Please can anyone recommend a nursery that sells Hellebores.
I saw one last April in Erdigg Hall Gardens and have been trying to get one
like it.
It was double, pink/mauve colour.

Thanks. Ann

In article , Ann
Lancing writes

Please can anyone recommend a nursery that sells Hellebores.
I saw one last April in Erdigg Hall Gardens and have been trying to get
one like it.
It was double, pink/mauve colour.

Thanks. Ann




There are an AWFUL lot of different Hellebores Ann. They are promiscuous
cross breeders so you never quite now what you are going to get from
seed!
Best place I know is in the Midlands, at Ashwood nurseries. They also
have a special day early in spring when they sell all the Hellebores
they aren't keeping to grow on (they breed them and develop strains
there)
You can't buy them earlier as the nursery waits to see what comes out
when the plants flower but their plants are excellent.

http://www.ashwood-nurseries.co.uk/i...tent&task=view
&id=12

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

"Janet Tweedy" wrote ...
Ann Lancing writes

Please can anyone recommend a nursery that sells Hellebores.
I saw one last April in Erdigg Hall Gardens and have been trying to get
one like it.
It was double, pink/mauve colour.


There are an AWFUL lot of different Hellebores Ann. They are promiscuous
cross breeders so you never quite now what you are going to get from seed!
Best place I know is in the Midlands, at Ashwood nurseries. They also have
a special day early in spring when they sell all the Hellebores they
aren't keeping to grow on (they breed them and develop strains there)
You can't buy them earlier as the nursery waits to see what comes out when
the plants flower but their plants are excellent.

http://www.ashwood-nurseries.co.uk/i...tent&task=view
&id=12

Quite agree, we had one off white one and now have quite a few, all self
seeded, and one is a lovely dark purple.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

We find Ashwoods very expensive. Bridgemere Garden Centre in Nantwich often have a very good selection and this place is as good as Ashwoods anyday Farmyard Nurseries: garden plants and gardening:home page
We have well over 100 Hellebores in and around the garden, they self seed tremendously. The seedlings are more often wishy wash pink and those we weed out, but the good colours we keep.

In article , Sacha
writes
What a fabulous site, Janet and what a collection! I love those slate
grey ones...oh dear! I see they don't do the 'Lady' series of
Hellebores which are also lovely but perhaps they are limited as to
distribution. I'm going to have a lovely time drooling over that
site. Both of us love Hellebores.


Try and go to their hellebore day Sacha if you ever can. Then you get
taken round the greenhouses and collections, round John's wonderful
garden and then back to see how the hellebores progress. At the end they
open up the poly tunnels where all the new Hellebores are and you can
buy them and have first pick. It's always timed just after the flowers
come up as they tend to keep and propagate from the very, very best.

(Health and Safety note)
I've known gardeners with me who are tempted to spend up to £150 pounds
on buying 15 or 16 plants on the day!! They are big plants though and
very well grown.


Their attached nursery is good and as for their restaurant - people from
the town arrive in droves for lunch the food's so wonderful, so have an
early lunch if you go there!

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Like this one?
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/w...pinkdouble.jpg
Flowering this week and one of 10 plug plants bought from T&M, 2 years ago.