The winter simply did not want to say goodbye this year. The snow was so slow to melt. Every time I would start to get excited about getting my gardens ready, along came a few more "flurries". But even the relentless winter could not keep the hellebore Jacob down. This hellebore is amazing! When I first read about it online, saw that the bloom time was Nov-Jan... my reaction was "Yeah, right". This morphed into, but if that were true, where could I put one in order to see it bloom. Finally, when the Hudson Valley Daylily Society had its annual sale up at
Faddegon's in Latham, NY in August, I found one in their greenhouse and brought it home. This photo was taken on Christmas Eve.
This spring, the buds that hadn't opened yet emerged from under the snow and bloomed before anything else had even broken through the frozen ground. These photos are from April 3rd.
The
Jacob hellebore grows under the apple tree on the right foreground above
By April 19th, the worst of the snow was gone and more hellebores had emerged and began to bloom.
Then of course, there was April 23rd...!
The Jacob hellebore grows under the apple tree on the right foreground above
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