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Breeding Helleborus
Breeding Hellebores is slow work and it can be habit forming!  I began breeding hoping to create a pure white Lenten Rose or Helleborus xhybridus and soon found that I wanted more. Fortunately the process itself is simple, the only hard part is waiting for several years to see the results.  Over the last dozen years we have developed relatively stable colour strains. But, and this is a big one, even with the best of strains, there is no way to predict with 100% accuracy, what the colour of an unbloomed plant will be. The plants in the image below were all grown from the same seed capsule, a wonderful visual example of why plants MUST bloom before color can be guaranteed.

Our Pine Knot Select seedlings are hand pollinated seedlings from plants grown in our screened in stockhouse.   For those of you who are into such things, the plants are all from the same seed batch.

sisters       sisters 2      our star
We offer the seed strains of Gisela Schmiemann which Jelitto Seed Company sells commercially and calls the Lady Series, but we want our customers to know that the is NO GUARANTEE THAT THE PLANTS WILL BE COLORED AS ADVERTISED.
3 from the same pod
            

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