The summer roses are finishing their show just as the first of the winter roses begin theirs. ‘Nell Lewis’ is the first one to bloom this year, this flower opened last week. ‘Jacob’ usually starts blooming around Thanksgiving and I see the buds poking up out of the drift of leaves that have fallen on him. The flowers of these, Helleborus niger, usually last through February, when the flowers of Helleborus orientalis hybrids bloom. I read a story in a gardening magazine in which the author remembers ice skating on a pond as a child, and seeing the hellebores blooming beneath the clear ice. That would indeed be magical.
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