I love your drawing as usual, of course. But that green double hellebore! Oh, I want that variety in my garden.
I am so enamored of ferns and the fronds coming up are so magical.
I love your drawing as usual, of course. But that green double hellebore! Oh, I want that variety in my garden.
I am so enamored of ferns and the fronds coming up are so magical.
Have you tried cross pollinating your hellebores to get some new varieties?
I'm hoping to expand on my fern collection this year and create more of a fernery.
I haven't done so yet, but was watching Carol Klein do it on an older Gardeners world and I really want to try. I have a few varieties and so does my MIL, so might try to get some new version. I want to try with day lilies as well.
I LOVE ferns. I just started some more Ostrich and Christmas ferns this Spring from bulbs inside. I am acclimating them to outside just starting last night, as they are doing really well. It was such a success that I am going to now try ordering more tubers of various varieties and starting them indoors in late Winter for Early Spring planting. What I love about the ostrich, besides how amazing tall they are, is that their heads are the variety used in restaurant/food for fiddlehead salads! I just made over two new beds at our front door for Hosta/hydrangea/ferns and am going to put some of my Hellebore in there.
I watched the same one ( love Gardeners World)- and Carol is on the TV right now in Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein :D Do you have your bit of ribbon ready for marking which ones you've cross pollinated?! I think I may have left it to late, they don't look like they have much flowering time left in them.
I didn't know that they used fern in salads! I have to keep my hostas in pots away from the snails, but that is still a loosing battle!