Happy Saturday Friends! ✨ Today we’re celebrating the unsung hero of our spring garden: the Helleborus, also known as Lenten Rose. These beauties are the first to pop up in early spring, bursting into color as early as February and keeping our garden vibrant through late spring. They also have a great vase life! 🌼 Not only do their blooms last from winter’s end all the way into spring — longer than many other plants — but these hardy perennials also multiply each season by dropping their seed pods. Want more in another spot? Just separate them and plant away. Here’s to the powerhouse of our spring cutting garden – we celebrate you, Helleborus!
Want to keep reading? Try The Complete Hardy Begonia Guide: The Shade Perennial That Makes Its Own Babies, or What We’re Growing in Our Greenhouse This Year (And Why I Chose These Flowers).
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Written by
Lane and Jules Morris
Authors and University of Tennessee faculty writing from our farm in East Tennessee about gardening, the farm kitchen, faith and designing a flourishing life at any age. More about us
