Helleborus niger is always the first hellebore to bloom in our garden, sometimes starting to open up its icy pink blooms in late February. Unfortunately it was rather underwhelming this year...

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I pulled this particular Helleborus x hybridus 'Sunshine Selection' out of a block of nusery stock last year because I noticed that its emerging foliage was quite an attractive bronze. I then found that it holds this color well into late spring, an especially nice effect combined with the deeply colored flowers. I was pleased to see that the plant is behaving the same way this year.

I'm gonna watch it for a while. But who knows, think I might have something here?

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Helleborus

I don't want to sound impatient, but I do I am sure... I have been saying the same over and over again and nothing has changed.

We've had beautiful sunshine today, but it was still rather cold outside. The rear part of our garden is still frozen. Tulips and crocuses are attempting to find their way to the top. Some perennials like phlox are already showing new growth. . . .

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Posted by Andrea's Garden Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2008-02-05, 07:02:01

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Guess what flowered on my second night of four? The Christmas rose has flowered, on three out of six plants. Do they talk to each other in a Hellebore huddle? Ok today we three will flower at the same time.
I was outside checking the garden with bleary eyes. The white cup flower glows ghostlike in the morning light, with golden centres.
I will photograph them after nights in good light.I hope all your gardening weekends are good. I am waiting for the African Bag Gardens to be delivered hopefully today.
Good things come (Or Three flowering Hellebores) to those who wait :)

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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2008-01-21, 00:27:23

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A Hellebore Niger is nearly in flower finally on this mild Sunday. I spent a few hours just watching the garden and the birds flying in and out of the bird table, whilst drinking Kenco coffee which almost has a chocolate taste to it.
The Sky was blue and the Sun actually came out for a while.
My neighbours two doors up took a hedge cutter last night, and decimated the hedge along the alley.
I thought the birds would be stressed but they hopped through the bare branches!
What a relaxing way to spend a quiet Sunday before the stresses of work on monday and tuesday.
I like the Quote "Poor Indeed is the garden in which birds find no home" (Abram L Urban).

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The orientalis type of hellebores certainly give a lot to the garden, filling it in March with bushels of large flowers in a multitude of bright, clear pastels and deep, moody blues and purples. However the foliage certainly qualifies for the Even Steven lineup. Like it or not, our early winter garden is rapidly turning into something akin to an empty parking lot; just a few weeks ago it was crowded with late fall bloomers...

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Last year I met a man who collects hellebores. His garden was quite shady and I could see why he loved the way the hellebore flowers added interest to the woodsy scene.

I went and got myself one plant late in the season and selected one of my few shaded spots for it. Then, forgetting this plan, I removed the giant forsythia that was providing the shade [see photos here].

Now, the hellebore is flowering in its sunny location, but facing downward, indicating its apparent preference for shade. No matter, they are so beautiful and its now big deal to lay on the ground and photograph it upward (#@!#$">#@!#$!), right. . . .

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IMG_2400.CR2, originally uploaded by Jane Milliman.

My plants always seem to bloom later than everyone else's. Even the hellebores across the street, which USED to be mine, now bloom before mine, though when they were mine, they bloomed after everyone else's. Or so I remember. This weekend being glorious, I spent it, like everyone with enough luck, in the garden. Laundry be damned, of course. It was mostly just clean up. There is nothing better than poking (or raking) aside the leaf mold to reveal whatever old friend is poking up. Half of the time I've forgotten that plant is even there!

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Posted by Jane M. Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2007-04-27, 23:54:35

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Join Yes I know it’s Tuesday. I did not forget about Green Thumb Sunday. I just wasn’t able to make my post on Sunday because I was so busy. I’d rather have been posting, or...

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Posted by Tricia Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2007-04-25, 17:38:07

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Helleborus niger L.—Christmas rose. FAMILY: Ranunculaceae—the Buttercup Family. The genus Helleborus is recognized by showy flowers of white, green, or purple; sepals: 5, large, petaloid; petals: none; stamens: numerous, the outer 8-10 modified into staminodes; pistils: usually 3 or 4; style: erect, slender; fruit: a follicle; leaves: alternate, palmately cleft. (source: UPENN dept of agriculture)

This flower is blooming in my front yard. I had no idea it was so interesting close up. I especially like the staminodes. The petaloid sepals are nice too.

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Lenten Rose
Helleborus x nigercors 'Honeyhill Joy'
(hel-eh-BORE-us)
Ranunculaceae (ra-nun-kew-LAY-see-ay)


I am not going to pretend to know a lot about Helleborus, I find them to be a little confusing. I am going to be doing some more reading on them as they are becoming more and more popular, although they have been in cultivation for a long time. Helleborus are a wonderful and colorful addition to the early spring garden. I love them on the edge of the woodland garden and also have some planted in my early spring garden area. . . .

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Posted by Jen Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2007-03-26, 23:41:41

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I've never quite made up my mind about Helleborus niger, the Christmas rose. Its very early flowers (late February here) are welcome enough, but the foliage... well, it's usually rather ratty. This year we had a foot of wet snow, which ended up being four inches of ice, so niger (its species name refers to the blackish roots), looks like someone sat on it. . . .

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If you love doubles and other out-of-the-ordinary hellebores, check out what Barry Glick of Sunshine Farm and Gardens is producing. Better yet, put on your thinking cap and offer a name for these beauties and you could win one! Click here.

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Posted by Gotta Garden Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2007-03-03, 16:30:03

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Forgive me, but I am so tickled with this hellebore:



So enamoured that a second photo is necessary (look! buds! more will be coming!). . .

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Posted by Gotta Garden Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2007-03-03, 16:29:14

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I love Cornwall in the spring. It is magical, beautiful and reminds me why I have stayed here for such a long time.

Here are a few of the Hellebores that I have been given by friends or bought from the Hellebore centre of the Universe - Bosvigo House in Truro (www.bosvigo.com).


Hope you love them as much as I do. . . .

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Posted by Myrtle Luma Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2007-02-27, 16:24:32

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Please excuse the screaming, but long-time readers of this blog know that I have waited literally years for this event. I was making my daily trip to the composter with my morning coffee filter and coffee grounds when I spotted some white by the birdbath. My composter is a tad full and I leave the top off of it so when the coffee filters dry out, they have a tendency to fly around the yard when it gets a little breezy. I am constantly picking them up all over the yard and putting them back into the composter. . . .

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Hellebore
Originally uploaded by Garden Keeper.

With the aforementioned warm temperatures, I've been wandering about the garden to see if there has been any impact. The buds on several trees or shrubs appear to be swelling. The irises have new growth spouting up. At least one hosta has shown some green growth. . .

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A hellebore arrived in the mail yesterday. It’s a sample of a new Christmas rose, Helleborus niger ‘HGC Joseph Lemper’, bred in Germany by Joseph Heuger and distributed in the US as part of their Gold Collection by the good people at Yoder. As well as being the world’s largest chrysanthemum breeders they’re continuing to expand into other areas. It’s a lovely little thing, just coming into flower. . .

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Posted by Graham Rice Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2006-12-19, 16:04:55

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Einer der schönsten Winterblüher ist ohne Zweifel die Christrose. Hier Helleborus orientalis im Spätwinter 2005/2006.

One of the prettiest winter flowers is for sure the the so-called "Christmas rose". This is one of my helleborus orientalis (photo taken in late winter 2005/2006)

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As the garden enters the no man's land of winter, I come to appreciate again the hellebores, which still look good in spite of some single digit nights, and rock-hard frozen ground. It's not quite like cruising the pathways looking at banks of roses, but any spot of green is a welcome sight here in December, and it gives promise of what the garden will look like in April... 

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We were nursery hopping yesterday, and I finally succumbed and bought myself a new Hellebore. I had to - it was in a purple pot! (Glad I don't use that rule all the time, as I would have bought some truly awful plants. . .

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Posted by Chloe Reblogged by Old Roses to hellebore on 2006-08-27, 10:56:20

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Yes, they’re free, and yes, there’s a catch. Barry Glick and the staff at Sunshine Farm and Gardens breed hellebores, the fanciest fancy-pants hellebores you ever saw. And before they can sell them, they have to name them. Just to make things interesting, they have an ongoing Hellebore Naming Contest. You look over the candidates, [...]

Here's your chance to get creative! -OR

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Our 100 metre long herbaceous borders have drifts of hellebores positioned just behind the hostas flanking both sides of our old stone path. Before these unfurl during spring the hellebores are the highlight of the borders. . .

Mine aregrowing great. They just won't flower.

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It is almost impossible to photograph the cupped flower of a hellebore.  Hellebores can be bashful and hang their flower heads toward the ground.  I don't have many hellebores.  I sneaked snuck sneaked a few hellebores out of my old garden when I moved.  Not barely enough to make an impression and they were hastily planted in unfamiliar territory as the boxes of our worldly belongings were carried into the new house.  Unfortunately, there was no time to consider the perfect location for my few hellebores.  This was over 3 years ago and the hellebores have decided not to spread themselves freely in the garden where I planted them, certainly not the way they did in my old garden.  Some attention needs to be paid here and this task will end up on the List of To Do this garden season.

The few bashful hellebores I do have did rally this week and put their best face downward and stood up as tall as they comfortably could to impress me as I walked the garden paths in the icy cold rain of the past week.

Hellebores are also called Christmas Lenten Rose and considered a to be a winter garden plant.  They must be happiest in the winters south of me as I don't get to fully enjoy them unless we have an extremely mild winter, which we have not had in several years.  My hellebores generally stay covered in snow until the very beginning of April.  The snow melts and yee gads, what an ugly mess sits in the garden claiming to be a beautiful hellebore.

I checked on my hellebores before I left for St. John (a couple of weeks or so ago) and saw a dismal sight.  Yellow foliage lying flat to the soil and looking as if Jasper, one of my dogs, had kristened my hellebores.  I was convinced there was no hope for the few hellebores in my garden. 

A couple of weeks later the soil had warmed up, the air was softer and voila! the hellebores were looking healthy and happy.  And although I rarely get to consider them a winter garden plant, I appreciate them in the garden as an early spring bloomer with flowers that last for weeks.  Hellebores are lovely, indeed.

The most striking hellebores I have seen have not been growing in my gardens.  They have been planted in public gardens and have been growing south of my garden zone.  If I had planted more than a few hellebores, I would have been happier, the hellebores would appear as if they were progressing and multiplying faster.  It is frustrating to remember the success they were in my old garden--I had more variety too and a microclimate backyard that warmed up early in the season which helped keep the hellebore leaves greener throughout winter.   Regardless of the limited success of my hellebores, I cherish them as one of my favorite garden plants.

Further reading:  hellebores

 

Sigh! I wish mine would bloom!

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Hellebore. 

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A double hellebore looks like it is just waking up. 

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Hellebore n' Bee.

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'nother Hellebore.

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A deep maroon-purple hellebore seems to soak up the sunshine by its very darkness.

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Spring finally has a foot in the door, and some of the earliest woodland flowers are starting to bloom, like hellebores, which are just starting to unfold their flowers, some like the finest shot silk.

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Wow!