Hellebore Seedlings

Hi Shiney, yes that is a tomato plant looking over them

I grew these from seed just cause I love growing things from seed... and they were from my mums garden as I didn't have any here at the time; this garden is still under developement

They self seed prolifically in my mum's garden, she has a 'forest' of them

 

so glad I spotted this thread, I have a Hellebore in the front garden that comes up gloriously ever spring and lasts for months. Last spring when weeding I noticed that it had dropped lots of seeds that had taken in the gravel surrounding the plant. I potted these up and they sat in the pots last year not doing anything. They had their second leaves but didn't do anything else. I planted one out this spring and it's only just looking like it's growing any other leaves. Are they normally this slow?

 

Hi midlake fan, as a general rule they don't like too much root disturbance so it can take them a while to settle and get growing after they've been moved/planted out. I wouldn't expect a seedling to flower for at least 3 years; yours sounds like its doing ok, if its starting to grow more leaves then it's doing fine...good luck

 

oh okay then in that case they're doing okay. I had to pull them from the gravel which has weed resistant fabric underneath so I guess that would have been more of a disturbance than if i'd have pulled it out of soil. Thanks Bilbo675

 

Nice thread Bilbo - I've set a few seed so this is encouraging!