On Saturday, I had the pleasure of visiting one of my favorite garden cities, Portland, Oregon, attending their Yard, Garden, and Patio Show with pal Alison, and visiting several great nurseries. At the Y,G, & P show, there was a large display of winter flowering plants assembled by the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon. There were lots of great blooms on display but my favorite was this bowl of floating hellebore blossoms.
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I didn't intend to buy any more hellebores on this trip but this display convinced me that my garden needed more yellows to balance the others.
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Do you have a favorite hellebore or do you love them all? Does anyone not like them? What could be better? Shade tolerant, nice evergreen foliage that fills in nicely around herbaceous plants that offer them shade in the summer and die back beneath the foliage in the winter, and stunning winter blooms that dance in the wind.
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A great way to display these flowers whose faces usually bow demurely toward the ground.
No wonder that it's often done to show the huge variety of heavenly hellebores.
Don't want to pick that many blooms? A smaller bowl is also very effective.
I didn't intend to buy any more hellebores on this trip but this display convinced me that my garden needed more yellows to balance the others.
Do you have a favorite hellebore or do you love them all? Does anyone not like them? What could be better? Shade tolerant, nice evergreen foliage that fills in nicely around herbaceous plants that offer them shade in the summer and die back beneath the foliage in the winter, and stunning winter blooms that dance in the wind.
Much more to come from a thoroughly enjoyable day of plant shopping.