Category Archives: Plants
Chiswick House Camellia Festival
Heavenly hellebores

Hellebores will always have a special place in the British garden. Early flowering, hardy and extremely shade tolerant, they provide a much-needed beauty spot on the face of bleak midwinter. To me, something about their humble, almost sorrowful, downward-facing, flowers, poking through the damp detritus of autumn symbolises hope. Hope…