My network of plant geek friends, colleagues and community are the ones who regularly educate me on the simplest of topics, often blowing my mind about a plant that I thought I kn ...

dark-green leaves in winter. This species is native to central/eastern Europe. Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose) - An Eastern Mediterranean species almost invariably offered in hybrid variety.

Lenten rose, Helleborus orientalis, is a winter to spring-blooming ... The plants never seem to go completely dormant; green leaves are present virtually all year. Individual leaves may die ...

ONCE UPON A TIME, specialty seed-sown strains of Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis ... flowered in dark shades of slate, purple black and dusty wine. Then we noticed that overcast skies turn ...

And what he gets a couple of years after germination are flowers in single, semi-double or double forms in everything from white, green and yellow to pink, burgundy and almost black. Some flowers ...