More than what my father made me…

Winter Rose thoughts. The bhaalspawn who wished to be good.

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🌷 🖤 🏁 🌿 🐛 🐌 ✨ // still life with fritillaries & hellebores // gouache on hot press paper

A gift painted for a friend for their help with top surgery stuff! fritillaries are wild; they're actually checkered that way in nature, and hellebores really do come in black.

Hellebore ~ Bitter Memories 🦇

- a recreation of Raphael Santiago’s flower card -

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

Helleborus (hellebore, Christmas rose)

It's fast approaching the end of hellebore season and, as the common name Christmas rose implies, this is another cheerful winter-blooming flower. The hellebores have had a tough time in Vancouver this year. After a very mild winter, on January 12 the temperature suddenly fell to - 14.4 C (6 F) followed by more than 30 cm (1 ft) of snow. All the snow melted and three days later it was gone but the damage was already done.

Believe me, the local plants did not enjoy this 'extreme weather event'. We have brown foliage and heavy leaf drops all over town. Laurels and rhododendrons have been particularly hard hit and provincial grape vines will produce no fruit this year. Considering all this bad news the hellebores have done surprisingly well. Not to worry, time marches on and spring is well under way. Next stop, daffodil season. I can hardly wait!

helleborus x ballardiae ‘camelot’

'December' from 'La Belle Jardinière' (1896).

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wikimedia.

The top two photos are the same plant and the bottom two are of a different plant nearby which I think is a seedling of the top one.

Finally got around to drawing Winter Rose’s new design! Also bonus baby Xan post-game single mom life 🌹🖤

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 15 February 2024

The hardy, clump-forming perennial, Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose) flowers in early spring. This plant has leathery, dark green leaves divided into leaflets and here the old foliage has been removed so the flowers can be clearly seen. After flowering the new foliage will emerge. The flowers can be variable in colour with shades of greenish-white to pink or purple and the flowers are often spotted.

Jill Raggett

It's finally stopped raining

The calm before the storm