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Yes Baz, that's why I posted up mine. If you want to grow hellebores successfully, cut the foliage away in November/ December, the flowers show themselves better that way, cut the flowers off before they set seed as the seedlings are prolific and are usually stronger than adult plants (bizarrely) unless you want to grow them on in a greenhouse, feed them straight after flowering has finished, they work well with roses, as both like a bit of spent mushroom compost. The Washfield doubles bred by Elizabeth Strangman are getting to be everywhere now and are inexpensive, and are very obliging in producing lots of flower. There's a book by Graham Rice and Elizabeth Strangman called The Gardener's Guide To Growing Hellebores which is well worth the money, especially if you can pick one up second hand.

a few more hellebores...

Hellebores in my old garden...

My last for tonight, a bit of popcorn...

Pure class, and a permanent fixture in my play box...

Another nice flip

Yessir, I did say so, just not very loudly

One that gets me going....

Bright Lights Flip

Another that I'll be taking to Hitsville in September

I do drink, and thankfully don't often have an hangover, never bothered to flip My Little Cottage, but it's not that awful

Not so far away from Florida for a moth, anywhere where you have Frangipani growing well you'll find them, they might even be some in southern Spain as eggs could quite easily have been on imported trees.

Florida, though they have them in Hawaii too, but in two years of living there I never saw any, I probably wasn't looking. They are impressive, as are most of the Hawk Moth caterpillars, 3-4" long and chubby too, the chrysalis is like two-tone, black and red, spectacular.

The caterpillar is prettier than the moth, I've seen the caterpillar a lot, but never seen the moth.

I have this one too, another oddball sound, Joe Jama probably on vocals...

It's the Frangipani Hornworm moth, it feeds on Plumeria trees.

I've had this for a few years too...

An old photo, but they are in flower at the moment, one of the many thorn bearing trees that have spuriously been associated with the crown of thorns, Erythrina crista-galli

I've had this for a few years too...

A popcorn favourite on my beloved Doré label

Thanks to Kev Moore for this and a magical time at a very cold Prestatyn.

Beauty and simplicity combined....

I bought mine only last year, an American from on here, if the going rate has doubled in a year then I'm a clever chappie, I should be heading a bank and getting banker's bonuses.

about £30

This a collected wild plum, it needs a lot of work to turn it into a prizewinning bonsai, sadly not mine, it resides in Japan.