Re: Help identifying hellebores?
- Subject: Re: Help identifying hellebores?
- From: C* P* L*
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:22:31 -0600
> Nice pix, Chris...what are you apologizing for? If half of my photos
> came out a quarter as good as yours do!...
They could be a *lot* better. :)
> Your first one is a red...I would imagine UK breeder, Graham Birkin
> would call it a dark red. Very nice, rich color IMO.
>
> Second is a pink (looks a very nice pink, fading back to green as
> most do in your photo), third a lovely white and your last is a
> spotted white. Spotted is definitely a separate type of form.
I was really impressed with the dark red and pure white ones. They
really stood out in their gardens!
> Graham separates his hybrids into color groupings as well as doubles,
> anemone, picotee and spotted.
OK. I looked at his site before sending the mail, but couldn't quite
figure out if his color groupings were arbitrary or accepted. For example,
he lists some as 'slate' and I've seen others selling 'slate' hellebores,
so I was curious if that was a formal color definition/classification
or just something that everyone just kind of agrees on.
> So, in answer to your actual question, FWIW, I'd label them:
>
> H. x hybridus dark red
> H. x hybridus pink
> H. x hybridus white
> H. x hybridus spotted white
Thanks!
Chris
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