Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Hepatica => Topic started by: chasw on August 15, 2011, 07:13:02 PM
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Also have Hepatica flowering now?
I went out today only to find one in flower in the garden................how strange
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Chas there are a few flowers on mine. Primroses have flowers also
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Hepaticas and primroses both in flower here too. ;D
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Primroses and Helleborus niger "Praecox". No hepaticas in bloom, though.
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I had hepatica 'Millstream Merlin' in flower a week ago, only one flower but it seemed a little strange for it to be blooming at this time of year.
Also a hose in hose oxslip is in full bloom for the second time this year.
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Lots of Helleborus and Hepatica in bloom here, also some Primroses and Rhododendrons.
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Rhododendron microleucum in full flower here. It usually makes new buds later and flowers in the Spring heavily. A friend has a big show on Magnolia Legacy, it is a darker pink at this time of year. As mentioned before Lachenalia Tricolor is in fully flower - now this IS odd.
johnw
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And my Cornus Satomi is again in a very nice blooming :D
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Some of my auriculas and P. marginata have burst into bloom. Thought it was strange, but enjoying them anyway.
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Many plants often blooms second time in summer. But hepaticas never do.
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I've never seen Hepatica nobilis and cultivars blooming at this time of year (the species grows wild in my garden). Perhaps this means the plants are stressed and are about to die.....although I hope not!
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I do take Stephen's point about the "odd" flowering" being a possible reason to suspect that the plant is somehow stressed and is making a last ditch attempt to reproduce before dying.... but with the increasingly "odd" weather patterns that are affecting so many areas I feel that it is more likely that the plants are just getting "confused" and throwing up some flowers because the temperature changes have thrown a few timing switches in error.
I have an optimistic nature, obviously :D
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There are buds on many of my hepaticas also, but none have opened yet.
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I had an ANemone nemorosa that flowered a second time in the autumn but it stopped doing that. Very occasio0nally, less than one in thousand of hepatica nobilis send up a couple of flowers in the fall.
I think that it is some kind of disturbance as the occasional fasciation or Gentian stalk with leaves in threes.
Göte
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I have numerous Hepatica in flower or bud (mostly thanks to generous friends here on the forum), as well as the true Primrose, heaps of Hellebores etc. Seems very odd for you in the northern hemisphere to have them as well...... they're supposed to be flowering here now. ;D
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I have a wild Primrose in flower; a few hybrid primroses; a Hellebore and some little border Phlox hybrids. Poor dears, they think it's spring.
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Border Phlox, David? Do you mean alpine creeping Phlox? I have flowers on some.
I stayed in a B&B last night. The woman who runs it has an Auricula theatre with lots of flowers. Her Chaenomeles was covered in red flowers. There masses of Cyclamen hederifolium under a tree
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Mark,
Chaenomeles (double red, 'Apple Blossom' and a pure white) are in flower here as well at the moment. Just saw a rather nice pure pink one in the garden next to a friend I was doing some work for this morning. Must think about nabbing a few cuttings if they'll let me. I dislike the way they spread, but am planting mine in large plastic pots with the bases cut off, to try to limit their spreading tendencies. Yes I realise it won't stop them, but hopefully it will slow them a little. ;D
Quite amazing to have so many things flowering in both hemispheres at once. :o
And given this is a Hepatica topic....... I have some lovely pinks flowering at the moment from seed Lesley sent me a few years ago, plus some blues (Mark S. I think), some americanas (Diane from memory), mixed colours from Gunne-Bert's seed, and some others I am still waiting to see whether they get to flowering size as yet. Thank you all so much!! 8) Also awaiting seedlings germinating, which I think shouldn't be too far off. ;) Spring is most definitely coming into full swing here, a few weeks earlier than last year.
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All my strawberries are in flower. ??? I hope they flower again next spring.
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And given this is a Hepatica topic....... I have some lovely pinks flowering at the moment from seed Lesley sent me a few years ago, plus some blues (Mark S. I think), some americanas (Diane from memory), mixed colours from Gunne-Bert's seed, and some others I am still waiting to see whether they get to flowering size as yet. Thank you all so much!! Also awaiting seedlings germinating, which I think shouldn't be too far off. Spring is most definitely coming into full swing here, a few weeks earlier than last year.
:o ::) :o ::) ::) ::) :( 21/4/2009
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What's the date about Michael? Spring here too, just about. Temp of 18C yesterday and 17 today, until it turned cold then rained. Magnolias,Michaelias, rhodos in full flower and seeds coming up like mushrooms. A single flower on my (new) wintersweet so I go and sniff it half a dozen times a day. ::) And hepaticas, hellebores of course and all the other little things. Really pleased to see some special Podophyllums through when I thought they'd died.
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Lesley,
The date I think is to remind me that I owe Michael seed/bulbs, which I haven't yet organised. No michael, I haven't forgotten, I've just been very, very slack!! :-[ I wish I could say you're the only one, but unfortunately I cannot. :-[ :-[ I can't even guess where the last couple of years have gone since I started back into full time work after my CFS eased up..... :-\
Anyone else reading this who I owe seed/plants to, please PM or email me to remind me. I really WOULD like to catch up on those I owe to.
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Paul, you owe me a return flight to Australia ;D
I have Pulsatilla flowers and flowers on Primula Johanna
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Hi Paul,you had offered seeds of Massonia/Polyxena some time ago and saw your reminder for members still waiting to remind you of wants.Many thanks,Gordon Tasmania
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Hi Paul, you owe me a dozen Galanthus Flocon de neige. :-*
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Seeds in this direction too, for instance Clianthus formosus, but no matter.
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Last year, after terrible heat, at me blossomed the second time in the end of summer of plant Hepatica henrii.
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All my strawberries are in flower. ??? I hope they flower again next spring.
Most years I get some of the earlies flowering around the beginning of September and if I'm lucky they manage to ripen. They then produce flowers the following year with no problems.