Hellebore - fashionable and first

Look! It blooms just in snow hat! Amazing flower: in northern latitudes dissolve their large bells in March and half happy. Yes Yes! Blooms for about half a year. A green leathery leaves retain their freshness all year round.

It looked like a bush hellebore year after planting (a neighbor gave back, planted in the spring, it is possible and in the autumn)

In the south it begins to bloom even in December!

Seeds are sold very rarely, and not all classes. Why? They quickly lose their germination. And hybrids do not propagate. Only the division.

If you take the fresh seeds (variety, and not a hybrid), excellent germination, growing without any problems. Bloom not until the third year. If the seeds are not frustrated, they have successfully self-seeding will germinate.

Why hellebore - fashionable flower

In England, each house is traditionally hellebore blooms. Supposedly wards off evil spirits. Well, we have, by tradition, everything must be copied from the West :) Although hellebore really worthy decoration of any plot, garden, front garden. It is decorative all year round.

It grows in almost all types of soil, and in the shade and in the sun. Climate Moscow and the Moscow region it is quite satisfied.

Hellebore usually not watered, except that in the first 3 weeks after planting if there is no rain. Diseases rarely disturb this courageous flower. Frost it is not terrible. And insects prefer not to try its poisonous root and tough leaves. Of course, this flower is popular.

He had grown a myth and historians, which is also gaining in popularity, as is well known. For example, it is reasonable to think that an overdose hellebore root, Alexander the Great died.

Hippocrates treated hellebore root of a number of diseases.

Or such. In 586 g of BC. e was the siege of the Greek city of Kirra. secret water was accidentally discovered that supplied the city with water. To win quickly, the water poisoned root of hellebore.

There is also the myth of Dionysus mad daughters, who allegedly cured the root of hellebore. The myth of the Christmas rose, in short, a full bouquet of legends.

Hellebore, year after year

The first hellebore flowers you have seen in the first photo. A year has passed, here, have a friendly little family:

And this is the deposited a flower, a new generation:

In 2018, it took 2 years:

What not to do with hellebore

• Transplanted adult flower, he may then not bloom for several years.
• To put it in acidic soil.
• If you grow it for medical reasons, it is only certain types and not to overdo it with the dosage, the root is poisonous. I have experience in this matter is not so casually say.

How can we help hellebore

• Break off the faded flowers so the plant does not expend energy on seeds. It is the seed of every culture take a maximum of substances from the soil.
• To remove dead leaves.
• Avoid slugs and snails.
• If there is a lot of aphids on the site, she gets up and hellebore. Fight conventional means.

Very humbly and firmly sits this proof flower in place. Weed is not aggressive, intelligent a flower, slowly-slowly space is occupied. If its roots all the neighbors are not worth it :)

Unfortunately, I do not have a hellebore. This subscriber has shared their experiences.

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