Helleborus foetidus Leather and Lace Lespedeza By summer the seeds are

By summer the seeds are mature and shed from the fruit as the fruit open

so we're thinking it should be winter hardy to Zone 8b/9a if grown in a site that provides dry winter conditions

Arundo 'Peppermint Stick'

with heavily branched terminal panicles of mauvy-lavender virtually unspotted flowers

Commonly known as broad beech fern

Helleborus foetidus Leather and Lace Lespedeza By summer the seeds areHelleborus foetidus 'Leather and Lace' started at Plant Delights Nursery as a couple of oddball seedlings we pulled out of our Helleborus foetidus 'Krenitsky' strain, and subsequently introduced as a strain in 2015. The dark, black green foliage of what we subsequently named Helleborus 'Leather and Lace' is more deeply cut than any form of Helleborus foetidus we've ever grown. The 20" tall x 3' wide evergreen clumps are topped with the typical 10"