How to Use hellebore in a Sentence

hellebore

noun
  • Pair them with hosta, ferns, and hellebore.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Most hellebores bloom in late winter or very early spring.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
  • For a hardy perennial that grows in areas where many plants fail, plant hellebores.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Cut back raspberry and blackberry canes, and trim dead leaves off hellebores.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The most accurate common name, black hellebore, reflects the plants dark roots.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2016
  • Burying the crown of a hellebore can interfere with blooming.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The common name hellebore refers to several species of plants in the Helleborus genus.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • During colder seasons, hellebores are a great choice, as they are well known for their winter flowers.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 9 Apr. 2026
  • For the winter garden, Green Ice hellebore catches the light in dry shade.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 16 Mar. 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
  • Red Racer’, this time a Lenten rose or hellebore (Helleborus).
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2018
  • No garden should be without hellebores or a daphne or two, winterberry hollies and witch hazels.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Caterpillars are clearly important, but what about the aphids eating the hellebores on my porch?
    — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Surfaces were covered by huge arrangements of purple foxgloves, hellebores, and sweet peas.
    — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
  • With a bit of mulch and light watering, hellebores require little winter care with one exception.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Hostas, coral bells, geraniums, lungwort, hellebores and epimedium are good companions with spring bulbs.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Oddly, for an herbaceous perennial, the hellebore is evergreen.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Perennials with long bloom periods are astilbe, hosta, hellebore, coral bells, bleeding heart, and begonias.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Lenten Rose Ramble Lenten roses, or hellebores, are an excellent choice for a shady container.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026

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