Garden Detective
Jessica Damiano's award-winning garden blog gets to the root of things.
Mailbag: Caring for hellebores -- winter's flowers
Photo credit: Perennials.com
Hi Jessica:
We have two hellebores in our yard. They are in full bloom and doing beautifully. In Sunday's LI Life section on your monthly calendar, you said that old hellebore foliage should be trimmed back now. My question to you is this: Since our hellebores are doing so nicely and have no dead leaves, etc., do we still need to trim our plants back? My feeling is that since they are blooming...
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