July 4th Bloom
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July 4th Bloom
In the dead of the heat we get this confused Hellebore blooming.
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karma 'Happy Toes' (kHT)
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Re: July 4th Bloom
I am in total shock, this one is still blooming!!
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Re: July 4th Bloom
This one kept blooming year around!
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Re: July 4th Bloom
Are you saying this has been blooming continuously since 2009?????
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Re: July 4th Bloom
Yes, no seedpods the blooms just dry up and more come on.
Editing to add a photo of her this am, she looses a lot of her pink in the winter months.
Editing to add a photo of her this am, she looses a lot of her pink in the winter months.
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Re: July 4th Bloom
WOW, I normally get leaves only
Did you take all the flowers ?
pretty with the silver grass
Did you take all the flowers ?
pretty with the silver grass
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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Re: July 4th Bloom
Nope I just leave her alone and if I notice a spent flower I'll then remove. She doesn't set seeds as I have yet to note a bee by her. I have other flowering plants they love close by but this one is so strange. Need to trim the blue grass as it's starting to reach over to her. She also stays small for all the blooming she is doing.
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Re: July 4th Bloom
One of the times when is is a bit sad they mostly have no names... This one would sell very good
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Re: July 4th Bloom
This one is one of our crosses. We have several we have gotten from local nursery folks, they have no names. One we call spot and another we call pinky were the ones we crossed
for this one. We have buds on a lot of the crosses coming up. We have to move a few from where I dumped the seeds. I tossed some seeds that were a year old out and to my surprise they sprouted! Hellebores is becoming a favorite plant here for DH so all seeds are saved. I'm seriously thinking of adding these to the back hosta beds.
for this one. We have buds on a lot of the crosses coming up. We have to move a few from where I dumped the seeds. I tossed some seeds that were a year old out and to my surprise they sprouted! Hellebores is becoming a favorite plant here for DH so all seeds are saved. I'm seriously thinking of adding these to the back hosta beds.
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Re: July 4th Bloom
It's amazing how prolific they can be once they are established, isn't it? And it sure is fun to see what comes up, even from the open pollinated seeds which is all we have but I'm always surprised when many of the OP seedlings turn out prettier than any of the parents around them
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Re: July 4th Bloom
Chris, I'm really enjoying all the ones we have. I am surprised as I heard that they only sprout if they are fresh seeds. I tossed some of our first year seeds out 2 years ago when I found them, one of those put them in a safe place stories. I just tossed them out due to someone saying they needed to be fresh. I think they were over a year old by the time they were found. Low and behold last year I found several had spouted. So knowing it takes a year for they to establish I found the first of them starting to bloom a couple weeks ago. I grabbed a couple to pot up and to my surprise they are opening nicely. I also was out taking photos of some that are in bud, I currently have 6 beds of them and see the newest bed starting to bud, those were seeds from a hybridizer from Europe.
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- The 4th of July one that the post is about. Has new buds coming up from the soil, while still blooming from the fall.
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- Another pinkish red from the first year crossing.
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karma 'Happy Toes' (kHT)
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Re: July 4th Bloom
Now I'm so confused to what is going on with this one, it's new shoot is deeper???
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karma 'Happy Toes' (kHT)
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