Pink Frost Hellebore
Helleborus x ballardiae ‘Pink Frost’ · a pink hellebore with silver-veined leaves
A compact Gold Collection hellebore with silvery, marbled evergreen leaves on red stems, and outward-facing blush-pink flowers in late winter that deepen to burgundy, so the show faces you. Lovely in pots or at the front of a shady bed; deer and rabbits leave it alone.
- Mature size
- 1 × 1.5 ft
- 0.4 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part shade
- Water
- Dry to moist
- Blooms
- Feb–Apr
Pink Frost Hellebore at its mature size
A mature Pink Frost Hellebore grows 12 to 16 inches tall and 18 to 23 inches wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Perennials.com, Plant Delights Nursery.
Through the year
What Pink Frost Hellebore looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · May–Jan
The evergreen leafy clump, no flowers.
In flower · Feb–Apr
The same mound covered in outward-facing blush-pink flowers that age to deep rose.
Growing Pink Frost Hellebore
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Good for
- Shade garden, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and winter interest
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Pink Frost Hellebore, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Pink Frost Hellebore in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hellebores
Christmas RosePink Frost Hellebore
Bear's Foot Hellebore
Lenten RoseAll drawn to the same scale.