Hellebores
Botanical name: Helleborus
Hellebores
Botanical name: Helleborus
Description
Hellebores comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Species of Hellebores
Hellebores 'HGC Green Corsican'
Hellebores 'HGC Green Corsican' is a hellebore or Lenten rose cultivar developed by the Heuger company for its remarkable coloring: it is a pale green so that the flower is barely any different in color from the foliage. This unique, low-contrast variant is a late winter and early spring bloomer and is known to be vigorous and floriferous.
Hellebores 's Ruby 'Epb 32'
Hellebores 's Ruby 'Epb 32' is a hellebore with a striking and distinctive ruby red flower that sets it apart from the paler-colored flowers of most other hellebores. This hybrid is one of the Rodney Davey Marbled Group of hellebores, several of which have been given similar collections of letters and numbers as names.
Lenten rose 'Blushing Bridesmaid'
Lenten rose 'Blushing Bridesmaid' is a Helleborus cultivar with white flowers that have deep scarlet petal tips and veining, a color reminiscent of brightly blushing cheeks. These bright flowers differ from the simple white or pink flowers characteristic of Hellebore. This late winter/early spring flowering perennial grows to a height of 60 cm.
Hellebores 'French Kiss'
Hellebores 'French Kiss' is a registered hybrid of the lenten rose developed by Proven Winners. It is named partly for its lip-colored petal veins and edges that accentuate its white flowers and partly because it’s part of the Honeymoon series of lenten rose hybrids. This cultivar is noted for its heavy bloom from early to mid-spring.
Hellebores 'Winterbells'
Hellebores 'Winterbells' are a popular winter-blooming perennial in Pacific Northwest gardens. The flowers are a pale greenish-yellow and attract early season pollinators. Hellebores have been used medicinally for centuries to treat a range of ailments, although they are toxic if ingested in large quantities.
Hellebores 'Hgc Ice n' Roses Early Rose'
Hellebores 'Hgc Ice n' Roses Early Rose' is a stunning plant with snowy white petals and a deep pink hue at the base. This evergreen perennial blooms from early winter to late spring and can grow up to 16 inches in height. It is a popular plant for gardeners due to its ability to withstand extreme temperatures, making it perfect for winter landscapes. Additionally, its flowers are known to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, making it a great addition to any garden ecosystem.
Hellebores 'HGC Pink Frost'
A heavily-budded hellebore cultivar, hellebores 'HGC Pink Frost' offers profuse blooms from late winter to early spring. Outward-facing, pink flowers on burgundy stems make hellebores 'HGC Pink Frost' a delight in both borders and container gardens. These flowers are best planted in groups to maximize their appeal and are a relatively early bloomer in relation to other hellebore cultivars.
Hellebores 'Harvington Double White'
Hellebores 'Harvington Double White' is a variety of Helleborus × hybridus. Like its parent, it is an outward-facing hellebore with a saucer shape. However, this cultivar is unique for its double white blooms (hence the name) that are dotted with rose-pink spots. It is also part of the Harvington Hellebores group, meaning that these attractive blooms add interest to gardens in winter and early spring when there is very little color.
Hellebores 'Anna's Red'
A hybrid cultivar that took 12 years to breed, hellebores 'Anna's Red' is a spectacular and unique hellebore with dark green, leathery foliage and beautiful single red-purple blossoms. Unlike most hellebores, hellebores 'Anna's Red' feature flowers that face outward. The foliage emerges bronze-green in the spring.
Christmas rose 'HGC Jacob'
This cultivar is a member of the Gold Collection a collection of premium Christmas roses. The christmas rose 'HGC Jacob' produces single large perfectly white blooms with gold stamens. In cooler weather they will turn a rosy pink. The fact that this cultivar's blooms face outwards rather than inwards makes them unique amongst hellebores. They also bloom earlier than their counterparts showing up as early as fall.
Corsican hellebore
The flowers of the corsican hellebore resemble those of an old-fashioned single rose, but they are green and have a more papery quality. This French native is great for planting in shady borders, pots, and woodland gardens. However, use caution because this plant is poisonous and may cause discomfort.
Majorcan hellebore
Majorcan hellebore is an evergreen perennial with cup-shaped flowers in soft, rosy colors. Indigenous to the Mediterranean area, majorcan hellebore is also cultivated for use in containers, beds, and shady plant borders. This plant is considered toxic.
Christmas rose
Christmas rose (Helleborus niger) is a flowering evergreen perennial plant that is often grown in ornamental gardens because it flowers in the winter. Planting christmas rose is particularly common in cottage garden styles. In the wild, christmas rose grows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Croatia. This plant is considered somewhat difficult to grow and requires moist, alkaline-rich soil.
Hellebores 'Golden Sunrise'
Hellebores 'Golden Sunrise' is a hellebore (Helleborus spp.) cultivar selected and named for its large canary-yellow blooms adorned with burgundy-purple markings and dots. The backs of the petals are marked with distinctive purplish veins. These nodding flowers are long-lasting and bloom profusely from late winter to early spring.
Hellebores 'Double Ellen Picotee'
Hellebores 'Double Ellen Picotee' is a double-flowered picotee variety of the hybrid Helleborus × hybridus and belongs to the Double Ellen Series. This variety has white blooms lined with dark purple-pink edges. It is one of the taller varieties of this hybrid, potentially reaching 50 cm.
Hellebores 'Double Ellen Red'
The hellebores 'Double Ellen Red' is a clump-forming variety of hellebores with outward-facing, red-pink flowers. As its name suggests, it is the red shade of the Double Ellen series of flowers. They do well in the shade and bloom in early spring, offering gardeners a unique opportunity to display attractive flowers.
Hellebores 'Coseh 4100'
Hellebores 'Coseh 4100' comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores 'Coseh 4100' are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Hellebores 'Phoebe'
Hellebores 'Phoebe' is a cultivar of hellebores, also known as Lenten, winter, or Christmas rose. This variant has striking pink blooms with maroon ticking, which appear in winter and early spring to provide off-season interest in the garden. They are disease- and pest-free and tolerate shady spots in the garden and most soil types.
Hellebores 'Pretty Ellen White'
The hellebores 'Pretty Ellen White' is a white hellebore variant in the 'Pretty Ellen' series. It blooms with large, cupped white flowers from late winter through to early spring, adding a flash to your winter garden. This variant is very beautiful in shady parts of a garden, but is susceptible to aphids and snails, as well as hellebore leaf spot and hellebore black death.
Lenten rose 'First Dance'
Lenten rose 'First Dance' is a cultivar of the Lenten Rose developed and named by specialist plant hybridizer Hans Hansen of Walters Gardens. The flowers' distinct coloration of yellow petals with maroon edge-tips and veins looks perfectly suited to an attractive wedding reception. This plant is popular with gardeners as a bright early spring bloomer.
Hellebores 'Pretty Ellen Red'
A hardy, semi-evergreen perennial that can tolerate soil with a lot of clay, sand, or loam, hellebores 'Pretty Ellen Red' was developed for its purple-red flowers with leathery texture. Provided it is sheltered from strong winds, it will produce these attractive blooms in late winter and early spring, which adds color to an otherwise dormant garden. The plant can be toxic when ingested.
Hellebores 'True Love'
Hellebores 'True Love' is a lenten rose developed by Hans Hansen for Walters Gardens. Part of the wedding party series of hellebore hybrids (and named accordingly), hellebores 'True Love' is noted for producing an unusually large number of blossoms in a striking pinkish color with dark purple petal veins and edges.
Hellebores 'Candy Love'
Hellebores 'Candy Love' is a white-flowered hellebore with pink stems. It is a cultivar of Helleborus × ballardiae, which is a hybrid of Helleborus niger crossed with Helleborus lividus and usually has pink flowers instead of white. It gets its name from the white and pink colors, as this combination is typical in various candies.
Hellebores 'Double Ellen Pink'
Hellebores 'Double Ellen Pink' comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores 'Double Ellen Pink' are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Christmas rose 'HGC Josef Lemper'
Christmas rose 'HGC Josef Lemper' is a member of the Gold Collection group of Christmas rose cultivars. This cultivar is unique in that it blooms much earlier than the parent plant and its other varieties (starts in late fall, rather than midwinter), and it begins flowering in its first year. The first part of this cultivar's name, 'HGC', stands for 'Helleborus Gold Collection.'
Lenten rose
The lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis) has been cultivated since the Germans began to do so in the mid-1800s, with varieties being created in the United Kingdom shortly after. Between the 1920s and 1960s, there was little interest in its cultivation until Helen Ballard bred new varieties. They are blooming early in the year hence they get their name of "Lenten rose".
Green hellebore
Green hellebore (Helleborus viridis) is a perennial plant in the buttercup family and is native from central Europe west as far as the British Isles. In early spring it produces saucer-shaped, green flowers. All parts of the plant are a potential skin irritant and it is highly poisonous if ingested.
Stinking hellebore
Stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) is an evergreen perennial that can grow to 61 cm tall. It blooms from winter to spring with clusters of fragrant, yellowish green, cup-shaped flowers. Attractive light green foliage and flowers grow in a weeping form. Leaves have an unpleasant smell when crushed giving this plant the name stinking hellebore. It thrives in rich, well-drained soil in a semi-shady location.
Tibetan hellebore
Tibetan hellebore (Helleborus thibetanus) is a wildflower found as the name suggests on the Tibetan Plateau. It sprouts from a hairy succulent rhizome. Tibetan hellebore does well in partial sun and will not tolerate too much water early in the year. In the wild the papery flowers bloom in spring but cultivated plants spring bloom earlier at lower elevations.
Hellebores 'Pretty Ellen Pink'
The hellebores 'Pretty Ellen Pink' is a hellebore variant with rounded, pink double-blooms. As its name suggests, this is the pink cultivar of the 'Pretty Ellen' series. It blooms from late winter through to early spring, adding color to the winter garden. This variant is not only very beautiful in shady parts of a garden, but is almost entirely disease- and pest-free.
Hellebores 'Rd09'
Hellebores 'Rd09' comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores 'Rd09' are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Hellebores 'Double Ellen Purple'
The hellebores 'Double Ellen Purple' is a hellebore variant with large, dark purple flowers and thick leaves which have been described as ‘leathery.’ It is an unusual contrast to many other kinds of hellebore which are much softer. It blooms from late winter through to early spring, adding color to the winter garden. This member of the 'Double Ellen' series can suffer from hellebore black death.
Hellebores 'Harlequin Gem'
Hellebores 'Harlequin Gem' comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores 'Harlequin Gem' are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Hellebores 'Onyx Odyssey'
Hellebores 'Onyx Odyssey' comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores 'Onyx Odyssey' are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Hellebores 'Painted Doubles'
Hellebores 'Painted Doubles' comprise a genus in the Buttercup family. They can be evergreen or herbaceous, but all are perennials. The attractive flowers bear interesting colors, including vivid lime green and dark purple. Like other members of Buttercup family, hellebores 'Painted Doubles' are toxic. They are often featured in Ancient Greek and Indo-European legends and folklore.
Hellebores 'Peppermint Ice'
Hellebores 'Peppermint Ice' is a hellebore (Helleborus spp.) cultivar selected for its striking, cup-shaped, lotus-like flowers that hang gracefully from sturdy stems. The large, double blossoms come in a beautiful shade of soft pink which has clearly been compared to peppermint candy. They are adorned with magenta edges and deep pink veins on back petals.
Hellebores 'Double Ellen White Spotted'
The hellebores 'Double Ellen White Spotted' is a hellebore variant with rounded, white double-blooms. It blooms from late winter through to early spring, adding color to the winter garden. This Double Ellen series variant is not only very beautiful in shady parts of a garden, but is almost entirely disease- and pest-free with the exception of hellebore black death.
Scientific Classification
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