Hellebores - Plants and Varieties for Sale

Flower forms also differ, did you know that you can buy double hellebores, and picottee flower forms. White flowers spotted with pink, pink flowers spotted with red the list of varieties offered for sale online is almost endless.

Any flowers in Winter are welcome of course, and when July has turned to August we have hellebores as well as wattles, Epacris (native heath) in pink and white; yellow, perfumed Mahonia and camellias to enrich our gardens. Purple, white or yellow Crocus and glistening white snowdrops (Galanthus) complete the picture.

Hellebores have dangling cup-shaped flowers which invite one to reach down and look inside. The outside of the sepals (which look like petals: the true petals are reduced to nectaries within the flower) may be rich pink while the inside may be paler, sometimes spotted, within. Dark nectaries can make the flower even more fascinating.

The pink, plum and white varieties are known as Helleborus x hybridus and incorrectly as Oriental varieties because there are genes from H. torquatus and others in the parentage of these varieties, not just H. orientalis which is greenish-white in the wild. H. x hybridus vary from green, white, pink to purple and plum-black. Yellow ones are occasionally available and grey-blue and spotted ones are irresistable. Old varieties may have green through the flower.

Hellebore specimen plants can grow well in pots and with a little cutting back of old foliage during winter they are easy to maintain. More Winter Flowering Plants

Hellebore Species and varieties

These new colorful flowering hellebores brighten the winter months and with the ability to grow in shade to part shade, hellebores are a wonderful versatile plant. Hellebores are a native to areas of Europe and were believed to have medicinal attributes they all prefer a humus rich well drained soil. Species available for sale in Australia include : Helleborus x Hybridus, H. Orientalis, Double Hellebores, H. Corsicus, H. Viridis, H. Foetidus, H. Argutifolis, White Helleborus, H. Odorus. Hellebores can also be grown from seed.