Helleborus Gold Collection: Josef Lemper & Pink Frost

The Helleborus Gold Collection, abbreviated HGC, is a group of high quality helleborus niger and hybrid plants propagated vegatively rather than by seedlings. This ensures consistency, unique identity and uniformity within the cultivar.

The Gold Collection is divided into two groups, HGC Christmas and HGC Spring.

HGC Christmas Collection
The HGC Christmas collection features several Helleborus niger varieties:

• Jacob Classic
• Josef Lemper
• Jacob Royal
• Joshua
• Jesse
• Joel
• Snow Frills
• Jonas

Today's Christmas Collection feature is Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper'. These striking plants bloom in late fall and winter providing interest to an otherwise bleak and dormant garden.

Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper'

Josef Lemper Christmas Rose
Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper'
Flowering the first year, this member of the Gold Collection is long blooming, with lots of buds and blossom. Large, pure white, slightly cupped flowers age to light green. Long stems stand above the dark green foliage and carry pure white flowers that age to light green. Can also be enjoyed indoors as winter and holiday decorations and then planted outside as a long lived perennial.

This plant is an excellent addition to the winter garden as it provides wonderful and very early blooms. Deer resistance and shade tolerant. Excellent as a ground cover or specimen perennial. Grows to a height of 15 to 18 inches. Spread: 21 inches. Blooms in December to February. Hardy to USDA zone 4.

Helleborus Gold Spring Collection

The HGC Spring collection features a number of Helleborus hybrids that tend to bloom in the New Year.

• Cinnamon Snow
• Green Corsican
• Pink Frost
• Silvermoon
• Joker
• Carina Green
• Champion



Pink Frost Hybrid Hellebore

• Spring Party

Pink Frost Winter Rose, Pink Frost Lenten Rose
Helleborus x ballardiae 'HGC Pink Frost'
A wonderful hellebore hybrid offering a light pink coloured flower often turning dark red with maturity. Flower form is similar in appearance to Helleborus niger.Blooms in late winter, often February. Height: 6 inches. Spread: 12 inches. Best grown in shade to part shade. Perfers moist soils

Helleborus Care:
Once you decide to plant a hellebore, choose a suitable location in shade or part shade, and preferably sheltered from wind.  Soil should be well drained and rich in humus.  Ensure your new plant is planted at garden level and not too deep.  Raise it if your drainage is poor or cut in some sand into heavy soils that still drain. You will need to provide water the first year planting, and then only when it is very hot - generally in summer. Once established hellebores are an easy care plant.  Just remove old foliage in spring, and mulch, returning nutrients to the soil and protecting roots from drier weather.   Enjoy!


For more information about Hellebores, visit these sites
Helleborus Gold Collection
Helleborus History & Mythology

Art's Nursery carries these and other select members of the Helleborus Gold Collection. More will be available and in-stock in late winter, early spring. If you have any other questions about Hellebores, please feel free to drop by and visit, or give us a call at 604.882.1201

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