Re: Any hellebore experts out there?

Moira - I think it's the moisture!

This is one plant area where for once I'm not fighting our peculiar UK west
coast climate but going with it. Here H. foetidus lasts for ever, making
huge bushes with tree-like trunks, and, as you say, self-seeding vigorously.
H. argutifolius/corsicus does just the same. Indeed, I usually have to cut
it down every other year, on practical rather than aesthetic grounds - that
is, it's grown so big that it tends to collapse under its own weight. This,
too, self-seeds wildly. And not only inside the garden. We've a cobbled
alley outside which I notice now sports several sizeable seedlings. I'm just
hoping the street-cleaning machines don't scoop them up, up and away before
they've got themselves immovably anchored into the underlying rock.

And I know that hellebores are just as rampant all the way up the north-west
coast of the UK. So I'm sure the vital ingredient for these creatures to
flourish in that extravagant way is not just regular rain but an almost
continual moisture in the air.

Tim
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