Moondance Helleborus (Lenten Rose) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b  Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Evergreen Perennial

Flower Color:  White with Chartreuse-Green centers

Flower Size:  Large, 3-4″

Flowering Period:  Mid Winter well into Spring

Flower Type:  Single, Saucer-shaped

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Deep-Green with Silver veins

Fragrant Foliage:  NA

Berries:  NA

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-30F / Zone 4), Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Insect, Rabbit, Deep Shade, Slug

The first pure white flowered selection in the Frost Kiss Helleborus series, and a beauty it is, Moondance features abundant glowing flowers against extremely dark foliage, From mid winter well into spring, this incredibly floriferous beauty displays large, outward-facing and nodding bowl-shaped flowers with white petals surrounding a chartreuse green center zone from which emerges a prominent burst of yellow stamens and a red carpel. The abundant, long-lasting flowers are perched atop strong and sturdy stems to about 18 inches tall which make them excellent for cutting and display in floral arrangements and bouquets. The nectar-rich flowers offer emerging winter and early spring bees an essential food source at a time when not much else is blooming in the garden. The flower stems rise above a handsome clump of evergreen, leathery, very deep green leaves with silver veining. Virtually problem-free and exceptionally long-lived, this delightful winter bloomer thrives in partially shaded garden beds, even under the canopies of large trees, as well as in container gardens for situating on patios, porches, decks and around other outdoor sitting and living spaces.

Growing 18 to 20 inches tall and 2 feet wide or more over time, the Moondance 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, white theme gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  18 inches apart for mass plantings; 3 feet or more apart for space between plants