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The Christmas Rose – helleborus orientals

by Tricia

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Yes I know it’s Tuesday. I did not forget about Green Thumb Sunday. I just wasn’t able to make my post on Sunday because I was so busy. I’d rather have been posting, or gardening or pretty much anything else other than what I was doing! I was doing taxes!

It turned out to be a beautiful day on Saturday. I actually got outside, enjoyed some time with my husband sitting at our patio table that my husband had just hauled out and put back together that morning, and walked around taking photos of some of the flowers that were blooming.

Like this one. This is helleborus orientals. It’s also known as the Christmas rose. It’s called the Christmas rose because in some areas it blooms around Christmas time – even in the snow. Our area is too cool in the winter for it to live up to it’s name, however ours often is an early bloomer, tending to bloom around the same time as the crocus’.

I discovered that our Helleborus had one fully open flower and several buds that will soon bloom. I’ll try to get another photo when there are several buds blooming.

Isn’t this a lovely plant? The flowers are gorgeous but shy. They hang their pretty heads so it’s hard to see them in the garden. They draw you close so you can see their true beauty.

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Filed Under: Blooming today, Green Thumb Sunday, Perennials Tagged With: April blooms, Christmas Rose, flower, hellebore blooming, helleborus orientals, lovely delicate flower, photo

Oh those Bleeding Hearts

by Tricia

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I believe I took this photo in early June last year.

My bleeding hearts, Dicentra spectabilis, aren’t even up yet, and they likely won’t come up until the end of April or beginning of May, but once they begin to grow they will grow fast and should be blooming by the end of May or early June.

I’ve always heard that Bleeding Hearts don’t get very tall but mine often grow close to three feet tall and spread out almost three feet in diameter. I have to stake mine so that they don’t flop – perhaps that’s why mine look taller than most that I see?

So far the only Spring flowers that have bloomed are my crocus’ but I expect that others will follow very soon, perhaps by next weekend if I’m lucky.

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Perennials, Photography Tagged With: Bleeding hearts, blooming, Dicentra spectabilis, flowers, photo, spring flowers, tall

Fragrant Cloud

by Tricia

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Fragrant Cloud is a hybrid tea rose. I’ve only got one growing in my garden.

I think mine might be struggling. It’s never grown much, and reaches a maximum height of about two to two and a half feet each year. It does produce lovely full roses with tons of huge petals. However it only blooms two to three times per season for me and surprisingly I haven’t found the flowers to be all that fragrant.

I grow this rose beside Just Joey which out grows, out performs and out scents Fragrant Cloud by miles! Still I love this rose. It’s fighter. It keeps coming back each year.

Let’s hope it does this year now that I said that!

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Photography Tagged With: Fragrant Cloud, full flower, Green Thumb Sunday, hybrid tea, Just Joey, muli petaled, photo, rose, scented, small hybrid tea rose

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