I grow a lot of hellebores from seed and thanks to my bees, I have a lot of seeds and seedlings, from pink, purple, spotted, yellow and white and I'm always interested in different varieties.

I also love annual poppies rather than the perennial varieties because they flower for such a long time and they are very useful for pollen for the bees.  I will have seeds of these in late summer.

Hellebores flower for such a long time - from about mid January to mid May.  Seeds will be ready by about July and can be sown immediately, but they mostly come up the following spring. They will grow in an extremely dry woodland, but get bigger and better in a more open and rich soil.

I also have other types of plants, e.g. aquilegia and ladies mantle and have lots of small plants to swap.

Your garden sounds fab, I will hope that i have seed to swap with you later in the year.

I have to say - I deadhead all the time so its difficult to get seeds - especially if the later end of the summer was as bad as last year - I had to buy Night Scented Stock seeds, and California poppy to this year - 2 of the tons that did not come up.

I do have some nice Danish flag poppy that i hope will soon be out though.

I cant wait to come back late in the summer to start swapping though - this is where i have fun, LOL.

Lorraine

Carol.