Good morning! A bit of snow for us today. Sounds like a more serious snow for Tuesday.
Have a question for you, are there any Hellebores that do well here in southern Wisconsin?
Been seeing them in my “gardening” searches on X. Mostly they are pictures from gardens in England where the arctic cold usually stays away.
From what I have read, they need some shade.
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I have some Lenten Roses that I found at a local nursery one year, and planted them under a Japanese maple. They have flourished! Very reliable. I’m in central Indiana. It has always gotten some shade there but it’s not full shade. I don’t know which variety they are.
Hellebore varieties can survive all the way down to Zone 3, so you should have luck with them in our Zone 5. Two varieties are toxic, though. Helleborus niger (commonly called the Christmas Rose) and Helleborus orientalis.
I had a co-worker that was wild for them and she had great luck and a lot of varieties; she lives in Madison. They like shade later in the season, but they are one of the very first things up - sometimes coming up through the snow - so that’s before the trees leaf out, so they obviously need that weaker late winter/early spring sunlight to get started. ;)
https://www.thespruce.com/growing-hellebores-in-the-garden-1402846
There are some Hellebores in my dad’s garden that keep coming back, no matter how many times he’s tried to replace them with other things.