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Herman Mylemans

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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #165 on: May 11, 2019, 02:51:40 PM »
Can anyone tell me what are differences in H.nobilis and H.americana (how they look)?
Leena, it is not easy because there are a lot of different leave forms.
Hepatica nobilis the lobes are more heart-shaped
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Hepatica americana (Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa) the lobes are more kidney-shaped.
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #166 on: May 12, 2019, 07:41:49 AM »
Thank you Herman for the pictures of leaves! I have some H.americana seedlings waiting to be planted, and I was wondering if I plant them close to H.nobilis, am I going to identify them later or am I going to mix them up if I forget which one is which.. :)
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #167 on: May 12, 2019, 02:06:15 PM »
Can anyone tell me what are differences in H.nobilis and H.americana (how they look)? 

Sorry I didn't see this Leena. I think I've posted few leaves images at one time.
Things are not that simple; leaves in Hepatica americana can vary greatly in size, lobes shape, pubescence (can look just like the nobilis Herman posted it).
I would say to plant them well labelled. Here's the description for H. americana from Flora of North America.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500049
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #169 on: May 17, 2019, 07:56:53 AM »
Thank you Gabriela and Maggi.
Hepaticas seem to be quite difficult to identify, but all are beautiful!
This May has been colder and so even today there are still some flowers in my H.nobilis (grown in woodland bed) and at the same time the earliest seed pods in the same plants are ripening any day now. I have put small acryl bags over the seed pods to help catch the seeds. :)
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #170 on: May 28, 2019, 01:47:06 PM »
Our Dryad Nursery fresh seed list containing hepatica and galanthus seeds should be ready by this evening and will be sent to all those on our email list.
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #171 on: September 21, 2019, 02:33:07 PM »
Some of the plants of Hepatica pubescens ex 'Hohobeni', planted last spring, have put up single flowers now.
I hope they still prepare themselves for the winter well. This is so pretty, I can already imagine what it would look like with lot of flowers. :)
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #172 on: September 22, 2019, 09:59:12 AM »
Leena, it is very pretty. The one I have (maybe a sibling?) has also started to flower and I am very pleased with it  :).
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #173 on: September 29, 2019, 07:27:55 AM »
Gunilla, it looks just the same.  :) Funny that these both had flowers already now, maybe it was the move in the spring.
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #174 on: October 18, 2019, 06:10:26 PM »
Havenīt been online for a while.  Dear Leena und Gunilla, very nice to see that my seedlings do so well in the north.
Mine are more reasonable and wait for spring  ;)
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #175 on: October 20, 2019, 03:56:11 PM »
Dear Leena und Gunilla, very nice to see that my seedlings do so well in the north.
Mine are more reasonable and wait for spring  ;)

Carsten, they are so nice! All other of my Hepaticas also wait for spring, but almost all H.pubescens- seedlings have tried to put up a flower in the autumn. I think it may be that when it started to rain in August after a very dry summer (and planted out in spring, though I had watered them), the plants think now is new spring. ::) Next year they may flower more in the right time  :). Now I'm hoping for a mild winter, and when the cold comes I will put dry oak leaves around the plants to protect them.
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #176 on: October 20, 2019, 08:51:52 PM »
Carsten, they are lovely and I hope they will flower in spring also. I have no idea why Leena's and mine both flower at the same time out of season. Apparently something has triggered them to start early.


Most of my plants out in the garden are covered with leaves now, ready for the winter.  When I looked under the cover I found buds and flowers on several H. transsilvanica.  They are not as well behaved as yours  ;).

 
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #177 on: October 31, 2019, 05:14:14 PM »
All being well, our hepatica plant list will go live around 6.30 pm on Saturday 2 November. You will have ONE WEEK to order as I need to get these in the post quickly. The list will not be on the website, so please message me if you wish to receive our list by email.
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #178 on: November 04, 2019, 04:06:22 PM »
Our H. hohobeni is pink. You have got me thinking now.
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Re: Hepatica 2019
« Reply #179 on: November 04, 2019, 04:11:17 PM »
I had to search through my files but his is our Hepatica hoho beni earlier this year.
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