{"id":12506,"date":"2015-01-30T01:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2016-01-10T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T15:51:39","slug":"hellebore-heaven-or-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/hellebore-heaven-or-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellebore Heaven or Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lenten rose or Christmas rose the Helebores have a big claim to be heavenly plants.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hellebore by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6835463884\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7036\/6835463884_9e58ed6e61.jpg\" alt=\"Hellebore\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get fascinated by different plants at different times of the year and currently it is the colour of Hellebores that are exercising my imagination. Am I right in contrasting the deep purple bracts above with a devilish or even hellish colour. Perhaps that is taking things a bit far for a plant that starts the year as the Christmas Rose and becomes the Lenten Rose.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"Hellebore by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6835466042\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7064\/6835466042_0f9eb6ec00.jpg\" alt=\"Hellebore\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So to a heavenly colour for the angels to ponder. A clean white flower with only the yellow stamen and leaf green to set it off.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hellebore by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6981587117\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7061\/6981587117_ebe0842f9f.jpg\" alt=\"Hellebore\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to a photograph of the first plant with the velvety colour and texture but spiny edged leaves. Is someone taking the pistils with the black filaments amongst the creamy white stamen?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881927651\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881927651.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Help Get your Hellebore to Heaven not Hell<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/cure-hellebore-problems\/\">Cure Hellebore Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-hellebore\/\">Tips for Growing Hellebore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gardening-with-hellebores\/\">Gardening with Hellebores<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-christmas-roses-and-helleborus\/\">Growing Christmas Roses and Helleborus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/lenten-roses-and-other-hellebores\/\">Lenten Roses and Other Hellebores<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Heavenly Hellebore Planting<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hellebores are strong growers in the right conditions. They can double in size each year with a bit or encouragement.<\/li>\n<li>Line the bottom of the planting hole with humous rich soil. Tease out the roots.<\/li>\n<li>Fill around the plant with rich soil. Keep pot grown plant crowns level with the soil, open grown can be planted 1&#8243; deeper. Mulch with an inch of leaf mould or mushroom compost in July and December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=hellebore\"> A range of Hellebores available from Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellebore will grow in heaven, hell is too hot to contemplate for them or me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}