My first outside hellebore bloom (that hasn't frozen)

I have had lots of buds & blooms on my hellebores but they never opened or froze because of the cold. Here is one I took in the late afternoon. I am not sure what variety this is. I tried to identify it but there are so many. Found this wonderful website on them after reading an article in Southern Living. Here is the link:

http://www.sunfarm.com/index.phtml


Feb 09 Hellebore ( photo / image / picture from gfreiherr's Garden )

 

That bloom is gorgeous! I really MUST get a Hellebore or two

 

I love the color on the petals. I have always thought it would be fun to grow one. Any I have seen are very expensive.

 

Oh, Gail... how lovely. I will be on the lookout for a hellebore when I start thinking flowers.

 

That's a nice-looking Helleborus, Gail. I like the way the light falls on it.

 

Oh my gosh! That is so gorgeous. Makes my day brighter looking at it!

 

Thanks everyone. Eileen, be patient...they are very hardy, mine have usually bloomed earlier that this but a few days of sunshine & warmer temps have allowed them to bloom.

 

So pretty! I like the colors. I need to get outside and look around. The hellebores were just beginning to unfold nicely.

 

Stunning colors!

 

They are so pretty.I have never had any of those but they are such beauties.

 

Lovely hellebore! I've got one that looks a bit like yours, but at the moment mine are under something like 60 cm / 2 feet of hard-packed snow.

 

Hellebore

:-| I have one hellebore by my back door in a garden that gets morning sun and by noon is shade. I planted it in 2005 and it never showed even a bit of green for 3 seasons. I thought I had lost it. Then in 2008 early spring it came up with some green but no flower. Last year it got very large with no flower and now this spring I have 2 flowers as of late March. I live in zone 5 so this could be the reason. Plants seem to do their own thing no matter how attentive we are. I planted an Easter lily once and forgot about it, in this same backdoor garden. Three seasons later it appeared and bloomed. Then I never saw it again.

 

I adore them! I have loads around the garden, but never a flower. However, mine are all grown from seeds, so fingers crossed, maybe next year I can show off a bloom or 2.

 

Thanks for the comments. When they start from seed it takes 3 years to bloom. :-?