Hellebore Haven

There’s one hellebore in my garden who is older than I am and I’ve been meaning to introduce you all to him for ages.

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He’s unnamed but cherished.  He once grew in my granddads garden and on all my travels from one new garden to another a little piece has always followed me and spread his roots.

In my scottish garden it has seeded and  those seedlings flowered this year for the first time.  I call those seedlings “Deweys White” in memory of him.
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My mum also has a few clumps of his hellebores in her garden as well.  This is one of her clumps – in the back garden the spots inside the petals are green while the clump in the front garden have red/pinkish spots just like mine.

                                                                                                                                                                     

From my mums back garden

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My mum painted this picture of one of his hellebores and the painting greets all my visitors in the front hallway of my home.

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The hellebore season is ebbing away in my garden.  Colours that once were so bright are now taking on touches of sepia and some turning distinctively  chocolaty in colour. With seed heads that look like daggers bulging with their wares awaiting the day when they will scatter their offspring around the garden.

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 Below are my pink orientalis hellebores in the garden. They share the garden along with a few white hellebore nigers and  two burgundy ones.

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Pink Orientalis, Anemone Picotee and Tutu

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I just love the striking foliage from Hellebore Winter Moonbeam (you would know for sure that one of its parents was a sterni type from the lovely marbling on the leaves). 

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Under my silver weeping pear tree

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Just now mine are awaiting their yearly top dressing of organic fertilizer.  

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I have loved viewing  the different hellebores this spring on all of your gardening blogs and this year I would love to add a double flowering type to my collection.

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Have you any hellebores on your wish list?

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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
-  Alan Havhamess

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