Hellebore.

Seasond greetings, I noticed today some nice fat flower buds on my hellebores, planted last year, so nicely established this year, did I read somewhere it`s best to remove most of the leaves.

 

Hi Pam

I only remove mine if looking tatty and getting in the way of the new flowers also if they have leaf spot . So maybe just remove a few if needed.

Spruce

 

I am looking every day for signs of buds on my new collection of Washfield Doubles no sign of any yet, I remove quite a lot of leaves and often find caterpillars lurking in them.
Seasons Greetings Gardeners all.

 

I have Washfields as well no show with mine either

 

The type where you can remove the leaves are the x hybridus ones derived from H. orientalis. They are easy to tell from others as they have leaves which originate from ground level whereas the others have leaves which come from a stem. Those types you remove only dead or dying leaves. We cut all ours down, usually in February as i find the leaves protect the flower buds from really hard weather.

 

After reading the comments re Washfields wondered if they could be possibly be a later flowering variety