Hellebores Dead Foliage (Last Year's Stems) Late Winter Clean-Up - February 2025

The clean-up continues in the backyard - thanks to a little window of 50-degree temperatures this week. First, I showed the trio of Muhly Grasses at the end of the boardwalk that I clipped and composted . Then, yesterday I posted a photo of the screened porch border/bed where I clipped and composted four Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grasses . Today, I turned my attention to the colony of Hellebores in the backyard understory garden. A couple weeks back, I posted a photo showing the buds had emerged on these . Below is a new before-and-after showing last season's foliage being clipped-off and removed. Here's the before - showing the brown (and some green) foliage along with A LOT of leaf litter: And, here below, is the after. A lot less foliage. (I hauled the stems and foliage to the compost bin.). But, even after leaving the stems and leaves, there is still A LOT of leaf litter left behind. Most of it chopped up into little...