"...almost entirely bred from the famous Helen Ballard line..."

"...available from Jan 2000 are the double torquatus hybrids..."

Helleborus

Helleborus are the jewels of the winter months and one of our claims to fame is our collection of these wonderful plants.  Bred almost entirely from the famous Helen Ballard line of plants, acquired just before her unfortunate death, their colour range is almost infinite ranging from pure white through to deepest purple/black, including all shades of pink, cream, primrose-yellow, smokey purple and pinkish red. Many are attractively spotted and mottled and by clicking on the sample thumbnails below you can get a better idea of the plants we have available. For a look at species hellebores  page click here. It is also possible to buy specific hellebores on ebay. see here for details

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heavily spotted pale pink helleborus lightly spotted pale pink peachy-pink Antique shades

  dark eyed pink picotee veined mid pink deep pink spotted pale pink

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As a general rule our plants are bred along Ballard lines, that is strong garden worthy plants that are able to stand up to the rigors of outdoor conditions, with large outward facing flowers. Seed is taken from only the strongest plants and care is taken to breed for vigour and disease resistance as well as for flower colour, after all what is the point  of growing plants with superb flowers if they won't grow in the garden.

A new line of semi double or anemone flowered hybrids are due to come into production this year. These are entirely our own breeding and are still in their infancy with limited colour range and flower shape, however they are highly desirable and sought after so availability is severely limited.

  apple blossom black lightly spotted cream heavily spotted cream

  heavily spotted white pink picotee [Image] heavily spotted green

A wide range of both double torquatus helleborus hybrids  and double hybrid hellebores are now available. The torquatus doubles vary from fully double to semi double, are dwarf and make exquisite woodland plants. We expect demand to far outstrip supply. Following on from these are the orientalis hybrid doubles, far stronger and more garden worthy. Click on the above links for details.

For prices click here

Soon to be announced will be our woodland helleborus series with starry pendulous flowers in a range of colour, watch this space.

dark eyed green picotee dark apple blossom pale pink veined picotee very heavily spotted pale pink

  primrose dark eyed red heavily spotted pink anemone flowered slate grey  

For further information and more varieties click here

e-mail   Richard@farmyardnurseries.co.uk

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