The Hellebore Garden
This is my investigation into the hereditary characteristics of flower colour, pattern and form of hellebores. These plants are promiscuous, making it easy to cross them not only with each other, but with other Helleborus species too (but not all). In the process I might have some fabulous plants available.
The picture here is of a bee-created seedling which managed to avoid my overzealous weeding to reach flowering age and made me think about making deliberate crosses between plants.
Plants available
At the moment I have a few plants available from the garden. These are not unusual by any means at the moment, but they are strong-growing, healthy and garden-worthy plants. They are raised outdoors. I will have some more unusual and desirable colours and patterns from 2025.
There will also be seeds available in May only, as they should be sown as fresh as possible. These will be from self crosses of some of the stunners I have, and from deliberately chosen crosses.
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Interspecies cross – result
This is from seed of H. croaticus pollinated by a pale pink H. hybridus. A beautiful colour, a small…
First year vs second year flowers
The flowers a hellebore produces in its first year might not be the same as the ones it will produce…
Results of a second cross. Sliding scale of colour?
This cross is between a slate blotched flower (seed) and a delicate pale pink flower (pollen). Both …