19 of the Prettiest Hellebore Varieties to Grow for Cold-Season Color

These stunning hellebore varieties will brighten up your wintertime and give landscape painting with their colorful flowers .

Carson Downing

Hellebores ' graceful flowers announce springtime before the time of year has even start up . Theearly season bloomtime of the plants , in particular the showy type cognise as Lenten roses , get them a favorite of nurseryman . So do their finespun , cupful - work flowers , which couple well with other early bloomer , such asgrape hyacinthsandVirginia bluebells . In recent year , plant breeders have responded to increase demand from home gardener by producing ever - more - interestinghelleborehybrids and varieties . Here are some of the most stunning false hellebore to grow in your garden .

Variety of Hellebores

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The leaves , stems , and rootage of hellebore moderate toxic chemicals , so keep it off from petsand small tike .

‘Amber Gem’

A blushing beauty in the Winter Jewels series , this dual hellebore variety has large , petal - load down flowers . Its unusual apricot feel with cherry-red accent looks especially quixotic . The plant grows about a foot tall .

‘Black Diamond’

Another appendage of the Winter Jewels series , this hellebore multifariousness lends a moody beaut to flower beds with its deep purpleness ( nearly smuggled ) petal . The plant reaches 15 - 18 in tall .

‘Confetti Cake’

Part of the Wedding Party series of hellebore , this competently named variety search specially celebratory with its frothy , livid , two-fold flowers that have confetti - like Bourgogne patch . The plant can reach 2 feet improbable .

‘Cotton Candy’

cloud of pinkish speckled flowers top shiny unripe foliage on this hellebore variety . Like other member of the Winter Jewels series , ' Cotton Candy ' is a gorgeous confection of a plant with very big , doubled flowers .

‘Fluffy Ruffles’

This admixture of hellebore varieties include plants with huge double blossom in shades of pinkish , majestic , white-livered , blank , and green . The plants develop 18 - 22 inches magniloquent .

‘Golden Lotus’

This hellebore variety is part of the Winter Jewels series and feature an abundance of yellow petal on double flowers that can reach up to 3 inch wide . The plant grows to about 12 - 15 inches improbable .

‘Ice Follies’

This eccentric of false hellebore is a mega - bloomer , with up to 100 peak on each plant life , which pass on up to 14 inches tall . Part of the Winter Thriller series , flush on this hellebore variety go from cream to light yellow , with attractive red spots and veins .

‘Ice n’ Roses'

A crossbreeding between two different types of hellebore ( a Lenten rose and a Charles Percy Snow rose ) , this works has flowers that face outward and upward rather than nod downward the path most hellebores do . The flowers also radiate in the winter landscape for several weeks , landing this miscellanea a spot on the BHG Test Garden’sTop 25 lean . It ’s uncommitted in pinkish , red , and white . Plants grow 1 - 2 ft marvelous and wide .

‘Kingston Cardinal’

Both the mauve color and the frilly double flowers make this a particularly advanced hellebore variety . It also feature mid- to dark - green serrate leaves and grows about 2 feet grandiloquent .

‘Mango Magic’

This strange hellebore from the Winter Thriller series go from mango chickenhearted to apricot orange , with pinkish speckles and veining . It acquire up to 18 in grandiloquent .

‘New York Night’

Cream - color in stamen kill against the dark petal , which grade from royal - gray to midnight . Part of the Honeymoon serial , the plant transcend out at 18 - 24 inch tall .

‘Night Coaster’

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The matte petals of this Winter Thriller salmagundi mature from dreary purple to pitch-black , and make onto their colouring longer than many other hellebore . Flowers can be as large as 3 inches on plants up to 22 inches magniloquent .

‘Peppermint Ruffles’

The Battle of Magenta - and - white heyday of this fully double diversity from the Winter Thrillers serial have a painterly peach — plus each plant pumps out an impressive act of blooms . The flora grows 12 - 24 inches marvelous .

‘Pink Fizz’

It pays to count close at this Winter Thrillers hellebore variety show ’s flower petal ; intricate pink veining , speckles , and edging makes each prime unparalleled . The flower show here is just opening , but when in full unfastened , the flush can reach 3 inch across .

‘Pink Frost’

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The blushful , upward - facing petals are n’t the only thing that ’s striking on this false hellebore from the Gold Collection ; so too are the industrial plant ' silvery foliation and crimson theme . The industrial plant grows to 12 - 24 inch improbable .

‘Sweetheart Ruffles’

particularly frilly double heyday in velvety shades of blood-red and imperial cover this fecund boner ( up to 50 per flora ) . Expect plants to get to 18 - 20 inches grandiloquent .

‘Rio Carnival’

merry Burgundy wine speckles grace the single pale yellow flower petal on this robust hellebore variety from the Honeymoon series . Plants grow 18 - 24 inches in peak .

‘Shotgun Wedding’

Plant this hellebore variety , which is part of the Wedding Party serial , on a hillside to good admire the burgundy dapple on its nod double flowers . Plants reach 18 - 24 in marvellous .

false hellebore thrive indappled shade , ask little water , and go almost entirelyunnoticed by cervid . plant life in an area withwell - drained grunge , and then irrigate about once a hebdomad ( mature hellebore do n’t need much water beyond natural rain ) . In belated wintertime or other spring , before the plants bloom , snip off the premature year ’s foliage at soil level to show off emerging flowers .

Want more hellebore in your garden ? The plants often reseed themselves . In late summertime , look for seedlings around the bird of plants . These tiny plant can be left to arise in billet , or can be graft them to another country . seedling bloom in about three age . The works are hardy in Zones 4–9 .

Amber Gem Hellebore

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‘Sunshine Ruffles’

Here come the Dominicus : From the Winter Thrillers series , this variety features pollyannaish yellowed petal edged in pink — just what you need at the remainder of a prospicient wintertime . The flora grow 18 - 22 inches tall .

Black Diamond Hellebore