One of the largest Hellebores, H. argutifolius can grow up to 1.2m (4ft) in height and width. Large clusters of semi-pendent pale green flowers add a subtle touch of elegance to the winter garden.
Some pretty unfortunate common names for such a beautiful plant. This evergreen perennial produces large clusters of pale green blooms in the late winter that remain attractive for many months after. The large palmate leaves are glossy dark green and make for an attractive backdrop for the flowers....
With blooms appearing in early winter and lasting into spring, this plant offers gardeners some winter floral colour that can brighten the shortest days of the year. This perennial is 12 inches tall with an 18-inch spread.
This perennial bears long-lasting, pendent saucer-shaped white or greenish-cream flowers that age to pink in mid-winter. Height and spread is 18 inches.
This hybrid perennial has spiny leaves with creamy veins and pinkish-purple leaf stalks. Many flowered cymes of creamy green flowers are suffused with pinkish-purple tones in late winter or early spring.
This perennial native plant produces mostly evergreen leaves in basal clusters. It has tall, creamy to pale yellow flower spikes in mid spring to late summer depending on elevation.
This mound-forming perennial has large gray-marbled leaves with 5-7 lobes. In early summer, produces loose panicles of numerous tiny cream-coloured flowers. Height and spread is 18 to 24 inches.
This perennial has rosettes of glossy dark green leaves and bears tubular bell-shaped 2-lipped violet-blue flowers in summer. Height 8 inches; spread 12 inches.
This clump-forming perennial is grown for its heart-shaped puckered thick glaucous gray-green leaves from 10-20 inches long. In early summer, lilac flowers are born on tall stems. Height 3 feet; spread 4 feet.
A hosta of uncertain origin - is it a species, or is it a cultivar of ancient origin? The plants, in the Sino-Himalayan Garden at VanDusen, come consistently true from seed, producing relatively small plants with leaves that rarely exceed 15cm (6in) in length. The flower stems, which grow to...
