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Helleborus Ice Breaker ‘Max’

May 5, 2024 Garden , ,

Helleborus Gold Collection

Helleborus HGC® Ice Breaker® Max is a low-maintenance gem that shines in your garden. Plant it in well-drained soil with partial to full shade. Water consistently, especially during dry spells, while avoiding waterlogged conditions. Ice Breaker can flower from December to March and is very low maintenance needing only tidying up of the old leaves to allow the new flowers to come through. Apply a balanced slow release fertiliser in early Spring to nourish its growth

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This year Sean turned up on my birthday with five Hellebore plants bought by himself and Deb. One of them is a variety that I’d never heard of called Ice Breaker. One of a collection called the Gold collection. A large plant smothered in beautiful greenish white blooms. The others were Hellebore Niger which is the variety that I am familiar with and have a few roots of in the garden. I think Ice Breaker is a cultivar of Niger and is also sold as Snow Rose. Helleborus x Nigercors.

I love the flowers of Hellebore and especially the white. They have a special place in my heart and I can’t wait to have them naturalising in the garden. I hope I’m around for a few more Springs so that I can see them shining through after Christmas and reminding us that Spring has arrived.

Helleborus can be rhizomatous, herbaceous or semi-evergreen perennials forming a clump of pedate basal leaves, or evergreen with erect, leafy stems. Large, bowl shaped flowers arrive in loose clusters in late winter or spring. Helleborus HGC Ice Breaker Max is a member of the Ranunculaceae family and is a hybrid created in Germany. 

Warning – Harmful if eaten, skin irritant. Wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling.

Christmas Rose – Helleborus Niger

November 7, 2016 Garden, Motor Neurone Disease, Winter , , , , ,

On Thursday this week I shall be going to the local Lidl store to buy some of these beautiful plants. At six for £7.99 I shall be a happy lady. I have kept back some tête-à-tête so I shall pot them up together. This will be another reminder of Adam as this combination of plants grew along under his bedroom window at the house on the hill. When they were at their best I would take him a photo and the twins would often just pick them as toddlers do and take them in to him. I asked for White Hellebore to be included in Adams funeral flowers and they looked lovely.

Christmas roses have a deep growing root system so the roots should be planted downward rather than spread out below the soil surface and the crown of the plant should be an inch below the soil surface. Apply a layer of mulch around the plant. Every spring remove old, tattered foliage and feed the plants with a balanced water soluble fertiliser. Commonly known as hellebores the Eurasian genus Helleborus consists of approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae. The scientific name Helleborus derives from the Greek.

Update November 2017 – These plants, Helleborus Niger, have paid me back over and over since I bought them as they flowered from November to May. They retain their interest throughout the year. Now its November again and once again their snow white flowers are peeping through to brighten up the Winter days. They are tough little plants with delicate flowers. I have two large containers full of them and one plant in the side garden. I love them and may invest in some coloured varieties this year. As we are expecting some very cold weather I have mulched around them with some compost and sprinkled in a little growmore.

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