Is this the one that you bought in memory of Maria, mom? I want one too!

“Helleborus is native to much of Europe, from western Britain, Spain and Portugal, eastward across the Mediterranean region and central Europe into Romania and Ukraine, and along the north coast of Turkey into the Caucasus. The greatest concentration of species occurs in the Balkans. One atypical species (H. thibetanus) comes from western China; another atypical species (H. vesicarius) inhabits a small area on the border between Turkey and Syria. Read the rest of this entry »

I have three identical Hebes. That is one of them. I don’t know what species they are as I seem not to have added the tags to my dairy but they are lovely. Last year they were covered in white flowers.

“Hebe is a genus of plants native to New Zealand, Rapa in French Polynesia, the Falkland Islands, and South America. It includes about 90 species and is the largest plant genus in New Zealand. Read the rest of this entry »