The Spring equinox (otherwise known as the first day of Spring) is today, March 20 and finds us with Perennial Flowering Stationery: Lenten Rose Botanical Note Card. Apparently, the Lenten Rose only blooms during the Lenten season!
Within my post, I’m including an excerpt from Birds & Blooms magazine about the Lenten Rose. Some of my Pen Pals really love gardening!

Discovering the Lenten Rose

Looking at the perennial flowering plant Lenten Rose reminds me of a buttercup plant. Last week was the first time to learn of their existence and getting to see one. It was at a Lenten Lunch being presented as a Thank you to the guest Speaker.

Lenten Rose Botanical Note Card by BarbeyBotanicals 

Just “up the road” (about 350 miles from here near the beach) is Brevard, North Carolina in the mountains. The Etsy Shop BarbeyBotanicals Botanical Fine Art Prints and Cards include free shipping to the US for their Lenten Rose Botanical Note Card for $3.75 each and measures 4.25 inches x 5.5 inches.

Birds & Blooms Magazine Article on Lenten Rose

If you are a gardening enthusiast (or like the rest of us who think about gardening!) the below from Birds & Blooms is helpful information.

“The Lenten Rose Helleborus orientalis, is a hardy perennial with evergreen leaves and long lasting blossoms that can begin to bloom in late January in the more temperate zones of 6 and 7 or about March in colder ones such of 3 to 5.   The blooms literally last a couple of months, a rare thing in any garden plant to be sure.  Another thing great this is that the Hellebore’s range of hardiness so many of us gardeners in the west can grow it.  It is a poisonous plant which makes it a bonus because the deer are not going to graze on it.  It  enjoys bright shade like on the edge of a woodland but can also be grown in the garden on the east side of a house where it is protected from hot afternoon sun.”