Our Hellebore shop has reopened after a couple of weeks off.

We were having a few issues with Australia Post delays and keeping up with orders generally, but we think we have things sorted now.  We will be posting all Victorian orders via Express Post to expedite delivery.  Interstate orders have not been as affected by Australia Post delays so we will continue to send via normal parcel post. We are finding about 80% of orders getting to their destinations within one week.

Your understanding of the challenges in running a mail based live plant business during the current difficulties is appreciated.  Plants may be in the post a bit longer than ideal but we find that beyond a few superficial marks, Hellebores are tough plants and will in the longer term grow right through such issues.

Please note also that stocks of quite a few of the varieties we have currently listed in the shop are limited and may not last long.  We expect that we will only be taking orders until the end of September.

We have enjoyed a wonderful flowering season here in the Nursery.  We are still hand pollinating our stock plants and tubing up the varieties which we will be selling next year.

The joy and satisfaction of plants and gardening have only been heightened by the unique circumstances that we have all found ourselves in during 2020.  We hope that your garden is thriving and would again like to thank all for their support over the past season and hope for a better one next year.

Click here to go to our Shop.

Open Sundays

The next three Sundays will be our final Open Days at Post Office Farm for this year.   Last chance for the year to see the Nursery and we still have some flowering Hellebores available.  For more information on our Open Sundays see here.

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Starting this Sunday June 7th, we will be opening the Nursery to the public.  We will be open to visitors every Sunday from June till the end of September.

After a challenging start to our Hellebore season with the cancellation of the three major Plant Fairs we usually attend in March and April, we have been encouraged by a very positive response to our Online Hellebore Store.  With the easing of COVID-19 restrictions from June 1 allowing regional travel, we are looking forward to catching up with customers again over Winter (at an appropriate social distance of course).

We will have the usual huge range of Hellebores available for sale.  This year flowering is about a month earlier than usual, so we will have larger flowering sized Hellebores available from our first Open Sunday as well as smaller tubestock varieties.

Please note that we will not be presenting our usual Nursery Tours/Talks on our Open Sundays to meet current social distancing requirements.  However we are happy to answer all of your questions about our Hellebores or to assist you with growing them.

You can get directions and other information about our Open Sundays here:

Details about our Open Sundays

For those who can’t make it to the Nursery we are still posting out Hellebores to all States except WA.  Winter is an ideal time to plant Hellebores, so if you need a few more Hellebores for the garden have a look at the selection here:

Visit the Online Hellebore Store

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We are very pleased to announce that our website’s Hellebore Shop is now open for business.

We don’t need to tell anyone that it has been a challenging start to our Hellebore season.  All of our much loved Autumn Plant Fairs have been cancelled, for reasons we fully understand, so we missed catching up with lots of our ‘regulars’.  Of course the same conditions are affecting other small Nurseries and businesses at the moment, but life must go on.

For those that missed out on picking up a few Hellebores at the cancelled Plant Fairs, and for those planning some extra garden time in the next little while….never fear Australia Post is here!

One silver lining from current events is that we have several varieties that were going to be Plant Fair exclusives which we have added to the website shop.  So we have no less than 48 varieties listed, a new record.  And we have to say the plants are looking really, really nice at the moment.

Thank you for your support and please take care.

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In the garden now is the time to remove spent flowering stems, apply some mulch around the Hellebores and keep an eye out for aphids.  Assuming the usual dry conditions apply over Summer make sure any new Hellebores you have planted this year get water as required.

Crookwell Garden Festival 

Our very last event this season will be to attend the Crookwell Garden Festival in November.  We hope to see Hellebore lovers from Crookwell and surrounding areas.  We have put aside a few nice Hellebores for this market.  The wonderful ‘Garden Lovers Market’ is held on Saturday 9th November as part of the Crookwell Garden festival.  The Garden Lovers Market is held at the Crookwell Showgrounds.  More information here.

Online Hellebore Shop closing

Last call for any Hellebore orders for this year.  We are getting very low in stocks of Hellebores so the website Shop will be closing at 6pm this Friday October 18th.

To see which varieties are still available click here.

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We are getting towards the end of a very good flowering season for the Hellebores here in Ashbourne.  All of our hand pollinating is finished for this year and we will soon start to place our special seed collection bags over all pollinated flowers before the seed ripens.  Otherwise we are busy tubing up all of this years Helleborus seedlings so we have good stock for next year.

Spring Plant fairs

We will be attending three Plant Fairs over the next month or so.

Firstly, on the weekend of 5th and 6th of October we will be at the Garden Lover’s Fair at Bolobek in Macedon, see this website for details.

The weekend of 12th and 13th of October will see us at the Gippsland Garden Expo at Lardner Park, near Warragul.  See this website for details.

Finally on Saturday 9th of November we will be attending the Crookwell Garden Lovers Market held at the Crookwell Showgrounds in NSW.  More information here.

Open Sundays

This coming Sunday (September 29th) will be our final Open Day at Post Office Farm for this year.   Last chance for the year to see the Nursery and we still have some flowering Hellebores available.  For more information on our Open Sundays see here.

Hellebores by mail

Our online Hellebore Shop is still open.  However we are getting lowish in stock for several varieties and may be closing the Shop a bit earlier than the usual end of October this year.  If you still need a few Hellebores, I would recommend ordering in the next couple of weeks to avoid missing out.

Click here to go to our Shop.

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We are experiencing another slightly later flowering season this year.  However the Hellebores have now got into their stride and and are now putting on a spectacular show in the Nursery.  We are starting to get very busy with hand pollinating our stock plants and putting lots of lovely flowering Hellebores into the sales area for our Sunday Open Days.

The Nursery is open every Sunday through till the end of September.  As a production Nursery we are not usually open, so this is a rare chance to see how we propagate and grow our Hellebores.  You can also view an unmatched range of Hellebores available for sale.  Well worth a visit over the next six to eight weeks to get the full peak season Hellebore experience.

You can get directions and other information about our Open Sundays here:

Details about our Open Sundays

For those who can’t make it to the Nursery we are still posting out Hellebores to all States except WA.  Winter is an ideal time to plant Hellebores, so if you need a few more Hellebores for the garden have a look at the selection here:

Visit the Online Hellebore Store

Photos of a few of the lovely Hellebores we have had at the Nursery in recent weeks:

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We have been very happy to get some good rains in the Macedon ranges this month after a very dry start to the year.  In the nursery the Hellebores have started to bud up and we look like getting a very good flowering season this Winter.  We are getting our sales area and display bed set up for the start of our Nursery Open Sundays from June 2nd.

Thanks to all those who have already ordered their Hellebores for this season.  We have had lots of orders and some items are selling fast.

Now is the perfect time to plant Hellebores as they will grow away nicely through Winter and into Spring.

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If you have not done so already, now is the ideal time to remove the old foliage on established Hellebores and give them a feed.

For Helleborus x hybridus varieties that have been planted for two or more years and are a reasonable size you can remove all of the old foliage right down to the ground.  Leave any new growth.  This will tidy up your plants and show off the flowers this winter to better effect.  For the taller shrubby species Hellebores such as H. argutifolius, H. lividus, H. x sternii or H. foetidus, don’t remove the foliage now, wait till after flowering in spring.  Also a good idea to remove any build up of mulch or leaves from around the base of the plant to allow for good light and air movement.

At the same time you can give your Hellebores some food.  Any complete fertiliser (ie one that has nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous) such a dynamic lifter or osmocote will be fine.  A light dressing of dolomite lime will also be appreciated.

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We are pleased to announce that the Post Office Farm Nursery Hellebore Shop is open for the 2019 season.

There are 43 different varieties of Hellebores available this year.  There are two completely new varieties for us (see pics below) and a few others that we have not had on the list for a while.

Despite a very hot and dry Summer, the Hellebores in the Nursery are looking wonderful.  Autumn is the ideal time to get Hellebores planted, so have a look around our online shop.

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Autumn Plant Fair News…

From the 27th to the 31st of March we will be at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.  For those in NSW, we will be attending the Collectors Plant Fair at Hawkesbury Racecourse on 6th and 7th of April.   We will be back in NSW again on the 27th and 28th of April at the Southern Highlands Botanic Garden Plant fair in Bowral, a new event for us.

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We hope you have enjoyed a good season with the Hellebores in your garden.  It has been an excellent year for flowering at the Nursery this year and we have enjoyed strong demand for our plants.  Thanks again to all those who have ordered from us this year and visited the Nursery over Winter.  In the Nursery now we are nearly finished tubing up the newly germinated seedlings which will be next year’s crop.  We have finished hand pollinating thousands of flowers in the stock house and are about to place bags over all of those flowers to collect the seed.

In the garden now is the time to remove spent flowering stems, apply some mulch around the Hellebores and keep an eye out for aphids.  Assuming the usual dry conditions apply over Summer make sure any new Hellebores you have planted this year get water as required.

Late Spring Events

This year we are attending a couple of gardening events in mid November.  This is late for us but both events are quite exciting and new for us so we didn’t want to miss out.

Yarra Valley Plant Fair and garden expo

An exciting new Plant Fair, this will be held on the weekend of 17th and 18th of November at 125 Quayle Rd, Wandin.  For more information see here.

Paul Bangay’s Stonefields open garden.

Another new event for us.  This event will raise money for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation.  Its will be held on the weekend of 17th and 18th of November (yes we will be in two places at once) at Paul’s private garden Stonefields, near Daylesford in Central Victoria.  For more information see here.

Online Hellebore Shop closing

Last call for any Hellebore orders for this year.  The website Shop will be closing by 9am on Monday October 22.

To see which varieties are still available click here.

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Spring Plant fairs

We will be attending three Plant Fairs over the next month, all in lovely rural parts of Victoria.

Firstly, this coming weekend the 22nd and 23rd of September we will be at the Yea Garden Expo, see this website for details.

Then on the weekend of 6th and 7th of October we will be at the Garden Lover’s Fair at Bolobek in Macedon, see this website for details.

Finally, on the weekend of 13th and 14th of October we will be at the Gippsland Garden Expo at Lardner Park, near Warragul.  See this website for details.

Open Sundays

The next two Sundays (September 23rd and 30th) will be our final Open Days at Post Office Farm for this year.  Due to the late season there is still plenty of Hellebores in flower and a good range of Hellebores to choose from.  For more information on our Open Sundays see here.

Hellebores by mail

Our online Hellebore Shop is still open.  However we are getting lowish in stock for many varieties and may be closing the Shop a bit earlier than the usual end of October this year.  If you still need a few Hellebores, I would recommend ordering in the next couple of weeks to avoid missing out.

Click here to go to our Shop.

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