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Has my hellebore gone?
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Last year we had a lovely mature purple hellebore growing amongst the snowdrops during the winter months and well into the spring, its leaves remained until late summer when I cut off the old brown/yellowing ones. However, when I checked recently, there seems to be no sign now of new green leaves growing - I can't see any evidence of it growing back, and it should surely be growing by now. Any ideas - could it have died from something? I thought hellebores were pretty tough and didn't suffer too much from pests or diseases. Lynda |
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Has my hellebore gone?
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from Lynda Thornton contains these words: Hi Last year we had a lovely mature purple hellebore growing amongst the snowdrops during the winter months and well into the spring, its leaves remained until late summer when I cut off the old brown/yellowing ones. However, when I checked recently, there seems to be no sign now of new green leaves growing - I can't see any evidence of it growing back, and it should surely be growing by now. Well, I doubt you had snowdrops out before January, so be patient..it's a tad early for hellebores yet. I'm in a very mild area and only one or two of the hellebores are showing the first signs of new flower buds atm (at ground level). The new leaves don't appear until next spring, after any flower buds open. If you have any home made compost or old, well rotted manure, now would be a good time to mulch round the plants. They are greedy feeders and like a humusy soil. Janet |
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Has my hellebore gone?
In article , Janet Baraclough
writes The message from Lynda Thornton contains these words: Hi Last year we had a lovely mature purple hellebore growing amongst the snowdrops during the winter months and well into the spring, its leaves remained until late summer when I cut off the old brown/yellowing ones. However, when I checked recently, there seems to be no sign now of new green leaves growing - I can't see any evidence of it growing back, and it should surely be growing by now. Well, I doubt you had snowdrops out before January, so be patient..it's a tad early for hellebores yet. I'm in a very mild area and only one or two of the hellebores are showing the first signs of new flower buds atm (at ground level). The new leaves don't appear until next spring, after any flower buds open. If you have any home made compost or old, well rotted manure, now would be a good time to mulch round the plants. They are greedy feeders and like a humusy soil. Janet Hi Janet Thanks for the reply - I have re-checked where the hellebore should be and indeed underneath some leaves and overgrown alpine strawberry runners, straying heath or heather fronds and other things I found a small cluster of flower buds just above soil level - so I was very pleased about that! I had forgotten when the leaves appear, I have some stinking hellebores too but they grow new leaves much sooner and are already clumping up nicely and it made me wonder about the other one. Thanks again Lynda |
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