Daylight hours getting longer as spring creeps ever closer fast forwards our thoughts to the approaching Easter season. The Lenten Rose is the namesake blooming plant that reflects the 40 days before ...

Q. I have a perennial flower garden that is in bloom virtually all year, except for January and February. In looking through some plant catalogs, I noticed a perennial called Lenten rose that blooms ...

Lenten roses are famous for blooming early in Piedmont gardens and will benefit from some tidying up by removal of old foliage now. T. Ortega Gaines Observer file photo By late winter, the foliage of ...

MACON, Ga. — While most flowers are still hitting snooze through winter, there’s one plant that refuses to wait for spring- and it's making Central Georgia gardens quietly burst into color. Say hello ...

Q: I like to make winter-flower arrangements. I have seen the flowers of Lenten rose in flower arrangements, but when I cut them, they simply wilt. A: It’s quite difficult to prevent the flowers of ...

Looking for an early, deer-proof, colorful, shade-tolerant, long-blooming perennial? Sound like an impossible combination? Not if you grow Lenten Rose, (Helleborus orientalis). These 12- to 18-inch ...

The early forecast for the middle of March painted a bleak picture for our plants that had emerged, leafed out and burst into bloom. The week of March 12 dawned cold, bleak, and dreary – and pretty ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The Lenten rose, ...

While much of the outdoor landscape is still sleeping, some early-bird spring arrivals are brightening our neighborhoods with colorful blooms. Pussy willow, forsythia, pansies and Lenten roses are ...

These unique perennials are one of the very first plants to bloom in early spring, or even late winter, ushering in the new gardening season. They begin blooming well before tulips and daffodils and ...

I can think of only two deficiencies to the evergreen perennial known as the Lenten rose. The flowers nod down to face the earth, useful perhaps for pollinating insects but not for six-foot gardeners ...

The Lenten rose, or hellebore, has gone from being a connoisseur’s plant to a widely used perennial valued for its low care, versatility and adaptability to shade. The bloom resembles a wild rose, ...