Helleborus Winter Jewels Cherry Blossom

A Maroon Collar at the Center of Each Bloom.

One of the exciting new Winter Jewels series of American-bred Hellebores hand-selected with new colors and forms.

A splendid new series of distinctively colored and formed Hellebores, the Winter Jewels are taking American gardens by storm. Offering large, perfectly shaped 3-inch blooms that remain attractive for weeks and even months, this series is the result of 15 years’ hand-selective breeding for deep, saturated colors, picotee edges, and collared form. We are proud to offer Cherry Blossom, one of the most beautiful of the family.

These blooms are almost translucent, with a pale green/cream/white base lightly freckled and veined in raspberry, building to a slender raspberry edge just nicking the edge of each petal. A faint green stripe up the center of each petal offers nice contrast, but it’s the center of the bloom that is really distinctive: it is crowned with a thick, heavily ruffled raspberry-maroon collar.

The flowers arise from late winter well into spring on plants 20 inches high and 24 inches wide, and are superb for cutting. They dry right on the plant, becoming papery but keeping their color, so that the soft breezes of spring rustle them. Very floriferous, this is a plant that will give you enough blooms for garden and vase both. And with color like this, you want all the glorious blooms you can get.

Plant Cherry Blossom among its siblings Purple/Pink Edge, Red, and Slate, or select our economical mix of the other 3 colors. Winter Jewels belongs front and center of the shade border, where it remains evergreen, is unpalatable to deer, rabbits, and other nibblers, and tolerates rough weather from heat and humidity to drought. You simply can’t find a more rewarding and distinctive perennial for winter to spring color. Zones 4-8.