The hellebore list
IF there’s one plant you must buy as soon as the year turns, it’s the hellebore—because there’s so much variety on offer. Many hybrid hellebores (also known as Oriental hellebores) are raised from seed and, as a result, they vary from seedling to seedling. The only way to be sure of what you are buying is to see them in flower, early in the year.
There are elegant singles, anemone-centred ruffs and fully fledged doubles. The flowers can be lightly freckled, heavily spotted, picotee-edged, veined or simple plain Janes, with colours that vary from soot-black to every shade of pink, clear-yellow, apple-green and
