Get into the Yule spirit ready for the holidays with our updated Christmas Rose, December's Flower of the Month #FOTM. Get your discount code below.
Don’t panic, time isn’t really speeding up but we are sharing our December and January flowers of the month with you in November. After a busy season, (thank you everyone), we will be taking an extended break and our online shop closes on 13th December, reopening on 10th February 2022. Consequently, if you need Christmas Roses or Snowdrops in your life before mid February, be sure to order before 13/12/21.
Botanical Information
Helleborus niger, black Hellebore or the christmas rose is a perenial that flowers in winter. Despite it's festive moniker it is not of the rose family and is, like most other hellebore flowers, poisonous. The flowers resemble the wild or dog rose, with large flat petals that are usually white, but can be shaded pink or green with a yellow centre.
As an evergreen, hellebores are very popular with cottage gardeners, whilst it's late flowering period provides a centrepiece to winter gardens. Consequently, many cultivators have attempted to hybridise them to create more variety of shape and colour.
Christmas Roses and their meaning
According to one legend, the Christmas Rose was revealed to a shepherdess by an angel, or her tears on the snow formed the flowers on the eve of Christ's birth to give as a present to the infant. This was such an important story to the clergy and nobles of the middle ages that when a sub-species of the Christmas rose, that bloomed in England around Christmas day according to the old Julian calendar, now flowered on the date of January 6th it was considered a bad omen. As a result England did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1751.
Where can I find Christmas Rose in the North Wales Landscape?
The fantastic garden at Aberglasney is undoubtably one of the best places to find flowers of the hellebore family. The garden which is famous from the tv show 'A Garden Lost in Time', has the UK's only faithful restoration of an Elizabethan Cloister Garden. Covering 10 acres and having more than 20 different styles of garden you will hardly have time to explore the historic grade 2 listed mansion.
Wherever you find the Christmas rose we wish you a wonderful festive season.
Why not bring these BRAND NEW festive flower indoors, to enjoy all year ‘round, at a discount?
Your Discount Code
Want to know more?
Checkout the visit the Aberglasney Gardens website, and get your discount codes for December & January's Flower of the Month that we've activated early, below.