Here's our reliable winter color...The plants here are some version of Helleborus orientalis. There are so many bloom colors and varying leaf shapes in the Helleborus genus. Grow them in shade. They propogate themselves easily by seed. Or you can divide the root crown. Drought hardy and the leaves are tough and stay green into winter. After the bloom gets going, next year's leaves emerge. So you get all year green foliage, unlike many other flowering perennials.
Here are mine on Monday, February 1, 2010. Buried in snow and with quite a bit of winter burn on last year's leaves, I'll go out on a less rainy day, when the blooms are a little taller, and cut back some of the rattier looking leaves to show off the blooms.
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Look for the blooms pushing up through the pile of melting snow . . .
On Friday of this same week, with the snow melting.... still a bit messy, but great blooms. Now if I could just spot some Crocus emerging!
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