Romantic Getaway Helleborus (Lenten Rose) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b  Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Evergreen Perennial

Flower Color:  White with Deep Red centers

Flower Size:  Large, 3″  

Flowering Period:  Late Winter to Mid Spring

Flower Type:  DSingle

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage:  NA

Berries:  NA

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-30F), Deer, Disease, Heat, Insect, Rabbit, Deep Shade, Slug

One of the most eye-catching Helleborus in our gardens, ‘Romantic Getaway’ is a single flowered selection in the Honeymoon Series created by world-renowned Hellebore breeder Hans Hansen. From late winter through mid spring, this dramatic variety produces large flowers with white petals each generously splashed in deep burgundy-red. The long-lasting flowers provide welcome color for 6 to 8 weeks in the garden when not much else is blooming in late winter through early spring, The flowers are excellent for cutting and use in flower arrangements. Upright, evergreen foliage is attractive year round. You might be happy to know that Helleborus are deer and rabbit resistant, heat and cold tolerant (-30F), and will thrive in full to part shade, even under the canopy of large trees, which is where we love to plant them in our gardens.

Growing 18 to 24 inches tall in  bloom and about 2 feet wide over time, the Romantic Getaway Helleborus is ideal for use as an accent in smaller spaces and containers or in groupings, massed as a groundcover in landscape borders, or as a border along walkways and paths. They are perfect under large shade trees, decks, covered porches and any other shady location. Don’t think you have any shade? Look on the east side of your home. A fine addition to shade gardens, red theme gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  18 inches apart for solid groupings or borders; 3 feet or more apart for space between plants