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About Pine Knot
Farms Dick
and Cole Burrell and I are very proud that our book on
hellebores won the AHS Book of the Year. Click on the Amazon link
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About Helleborus x ericsmithii   Named for famed British plantsman Eric Smith, Helleborus x ericsmithii is perhaps the most widely represented of the new interspecies hybrids. This hybrid is fairly complex, being the offspring of H. niger and H x sternii. Since H. x sternii is a fertile hybrid, from H. argutifolius and H. lividus the family tree has a few extra branches. There are at least a dozen different clones of H. x ericsmithii on the market now, each has slightly different amounts of pink, mauve, cream or green in the flowers and varying degrees of silver, marbling and serration in the foliage. Some clones are short and wide while others are taller and not as stocky. Just like our family! About interspecies hybrids in general. The blood from both parents is visible in the offspring to varying degrees. Just as with humans a child may resemble one of it's parents, be a mixture of both, or skip back a generation and resemble a relative. Since each individual parent pair is unique, each hybrid will be slightly different while still resembling the "family". This is the reason various clones of the interspecies hybrids may sound similar in verbal descriptions but each clone will have individual properties and a distinct appearance. Most are sterile. Zones See About Hellebores for complete Zone
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