Helleborus lividus

Morning 👋🏼 - Helleborus lividus glowing in yesterday’s morning sun coming through the polytunnel. It’s slightly tender compared to other hellebores, but I’ve been watching some of the self seeded ones that I left outside to see how they would cope and quite a lot survived. It produced so much seed last year so I might just keep this in a pot each year and store it under cover and let the seedlings do their own thing

#helleborus #helleborus-lividus #helleboruslividus #hellebore #majorcanhellebore #marchflowers - I’m probably going to end up getting lots of seed again as it has tons of flowers again.

Great cross pollination and the babies are a surprise when they flower. The hardest are keepers. I love these guys. Started seed sprinkling, magic seed fairy. Packages fingers crossed next week, trying too hard

I love these but I couldn’t keep them. Not sure why. 🤔🤔

They are Aly, lots of cross breeding hopefully in the future with all my other hellebores. Good to hear you’ve started seed scattering, hopefully not too long before you see some germination, and no worries honestly on other stuff. @thehardygardener

Oh that’s a shame Pearl 😢, this particular one or hellebores in general? I know this one is quite tender but most others are tough as old boots 🥾 @fuschia

Ooo 🤗 looks like my tender hellebore spread some seed around earlier in the year in various surrounding pots as I’m finding lots of these cute seedlings. Look at those lovely markings 🤩 #hellebore

It's cute but got such a long way to go before it matures 💚💚

Congratulations Richard you have #sprouts 👍 Yay 🙌

Yes it does Chris, maybe at least 2-3 years. But there are so many of them I’m going to use them to experiment round the garden. Move them to some selected sheltered spots and see which ones fair off the best over the next couple of years. The mother plant is safe in the polytunnel and potentially might get more seed early next year 😊 @midnightgardener

Yay indeed!! 🙌🏼😄 @crabby58

I think I have one like that - what’s the difference apart from it speaks Spanish- obvs 🙄

Well my other plants pay rent in Sterling but these only pay up in Euros 😆😆😆 @sharonhayden

Lol, no seriously I don’t charge my plants rent... 🤭 @sharonhayden

It’s supposed to be more tender than the normal hellebores. You might have the same one, just looked at yours and the flowers and foliage do look similar 🤔 @sharonhayden

It just said it was a Christmas rose and I wanted a white one and I put it in a sheltered spot - I love the Matt foliage

Just read your other comments!! 🤣🤣you’re having a right laugh 😂 and you do make your plants earn their keep - if they’re not working hard enough they’re out of that poly tunnel! 😜

Of course! Gotta make room for something new if it’s not performing 🤣🤪 @sharonhayden

The seed pods forming on Hellebore lividus look quite pretty. It had quite a few flowers considering it was relatively a small plant only a few months ago #hellebore #helleborus #helleborus-lividus #helleboruslividus #majorcanhellebore

Now that's a cool plant !! 😍😍

Those elongated seed pod protrusions make these ones extra attractive. I wonder if it's fully hardy over here?

Magnificent 💚

I wasn’t sure what they would look like Sherri 😄 it was an impulse buy and I only thought about the foliage initially, forgot completely that they flowered too 😆 @sherrisgarden

Thanks Jeff, apparently not and I’d kept it in the polytunnel since I bought it. But so far I’ve never had it under fleece within the tunnel so hoping it’s just gonna need the cover of the tunnel to get through winter. It’s been outside now for a couple of weeks since the weather has warmed up. @jeatacake

Thank you Tina 😊 @tinaaune

I thought it would be a little tender. Looks like you'll get some seeds though which you could experiment with in terms hardiness of the seedlings? 🤔

Sometimes it's the unexpected .... 😍😍

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Helleborus lividus #helleborus #helleboruslividus #helleborus-lividus #hellebore #majorcanhellebore

Love the foliage, reminds me of #cyclamen a bit 💚

Beautiful foliage and I spy a couple of buds 💚👍

What a beauty.

What a stunner 🤩

Oh those leaves are stunning! 🤩

I just saw one yesterday and keep wanting to buy one but I already bought new spring bulbs this week... 😅

Thanks everyone 😊 it was a bargain at Wisley a couple of weeks ago. However, it’s not going outside over winter as this species is tender in the U.K. - it is advised to usually grow this one undercover in winter then plunge it in a pot outside in the summer. If you do leave it outside over winter there is a risk frost (or snow) will kill it off. @anges @pelly @novicegardenlover @suerichards @linfoster @kez001uk @ublaszko

Good to know. I'll be giving it a miss then as don't have a greenhouse to overwinter it.

Those leaves are so pretty 💚💚