That is great for you!! The first flowers are always appreciated more I think. We have such long winters.

No sign of flowers on mine yet but yay for you!

Thanks guys. I know my little micropocket of 6 in the land of a lot of zone 5 helps this along. I'm in SW Mi, on the lake, so you guys should be coming along very soon!

I am zone 5/6 and with all our hellebores in the shade it will be quite some time before they are in full bloom. I love this plant.

Mine are all in the process of turning green (ie long gone being very flower looking). It wasn't the best year (hasn't been the best year for at least 3 or 4 years) for the hellebores. Darn warm/deep cold spells.

I started clipping the ratty leaves last week..not finished..I have quite a few hellebores in multiple locations..mine are blooming too..I love this plant..so glad that I planted hellebores years ago..when I moved in the lot had zero hellebores..

Here is mine.

Helleborus niger

edited to add: maybe I should point out that this is Christmas rose, and not Lenten rose like most hellebores. So it's a week or more ahead of my other hellebores.

Our first Helleborus started to flower back in December 2021, this is 'Mahogany Snow' on December 9th...

It's just about done flowering and starting to set seed, leaves are sprouting and it'll be leaved out in about a month or so...

Pieter

'Mahogany Snow' is a ballardiae hybrid. It is fully evergreen and should never be out of leaf. It doesn't need to be cut back, either.

I have six hellebores, but no pics, unfortunately - I will remedy for next year's list. I've been toying with the idea of ordering from here: https://www.pineknotfarms.com/ Anyone have any past history with them as way or recommendation?

Mosswood, I’ve bought hellebores from Pine Knot Farms, initially from booths they would have at major plant sales in the Richmond, Va. area. I also did a road trip several years ago to their farm, which is about three hours from me, on one of their open house weekends. Most of my hellebores are from them.

Some reseed alot. So I just pot them up. I used to have more color variety and wonder if letting so many seedlings stay put has crowded out others.. My first hellebores were seedlings given to me by a coworker.

Those are really pretty seedlings, Gumneck! For many years, I did not have seedlings coming up from those that I planted. I thought my hybrids were infertile. But this year, a lot of seedlings are sprouting up around my hellebores. I guess you need the right conditions for them to reseed and germinated.

The very colorful xhybridus forms (incorrectly called 'orientalis hybrids') set fertile seed very freely and will self seed and germinate well under most conditions. You just have to leave the old flowerheads in place long enough for the seed to ripen and fall and then don't cultivate the area or disturb until germination :-)

Most of the intersectional hybrids - like Mahogany Snow or Pink Frost or Ivory Prince - are sterile hybrids and will not self sow.