Hellebores are a vital addition to the winter garden 45 adding their colour alongside snowdrops aconites and the early spring bulbs as their common name indicates the christmas rose flowers extremely early in the year and is sometimes in flower for christmas at home in shady borders they make an ideal ground cover beneath trees and shrubs hellebore single pink spotted39 has distinctive flowers with a pattern of dark pink spots across each paler petal it39s cup45shaped flow