Why dividing is preferable to sowing
It's a lot easier to get a Christmas rose to multiply by dividing than to grow new plants from seeds.
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The seeds germinate very slowly and only after it has been cold for a long time. So you have to wait a long time before you see success and accordingly wait longer for the first bloom.
When dividing, the newly created plants are used again immediately. They usually bloom as early as the following winter.
The best time to share
The division takes place immediately after flowering in spring. A good time to share is when you're digging up the Christmas rose anyway because you’ll get it transplant want.
This is how the division of the Christmas rose works
- Cutting that has faded
- Dig up the Christmas rose
- Pierce in the middle
- Plant again right away
Be sure to dig up the Christmas rose as completely as possible. The more roots you get, the easier the perennial will grow again.
Put the perennial on the ground. Get through with one spade the center of the Christmas rose, leaving enough leaves and roots on both sides.
Plant the Christmas roses right away
plants Put part of the Christmas rose back into the previous planting hole. The second part will also be placed at the new location.
You should have dug a planting hole or prepared a pot beforehand so that you can plant the Christmas rose immediately plant can.
The snow rose grows better if you put a little of the previous garden soil in the new planting area.
Grow single-variety plants
In the sowing from seeds of the snow rose you can get a surprise every now and then. Instead of the one you want variety the new Christmas rose has a different flower color.
This cannot happen with multiplication by dividing. Divided snow roses have the same characteristics as the mother plant.
Tips & Tricks
Christmas rose and snow rose are other names of the Christmas rose from the hellebore family. The Latin name is Helleborus niger. The Christmas rose owes the addition “niger” = black to its black roots.