Property News · January 15, 2022

Give hellebores the time and they’ll flower their pretty little socks off | Alys Fowler


Blessed with a healthy appetite, if properly looked after these dazzling plants will increase gloriously year on yearThe hellebores are coming. The early ones started flowering before Christmas; now the rest are gathering pace and will keep it up until April. In grand old gardens and smaller, newer ones, banks of them will tumble open as they drift among cyclamens and ferns and accompany bluebells, wood anemones and other lovely spring things. There are so many hellebores out there: doubles, semi-doubles, chaste-looking singles and ones with frills. Look a little closer and you’ll find speckles, spots, dots, dashes and smudges on the petals. There are glowing red clarets, duskiest pinks, sombre metallic purples, deep roses, slate blues, brilliant yellows and vivid and livid greens, not to mention foliage that can vary from dark black to silver. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
Read more…Give hellebores the time and they’ll flower their pretty little socks off | Alys Fowler

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