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<\/p>\nChristmas Roses will soon be with us in the garden. If you still haven’t removed the old leathery leaves from last year you can trim them off so the flowers are visible. After flowering lighter green leaves will grow to reinvigorate the plants roots.
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Hellebores have a medieval reputation for preventing witchcraft and are also called the Christmas Rose or in some parts of the country Virgin’s Mantle. In addition to the traditional white Helbore niger there are many new varieties and colours to grow.<\/p>\n
Selected Varieties<\/strong> Christmas Roses will soon be with us in the garden. If you still haven’t removed the old leathery leaves from last year you can trim them off so the flowers are visible. After flowering lighter green leaves will grow to reinvigorate the plants roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18999,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/18999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom the Lady series, Hellebore Red Lady, Hellebore Pink Lady, Hellebore Blue Metallic Lady, (a hybrid orientalis Hellebore )
\nHellebore Picotee Double Ellen flowers a light delicate attractive pink and Double Ellen White has green outer to the petals.
\nAshwood nurseries have a good list of specie and hybrid Hellebores
\nHybrids from Thom![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Harlow-mcarr-Feb-126.jpg\" "\\"Harlow")
pson & Morgan <\/a>
\nGardeners Tips<\/strong>
\nPlant now in October for a magic touch of flower power when even snowdrops are still to flower
\nPlant in dappled shade with moist but not boggy soil.
\nRabbit resistant which is a bonus near us.
\nMulch in spring to keep up the humus levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"