Hellebore Pennys Pink

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Landscape Qualities

Penny's Pink Hellebore is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Penny's Pink Hellebore features showy nodding pink cup-shaped flowers with chartreuse eyes at the ends of the stems from late winter to early spring | which emerge from distinctive purple flower buds. Its attractive glossy oval compound leaves remain forest green in color with distinctive light green veins throughout the year. The brick red stems can be quite attractive.

Planting and Growing

Penny's Pink Hellebore will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground | not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 5 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.

This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH | but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution | and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid | and parts of it are known to be toxic to humans and animals | so care should be exercised in planting it around children and pets. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

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