HELP! I have a beautiful helleborus. Dark burgandy flowers when i bought it. It has a ton of new folliage but It's lost all of its colour! I still have quite a few new buds coming out, but they are all flowering with no colour, just green. what can I do?
Could a seedling from the original or a nearby plant be growing there and taking over ? Haven't heard of hellebore flower colours reverting that much , but maybe.
Are you saying the new flowers are opening green? That is pretty surprising. I have some burgundy coloured hellebores here, and the old flowers are now quite green looking, along with the seed pods in their centres. The flowers on hellebores are actually mostly sepals, more like leaves, (with colour of course). As they age, they do revert to a more greenish or pale tint, but at least they do persist more than the "flowers" of many other plants. I would say any new blossoms on mine now are less colourful than those a month or two ago...this isn't the main flowering time for these plants any more and those blooms are not the best indication of what will be produced each spring in the primary bloom time.
The splendor of Hell. is in Jan-March... fret not... the greening is typical now and for our climes and to be expected for regeneration of the plant... the winter coming will be the new joy of winter past.
Hi old thread but related question. I was about to dead head 3 first year hellebores thinking setting seed may delay their root system development, but after reading this it clicked that if the old flowers are turning green they also must be photosynthesizing. Is it a benefit to dead head so they do not put out so many seed or would I be taking away energy since the old flowers are definitely green? Thanks for the insight you may offer. :)
