The overpowering fragrance from the pendulous purple-lipped flowers fills our cottage garden for weeks in earliest spring, and this has been likened to mahonia perfume). This form is the rare, sweetly-perfumed form of Helleborus foetidus (so called because only the attractive, thick, waxy, divided FOLIAGE has a musky smell if bruised!). ... Learn More

The superb red stalked form of H. foetidus - only so called because of the odour released on breaking the foliage, so look, don't manhandle the poor plant. On some plants the deep colouration continues from the main stem to the leaf petiole and into the flowering head consisting of numerous purple rimmed green flowers. Seedlings come rewardingly true, but select the very darkest for cuttings. The deepest coloration is very pronounced in a dry spot and especially in a dry season. ... Learn More

This ever-popular plant is an evergreen perennial flowering plant producing its large, waxy white flowers on short stems with thick shiny leaves in the middle of winter. These make superb cut flowers when all else is still underground asleep! ... Learn More

A selection from some of our best Helleborus orientalis plants which are guaranteed to brighten up your garden with a splash of colour in early spring. All the very best forms have been selected by hand and concentrated in this selection. ... Learn More

These seeds were collected from the darkest plants we grow, which originated from one of the country's top hellebore breeders. Deepest plums and purples open from slate coloured buds, many plants having the extra bonus of the dark foliage of their parents. ... Learn More

These seeds have been hand collected from these ravishing beauties which have heavily-doubled, brightly-speckled white flowers, which open in February, and continue this awesome display until May or June. ... Learn More

These absolutely superb, fully double hellebores, do indeed bear an amazing resemblance to roses and come in all shades from palest pink to red. The very long-lived plants produce long stemmed flowers which are perfect for cutting too. ... Learn More

Seed from the most beautiful plants we have ever grown. Large, waxy, extravagantly marked flowers produce gasps of awe from all who see them. These gorgeous plants are descendants of many of Helen Ballard's famous named forms. ... Learn More

These superb, fully double Hellebores do indeed bear an amazing resemblance to roses and come in all shades from pure white to red, including greens and yellows, and are often heavily marked and shaded. The long stems are perfect for cutting too. Wonderful, bone-hardy, perennial, trouble-free plants! ... Learn More

Seed saved from the very best forms of Helleborus orientalis that we grow in our gardens, including pinks, maroons and mottled and patterned heads. This fabulous selection will impress everyone who is fortunate enough to discover these emerging in March, April and May each year! ... Learn More

Wide open, nodding, golden-eyed flowers in reds and deepest pinks, and all attractively speckled within, flaunt their beauty in earliest spring. These plants are exceptionally easy to grow, are very long-lived and once established will put on a wonderful trouble-free annual display. After two or three years you will find they also spread by self-seeding! ... Learn More

The original seeds of this lovely orientalis form came from our friend Rita's best black flowered plant, and the seedlings are all good with flowers ranging to darkest, deepest purple. ... Learn More

Bunches of open, saucer-like flowers, of a startling bright green, massed on strong stems in early spring. Very early flowering, long-lived flowers which are excellent for cutting. ... Learn More

This remarkable and impressive hybrid between H. argutifolius and H. lividus, which seeds quite true, has inherited the robust hardiness of H. argutifolius, but retained the purple seeds pods and green and pink marbled foliage, coloured red beneath, of H. lividus. ... Learn More

This is the very finest selection of this lovely hybrid between Helleborus lividus and Helleborus corsicus. Trusses consisting of lime-green flowers tinged with pink or purple open in late winter to early spring, producing purple seed pods, with toothed, dark green, metallic foliage all year round. ... Learn More