Common name: Lenten Rose

Description: Helleborus orientalis 'Pink Beauty' is a beautiful and reliable lenten rose producing elegant nodding flowers in soft rose-pink from mid-winter through to early spring. The flowers often feature attractive speckled markings inside the cup-shaped blooms, adding to their delicate charm. An evergreen perennial that slowly builds into a clump, it is excellent for woodland-style planting, shaded borders, and beneath deciduous trees. Deer and rabbit resistant, it is one of the most rewarding plants for extending the garden's interest through the darkest months.

Other benefits: reliable mid-winter flowers, deer and rabbit resistant, evergreen, long-lived perennial

Wildlife attraction: bees and early queen bumblebees in late winter and early spring

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 45cm x 45cm

Position: partial shade to full shade

Soil pH: neutral to slightly alkaline

Moisture: moist but well-drained; mulch with leaf mould annually

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -20°C