated and helpful. Thank you! 💚
Don't be scared about growing them in warmer climates. I have a pair of orientalis, one I've had for a year, and one I just got. My year old is doing fantastic and her blooms lasted almost all year (I think she lost her last one in July or August), and I live in southern California, about 30 miles from the coast. I keep them on the east side of my house, close to the wall so they get strong morning sun and then almost nothing after 11am.
Pruning is actually 2x year for hybrids, foliage in early winter then spent flower heads in late spring to prevent reseeding and aphids which re attracted to spent flowers
Thank you again for such thorough presentation and I’m too converted! I’ll check what we have here in France/Netherlands. I can’t wait for this heat wave to pass and make a start on winter gardening projects. Thank you gents!
Thank you gentleman, I always learn so much! Last winter I overwatered my hellebores in pots, now I know better. Alas, indeed, no international shipping. Looking forward to your continued plant exploits and explorations
😢 So wish that you shipped to the USA! You have some stunning varieties that I’d love to add to my collection. Hellebores are one of my favorite plants! I haven’t found a great source for them here - a few with limited variety. Thank you for another truly fabulous video jammed packed with useful information. 💚
@@Katie-vy5rdI'm here because I discovered hellebores while walking around in a D&B nursery in a Boise suburb. It was a heartbreaking beautiful mauve flower and I couldn't resist so there are now 2 growing under my maple tree. ❤
What an amazing post! Truly a gem for all the information I got cause I love Hellebores so much! Beautiful and useful in the garden especially during the dreary winter period in the UK. I’ve got the hybridus and they’re thriving well. I need to get more ❤😂
The breeder is is not interested in the upward facing style but is trying to breed colour into the petal backs and believes that they lack the elegance of the nodding ones. Regards Stephen
I´ve loved your special programmes on given plants: I found the one on tuberous begonias great, and I´ve also thoroughly enjoyed this one about hellebores, thank you!!!
Loved this look into Hellebore breeding. Peter has developed such beautiful plants! I wonder if he has named cultivars and how wide a distribution they have.
He breeds colour strains and forms only.Named clones would need to be grown by dividing an impractical thing commercially or via tissue culture. Regards Stephen
Thank you thank you so interresting and helpful. I have some hellebores in my garden but have been confused when i go to the nursery. Well confusion no more i have the information and i am not afraid to use it haha. The hellebore family are happy they have another convert. Thankyou again
I absolutely love hellebores. Love. White flowers are my favourite, but they're all gorgeous. I didn't know they were fussy about water; they tolerate our incredibly rainy winter, but my hellebores are all up on my rockery where the drainage is very good (I picked that location so the flowers are more visible).
love all of them! I have a few and yeah gotta wait 3 years to see what has reseeded, some plants do not make a lot of seeds though..you know the ones I would like more of ;-) love the really dark double ones and that white one with a red rim (sorry don't know the name, saw them in the bowl)
I’ve just today found your channel and boy am I glad I did. What a fantastic video this is. I live in the UK and last year took some seeds from various Hellebores and left them in a tray of soil in the shade at the top of the garden. At the end of summer I found them and to my surprise they had actually sprouted so now I’ve got approximately 60 seedlings and no idea what to do with them, until now!! I did actually prick them out and put them into their own individual cells but I’m wondering now if they should be in something deeper. Could you tell me if I need to move them to 9cm pots and where would I be best keeping them to grow on, do they need heat and light or shade and cool? I have a small grow house and a cold frame. Many thanks, Deb
Wow. Finally I’m founded great video about this flowers with details. Thank you 🙏 very much for you time and great job. But questions. Why this flowers. Do not sale in Florida ? -Jacksonville? Zlata. ( Florida. Russia)
I absolutely love hellebores though I only have space for a few. I would have liked you to ask about whether it is possible to breed for a trait of upward looking flowers. Thank you for the fantastic video.
Absolutely fascinating, so glad you were able to show us this place! Thank you 😍😍😍 I think it is not really your taste, but it would be great to see a cut flower garden from Australia, maybe there is one which grows native species too? Greetings, Judit 😊
Thanks so much for this fantastic video! I’ve been to Postoffice Farm several years ago and purchased heaps of stunning hellebores, which are flowering beautifully right now. I planted them underneath 3 Japanese maples and they look great there all year long providing I keep the leaves nice and neat. The new growth does seem to get thrips or aphids (Not sure which!) and pyrethrum damages the foliage. Any suggestions for anything else I could use which doesn’t affect the new growth? They do seem to self seed all over the place so the babies need to be continually weeded. But they are the reason I love my garden at this time of the year in mid winter!! I use dynamic lifter and worm castings a couple of times a year on this section of my garden. Thanks again for the video, fabulous to see what’s actually involved in propagating and growing hellebores at Postoffice Farm!
Thank you for this wonderful video! I ordered some mixed Hellebores niger last month. Based on their size, they're probably a year old. I'm in a very humid area of the US (central South Carolina). I'm going to try keeping them in terra cotta pots, and moving them inside during the summer. I've also been keeping them under an outdoor umbrella out of the rain and watering them by hand. So many of the plants I'm interested in growing either need more chill hours than we get here or a slightly more tropical climate! Wish me luck with my Hellebores!
Hi Neighbor, I’m in Georgia US zone 8a and I have been growing hellebores for quite a few years. Started in a shade garden, then lost a limb off of my tree. Now they are in full sun, in the heat of the summer. The humidity doesn’t seem to bother them. They bloom beautifully every season. Adding new ones to my garden this year.
I want me some of those yellow Helleborus. No wonder they are so expensive. Do they really need to be in such large Nursery cans, pots, containers? Either way, Helabores will be my new love affair x 💙🌺😇🙏🇦🇺🕊️
Question....I neglected on purpose not to cut off last years leaves until recently when I noticed they were completely brown and covered in some kind of white extremely miniature lobster looking things. I refuse to spray instead I pray, so I asked God in the name of Jesus to please send the natural predator to come and eat them. Which brings me to another question....both the last two different brands of the cheapest potting mix sold where I buy it completely sink as much as a foot, well would if I didn't keep topping them up. I find it makes for stronger plants most of the time, however, of course I've been worried about causing 'collar rot' and fairly recently after topping up a pot with a 'Citrine Mandevilla' I noticed a lot of tiny black insects all over the flower buds and it took me a while to wake up and realise that I had caused the plant to start ailing so I pulled it up out to where I thought the original soil level would have been. Now the leaves are green around the edges and brown in the middle and if I touch them they drop off very easily. Yes, I prayed that the plant will survive so we shall see. Either way I will be replacing it if I have to. I'm loving and wanting yellow flowers in the garden at the moment.
if they are in the open let nature take its course. If you want a stable form then they need to be isolated from insects and hand pollinated. You can use the same plant. Regards Stephen
most stemmed ones (ie foetidus ,argutifolius ) are hard to cross with stemless one (orientalis etc) within the group crossing is usually quite easy. Regards Stephen
Hello guys 😊 I have two questions about this plant. First, When you were discussing the fertilizer it was said that it has to be a full npk fertilizer. Is that a npk value of 10-10-10 or 10-15-10? Second, Can this plant withstand the north eastern united states winters? I live in Philadelphia pa and after watching this I'm going to try and add this plant to my garden next spring. Anyway great video! Very informative, The flowers are gorgeous 💚🌱
@@StephenGRyan is that to use either of those npk value fertilizer? And what about the winters up here in Philadelphia pa in the north east side of the united states?
@@Joey-vw1id Hi there - Peter's point is that any general purpose slow release fertiliser will do as long as it contains NPK - which all general purpose slow release fertilisers should. With that sort of product you won't need to worry about the exact %. And it seems there are many Hellebore growers in Philadelphia so go for it! philadelphiacountymastergardeners.blogspot.com/2012/02/hellebores-beautiful-flowers-all-winter.html
here in the southeas US .... they've become a bit invasive..... i've eliminated almost all of mine and they were just hybrids and they had made such a mat of problems that i just didn't want to fool with them any more.... the allure has worn off for me...i have a couple species left that are declining but i won't replace them, i don't think.... sorry to be negative nelly
