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

Tim, remind us of where your garden is please...

Nan
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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