Helleborus

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Anyone else have this plant, helleborus pink frost?

I found it at Lowes today and it looks so vintage and strange, I just had to have it.

 

[897tgigvib]

Sec, not sure about that particular variety, but Heleborus are tougher than they look!

They will be blooming right through the snow this time of year. They can take some shade, in fact, seem to prefer at least some light afternoon shade. Heleborus are even good in barely zone 4.

 

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The plant was outside, so I left it on the patio. We're having a massive sycamore cut down soon, so planting anything isn't a safe thing yet. I wanted to mulch most of the tree, but they wanted $500 more. .

 

[897tgigvib]

Sounds like someone is charging you too much to cut a tree down. good tree removers should chip all cuttings as part of the process.

a stihl chainsaw and tools with it would be around 400 dollars of the size good for a man or a woman. a bigger one around 500.

 

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The tree is 4 stories high if not more, it hangs over fencing and the highway. It's trunk is 3.4-4ft wide. I'm using a licensed and insured company. Having huge trees cut down is not cheap and tree work here is never cheap to start. Maybe it is in other states, but not here.

 

[vfem]

A friend got a quote to cut down a few oaks. $500 a tree, and they charge to haul away. They don't mulch the tree either. Most of them take it back and do that so they can sell the mulch and make more. Even the city removes trees from roads here and you can buy the mulch over by the dump that chip down from the tree removal they have to do.

 

[catjac1975]

Around here it is at least 1200 a day for tree cutting, clean up, etc. There we so many trees damaged after the big snow storm Feb. 8th. Still cleaning up trees all over town.

 

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He wanted 1500, I told him no way and we eventually got to 1000. Originally, tree was to be mulched, cut to 20" sections and tossed over the fence. Now he will cut the tree to larger sections, leave them where they drop and only mulch the smaller stuff.
We have a chainsaw and we can toss big sections over the fence w/o issues. I just need to tree down before it falls on our house or falls on the road and possibly killing someone driving by.

Anyway...back to the vintage looking plant. I'll get a pic of it tomorrow.

 

[Jared77]

I like it too! I've never grown it but I definitely like it!

 

[Smart Red]

I have two helleborus - aka Christmas Rose - in my shady garden collection. One plant has a flower that is all white and the other plant has flowers that are a mix of colors from green to pink tinge. I have the name of the white one somewhere in my records, while the other was received in a plant trade.

I really like this hardy, low growing plant and intend to further my helleborus collection as I redo my shade garden (hopefully this year). I know that once the snow is gone, the helleborus plants will already be blooming.

A year ago this fall, I mowed over my shade garden and lost the early spring flowering of these plants. Something I will not do again to the helleborus!

Love, Smart Red