{"id":509,"date":"2009-03-22T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T19:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-04-29T19:33:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T23:33:52","slug":"hellebore-the-christmas-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2009\/03\/22\/hellebore-the-christmas-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellebore &#8211; the Christmas Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2009\/03\/22\/hellebore-the-christmas-rose\/470502932_4153b03d53_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1631\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/470502932_4153b03d53_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hellebore - the Christmas Rose\" width=\"720\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/470502932_4153b03d53_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/470502932_4153b03d53_b-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s said that Hellebores bloom in the snow, often around Christmas time &#8211; but mine don&#8217;t!  Mine bloom near the end of March or early April.  They are not blooming yet, but their leaves are greening up so I expect to see lovely flowers like the one above (photo take a few years ago in my yard) very soon.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<!--CusAds--><p>The Hellebore is such a lovely flower, it&#8217;s a shame that the flowers droop down.  To take pictures of them I have to prop the flower head up on a leaf or gently hold it&#8217;s stem with my hand while trying to keep my hand or fingers out of the picture.  I guess they make more work for me when I&#8217;m trying to photograph them, but it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"1aeb297f1c3f3c86425d785a1988474d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<br\/>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* BreathofLife_300x250_underpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7952806381\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\nch_fluidH = 1;\r\nch_nump = \"4\";\r\nch_client = \"dragonden\";\r\nch_width = 550;\r\nch_height = \"auto\";\r\nch_type = \"mpu\";\r\nch_sid = \"photo_betweenposts2\";\r\nch_color_site_link = \"ff7256\";\r\nch_color_title = \"ff7256\";\r\nch_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\nch_color_text = \"333333\";\r\nch_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/scripts.chitika.net\/eminimalls\/amm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<br\/>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s said that Hellebores bloom in the snow, often around Christmas time &#8211; but mine don&#8217;t! Mine bloom near the end of March or early April. They are not blooming yet, but their leaves are greening up so I expect to see lovely flowers like the one above (photo take a few years ago in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[647,143,1332,1331,37,1330,428,582,158,1636,1333],"class_list":{"0":"post-509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-flowers","7":"category-spring","8":"tag-beautiful","9":"tag-bloom","10":"tag-christmas_rose","11":"tag-drooping","12":"tag-flower","13":"tag-hellebore","14":"tag-leaves","15":"tag-lovely","16":"tag-macro","17":"tag-spring","18":"tag-winter_rose","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}