Lenten Rose

Features large cup-shaped rose-like usually nodding flowers 3-4 diameter with center crowns of conspicuously contrasting yellow stamens.

Lenten rose. Their beauty unfolds best in partial shade. Tips for companion plants. Helleborus orientalis Guttatus This hairless or slightly hairy perennial has over-wintering leathery deep green basal leaves each divided into 7 or 9 leaflets.

Helleboruscommonly called Lenten rose or Christmas rose depending on the cultivarhas nodding purple white or pink cup-shaped flowers in winter or early spring. Helleborus hybridus is a group of evergreen late-winter or early-spring flowering perennials in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae with the common names of hellebore oriental hellebores or Lenten rose. Make sure not to plant them too deep or they wont produce as many flowers.

3 Containers of Mixed Lenten Rose Hellebore in 25 Inch Pots-- Great for Fall Planting. Lenten rose Helleborus xhybridus in bloom. Earliest to awaken in late winter to early spring with blooms that last two to three months.

Its not uncommon to see it blooming around Christmas time here. The plants are cold-hardy in USDA zones 48. Hybrid Lenten rose 2 H hybridus is a semi-evergreen perennial with divided glossy dark green leaves and branched stems bearing bowl-shaped flowers in a range of colours including white pink green yellow and purple sometimes spotted within.

Lenten rose plants Helleborus x hybridus are not roses at all but a hellebore hybrid. Tips for Successful Lenten Roses. Helleborus are long-lived perennials.

A lenten rose is an herbaceous perennial plant that is a member of the Helleborus genus. Hellebores are a long blooming perennial plant that needs very little in the way of maintenance but it does get a bit ragged looking at times of the year. Your soil pH should be about 7.