Centuries of gardeners cannot all be wrong.

Hellebores have never needed a gardening trend to make them desirable. Gardeners worked this out centuries ago. This is the reason hellebores feel so completely at home beneath trees, beside shrubs and among the plants of a traditional border. Beautiful enough to be noticed. Elegant enough to sit alongside all the plants you already grow.

Hellebores appear in cottage gardens, country gardens and grand borders. Gardening fashions have come, gone and come back again. Hellebores never left.

With this de Jager offer, you are choosing hellebores which have looked beautiful everywhere from the largest country gardens to the smallest cottage plots. Which suggests they will know exactly what to do in yours.

Helleborus niger. The classic Christmas Rose produces beautiful pure-white, open-faced flowers, often from midwinter into early spring, with prominent golden stamens at their centres. More compact than many H. orientalis types, it makes a superb choice for the front of a border, woodland-style planting or winter containers.

Helleborus orientalis ‘White Spotted’. Elegant creamy-white flowers are scattered with burgundy-red spots, giving every bloom its own individual markings. Flowering through late winter and early spring, it is particularly valuable for bringing colour beneath deciduous shrubs and into partly shaded borders.

Helleborus orientalis ‘Pink’. Large, nodding flowers in shades of soft rose to deeper pink appear when much of the garden is still dormant. Tough, long-lived and easy to establish, it develops into an impressive clump and provides an important early source of nectar for pollinators.

You receive:

1 Helleborus niger – Christmas Rose
1 Helleborus orientalis ‘White Spotted’
1 Helleborus orientalis ‘Pink’

All three arrive as growing, well-rooted plants in 9 cm pots.

The usual price for the collection, including postage, is £37.15.

Your price is £18.50, including postage. HALF PRICE!

You are not taking much of a horticultural gamble with this de Jager hellebore collection. Gardeners have been conducting the trial for several hundred years. Trends have changed enormously during that time, yet generation after generation has fallen for hellebores.

When a plant can delight gardeners for centuries and still be coveted today, somebody clearly got something right.

Delivered to you by mid-October. The perfect planting time.

Yours in gardening,

George Clowes

Proprietor, de Jager & Sons, Supplier to Royal Gardens – and discerning gardeners for 157 years.

www.dejager.co.uk

Proprietor, Hayloft Plants Limited, renowned as purveyors of the finest perennial plants.

www.hayloft.co.uk

P.S. If every beautiful plant behaved like a hellebore, gardening books would be considerably shorter.