Helleborus hybridus anemone-centred yellow

Oriental Hellebore Yellow Anemone is a delightful variety of Christmas Rose with delicate yellow anemone-like flowers. Its uniquely structured flowers feature a pretty collar in the same shade, a characteristic inherent to this category. This Christmas rose blooms for several weeks in late winter, in shade. It is a robust and very hardy perennial, whose bright flowering will enliven the soil at the base of bushes and highlight the layout of a north or east-facing pathway. Christmas roses also make beautiful flowering pots that will brighten up the dreary days of winter.  

Native to Greece, Turkey, and the central and eastern Caucasus, the Oriental Helleborus, sometimes called Lenten Rose, is a hardy perennial of the buttercup family that readily hybridizes with other species to produce hybrids with a wide range of colours and forms, to the point where no variety names are given to these hybrids anymore. They are distinguished by their shape and colour characteristics. Oriental Hellebore is a hardy plant that can withstand temperatures as low as -15°C, naturally growing in forests, thickets, and clearings up to 2,000 metres (6,562 feet) in altitude.

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

Between February and April, a bunch of single, cup-shaped, pendulous flowers, 4 to 5 cm (2in) in diameter forms with a collar of petals characteristic of this group of hybrids. They are inclined downward, 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 woodland plants. 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 near the entrance of the house, in a shaded area, to enjoy their early flowers up close. They are suitable for cut flowers and in borders, edges, or even containers,... Over time, Hellebore flowers do not fade like the majority of other flowers, they dry up.

Each seed-sown hellebore has a unique flower colour, so slight variations in colours can 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.