Illumi Lime Helleborus (Lenten Rose) – 1 Gallon Pot

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An exciting new hybrid from the Rodney Davey Marbled Group. ‘Illumi Lime’ wows with both flower and foliage color. It has the brightest kiwi-lime blooms we’ve ever seen on a Lenten Rose and the best silver-marbled foliage, which looks unreal. If it were just a foliage plant it would get a spot in our gardens! It features incredibly abundant glowing lime-green saucer-shaped flowers with a crown of contrasting bright stamens occurring from mid winter through early spring. Unlike some varieties, the long-lasting large flowers of this one are outward facing and held atop sturdy stems that make them perfect for cutting and use in floral arrangements and bouquets. Nectar rich, the flowers offer emerging winter bees an essential food source at a time when not much else is blooming in the garden. The flowers stems rise above very attractive leathery, silver to golden-veined, deep green evergreen foliage that is deer and rabbit resistant. Virtually problem-free and exceptionally long-lived and easy to grow, this first class delightful hardy flowering wonder thrives in partially shaded garden beds, even under the canopies of large trees, as well as in containers for situating on patios, porches, decks and around other outdoor sitting and living spaces. Sure to be a conversation piece!

Growing in a clump 15 to 20 inches tall and spreading 2 feet or more, Illumi Lime Helleborus is ideal for use as an accent in smaller spaces and containers or in groupings, massed as a groundcover in landscape and woodland borders, or as a border along walkways and paths. Perfect under large shade trees, decks, covered porches and any other shady location. Don’t think you have any shade? Look on the east side of your home. A fine addition to shade gardens, winter gardens, beneficial pollinator gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  24 inches apart for mass plantings; 36 inches or more apart for space between plants