I loved how the speckled pink flowers of this hellebore looked like tumbling stars. By selecting the tumbling angle, and going in close, the image gives an impression of a thicker clump than it really was. In future years, it should be even more glorious.
While hellebores don’t need winter protection in Northern England, humans do. I’m adding a picture of me photographing this patch of hellebores taken by my sweetheart so that you can get a better impression of the plants (and the added benefit of being able to recognise me if you happen to see us in a garden. I’ll look much the same the rest of the year, just less snuggly.)
You want to see the flower I was paying such close attention to?
Just as starry, in its own way.
I’m sharing these for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
I like those flowers too!! In fact, they and the primroses were the only ones that survived our bad frosts last month!
Hellebores always make me smile in a hard frost. They look so dejected, you’d never imagine they’ll spring back out as soon as the weather eases. I’m sorry you lost plants. My sweetheart’s garden suffered too. He says there isn’t a rosemary bush left in his neighbourhood.
Agreed! I am surprised that I have not come across much folklore on them as they really seem to offer so many metaphors – delicate and beautifyl yet able to endure great privations etc!
I am just hoping that the fuschias return!! 🙏🙏
Good luck!
Such lovely flowers Susan 🙂
Thanks, Brian.
What a beauty! I think that hellebore deserves a Maine “Wowsah”! Always enjoyed seeing a picture of you in the garden. The colors of your hat complement the flowers.
I wanted a cheery hat. My sweetheart says it does a decent job of calming my hair too. My recent comment was about the snowdrops which also prompted a wowsah. They are like Liverpool buses – you wait ages to get one, then several come at the same time. Rather like late winter flowers.
Right? Two “Wowsahs” in a row.
P.S. Should be “Also enjoyed.”
The hellebores are so pretty. You have more flowers in your cold climate than I do in my semitropical garden.
It’s good to start seeing the more boldly coloured hellebores. The earliest ones are shades of green or white.
Beautiful hellebores and the photographer does indeed look cosy!
Cosy and contented – among flowers.
Oh, yes, instantly recognisable. Not! Love the flowers, they do indeed look like stars.
Such great plants. I’ll have to check how Mum’s hellebore is getting on. That one’s a bit later.
I’ve never seen a hellebore, but they clearly are a favorite flower of many gardeners. If they’re already beginning to bloom, I can see why.
I’m very fond of them. We have types that bloom even earlier, some with the folk name ‘Christmas roses’.
Magnificant !
I’m glad you liked them.
I’ll have that white one, please! I love the gestures of the petals on all these; they pose well. I think they take to your camera in true star spirit.
Consider it done (morally, at least). They are sturdy models, not given to dancing on their stems unless the wind is really up.
I love hellebores, and these look particularly handsome examples.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one I didn’t like. You’re right that some are more handsome, but they all have something. It sounds as if it has been windy your way recently. I hope you and your local trees weathered the storm.
Personally, we’re OK, but there are quite a lot of trees down locally. So you didn’t get wind?