This mixture of species and hybrids boasts a range of flower and leaf types even appearing through snow flower shades can vary from lime45green through white appleblossom pink to dark maroon either spotted speckled or plain foliage is mid to dark green leathery with different degrees of dissection the seed pods are also attractive these long lived hardy perennials can be grown in the border or as pot plants in the unheated greenhouse flowering late winter through early spring a us