Lenten roses get their ecclesiastical nickname from their growing season. It begins in winter and extends into spring, surrounding the season of Lent. While the long-lived plants add color to the ...

Common names are a slippery slope for the keen gardener. Sometimes they get it right, but sometimes they get it woefully ...

What: Helleborus x sternii, commonly called Stern’s hellebore, is the product of two great parents. Corsican hellebore brings somewhat coarse blue-green foliage, green flowers and cold hardiness to ...

What: Red-violet flowers and new bronzy green foliage marbled with vibrant pink makes “Anna’s Red” hellebore a magnificent harbinger of spring in the winter garden. As the flowers mature they deepen ...

Hellebores are understated plants, with dainty, cup-shaped flowers that bow and nod in an almost deferential manner. Something of an acquired taste, they are best viewed up close from a crouching ...

Unlike the hosta, which claims much of the space in shady sites in the typical Prairie garden, the Helleborus up until now has had a rare presence. As a growing legion of cold-climate gardeners are ...