Give hellebores the time and they'll flower their pretty little socks off | Alys Fowler

Blessed with a healthy appetite, if properly looked after these dazzling plants will increase gloriously year on year The hellebores are coming. The early ones started flowering before Christmas; now the rest are gathering pace and will keep it up until April. In grand old gardens and smaller, newer ones, banks of them will tumble open as they drift among cyclamens and ferns and accompany bluebells, wood anemones and other lovely spring things. There are so many hellebores out there: doubles, se...