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

Sumptuous deep purple-black flowers with prominent white stamen. Flowers hang over a foliage which starts dark and turns more glossy green with age. Prefers partial shade with free-draining soil or compost. Excellent for use in early spring containers, but equally happy in the bed or shady border. ... Learn More

A true harbinger of spring, Helleborus orientalis 'Double Pinks' bring a touch of delicacy to the winter-weary garden. Its nodding, fully double blooms—blushed in soft to rich pink—emerge from evergreen clumps of leathery, divided foliage. Blooming from late winter into early spring, this long-lived perennial offers subtle drama when little else is in flower. Equally at home in woodland borders, under deciduous shrubs, or naturalised in dappled shade, it's as dependable as it is beautiful. ... 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

This rare and gorgeous, showy, Japanese evergreen perennial, grows its congested rosettes of pale green lance-shaped foliage, which turns purple in winter, along rocky streams. The strong lavender-pink, star shaped flowers, all with narrow petals are held in clusters well above the foliage. It excels in moist, well-drained soil in shade where it will very slowly divide up over the years. ... Learn More

Heracleum sphondylium, is a robust, herbaceous biennial or perennial native to Europe and Asia. It features large, deeply lobed green leaves and produces flat-topped umbels of tiny white flowers from late spring to mid-summer. These flowers are a magnet for pollinators, attracting bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. The plant’s towering structure makes it an imposing presence in naturalized areas, meadows, and wildlife gardens. Thriving in full sun to partial shade and moist, fertile soils, Heracleum sphondylium is a hardy plant that tolerates a variety of growing conditions, i ... Learn More

This beautiful gem is a recently selected, delicately refined form of our native hogweed of hedgerows, (NOT the poisonous "Giant Hogweed). It opens sizeable, dusky pink umbels which are stunning in a mixed border, where this gorgeous plant will be perfect for attracting bees and other pollinators. Definitely not to be confused with the invasive, non-native and phototoxic giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum). ... Learn More

Beautiful, blue-violet, iris-like flowers, brightly-patterned and deeper violet at the centres, open in long succession over clumps of sword-shaped leaves, for many weeks from early summer onwards. Although these plants from southern Chile and Argentina are not totally hardy, they will do well in a sheltered bed outside, or in a pot indoors where you can admire their beauty. ... Learn More