Hellebore x ericsmithii Winter Sunshine is a bushy, clump forming hellebore, flowering for a long period in early spring. Creamy white flowers age with green tints through to a mellow pink, and all the colours seem to blend very well together, nothing muddy about the transitions either. Lots of flowers, though again, spaced enough apart…
Hellebore
After winter, intimations of Spring… Kew Gardens
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
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I called into the plant centre at RHS Wisley - for me almost as interesting as some of the gardens! - and of course the hellebores caught my eye. Anna's Red and Penny's Pink, naturally. Walberton's Rosemary, which is planted to such good effect in the raised bed just as you enter the gardens from…
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Winter Sunshine
Hellebore Winter Sunshine Another stocky, sturdy and very floriferous Hellebore, with a creamy white congestion of flowers, piled one on top and in front of each other - maturing to a deeper greeny-chocolately-red. http://www.thegardencentregroup.co.uk/item/Herbaceous-Perennials/Winter-Sunshine-PBR/LIO Helleborus x ericsmithii 'Winter Sunshine' is a fabulous variety of this choice hybrid, with clusters of purple buds on dark purple…
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Anna’s Red and Penny’s Pink
Hellebore Anna's Red - my favourite, a statuesque crown of flowers on long richly coloured stems and more outward facing blooms (not so shy as many other nodding varieties!) Hellebore Penny's Pink Two recent introductions from the plant breeder Rodney Davey. I've said much about these plants and their rich colours. Anna is Anna Pavord,…
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Anna’s Red, Candy Love & Angel Glow…. more Hellebores!
The deeply luminous Hellebore Anna's Red - big plants with big flowers and all in a rich ruby red. The cultivar is only a few years old but specimens bulk up nicely, with outward facing and nodding flowers held on tall stems. A real star and a favourite of mine, ever since I saw it…
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Snowdrops, hellebores, crocus, winter aconites …
New growth is pushing up through the dark earth, fresh flowers taking advantage of the leafless tree canopy overhead and searching for sunlight. Snowdrops, yellow winter aconites, the earliest oriental hellebores and the first few crocus of the season. All here at Kew - and there is more to come - carpets of crocus (they…
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Hellebore Mrs Betty Ranicar – definitely not a Tasmanian devil…
Sometimes nature does all the work - this beautiful, double white hellebore was a chance find in a Tasmanian garden, albeit the garden of the noted plantswoman who has given her name to this snowy Lenten Rose. Like all hellebores, give it deep, rich soil, in semi-shade and reliable year-round moisture and enjoy... a Tasmanian…
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Penny’s Pink
Hellebore Penny's Pink Photos only this time - I've talked about this particular hellebore - and Rodney Davey's other creation, Anna's Red, beforehand so shan't repeat myself.
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