Helleborus PENNY'S PINK® ('ABCRD01' PPAF)
The foliage of PENNY'S PINK® is very attractive, even when the flowers are not in bloom.
Common Name: Lenten Rose
You’ll have a hard time deciding what you like better about this hellebore: its incredibly unique spring foliage or its bright pink flowers which appear the first year.
The foliage emerges in spring bronzy green with electric pink veining, like a pair of pink fishnet stockings has been wrapped around each leaf! Each unique leaf is held on purple petioles and as the season progresses the pink veining color drains back down into the petioles leaving beautiful emerald green veining in its place.
However, while the foliage still has its pink coloring early in the season, complementary purple buds form and open to bright mauve pink flowers with contrasting chartreuse nectarines in the center. They turn deeper pink and take on green tones as they mature.
These flowers are said to be sterile so they appear for several months from about late winter into mid-spring. A minimum of 85% of these plants will bloom the first year.
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.
