You’ll want to experience all the excitement that Shotgun Wedding Lenten Rose, Helleborus, brings. Its huge 3″ white blossoms with multiple petals have intricately patterned deep burgundy markings. A spectacular specimen, some are saying it may be the most fascinating of all Hellebores available today. A vigorous grower and bloomer, you can expect multitudes of the magnificent flowers. Part of the Wedding Party Series, a group of Hellebores with notable vigor, rich flower colors, and showy floral displays with large numbers of blossoms per plant. The Wedding Hellebore series comes from the talented, world-class breeder Hans Hansen.

Lenten Rose are wonderful additions to the shade garden or naturalized woodland garden. With their dark, thick, evergreen foliage they look fantastic in and out of bloom. In late winter or early spring their nodding 3-4″ cup-shaped flowers emerge. Flowers dry on the plants, sometimes persisting for months. They are easy to grow in average soil and are tolerant of drought once established. A long lived perennial, Lenten Rose resists pests, deer, and rabbits.

Plant in shade to part shade in well-draining soil. Old foliage can be cut back in late winter before new flowers emerge.