New hellebore delivery

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  1. Verdun

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    Excitement. My pre ordered hellebore arrived today. A delicious butter yellow with golden nectaries. I have quite a collection of hellebores including doubles including whites, greens, pinks and onwards to the very dark but I,think this new hellebore is the best. I have a couple of "yellows" already but this is a true yellow, lots of flowers and buds and in a huge pot. And, it's sunny and warm today, have the position and soil ready so I will be plantIng ASAP. Anybody else anticipating plants soon? Oh! I guess I ought to post a picture soon
     
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      oooh, i like hellebores. one thing that i must order one day.
       
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      I have pre-ordered some trailing fuchsias, I think it was late March expected delivery.
       
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      Oooo yes post a picture Verdun :dancy: I love hellebores and intend to invest in a few more for our small wooded area, did buy 10 seedlings for 99p from ebay 3 years ago :heehee: that look like they're going to flower this year, bargain whatever colour they are, and have a dark flowered one thats started to seed around plus a few others, what I'd really like though are some of the doubles :wub2: .
      I'm still trying to decide which new daylilies to buy, space is becoming an issue so need to pick carefully, don't want ones that look too like ones I already have, of course all the catalogues that keep arriving aren't helping :hate-shocked:
       
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      Almost 24 hours later and still no picture - tease!!!
       
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        why are we waiting waiting,
        why are we waiting....:whistle:
         
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        Sinbad some of the doubles are very good..they dont seed so good thing....or bad thing according to your perspective. I will get round to getting a picture. Planted it today.....been mild and dry......next to dwarf purple berberis and the two should look good when the purple leaves emerge soon. Not too sure about day lillies though. Got couple of nice fragrant ones but cannot enthuse too much about them. Oops! Just noticed you have an "obsession" about them Sinbad. What varieties do you have? And have you tried the new double varieties?
         
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        Sounds like a lovely combination :dbgrtmb: , look forward to the picture.
        Wash your mouth out Verdun :hate-shocked: lol, you really should check out some of the latest daylily introductions, they've come on so much in recent years, I love all the varieties from the fabulous minis with patterned eyes to the biggest spiders and UFO'S, which are my favourites, the bigger the better, my largest so far has a flower 14inch across!!!, I do have lots of pictures on here in my albums :redface: , the doubles never really appealed to me till a couple of years ago when I bought 'Forty Second Street', which I loved, so in the past couple of years I've bought a few more, also have over 120 plants in the greenhouse grown from American seed last year, kindly sent to me from the BHHS and some more just germinating which were sent to me from a friend on here, so excited to see what they're like when they flower, some fabulous crosses, well you've got me started now you'll never shut me up :heehee: , here's a picture of Forty Second Street and one of the daylily bed last year, excuse the washing.
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