What a great day out, I went with Nanny up to Ashwood Nurseries and met Grannie & Grandad up there for the open day. We had a tour of the nursery, we tried unsuccsesfully to smuggle one of their breeding plants out - they were huge - and then had a look in the polytunnels with all their for sale hellebores. Grannie spent over £400 but she got some amazing plants a load of doubles which she hadn't seen before, she was after the elusive apricot hellebore, but the closest we could get was one of the pink and yellow crosses which looks apricot (a bit). She also got a black star shaped double flower which she has left me in her will, and I can have some babies next year from the plant if it produces them.
I got a white picotee and primrose picotee and a black, I think my favorite this year is the picotee they are just so different. I took one of the flowers into college and performed crossing acts with the hellebores in the walled garden.
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