Do hellebore blooms change over the years?
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16 years ago
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
16 years agodiggingthedirt
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Comments (5)I second Linda's comments: they might or might not come back next year. If you have exactly the right conditions--dry baking soil in summer, good drainage, cold, dryish winters--they might even increase. They certainly do here in Nevada. I suspect the bulbs think they are in Kazakhstan or something. If there is no top left, store them in a cool dry place (NOT the garage--the car exhaust and the heat are both death to them) until August or so, then replant. Be sure the bulbs have plenty of air circulation. I store mine under the eaves of the house in dark shade, holding them in mesh baskets and bags on wire shelves until it's time to plant--that is, I store those that I used in containers, and then they go into the ground and the containers get fresh bulbs. Some of the former container bulbs never miss a beat, but some take two or three years to come back to their full glory. Lisa...See MoreOne Hellebore is blooming...
Comments (2)Thanks :-) I know there was a conversation about this somewhere last year, and someone mentioned putting the leg of a pair of panty hose on the bloom to catch the seeds. So I have my fingers crossed. I figure if I put it on sometime this month, I'm guaranteed to get something....See MoreChange Over Two Years - warning, long
Comments (11)Congratulations!! I can't believe you did all that work in two years. It made me breathless just reading your list. I started WSing just in 2006 and grew lots of things without really researching them e.g. buddleia, asclepias, and gaillardia are half-hardy in my zone and must be replanted. I am now at the point where I am removing things (sometimes giving them away) and really planning the spaces I have. I also have spaces which have changed because of trees maturing in the neighbour's yard and that requires changing the plants in the border. I hope that by next year I'll have a look that I like. Looking forward to seeing your pics....See MoreHow Have You Changed as a Gardener over the Years?
Comments (20)I LOVE this thread..how interesting to read about each and every one of yours gardening "lives" and the changes it has seen..kinda like a cats 9 lives.. :) This post is at a very appropriate time for me...I have been gardening for 32 years to some degree or another. I am a farm girl tho I now live in "town" a tiny little midwestern barely paved street town :). My first gardening years were much like many of yours. Renee, I giggled outloud at your post. My first gardens were a collection of anything given to me as I was raising a family and had little money for something as frivolous as flowers even tho I adored them. My grandmothers and my mom and mother in law gave me extras..some lived..some I learned by :). In those years my freebies were mostly iris, money plant, old fashioned roses and peony. As the years moved on, I did a bit of seeds..direct sown..and snapdragons became a passion, along with marigolds and zinnias. A few more years passed and the petunia and then dalhias became my passion. I really thought I was A GARDENER THEN :) Every year that passed I would find a new passion..some new "trend" of the year for me...I was really focused on the wow factor of annuals for quite a few years....then about 7 or 8 years ago I decided annuals were beautiful but so soo expensive. I really loved the punch of annuals while I was building the less showy but longer lasting punch of other things in my gardens...so everywhere I had a blah spot..I added a container....it got soooo expensive...beautiful..but expensive..I began reducing those containers a bit..the watering got to be a full time job. Luckily I work in a school system and that allows me much time to garden during the warm months of the midwest..my passion began spreading to those around me. I "rubbed off" on many of the girls I worked with by sharing with them :) This year, before the season here began, I found out my daughters pregnancy was once again this time to be troubled...and most likely would head down the bedrest trail again..this time tho, she has a very active three year old and lives two hours from me....my summer will most likely be spent traveling and helping assure we see a healthy full term grandchild..so bye bye most of those containers...I can't water them and keep them when I am two hours away for a week or two at a time. I began dumping and storing...It is ACTUALLY a relief...my other stuff looks so much better without the "stuff" cluttering the beds... What was I thinking all those years...I added instead more knockouts..(sorry rose lovers) and hydrangeas and lily...I also used the "someday" I wont be able to do all of this mindset and thought hydrangeas and roses and lily are much punch with nominal work..so I am a long way away from those earlier years..and even a longer way from five years ago. I have less, but I have more beauty now and far more texture and layering. I credit this forum and a few good gardening magazines with most of that success.. :) Thank you Garden Web for changing my style. My new motto..beautiful gardens are ONLY beautiful if you can keep them up...afford them, and enjoy them...so let no one else make you feel you need more..or should have less...do what suits you, and change when change is needed :)...See MoreHU-928132972
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