Hepatica 2009

[Paul T]

Gerhard,

Beautiful!!  The double forms look so precise!!  Perfect!!

[Gunilla]

Gerhard, those double flowers are like small jewels, perfectly formed and very desirable.  Does your semi-double have pollen ?

[Gunilla]

My first and only double hepatica japonica flowers. I put this tiny plant out in the garden a year ago and as this winter has been colder than usual I didn't think it would make it out there.  It did  .

Hepatica nobilis var. japonica 'Orihime'
 

[chasw]

Very Very nice

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Here is one of our Hepatica frames. The plants are planted in the soil (without pots)

[Gerhard Raschun]

Gerhard, those double flowers are like small jewels, perfectly formed and very desirable.  Does your semi-double have pollen ?

I have found the shown Hep. nob. semi-double last year. The plant has got enough antheren ( correct english word ?), but I believe that it doesn`t distribute pollen.It would be the first semi-double Hep. nob. ssp. nob. .....

I`ll inform you, next week it should  be in bloom.

[Gerhard Raschun]

Gerhard,
Your plants are wonderful.

By the way, I will ask you, do you know the garden of Zenz near Graz? I was there many years ago and I'm interested, if this garden exist still.

I have studied a short time in Graz, but don`t know this garden.In three weeks there is a market at the Botanical Garden.I promise to ask !

[Regelian]

I have found the shown Hep. nob. semi-double last year. The plant has got enough antheren ( correct english word ?), but I believe that it doesn`t distribute pollen.It would be the first semi-double Hep. nob. ssp. nob. .....

I`ll inform you, next week it should  be in bloom.

It certainly looks to be capable of producing pollen. I really like the green effect in the middle. As I'm new to Hepatica, I would like to know if it does produce vuiable pollen.  (Übrigens, der Mehrfach ist 'anthers')

[mark smyth]

Gerhard and Gunilla those are very nice doubles. The one I'm going to show later isnt so hot compared to yours

[Gerhard Raschun]

I have found the shown Hep. nob. semi-double last year. The plant has got enough antheren ( correct english word ?), but I believe that it doesn`t distribute pollen.It would be the first semi-double Hep. nob. ssp. nob. .....

I`ll inform you, next week it should  be in bloom.

It certainly looks to be capable of producing pollen. I really like the green effect in the middle. As I'm new to Hepatica, I would like to know if it does produce vuiable pollen.  (Übrigens, der Mehrfach ist 'anthers')

It is necessary to obtain it with a magnifying glass if anthers are open and distribute pollen. Never till yet has been founded a semi-double Hepatica with open anthers. Professionals have told me that every year japanese breeders come to Germany , for the search of a semi-double Hep. nob. ssp. nob. with open anthers ( with the aim of breeding hard filled hybrids of japanese Hepatica and Hep. nob. ssp. nb.).

[Lvandelft]

Gerhard,
Your plants are wonderful.

By the way, I will ask you, do you know the garden of Zenz near Graz? I was there many years ago and I'm interested, if this garden exist still.

Ewelina, I think that the garden still exists.
Mr. Zenz has published a small auto-biography in 2004, when he was still active.
He must be in his mid 70's now.
It made me curious too and I hope to find this garden this summer.
But I am not sure, so hope that Gerhard can tell us more.
If you can read German, I could send you the story by E-Mail. It's a PDF, 2.69 MB.
I found this story when I was looking for a special tree or plant when googling.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

If you can read German, I could send you the story by E-Mail. It's a PDF, 2.69 MB.

Luit
Yes, I speak German and read willingly this document.

I was by Zenz in year 19XX, it was so long ago. But I remember his rock garden. It was in March and the garden was under snow.

[Peter Maguire]

I seem to remember a couple of weeks ago promising to post some pictures of some double Hepatica japonica cultivars. My plants are still small, so I thought people might like to see these flower studies that I've taken over the past few days to capture a memory of this year's flowering season which is drawing to a close here:

1 Kuetsu
2 Unabara
3 Asahi
4 Kougyoku
5 Ryugetsu

[Peter Maguire]

6 Un-named seedling
7 Shikouden
8 Shirayuki
9 Another un-named seedling

Peter

[Iris]

Wow, how many wonderful plants! I which I could also get such beautiful seedlings one day!

Does any body have an idea what Hepatica this could be? I bought it 2007 without a flower as Hepatica nobilis. The leaves were nicely marbled. Now I find it having two green flowers like this. Unfortunately I just saw the flower now as it is almost over (I think I stayed too long in the U.K. this spring ), but you can still see that the stamens seem to be pinkpurple. I can take a picture of the leaves when they come out. Hepatica nobilis var. japonica?
The plant has survived temperatures with less than -13 °C this year and with me it was a bit slow to establish in the garden.

Greetings from Iris