hi everybody this is Noelle from Petitti garden centers and I'm at Casa Verde
it is mid-march not even really and we are looking at Helleborus or
otherwise known as Lenten rose Christmas rose snow rose there's lots of common
names for them what you need to know is that this is one of the best plants for
your garden for your shade garden that is deer resistant and blooms for a very
very long time and you don't have to do anything with it
so let me tell you a little bit more about these guys what I have in front of
me are a couple different varieties of Lenten rose what we've found in growing
the Lenten roses is that there there are definitely attributes that you want to
look for one of the first things is you want to look for a flower that kind of
comes up right and then looks at you because a lot of Lenten rose they have
kind of a drooping flower so you're always walking into the garden and
trying to lift their face up so there are varieties called HGC Gold Collection
varieties and these varieties are fantastic not only do they have the
upright flowers that look right at you but they also have numerous blooms and
they keep coming and coming and coming from this plant which is kind of unusual
comparative to the older varieties they just set up one flower spike and go
through the buds and that was about it so these these guys are just wonderful
the other thing that you need to know so I said shade garden they grow really
well in the shade flower do their thing they're one of the first flowering
plants that come up right through the snow sometimes and just look fabulous
all the way through June July they still look like they're flowering except their
petals basically are just kind of dry and they'll fade but they're still
standing up there so they look gorgeous the foliage is semi evergreen very
leathery so it is awesome out there in the
landscape two very big foliage really cool texture so again great great plant
in the shade garden what a lot of people don't know is you can grow the
Hellebores in a sunnier spot however you have to make sure that they do stay in a
moist soil okay a moist garden spot so you have to be a little bit more
conscientious about your watering if they are in the Sun but they will
survive and they will do their thing for you the reason that their deer and bunny
resistant not only do they smell slightly but they are toxic as well so
if they do get consumed by deer or bunnies they learn pretty quickly that
they won't want to eat those anymore so they're a great plant to grow especially
here in Northeast Ohio where we do have a lot of deer issues what else do I want
to say they are long-lived in the garden so you plant a hella Boris the first
year we talked about it sleeps the second year it creeps third year at
leaps these guys get to be maybe about 18 to 24 inches tall and height but by
the end of that third year you have two foot width of your hellebores clump so
they're really a nice just really I'd say strong textural plant out there in
the landscape good front to middle border and really look gorgeous you know
again with your Astilbe's and your Hostas and everything else that you can
grow out there so they really do a nice job of expanding and filling out and
what could be better than a flower that comes up you know very late winter early
spring just surprises you with the color makes you happy to go out in the garden
again and just enjoy them so I've got a couple varieties here I have ivory
Prince ivory prince is probably the most compact really really floriferous
produces a ton of buds isn't quite open yet but when it does open it has kind of
a a creamy lime-green and also like a blush color to it really
nice Pink Frost is a beauty here nice dark stems really nice blush pink and
cream color on the flowers again very floriferous these guys over here are new
series we have it's called ice and roses and they're sort of an inner specific
cross so they're crossed between a snow rose and a Lenten rose and the foliage
on these guys is really really large probably about twice that three times as
big as the others large flowers taller stems really really beautiful there's a
white and there is this burgundy red here too and they're just gorgeous we're
all falling in love with them these just got planted maybe September like last
fall so they're already productive you know really really big and sizable plant
so we're really excited to grow them out in the garden and enjoy them