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

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 ...

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 ...