Heavenly Hellebores!

mine are still buds but won't be long.... i hope!

They are beautiful aren't they Arlene. I have an awful lot out now & potted up for selling. It's exciting waiting to see what the seedlings are going to turn out like.

Pam it's great waiting to see what they will be like~ there is a mauve one with lots of petals with touches of green that hasn't opened fully yet and looks like an anemone~ really pretty!

They are smashing Arlene, I have only one in my garden which still hasn`t flowered for me but at least its still there...Over the years I have bought plants and lost them, begged, borrowed and even stolen seed heads to no avail ,so I`m envious.........

Mine are all in pots and get put round the front of the house where it is sheltered over the winter` they don't like to be soggy or in a cold wind.

Hi Pamd--- just joined a new art class and I make the fourth Pam there--Pamg

Great blog Arlene, I truly love hellabours, they seem to flower their little hearts out :o))))

They are gorgeous Arlene , I'm envious as I'm still waiting for mine .. :o))

Beautiful flowers. I thought I had lost the one I had (tortoises!) but found it this morning in the rain with one flower :)

lovely arlene i only have two white ones which i got this year but would like more :o)

They're gorgeous, pity they face downwards, but I believe tthe've introduced one that faces upward.

I love Hellebores Arlene so it was lovely to see yours. :o)

lovely flower combinations. Yes heron ther are outward and almost upward facing ones now.

Well, Arlene, you already know that I love 'em all! Thanks for sharing yours. :-)))

Lovely collection - particularly the peach and yellow!

Thanks everyone~ I'm happy to spread the word~ will convert you all yet!
Hi Barbara
~there are some wonderful varieties turning up now with even people like Suttons advertising a purple picotee version~ just been out to check in the rain and when it opens will show a white with a maroon ring at the base~ I guess Richard Bramley of Farm yard would be green if he knew what I got from the batch of unnamed seedlings!

Lovely to see them all.

Too bad - they're yours now, Arlene! Enjoy them. :-)))

Realy lovely blooms, Arlene. The double cream one you gave me is in bloom again, but I on't know its name. ;-))

~ Neither do I David ~ ~ when I was at their open day last year and someone asked Richard Bramley why they were just called double torquatus Helleborus hybrids he said he had better things to do with his time than sit there thinking up fancy names~ so they are just labelled ~pink shades~apricot shades etc!
see their website www.farmyardnurseries.co.uk

Arlene brilliant pictures, you have some beauties, each one so different, now I know why I lost the white one, wet ground and cold winds.....

Oh Arlene...your collection of hellebores is wonderful.They give so much hope at this time of the year !

Arlene the mauve frilly one sounds exciting
Pamg, what a common name lol. :o)) Do you get called Pammy, I hate it.

They are all beautiful Arlene. I wish mine would hurry up lol.

Thank you for the website address. Will have a look there. :-))

~ worth a trip up there Hywel and they have lots of other plants plus a walk~

Fabulous especially the multi petaled one. I have my Christmas rose out now and will try to get it uploaded. I believe it is very late this year but beautiful.