Article: Sunny nature of the stinking hellebore

Seedlings as thick as mustard and cress have sprung up round the base of the handsome hellebore H foetidus `Wester Flisk', growing on the bank in our garden. I gather, after a quick bit of swotting up, that this variety with red-tinged stems comes true from seed if it is growing far enough away from any other forms. Some serious potting up is in order.

These particular hellebores cost about pounds 4 each, though our seedlings will take a couple of years to get to any useful size. The first little triangle of true foliage is only just emerging between the two splayed out arms of the seedlings' first leaves.

In the best types of `Wester Flisk' the stems' reddish colour drifts up into the base ...

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