The name "winter rose" is not a coincidence. The hellebore is one of the few flowers that aren't fazed by frost. Thanks to its rich range of colours, from white through pink to purple, it can ...

Spoiler alert — there are! Gardeners eager to enjoy some late-winter blooms should consider planting hellebores, commonly known as Lenten rose for their rose-shaped flowers that appear during ...

Don't be put off by the name of the winter blooming stinking hellebore ... I am also enamored by the bright white blossoms of the Christmas rose, Helleborus niger, and the Lenten rose, Helleborus ...

Every plant in horticulturalist John Dudley's internationally recognised plant nursery was sprayed with poison and died, but that did not stop his prized hellebores, also known as winter roses ...

With a little tidying in late winter, the leaves remain attractive ... (Neither, of course, is a rose.) Most hellebores in gardens today are hybrids of several species. Some hybrids have fluffy ...

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 ...

(Which actually isn’t a true rose at all). In fact, it is a hellebore (Helleborus niger) and it may not flower as early as Christmas since it is a mid-winter flowering plant. The hellibores ...

ONCE UPON A TIME, specialty seed-sown strains of Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis) were the “it” plant of the winter garden, with ivory, mauve, pink, peach, even primrose yellow blooms.