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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Helleborus

Hello Tim,
    You should be seeing signs of life before long of your hellebores. If
you remember or marked exactly where each plant was dug in, check for a
crown just beneath the surface. Careful not to break anything, feel for an
elongated bud. Should be a blackish-green nodule just at or below the
surface.
   Even if you think everything is dead, leave the area alone for a while.
Hellebores will often come back from pieces of crown and root that survive.

   I do not know where you obtained the plants, but they could also just be
a bit out of cycle. Position in the garden and microclimate also come into
to play. Patience, Tim.
Gene Bush    Southern Indiana      Munchkin Nursery      Zone 6a
                    around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com    http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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>
> I planted several varieties of Lenten Rose this past fall (H. niger and
> H. orientalis as I recall). I have yet to see any life this late winter
> and early spring (yes it is early spring in this wierd winter we are
> having here in Cleveland).
>
> Is this normal? I have heard that Helleborus is rather slow to start.
> When do they normally break ground?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Tim Wilson
> Chagrin Falls, OH
> Zone 5
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