Helleborus x hybridus 'Winter Sunshine'

Common name: Lenten Rose

Description: Helleborus x hybridus 'Winter Sunshine' is a warm and cheerful lenten rose producing lovely nodding flowers in pale primrose to golden-yellow tones from mid-winter to early spring. The warm, sunny flower colour is uncommon among hellebores and provides a particularly uplifting display during the bleakest months. An evergreen, slowly spreading clump-forming perennial, it thrives in shaded and woodland-style borders and is both deer and rabbit resistant. A wonderful plant for bringing warmth and life to dark corners of the garden in winter.

Other benefits: unusual yellow winter flowers, deer and rabbit resistant, evergreen, long-lived

Wildlife attraction: bees and early queen bumblebees from 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; humus-rich soil preferred

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -20°C