Christmas Roses- To Convey Your Greetings

Gift your loved ones bunch of Christmas roses to make their day special. These evergreen flowering plants bloom in the winter season when the rest of the flowers in the garden remain concealed. Their bright colors, lush green foliage with their easy growth during the winter brings a wide smile on the gardeners face. Christmas Roses are often referred to as Lenten Roses, Winter Roses or Snow Roses.

About Christmas Roses

Christmas roses do not actually belong to the rose family. Officially known as Helleborus niger, Christmas roses actually belong to the large species of plants that closely look like each other. This genus of plants is native to Europe, where it has been cultivated for ages and used in different ways to decorate or gift someone. The name ‘Christmas rose’ has come from the fact that this plant apparently bear a resemblance to some rose cultivars, with leafy green plants and five white petals. The budding period is from late fall to early spring, which makes the Christmas Rose a welcome addition to the depressed gardens in the dreary winters.

Stories behind Christmas Roses

There are number of stories and tales heard about this genus of plants and its origins. Some say that Christmas Roses are a gift of Lord Jesus at the time of HIS birth to rejoice HIS arrival. As this genus of plants in some regions stays until Easter, people links it with the Resurrection. The blooming period of Christmas rose is considered to be an important part of the festival and holidays during winter. But, the connection between the birth of Christ and the Christmas Rose might not be so obvious. This holiday roses uphold a colorful history behind.

How does it look?

The Christmas roses have five snow white sepals bordering a ring of tiny, cup-like ‘nectaries’. These sepals of the genus of plants do not fall as that of petals do, but stay on the plant might be for many months. This genus of plants does not belong to the family of Rosaceae though the name sounds the same. Helleborus niger or black hellebore or Christmas Rose is an evergreen plant with leathery, dark, pedate leaves having 9-12 inches tall stem. The flat and large flowers bear on short stems from midwinter to early spring. The flowers are occasionally white or pink.

Colorful Flowers

If you want Christmas roses in variety of colors, you need to go and purchase it from the nursery. There are several money-making cultivars of Christmas roses available in the market. The cultivars are a refined variety of a plant which is consciously preferred for specific attractive uniqueness. Say for, Christmas roses which needs to be displayed in faint tinges of different colors like green, yellow and pink. Other than theses colors, you can get the color of your choice if you mention it in the nursery while the flowers are blooming.

So, get prepared to gift the beautiful Christmas roses to your dear ones in this spring and make his/her day special.