Today is the last day of our Winter Open Nursery & Garden Days, 9am-5pm. Explore the beauty of the winter garden, shop the sales greenhouses, and join us for our Gardening Unplugged garden chats: 10 am – Sowing for Spring (Aaron Selby)2 pm – Top Evergreens for Winter (Doug Ruhren) It was delightful to look
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If you attended the first weekend of our Winter Open Nursery and Garden, you got a chance to see many garden plants still covered with a layer of white, despite the pleasant air temperatures. For our upcoming second weekend, Feb 28, March 1,2, 2025, all of the snow has melted, and the hellebores continue to
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Not only is Helleborus niger flowering now at JLBG, but many of the hybrid hellebores with it in their parentage are also flowering. While Helleborus niger only comes in white or with a faint pink blush, when it is hybridized in combination with other species, the potential flower color expands, but the out-facing flower trait
Here are more of the amazing selections of Helleborus x hybridus in flower now at Juniper Level Botanic Garden. If you weren’t able to make it to the gardens for our Winter Open Nursery and Garden days, we invite you to visit the gardens Monday – Friday, 8am to 5pm, by appointment.
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Two more of our favorite sterile lenten roses are putting on quite a show today. The first is Helleborus x glandorfensis ‘Ice n’ Roses Red’. Below that is Helleborus x lemperii ‘Walberton’s Rosemary’, a stunning David Tristram hybrid that PDN will have available later this year, for the first time in four years. Join us
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Coming in second place to the Helleborus niger we posted earlier is Helleborus x ballardiae ‘Mahogany Snow’. This is a cross of the Christmas rose, Helleborus niger and Helleborus lividus. The flowers emerge white, then age to a lovely salmon pink. We find this hellebore hybrid much easier to grow than either parent.
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We continue to be impressed with the continuing parade of new selections of sterile lenten roses, in particular, the clones of Helleborus x iburgensis. These fascinating hybrids that originated at RD plants in England, are crosses of Helleborus x ballardiae (niger x lividus) x Helleborus x hybridus. In other words, these hybrids have up to
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Here are some of the latest crop of amazing Helleborus x hybridus to flower in the garden. If you attend our Winter Open Nursery and Garden this week or next, you will see these in person. Plant Delights will also have a pretty incredible crop of these for sale during the open house days. We
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New colors of Helleborus x hybridus are opening daily, so here are a few shots from the garden today, showing the incredible range of colors that are available. We hope you can join us for our upcoming Winter Open Nursery and Garden and enjoy these in person.
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Looking great for the last couple of weeks in the garden are the double forms of the Christmas rose, one of the first hellebores to bloom in the garden. This clump of Helleborus niger ‘Snowbells’ is looking particularly nice. Hardiness zone 3a to 7b.
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