How to Use hellebore in a Sentence

hellebore

noun

• For the winter garden, Green Ice hellebore catches the light in dry shade.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 16 Mar. 2018
• The common name hellebore refers to several species of plants in the Helleborus genus.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• Red Racer’, this time a Lenten rose or hellebore (Helleborus).
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2018
• One of the best one-two punches in the garden world, hellebores bloom from late December through April and come in a wide range of colors.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2018
• Dark tulips, nasturtiums, chocolate lace, and hellebore will all go straight to your emo goth’s heart.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
• Black/Brown Dark tulips, nasturtiums, chocolate lace, and hellebore will all go straight to your emo goth’s heart.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
• The most accurate common name, black hellebore, reflects the plants dark roots.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2016
• Around the time of the observation of Lent (where the plant gets its common name), hellebore starts blooming and keeps shining without much fuss for a few months.
  — Kier Holmes, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• This eye-catching one has a mix of faux eucalyptus, hellebores (both opened and closed) as well as hydrangeas.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, goodhousekeeping.com, 10 May 2023
• Deer also tend to leave alone ferns and grasses, as well as daffodils, hellebores, and aconitums, which are poisonous to mammals.
  — Ruth Rogers Clausen, Country Living, 20 Feb. 2017
• Cut back raspberry and blackberry canes, and trim dead leaves off hellebores.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• Make sure to think about color early in the season, with early-blooming species like hellebore and trillium.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
• No garden should be without hellebores or a daphne or two, winterberry hollies and witch hazels.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• Chezar used pale pink peonies, coral tulips and lilacs—and then add texture and height with sprays of green hellebore and purple fritillaria meleagris.
  — ELLE Decor, 3 May 2016
• Where the ground is mushy and damp, look for frilly bundles of false hellebore that sprout head-high flower stalks in summertime and the delicate blooms of marsh marigolds, aquatic buttercups, prairie smoke and berry-laden shrubs.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 11 June 2020
• Today the stumpery, safely encompassing a shaft of shifting sunlight all day, is stuffed with myriad ferns and hellebores as well as hosts.
  — Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• Roses, hellebores and thistle are massed on her dining table and sideboard in delicate purple, navy and cream.
  — Jura Koncius, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Hostas, coral bells, geraniums, lungwort, hellebores and epimedium are good companions with spring bulbs.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
• With their white petals, the flowers appear along with the violet-colored spring crocus, Cornelian cherry dogwood and hellebore (also called Lenten rose).
  — Cameron Walker, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2021
• White flies have infested my garden especially in hellebore and western sword fern beds.
  — oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2020
• Trees are really budding, daffodils are blooming as are crocus, hellebores and paper bush.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• The Daffodil Days event includes sale of epimediums, hydrangeas, potted daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, hellebores and Virginia bluebells.
  — Lisa Peklo, Howard County Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• But the magnolia is in full glory; half the rhododendrons are going nuts with color; the daffodils (three kinds) have been blooming for weeks; the leptospermum and the hellebores and the hyacinths are exploding in their stately fashion.
  — Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• Oddly, for an herbaceous perennial, the hellebore is evergreen.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Their voluptuous arrangements balance pillowy blooms like oversized white anemones with smaller, denser varieties such as fuzzy yellow forsythias and cuplike hellebores.
  — Zio Baritaux, New York Times, 2 May 2020
• In addition to burgundy flowers (tree form vanilla strawberry hydrangea, whose flowers age to burgundy, and Lenten roses — Hellebores — among the earliest blooms of the season, for example), many plants have burgundy foliage.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 10 Mar. 2017
• Our snowdrops, hellebores and winter aconites, even in their full bloom condition, can easily handle temperatures well below freezing.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2023
• Front and center, a vintage punch bowl corrals an overflowing arrangement of ranunculus, hellebores, bittersweet and amaryllis.
  — House Beautiful, 2 Dec. 2016
• Instead plant shade-tolerant perennial geranium, lady’s mantle, hellebore, bleeding heart, coral bell, hydrangea, begonia, annual lobelia, astilbe, and Japanese anemone.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 21 Aug. 2019

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