Helleborus hybridus Peach with Red Centre

The Oriental Peach Hellebore with Red Centre is a fantastic pastel variety, with slightly faded tones. It displays beautiful single flowers with peach-pink petals with dark red-purple macules around the stamens. This robust and very hardy perennial can be grown in borders, under shrubs, mixed borders, as well as in pots. Easy to grow, even in heavy soil, it thrives in shade or non-burning sun.

Native to Greece, Turkey, and central and eastern Caucasus, the Helleborus orientalis, sometimes called Lenten Rose, is a perennial plant from the ranunculaceae family that easily hybridizes with other species, resulting in many hybrids with varied colours and shapes. No variety names are given to these hybrids, they are distinguished by their form and colour characteristics. Oriental Hellebore is a hardy plant that can withstand temperatures as low as -15°C (5°F), naturally growing in forests, thickets, and clearings up to 2,000 m (7ft) altitude. Peach with Red Centre forms a compact and leafy clump of 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 single, cup-shaped and inclined flowers, 4 to 5 cm (2in) in diameter, is formed. They are inclined downwards, allowing water to slide off like an umbrella to protect the heart of the flower from rotting. Hellebore is a bushy plant that does not like to be moved once established, as young plants take some time to flower. The seeds are sown by ants.

Use hellebores as elements of an old tapestry, mixing them with brightly coloured understory plants. They are complemented when planted near Pieris, small-sized rhododendrons or 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-loving irises to create a beautiful contrast a little later in the season. They can be planted in groups, like a bouquet, in shade near the entrance of the house to enjoy their early flowering up close. They are suitable as cut flowers and in borders, beds, or containers,... Over time, Hellebore flowers do not wilt like the majority of other flowers, but dry instead.

Each seed-sown hellebore has a unique flower colour: therefore, slight colour variations 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.