Six of the best sites for
Hellebores
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Hellebores (also known as the lenten rose or christmas rose) brighten up the winter garden. Some of the popular varieties include helleborus niger, helleborus orientalis, helleborus foetidus and helleborus argutifolius.
Crocus Online Garden Centre
Crocus, based in Windlesham, Surrey, has a good selection of hellebores (also known as the christmas rose or lenten rose). The catalogue includes Helleborus niger, Helleborus argutifolius, Helleborus foetidus and Helleborus orientalis as well as a good selection of the Harvington hybrid hellebores. Online ordering.
Fibrex Nurseries
Fibrex nurseries are a family business established more than 46 years ago, based in the Warwickshire countryside. One of the specialties is hellebores (lenten roses) – all of which are propagated and grown in their own nursery. They have many helleborus orientalis hybrids and some useful information about caring for your lenten rose plants. Orders and payment can be accepted through the website or post if your prefer.
Long Acre Plants
Long Acre Plants is a plantsmans’s nursery based in Somerset. They specialise in perennials for woodland gardens including the christmas rose (hellebore). Their catalogue includes a wide range of hellebores including varieties such as helleborus niger and a wide variety of helleborus orientalis hybrids. Orders and payments for christmas rose can be made online or by post.
Pennard Plants
Pennard Plants sell a range of perennials including a range of hellebore plant (lenten roses). These include new varieties such as helleborus niger “Potters Wheel” and Helleborus argutifolius “Silver Lace”, and more established varieties such as Helleborus foetidus “Westerflisk” and Helleborus orientalis hybridus “Red”. Orders for lenten roses can be placed through the website, with payments being made by post.
Rare Plants
Rare Plants (Paul Christian) is based in Wrexham and is exclusively a mail order business aiming to supply noteworthy plants (including hellebores or lenten roses) not found in the local garden centre. Examples of hellebore plants in the current catalogue include Helleborus odorus odorus, Helleborus orientalis guttatus, and Helleborus viridus occidentalis. Online ordering.
Fir Tree Farm Nursery
Fir Tree Farm Nursery, based near Falmouth in Cornwall, stocks a huge range of perennials – roughly 4,500 including many hellebores. Their whole catalogue is on their website. Among these they stock a good number of hellebore plants including Helleborus argutifolius “Silver Lace”, Helleborus “David’s Star” and many varieties of Helleborus niger and Helleborus orientalis. Mail order only.
Other Websites Selling Hellebores
A wide range of woodland plants including helleborus, epimedium, and anemone as well as euphorbia, monarda and grasses