FrostKiss™ Pippa's Purple® Lenten Rose

Early spring plum and gold for your garden! The FrostKiss™ Pippa's Purple® Lenten Rose (Helleborus x 'RD09') is an early wonder! Blushing plum stems sit atop silver veined green foliage can often be seen emerging through the snows of late winter. The buds open into shy purple to smoky-pink petals with dark speckles and a shower of butter yellow sparks erupting from each center.

Lenten Rose forms dense clumps of elegantly nodding blooms and Pippa’s stays compact and uniformly mounded. The silvery veined green leaves can be evergreen in warmer climates but are hardy herbaceous perennials in cold growing zones down to USDA zone 4.

Early emerging pollinators are grateful for these early emerging little wonders! You’ll be grateful too for the chance at snipping the first long stems for a bouquet on your nightstand! Pippa's Purple® is part of the FrostKiss™ series, selected to withstand full sun in cooler growing zones, giving northern gardeners more placement options!

Planting and Application:

Hellebore are fantastic in cutting gardens and perennial borders, adding their grace to your garden beds and helping chase away the winter blues. The elegant form adds a beautiful effect to Zen and Rock gardens. They are of course lovely additions to pollinator, cottage and cutting gardens!

Lenten Rose slowly colonizes small areas, these are fantastic for gradually rambling through your garden beds among perennials and early spring ephemerals. Highlight in a protected planter with other early spring wonders like forced bulbs, Snowdrops and Forsythia blooms. Turning any garden bed into a woodland wildflower garden and brightening any shade garden!

• Speckled Plum-Purple Petals & Prominent Yellow Eye
• Dark Green Foliage With Silver Veins
• Small Spreading Compact Clumps
• Long Slender Purple Stems
• Cutting & Perennial Gardens & Early Spring Color

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Hellebores tolerate full sun only in the mildest summers, preferring filtered sun and partial shade, even full shade in the hottest of its growing zone range. Plant in a well-drained, cool moist soil that won’t dry out and mulch the bed very well. Deadhead for more return blooms.

• Full Sun in Cool Summers, Part Shade & Full Shade
• Moist Well-Drained Soil
• Well Mulched Beds
• Clean Mound in Very Early Spring
• Deer Resistant

FrostKiss™ Pippa's Purple® Lenten Rose will help beat those winter doldrums with a burst of early plum-purple color that can handle a bit more sun than its shade-loving cousins! Order your winter relief at NatureHills.com today!