{"id":27547,"date":"2012-04-02T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27547"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:05:07","slug":"hellebores-in-the-rear-view-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27547","title":{"rendered":"hellebores in the rear-view mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><br \/>\nTo write that hellebores are a much-desired plant for winter gardens is stating the obvious.  I grow nothing but H. argutifolius, the <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=13399\">Corsican hellebore<\/a>, and have become a repetitive bore in constantly blogging my adoration for it, but I do admire all kinds wherever I travel in winter.  This moody, Moorish, Othello of a hellebore was photographed near the office at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniesannuals.com\/plt_lst\/lists\/search\/lst.srch.asp?prodid=3314&#038;srch_term=helleborus\">Annie&#8217;s Annuals<\/a>.  Possibly &#8216;Onyx Odyssey&#8217;?<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2012\/325gardenshow070-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pale yellow growing in the courtyard of our lodgings in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2012\/325gardenshow007-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But by April it&#8217;s time to think about saying goodbye to this constant winter companion.  Yesterday I cut most of my garden&#8217;s fallen bloom stalks, split the stems at the bottom about an inch or so, and filled a couple large vases full.  <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/4212034-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for a performance?  Bloom all winter and still look this good in a vase.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/4212019-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sepals and nectaries<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/4212027-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2012\/4212032-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Helleborus argutifolius, like H. foetidus, are the caulescent hellebores, or those with above-ground stems, so cleaning them up is a simple matter of cutting away the long (3-foot and over) bloom stalks.  Fresh new leaves are already forming, trifoliate, evergreen, leathery goodness for spring and summer that I promise not to blog about for the next six months.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2012\/321morn019-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To write that hellebores are a much-desired plant for winter gardens is stating the obvious. 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