Do hellebore blooms change over the years?
thane
16 years ago
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
16 years agodiggingthedirt
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One Hellebore is blooming...
Comments (2)Thanks :-) I know there was a conversation about this somewhere last year, and someone mentioned putting the leg of a pair of panty hose on the bloom to catch the seeds. So I have my fingers crossed. I figure if I put it on sometime this month, I'm guaranteed to get something....See MoreWill my amaryllis bloom this year after not blooming last year?
Comments (20)Last year, my bulbs were in lawless conditions. I bought a children pool and put them in it in their pots. It was easier to water them this way. I just poured the water in and they all got some. But then some rains came and completely drenched the bulbs. They were neck up to the water and they stayed that way for a long time by the time I noticed it and let the water away. So I ended up with most of the bulbs shrunk to tiny bulblets that I didn't think would even survive. Then I had to move to the new house, so I unpotted them, cut the leaves and put them in the new wine cooler I bought for this purpose to make sure that the bulbs do not freeze down. A month later I noticed that the wine cooler froze down and even killed about 10 bulbs. I returned it to the store and just bought a huge standing fridge that had the freezer part separately. I kept my bulbs in that fridge. Then I planted them up from Summer, hoping that they would still come back to me. And to my amazement: More than 50 percent FLOWERED! They shrunk, they were sitting in water, they froze down, they were in dormancy for a half a year or LONGER, and they BLOOMED! I am still floored by some of them. Now, they are out in the flower bed, fattening up. I hope they enjoy the situation. So you see, once they want to bloom, they just bloom, even if they kill themselves....See MoreChange Over Two Years - warning, long
Comments (11)Congratulations!! I can't believe you did all that work in two years. It made me breathless just reading your list. I started WSing just in 2006 and grew lots of things without really researching them e.g. buddleia, asclepias, and gaillardia are half-hardy in my zone and must be replanted. I am now at the point where I am removing things (sometimes giving them away) and really planning the spaces I have. I also have spaces which have changed because of trees maturing in the neighbour's yard and that requires changing the plants in the border. I hope that by next year I'll have a look that I like. Looking forward to seeing your pics....See More1st Year Blooms vs. 2nd Year Blooms
Comments (10)Thanks for posting! I am amazed at the differences. I have read on this forum many times about changes that can occur from year to year, but the pictures really do tell the tale....See MoreHU-928132972
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