Helleborus hybridus Anemone White

Oriental Hellebore Anemone White illuminates shady areas in the heart of winter and has a place in a white garden, romantic or classic in inspiration. This variety produces charming flowers with a pretty cream-white collar, earning them the name of anemone flowers. This robust and very hardy perennial can be grown in borders, under shrubs and in pots. Easy to grow, even in heavy soil, it will thrive in shade or non-scorching sun.

Native to Greece, Turkey, and central and eastern Caucasus, the Oriental Helleborus, sometimes called Lenten Rose, is a perennial plant of the buttercup family that hybridizes very easily with other species to produce many hybrids with varied colours and shapes, to the point where no variety names are given to these hybrids, they are distinguished by their shape and colour characteristics. The Oriental Hellebore is a hardy plant that can tolerate temperatures as low as -15°C (5°F), naturally growing in forests, thickets, and clearings up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) altitude. White Anemone forms a compact and leafy clump 40 cm (16in) in all directions. It consists of palmate, slightly toothed, dark green and shiny, evergreen basal leaves, 30 to 40 cm (12 to 16in) long, composed of 7 to 9 leaflets. They live for 8 months and are regularly replaced by new leaves.

Between February and April, a bouquet of simple, cup-shaped and inclined flowers, 4 to 5 cm (2in) in diameter, forms, with a collar of petals characteristic of this group of hybrids, placed on a corolla of petals. They are inclined downwards, letting water slide off like an umbrella to protect the heart of the flower from rotting. The Hellebore is a bushy plant that does not like to be moved once established, young plants take a while to flower. The seeds are sown by ants.

Use hellebores as elements of an ancient tapestry, mixing them with woodland plants in brighter colours. They are highlighted when planted near Pieris, small-sized rhododendrons, under conifers (especially in windy sites), and surrounded by primroses, wood anemones, corydalis, dicentras, cardamines, or spring-flowering bulbs and snowdrops. You can also accompany them with ferns and shade irises to create a beautiful contrast a little later in the season. They can be planted in groups, like a bouquet, near the entrance of the house, in shady locations to enjoy their early flowering up close. They are suitable for cut flowers and in borders, edges, or even containers... Over time, Hellebore flowers do not wither like the majority of other flowers, but dry out instead.

Each seed-sown hellebore is unique in flower colour: slight variations in colour may exist between two plants, which is normal and inevitable. However, if the difference is too significant and detracts from the desired effect, we will refund or replace the affected plant.