Hellebores are typically considered winter and spring flowering plants. When all else in the yard is quiet, calm and might appear void of life, hellebore blooms light up even the darkest corners.

These unique perennials are one of the very first plants to bloom in early spring, or even late winter, ushering in the new gardening season. They begin blooming well before tulips and daffodils ...

You can plant them at any time of year. They look good next to other early flowerers, such as Anemone blanda, aconites, Cyclamen coum, hepaticas and snowdrops are all good bed partners for hellebores.

Behind the heathers at the Hillier Gardens, individual plants of the Corsican hellebore showed clusters of rounded apple-green flowers. Other hellebores have been so beautifully improved that this ...