'Monte Christo®' Snow Rose | Hellebore Gold Collection®

'Monte Christo®' Snow Rose | Hellebore Gold Collection®With silvery bluish evergreen leaves and cream coloured, green tinged blooms on red flower stems, you can count on Monte Christo to turn heads. Starting to flower in early December, it continues to flower into the new year. The flowers turn a delicate green with a pale rose edge over time Snow roses combine the frost and snow hardiness of the Christmas rose (Helleborus niger) with Mediterranean hellebore heritage, which allows them to reach their full

Humilis Persian Pearl (Pulchella) is great for naturalising areas especially when planted in groups or for using edging in the fronts of beds and border or for patio containers and pots

producing myriad pink blossoms in spring and superb sweet nuts from the end of summer

This special collection is very versatile and suitable for planting in a wide range of outdoor situations such as mixed borders

The plants become smothered in small semi-double carmine flowers and for the longest flowering season sow in autumn and spring

but if you can

Dazzling in sunny or partially shaded borders and ideal for hedging and screening

Cayenne is a delicious

For the earliest crops sow bolt-resistant varieties under cloches from mid-March

An elegant mid-season bloom

'Tricolor' is a lover of humid environments so misting its leaves regularly is advised

Gladiolus Purple Art thrives in full sun and well-drained soil

These plants are particularly valuable for borders