I know we have all been putting hellebore on our posts for a few weeks now and we are getting a bit hellebore bored but, I do have something to share. Many years ago, could be around 30 years ago, an elderly lady gave me a hellebore plant that always grew variegated leaves, in those days I was a novice gardener and didn’t know a hellebore from my elbow. Well for all these years this plant has given me a few straggly variegated leaves and no flowers, that is until this year. Finally I have flowers that to me look quite stripey and the leaves at the back of the flowers are definitely variegated. Now is this a new type of hellebore or are you going to tell me that you have one too. I would love to know…..
from sewing room to potting shed 
That is certainly a beautiful plant and plants given to us by others are always special. Now, I have to hang my gardening head in shame and say that I do not have one hellebore in my garden. But, I’m thinking I need at least one. So, if I’m going to order one which one should I pick?
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I would find it hard to have just one …there are so many around today…I think if you can, then have 3 and pick different species and let the bees do the rest… 🙂
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That’s a first for me. Quite interesting. Aren’t we grateful for passalong plants.
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Oh absolutely and they always invoke memories too.
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Hi Sue, wish I had one that colour. must be a new one. Keep letting mine seed and hoping to get something unusual, maybe one day.
maryx
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If it’s new then I’ve got the only one…hope someone in the trade reads this… 🙂
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Thanks for the info … found out that I can grow these in Florida,
Can’t wait to learn more about this flower.
ME
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Good to have you on board …and hellebores are so beautiful, I think it’s because they come so early and in such delicious colours, they lift our spirits. 🙂
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I don’ t think we can ever get bored with hellebores, they are all so different. This one is really unusual, I have never seen anything like it before. I think you have something special there. It’ s beautiful; not only with variegated leaves but gorgeous flowers.
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Well I’ve waited long enough for this and I wasn’t disappointed … 🙂
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It is beautiful. They self seed very readily so perhaps you have a new variety there. Amelia
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This would be nice…
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So beautiful! I don’t have any Hellebore but have researched and go back and forth about whether they bloom too early for me….they are so lovely though…..Hmmm….
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Beautiful bloom and the foliage is even more interesting. I’m far from being hellebored so feel free to keep posting. It will still be a few weeks until they bloom here….
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More lovelies! I saw some variegated ones at an open garden once and I was given a seedlling but it didn’t develop, sadly – I think it was Pacific Frost… Never seen it anywhere else but I have googled as I write this and it is a known variety
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