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I have never had any, and I was going to buy some, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay $20. @
Hellebores are worth the initial cost of them when you consider how hardy they are and they can start blooming in early December and continue growing and blooming for 4 or 5 months well into mid-spring. If they get covered with snow or frozen stiff during winter wind storms they just bounce right back as soon as the temperatures go up again and they put on an extra burst of growth. I have an established 4 year old pink helleborus in a raised bed and it was subjected to really ugly freezing polar winds and snowy weather in February this year and the whole thing completely toppled over as if the plant had melted. As soon as the temperatures came up again to normal winter temps 2 weeks later it plumped up and stood upright and re-doubled it's blooms. Even the blooms that had gotten frozen solid came right back. I've not seen it looking better and can't help wondering if maybe they thrive on getting the odd solid freeze from time to time.
$20 is not a bad price to pay if they were in 1 gallon pots or bigger. The two new ones that I recently picked up a couple of weeks ago were just babies, maybe 5 inches tall in 4 inch pots and they were $5.50 apiece. I put them in the ground last Tuesday and now 5 days later they are 8 or 9 inches tall. Fast enough growers, all they needed was room for the roots to spread out. By this time next year they should be around 20 inches tall or more.
Today when I stopped by the nursery the ones that are in 1 gallon pots were $20 each on special spring sale and the 2 gallons and over ones ranged between $30 to $100 depending on how big the plants and root systems are. Likewise with the peonies I was looking at today, they were in the same price ranges as the helleborus. I didn't get more peonies though, there's already 5 of them growing well established in the yard.
I'm debating going back tomorrow and getting a couple of Bleeding Hearts. The little ones in the 6 inch pots are $10 each. They are the kind that get to around 4 feet tall with a 5 foot span at maturity.
Ha! We paid $30 ea. We bought 2. We hope to have them in the ground tomorrow.
Even buying from Bluestone, they are expensive.
We bought from a locally owned nursery.,
Got them in the ground about an hour before the rain commenced. They look kind of happy right now. But they were really root bound. Seeing that always worries me.
Every year I place volunteer shrubs into containers and put them in the ground, what lives and what doesn't live doesn't matter, but what does survive is icing on the cake. Have a nice black butterfly cutting that is now growing which I turn into a standard hoping to get something like this:
Definitely agree on Hellebores. Nice bloom in the midst of late winter brings an encouraging sign to spring.
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Originally Posted by Zoisite
Hellebores are worth the initial cost of them when you consider how hardy they are and they can start blooming in early December and continue growing and blooming for 4 or 5 months well into mid-spring. If they get covered with snow or frozen stiff during winter wind storms they just bounce right back as soon as the temperatures go up again and they put on an extra burst of growth. I have an established 4 year old pink helleborus in a raised bed and it was subjected to really ugly freezing polar winds and snowy weather in February this year and the whole thing completely toppled over as if the plant had melted. As soon as the temperatures came up again to normal winter temps 2 weeks later it plumped up and stood upright and re-doubled it's blooms. Even the blooms that had gotten frozen solid came right back. I've not seen it looking better and can't help wondering if maybe they thrive on getting the odd solid freeze from time to time.
$20 is not a bad price to pay if they were in 1 gallon pots or bigger. The two new ones that I recently picked up a couple of weeks ago were just babies, maybe 5 inches tall in 4 inch pots and they were $5.50 apiece. I put them in the ground last Tuesday and now 5 days later they are 8 or 9 inches tall. Fast enough growers, all they needed was room for the roots to spread out. By this time next year they should be around 20 inches tall or more.
Today when I stopped by the nursery the ones that are in 1 gallon pots were $20 each on special spring sale and the 2 gallons and over ones ranged between $30 to $100 depending on how big the plants and root systems are. Likewise with the peonies I was looking at today, they were in the same price ranges as the helleborus. I didn't get more peonies though, there's already 5 of them growing well established in the yard.
I'm debating going back tomorrow and getting a couple of Bleeding Hearts. The little ones in the 6 inch pots are $10 each. They are the kind that get to around 4 feet tall with a 5 foot span at maturity.
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Ha! We paid $30 ea. We bought 2. We hope to have them in the ground tomorrow.
Even buying from Bluestone, they are expensive.
We bought from a locally owned nursery.,
I see you are in the southern part of the state, hopefully warmer? They like it to be above 40F at night. I would have to wait, we have been 28-32F the last few mornings with heavy frost.
I see you are in the southern part of the state, hopefully warmer? They like it to be above 40F at night. I would have to wait, we have been 28-32F the last few mornings with heavy frost.
We had a hard freeze a night after we got them in the ground. They seem to have recovered after that.
I like planting smaller plants usually. But the smaller hellebore plants were all picked over when we went to buy.
These are really pretty plants.
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