Worried about my Hellibore

I bought this Hellebore about 3 weeks ago & put it in its permanent pot.

It doesn't look very well to me. The heads are drooping & the leaf looks in a bad way.

What might I have done wrong & can it be revived?

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A better picture.

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I'm not much of a gardener, but we have hellebores, and they do like to be in the shade. Ours grow underneath other, bigger plants, in a shady part of the garden. Perhaps this one is getting too much sun?

ETA: I think their natural inclination is to droop their heads - all of ours do. They're shy little plants

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Well, do you know what? I've just googled and discovered that where's best to plant these depends on the variety - some like being in the sun and others like partial or even full shade! Well well well, now I've learnt something new

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in December i cut all the leaves of mine, new leaves start to appear about april as the flowers die back

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macy do you mean you cut all the old leaves off or do you cut every single leaf off?

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Thanks for the information about drooping heads Bathsheba. Maybe there's hope for it after all.

I was worried because the heads weren't drooping when I bought it from the garden centre...

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Hi Carol your Hellebore doesn't look too bad, they like a shady, moist well mulched spot .
This is mine which I cut back last summer when it had finished flowering and was looking awful with Helibore black spot . It is doing well now.

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Bathsheba I agree about the heads, the trusses of flowers are quite heavy for the stems so they do tend to droop.

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I don't grow Hellebores, Carol, mainly because I believe they can be a bit toxic to dogs if eaten, and my young Gertie is partial to doing quite a bit of gardening!

However, there is a lot of info here on the RHS website which may help you:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/popula.../growing-guide