How Much is that Wabbit in the Window?
Our house cat, Jake, was recently caught salivating over the idea of wabbit soup for dinner.
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Lenten Rose Purp Pose
While most gardeners are familiar with hybrid hellebores, those all originated with wild species. Although most lenten rose species are far less showy than their hybrid counterparts, there are some that are pretty nice in their own right. Once of these is Helleborus purpurescens, the source of much of the purple color in the Helleborus
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Rose and Rosado
Looking good in the garden this week, are two of the Ice N’ Roses’, sterile lenten rose hybrids. Helleborus x glandorfensis ‘Ice N’ Roses Rose’ (top), and ‘Rosado’ (below). Because of the Helleborus niger parentage, all flowers face outward. Mark your calendar to visit the gardens during our Winter Open Nursery and Garden weekends, Feb.
Meet Liara’s sister, Leona
Here is another member of the early-winter flowering Helleborus x lemperi hybrids, Helleborus ‘Leona’. I’d say, she’s looking quite ravishing in the garden for mid-January. All Helleborus x lemperi are sterile hybrids and created by crossing Hellborus niger with Helleborus x hybridus.
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Lovely Liara
Flowering for us, just after the Christmas rose, Helleborus niger, are the Helleborus x lemperi group. These hybrids represent crosses between Helleborus niger, which only comes in white flowers, and the slightly later group of Helleborus x hybridus, which come in a range of colors. These sterile hybrids flower with, or slightly after the Christmas
The Plants of the JLBG Winter Open Nursery and Garden
We’ve recently wrapped up our Winter Open Nursery and Garden and would love thank everyone who took time out of their busy lives to attend. Despite the snow just a couple of days before we opened, we were blessed with absolutely beautiful winter weather and plenty of sun. Visitors who attended were able to see
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Tied up in Pine Knots
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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Winter Open Nursery and Garden
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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Bears Claws
One of the most fascinatingly demure lenten roses is the Bear’s claw, Helleborus foetidus, which is flowering now in the garden. This Western European native is one of the species with an upright stalk, compared to most species which have a horizontal, subterranean stem. The pendent clusters of light green flowers are held atop 18″
About face
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