Time to deadhead hellebore flowers

My hellebores have been good this year, as usual. I deadhead them to prevent them seeding everywhere. The original two or three plants were given to me - I was invited to dig them up from a friend's garden. I've a lot more than three now. The flower colours vary from almost white to dark maroon. Two of my favourites are pictured. I've tried some of the new cultivars, but none have been very successful. They are going over now and it's time to deadhead them. They seed freely if left. I found another reason to it today. Inside a few of the flowers were nurseries of greenfly! The adults must have overwintered there. The females can reproduce by parthenogenesis whereby the small babies pop out from their rear ends. Meanwhile the hellebore seeds are maturing inside the swelling ovaries in the centre of the flower.