Mahonia × media ‘Lionel Fortescue’, Hybrid Mahonia drought-tolerant A sumptuous double-flowered hellebore blooms

A sumptuous double-flowered hellebore blooms through spring

The female plant has a greenish-white flower that produces showy reddish-orange fruit when fertilized with pollen from the flower of a male plant

(We often need that here in the valley

Birds will raid it for its small red berries which darken to black as they age

tan-colored branches in spring

Mahonia × media ‘Lionel Fortescue’, Hybrid Mahonia drought-tolerant A sumptuous double-flowered hellebore bloomsThis is another excellent hybrid with dramatic, long, spiny leaves and particularly long, frost resistant, fragrant, yellow flower racemes in late fall into winter. It's an upright, vase shaped shrub and is more fragrant and earlier blooming than related cultivars. The hummingbirds guard it with covetous hearts and hungry mouths. The large blue berries are also a food source for local wildlife. Best grown in part shade in well draining soil with