Helleborus Double Green - Hellebore

The Oriental 'Double Pistachio Green' Hellebore unfolds perfectly shaped double flowers, resembling water lilies, and a fresh colour ranging from green to yellow. Blooming from February to April, this variety, like a small vegetal and mischievous deity, perfectly embodies the spring renewal at the end of winter. It is also a robust and very hardy perennial that can be grown both in borders and under shrub masses, 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 the central and eastern Caucasus, the Oriental Hellebore, sometimes called Lenten Rose, is a perennial plant of the buttercup family that easily hybridizes with other species to produce, randomly from seeds, hybrids with various colours and shapes, to the extent that no specific variety names are given to these hybrids. They are often distinguished by their shape and colour characteristics. The Oriental Hellebore is a hardy plant that can tolerate temperatures as low as -15°C, naturally growing in forests, thickets, and clearings up to an altitude of 2,000m (7000ft).

This Double Green Speckled variety forms a compact and leafy clump measuring 40cm (16in) in all directions. It consists of palmate basal leaves, slightly toothed, of dark and shiny green colour. These are evergreen leaves, 30 to 40cm (12 to 16in) long, composed of 7 to 9 leaflets. They only live for 8 months in reality and are regularly replaced by new leaves.

Between February and April, a bouquet of double flowers measuring 4 to 5cm (2in) in diameter forms. These are cup-shaped and inclined flowers, with several rows of petals increasing in size from the center of the flower towards the outer part of the corolla. If they are inclined downwards, allowing water to slide off like an umbrella, it is to protect the heart of the flower from rotting. The Hellebore is a bushy plant. It does not like to be moved once established, as the young shoots take some time to bloom. The seeds are sown by ants.

Use Hellebores like elements of an ancient tapestry, mixing them with brightly coloured woodland plants. They are well 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. They can also be accompanied by ferns and shade irises to create a beautiful contrast a little later in the season. They can also be planted in groups, like a bouquet, near the entrance of the house, in shady areas, to fully enjoy their early flowering. They are suitable both as cut flowers and in flower beds, borders, or even containers,... Over time, Hellebore flowers do not fade like the majority of other flowers but dry up.

Each Hellebore, resulting from a seed, is unique in flower colour: thus slight variations in colours may exist between two plants, which is normal and inevitable. However, if the difference is too significant and distorts the desired effect, we will refund or replace the affected plant.