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Article: Sunny nature of the stinking hellebore
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1995
- Author:
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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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