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EvonneStoryteller Joined: 7/02/2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 769	Posted: May/24/2009 5:47 AM PST I purchased several seedling plants from White Flower Farm at their special sale last year for $3 each! I expected that most of them need a few years before blossoming, but a few blossomed this year! I am pretty thrilled because $3 each for hellebores is an unheard of price where I live. THe last photo are the bluets that I have not been mowing. I leave a strip in the back yard long for a little while and they get a nice chance to blossom. They really spread this year. Attachments: Quote \| Reply \| Report

yardgranny6 Joined: 7/05/2007 Location: Posts: 4556 Moderator	Posted: May/24/2009 10:43 AM PST Very nice plants and the price was right. Quote \| Reply \| Report

witt Joined: 3/28/2008 Location: Lancaster, SC Posts: 16637 Moderator	Posted: May/24/2009 11:08 AM PST Oh, I love them! From what I've read they like rich, loamy soil and shade, so I never got any. A friend told me that someone gave her some. She said she planted them in the sun. I wonder if they will tolerate our hot summers in the sun? Quote \| Reply \| Report

mudpies Joined: 3/09/2009 Location: south central Ontario Posts: 376	Posted: May/25/2009 5:49 AM PST Absolutely gorgeous, witt! Quote \| Reply \| Report

awee Joined: 3/26/2010 Location: Montgomery, TX Zone 8B Posts: 1	Posted: Mar/26/2010 6:51 PM PST My reds are totally covered with blooms right now, best year yet. Of course we actually had a cold winter, coldest in many years. My hellebores are about 3 or 4 years old; due to the intensity of the sun here near the Gulf Coast of Texas, they are planted in part sun only. Quote \| Reply \| Report

poeticpeony Joined: 4/04/2006 Location: NE Ohio, deck chuckin' fool Posts: 9437 Moderator	Posted: Mar/31/2010 2:25 PM PST Those are both so pretty. I've thought of trying hellebores, but haven't so far. Those would be a nice spring addition. How long do they bloom? Quote \| Reply \| Report

maggieevans Joined: 8/23/2002 Location: Cross Plains,Tn. zone 6 Posts: 1542	Posted: Apr/10/2010 9:56 PM PST I have had mine about 6 years now and the first pic. was taken in Feb. and the 2nd one last week. They bloom for about 10 weeks or longer. You can see how they have changed colors the longer they bloom. Mine are in part sun/part shade. I want to move it but I'm afraid it might kill it. Attachments: Quote \| Reply \| Report

junco Joined: 5/10/2002 Location: Dayton, OH Posts: 90	Posted: May/02/2010 2:16 PM PST I've had hellebores for several years-- rose colored, which I bought in person and white from mail order. They are gorgeous and their early blooms always give me hope that spring is really on the way. Sometimes they bloom in late Feb. amidst the snow. This year I was surprised to see new buds coming on a white clump well after the others had bloomed and were just about finished. I think it must be a new "baby" clump that formed after last year's blooms. We had so much snow this winter, I thought it would never end. The hellebores had started blooming just before the last 3-in snowfall in late Mar. and didn't miss a beat--love them! To the OP with the pic of "bluets"--what exactly are they? I have centaurea montana also called "mountain bluet" which blooms a brilliant periwinkle and is like a perennial bachelor button. The pic looks like something else, white in color. Quote \| Reply \| Report

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