Helleborus iburgensis Glendas Gloss PP 28008 Peru a hummingbird tower

a hummingbird tower

Native to the region where the Carolinas intersect with Tennessee

When we forget we often see breakdown as failure and ignore life’s capacity for rebalancing

each highlighted by a pattern of red spots

our plant is abuzz with pollinators

Helleborus iburgensis Glendas Gloss PP 28008 Peru a hummingbird towerHelleborus 'Glenda's Gloss' is another recent selection of the sterile hybrid lenten roses, deriving from a cross of Helleborus niger, lividus, and Helleborus x hybridus. The 15" tall x 2' wide evergreen clumps are clothed with glorious dark green foliage, marbled with prominent silver veining. Starting for us in mid February, the clumps are topped with an abundance of spikes of white, out facing flowers, blushed pink on the backs, creating a lovely