What's Looking Good In January 2012

After 6 years from growing from seed I finally have a flower on my New Zealand Hybrid Hellebore and there's plenty more buds coming too :yess:

 

:happydance:How satisfying is that Bilbo!!!!:happydance:

 

Thank you Shiney!

 

finally got a p;ic of my helebore with blackspot/chocolatespot

the other pic is of a perfectly healthy one not less than 1m awayj

 

Crikey that is a pretty nasty disease Graham, is there anything you can use to prevent it?
I'm getting paranoid now off to check my hellebores :D

 

i've got a couple of choices.

1. leave it till warmer temperatures,

2. remove all the infected leaves, but that will exspose the younger less frost hardy growth to frosts

3. spray with a frungicide, but again it isn't wise to do in winter conditions