Helleborus x sahinii ‘Winterbells’ is a pink-and-white-flowered hellebore.

The patch of ground by the hen garden is currently hellebore land. It looks marvellous. I featured some of the existing plants in the How the Dream Garden Grows post recently, but because it want this patch to look utterly mind-blowing in the spring, I planted five more hellebores there. They’re all from Gardening Express, and these helleborus ‘Winterbells’ are hellebores I haven’t grown before.

They are good robust plants, and their flowers have the loveliest range of pink to white. These hellebores start flowering as early as November, which is a real bonus as the garden currently needs every bit of late winter flowering help it can get. They seem to be ageing well too.

The way hellebores look glorious from the first bloom to formation of seed heads makes them really useful spring flowers as they don’t need deadheading and they don’t collapse in a heap at any point. Their foliage is also pretty for the rest of the year, too.

And they light up a shady corner so well.

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