BetNC said:Hellebores are SUPER easy plants...just watch them do their thing
I used to have a lot of them. A friend was breeding them for a while and I had pick of his seedlings after he went through them for his selections. Then I found out that despite trying to cut the bloom stalks off promptly, some seed heads got by me. Around each clump would be hundreds and hundreds of babies every year. It was awful trying to keep them weeded out. I tried using pre-emergent, but that did not seem to work. Finally I gave away what clumps I could. I have been trying to kill the few clumps that remain. That has not been easy. They seem resilient to most methods! I wish I had the strength to dig them up, but clumps in place for 10 years do not come up easily. I have been trying to chop a shovel through the crowns, and that seems hit and miss on killing them. I don't like using herbicides, and not sure that would even work since they have such glossy leaves. As much as I like them, my hands can no longer desk with the onslaught of seedlings.
