Helleborus x hybridus Vines a wry nod to the

a wry nod to the poisonous nature of the tribe

'Alice' came from the University of Georgia campus

is one of the happy exceptions

Allan Armitage

and where its history as the parent of a garden mainstay can be quietly appreciated

Helleborus x hybridus Vines a wry nod to theThe Lenten rose is not a rose at all, but a member of the buttercup tribe that happens to flower around Lent, in the raw weeks of late winter when the garden is otherwise bare. The blooms are nodding cups a couple of inches across, held just above the foliage in white, cream, pink, plum, and a smoky green, many of them freckled or veined at the throat. What look like petals are in fact sepals, which is the secret of the long show: rather than dropping