Is this a hellebore please

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Spotted in local park today - so pretty.

Is it a hellebore please? Would like to plant some for next year. Thank you.

yes looks very much like a Hellebore to me!

I’d say so too!

You can buy them in the garden centres and nurseries now. They would need some shade though and some room. Fairly easy to grow. They can be a bit more expensive than the other perennials, but they're so worth it. Good value for long-flowering and lasts well in a vase too.

Yes a very pretty one

Thank you! Down the garden centre today!

I’ve just taken delivery of another 6 to go along with the dozen I already have. (I have a lot of shade)

Yes, I just love them, they flower for 6 months of the year when nothing else does and they love shade. They are perfect.

Once they settle in, they will try and take over your garden! I love mine though

If you leave the seed heads on they’ll self sew, usually take a couple of year to mature into flowering. I love them.

Sow* no sewing machines involved!

We’re talking here about what used to be called Helleborus orientalis but is now I think, Helleborus x hybridus. (It hasn’t changed names, it’s just that most of the specimens in cultivation are now thought to be H. x hybridus). Other hellebore species tend not to be quite so free seeding.

Most of my Hellebores are in old well established gardens, so I suppose they are old cultivars. The Holly leaved Hellebores are particularly interesting and free seeding.
I do give the seedings away so helping to spread some of the older strains.