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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 ballardiae  H x ballardiae is a hybrid between H. niger and H. lividus. This cross is named for Helen Ballard who popularized the cross. Since H. lividus is a tender (Zone 8) plant, there is some concern that this cross may not be as hardy as some of the other interspecies hybrids. Therefore until they are proved hardy we are being very conservative with our zone listings. Most clones we have seen have a good degree of the pink to mauve colouration from H. lividus but retain the flower shape of H. niger. Since H. lividus is a tender (Zone 8) plant, there is some concern that this cross may not be as hardy as some of the other interspecies hybrids. 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
information
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Knot Farms 681 Rockchurch Road Clarksville Virginia, 23927 phone
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