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| Hi
In 2005 my Christmas roses produced an abundance of flowers. At
Christmas 2006 nothing was visible, not even leaves. Has anyone else
found the same?
June
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| june <june.armstrong@ukgateway.net> writes
>Hi
>In 2005 my Christmas roses produced an abundance of flowers. At
>Christmas 2006 nothing was visible, not even leaves. Has anyone else
>found the same?
Has anything appeared since?
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Kay
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| Rhiannon Macfie Miller 2007-03-29, 5:25 pm |
| june wrote:
> In 2005 my Christmas roses produced an abundance of flowers. At
> Christmas 2006 nothing was visible, not even leaves. Has anyone else
> found the same?
I have what is more of a Lenten rose than a Christmas rose (just
finishing flowering now). It's flowered well this year but didn't
flower at all last year, but the year before (Spring 2005) it flowered
well. Maybe they do alternate years?
Rhiannon
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| Pam Moore 2007-03-30, 1:25 pm |
| On 28 Mar 2007 12:40:47 -0700, "june" <june.armstrong@ukgateway.net>
wrote:
>Hi
>In 2005 my Christmas roses produced an abundance of flowers. At
>Christmas 2006 nothing was visible, not even leaves. Has anyone else
>found the same?
>June
In my experience, helleborus niger, the Christmas rose, is more
difficult to keep than the more common hellborus orientalis, (now
known as h. hybridus) the "Lenten rose".
H. niger is more fussy about soil and position. At a lecture I went to
recently I discovered that I am not alone in finding this and that
they sometimes do better in pots. I have had several over the years,
and lost them. I now have 2, in pots, which have flowered well this
year; one was £1.99 from Lidl!
I am going to keep them potted this year and see what happens.
Pam in Bristol
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| judith.lea99@googlemail.com 2007-03-30, 1:25 pm |
| On Mar 30, 4:34 pm, Pam Moore <NOSpam.mo...@NOSPAMvirgin.net> wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2007 12:40:47 -0700, "june" <june.armstr...@ukgateway.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> In my experience, helleborus niger, the Christmas rose, is more
> difficult to keep than the more common hellborus orientalis, (now
> known as h. hybridus) the "Lenten rose".
> H. niger is more fussy about soil and position. At a lecture I went to
> recently I discovered that I am not alone in finding this and that
> they sometimes do better in pots. I have had several over the years,
> and lost them. I now have 2, in pots, which have flowered well this
> year; one was =A31.99 from Lidl!
> I am going to keep them potted this year and see what happens.
>
> Pam in Bristol
Pam are you still growing cardumen?
Judith
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