Re: moving hellebore

The message <083f01c1e14b$d9f2f660$1edc07c6@D4Z8XZ01>
from "Gene Bush" <genebush@otherside.com> contains these words:

> Hello Janet,
>     I do not live and garden in the UK, but I do have some clumps of
> helleborus that are at least 12 years (probably a bit more) old now... they
> just keep on getting better and better each year. No dying out in the
> middle, solid mass of foliage and blooms, ever so slowing spreading outward
> in circumference.
>     I don't think hellebores begin coming into their own until they are at
> least 5 or 6 years old in the garden.Perhaps they will end up being the
> "peony of the shade garden"
>     Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
> genebush@munchkinnursery.com
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> Southern Indiana     Zone 6


Thanks for this, Gene.That's very encouraging; I shall simply leave well
alone. Mine probably are five or six years from seed and certainly have
got better every year. 
Quite a lot better than peonies, I think, because of *when* they bloom
(when everything flowering is still precious) and the duration of the
blooms (they still look good after two months whereas my peonies come
and go very quickly). Certainly one of my top few plants.
Janet

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