Hepatica

[Ewelina Wajgert]

"Tensei" - unfortunately mine is only photo 

[Diane Whitehead]

I bought a half dozen lots of hepatica seeds from Ashwood.  They don't normally sell seed
 overseas, but I assured them that I knew the odds and would not hold them responsible
for non-germination. 

9 months after sowing, I had one henryi and two transsylvanica seedlings.  They now have
true lobed leaves.

This is the second spring, and one insularis has just germinated.  Nothing has happened
yet with yamatutai or pubescens.

However, I have a query regarding H. asiatica. There is a tiny seedling in the asiatica pot,
but it seems to be producing one minuscule lobed leaf as its first. Could this be a
hepatica?  Does asiatica not have the usual hepatica cotyledons for the first year?

[razvan chisu]

That link in japanese is absolutely amasing. Hundreds of forms and also information on breeding, sowing of seeds, cultivation and a blog about Hepatica breeding. Thanks Joakim. By the way, how did you find this site?

[Joakim B]

Razvan one sleepless night I looked through several pages from a google search on hepatica or hepatica nobilis. It was more than 20 pages of search results that I went through and this is the only one I thought was something to have.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Try to search yukiwarisou in google. It means hepatica in Japan.
You find a lot of Japanese sites.

[Olga Bondareva]

I lost sleep after that link. How... HOW do they do this? Is it a magic or mutagen?

[Loripep]

Hello everyone;

Just looked through the japanese hepatica website after translating using google. Unfortunately you get phrases like this :

"Each of them is a first flower of this year", most the top yesterday is the flower which has the impact which you spoke. Stating public × (first jumping) it is separation of the standard flower."

What the....?

Wish I knew someone who could translate.

Lori

[chris]

Hi Lori, nice to hear from you, japanese is not only another language sometimes I think it's another world, if you now the japanese word for Hepatica is Yukiwariso and that means Breaking Snow Plant, I try to learn some japanese and I learnt nothing so dificult as that, today I learn the word 'shiro' that means white,
here two who dont need translation, H.nobilis 'Rubra Plena' and H.'Petersen'

[Ewelina Wajgert]

I try to learn some japanese and I learnt nothing so dificult as that, today I learn the word 'shiro' that means white,

Chris, learn Japanese, you translate the names of my Hepaticas.

The first riddle for you...

[razvan chisu]

Ewelina
I see you use wood chipings to top-dress your hepaticas. I was wondering what compost people use in cultivating hepatica in pots? Also I am curious about the hardiness of various forms. Are the japanese forms less hardy than the european and american ones? Do they need protection over winter? It would be interesting if people would give examples of minimum temperatures and the way they grow the hepaticas: protected and in pots, unprotected in the garden, covered with various materials and in the garden, etc.
I am also curious on the requirements for water vs drought issues in summer. Which species/forms would you say is most likely to survive and still thrive after a summer drought.
From the japanese breeding pages I understand that those great forms produce seed. Does anyone have experience weather the seeds breed true to name? Do you get seeds from these japanese forms or they only multiply by division.
At the moment I am only growing ordinary forms of transsilvanica and nobilis collected here in Romania. But in future I hope to get some japanese as well.
Razvan

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Razvan,
The photo with wood chipings is from the show in Germany. They were used as decoration and keep humidity in the pots. We plant Hepatica (the japanese forms too) in humus soil with lime. The best is the soil from forrest.
We plant japanese hepatica not only in pot, but in garden too, especially, if I have more pieces from the variety.
I must say, that they grow much better in the garden, if they don't have surface limit. I have some japanese varietes for a long time on my plot and they wintered good under covering from spruce's branches. If time let me to make the photos, I try to upload they on the forum.

Not all forms produce seed, only the single and not all the singles. Some varietes you can use only as mother, because they don't have stamen. Therefore the most varieties you can reproduce only by dividing and therefore they reach so high prices. If you can reproduce some varietes from seed, only small percent is similarly as the parents. On the show by Peters, he showed some his hybrids. They was absolutely superb. In any case you can see the photos.

[mark smyth]

This is a very long link from Google but look at the leaves especially the flower with a ring of tiny leaves
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://yukiwarisou.net/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dyukiwarisou%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[Joakim B]

Nice site Mark I also found it but only now when looking for the leaf one I found an interesting page on it where they show repotting and division of a plant.

The other one I found was an auction site with some nice prices and some prices that make me want to be a millionare in pounds.
It is this one. Also a long adress
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.yukiwarisou-tachi.com/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dyukiwarisou%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN
There is also an interesting hepatica diary there.
here is an other site with laf forms http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.info-niigata.or.jp/~anno2311/index/index2.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dyukiwarisou%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den
Lot of hours can be spent on these sites.
Enjoy
Joakim

[mark smyth]

some are very cheap 1000 Yen = £4.36 = 6.64 Euo/$

I want a yellow one. Photo (C) http://yukiwarisou-tachi.com

[Lesley Cox]

You've been at it again, haven't you Mark?