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'Snow Love' hellebore gives you these gorgeous, long-lasting flowers that shift from white to green, all hovering above silvery evergreen foliage through spring. This early bloomer brings serious flower power when hardly anything else is waking up — and the blooms stick around long enough to overlap with your later spring perennials. We all love hellebores for being low maintenance, cold hardy, and deer resistant, but honestly? It's that early bloom we're really here for. Part of the Winter Magic series, this hybrid delivers all those perks plus a one-of-a-kind color shift.

Common name: 'Snow Love' hellebore

Botanical name: Helleborus x nigercor 'Snow Love'

Origin: 'Snow Love' belongs to the Winter Magic series of hybrid hellebores, bred in Belgium by Thierry Van Paemel at his specialty nursery Het Wilgenbroek.

Type of plant: Evergreen perennial

Size and habit: It grows about 15 inches tall and 18 inches wide, with a low, mounding habit.

Flowers: 'Snow Love' starts blooming in late winter or early spring, pushing up large, outward-facing flowers well above its evergreen leaves. The blooms open white, shift to a pale yellow, and then age to this fresh green — and they hang around well into spring.

Foliage: The big, evergreen leaves have a coarse, bold texture — deep green with a really nice silvery sheen.

Growing 'Snow Love' hellebore

Exposure: Part sun to full shade

How to grow it: Plant 'Snow Love' hellebore in part sun to shade in well-drained average soil. Keep watering even while it's getting settled in. Once it's fully established, hellebores can handle moderate drought just fine. Since this is an evergreen perennial, those older leaves might start looking a bit ragged by midwinter. From winter into earliest spring — before new growth shows up — just trim the tatty ones at soil level to make room for fresh foliage and flowers. Leave any mature leaves that still look good on the plant so they frame the flowers nicely. USDA Zones 3–9.

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