I always have problems photographing my Hellebores. So, inspired by Susie at pbmgarden, I cut some and brought them indoors. In fact it was probably also Susie who gave me the tip to float them in a bowl of water….
So glad I tried it! Thanks Susie!
This is an excellent way to study the detail of the centres of the flowers, which normally hang their heads and are easy to overlook.
Actually I don’t know the names of any of these…
…but I don’t mind at all.
😀
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!
You did a great job! The blossoms look so beautiful, special, shining.
Have a nice warm spring weekend! Uta
Thanks Uta – plenty of sunshine coming our way! 😀
They look even prettier face up! Have always wanted to grow these.
I don’t think I realized just how pretty they are till I did this!
Very beautiful blossoms and a fascinating idea! I loved to see your glorious Helleborus yesterday at teatime. Thank you, my dear friend! I wish you all a wonderful weekend. Elisabeth
Thank you Elisabeth. I think it has turned me into a hellebore fan… 😉
Floating them is the best way to show them off and they seem to last such a long time too!
I have obviously been missing out on this well-guarded secret of floating them! I can now see why some people are so smitten by them, whereas in the garden I always have to make the effort to tiptoe through spring bulbs towards one and turn its head up to see it!
These are gorgeous Cathy! Love that deep red color. Thanks for the mention. I have some floating also but am sadly I missed out on a planned trip to an open house at a hellebore farm with some friends today due to icy weather. Next year I’ll make it.
Oh such a shame, but there are plenty of beautiful websites to view instead. Here#s a nice gallery I found:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenstovisit/9910325/Heavenly-hellebores-from-the-garden-of-Juliet-Davis.html?frame=2500531
Do hope you can go next year.
Thanks Cathy! So many variations.
Absolutely beautiful Cathy! I love that color 🙂
Thank you – pinks and purples are precious in spring. Can’t wait for the next blooms to appear!
The deep colors are so beautiful. I think you did a wonderful job of photographing them! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, Cathy! 🙂
Thanks Debra! We have sunshine forecast for the next few days! 😀 😀
Well, isn’t that glorious!!! I admire you girls who have the courage to chop them off for the bowl – I’m just such a coward. Enjoy your beautiful display and the weekend, Cathy 🙂
I am also very hesitant to cut flowers from the garden, but in this case it was definitely a good idea. 😀
Wonderful!!!!!!!!
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Thanks. Aren’t they pretty?! 😀
Hellebores are indeed hard to take photos of Cathy unless you are a contortionist or grow them at a high enough level so that they look down on you. You have some fine bathing belles there.
Yes, it’s still a bit cold and damp to sprawl across the flower beds to get a decent picture! LOL! Perhaps I need a raised bed for them….
Beautiful!
Thanks Marie. Hope you are getting some sunshine at last…. 😀
Beautiful!
Thank you Arthur – Hellebores have gone up a notch on my list of favourite plants!
Beautiful pictures Cathy! Hellebores are one of my favorites, I have alot of them growing on the northside garden beds! You did a great job with the pictures, the close-ups are great! Have a great weekend! 🙂
Thanks Michael. Hope you can show us some pictures of yours when they flower. Do you still have snow?
I don’t see any “problems’ with your photos! The Hellebores are just stunning! What an exquisite ode to early spring!
Hi Deb! The photography problems occur when the flowers are still attached to the stems and facing downwards, less than a foot above the ground, which is wet and full of sprouting spring bulbs…. 😉
That’s a great idea which I will use myself. I like the idea for a dinner table. I love Hellebores they set off the usual spring flowers.
These still look good on day 4, so definitely recommend it!
Lovely flowers! A nice spring sunday to you too!
Thanks Simone. Any flowers in your garden yet?
Nothing yet. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Lovely pictures. This spring I should have my first Hellebore blooms (that is, if they survived the winter).
Look forward to seeing them, and hope your weather is a bit kinder this week Jason!
What a great idea! Lovely.
I have done this with peony flowers before, but never thought to try the hellbores. 😀
Gorgeous blooms 🙂
Thanks Eunice. I never really took much notice of them until I did this – love the insides of the flowers!
Me too I am learning watercolor painting now and the stamens are the hardest for me to master 🙂
Lots of lovely posts about Hellebores on all my favourite blogs. I’m enjoying them all.
I’m enjoying them too Christina. And looking forward so much to another year of seeing everyone’s beautiful plants and gardens! Have a good week!
Floating is best. When I try to use them as cut flowers they drop stamens all over. There is something about the reflective glass and water, too, that show them to best advantage. Your pics are brilliant.
Thank you Marian! I have never had enough to cut before, but they have got well established now after a mild winter. It seems I’m one of the last to have found out how to display them to their best though! 😀 Have a good week Marian!
What a gorgeous and glorious blossoming flower!
Glad you like it too! 😀
I suspect it is the only way to really enjoy hellebore flowers Cathy, thank you for sharing yours, I love the deep purple flowers, I mean to get myself one of those.
I much prefer the dark purple one in a bowl than outside as it hangs its head down very low. There are so many different ones now though!
Cathy, these are so pretty, I am not much of a flower arranger, more a plonk it in a vase type, but this I will defiantly try.
I’m definitely a “plonk it in a vase” type too! Here it’s a case of plonking them in a bowl of water instead – much simpler! You can’t go wrong! 😉
Well done, Cathy, your Christrosen look very good. I had no idea they could have all these colours, I only was familiar with the white ones.
There are so many different shades and markings – I’ve seen lots of photos on other blogs recently. And my white ones flowered well for the first time ever this year, so I’m happy! Have a good week Dina! 😀
Stunning flowers and you have definitely done them justice with your lovely photos.
Thanks Dor – so nice of you to stop by too! 😀
It’s nice how you can see more of the speckling inside the flowers. Funny how I knew the hellebores in a bowl trick, but never heard the peony in a bowl trick until you mentioned it. I have the perfect weak stemmed double peony for this!
I bet there are a few other flowers that would look best if floated too, but the peony trick does look quite stunning as a centrepiece on the table… you have to shake the ants out first though! (Do your peonies get covered in ants too?)