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Specific Families and Genera => Hepatica => Topic started by: kalle-k.dk on January 29, 2012, 12:09:47 PM
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I have two small greenhouses where there are about 5 degress. Mostly I use them to mine Hepatica and a few have flowers already. As you can see on one of the pictures as I have attached there are several new cross as are well on the way and a few of them will get flowers this year, exciting :o
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If only I could grow them :-[
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An exciting start to the year!
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Very nice, Karl!
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Mangetsu is very nice Karl
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Looking great, Karl!
The first flowers are always exciting to see, especially after several years of waiting. :)
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Perfectly well, the season is opened!
Karl, thanks for a photo!
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Two Hepatica from today. I got them in the greenhouse, but they are full hardy and I colud also grow them outsite in the garden. I got several other Hepatica in the garden, also japonica and they grow well.
Pepper your winter sound like ours, but in the end of this week we got it cold -15 degress. :-[
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Beautiful hepaticas, Karl, thanks for sharing. Springtime is not far away when i see such treasures! I am looking forward to see hepatica Eisvogel that i planted last year. And i have even sown hepatica seeds in pots both inndoor and outside ;D Some of the ones i have inndoor (cool room with light) have started sprouting! This will be a most interesting season
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Pepper your winter sound like ours, but in the end of this week we got it cold -15 degress. :-[
That is pretty cold! The only transsilvanica I have is 'Ellison Spence', but your 'Schwanensee' is very nice! I also love your H. x euroasiatica 'Prof. Friedrich Hildebrand'! :D
And i have even sown hepatica seeds in pots both inndoor and outside ;D Some of the ones i have inndoor (cool room with light) have started sprouting! This will be a most interesting season
I sowed a lot of H. japonica seed from my friends in Japan last year, so I'm also looking forward to seeing them sprout! ;D
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I just found this flower when I looked under my cold frame...
Hepatica nobilis ex 'Cremar'
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Wonderful to see your hepaticas, Karl. Magnetsu is absolutely stunning. It's very cold her now and everything outside is frozen but I have a few pots in my outhouse at +5 C and Hepatica maxima is about to flower.
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What a nice find, Peppa :).
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Pepper I have used 'Cremar' several times in my cross and sometimes it give very beautiful leaves forms. Last year I got the first filled forms from my Hepatica nobilis, I have got it before in my Hepatica nobilis v. japonica, but this time it was the European species and I mean all other filled forms of Hepatica nobilis are plants found in the nature. This year I can see there again will come filled forms and this time there are also red forms :D I post some picture of them last year on SRGC forum, but you can also see them on my website: http://kalle-k.dk/Mine%20egne%20Hepatica%20krydsninger-My%20own%20Hepatica%20cross.htm
Yes I also think Hepatica nobilis v. japonica 'Magnetsu' is very beautiful, I also have real yellow forms but for me is that colour 'Magnetsu' have fantastic.
It is very cold; when it will be better I will send some more pictures.
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What a nice find, Peppa :).
Yes it was! :D
Pepper I have used 'Cremar' several times in my cross and sometimes it give very beautiful leaves forms. Last year I got the first filled forms from my Hepatica nobilis, I have got it before in my Hepatica nobilis v. japonica, but this time it was the European species and I mean all other filled forms of Hepatica nobilis are plants found in the nature. This year I can see there again will come filled forms and this time there are also red forms :D I post some picture of them last year on SRGC forum, but you can also see them on my website: http://kalle-k.dk/Mine%20egne%20Hepatica%20krydsninger-My%20own%20Hepatica%20cross.htm
Yes I also think Hepatica nobilis v. japonica 'Magnetsu' is very beautiful, I also have real yellow forms but for me is that colour 'Magnetsu' have fantastic.
It is very cold; when it will be better I will send some more pictures.
Thanks for the great info, Karl! When I bought this plant from Rick Lupp when I was visiting his nursery, he told me that OP offspring from these plants will give you beautiful leaf patterns and curly leaves. It's nice to know that someone who has experience crossing this plant can confirm that these traits can be passed on!
Thanks for the link to the pictures of your beautiful European fully double hepatica! They are all very stunning! Your photo http://kalle-k.dk/H.%20nobilis%20flora%20plena%20'Ydun'.JPG is a very good example of how you can sometimes find stamens hidden between the sepals. That pollen is 'Gold Dust', and I'm sure that you used it for your cross! : ;)
My japonica seeds from last year have started to germinate! :)
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After the coldest night in 26 years with temperature down to -20.2 was it great to get into in the greenhouse today where the temperature is +5 degrees :) There were a few new Hepatica in bloom. Hepatica nobilis v. japonica 'Genrei' is a wild collection from Mt. Yahiko.
Peppa, I have good experience with pricking out early in small pots.
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Wonderful Karl,
I love 'Genrei' especially!
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I love 'Genrei' especially!
Me too - the color combination is fantastic!
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A few starting to flower here.
Hepatica japonica pink
Hepatica japonica white
Hepatica nobilis pink
Hepatica japonica Anjyu
Hepatica nobilis rubra plena
Hepatica japonica kuukai
Heepatica nobilis dark blue
Hepatica japonica blue
Hepatica japonica sakuragari - something is eating the flowers on these two
Hepatica japonica.
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Beautiful, Michael - and very early!
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Hepatica japonica sakuragari - something is eating the flowers on these two
Hepatica japonica.
Search and destroy mission.....
Michael - all of them are quite stunning even with the leaf nibbles :) Hepatica japonica Anjyu my favorite of the moment or maybe it is Hepatica japonica sakuragari
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Michael I think that the nibbles look like the kind of "grazing" we can get here from the Sparrows. ???
Just naughty chompng to see if they're tasty, y'know.
The blues are so good.... but the stronger pinks, almost reds... well ..... 8) 8)
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the nibbles look like the kind of "grazing" we can get here from the Sparrows. ???
If it is Sparrows, forget the destroy! :o I'm glad our Sparrows aren't voracious like that (knock on wood). :D
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Lovely range of colour there Michael, you must enjoy a warmer climate there than I have (one bud currently showing some colour).
I get similar damage to flowers occasionally, the culprit always seems to be very small slugs grazing on the buds. They're even active under currrent conditions when our night-time low is down to -3 to -5C, and the greeenhouse is kept barely frost free. They must move about during the day when the air temperature warms up. I've found I get less damage isince I began to remove last years leaves around the turn of the year, as you can see the little slugs more easily and pick them off.
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Michael I wondered when you would post some pictures of your Hepatica. What a lovely display 8)
Angie :)
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Your Hepaticas are just wonderful Michael. What a thrill to have them in flower so well and so early. 8)
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Hello
I post some photos of H.japonica.
I grow some pots in a room to enjoy early blooms.
tetsuo
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:o :o :o
Very stunning deep colors Tetsuo. All are beautiful but that electric blue is just wow! How wonderful to be able to enjoy them early.
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Love these hepaticas everybody! :D
Tetsuo-san, it looks like your flowers have plenty of pollen! ;D
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Fantastic display Karl, Michael and Tetsuo !! Some really stunning plants there ! :o :o
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Wonderful plants, Michael. I love that 'Kuukai' especially.
Tetsuo, I love those Hyoujunka forms a lot and what exquisitely intense colours!
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I get similar damage to flowers occasionally, the culprit always seems to be very small slugs grazing on the buds.
You are correct Peter, caught the little blighters this evening munching on the flowers. They have gone for their holidays. ;)
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I get similar damage to flowers occasionally, the culprit always seems to be very small slugs grazing on the buds.
You are correct Peter, caught the little blighters this evening munching on the flowers. They have gone for their holidays. ;)
Little swines! Glad you caught them.
Saw a sparrow sneaking up on an eranthis today.... told him what I thought of him. Maybe it is just "my" sparrows that are phantom chompers?
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Maggi, watched a female Bulfinch (Pyrrhula Pyrrhula) eating the buds from a dwarf flowering cherry tree in the front garden yesterday. I opened the window several times and chased it, but it returned a few minuted later and continued the destruction. It was only about ten feet from the front window where I was watching, but it wasn't deterred,decided it was eating the buds whether I liked it or not . Don't think I will have any cherry blossom flowers this year, but I will have a nice fat bullfinch. :)
Here is a bad pic taken through the window of the culprit at work.
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Michael and Tetsuo beautiful plants particular the red P1. Michael there will allway be problems with growing plant, to cold, warm, dry, to much sun e.g. and thre are also a lot of devils who like eating the leaves or flowers. I think your problem maybe can be woodlouse?
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Kisen - WOW!!!
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Art 600 I have other yellow, 'Kisen' is one of the best.
As you can see with 'Momosango' I use a plastic ring to hold leaves and flowers. I have bought them on a Japanes flowershop, but you can also made them with wire and they hold leaves so it hinder fungi.
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Wonderful plants, Karl. :o
I love 'Akamusha' and 'Kisen' a lot. 'Kisen' is a good yellow, indeed!
The plastic ring is a very good idea to stop fungal infection of the leaves. Hadn't seen that before.
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Thank you Karl, Tetsuo and Michael to share all these delightful pics with us ;)
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Kisen is a nature gift, what a color.
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Wonderful pictures of wonderful plants! They really are like jewels in their pots. Lovely to see these during these snow covered days.
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Jewels indeed! Thanks for sharing these stunning pictures :-*
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'Balder' is one of my own Hepatica nobilis cross with filled flowers. I can see there are coming 2 red this year, also with filled flowers, but the flowers is still not full open.
'Kihou' is a japonica and the stamen are light yellow.
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Nice Karl, very nice. While I don't grow any Hepatica myself I can thoroughly appreciate them through your pictures. ;D 8)
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A few more hepatica in flower.
Hepatica Purple nidan saki.
Hepatica Purpre nidan saki
Hepatica japonica Akane.
Hepatica japonica Asahizuru
Hepatica japonica Haruno awayuki.
Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica japonica
Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica nobilis rubra plena
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Last few.
Hepatica americana.
Hepatica americana
Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica Japonica Murasaki
Hepatica transylvanica, Blue jewel
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Gorgeous plants Karl and Michael ! :o :o
H. "Nidan Saki" is absolutely breathtaking !
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Tetsuo-san, it looks like your flowers have plenty of pollen! ;D
Now THERE'S a telling comment. :D
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Michael
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Very nice Yukiwarisou, Karl and Michael!
We enjoy the pictures.
Peppa-san
Plenty of pollen are used for self crossing or crossing with others.
They seem to be Hyouzyunka ,but some have the gene of double form.
So I expect various colors and forms by self crossing of F1.
In some cases ,anthers need to be cut for getting pollen. But I would
seek help from magnifying glass . Alas!
Tetsuo
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Wonderful plants, Michael.
Love the H. jap. 'Haruno awayuki' :o. Not so sure about the H. jap. 'Murasaki' though :-\
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I had two Hep's showing colour today ! :D
1) and 2) Hepatica japonica - unnamed cultivar, that is even a darker pink in reality than on the picture.
3) Hepatica japonica "Urihime" - for some reason it's almost white this year instead of the usual light pink. Anyone who has an explanation for this ?
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Sorry Luc, I cant answer that question, don't really know Hepaticas at all. But I know that H.japonica - unnamed is gorgeous! ;D ;D ;D
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Very nice plants,Luc.
I can't explain the reason why the color of Hepatica change a little year by year.
But I know from experience that hepatica flowers in a little different color,
especially with the case of crossing.
Sometimes different color of petals(sepal) appear in a same plant.
tetsuo
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That's quite an extreme difference! I've noticed that hepatica flowers change colour as they age (as do most flowers), sometimes looking very different when they are older compared with when they first open, but never such a variation at the same time on one plant.
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Sorry I do not know about the colour's change exactly.
But I will be able to guess flower's color is influenced by two factors.
First, environmental factor (PH etc.) will change color.
Second, the some genes regulate the Anthocyanin which control colour.
The hepatica picture which I posted is a cross between two different colors'.
More other factors will influence colors of plants .
I would be happy when I saw a new Hepatica of unforeseen color and form.
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Today, I had a meeting in the morning at Tokyo and had a time for a quick visiting to the largest hepatica exhibition in Japan after that. The exhibition was just held at The Ueno Green Club, Tokyo.
1. The exhibition hall
2. Ao-daishou, The grand prize 2012
3. Ao-daishou, The grand prize 2012
4. Ao-daishou, The grand prize 2012
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Wow, 8) are needed for judging! ;D
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Sorry for the poor quality of the pics, because the room light in the hall was always very week >:( :(
5. Manten-no-Hoshi, The honorary chairman prize 2012
6. Manten-no-Hoshi, The honorary chairman prize 2012
7. Ruri-Iwai, The gold medal, single flower, new breeding section
8. Ruri-Iwai, The gold medal, single flower, new breeding section
9. Kaizan-Senri, The gold medal, miscellaneus section
10. Kaizan-Senri, The gold medal, miscellaneus section
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Amazing flowers. Were any of the winners your plants YT?
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Amazing flowers. Were any of the winners your plants YT?
No, of course not, Ron ;D I'm also interested in these little gems but not a maniac as the prize winners. They are totally hepatica addicts ::) ;D ;D
I'll post some more later ;)
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Great to see the plants and the wonderful prizes they are awarded.
"Manten-no-Hoshi, The honorary chairman prize 2012" is very beautiful. Such a deep velvet blue. 8)
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Great to see the plants and the wonderful prizes they are awarded.
"Manten-no-Hoshi, The honorary chairman prize 2012" is very beautiful. Such a deep velevt blue. 8)
Cheers! Maggi :D The exact meaning of "Manten-no-Hoshi" is "a skyfull of stars", but it seems better to say "a skyfull shower of meteors" or simply "fireworks" I suppose ;)
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11. Ka-Rai or Koh-Rai, The gold medal, collarette (cho-ji zaki) section
12. Ka-Rai or Koh-Rai, The gold medal, collarette (cho-ji zaki) section
13. Jakkoh, The gold medal, single flower section
14. Jakkoh, The gold medal, single flower section
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Thank you for showing us these amazing plants.
I am glad they are many thousands of miles away or I might be tempted - and a pension will only stretch so far :)
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Why are all the winners blue, please YT? ??? ???
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What beauties :o Thank you for showing them to us Tatsuo.
'Jakkoh' and 'Manten-no-Hoshi' are especially attractive I think.
And what a great forum, that we can share around the world like this.
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Art, I'll post pics of some hepatica shop later. Wait and see ;)
Ron, that's simple! I took the pics of my favourite flowers ;D ;D ;D They divide hepaticas into many different contest sections by flower forms and there are lots of gold medal holders ;)
You're welcome, Ashley! It's great fun for me, too :) :) :)
15. Utage, The gold medal, the most popular flower by the visitors
16. Utage, The gold medal, the most popular flower by the visitors
17. Beni-nagashi
18. Tenteko-Mai
19. Shigure
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So blue is your colour YT! ;D I thought it must be something to do with the latest trend or fashion. It is me who is simple! :-[ :-[ :-[
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Ron ;D ;D ;D
Then, I have to go to bed now. See you again tomorrow ;)
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Probably the bronze medal winners would have us drooling :)
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Wonderful, Tatsuo! I would pick a favorite, but I just can't! Those blue ones are stunning (blue has always been my favorite colour too! ;)), the more I look at these plants, the more I love them...
I'm looking forward to seeing some pics of the shop....and to see what you have bought ;) :P
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Wonderful, Tatsuo They are all pretty especially 'Jakkoh' I understand why it got the gold medal.
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Karl,
wonderful plants. Does 'Alansdal' stay that dark or does it get whiter in the centre as the flower ages?
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Karl
If you keep producing wonderful plants I will run out of tissues ;)
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Tha Tokyo plates are as beautiful as the plants. :D
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What a collection 8). I hate opening this topic, as I love everyone. They are just like tiny cute faces.
Angie :)
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Probably the bronze medal winners would have us drooling :)
Art, several unawarded hepaticas have already been uploaded here ;D
Wim, thanks :) You've already seen faaaaaaaaaarrr better flowers than mine on this thread ;) ;D
Karl, very nice hepatias you have :o Yes, 'Jakkoh' is one of the best flowers of all I guess too ;)
Lesley, it's good idea these plates are given to the winners instead of medals or trophies. How about using these for sushi decoration ;D
Angie, yes indeed :)
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...continued from yesterday
20. Shibu-Mi
21. unnamed, shishi-ba (ruffled leaf)
22. Bi-Sei
23. Inashima-Midori
24. Inashima-Midori
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These are amazing pictures, YT, of what must have been a truly inspiring event! How many entrants are there for a show such as this, and how many people from the public would visit, please?
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:o The electric green 'Inashima-Midori'
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Wow :o :o :o Love that Inashima-Midori. Would probably need to mortgage the house to buy that. :P
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Ron, I cannnot answer that, sorry. I'm only a visitor and stay the show place about 1 hour, as you know. Several ten thousand visiters and some decades exhibiter, ten or some more nursery shops ???
As far as I know, this event is sponsored and managed by professional hepatica nurseries and breeders. Amatures can entiry the contest and exhibit their plants but it seems just a kind of commercial events. Free for entry charge, so many peoples like us amatures visit the show and buy lots of hepatica plants from nursery shops and both become happy, like that ;)
25. - 27. Exhibition floor
I visited the show in the afternoon of the last day, not so many people were there.
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28. Shopping floor, all are hepatica shops, very fun :) :) :)
29. sandan-zaki (leafy green centre, double) seedling, JPY 30.000- :o :o :o
30. sandan-zaki (leafy green centre, double) seedling, JPY 5,000 - 8,000, what is different to above, in anyway ???
31. yellow double seedling, priceless :o ::) ;D
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32. a shop display bench, more than 4,000 pots on the bench :o
33. a sort of single seedlings close up, JPY 2,000 - 7,000, I like single flowers best :)
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34. a sort of single seedlings, JPY 1,000 - 8,000 :)
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35. a sort of double seedlings, JPY 5,000 - 100,000 or more :o :o
This is the last pic of the hepatica show, thanks for all comments :) :) :)
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All those plants :o :o
And those prices :o :o :o
30. sandan-zaki (leafy green centre, double) seedling, JPY 5,000 - 8,000, what is different to above, in anyway ???
That reminds me of Galanthus ;D ;D :P (Now the Galanthophiles AND the Hepaticaphiles will want to kill me :P)
I like single flowers best :)
I find that the "simplest" flowers can be the most beautiful very often, too! (And it's healthier for your wallet! ;))
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Even more glad that I am several thousand miles away from temptation :)
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Amazing stuff Tatsuo !! Thank you so much for showing us these !! :D
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Wonderful to see these photos, Tatsuo!
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Thank you showing all those wonderful plants Tatsuo. I now realise that what we see over here in the UK is just just the tip of a very beautiful iceberg.
It's fortunate that the show is several thousand miles from here, otherwise I would be spending my children's inheritance. ;). I don't know how you could just go there for an hour - there's several days of Hepatica worship there!
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Just thinking the same as Peter was. I don't have any children to leave my money to but if I were there I certinally would have a lot less money thats for sure.
Only one thing is how could you pick a selection from so much plants. Amazing.
Angie :)
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Angie, I agree. Just look at that sales market :o and all those beautiful plants. It's a good thing we can watch pictures here for free ;D
Thank you for showing all these lovely photos of hepatica flowers, Karl, Michael and Tatsuo.
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Now you know, Angie, Peter, Arthur, how we feel about Janis Ruksans catalogue. Strictly look but don't touch. Being millionaires wouldn't help us. :'( :'( :'(
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Being a millionaire might not help with plant import regulations, but I'm sure it would make many other things a lot more pleasant. ;)
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I'm lost for words! Thank you for sharing these photos YT!
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Great pics...thanks for sharing....i look at them with mixed feelings.......how much i want go bananas with my Visa there...and how much i don't want to look at the bill afterwards....//Jonny
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Hello, Jonny! Good to see you here :). Any sign of spring in Värmland yet ? I found some Hepatica transsilvanica in flower out in the garden today so I guess spring is almost here.
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Dear all, It's my pleasure :)
... and I forgot to upload some pics, sorry
36. hepatica clay pots, designed for hepatica cultivation, slender shape, larger drain hole
37. hepatica plastic pots, designed for seedlings, slender, 8 slits at bottom edge for preventing root circling
38. one of my shopping at show, very good for wallet ;D
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:) :) :),I would say you showed great restraint YT. Does it have a name? It really is a beauty, ;)
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Hi Gunilla :)
Spring??..23*C in the south side of the house today 8)...But it's to early...way to early...2-3 more weeks and it will be a more stabil temp i guess..had to make a stagedive into my coldframes and it looks just great.....even that we don't think and believe..this few weeks goes fast ;D//Jonny
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Can I be inquisitive and asked what you paid for that simple but beautiful hepatica.
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Ron, thanks. it is a seedling just has no name ;) The little flower smiled for me when I glanced over the thousands seedlings 8)
Art, it was JPY 5,000 to 3,000 :) It was the afternoon on last day of the show so I asked the shop owner who is an acquaintance of mine for a price reduction ;D ;D ;D But it was even a big shopping for me...
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Very beautiful seedling YT and a very good price. ;D
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It looks like your prices are very similar to what is charged over here. I'd be willing to pay JPY 3000 for a flower like that. :D
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Make that two ;D
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Seems a very reasonable price compared to what we saw at some of the shows last year, :o
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Being a millionaire might not help with plant import regulations, but I'm sure it would make many other things a lot more pleasant. ;)
Very true Peter. How much is Y3000 in UK pounds?
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Being a millionaire might not help with plant import regulations, but I'm sure it would make many other things a lot more pleasant. ;)
Very true Peter. How much is Y3000 in UK pounds?
Around £23.26 according to "Currency convertor"
NZ$44.40!
Nice pics, Tatsuo!
thanks.
fermi
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Until now there have been 5 Hepatica nobilis with filled flowers in my cross from this year, 4 blue and 1 pink all of them got pollen so I can use them in my crosses :D My wife and I will call the pink one Cecilie, same name as our youngest daughter.
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Lovely Karl ;D. And why not? Cecilie is a beautiful name, :)
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I have a large pot with c.100 Hepatica nobiis seedlings grown from parents of various colours and open pollinated. When can I knock them out and pot them on?
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Thank you Ronm.
Mark I mean the best time is now, we will got a little cold weather the next 3-4 days after that I will begin pot my seedlings.
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Cecilie is beautiful, congratulations Kalle! And a superbonus that she will provide you with pollen for your crossingwork :D
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Being a millionaire might not help with plant import regulations, but I'm sure it would make many other things a lot more pleasant. ;)
Very true Peter. How much is Y3000 in UK pounds?
Around £23.26 according to "Currency convertor"
NZ$44.40!
Nice pics, Tatsuo!
thanks.
fermi
Well that's just half a peanut compared to some snowdrop prices! ???
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A few from today. :D
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All of them are very beautiful Karl. Cecilie is a stunning nobilis!
Note to self: Check into obtaining fresh seed of H. japonica.
Cheers,
Julie
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Tatsuo-san, thanks for sharing the hepatica exhibit picutres with us. I am always amazed by not only the beautiful flowers but also how they are presented, including the lovely pots and wooden stands. The total balance is beautiful. It looks almost like art, if you know what I mean...
Karl, I've been enjoying your pictures! Which are your favorite seedings rignt now? ;)
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Wonderful plants, Karl. Love your H. nobilis 'Cecilie'.
Of your H. japonica's, for me 'Hohobeni' is the nicest!
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Nothing very special but a few H. nobilis plants are showing their first flowers of the year in the garden!
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Special to have these growing in the garden though, Wim, surely, :) :) ;)
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Karl, beautiful hepaticas :D Probably you've already known that 'Hohobeni' is a selection from Hepatica nobilis var. japonica f. pubescens. It's not a variety of "var. japonica f. magna" ;)
Wim, nice first flowerling plants :)
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Pretty flowers Wim, Flowers are always more beautiful in the garden.
Thank you Tatsuo. Yes I know the single form of 'Hohobeni' is a pubescens selection, I mean the filled form is a japonica magna selection? I used pubescens 'Hohobeni' in a cross with transilvanica last year and the seeds has germinated, I look forward to see the flowers next year.
I could see that japanese grow the Hepaticas in clay pots, do they grow them all the time in clay pots? I have bad experience with growing Hepatica in clay pots.
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My first hepatica blooming in the garden is H. americana.
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Thank you Tatsuo. Yes I know the single form of 'Hohobeni' is a pubescens selection, I mean the filled form is a japonica magna selection? I used pubescens 'Hohobeni' in a cross with transilvanica last year and the seeds has germinated, I look forward to see the flowers next year.
I could see that japanese grow the Hepaticas in clay pots, do they grow them all the time in clay pots? I have bad experience with growing Hepatica in clay pots.
As far as I know, no filled form is found in "f. pubescens" variations. I don't know the filled form of 'Hoh-beni' but probably it is a "f. magna" selection, I suppose.
I'm using both clay and polythene pots and looks no problems at the same place; light, watering and feeding. Perhaps growing media is different to yours ??? It is evening here now (GMT+9:00) so I'll post the pics of my growing media tomorrow, if you are interested in ;)
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A pretty ephemeral, Julie :)
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Yes Tatsuo I think it is right that my growing media is different as yours and therefore I have no good experience with growing Hepatica in clay pots. My growing media is peat, gravel, cat litter and something called Perlite. My growing media is well drained.
Hepatica japonica 'Hohobeni' did not look like the single pubescens and I dont know why they got the same name.
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it is a nice one Karl, here a few of my collection
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Chris- wow! Beautiful clear colours.
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The colours are just so pure in all these plants. Stunning! :o :o 8)
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Chris- wow! Beautiful clear colours.
The colours are just so pure in all these plants. Stunning!)
Agree wholeheartedly with Anne and Ron! Simply gorgeous all of them - very difficult to pick a favorite. :o ;D
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it is a nice one Karl, here a few of my collection
Wonderful, Chris, as always. I love the yellow and the red one especially!
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Yes Tatsuo I think it is right that my growing media is different as yours and therefore I have no good experience with growing Hepatica in clay pots. My growing media is peat, gravel, cat litter and something called Perlite. My growing media is well drained.
Hepatica japonica 'Hohobeni' did not look like the single pubescens and I dont know why they got the same name.
Here is my growing media. It is a blend of several different pumice, hard kanuma and hard akadama. There are no organic matters avoiding root rot for such delicate plants because my place is very hot in summer. My growing media is extreamly drained and ventilated but keeps water in the porous grains ;D
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So you feed regularly YT?
These ingredients can be bought in UK from Bonsai nurseries.
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So you feed regularly YT?
These ingredients can be bought in UK from Bonsai nurseries.
Yes, regular feeding with liquid organic fertiliser is necessary such inorganic soils, but during the growing seasons only. And you mind that my growing media is prepared for my place. I don't think this is the best soil mix for hepaticas, but the best for growing hepaticas at my place.
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" Doumo arigatou gozaimasu "
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Beautiful Hapaticas Chris especially 'Kazan'
Tatsuo your growing media is prepared for your place and I am sure it is best soil mix for your hepaticas, we found always the best soil for us self, unfortunately first after we have killed a lot of plants :'( I don't think your mix will be the best growing media for mine hepaticas I think they will dry out to quick for me.
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I use a variant of this mix: 1 part Akadama, 1 part Kanuma, 1 part Kyriou and 1 part leaf mould, my pots are plunged in a sandbed and I use 9-9.5-19 fertilizer also just in the growing season, from march until june and from september until end november.
here some doubles:
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:o :o 8) Wow Chris - All of your doubles are gorgeous, but I think I'm in love with 'Harisenbon'
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Very nice double forms Chris ;)
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I use a variant of this mix: 1 part Akadama, 1 part Kanuma, 1 part Kyriou and 1 part leaf mould, my pots are plunged in a sandbed and I use 9-9.5-19 fertilizer also just in the growing season, from march until june and from september until end november.
here some doubles:
Beautiful flowers, Chris! :D Your mix must be very expensive since you live far away from Japan... :o When I started to grow some Japanese alpine plants, I was trying to get these components in the US where I live now, but since they are very hard to obtain, I have been using what's available around here... Still trying to figure out what is the best, though... ::)
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Wow,what fantastic flowers Chris
And Peppa,have you tried a local Bonsai specialist for some of the components we are lucky to have this company nearby,have put the link but have no connection with them at all
http://www.bonsai-uk.co.uk/index.php
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Chris your double white is just perfection 8).
Angie :)
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And Peppa,have you tried a local Bonsai specialist for some of the components we are lucky to have this company nearby,have put the link but have no connection with them at all
http://www.bonsai-uk.co.uk/index.php
Thanks for the input, Chas! I might have to check and see how much these media cost at our local Bonsai places...
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This year there have been 9 blue filled forms in my Hepatica nobilis cross. There have also been a few good cross in my Hepatica japonica.
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Hepatica nobilis is flowering heavily this year.
It's been in that tub for years, it doesn't seem to mind. ;D
I just wish the colour would come out properly.
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Very nice Karl,especially the first one.
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Very nice Karl,especially the first one.
Have to agree with Michael, Karl. I love how it is still very clear that the second layer are altered stamens
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That's my favourite also.
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1 part Akadama, 1 part Kanuma, 1 part Kyriou
What are these ingredients please? Not things I would find in the supermarket with the cocoa and coconut I presume. :D
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my Hepatica today
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Our native hepatica here in central Iowa is H. nobilis acuta (acutiloba), which is very common in our woods, ranging normally from off white to pale blue. However, nearby on a limestone ridge I found a colony that showed deeper blue flowers, and several years ago collected some seed. The resulting plants are now maturing, and I'm pretty happy: the typical "blue" hepatica is shown on the top picture, a pretty nice blue is second, and then my prize last.
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Hi Don - Bingo is very very nice! Looks like your "bluer" has some extra petals.
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It does, and is really a more attractive flower. There is quite a bit of variation in my seedlings. Here is one that I assume has a virus, and will probably get the heave-ho:
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Nice Yukiwarisou, Wolfgang and Don!
Don, I don't think that the Hepatica is infected with virus.
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Don & Tetsuo, I don't know if they are virus infected but if you sow seeds from such plants, some of the seedlings will have the same characteristerics....and since most of the virusses are not transmitted by seed...I would doubt it is virus too, but you can't be sure until they've been tested!
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Thanks for good advice,Wim.
My first impression is that Don's pic is attractive rare form of hepatica and not
viral(mycoplasma) infection.
For, the shape of petal seems to be natural and not curled. Though petals are a little a bit rounded.
Don,are there any chance of hybridisation ?
I have sometimes experienced of viral infecetion with Lilium ,Trillium and others. The symptom of infection
are often appeared at the leaves and petals or sepals.
I hope Don get seeds.then grow and propagate widely.
We call them " Shibori","Sakiwake", "Chimera"etc.
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Howdy All,
Just started catching up with the Hepatica area...... some of the stuff in here is breathtaking..... in fact most of it is. Wow!!!!!!!!! Absolutely amazing.
Tetsuo, the pics from the show are wonderful to see. Such a wonderful opportunity to see what the top growers in Japan are producing, but the sale stands nearly had me in tears. If only we could buy them. :'( We always want what we can't have.
As Lesley said, the same is for Janis Ruksan's catalogue, although I never look at that as I don't want to cry for days afterwards. ::)
Thanks so much to everyone who's posted pics here this topic. So beautiful!! 8)
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Don, I have a Hepatica 'Prickel' that looks like yours. It is very variable. Sometimes blue, blue white, white blue dots, half blue half white. When I seeds on it so the seedlings will be alike. Sorry, I have no picture.
Sends a link to an image. Hope it works.
http://shop.blomstergarden.se/func/img.php?id=2227
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A few Hepatica's in my garden today.
H. 'Blue Eyes'
H. 'Blue Jewel'
H. 'Willem's Blauw' (because Willem gave it to me without a name)
Lina.
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It's nice to know my Hepatica acutiloba may just be flamboyant rather than ill (the foliage looks fine). I'll spare it. The reason I was particularly thinking disease was the greenish blotching on some of the flowers, which maybe shows up on a couple of these pictures. Every flower is different on the plant (these are all from this plant):
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I managed to post post one picture twice- here is the other flower:
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Hepatica 'Prickle'
sadly my parent plant of H. 'Prickle' died over the winter but to my surprise I just noticed that it's seedlings flowering now, sown in 2009, are coming true from open pollinated seeds.
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This was the parent this time last year or the year before
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Spring is finally here. 21C today (-11C in the morning a week ago) and the first Hepatica flowers
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Spring is finally here. 21C today (-11C in the morning a week ago) and the first Hepatica flowers
And a very nice soft colour that is, Razvan!
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Hepatica nobilis
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What a wealth of splendid Hepatica's !!!
I have H. "Millstream Merlin" in flower right now ! :)
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I was looking at Millstream Merlin today. It does not have stamens. Does anyone know if it will set seed if pollinated with something else?
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I was looking at Millstream Merlin today. It does not have stamens. Does anyone know if it will set seed if pollinated with something else?
No it won't because Millstream Merlin is a hybrid between Hh acutiloba and transsilvanica. Other "maiden" forms of pure species can set seed if pollinated from another plant. There is some recent research which says that Hepatica acutiloba can be found in male and female forms. I have a maiden form of pure H acutiloba whose flowers look very like Millstream Merlin but is a taller plant and has H acutiloba leaves, unlike Millstream Merlin which has inherited some characteristics from H transsilvanica leaves. One theory is that a maiden form of H acutiloba is the mother of Millstream Merlin, pollinated with H transsilvanica.
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Thanks for the excellent info, Diane.
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Anne,
I'd be daubing pollen on it anyway, just in case. Sometimes nature finds a way. ;D Certainly not going to harm it trying, and if you get seed from it, brilliant.
I was always told that Anemone blanda 'Radar' was unable to set seed. Mine did, after a number of years of trying each year. I now have a seedling that almost matches it's mum.... which I am hoping will be longer lived than the original which I know very few people can keep going here in Australia at least. ::)
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Already done, Paul. ;)
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Here is a small collection of the filled Hepatica nobilis that have come this year. As you can see they are different and there is pollen in all of them so of course I use them in my crosses and I hope there will come other color or forms.
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Here is a small collection of the filled Hepatica nobilis that have come this year. As you can see they are different and there is pollen in all of them so of course I use them in my crosses and I hope there will come other color or forms.
Wonderful, Karl!! Looking forward to seeing some new forms in a couple of years!
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A wonderful deep colour, too.
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Wow, that is a rather lovely windowsill collection. ;D
My one and only double Hep didn't make it unfortunately. I was actually down visiting the lovely person who gave it to me at the time that the snails or something consumed every leaf it had. It had flowered the previous year, done quite well for me and looked like it was producing a second crown, but losing every leaf on it in spring just stopped it completely and it never produced another leaf, just withering away. I was mortified. It was a double pink, and I was pleased as punch to have it. I would have thought it would survive being defoliated once, but apparently not. :'( The doubles are so incredibly rare here, which I think is why whatever beastie that attacked it chose that particular plant and ignored all the others. Whether it was bird, snails or mice I don't know. :o I've never had the heart to tell the person who gave it to me, but I am guessing that he'll know now after reading this. ;) I feel like it was such a waste, and like I've let him down by failing with it. :'(
Now I am waiting and hoping for germination in seed pots from seed sown last year from parents with the double genes. Fingers and everything crossed for that. ;D
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Hello everyone;
I've started my own hepatica collections (pics to follow soon I hope) but it's very tough to source out plants/seeds.
Can anyone suggest a source to obtain material directly from Japan? How about any of Severin Schlyter's crosses.
I have one source in Canada for the filled japonicas but they have limited stock.
Thanks everyone,
Lori
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Hello everyone;
I've started my own hepatica collections (pics to follow soon I hope) but it's very tough to source out plants/seeds.
Can anyone suggest a source to obtain material directly from Japan? How about any of Severin Schlyter's crosses.
I have one source in Canada for the filled japonicas but they have limited stock.
Thanks everyone,
Lori
Lori, so far, the only Japanese site I know of that sells Hepatica seeds is http://www.yukiwarisouen.jp/index.htm. I got their seed list several years ago but I haven't ordered from them yet... I remember that their seeds are from crosses of well-known Hepaticas. They said that the seeds will be ready around mid-May. You might want to contact them as to how you could place an order. The site is all in Japanese, however...
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Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on
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A very nice display. Lovely colors.
Not only the sturdy white and green of galanthus. ;)
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....... here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on.
Very nice Ian, not only good flowers but some well marked foliage too.
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Maggi,
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Some nicely marked foliage in there, and a lovely range of flower colours.
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Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on
Are these my babies or yours Ian?
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Your hepatica babies are just through the ground here, Diane..... tiny, but healthy seedlings. 8)
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Your hepatica babies are just through the ground here, Diane..... tiny, but healthy seedlings. 8)
Oh, great! nice to hear. I'd forgotten you'd had seed - was that 2010 harvest? ;D
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Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on
Are these my babies or yours Ian?
Speaking of your babies, Diane. ;) These are some of yours, sown in 2010 and they have flowered this year for the first time! :-*
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Oh, great! nice to hear. I'd forgotten you'd had seed - was that 2010 harvest?
No Diane, these were 2011.
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Speaking of your babies, Diane. ;) These are some of yours, sown in 2010 and they have flowered this year for the first time! :-*
Oh, that's nice to see, they've done well, thanks for posting.
Maggi, yours will be another year or two before we see the flowers!
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I rather think so, Diane, they are just little cotyledons through the soil at present.
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A very nice display. Lovely colors.
Not only the sturdy white and green of galanthus. ;)
Hagen I didn't notice the snowdrop seedling until you mentioned it. These weeds get everywhere ;)
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Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on
Are these my babies or yours Ian?
Yes Diane some of them are from your seed so thanks and others were from my own plants. ;).
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Three Hepatica nobilis forms selected from wild in Latvia by my friend Juris Egle - famous tulip breeder in Latvia. Many of his varieties are grown in large scale in Holland. You can find something about him on
http://picasaweb.google.com/104093660717292700553
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Nice yukiwarisou, Wim and Janis!
I post pics of ' Sakiwake'. Sakiwake means two colours or forms in one plant.
Intermediate patterns will often appear.
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A really little jewel Tetsuo ;)
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Sweet flowers , super photos. 8)
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Fleurbleue,I think same as you.Hepatica japonica is small
and pretty.
Maggie, thanks for reparing my posting. I will care hereafter.
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Dear Tetsuo,it is my pleasure to help. It is easy to make this small errors... they are of no importance. :)
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I have been thinking about the choice of names when it comes to diff. Hepatica nobilis..Who decide those names?...and when are they valid?..Like Magnolias they have to be registered....is it the same with Hepatica?..And how "special" does they have to be?...Many questions and maybe someone knows...I have mine by numbers..1,2.3 etc....mostly because i think they are too similar to others..or they are to mine....Jonny
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Jonny, these are very nice Hepatica's. My favorite one is number 3.
I don't have answers to your questions, sorry.
Lina.
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Nice Yukiwarisou, Jonny.
There are many Hepatica which have familiar names.
205 names have been registered from 1997 to 2011
by Japanese Hepatica Association.
Their names are like nicknames.
I think more 500 Hepatica are named by growers or nursery.
There is no rule of naming.
Many people grow nice Yukiwarisou and enjoy new nickname.
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Some leaves forms, almost as beautiful as the flowers :D
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Wonderful leaves, Karl! I love the frilly ones!
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Karl,
I think I've seen them from time to time here on the forums, but those leaves are amazing. That lovely ruffled with the dark edges is to die for!! :o Wow.
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Beautiful colour forms Ian, Wim, Jonny and Janis :o
Paul; 1040645 - 647 - 652 is seedplants from my Hepatica nobilis Cremar 430. There are also many good leaf forms of Hepatica nobilis v. japonica and now when almost all in the glass house are finish with flowering, it is good to look at the leaves. There are still Hepatica in the garden with flowers. Hepatica nobilis v. japonica 'Arata' is one of my own cross. Right now I prick out in pots and I'm still not finished.
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Jonny to answer your question about cv names and having them valid, if they are registared with an association, be published in a magazine or a nursery catalogue will simple do. Hope this helps
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Karl,
Your "Arata" is a beauty. And those pink leaves in the first one are amazing. :o :o Does anyone here in Australia who is reading this have any of these interesting leaf forms?
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Wow, Karl. That 'Arata' :o :o
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Can't compete with the pot-grown specimens!
I visited this wild population of Hepatica consisting of several 100 specimens today. About 30-40% of them are red and a few white also. No doubles though ;) but I spotted a bicoloured white and blue (sorry no picture). The colour is deeper red (and blue) than shown. 50m from this population is another (not more than 50-100 specimens) but almost all are redflowered. 100m in another direction is a very big population of only blue specimens.
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I found this one at a plantfair today! I thought the leaves were quite nice!
Hepatica nobilis 'Perrine's Pink'
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I agree with you Wim ;)
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I agree with you Wim ;)
It's one of Thierry's selections (as you had guessed probably ;))
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Trond,
Great colours.
Wim,
What wonderful leaves. :o
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Fantastic leaves, Wim.
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Awesome, Wim. Thanks for showing. 8)
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One advantage of the constant cold and wet weather that we are having is that the Hepatica foliage is looking nice and fresh.
Would still like it to be a bit warmer though!.
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Hepatica japonica kuukai in bloom yesterday at least 6 months out of season.
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Wow Michael, that is early.
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Any USA members have Hepatica seed to trade come spring? Looking for wild single forms mixed colors.
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Guff,
I should have a reasonable amount of H. Acutiloba seeds next spring. However, their colors are definitely on a pale side, with some of them in medium pink. I also have a small amount of H. Americana, in a medium blue color. If interested, I will save them for you.
Koko
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Koko thanks. Yes I would like them.
Let me know in the spring and I will send postage. I will have plenty of hederifolium/coum, hellebore and crocus seeds if your interested.
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Guff,
Let's hope for a good seed harvesting next spring. Buds are forming right now and some of them are quite plump. Just hope they will be able to go through winter without too much hardship.
Koko
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Hello everybody
My small contribution
I have only two plants of Hepatica nobilis :P , But good grow !
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eopHH9PsFJ0/UGidxobE64I/AAAAAAAAA-I/YvdS9jo5mwU/s640/IMGP1209b.jpg)
If someone have some seed of Hepatica species ..i can exchange with other seed of my personnal collecting ;) ;D
I've seen that Hepatica could be divide in a post of this forum..You also use this technique ?
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here in the greenhouse some of the Hepaticas showing their first flower:
H."Salmon Pink'
H.'Shiouden'
H.'Tikinsyo'
H.H.Wakakusa"
H.white double
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Thank you Chris to share your little jewels with us ;)
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Yes, thank you,Chris. And good to 'see' you here again :)
Such beautiful flowers at this time of year to brighten cold days - perfect!
It seems magical to me that they begin so early.
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Fantastic flowers Chris !
It seems magical to me that they begin so early.
One could wonder, Maggi - are they the last of last season's or the first of the new season... :-\
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I know what you mean, Luc - it is something that is often a puzzle when thinking about late/early bulbs but somehow, for me, anyway, I have no doubt these hepaticas are "early"
I base this on "feeling" - nothing scientific!