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Specific Families and Genera => Hepatica => Topic started by: Michael J Campbell on January 20, 2018, 11:39:53 AM
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Hepatica Japonica yellow.
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An exquisite gem, Michael,
cheers
fermi
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... what a delicate beauty. My admiration for you, Michael.
Cheers Thomas
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Really pretty.
Angie :)
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Lovely.
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:o :o
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The first Hepatica of this spring! Indeed congratulations :)
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The names are embedded in the pics.
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Hepatica japonica Koshi no Maborosh
Hepatica nobilis/ japonica 'Akafuku
Hepatica japonica purple nidan-saki
Hepatica japonica dark purple
Hepatica nobilis rubra plena
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A few more.
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Hepatica japonica yuzuru
Hepatica nobilis, white with a hint of blue
Hepatica nobilis craemar
Hepatica japonica Sakuragari
Hepatica japonica Seikai
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And a few more.
Heatica henryii.
Hepatica Nobilis Dark blue with blue anthers.
Hepatica japonica hokutosei.
Hepatica Japonica onidaiko.
Hepatica Japonica ryokurei.
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It is a joy to see these flowers, Michael. It'll be a while before we see nay here in Aberdeen - though I know Alan Gardner in the "Central Belt" of Scotland has lots in flower in his glasshouse.
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Pretty flowers, Michael!
I grow all my Hepatica sheltered outside and while some of them have just started to bloom most are still in bud.
This one caught my eye yesterday.
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Nice Hepatica's Michael!
Here it is waiting for the sun to see some Hepatica flowers in the garden.
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A beautiful painting by my talented friend, Judith Hartup. Hepatica 'Orihime'
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A beautiful painting by my talented friend, Judith Hartup. Hepatica 'Orihime'
How lovely!
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Hepatica japonica blue sandan.
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Hepatica japonica blue sandan.
Another perfect Hepatica to beat the January blues!
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Hepatica japonica yellow.
Hepatica japonica tosen
Hepatica japonica ryokurei.
Hepatica japonica 'Koshi-no-maboroshi'
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Glorious, Michael! You are way ahead of here.
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Hepatica japonica yuzuru.
Hepatica japonica hokutosei.
Hepatica japonica Kuukai.
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While my garden is still covered with snow, the hepatica season starts at the frost-free greenhouse.
Seedlings of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' (and others on the sides) sown in 2015.
Seedling of Hepatica nob.var. jap. 'Shinku' sown in 2016 still with it´s seed leafs and first leaf of 2017.
Seedling of an unnamed japonica crossed with Hepatica nob.var. jap. 'Touyama shigure' with lilac tips on the edge.
First time bloomers are always exciting to watch out and not all of them are disappointing ;)
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I have been admiring all your photos in this years hepatica thread. Lovely flowers! Carsten, the intense red colour of your seedling is amazing.
Wish I had a frost free greenhouse. My early ones have to struggle.
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Well the Hepaticas are certainly on the move. Can't name any of mine though because all of these have come as gifts. Apologise for number 2 being slightly out of focus, the tremor in my hands seem worse when I get a camera out. Also 2 pics of number 3 because it looks blue in the picture but after a bit of jiggling I have managed to get it looking more like the purple it is in reality.
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Michael & others, keep posting those wonderful Hepatica photos, WOW & WOW again.
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A selection of delectable Hepatica pictures from Ian Christie
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and some more - sorry , no names given
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I rather like the pink one, it looks as if it can't quite decide whether to be a single or a double flower :)
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I rather like the pink one, it looks as if it can't quite decide whether to be a single or a double flower :)
No 7, Shelagh? Yes, I was taken by that too.
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Beauties all of them!
Carstens - I'm not after strong colours in Hepatica but your red flowered seedling with new fuzzy leaves while still holding the seed leaves it is particularly cute :)
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A cross from Gunda & Karl Kristensen, Hepatica yamatutai x H. nobilis 'Cremar'. I am very fond of the big marbled leaves with dark red undersides. Yesterday, I noticed the advanced buds and I didn't dare leave it outside in my cold frame. Inside in a cold room it started to flower.
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A cross from Gunda & Karl Kristensen, Hepatica yamatutai x H. nobilis 'Cremar'. I am very fond of the big marbled leaves with dark red undersides. Yesterday, I noticed the advanced buds and I didn't dare leave it outside in my cold frame. Inside in a cold room it started to flower.
A good time to show it, Gunilla - it's Karl's birthday today!
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Oh, I didn't know. I wish you a very happy birthday, Karl! 'Fantastica' salutes you ;)
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A cross from Gunda & Karl Kristensen, Hepatica yamatutai x H. nobilis 'Cremar'. I am very fond of the big marbled leaves with dark red undersides. Yesterday, I noticed the advanced buds and I didn't dare leave it outside in my cold frame. Inside in a cold room it started to flower.
Gunilla, 'Fantastica' is indeed fantastic! Does it give seeds or is it sterile?
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Gunilla, 'Fantastica' is indeed fantastic! Does it give seeds or is it sterile?
I don't know yet. I asked Gunda and she thought it might be sterile. I had a close look and there doesn't seem to be any pollen at all.
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I don't know yet. I asked Gunda and she thought it might be sterile. I had a close look and there doesn't seem to be any pollen at all.
Thank you Gunilla, it is a pity that it does not set seeds!
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Hepatica maxima x nobilis.
Hepatica japonica akafuku.
Hepatica nobilis bibo
Hepatica seedling.
Hepatica nobilis flora plena alba.
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Hepatica nobilis indigo strain.
Hepatica henryi.
Hepatica japonica haruno-awayuki
Hepatica japonica shikouden.
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Hepatica japonica 'Blue Sandan' in tufa garden.
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Winterfreude' is also starting.
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A lot of Hepatica's are waiting for more sun.
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Hepatica japonica onidaiko.
Hepatica japonica kougyoku.
A couple of pics from the greenhouse.
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I have a second double japonica seedling to add to my first!
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Cute little things!
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The weather is turning, today some snow, but the freezing has stopped. Now it is waiting for thaw, so that the Hepatica's in the garden can start again.
Hepatica transsilvanica 'Winterfreude' makes an effort to get through the snow.
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A brave effort!
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Hepatica falconeri
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Hepatica falconeri
Beautiful falconeri Rudi! He is so early? You have probably kept him frost free. Here they are still dormant or death.
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A sunny day and the Hepatica season seems to start here (in the greenhouse).
Four unnamed Hepatica japonicas.
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A few seedlings of a 2015 cross with japonica and a forest hybrid are very tiny.
See the tiny leafs next to one of Anne Wright´s x schlyteris
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A semidouble Hepatica nobilis ready for crossbreeding ...
... and Hepatica pyrenaica 'Sue's Double'.
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Two pics of an unnamed bicoloured cultivar.
Hepatica japonica 'Ryougetsu II'
Hepatica japonica 'Hikogami'
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These seedlings of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' of 2015 give a nice spread and there a some more distinct forms.
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Finally two superb cultivars
'Yumeno hana' and 'Kouten'
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Lovely Hepatica's, Carstens! Is Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' hardy?
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Hi Herman,
pubescens is from the central range of Honsu. So they will cope with frost without any problem. But I guess the plants are well covered with snow in this regions and are therefore relativly dry in winters, like other Hepaticas from the far east. This will not fit too well to our european winters with cold spells and frostfree phases. I have not yet tested pubescens in the garden but other japonicas do very well. Most important in my view is a very free draining compost or a slope that helps to remove excess water in the winter. Mine are planted on a raised bed with about 5 cm of substrate over a 20cm layer of pumice. I cover them with some composted pine and fir shredding so they are not to much affected by permanent frost movement that easely may cut the roots. Hope this helps.
The pics show 'Shirayuki' today at 15.30 and 16.30. It will start to bloom next week, depending on the temperature.
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Carstens, thank you. Here al the snow is gone and temperature is rising.
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Thanks Herman, I cultivate my Hepatica falconeri in the Alpine House,
minimum temperature is -7°C controlled by a fan heater. When the
seedlings grow bigger I will try to cultivate them in the open garden.
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A few seedlings of a 2015 cross with japonica and a forest hybrid are very tiny.
See the tiny leafs next to one of Anne Wright´s x schlyteris
The tiny leaf one is very cute Carstens. I found a very similar one in the wild - of H. americana; precisely the exact leaf shape. I will measure it this year.
Your H. japonica cv. are very beautiful. I didn't manage to keep H. japonica alive here (the plants were from a nursery from a milder climate in British Columbia).
I try to grow from seeds now, maybe the seedlings acclimatize better. I see you are zone 6b, here is in between 6 and 5 so maybe there is hope.
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Blue semidouble H.nobilis is my favourite! I think Hepaticas are becoming one of my most favourite plants. :)
other japonicas do very well. Most important in my view is a very free draining compost or a slope that helps to remove excess water in the winter. Mine are planted on a raised bed with about 5 cm of substrate over a 20cm layer of pumice. I cover them with some composted pine and fir shredding so they are not to much affected by permanent frost movement that easely may cut the roots.
This is very good information, thank you :)
I have some seed grown H.japonica which have survived two winters now outside (three after this winter), they are in a slight slope under apple tree, and I cover them with dry oak leaves for the winter.
Some years ago I got forest-hybrid as a present, and planted also it outside, but it died the first winter. :(
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I think Hepaticas are becoming one of my most favourite plants. :)
I couldn't agree with you more, Leena. It's not easy to pic a favourite, they are all very nice, but the white seedling of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' is the one that won my heart :). Lovely flowers, Carsten.
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@ Gabriela: You are probably right. The Forest Hybrid of this cross might be an americana/japonica cross and in the F2 generation the spectrum of different leaf forms is large.
@ Gunilla: I´am happy to give you a white seedling even though they are still small. Yours doing very well here ;)
@ Leena and Gabriela: I think it´s always worth to try the japonicas outside. They are quite tough and add so much beauty to a garden.
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Carsten, that is very kind of you. I'll send you a mail when mine are starting to wake up and I know what I have for swapping. By the way, yours are doing fine here, too :).
Hepatica nobilis 'Bavarian Blue'
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Very nice Gunilla. It looks like 'Prickel'
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@ Leena and Gabriela: I think it´s always worth to try the japonicas outside. They are quite tough and add so much beauty to a garden.
Thank you. :) There is so much more variability in H.japonica than in H.nobilis. Close by my H.japonicas I have native H.nobilis plants, maybe they will interbreed?
Gunilla, 'Bavarian Blue' is so different than any other I have seen! :)
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Post # 52 showed Hep. jap. 'Shirayuki' covered with snow. Today a week later it looks like this ...
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That is an amazing Hepatica! :) And also seems quite hardy.
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Some beautiful flowers from everyone :D
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Yesterday there was some sunshine:
Hepatica nobilis 'Alba'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra plena'
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Hepatica nobilis Multipetala Group
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Alba'
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Rosea', difficult to get the right colour, it is softly pink
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Hepatica yamatutai
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Yesterdays pics from the greenhouse
An intensive rose nobilis that even does have a good marbled leaf.
Rote Glut - always difficult to capture the nearly red colour on a pic.
'Giselle', one of Andreas Händels cultivars.
'Bergfexing' is a generous gift of a very kind forumist - many thanks again!
... and Hepatica japonica 'Ryougestu II' now in full bloom.
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Some new seedlings today.
4156-2-17-18 maxima x nobilis white tabby- this one has nicely marbled leaves later.
3876-3-17-18 own petaloid x Tenjinbai - the only one to have the dark pistil I was hoping for.
3871-1-18 jap Emiko x blue nobilis (seed from Gunhild Poulsen)
3709-4-17-18 Takumi x Tenjinbai
3600-1-18 F2 ex Red Senne (seed from Gunhild Poulsen)
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One of our Dryad Blush group, clone 7, from transsylvanica Lilacina x japonica.
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Really beautiful Hepaticas. :)
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Beautiful Hepatica's Anne. The first flowering of new seedlings is always exciting!
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Lovely Hepatica, everyone! I have been busy crossing and making records of my Japanese Hepatica but most of them are now past their prime for this year.
I made some crosses of my two H. acutiloba several years ago and I had one good result last year. This year, I have several nice flowers blooming and this is one of them.
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The anthers won't produce pollen and the flowers are closer to a semi-double form.
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That is a beautiful semidouble! :)
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Lovely Hepatica, everyone! I have been busy crossing and making records of my Japanese Hepatica but most of them are now past their prime for this year.
I made some crosses of my two H. acutiloba several years ago and I had one good result last year. This year, I have several nice flowers blooming and this is one of them.
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The anthers won't produce pollen and the flowers are closer to a semi-double form.
Peppa, maybe you should pollinate it with another acutiloba!
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Some really nice seedlings in this thread :o
What a beautiful pure white flower, Peppa.
Hepatica x euroasiatica 'Rötgebütteler Röschen' has started to flower here and it looks similar to your H. transsylvanica Lilacina x japonica, Anne. I love the soft pink flowers.
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Thanks for the nice comments!
Peppa, maybe you should pollinate it with another acutiloba!
Yep! I have crossed this one with an interesting-colored acutiloba. I can't help pollinating anything that might set seed.
Here is another sibling that has bigger flowers.
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A nice little seedling of Hepatica japonica Lavender.
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra' is spreading around.
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Hepatica acutiloba -- a plain Jane, but cheerfully blooming.
...Claire
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Hepatica nobilis compact form flowering in the garden today.
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A really nice picture of Claire's H.acutiloba, and how wonderful leaves it has.
Blue and pink H.nobilis are also so nice, when they are full of flowers.
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Hepatica acutiloba -- a plain Jane, but cheerfully blooming.
...Claire
A "plain Jane" ?? With foliage that fabulous? I think not!
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Ellison Spence' is also starting.
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Hepatica acutiloba -- a plain Jane, but cheerfully blooming.
...Claire
Beautiful acutiloba Claire, wonderful foliage. Something we'll miss in Ontario this spring; due to long snowless periods all foliage is badly burnt.
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).
Hepatica transsilvanica 'Ellison Spence' is also starting.
Wow! How old is that clump of H. nobilis plena? Amazing.
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).
What a magnificent H. nobilis plena!
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden)
My dream plant !! Very beautiful.
Claire the Acutiloba is also amazing specially with the beautiful leaves.
As our area is very cold in spring the older leaves of Hepatica won't look nice.
Looks like we have wait two more weeks to get good weather. Next 5 days are going to be extremely cold with the arctic cold front!!!
Kris
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).
That is wonderful plant, so full of flowers and so pretty flowers! Your growing conditions must also be exactly right for it to grow so big. :)
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Wow! How old is that clump of H. nobilis plena? Amazing.
Gabriela, this Hepatica is planted in 2003, it is a very good grower once it has settled. In the past I have already planted several pieces from it on other places in the garden.
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Hepatica americana 'Rosea'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Peach Blossom'
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Hepatica pubescens
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Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica
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Hepatica x media ‘Buis’
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Gabriela, this Hepatica is planted in 2003, it is a very good grower once it has settled. In the past I have already planted several pieces from it on other places in the garden.
I was wondering because in the wild I have never found such big clumps, neither of H. americana, nor H. acutiloba, even in the best populations. They don't make it past 8-10 years in the wild probably.
Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica is particularly pretty.
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Hello can any of the experts in the forum help me.
What is the difference between Hepatica transsilvanica "ROSEA" and Hepatica transsilvanica "SHAWANEESE"
Kris
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Kris - to start with, I think you may have a mis-spelling there - there is a Hepatica transsilvanica 'Schwanensee' - you can see a photo of that here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12570.msg322379#msg322379 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12570.msg322379#msg322379)
(Schwanensee means Swan Lake)
Hepatica transsilvanica "Pink Form" is shown here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220762#msg220762 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220762#msg220762)
Razvan Chisu lists 59 cultivars of transilvanica from Jurgen Peters book and mentions that superficially many look similar : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220711#msg220711 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220711#msg220711)
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Thank you Maggi for the right spelling and the links.
I got the answer. A nursery here has the Hepatica Schwaneese and when I googled I can't find any difference between the two types.
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Hepatica falconeri
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Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler'
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Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler'
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Such a nice acutiloba variety.
Hepatica acutiloba is in full flower in the forest in Ontario. Pictures from a mixed population with flowers in white, pink, lilac and all shades in between.
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Beautiful!!!! I love them all.
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Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica and a Hepatica nobilis seedling blooming right now in the garden
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Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica and a Hepatica nobilis seedling blooming right now in the garden
Wow, is that transsilvanica the mother of my babies? :)
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yes Gabriela. :)
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Gabriela and Kris, beautiful Hepatica's! Here the season is over.
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They don't flower for long unfortunately, it's good to enjoy them to the fullest :)
More H. acutiloba, first from the same pastel mix population.
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And from another place one of the biggest clump I've found in the wild (I think I mentioned once that very large clumps are not usual)
H. acutiloba white
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Thanks for the comment Herman. They are just starting to flower now. I will have more in a week.
Gabriela the Hepatica looks more charming in the wild compared to garden .
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I see another plant addiction coming on, as the woodland garden is missing any Hepatica. First of all, the need will be to source some fresh seed!
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Hi Gordon
please send me a PM . I can give you some fresh seeds once ripe.
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Large clumps are not usual in the wild here, either. In many of the Minnesota habitats they grow in, this is the norm:
Hepatica acutiloba
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Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica
That is really something you have there Kris!
H.acutiloba pictures from the wild are so beautiful, and also Rick's picture!
Here H.nobilis has been flowering now for about a week, but it's been rainy so I don't have many pictures. Near where I live Hepaticas in the wild are not so big clumps, mostly only one or few flowers per a plant, but last weekend I was about 70 kilometres from us (in an area where the soil is known to be calcerous) and saw a lot of H.nobilis growing so well I've never seen before, in big clumps and everywhere. Sadly only blue ones and no doubles or anything more special. The most petals I've seen here in the wild have been nine in a flower, though mostly six to eight.
This nice pale pink H.nobilis is growing in my garden.
In the second picture there are my seed grown H.japonicas on the right behind Crocus 'Blue Pearl'.
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Lovely Leena. This year I also didn't took that many Hepatica pictures because of the weather.
I have quite a few H. japonica seedlings now, I'll keep them in pots for one more year and then I'll see how they do in the garden.
Thanks for the comment Herman. They are just starting to flower now. I will have more in a week.
Gabriela the Hepatica looks more charming in the wild compared to garden .
I agree Kris, nothing compares with seeing them in the woods. It is the whole atmosphere that makes them look so beautiful and happy.
Let's enjoy some H. americana :)
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Lovely :)
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Gabriela, so beautiful Hepaticas in the wild!
Your H.americana seedlings are doing fine here, I just pricked them to individual pots in April and they are now growing first real leaves. :) I'll plant them outside later in the summer.
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Gabriela, so beautiful Hepaticas in the wild!
Your H.americana seedlings are doing fine here, I just pricked them to individual pots in April and they are now growing first real leaves. :) I'll plant them outside later in the summer.
I am glad they are doing well Leena, so very cute when the show the true leaves :) I have so many Hepatica seedlings of all kinds now that I find no other solution than plant 2-3/pot or in large containers.
The variation in colour/form of Hepatica americana it is just incredible in the wild. Too bad that with the sudden heat wave it is a short flowering this year.
Just when I said I'm done with the scouting, one late flowering cutie showed up:
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Our spring hepatica plant list will be available on our website from this evening:
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html (http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html)
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Our spring hepatica plant list will be available on our website from this evening:
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html (http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html)
Online now!!
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Is that an order, Maggi? ;D ;D
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It sounds like it, doesn't it? Sorry about that - I do strongly advise attention though! 8) 8)
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Dear Hepatica growers,
instead of waiting an extra season for seedlings to germinate with the seed exchange in winter I can spread some Hepatcia nobilis seed now.
Sorry, only one portion of
'Giselle' white
'Selma' salmon
'Tausendschön' blue multipetaled
and more then ten portions of
'Bavarian Blue' white with blue spots
Feel free to ask ;) and send a PM
Carsten
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Some pictures of H.nobilis in my garden last week-end. I love the blue ones in a garden scene, no matter that they are an ordinary colour. You can't get that same blue from anything else, and also there are variations in the blues.
Also two pictures of H.japonica which I have grown from seed. 4-5 seeds germinated, and I planted the whole pot outside, but now I should separate each individual. I guess after flowering would be best, but I want to get seeds from these so I will have to wait until later. Or do you think they root better now than in the summer?
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Some pictures of H.nobilis in my garden last week-end. I love the blue ones in a garden scene, no matter that they are an ordinary colour. You can't get that same blue from anything else, and also there are variations in the blues.
Also two pictures of H.japonica which I have grown from seed. 4-5 seeds germinated, and I planted the whole pot outside, but now I should separate each individual. I guess after flowering would be best, but I want to get seeds from these so I will have to wait until later. Or do you think they root better now than in the summer?
Leena, beautiful pictures and Hepatica's. If you want the seeds, I think it is best to wait till they are ready to sow.
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Thank you Herman. :) It would be best to have seeds to sow because you never know what next winter is going to be like though these plants have survived now for three winters.
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The hepaticas look very 'at home' with you, Leena.
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Thank you Anne. :) Seeds I bought from you last summer have now germinated well, and it is nice to have even more variety to my H.nobilis in a few years.
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Is it fall or is it spring? :) Actually still summer on this part of Ontario.
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Is it fall or is it spring? :) Actually still summer on this part of Ontario.
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Wonderful to see all this lovely hepaticas
I am extra happy to see so many variants of the hardy ones
I am now finally having a possible place to plant my hepaticas where I actually can see them. I have mistreated them in pots so decided that better to plant them now when I have a place.
I would imagine that that south of o hedge with protection from any sun from the east by huge conifers is a ok habitat for them.
The soil is quite compact so will be mixed garden soil. It will be H. nobilis and H. transylvatica.
I will take them out of the pots as intact as possible so even if this might not be ideal time it should be possible.
If people already now sees that this is a huge risk and that it would be better to wait until spring please let me know as I plan to plant on Sunday.
Thanks for any thoughts on this
Kind regards
Joakim
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Hi Joakim,
From the perspective of my cold climate of Ontario, I would say better wait for spring. Of course that it is not impossible as you say; the major worry (in my region) would be
that they won't have time to settle down and the frost heaving will bring them up when no snow on the ground.
Another observation is that Hepaticas do better in locations where they receive plenty of sun in the spring when flowering and then get shaded for the rest of the season.
Usually in the wild they grow under deciduous trees shade.
Good luck!
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Thanks for the input Gabriela
My thinking was that the hedge would act as a partial shade during during spring. The hedge is a ribes of some sort so should give partial shade.
The other hope is that the intact soil and rots from the pots would keep them in the ground. Normally we only have not so strong ground freezing.
I will see if the forecast talks about if there will be continued warm weather so that rooting / integration in the ground could take place. I will also place a pine branch on top in case of strong freezing to slow down the freezing of the ground as the freezing generally is short.
Thanks
Now I know what to secure if I want to succeed with this.
Kind regards
Joakim