How I Take Care of Hellebores in the Spring!
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Date: 2022-07-16
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Sonja
I'm a totally novice gardener - lots of book knowledge from reading and researching different things but very little actual experience getting my hands in the dirt. But I did receive several hellebores from a friend who was dividing hers and giving them away. Just stuck them in the ground in a bed that had been prepared several years ago then didn't touch them. No fertilizer, no mulch - the only care they got was sporadic watering. And they've done wonderfully. Feeling quite lucky now that I've heard they don't like being transplanted or divided!
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I'm a totally novice gardener - lots of book knowledge from reading and researching different things but very little actual experience getting my hands in the dirt. But I did receive several hellebores from a friend who was dividing hers and giving them away. Just stuck them in the ground in a bed that had been prepared several years ago then didn't touch them. No fertilizer, no mulch - the only care they got was sporadic watering. And they've done wonderfully. Feeling quite lucky now that I've heard they don't like being transplanted or divided!
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Abel
They also self seed but make sure that you add new colors or varieties of hellebores to your patch of hellebores every few years to revive the genes of your seedlings if not they will start to become unattractive muddy colors. So by introducing new genetics to your patch and strengthen the genetics of them and insure bright beautiful colors and vitality to the gene pool. Laura I love your videos! Much love to your sweet family from Dallas, TX. Happy growing in the garden as well as a human. Much Peace & Love!
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They also self seed but make sure that you add new colors or varieties of hellebores to your patch of hellebores every few years to revive the genes of your seedlings if not they will start to become unattractive muddy colors. So by introducing new genetics to your patch and strengthen the genetics of them and insure bright beautiful colors and vitality to the gene pool. Laura I love your videos! Much love to your sweet family from Dallas, TX. Happy growing in the garden as well as a human. Much Peace & Love!
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Barb
Another informative video, Laura! Hellebores like a slightly alkaline soil, so if any viewers are in an area with acidic soils, adding some lime or keeping up with compost & mulch will help. Proper pH will help plants take up fertilizer too. But hellebores seem to be happy most anywhere - I've experimented here with adding some lime around mine here in western WA. I'd like to think they look better, but it's hard to tell! Love all the videos you do! - I'm learning so much [and buying stuff you recommend; ) ]
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Another informative video, Laura! Hellebores like a slightly alkaline soil, so if any viewers are in an area with acidic soils, adding some lime or keeping up with compost & mulch will help. Proper pH will help plants take up fertilizer too. But hellebores seem to be happy most anywhere - I've experimented here with adding some lime around mine here in western WA. I'd like to think they look better, but it's hard to tell! Love all the videos you do! - I'm learning so much [and buying stuff you recommend; ) ]
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Sweet
Wow! Looks so much better! Love the color poking through the earth. I LOVE when you concentrate on what you do for a specific plant! So super-helpful! I'll have to check into those; I don't have any of those plants! Thank you! Hey Laura, I have a question. do you ever get to a point where you have put mulch in a bed so much over the years that it gets too deep? Do you just take some out so the plants don't get buried? I know it disintegrates over time, but it still seems to add up. What to do?
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Wow! Looks so much better! Love the color poking through the earth. I LOVE when you concentrate on what you do for a specific plant! So super-helpful! I'll have to check into those; I don't have any of those plants! Thank you! Hey Laura, I have a question. do you ever get to a point where you have put mulch in a bed so much over the years that it gets too deep? Do you just take some out so the plants don't get buried? I know it disintegrates over time, but it still seems to add up. What to do?
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handmade
I'm in Canada zone 5, that would be USDA zone 4. I have a few hellebores that have been doing well for almost 10 years in a spot at the edge of woodland that can get fairly shady in summer. The bonus is that the soil stay nicely and evenly moist. My ligularia and rodgersia like this part of the garden too.
I see rings around some of your hellebores. Do you have pots inground and, if so, why? Would it be so you can move these finicky movers around the garden?
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I'm in Canada zone 5, that would be USDA zone 4. I have a few hellebores that have been doing well for almost 10 years in a spot at the edge of woodland that can get fairly shady in summer. The bonus is that the soil stay nicely and evenly moist. My ligularia and rodgersia like this part of the garden too.
I see rings around some of your hellebores. Do you have pots inground and, if so, why? Would it be so you can move these finicky movers around the garden?
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Joe
Laura
I used your technique for hellebore care the day after I viewed this video. I must say that I saw nervous to remove the leaves from my 6 hellebores in the garden. But I did. I am glad to report that as of today 5/6/19, my hellebores are glorious. I have never seen them more vibrant, full and lush. If you can please do a small follow up on your hellebores. It may give others who may have been hesitant to give it a go next spring!
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Laura
I used your technique for hellebore care the day after I viewed this video. I must say that I saw nervous to remove the leaves from my 6 hellebores in the garden. But I did. I am glad to report that as of today 5/6/19, my hellebores are glorious. I have never seen them more vibrant, full and lush. If you can please do a small follow up on your hellebores. It may give others who may have been hesitant to give it a go next spring!
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Gapeys
I've actually never fertilized my hellebores. They seem to do fine without but maybe I should give em a little something. Also they are a great pollen source for honeybees this time of year. Do you hellebores multiply? I have baby hellebore seedlings all over and am not sure how well they would do if I dug those up and planted them somewhere else?
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I've actually never fertilized my hellebores. They seem to do fine without but maybe I should give em a little something. Also they are a great pollen source for honeybees this time of year. Do you hellebores multiply? I have baby hellebore seedlings all over and am not sure how well they would do if I dug those up and planted them somewhere else?
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Sean
Very informative. Ive never done anything to mine and they bloom every year. They start as early as January here in MA. Today I had to start doing something as they were getting swamped by ivy. Now Ill try your clean up and feed regimen. Im a bit later in the season than you were. Completely agree on keeping the flowers as long as possible.
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Very informative. Ive never done anything to mine and they bloom every year. They start as early as January here in MA. Today I had to start doing something as they were getting swamped by ivy. Now Ill try your clean up and feed regimen. Im a bit later in the season than you were. Completely agree on keeping the flowers as long as possible.
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Tina
Hi Laura. Now that you are all set to get your garden looking all green and colourful. Would like to see how it looks currently from a top view. Then later you could show once again the before and after transformation of your beautiful garden. Hoping and looking forward. Your videos gives me inspiration to plant. Thank you.
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Hi Laura. Now that you are all set to get your garden looking all green and colourful. Would like to see how it looks currently from a top view. Then later you could show once again the before and after transformation of your beautiful garden. Hoping and looking forward. Your videos gives me inspiration to plant. Thank you.
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