This attractive, evergreen, trailing plant has loose terminal clusters of bright yellow, saucer-shaped flowers, with a tight cluster of orange stamens which are sensitive to the touch and spread outwards. Long-lived and easy to grow, it thrives in a dry, sunny place such as a south-facing rockery when it will produce a continuing mass of flowers through the summer. It is a most important plant to nature lovers being attractive to bees and other pollinating insects, but in the wild, especially the Brown Argus, Green Hairstreak and blue butterfly caterpillars, and also the Wood Tiger Moth caterp ... Learn More

Summer Sun produces a seemingly never ending supply of yellow, semi-double daisy flowers with deep orange-yellow centred discs. Care-free and reliable, it will bloom from early summer to early autumn (dead-heading regularly will greatly extend the flowering season). The tall stems may require staking, particularly when grown in very rich garden soil or too much shade. Excellent selection for the back of the border. Very attractive to nectar seekers. Perfect for cutting, your vases will overflow with this cheery perennial. . ... Learn More

The "Cherry Pie Plant" is perennial in warmer climates but is more usually grown as a half hardy annual. The flowers form an overwhelmingly fragrant, deep violet dome above matt oval leaves. Perfect in either containers or the open garden. ... Learn More

A newly bred and distinctive form of Helleborus argutifolius with spectacular silver-grey leaves, overlaid with a network of green veins, which are especially beautiful in spring. These plants which are smaller in stature than the normal form, produce trusses of pale yellow-green flowers in late winter and early spring. ... Learn More

Prickly-edged grey-green leaves on stout stems holding clusters of large, pale green, upturned flowers with green nectaries and stamens. A long lived stalwart. ... Learn More

This ever-popular, evergreen Cottage-garden plant has downward facing, pale green flowers (sometimes with purple edging on the petals) extend on reddened stems above the darker green, shiny, palmately divided foliage. It is named thus only because the foliage gives off an unpleasant smell when crushed. ... Learn More

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

Given to us by a good friend many years ago, this lovely variant produces several quite tall thin stems holding relatively diminutive, almost black flowers, that do indeed resemble black buttercups. It makes a distinctive and attractive variation from all other hellebores we grow. Some variations may occur from these seeds but all should be lovely. ... 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

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

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