Hellebored? Not me ….

Flowers to brighten these chill darker days are an invaluable commodity in the garden, and few are more welcome nor so colourful as the Hellebore. There is the myriad variety of colours and flower forms of the Lenten Rose (Hellebore hybridus), bold architectural foliage and flower of the Corsican Hellebore (H. argutifolius), and Christmas rose hybrids…

did someone mention Hellebores?

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…