PlantFiles: Lenten Rose
Helleborus orientalis

Beautiful flowers, especially for shade. Mine become infested with aphids.

This plant does very well in dry, deep shade. Love the foliage - it looks great almost all year, then you get to cut off any of the old leaves that look bad once the new leaves come out. And then you get the cool little flowers in Spring. What else do you need? : )

Lenten Rose does okay in Zone 8b (Seattle, Washington).

This is the place for Shade gardens. :)

Love this rugged plant that the deer will NOT touch. Have 20+ under some oak trees that delight us year round. This year are planting them on a steep hill so we can look up into the lovely blossoms.

I bought mine after reading about them in our local paper. I am very pleased them. During our summer vacation last year our house-watcher neglected them and they died. I was pleasantly surprised to find some of them growing back this winter!!!! They are in almost full shade and wet soil and still do great!!!

Blooms mid April in my garden.

My favorite plant without a doubt. Seems to do well for me with more sun than what's suggested. I've been so surprised and pleased at how rugged they really are. The ones I planted 2 years ago are now so full and lush and have been flowering continuously since March.

I have several of the plants they are such a welcome sight when the snow thaws to see something in bloom! mine are happy just about anywhere but didn't do as well under my butternut tree
( juglone)
laura

The helleborus plants grow very well in Tyler, Tx. They are great shade plant and here they start to bloom in late January. They do not like a lot of fuss here just a little mulch or better yet some compost in spring and fall. I think the are wonder.

This plant does well in Oak Ridge, TN. I started with one plant given to me a few years ago and now I have 20 very nice plants blooming. This has become one of my favorite plants. I raised them from seed. It took 3 to 4 years to bloom.

A delightful evergreen perennial plant that forms dense clumps to 50cm wide. This plant likes a shady and moist soil in the shade. Likes a nutrientfull soil. Good for massing under trees. pokerboy.

This is my plants second year (purchased in gallon container Fall 2002) and was amazed by the amount of blooms I have had from February to present (5.16.04.)

I will seek out new colors of the Lenten Rose to add to my shady Atlanta garden again this fall.

Never seen one before, but I'd heard of them. Three of them popped up in my North Alabama yard, which we just moved into last July. They've been blooming since February, and a mild freeze sort of slowed them down, but they're still blooming as of early March.

The reason for cutting the old leaves off Lenten Roses because soon they will be lying against the ground and turning black. Don't worry - the new growth will look fine! I wait until the new leaves are pretty much out before I cut the old ones.

For colder zones, don't cut the evergreen leaves until February. I just cut mine yesterday (Feb 23) here in Zone 6. The right time is when you see the new flower buds and leaves emerging. About that time, the old foliage flops over anyway. I was greeted with 50 or so seedlings when I removed the fallen oak leaves that were around my plant yesterday. They had germinated in the dark under the mulch.

To achieve good blooms, you should cut back the leaves of helleborus DEPENDING on your zone placement. If you are in Zone 4 or 5, you should cut the leaves in FEBRUARY, not November. Or JUST AFTER the snow melts.

To keep Helleborus orientalis healthy, and produce a lot of flowers, you should prune back late in the year (exact timing depends on your zone.)

The very first flower in my garden every March. Beautiful soft green shades. It gets morning sun and afternoon shade. A must for any garden.

This plant provides a beautiful backdrop all summer to flowering plants, and provides beautiful colorful blooms in the winter through late spring. Outstanding perennial for dry-ish areas, very suitable for drought-inclined areas. Self-seeds throughout its lifetime, but is not invasive.

One of my all-time favorite plants. Small plants set out this spring have put on a lot of new growth already; I'm hopeful they'll bloom this winter.

This plant has the most beautiful, bold foliage for shady areas. Grows in zones 4-9. Flowers bloom in late winter or early spring and can range from white to green to purplish to pink. Beautiful plant.

This is an attractive evergreen perennial that maintains its lush green leaves year-round. Its blooms, which are of various colors, begin in mid-winter and last through the spring.

It needs well-drained and nutrient-rich soil in a shady spot.