Hellebore Fresh Seeds!

Description

Offering seeds from the Lenten roses (Helleborus orientalis, Helleborus foetidus) in our garden! The seeds were gathered in 2023 and stored in the green house. New seeds will be available in May 2024. Available are the following variants:

• Black Flowering Filled Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis hybrid)
• Black Flowering Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis hybrid)
• Dark Red Flowering Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis hybrid)
• Green Flowering Foetid Hellebore (Helleborus foetidus)

You receive at least 11 seeds of each.

Note: these seeds are already included in this year’s edition of wooden seed boxes!

Germination: Hellebore seeds should be cold stratified. Sometimes they require two separate cold periods. The seeds you receive have been stored outside in the green house and thus already experienced a natural autumn and winter. Hence they can be sown directly. Best is to put 5 seeds of the same variant in a single pot and cover them with a thin layer of soil. Then keep the soil evenly moist. The seeds germinate in spring. Hellebore, as well as other ranuncles have seeds with strong germination inhibition. In order to break their dormancy a hormone called gibellric acid can be employed to break seed dormancy and trigger germination.