.png) Helleborus 'Silver Lace'
- common names: Corsican hellebore
- flowering season: late winter to early spring
- height: 12 - 18 inches
- Light requirements: partial shade but likes more sunlight than Helleborus orientalis, one of the “stemless” hellebores
- Soil requirements: average, well drained garden soil
- Water requirments: average to dry
- Growth habit: several stems in a clump
- How to propagate: by division or by collecting the seedlings that will cluster about the “skirts” of a plant
- Leaf type: leaves are divided into three leaflets colored in a light silver overlaying blue-green; additionally, the leaves are leathery and lined along their edges with soft points
- Ways to use it: for year-around interest in a flower garden; also planted in drifts to naturalize in a landscape
- Special characteristics: deer will not eat this; slugs or snails may dine on the flowers
'Silver Lace' is a compact plant at 12 to 18 inches tall, with striking silvery gray-green leaves on stout green stems. It is a form of the Corsican hellebore, Helleborus argutifolius. In late winter to early spring, large heads of light green cup-shaped flowers open, a time of year when not much else is flowering. This evergreen perennial thrives in a variety of soils, and in both sunny and shady locations, although it likes mores sun than the non-stemmed orientalis types of Helleborus. It would be a good choice for a low maintenace garden since it needs little effort after it settles in and puts on some size. USDA Zones 6 - 8 in the East, Zones 6 - 10 in the West. |
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