Comments on: Long live the hellebores . . . http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/04/12/long-live-the-hellebores/ Fri, 24 May 2013 19:10:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/04/12/long-live-the-hellebores/comment-page-1/#comment-22110 Deirdre Larkin Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:37:03 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4565#comment-22110 Dear Jean--- It is true that hellebore breeders are developing upward facing forms, but to me the nodding flower is part of the 'helleboreness' of hellebores, and I would not have it otherwise. Besides, we only grow modern cultivars in Cuxa cloister, in our ornamental perennial garden. In Bonnefont and Trie gardens, we grow the species known in the Middle Ages. Dear Jean—

It is true that hellebore breeders are developing upward facing forms, but to me the nodding flower is part of the ‘helleboreness’ of hellebores, and I would not have it otherwise. Besides, we only grow modern cultivars in Cuxa cloister, in our ornamental perennial garden. In Bonnefont and Trie gardens, we grow the species known in the Middle Ages.

]]> By: Jean http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/04/12/long-live-the-hellebores/comment-page-1/#comment-22102 Jean Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:41:05 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4565#comment-22102 My hellebores are my pride and joy, though their pink faces stay stubbornly earthward. My hellebores are my pride and joy, though their pink faces stay stubbornly earthward.

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