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Specific Families and Genera => Hepatica => Topic started by: johngennard on January 19, 2008, 09:12:32 PM
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After snowdrops,snowdrops,snowdrops,bickering and much antagonism ;time for some hepaticas to lighten the mood.The first picture is of several pots of 5yr.old plants from seed of one called 'TAMADORI'.Not a great one but the first named one that I bought and nothing like the description.Then one called 'DAISAIHOU' followed by 'TAMAMUSHI' and 'Oriheme'.The rest are all singles grown from seed of my own collection.Hope they lift your spirits.
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My goodness, John what a super display for January... more than enough to lighten any spirits, I would think :D As you know, I'm not a great fan of doubles but when I see these little beauties, my hard old heart softens quite nicely...... :-X
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John - what a gorgeous flower that pink one ('TAMAMUSHI' ?) is - thanks for posting.
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Yours are week or more ahead of my collection's early flowerers. What's the top dressing? I like it.
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Like Anthony, I planted my expensive double hepaticas out in the garden, as advised by the seller, where they pined and away and disappeared despite my best attentions (I promise I didn't loose such expensive things without a struggle!)
I think Anthony said last year that he lost his too after following the advice not to cossett them in pots. And like Anthony, if I'm ever in the financial position to afford replacements, they're staying in pots - they were fine in pots under glass 'till I put them out!
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I wondered why my post vanished right in front of my eyes. Then I thought "Maggi...new 2008 thread..."
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I love the way you have to rush about to find me! The exercise is good for us!
I did post a redirection notice in the old page ::)
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It was all a bit disorientating, Maggi, and I was fearing for my sanity. I posted, the old page from 2007 came up with my post but without the new postings and the recent pics from John, so I went to 'home' and then back to the thread only to find my posting had disappeared too. That's when I twigged you were moving the furniture around. Then I got the message about the new thread and voila!
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Martin, I haven't moved the viola, only the double bass and the french horn.......
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;D
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Top dressing is fine Cambark
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Beautiful hepaticas! They make a fantastic splash of colour for this time of year when most other things are green and white (OK crocuses aren't). Pity they can't be twin-scaled though! Mind you, you can't do that with crocus either. Off to crocus thread....
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It's great to have a new hepatica thread.
Here are a couple from my garden.
Looking at Johns plants I think I will have to start growing some inside.
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Some lovely hepaticas to relieve the white of the galanthus thread! I wish I had had my camera when I went to Rod Leeds last year as he has a glasshouse full of hepaticas which put on an equally sumptious display. I do have the 'ordinary' hepatica growing outside and it survives - that's about the best you can say.
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Beautiful display so early in the season John !
You shouldn't be so modest about "the rest" - being some single seedlings.... they look super as well !
Hope to see lots more in the coming weeks.
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beautiful plants John.
I have 3 photos of my japanese plant I showed last year, you can see it on the old thread page nine, it looks almost a different plant. I have seen that with a lot of plants, if you divide the plant sometimes you have to wait one or two years to see the same flower. My japanese friend told me that in Japan they make divisions and than some doubles make singel flowers with pistels and pollen and than you can make some new crossings.
See here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=49.120
Reply #125 on: February 27, 2007, 01:08:21 PM »
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Beautiful shades of pink Chris ! Gorgeous flowers.
Here's a simple H. nobilis from a batch of seedlings (Chris, you may recognize it... ;D) - if flowers it's heart out on stems, barely 2 to 3 cm long - all the others from the batch have normal 8 to 10 cm stems.
Too bad I can't produce the blue in my pix as good as it looks like in the real world.
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Lovely, Luc and I'm sure I can exactly see the "proper" blue in my mind's eye 8)
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Maggi,
Not with these sunglasses you can't ;)
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Great pics everyone. John G ..... you must be pleased with those single seedlings. Beautiful!! The named doubles of course are spectacular, just so perfectly formed. 8)
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A few hours of warm sunshine is working wonders with the hepaticas.Hepatica pubescens 'Tenbingai' is not everybody's favourite because of its lax growth but to compensate it is very floriferlous and very pretty at close quarters.I show three pictures to demonstrate its habit.Apart from Benikanzan the others are grown from my own seed and for the sharp eyed you will notice petal damage.I purposely left these on to see if anyone else suffers this damage.I have had it for the last few years always on the earliest flowers and I suspect that it takes place while the flower is in bud as well as after the petals have expanded.I have tried various insecticides as well as surounding individual pots with sticky yellow card in case some insect was crawling up the pots i.e.earwigs but to no avail.Can anyone throw any light on to my problem?
I have botched up the picture postings and don't know how to remove the first two pictures but perhaps Maggie may come to the rescue ?
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The final picture shows a 3ltr.pot containing 15 seedlings sown in April 04 just starting to show their first flowers although one cannot judge them in their first couple of years.
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John my favourite is the stripey purple from your own seed.
I've got no idea on the petal damage, it doesn't look bad enough to be a caterpillar or earwig crawling into the pot.
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beautiful plants John, especially the H.jap.'Benikanzan'. How old is your crossing H.yam.x H.jap.
here tree plants in my alpine house:2 japanese and one cross H.jap.x H.nobilis,
I saw some damage too on some of my plants, here I think it is the changing temperatures, in bud it was verry cold and the plants stopped growing for a while
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Hello, John, sorry to have kept you waiting, been busy elsewhere this evening..... I'll knock off the first pics for you now. Lovely Hepaticas.... saw the first in this area out with Lily dog this morning, about half a mile away, a garden with a huge old clump... could do with a bit of attention, since there are fewer flowers every year though the clump gets bigger.
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Chris, I am excited about seeing what you will have to show us this year.... I hope they are all happy in their new hepatica house?!!
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Chris,
I find that Jap x nobilis cross verrrrrrrrrry beautiful indeed ! Great contrast
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Very beautiful and very early.
I have lost my "foreign" Hepaticas planted out in the garden.
This in spite of my tens of thousands native ones growing wild on the premises.
(Unfortunately they do not make the show they could since the deer eat them.)
It seems to me that the Japanese and Chinese Hepaticas do need pot culture in Europe.
It is a little strange since so many other woodlanders from the area grow well in our woods.
Göte
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all very nice looking. This year I plan to cross nobilis with maximus after seeing the lovely hybrid a year or two ago on the web site
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Chris,nice pics.I love the subtle colouring of 'Saichou'.Did you manage to firm up a visit to the Hepatica Day at Wisley in March ?
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yes John I ordered my ticket (didnt recived it yet), it will be nice to see you there,
here two others with the first flower: H.'Tinkinsyo' and one with the description white double pink centre
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Chris,Both very nice.I received my ticket by return of post two days after the event was announced.I look forward to meeting you there.
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What a beautiful plants.
Our Hepatica is begun flower in the greenhouse for 14 days ago. In the garden, the nobilis will begin in the next couple of weeks.
Karl Kristensen.
Denmark.
www.kalle-k.dk
Hepatica jap. Gosyozakura
Hepatica jap. Ochimizuno Haru
Hepatica jap. Tamamushi
Hepatica jap. Tougen
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I wish you Hepatica growers would stop it, these pictures are making me drool ;D
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It's great to see all the exotic Hepatica jap, if I get a greenhouse then I'll start collecting them.
In the meantime here is a plain nobilis looking good in the garden
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My hepatica have started to move this weekend with a little sun today.
A few of my own seedlings first
japonica single white/lilac with dark anthers
pyrenaica pinky large
white with red anthers
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And 3 nice japs
Suien
Echigobijin - starts dark pink then turns an odd shade of pink (2 pix)
Lost the name (!) stunning dark pink single (last pic)
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Great stuff everyone !! 8)
What a variation in flowers ! ::)
Thanks a lot for sharing !
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My chin is even sorer now ;D
Lovely plants Diane and a very pretty and effective picture Rob.
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Fantastic everyone. I particularly love the doubles from Karl, and Diane's almost reds. Beautiful!!
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My first flowering Hepatica in the garden - and with snow on the ground.
It's 'Saichou', a Japanese so called Sandan type - a type that
I like very much.
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Beautiful, Gunhild!! 8)
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A most ethereal flower, Gunhild, very pretty.
Has everyone seen the Hepatica in the new Wisley Log? http://www.srgc.org.uk/wisley/2008/020208/log.html
Hepatica nobilis var. japonica - yellow flowered form....... lovely!
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A few Hepatica in bloom today
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A few more hepaticas for those interested
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This should have been the first picture and is 'Tenginbai' not the one with the caption which is an un-named seedling
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hi all, verry nice plants
here are tho photos of my H.'Saichou', Gunhild
John, here the pale form I told you about
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Hi et all,
amazing color spectacle! :o
Ytd never thought this species would be so variable. ???
Must study more closer... :D
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Lovely photos everyone!! Chris, those last two in particular are beautiful!!
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I seem to be liking the stronger colours this year ??? Perhaps because the winter seems long, if not so very harsh..... Michael's first deep red is lovely and John G's No. 043 is so simple yet so striking a shade. Lovely!
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Fine Chris - now the photos (yours and mine) shows 'Saishou' in three different stages, from unfold to fall.
What lovely plants and colours Michael and John.
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I'l like to show you the changing of my 'Kagura'.
Photo no. 2 shows it the year after dividing, where it has changed to a single flower with stamens and pistils.
It says that this is the autonomous conservation activities in the nature.
I will try to pollinate it with another with similar genes, and se what comes out.
I hope and belive that it next year will change back and be as photo no. 1.
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Weird isn't it - looks like another plant ! ???
Very nice though Gunhild !
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Gunhild,
Good luck with the seedlings. Here's hoping you can get some new doubles there. Keep your fingers crossed!!!! Hopefully in a couple of years we can congratulate you on your new double seedlings.
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Gunhild, I cross the H.'Kagura' with H.Imaizumi' and with a picotee form, in tree or four years I hope to show the results.
here some other plants, the flower of H.'Hohobeni' is verry small only 1cm across.
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Stunning - this little cuties :o
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Chris,
The tiny one is spectacular, and of course the double! ;D Beautiful pics.
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Nice pics.Chris.I ordered Hohobeni two years ago from Paul Christian but it didn't materialise.However,I did manage to obtain the double form which is nothing like the single.I thought the single would be bigger than 1 cm.
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Beautiful little series Chris ! 8)
Hohobeni is absolutely unique ! What a treasure ! :o
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Beautiful hepaticas Chris, I have no luck in my garden with these beautiful plants.
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here two others: H.'Hokkiko' and H.'Yu-zuru'
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Wow on both counts. Just amazing. Such a shame these things are rarely if ever brought into Australia, and that the doubles don't set seed so their seedlings can't come in. A definite thrill to see the pics of them here to enjoy though, as they are just beautiful!!
Fantastic pics. Thanks so much.
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A few Hepatica today
1 Japonica, sorry out of focus too late to get another shot
2 japonica orihime
3 Transylvanica blue jewell
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'Blue Jewel' is a lovely colour.....very elegant.
You have got lots of good things coming into flower now, Michael...good to see all these posts from you... thanks!
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Some more coming into flower here
H nobilis rubra plena
H japonica Izumo
H japonica unnamed double of palest pink
H japonica a good unnamed double pink
H Millstream Merlin doing well this year much earlier than usual for me
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Diane, I like the blue of Millstream Merlin, but also the pastel of Izumo,
here three in flower here:
H.nobilis
H.'Tosen
a double white pink only known as sp.CE
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sorry I showed sp.E instead of sp.C
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Chris,I love both of the species that you show.
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Here are some japonica and a noblis in blue/violet shades
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A few Hepatica in bloom today.
Hepatica Japonica Anjyu.
Hepatica Japonica Orihime.
Hepatica Nobilis blue.
Hepatica Nobilis pink.
Hepatica nobilis lavender.
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Is there any wonder that these little plants are so popular? Are yours all pot grown so you can give them a bit of winter protection, Michael?
We are getting a few flowers out now in Aberdeen... but horrible day today with freezing wind and hail.... not good for gardener nor plant :'(
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Yes Maggi,they are all in pots because I have to put them at the back of the potting shed for the summer,as it is the only place with enough shade at that time. It can get very hot here in the summer, if we get one, sometimes 30C
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At €35 a nose I would not chance planting them out in the garden.
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I don't think they do that well out in the garden, here at least. "Ordinary" ones do okay, but nothing like the potfuls I see from the likes of David Boyd.
Luckily, the flowers are so pretty that even one or two isa fine rward for me!
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Considering that it’s only February, there is a lot of my Hepatica flowering in the garden, much earlier than they use to.
Here are some photos from to day
japonica ‘Kanzashi’
japonica red seedling - from lilac parents
pubescens
pubescens ‘Tsumabeni’
japonica ‘Tamamushi’ much darker than last year
japonica ‘Tougen’
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Gunhild, are you sure these are real flowers and not pretty icing sugar confections that you have sculpted?? ;)
The H. pubescens with the pink edge is glorious.
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Gunhild
The hepaticas are exquisite and your website needs hours to fully enjoy. What a wonderful garden
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The hepaticas are exquisite and your website needs hours to fully enjoy. What a wonderful garden
I agree, Arthur 8)
Can I take this chance to remind readers to keep an eye open to spot Forumists' website addresses, usually shown in the 'signature' area to the foot of a post .... like this is Gunhild's case:
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http://www.gtpoulsen.dk
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or in the case of Chris Vermeire:
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Chris Vermeire
www.veen-helleborus.be
Zomergem
Belgium
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Many Forumists have extensive websites, showcasing their gardens or special plant interests or even Nurseries and these constitute a useful resource - I commend them to you 8)
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The typical Austrian Leberblümchen. Lots of them are growing behind my house and the photos show wild grown seedlings from them in my garden. The last one is growing in concrete!
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Here are a few pics.taken in my hepatica house to-day.
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WOW, these are THE pots. Very, very beautiful.
Would you like to show us the Prunus? as well.
It looks like you have them there to make a little shade over
the Hepatica's.
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John what are the Prunus and how do you get them to flower so well?
I Ashwoods yesterday I picked up some great colours but they have no match to what has been shown already. John Massey is now concentrating his own interests on Hepaticas. We spent so much time in his garden we didnt have time to look at his breeding programme
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Absolutely stunning, John! Your superbly grown plants almost make me want to cry when I recall how I followed the seller's advice to plant my own expensive Japanese hepaticas in the garden rather than cossett them in pots. Following that advice was the most expensive mistake of my gardening life! The annoying thing is, I did grow them in clay pots to start with, just in case - then when they were good strong clumps I planted them out in the garden, only to watch them rapidly disappear in the first drought summer that came along. I see amongst your excellent plants some of the very cultivars I used to have before following that stupid advice. >:(
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:o :o :o
John, I've never seen anything like this !
What a mass of unequalled beauty - I bet some of these plants are over 15 years old ! :o
Truely wonderful and a great idea to make the Prunus add to the beauty !
Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Thanks eveyone for the kind comments,its nice to be able to share my pleasure with you all and to answer your questions,I started to grow the the jap.hepaticas in 1999 so none are more than eight years old.The prunus is P.incisa 'KOJO-NO-MAI' and naturally flowers prolifically and better still is readily available in all garden centres,particularly at this time of year when it will shortly be coming into blossom outside.I have one in a tub on the terrace just showing colour.I grow the ones in pots purely to add to the picture in the hepatica house as they seem to compliment each other so well.The shade is not required at this time of the year but neither does it do any harm.When the prunus are further out I will try and remember to take another picture.
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Unbelievable that none of these prolific jap. hepaticas is over 7 or 8 years old :o :o You certainly know how to please them John !
Don't hesitate to show us more ;)
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That is really unbelievable John. You must have a good hand for them.
The Prunus could on the picture be anything and probably Japanese.
I have it in my garden but will take some time before start flowering.
Still one question: do you leave them yearround in the glasshouse or in summer
outside or under the table?
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WOW John - what a house. How many different sorts are representing?
Do you ever divide them? repot? fertilice?
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My P incisa never flower like yours. They are about 6 years old
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Hello John- just fantastic :o - I have never seen such a Hepaticashow.
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Luit,the hepaticas are left under glass permanently but are heavily shaded from early Spring to October coupled with maximum ventilation.There are about thirty or so named japonicas and the rest are from my own seed but of no particular merit with the odd exception.I pot-on or re-pot every other year normally and I feed N.from now on when the leaves are showing and P.in the Autumn/Late Winter.I think that's answered all the queries.
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hello John, congratulations, now I now for sure that I will wait also 2 years to repot my plants and dont make to much divisions because that gives small plants with maximum 10 flowers or so, here outside a lot of Hepaticas are flowering one of them is H.trans.'Elison Spence'
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Lovely Lady, this Elison Spence, Chris ;)
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here H.'Petersen' outsite on a sheltered possition and 2 japanese in the alpine house
Hepatica 'Petersen'
Hepatica japonica 'Fusei'
H. jap. 'Kimihiko'
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here H.'Petersen' outsite on a sheltered possition and 2 japanese in the alpine house
Hepatica 'Petersen'
Hepatica japonica 'Fusei'
H. jap. 'Kimihiko'
Chris
The correct name for the plant you have as "Kimihiko is "Junisen". At the time, I did not know the name, so I labelled it as "kimihiko" which is the name of my friend who gave it to me (he's the same friend who brought the Japanese frits). I have since found out the cultivar name, which is "Junisen". Japanese cultivars with "sen" in the name mean they are a full double as "sen" means "thousand" (as in thousand petals).
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For Luit,Here are the pics.of Kojo-no-mai that you requested and what I consider to be a particularly good form of
pyrenaica 'Appleblossom' that I have raised from seed.It probably isn't evident seen by itself but it really stands out
in the crowd and is 3cms.accross when fully expanded.
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Sorry!!I posted the same picture twice.
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Sorry!!I posted the same picture twice.
Thank you John!
No problem looking twice at a nice picture! :D
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John and all,
great show - always!
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Hello,
Hepatica season has started in Austria too.
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Hepatica season has started in Austria too.
So it has, Katrin, and with beautiful photos, thank you!
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thanks Diane for the corect name, here two plants with big flowers 3cm across
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A reminder that our "Hepatica Spectacular" display of hepaticas starts this Saturday at Wisley. Our intention is to fill the whole house with hepaticas. We have been biting our nails with so many plants flowering so early this year - wondering if we would have any left to display. But many have lasted well so we should be able to still mount a good display, though it is possible we may not fill the entire house - we won't be sure until the next couple of days of work preparing the exhibit is done.
Anyone able to get to Wisley can see the display from This Saturday 8 March, running until Sunday 16th. Please note that in order to set up the exhibit, the Alpine House will be closed from Weds 5th to Friday 7th March, and closed again from Mon 17th to Weds 19th March while we dismantle it again and reinstall our normal display of alpines. We may also close the house at times on Sat 15th March so that those attending the lecture day can be given a guided tour of the exhibit.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible over the next 10 days! - but for those who can't make it, I will make the Wisley Log following the event an Hepatica Special with lots of pictures of as many plants as I find time to photograph
Paul
Paul
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Paul
Will there be a chance to see 'behind the hedge' on Sunday March 16th, when the Fritophiles descend on Wisley?
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Hi Arthur,
Sorry but not on this occasion, staff are too wrapped up with the Hepatica event. But we usually bring over to the meeting whatever Frits are in flower and add them to the display so you will see all the good ones anyway.
Paul
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I know that Paul will have pictures of the Wisley Hepatica Display on a Log in the near future but for those who can't wait there are a few pictures on the thread 'A Visit to Wisley March 2008' on the General Pages.
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Thanks David, it was good to meet you. I sent my Log up this morning and Fred usually manages to put it on the site for me within a day or so, so watch out for it - it has lots of Hepatica pictures from our event!
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For those who can't wait here are a few pics from the Hepatica Spectacular at Wisley today.In the absence of a tri-pod most were
taken with the aid of flash which I normally try to avoid.
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I'm going to bed now and will post the remainder tomorrow when you have got over the sickness.
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Here are the remainder of the pics.
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and finally
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A great series from John there... mouthwatering selection and I have just got back from work to find that the Wisley Hepatica Special Log is online! http://www.srgc.org.uk/wisley/2008/160308/log.html
Wow! If these plants can't make your heart beat faster, you're probably already dead :-X
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Just wanted to thank Paul, Lucie and all the staff at Wisley for laying on a great display in the alpine house and a wonderful event on the Saturday. I'll post some of my 200 odd pictrues form the weekend when I get home (I'm currently meant to be 'working') and try not to duplicate Paul and John's photos.
It was a great weekend - my first visit to Wisley and I spent all Friday afternoon and Saturday there until the light failed, and rounded it off with a visit to the RHS orchid show on the Sunday (Chris Vermeire was also there). A weekend of sheer indulgence, and much better than repairing the fence in the garden that the recent storms flattened.
Peter
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Superb shots John !
Thanks very much for letting us taste of all the beauty we had to miss...
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I will thank the whole staff who worked for this fantastic day at Wisley, thank you John, also for showing the photo's mine where not so good, I normally always use a tripod, now most of the pictures are not sharp enouch, it was verry fine to talk with all the people there with the same intrests and the plants for sale from Ashwood and Edrom where beautiful,
Chris
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John,
Great series. I particularly like the white and pink Wisley 001 you posted. And the doubles of course. So many Hepaticas I'd love to grow!! ::) Always the way when things aren't available, isn't it!? ;D Would love to have seen the display in person, but as it is a slight bit of travelling for me (how many thousand kms? :D) it is great to be able to enjoy a visit through your camera.
Thanks. 8)
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Since John and Paul have posted enough flower pictures for everyone to drool over, I thought I'd show some general pictures of the event so that if a similar event is organised in future (is there a hint here?), then you would know what to sign up for.
Firstly
1. Gunther Kleinhans finishing his lecture
2. Some of the participants in the alpine house discussing the display
3-5. There were also various displays inside the education centre
6. A couple of SRGC forumists deep in discusion (and I hope Chris and John forgive me for taking the sneaky picture)
The pictures are all hand held, so I apologise for the drop in quality. There are plenty more, but I'm sure no-one wants to see any more flowers...
Peter
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Peter, I was telling to John what compost I used and what's verry importent is that yuo have a good ventilation also in the pot.
here is my mix:
1 part leaf mould
1 part Akadama
1 part Kanuma
1 part Kyriou
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Chris,
Out of interest, what are Akadama, Kanuma and Kyriou? They sound more like names of Pleione or Hepatica than something in the potting mix!! ;D
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Hi Paul,
Hope Chris won't mind my answering your question, but these strange sounding names are what the japanese call a material that they use to grow their plants in. They are a coarse material and look a bit like small white or yellowish coloured stones. I have been unable to discover exactly what they are composed of, but they are a naturally occuring material in japan, mined from the ground after removal of topsoil. The different names seem to refer to differing sizes of the material.
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I see two people I recognise left of centre looking at each other
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Must have been a great day for everyone able to attend :D Maybe next year .... ???
Chris, by the looks of it, I bet you had a splendid time ! ;)
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Hello Paul,
I know "akadama" because I use it for bonsaď. It is a natural granular clay mineral. It comes in different grades (depends on the hardness, the soft ones decompose after a year or two to something that looks like normal clay) And the good (hard) akadama is rather expensive.
Wim
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Glad I asked, because I never would have guessed, that is for sure. So basically you're talking 3 different sizes of gravel (or equivalent thereof)?
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Not really because gravel does'nt hold water.Probably more akin to Perlite or Vermiculite.
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I have one pot, see one plant and 2 colours? H. acutiloba - I think so
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I guess I should have scrolled down the page but I didn't see this section on Hepaticas.
I posted some photos of acutiloba in the wild on the General forum last weekend if anyone hasn't seen them yet.
Alan
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Here (http://steinulv.blogspot.com/2008/04/blveiser-hepatica-nobilis.html) are some of mine Hepatica nobilis :) The 'Kurvinberg' came from Inderřy in Norway, and was found for 40 years ago.
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Some Hepatica I found in the forest at Saturday
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Bjarne some very nice ones You found and a double!!!!! :o :o :o ;D ;D
That is not every day one see one of those.
Congratulation and thanks for sharing.
Nice to see the variation of the flowers. When I had the opportunity to look for hepaticas in the wild in Sweden the winter stated with snow so they looked a bit less good so to say.
Kind regards
Joakim
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I like this one
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Hepatica%20nobilis%20blue%20white%20DSCF1271.jpg)
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It is quite delicious Magnar!
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A couple of Hepaticas from the garden to day. Both this plants are collected in Scandinavia, and are doing much better in my garden than any of the Japanese forms.
1 Hepatica nobilis 'Semiplena'. It have pollen and is a good plant for making new filled forms (about 5% filled forms from seed by using this plant)
2 Hepatica nobilis 'Flore Plena Alba'.
(Magnar; Is that Hepatica really yours.....you CandyKing ;D ;D )
Geir
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Hehe, yes Geir, its mine.. and here is another good one. The pic is a few years old. It's flowering right now but I cant take a new pic today.
Hepatica x kurvinberg.
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Hepatica%20x%20kurvinberg.jpg)
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Magnar,
what a nice clump of hepactica you have- very beautiful :o
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Magnar,
I agree with Armin : a real stunner !!! :o
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I came across this one as a tiny plant with 3 leaves in the shop of Gothenburg Botanic Garden quite some years ago. When I bought it I had no idea it was a filled type. So imagine my excitemet when it flowered with one filled flower the following spring. I've been told that this form origins from an small island in the fjord near Trondheim in the middle of Norway. But local gardeners also say its no longer to be found on that island.
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After watching spring arrive in so many places we are pleased to announce our spring has arrived! The hepaticas this year are making up for their late arrival. The first photo below is of a plant we never really paid attention to until this year. I'm amazed we didn't notice it sooner!
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Great plants - you must have many beauties around if you didn't notice this one ?? ??? ;D
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Very nice big clumps of Hepatica. 8) :o The first is very nice indeed.
Well done ;D
Kind regards
Jokaim
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Yes Luc, there a few beauties and I'm still puzzled as to how we missed it before. This next plant is Hepatica 'Louise Koehler' which we have had for a long while. It is our only named hepatica, the rest have all been grown from seed. I tried dividing it 10 years ago and nearly lost it as I didn't understand how to do it or pay enough attention afterwards to nurse the divisions along. This year I'm going to have another go at it and this time not get distracted.
-Rob
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Louise looks very pretty too Rob ! Very good plant !
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Hello! I from Russia. We too grow up Hepatica.
Here our flowers. They not such magnificent, as yours, but at us a climate bad. ;)
Whether It is possible to ask for you a few seeds? I can offer an exchange of seeds. At us a greater collection of rare plants:
FRITILLARIA, GLAUCIDIUM, TRILLIUM, ERYTHRONIUM
I Shall be very glad, if you will respond to my request. I am sorry for illiteracy. I do not know English language.
E-mail: ptaha-vorobey@mail.ru
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Anastasia
Great plants You have :) Very well done. I hope You will find seeds. I think that people who sees Your collections of the other plants will do their best to get You nice seeds. :)
Kind regards
Joakim
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Anastasia
Your Frits & Erythronium were excellent, and now you show us some wonderful Hepatica. Obviously you have green fingers and a good source for seed.
Arthur
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Hi Rob....didn't know you were here!!!!!!!
The Illingworths, by the way, have a MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDEN....I always tell everyone it is the best private garden I have ever seen!!!! Hopefully Rob will post many, many pictures for us to enjoy.
And, I just posted a note in the seed exchange section that tomorrow is Hepatica acutiloba collection day (wild sources). If there is anyone else who has not contacted me already, this is the time...
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Thanks you, me is pleasant, that my plants like you. :)
Green fingers were at my mum, I continue its business.
At us a greater collection of rare and interesting plants from the different countries. My garden small, but many interesting plants there are collected. Simeon and plants were bought, exchanged, brought by friends. Now I can exchange seeds with you.
Kristl!
I have already written to you the personal message and have sent the post address. Thanks that have responded. :)
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Anastasia,
Beautiful plants. You may think that yours aren't as nice as the others..... I've only ever flowered white or blue single varieties, plus have a few coming along from seed. I adore all the pics of your plants, so don't feel they aren't as good. They're beautiful!!
Rob and Sharon,
That is an interesting white edged one that you "missed". The double is rather nice as well!! ;D
Geir,
Both the double and your semi-plena are lovely. Nice to have something that sets seed which has a chance of being double flowered. Would love to find something like that myself to try to breed some doubles. I quite like the colour and form of it for itself, as well as it's progeny potential.
Magnar,
That x kurvinberg is a beautiful form, but then again every picture of a full double I've ever seen has been good. Lovely to see such a nice big clump flowering like that.
Great pics everyone. Thanks. 8)
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The first Hepatica flowers are peeping out from under the leaves.
Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica nobilis rubra plena double.
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Oh, they are so beautiful. I long for spring when I see your photos. Do you grow them out in the garden?
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Very promising start for the coming season Michael !!
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Oh, they are so beautiful. I long for spring when I see your photos. Do you grow them out in the garden?
No, they are all under glass but I am going to try some in the garden this year
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You should Michael. Those in my garden are better plants than those in pots
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I grow all my hepaticas outside in my garden and they do fine. They are mostly H. nobilis and H. transsylvanica and very hardy. Hepatica nobilis rubra plena is a favourite of mine but they will not flower before April here. This year I also planted a couple of H. japonica outside and I'm beginning to regret doing so. One of them already shows a little colour and the winter has not even started yet.
Hepatica japonica bud
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We aim to have all our hepatica in the garden too.... early growth can be a worry though...... Gunilla, can you give a little protection to your H. japonica buds with a cloche?
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Maggi, I have tucked it in and sung a lullaby ;) It's freezing cold outside now.
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Maggi, I have tucked it in and sung a lullaby ;) It's freezing cold outside now.
What a fine Mother you are! :D
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I know that they will do well outside be as we do not get much frost(we have got plenty this year)they flower early and the rain destroys the flowers. For photographic purposes they are easier to manage under glass.
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Michael,
That double pink is such a glorious picture.... the flower is so perfect. Thank you!! 8)