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Gabriela

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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #300 on: December 04, 2020, 01:10:52 AM »
Murasaki is very cute.

Are the varieties easier to grow than the type species?
 do you get volunteer sowing around? not me.
 are the seeds collected by the ants? 2 years in a row that I miss them.

I have to point out Véronique that I wrote ex. Murasaki for the fragrant seedling (it is not the true H. japonica Murasaki Choui). I didn't grow many H. japonica cultivars from seeds but I see that only few seedlings will come true to the mother plant. In any case, one will obtain seedlings with nice variations and can retain the best looking.

I suspect hybrids could be more vigorous than the species, but then it probably depends what species you are referring to.

Yes, the ants will carry away the seeds very fast when ripen. You should read through the Hepatica threads from a few years back, besides stunning pictures, there is a lot to learn.
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #301 on: December 04, 2020, 08:45:10 PM »
Hepatica japonica Gyousei is also scented - the perfume fills the greenhouse on sunny days in early spring (can’t come soon enough....) It’s a super bright cerise pink too.
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #302 on: December 05, 2020, 03:44:59 PM »
Hepatica japonica Gyousei is also scented - the perfume fills the greenhouse on sunny days in early spring (can’t come soon enough....) It’s a super bright cerise pink too.

Thanks Carolyn, that's a very nice cultivar after the images I found.
I am starting to think the fragrance may be associated with the color: pink (or close by) for H. japonica, white for H. acutiloba and blue for H. americana.
But maybe others will post about other fragrant Hepaticas in different colors :)
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #303 on: December 05, 2020, 05:00:37 PM »
Fragrance of Hepatica. Something to pay attention to in the next spring.
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #304 on: September 05, 2022, 06:55:17 AM »
 From Denmark seed I received a number of years ago .... Unfortunately the label has faded .
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #305 on: September 05, 2022, 07:10:06 AM »
From Denmark seed I received a number of years ago .... Unfortunately the label has faded .
Dave, probably a Hepatica nobilis var. japonica.
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #306 on: September 06, 2022, 09:41:25 AM »
Dave, probably a Hepatica nobilis var. japonica.

Thank you Herman.
Dave Toole. Invercargill bottom of the South Island New Zealand. Zone 9 maritime climate 1100mm rainfall pa.

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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #307 on: September 11, 2022, 07:44:01 AM »
Dave, it is very nice looking Hepatica! :)
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #308 on: September 11, 2022, 09:41:30 AM »
Dave, it is very nice looking Hepatica! :)
Thank you Leena
Seed was from Gunhild in Denmark and is in flower currently, not 2020 ! ::) oops  :D
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #309 on: September 15, 2022, 01:12:05 AM »
From Denmark seed I received a number of years ago .... Unfortunately the label has faded .

Lovely! and nice to see Hepatica flowers when in our Hemisphere there is just foliage to be admired.
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Re: Hepatica 2020
« Reply #310 on: September 18, 2022, 08:44:00 AM »
Lovely! and nice to see Hepatica flowers when in our Hemisphere there is just foliage to be admired.
Thanks Gabriela.
Dave Toole. Invercargill bottom of the South Island New Zealand. Zone 9 maritime climate 1100mm rainfall pa.

 


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