Now I know Spring is coming. The hellebores are in full bloom. Their common name is “Lenten Roses”. I love them because they are so tough. The leaves are like sheets of metal and the flowers are like leather. If it gets below freezing after they start blooming, they bow their heads and look cold, but as soon as it’s warm, it’s like nothing ever happened – no frost damage… no brown edges… nothing. I got a bunch of these a few years ago when my parents gave me a gift certificate to one of my favorite mail-order garden catalogs Wayside Gardens. (Thanks, Mom and Dad!) They’re full size now, and blooming like crazy. I have mix of flower colors, but the plant in the picture below is growing next to a sidewalk so I could lie down and take a picture of its nodding flowers.
Never mind the potato chip bag in the background. My yard is littered with trash right now. It’s from all the people who throw their trash on the ground while walking along nearby Harford Road. My pond is full of it. It makes me so mad that if I saw someone littering near my house, I would actually say something to them. But then I would probably get punched in the face or something. So if I’m in the hospital for being beaten, you know why it happened. But if I’m in the hospital for being poisoned, that will be another matter entirely.
You funny.
That is the very best picture to look at first thing in the morning – the promise of spring! I hope the rest of the day goes like that: something beautiful out of all the crap.
Here, here! (I don’t actually know how to spell that.)
I LOVE them!!! I want some!!! Can I put them where other summer plants will come up, like lillies & such?
Utz? No way. You may be the flower expert, but I’m the food expert. My guess is Herrs. (Utz-red/white)
And totally say something to the litterers. Just have your shovel handy.
Oh, and don’t all your flowers bow in your presence?
When I read your title, I was certain that aliens had finally arrived and were in the process of subdoing (subdueing?) the eastern seaboard.
I, for one, welcome out new hellbore bearing overloards.
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Do those grow in our zone? I still need something for under the clematis vine by our mailbox. Those poppies just weren’t the ones I was hoping for…
Beth, I grew one in the front planter at our Hillcrest house. Maybe you can go dig it up in the middle of the night- it’s probably still very healthy.
I found that when the winter was hard you had to cut out the leaves because they got withered-looking and brown. In a mild winter I didn’t do anything to it.