Lenten roses get their ecclesiastical nickname from their growing season. It begins in winter and extends into spring, surrounding the season of Lent. While the long-lived plants add color to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Full frame shot of beautiful Hellebore flowers floating on water Every garden needs some hellebores. Not only do they bring beauty ...

Winter is a time when most plants in the garden are conserving their energy and you may not see a lot of color around. But there are some plants that are capable of blooming regardless, daring the ...

Hellebores produce large and gorgeous cup-shaped flowers that come in a range of shades, such as white, pink, purple, yellow, and more. These five-petaled flowers bloom in the colder months through ...

Hail to the hellebore! The second week of January may not give you a garden filled with flowers, but there is one perennial plant that is often blooming this week no matter what the weather. The ...

As time passes, groups of flowers come in and out of style or favor. Hydrangeas were popular in the 50’s but nothing much changed about them until new varieties suddenly were available. Now, they are ...

The second week of January has us deep into the dormancy of winter, but there are signs of spring if you look. Buds are swelling, bulbs are poking their pointed tips up out of the soil and there are ...

Whenever we have a few mild days in February, gardeners get excited about plants and planting. We have already seen some crocus blooming and a few daffodils are about to burst into bloom, so we know ...

Hellebores are commonly called Christmas Rose or Lenten Rose, but there are actually more than twenty or so species and many new hybrids. This particular one is Helleborus niger ‘Josef Lemper’, a ...

Certain plants come into vogue and then slip off their pedestal. The day lily in all its rich variety was once the perennial to plant for its seemingly endless supply of showy blooms in the gathering ...