Hellebore Heaven

They are so beautiful, particularly like the double white with splashes of burgundy.

Loved every photo.

Me too! Just what you want to see on a Feb. day when you're stuck in bed with a head cold and face ache! :)) Thanks Andrew. My fave has to be that fully double maroon one....that's stunning!

They're all lovely . . . speshly the pale yellow one! Thanks Andrew.

what a super collection. love them all :o))

They are a glorious sight, Andrew...bet they look so cheery in the garden just now.

There lovely

A lovely selection in your garden, Andrew. Thanks for sharing with us. : o )

Beautiful.

and sunshine too. beautiful plants and thanks for sharing Andrewr.

lovely arent they andrew, i especially love the purple double in the third pic, very pretty

gosh mine aren't even in bud yet!!! Must be the warmer climes where you are Andrew, lovely flowers very pretty.

They are gorgeous especially the speckled double one...

Lovely Andrew I like the last one...

I didn't realise there were so many different varieties and what pretty flowers they have - that's another plant to go on my "wish" list. I shall need a bigger garden soon if I keep on seeing so many lovely plants on GOY !

Beauftiful collection and lovely photos.

I have had Hellebore in my garden for years, and never admired them I just took them for granted, I looked at your photos and thought how lovely so I took another look at mine - wow they are really nice and have been totally unappreciated until now. :-)

Cracking photos Andrew, did you have to lie on the ground to take them?

DD - not quite but the neighbours are quite used to my contortions when taking plant photos :-)

Just what I thought, Dotty! I have a pretty double yellow one, but no way can I get that low down with a camera!!

Thanks for showing us these pics, Hellebores are lovely and seem to be flowering very well this year, they obviously liked the cold weather!

These are lovely, Andrew ...
What treatment do you give your hellebores after flowering and throughout the summer / winter, please ?

Are yours planted in sun, shade or half and half ?

TT - all my hellebores get some shade, in fact some of them are in quite deep shade but get the sun early in the morning during the summer. In spring, the whole garden gets a feed of 6X (concentrated chicken manure) lightly forked in but I make sure the hellebores get a reasonable share; this generally happens as the flowers are going over. I cut the old leaves off just as the new blooms open in early spring but that's the only attention they get. They all have discreet metal supports to keep the leaves from sprawling about (you can see a leg of one in the photo of the the pure white flower)

Some beauties there Andrew, believe it or not I don't have any...but i will by next year:-)

Thanks Andrew...
lots of useful advice :o)