How to grow Hellebores: with specialist breeder & grower Peter Leigh of Post Office Farm Nursery

Hellebores are a popular and very useful garden plant in most temperate parts of the world. Flowering in winter with sensational blooms, and often having beautiful year round foliage, they have rightly become a much sort after addition to many a garden - including Stephen's! This week on The Horti-Culturalists we were very lucky to be able to visit Peter Leigh of Post Office Farm Nursery who is a specialist grower of species and hybrid Hellebores. Peter takes us through every step of growing Hellebores; from the species types, to pollinating and propagating hybrid types, growing plants from seed and when to prick them out and pot them on, to how to grow Hellebores in the garden and in pots. We'll even take a look at them as a cut flower! Many thanks to Peter and the team at Post Office Farm Nursery for their generosity in sharing their amazing Hellebore knowledge!
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We mention our video on raising plants from seed which you can find here:    • How to sow seeds: six tips from Steph...  
0:00 Introduction to Hellebores
1:25 meeting Peter Leigh of Post Office Farm Nursery
2:30 introduction to species Hellebores
4:02 the difference between stemmed and non-stemmed Hellebores
4:22 Helleborus argutifolius formerly Helleborus corsicus
5:34 Helleborus odorus
6:12 Helleborus lividus
6:42 Helleborus x sternii
7:48 Helleborus niger of the Christmas rose
9:01 Helleborus thibetanus
9:54 Helleborus x hybridus formerly Helleborus orientalis
14:24 how to pollinate a Hellebore
15:56 how to grow Hellebores from seed
18:28 how and when to prick out seedling Hellebores
19:24 the ways to use Hellebores as a cut flower
21:06 first year hellebore plants from seed
22:33 second year Hellebore plants from seed in bloom
23:47 growing Hellebores in pots
25:26 best climates for growing Hellebores
26:53 where to plant Hellebores in the garden
30:24 why do you trim Hellebore leaves? Do you need to?
31:26 how to prune hellebores

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