Helleborus x hybridus 'Winter Moonbeam'

Common name: Lenten Rose

Description: Helleborus x hybridus 'Winter Moonbeam' is an elegant and refined lenten rose producing beautiful, nodding, pure white flowers that often develop attractive picotee edges or delicate spotting within the cup as the season progresses. Flowering from mid-winter to early spring, its soft, luminous white blooms brighten shaded spots and create a serene, understated beauty beneath trees and shrubs. The robust evergreen foliage provides year-round structure, and the plant is long-lived and essentially maintenance-free once established.

Other benefits: luminous white winter flowers, deer and rabbit resistant, long-lived, evergreen

Wildlife attraction: bees and early queen bumblebees in late winter

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 45cm x 45cm

Position: partial shade to full shade

Soil pH: neutral to slightly alkaline

Moisture: moist but well-drained; mulch with leaf mould in autumn

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -20°C