Hellebore Care Guide // Garden Answer

[@deemckinney1486]

From watching you I just planted my first 3. I am going to design a collection bed. Thank you for all your teachings.

[@MissyKay1]

Perfect timing I literally just bought three gorgeous hellebores on clearance ... was gonna plant them out tomrrow!!! Thanks 🤗

[@margiemcpeak9304]

Love this video because I REALLY love hellebores & have for over thirty years. I had never seen OR read a comprehensive guide like this so I wrote down almost every word. It's been great learning the names of some new hellebores from your parent's garden center or as they "pop up" on screen. A very good video! Thanks so much! 💜

[@katm2419]

I fell in love with hellioborus by watching your videos. I found one at my local Trader Joe's with the intent of keeping it inside for a while to enjoy the blooms and planting it outside later. 🌸🌱💚

[@Deerskin__]

I'm so excited about this video! I found a "Honeymoon" Hellebore today at my local nursery!!! Thanks for helping us all take care of our beauties! ♡

[@yadiaag7771]

They are so pretty I’m so excited I bought my first ones on Sunday. They are shade plants and I have a lot of shade so I really needed this video, thank you I think not many people have them because they tend to be more pricy sometimes depending on where you live. I have no problem getting them at around 13-16 usd for a decent size plant but I’ve seen some buy them smaller for up to 45 usd. Thank god I live by a giant nursery and the smaller ones also carry the regular small flower types.

[@claireburkus8497]

Found these after moving from Pa. to Oklahoma and fell head over heels!!! These are soo large and beautiful after 4 years they make me look like a master gardener across the front of my home!! They start to bloom in mid JanuRy (then I cover them with pots and tarps when ice comes through ...but by Mid February til July they are simply gorgeous!!!

[@bmac8749]

Um....can I confess I've never heard of hellebores until this week?! 😳 I stumbled across them at my local nursery, thought they looked interesting, pulled out my mobile phone and searched for hellebore video on this channel, watched this video and felt encouraged, and walked out with 6! lol. I have a shady area where I'm sure they will be great!

[@arainapeterson]

Perfect timing! I just planted four hellebores in my yard and I have two more that I will put in a container. Thanks for sharing!

[@lindakay8171]

Just purchased my first Hellebore this Spring. Never heard of them until I started watching your channel. So glad I found this video where all questions were answered, thank you!! I am so excited about the plant that I think I will be shopping for another one but in a different color. This video will also be in my library for future reference.

[@salnenz]

Thank you so much for this episode! Just bought my first Hellebore. They are so hard to find here in California. Now to get planting and enjoy!

[@diaereaper784]

Yes, finally! I have been waiting for a video on these flowers.

[@carolkelly9209]

Thanks for the info, I have enjoyed mine for years unfortunately mine are under a foot of snow right now and I can't wait for it to melt so I can enjoy their beauty.

[@Aly9Sunshine]

I just bought a big hellebore yesterday! Perfect timing with the video

[@TheMsmeow]

Hi, Just bought my first hellebore and am so happy to learn more about them.

[@irmadiaz2838]

Yay!!!! Laura!! I’ve been waiting for a video like this they are coming into my are and I’ve always wanted to have some! Thank you for such amazing videos and being such a kind and warm hosts :)

[@paulastenquist9494]

I love Hellebores plants thanks Laura

[@michaelskramii2245]

Thank you for this video - we just got our first Hellebore and we are happy to have this guide to help us make it thrive. Thanks again and best regards.

[@yuumayuuma4717]

So beautiful flowers ! Cute !🌸

[@hopematlock9384]

Thank you. These plants are beautiful. I live in a zone 8a and had our first blooms this year. The deer going through our yard decided to snack on one of my blooms.

[@ShadowNight-kt3dz]

Hello, I’m quite new to your channel. I was looking at plant videos then found your videos and for the last week I have been binge watching them. I’m in a zone 9 (some winters zone 10) so I can’t even grow half the things you plant, but it’s so beautiful and interesting. It’s so neat to learn about species of plants I’m not familiar with like hellebores, hostas, tulips, many of the evergreens you display, hydrangeas, and peonies.

[@pamoverbeek6579]

Love Hellebores! I had several in my garden at my last house and they were beautiful. Want to try my hand at growing some in a container on my porch. TFS.

[@sharongeorge4096]

Hellebores are my FAVORITE flowers!!

[@denisek5208]

I'll be going to the local garden shop today... To see what hellebores are available! You're always such an inspiration, thank you for sharing

[@helenwilliamson7099]

Perfect, that's what I wanted to know about the pruning thank you luv these flowers x

[@farmgirl4460]

I just bought 6 of them this week. I love them.

[@ann-sofienilsson9400]

I live in Sweden zone 1 and one of mine Hellebore plants start blooming in midd August last year and are still blooming (end of April), the other Hellebore plants started blooming about 2 weeks ago.

[@autumnxd36]

Subscribed my mom is in love with your channel she loves planting and you explain and answer her questions so thoroughly.👍🏼😀

[@Ahdrianos]

I LOVE these videos, they’re so informative and useful! Thank you Laura 💛

[@tinablum9089]

I just bought my first....6....flowers! New to this flower, thanks!!

[@harriettpavonrosado5175]

Thank you. I just added 1/2 dozen to my garden. I think it's a beautiful plant.

[@countrygalinthecity]

I live in ohio and am starting my cottage gardens this yesr... we spotted a greenhouse that was opened and this was the first to catch my eye...I got 4 different ones and now that I know more about them I will get more!

[@ladyelfarran.662]

AWESOME!! I came across these like 2-3 years ago and noticed their thick foliage, very nice! Thank you for the lesson! God bless. ^_^

[@blossomsandbundles]

My aunt really needs to plant these in front of her Victorian house under her rose bushes 😍 ohmygoodness!

[@miralyse.3846]

it would probably look beautiful, but roses and hellebores have very different needs. Roses need clayey soil and direct sunlight, hellebores the opposite.

[@robynatsidaftis1488]

just love love love what you do and your property... I now know why you speak fast.... YOU HAVE NOT TIME...lolol Im in Australia... and have spread the word Laura ...how fabulous you are...thanks so much from Aus xx

[@neverlostforwords]

Hi, I am in Melbourne Australia where it's late summer. A year ago I planted six hellebores, very small slips from someone else's garden. They are down the side of the house with very little sun. I am a keen gardener but I cannot get them to flower. Last spring (around September/October) we had an attack of white flies and they were crazy about these hellebores. I had to spray them with a concoction of dish detergent, lavender oil, geranium oil, clove oil and water. That killed off the white flies but the hellebores had an unnatural plastic look for a while after that treatment. I've been watering through the hot summer but as you said in your video, they don't do much in summer. I was about to throw them in the compost as I can't spend my life waiting for them to grow and flower. We live in a cold temperate zone. My daughter doesn't even care about her garden and her hellebores are always flowering so it must be possible in our area. I will try the ph test tomorrow as maybe I need to add lime. Thanks for the tip.

[@pansepot1490]

neverlostforwords, I've read that hellebores take years to flower when grown from seed. You said you got yours just a year ago and they were very small, plus Laura says in the video they don't like to be disturbed. Peonies for instance often don't flower the first year after transplanting. If you are that impatient buy a big plant in full bloom. I did exactly that when I realised it takes years to get big flowering plants.

[@LizzieDeanMakes]

Pat Pezzi what a super helpful comment! 😍

[@neverlostforwords]

Pat, thank you, what a great idea! I will check my local garden centre and look for the flowering hellebores. I am too impatient to wait for these ones to flower.

[@CricketsBay]

Ask your daughter if she'll split some of her Hellebores. The local garden center can tell you how. Do it in the Autumn and add grow fertilizer and they like a lot of water.

[@neverlostforwords]

Thanks CricketsBay. Good idea. My daughter wouldn't mind at all if I took a piece of hellebore from her garden. She is the poster child for the gardening style known as "gardening by neglect". After ten years in a house that was previously owned by a "gardening all day" woman , there is now only the hardiest of hardy plants left, so I certainly know the helleborus thriving in her garden is easy to grow! (smile) I went to the local garden centre today but the only hellebore they had in stock was Anna's Red: www.pma.com.au/Plants/Plant.aspx?plant_id=1040087262 It wasn't in flower yet (it is end of summer here) so I am not convinced it will flower in the next season. I might wait a little longer to dig up my daughter's plant or see if they get any new varieties into the garden centre in autumn.

[@greatideas9240]

i love those they are so beautiful an gorgeous

[@pennykristiansen44]

My Penny's Pink are doing great, lots of dark pink flowers. I hope that they will survive a portuguese summer, even though they are planted under trees. Thank you for your advise on caring for them.

[@constancelovejoy7308]

I like hellebores as an evergreen groundcover & drought tolerant 😊

[@tommyss4l]

I live in zone 10b and mine almost didn't stop flowering last year. I keep them on my east side of my house, at the south end so they get some extra sun, but are fully protected from the heat.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

This is so helpful Laura :-D I have bought some Hellebores at the weekend for our north facing garden and this care info is AMAZING :-D thanks so much for sharing XXXXX

[@ipkulkarni]

I just got Lenten Rose... thank you for your tips

[@peterjohn8625]

I have one that gets the hot afternoon sun in Summer and it's huge now.

[@bltaylor63]

Love these 🙂 can you do a video or answer a question I have about hibiscus and how to keep them smaller

[@emeraldnotebook4539]

Thank you very much, I’m going to try to plan this month, I hope I’ll do will in my garden.

[@jimoviegirl]

I would love to have a garden full, however they are so expensive in France. Love them though. As always a great video.

[@32speedygonzales]

Joanne Lateef how much are they where you live? Here in Michigan one tiny plant is $32. I wished I could get them for the price Laura's family is selling them

[@KatrinaTrys]

$18 here in North Ga.. That's high for me, I need about 5 lol

[@Brodmann312]

Look for someone selling seeds! I got 24 seeds for about $7 from an Etsy gardener, for my parents. It took a few years for them to take off, but it was definitely worth it.

[@rjkbjkayser]

Here in Northern Indiana Lowes has them for $19.99 and there huge and Gorgeous... I picked up the Pink Frost Lenten Rose... Beautiful!

[@mihaeladog7187]

20 $ a small plant here in Canada .I think it will take 2 yrs to see blooms. Bought 5 😁.

[@annemontilla2719]

Stunning plants..

[@bluesky7226]

Love Hellebores.

[@rjkbjkayser]

Thank you for sharing, God Bless you and your Gardens....

[@JoyHanford]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this!

[@ThorKipperberg]

Thanks for making this,cause now I know where to plant mine :)

[@cyberspaceout]

skip though you video ha now could you think we do such a thing thx for your gardening show I love it

[@2brownbraids]

thank you, I love them.

[@maureengee364]

From seeing them with you, I think I’m going to try them this year.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@bexb7628]

I would love to see a video all about roses!

[@terridee9637]

I love my Helebores

[@rebeccawoodbixler9536]

I love these. Before YOU I had never heard of Hellebore. So pretty, but I get mostly full sun so they want work for me right now. Sad. Please consider a video on full sun plants. If you already have and I somehow missed it, can you share the link? Thanks!

[@SeeFair23]

Rebecca Wood Bixler I’d never heard of them either.

[@susandaviddeadman9051]

I live in Ontario Canada and we have them planted in full sun right in front of our deck and even though they say they prefer part shade to full shade ours have increased in size three fold in the last three to four years.

[@azucenaramirezmendoza3816]

Hola Laura me encantan tus videos!!

[@rosebrady9125]

Laura, have you ever heard of the ‘Cherokee Rose’ ? It’s a bright white color, I just love the name.

[@anirban_halder]

wooooow looking amazing love from India 🇮🇳

[@camelscrafts]

What a helpful video. Thank you! Keep on Laura!!

[@silvertonguedaywalker9116]

We hope to buy them for the first time this year x We have all pots in our Garden so hopefully, they will grow well x Laura your Polytunnel I remember in a vid you mentioned that you guys added a front to it, did you have to have it made? it does look lovely. When we move we are getting a large one hopefully when we move.

[@debbierice2618]

So excited I just bought 2😊

[@teambeining]

Before I saw your end slide, I was going to say you need to be sponsored by Espoma - I, for one, am a convert!

[@kimmartin2522]

I will buy some.

[@joannjohnson3143]

Just love your videos

[@mylearninggardenwithamybon6079]

Thank you for this video I went out and bought two today! So excited to find them

[@savannah649]

Can you take us shopping for flowers and cacti/succulents with you? Btw love you and your wonderful family

[@CalgaryHorticulturalSociety]

Hi Laura... the links you have given for gear, garden tools... are not working. Can you tell us which ones you use? Will be very helpful for us.. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for inspiring the gardening world.

[@debradiggs7489]

Thank you i have about 50 Hellebores

[@gapey]

love that pink one. Haven't seen one like that. What variety is it? I have a few hellebores in my yard but never fertilize or give them compost. I probably should give them a feeding to keep them happy. They always do pretty well though. I like that they are low maintenance.

[@gardenanswer]

The pink one is a ‘Madame Lemonnier’ 😊

[@debjanibhowmick5870]

I added a few plants, can I plant them now in this up and down weather. I am in NY. 🙏🙏🙏

[@TamburH]

They are lovely. Would they do well in containers in southern NM? We just moved to NM and I am slowly trying to find my footing in this new environment. It is much different than Virginia.

[@michelewilcox9377]

I, too, love helebores! I moved and had to leave mine behind. I see them in nurseries in February and for the first time this year(I always plan on picking new ones up, but then go back, and they are gone) I purchased 2 and now I don't know what to do with them in February!😮 I no longer have an unheated porch. I think it is too early to plant outside. Help! I live in zone 6b. What should I do with them? Thank so much for ANY advice you can give!

[@susanwalkergirl]

Thank you...very helpful information!

[@CarminhaBreves]

QUE PLANTAS LINDAS! NÃO IMPORTA ONDE VIVEMOS ELAS ESTÃO EM TODA PARTE. FORTE ABRAÇO AQUI DO BRASIL

[@rubyarias2288]

Laura, you’re the reason I started looking into Hellebores.......the single leaf looks more majestic to me. when you say they go dormant in summer, what does that mean since they are evergreens? I’m in a zone 9 and we get 110F waves. Just found Brecks has “WOW” hellebores that claim to have taller stems and bigger blooms. Maybe you can test those for us? Thanks.

[@32speedygonzales]

Hi, I picked a plant up around Christmas. The flowers are now almost gone but the plant is still alive. I moved it in front of a window but cool room. I wonder when is it a good time to move it into the yard? I am in Michigan zone 5. Can I just wait until it's warmer ? How do I transition from inside to outside ?

[@dorotaazzopardi8718]

I just adopted 5 hellebores from a garden that was under a massive reno. You said transplanting is best done in the fall. How do I support them in the spring? We have highly alkaline soil, so they should do ok.

[@christinele1136]

Your hellebores are big and beautiful. How many years before they reach that size?

[@annepower3313]

Great video. Can we train a hallebore to grow over a pergola?

[@margaretpervier8357]

Thank you.

[@majherg]

Would you mind telling us what varieties you showed in this video? I think I need to get my hands on the beautiful two-toned pink one second from the left (your right)!

[@rosasanmartin4194]

Do this plant tolerated cold weather, can I plant outside during winter in New York?

[@micoparas7486]

Hi laura☺

[@daleewallace459]

Pleas do more fairy gardens

[@ILuvCaroline]

Thank you! Never heard of Hellebore or even seen them before. But they are usually about $20 each!!!! Found mine at big box store for $18. Also you can use crushed egg shells around base of plant for slugs and save money. I heard contradicting info that slugs do not like these flowers.

[@1mrtbone]

need a garden tour

[@silvertonguedaywalker9116]

We want to buy some this weeken, but i know the flower from March to April x

[@karendion4913]

Eastern Ontario

[@miriamgrutz2132]

I live in Tampa Fl wondering if they will grow well in Tampa?

[@annepower3313]

Also would horse manure do for fertiliser?

[@MsBella61]

I live in Zone 9? Vancouver Canada, and I have a helleborous that I need to transplant to a pot from a greenhouse pot. When can I take it outside?

[@hhoversonhh]

What is that pink and yellow one? It sure is pretty. I have a shady corner on the north side of our house... I'd love to see the different varieties and know when to plant them. Probably Fall? Will they survive (over winter) in large planter...like a whiskey barrel?

[@Ayan44]

Beautiul

[@audreywy1743]

Im rewatching this video because I just discovered the I have Hellebores, an entire bed of them! We move to NC and bought this house and I've been waiting to see what these were. I didn't do anything to the leaves because I didn't know what they were. That said, all of the new growth is hiding under the nasty old (and sharp!) Leaves. Is it ok to cut off all the old leaves or is that to much shock? Thank you

[@josanders1428]

Can you plant them now ?

[@josanders1428]

Can I plant them now In in zone 9 Texas Gulf Coast?

[@roxanneelsey6266]

Please consider a full sun plants video for the garden.

[@deborahwitbeck7558]

Have you ever grown Hellebore them from seed? If so how about some tips