Hellebores are in full bloom. They’re the sophisticated, slightly shy understated belle of the ball. Hellebore colours are tastefully muted and absolutely stunning, nature has an amazing knack of creating the most perfect colours, not even a Farrow & Ball or Little Greene paint colour chart has a patch on the real thing! To fully appreciate their perfect profiles you need to lift their shy heads up to reveal their complete beauty. They’re a fabulous cut flower at this time of year, instead of popping them in a vase, float them in a bowl to display them at their best.
Hellebores a fabulous cut flower floating in a bowl, fingers crossed the husband not after his pestle and mortar in the next few days!
There were no hellebores in the garden when we moved here; I brought some seedlings with me which are now rewarding me with their gorgeous flowers. Keep an eye out when weeding around Hellebores, they’re generous self seeders. I just dig up the seedlings and replant them somewhere in dappled shade; they will flower in two years time, well worth the wait as sometimes they’re the same as the parent plant but often a completely different colour and form.
A White Hellebore
Pretty pink Hellebores
Stinking Hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), a great acid green colour, yet to noticed the smell
Lovely! Definitely one of my very favourite garden flowers, the deep maroon / purple ones especially.
I completely agree.