Helleborus NORTH STAR™ 'Garnet Frills'

Helleborus NORTH STAR™ ‘Garnet Frills’ is a captivating variety, celebrated for its lavish, double blooms adorned with ruffled petals and rich garnet-red edges. The picotee detailing flows into delicate veining down the snowy-white petals, creating a stunning gradient of wine-red to pink to white that frames a soft yellow centre. The semi-nodding flowers rise gracefully on sturdy, upright stems above lush mounds of thick, pine-green foliage, delivering an elegant and refined garden presence.

Bred for performance, NORTH STAR Garnet Frills Hellebore boasts an impressive bud count, ensuring a profusion of blooms - even on young plants - that last for weeks. One of the earliest signs of spring, it often begins flowering as early as March, bringing welcome colour when the garden needs it most.

A favourite among florists and gardeners alike, NORTH STAR Garnet Frills Lenten Rose produces excellent cut flowers for fresh arrangements, while individual blooms can be floated in water to create simple yet striking centrepieces.

This hardy, clump-forming perennial thrives in part to full shade, making it ideal for planting beneath deciduous trees or large shrubs, where it benefits from winter light and summer protection. Helleborus NORTH STAR™ ‘Garnet Frills’ prefers rich, moist, organic soil but is highly adaptable and can tolerate drier conditions once established, particularly after flowering.

Perfect for woodland gardens, naturalized settings, or shaded borders and edging, Garnet Frills Lenten Rose offers versatility along with beauty. Hardy to zone 4a and specially bred for northern climates, its foliage often remains semi-evergreen through winter. As an added bonus, NORTH STAR Garnet Frills Hellebore is resistant to deer and rabbits, and tolerates urban settings, making it as dependable as it is beautiful.

The NORTH STAR™ Hellebore series has been selected to produce multiple crowns and bloom the first year. They are propagated from tissue culture. Those clonal plants are displaying identical features (flower colour and size, foliage...) compared to the rest of Hellebore cultivars which are from variable seed strains.