It was long awaited and talked about, but on Tuesday January 23^rd, the new Helleborus x sahinii Winterbells® variety of HilverdaKooij – Aalsmeer – Holland, was officially launched by Dr. Elisabeth Sahin-Georgiadou, well known within the international horticultural industry as the co-founder of K. Sahin Seeds and currently a Horticultural Consultant at GES Consultancy, Cyprus.

Before the actual ceremony took place, the history and the origin of this new variety was briefly explained by Dr. Elisabeth Sahin-Georgiadou as well as the characteristics of this new variety. Helleborus Winterbells® is unique in its kind for its cultivation and plant structure. With loose basal rosettes and its attractive teethed-edged leaves, it produces several loosely branched flowering stems, each branch with up to 4 bell-shaped flowers. The flowers are creamy white inside and fresh green-white externally with dusky pink pigmentation around the veins, spreading gradually to the whole surface. The flowers eventually age to a lime green colour. Winterbells® flowers prolifically from the start, but it continuous flowering for a long period of time (7 months!).