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

Commonly known as broad beech fern

when happy

the clumps are topped with lightly fragrant

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"