Once again I'm sharing photos taken from my picture files over the course of the past few years. While this is a very mild winter for Wisconsin, it's not mild enough for hellebores to be in bloom ... yet, that is.
As noted in past posts, I'm fairly new to hellebores. Never the less, my collection is growing at a goodly rate of speed with another 75 plants expected to join the collection this coming spring. In other words, I really like them... then again, I've seldom met a plant I didn't like.
Hellebores are a big part of the reason why I'm back to the gym three days a week... it's hard work rolling around on the ground, taking photos of their downturned (in many cases) faces!
If you truly want to know a lot more about helebores, you need to visit Carolyn at http://carolynsshadegardens.com/
Carolyn is a true expert on helebores as well as a wide variety of other shade plants.
I can only offer a few pictures of some of my favorites that have bloomed in my gardens, and some very basic care info that I personally use. I try and cut back the old foliage in late winter or as soon as the snow is gone. I give each plant a couple tablespoons of Osmocote at the beginning of April, and when I plant new plants, I mix a fair amount of good compost into the planting hole. Works for me.
While I have names of a few of my hellebores, numerous others were purchased as part of a larger unnamed collections, so I hesitate to suggest what each of these plants is called. I offer them here only as a reminder of some of the beauty that lies just around the corner.
That said, enjoy a few hellebore blooms from my gardens in seasons past... Larry
And sadly yes... sometimes it does "snow on my hellebore parade".
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