Easter Treats

I thought that my yearly fix of Hellebore happiness was over. The Hellebores in my garden are turning in to their muted and dried state of faded glory and other things have rushed out to take over their star status. So imagine my delight when in my Mum's garden there were some beautiful new Hellebore friends in full flow.

Niether were known to me and both were completely different from anything I have.

This one is a Helleborous Nigercors 'Emma', what a glorious palette of colours!

The Nigercors bit comes from the mixture of  Helleborous niger and Helleborous corsicus which is what this plant is. It has the toothed leaves of the corsicus and the pinky flowers of the niger. The flowers start white and fade to pink with the outside of the petals turning the darkest, which gives it this tapestry of colours.

The flowers are at different stages so are endlessly varying.

This other is a tiny wonder barely 3 inches tall but covered in greeny white to shell pink flowers, bursts of frilly stamens and beautifully veined, toothed leaves. Mum found this in the local nursery with minimal information but it is absolutely lovely.

I want one, in fact I want one of each!

Oh I do love an Easter bonus, off to eat some choccy now.