Helleborus 'Anna's Red' PPAF
Common Name: Lenten Rose
Last year, we were excited to offer you the first year blooming PENNY’S PINK®. In addition this year, we have her sister seedling, ‘Anna’s Red’, a brand new introduction 12 years in the making.
You’ll have a hard time deciding what you like better about this hellebore: its incredibly unique spring foliage or its bouquet of deep purple-red flowers which appear the first year after vernalization.
The foliage emerges in spring bronzy green with electric pink veining, like a pair of pink fishnet stockings has been wrapped around each leaf! As the evergreen foliage matures, the marbling turns cream and remains attractive all year long.
Dark purple buds on red stems open to single, rounded, saturated purple-red flowers with bright chartreuse nectaries. They appear for months from late winter into mid-spring.
Hellebores are the harbingers of spring, blooming for six weeks or more beginning in late winter. They are often flowering during the Christian season of Lent, from which they get their common name, Lenten Rose. This is the perfect plant for naturalizing in moist, woodland areas where its extensive root system will spread as far as it is allowed.
