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Specific Families and Genera => Hepatica => Topic started by: Michael J Campbell on January 02, 2017, 02:15:06 PM
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Hepatica green typical.
Hepatica japonica kosino maboroshi. What a difference a day makes.
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Hepatia americana lavender blue.
Hepatica japonica shokouden.
Hepatica japonica Sakuragari
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An early treat indeed, Michael!
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Beauties all of them!
Interesting to see H. americana adapted to flowering so early. In our region, in the best of years with early springs, it will only start to flower beginning of March (quite rare though).
Here is the state of Hepaticas after a recent melting of the snow: H. americana taken in the woods and H. acutiloba in the garden.
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So pleased I gathered what seed I could from my few hepaticas this last spring as long drying winds over the last couple of weeks have dessicated the plants and I think some may may not come away again. Even though they're the commoner kinds as almost all in NZ are, I still love them and would hate to lose them altogether.
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Lovely early flowers, Michael :) By the way, why did you create this hepatica thread here instead of the Hepatica board ???
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OOps! I didn't notice where the thread was - I think YT is correct - good idea for me to move it to the Hepatica board.
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Thank you for your good administration as usual, Maggi :-*
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Hepatica nobilis rubra plena.
Hepatica japonica deep pink.
Hepatica jap. akafuku.
Hepatica Nobilis/Japonica onidaiko.
Hepatica jap. Memai
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Hepatica jap. purple Nidan-zaki nr 2.
Hepatica japonica Tosen.
Hepatica jap. seikai.
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Michael. You have a beautiful collection of beauties. Do you dare to grow them in the garden or only in pots?
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Great colour therapy :) Please post some more.
Fred - Michael also wrote an article for IRG on Hepatica - don't remember the nr.; for sure Maggi will provide the link, or you can look at the index.
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IRG 80 of August 2016
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug251472126130IRG_August_80.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug251472126130IRG_August_80.pdf)
IRG Index : http://www.srgc.net/filessub/journals/IRG-Index.pdf
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Several years ago when I worked at Wisley I decided just for fun to try planting some Hepatica in the north-facing tufa walls outside the Landscape House. Not exactly the kind of situation you would expect them to grow in. To my surprise they grew, flowered regularly and are still there today. So if you are looking for an unusual choice for planting in a shady block of tufa it may be worth giving them a go.
Paul
Hepatica growing in tufa:
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While my garden is covered by heavy snow I´am watching some Hepatica pics from 2016. Can´t await the season starting ...
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... and some more ...
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different Forest hybrids ...
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Toutes plus jolies les unes que les autres :D
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Yes, all so very pretty :)
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So lovely colours and lot of variation! Thank you for posting the pictures, they cheer up in the middle of snow. :)
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Thank you for your friendly reply.
Flowers coming up slowly in my frostfree greenhouse. So I post some further pics of 2016 ...
These are 4 out of ten random Hepatica nob. var. japonica from Paul Christian purchased in 2015. He mentioned that these seedlings were sorted out from an japanese breeder who was just selecting the doubles. In fact I was quite happy with this degraded material ;). The other plants are also quite nice and may develope in coming seasons.
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These are two of my favorits. The 'Shinku' is fertile by the way and I`am very excited to see the crossings in coming years.
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Hepatica jap. yellow.
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Who wouldn't love these beautiful hepaticas, thanks for sharing .
Angie :)
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Beautiful yellow Michael. Hope you haven't given up altogether with the Lewisias?
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David, had to reduce my gardening activities for health reasons, not good at the moment, unfortunately the Lewisias were the first to go. Will also have to cut down on my Hepatica collection as 600 is too much for me to manage now. I am trying to keep a few of all the genera I have rather than large collections of some. Photography is about all I can manage for the past two months with nothing at all done in the garden. I had some help last spring but it vanished without any explanation at the end of May and has not appeared since. ??? Hopefully I will recover somewhat when the Spring comes. :P
Cheers.
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Hope you know, Michael , that all of us here wish you much better health in the coming years.
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Hope you know, Michael , that all of us here wish you much better health in the coming years.
Michael I too hope you will be feeling better soon. I do enjoy seeing all your lovely flowers on the forum. Spring isn't far away so be positive.
Angie :)
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Hey Michael, sorry not to have replied earlier but have been 'under the weather' meself of late. You look after yourself and keep plugging away when you can we need all your skill and experience.
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:) :) :)
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Hoping your quick recovery from Japan, Michael ;)
A 3 year-old seedling of H. japonica f. magna opened its first flower yesterday.
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Best wishes for your health, Michael.
Tatsuo, beautiful little flower :)
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All the best for you Michael!
Tatsuo, your seedling has a very good shape und lovely colour! Thanks for sharing.
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Kind wishes for good health Michael!
Too bad I don't live closer so I can help with the collection :'(
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Hepatica japonica dark purple.
Hepatica nobilis dark blue with blue anthers.
Hepatica Japonica Kuukai.
Hepatica Japonica Asahizuru.
Hepatica transilvanica lilacina
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"Hepatica japonica dark purple" wow, it certainly is. Like a wonderful plum jam.
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I love all of them Michael, but the dark violet is for me the most desirable one :D
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Really amazing Hepaticas! :)
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If I could pick just one favourite, then the soft Lilacina would be mine :)
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Michael, - I wish you a swift recovery. You face a difficult choice if you are cutting back on your hepaticas - the deep purple and yellow must surely be 'keepers'!
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Anne, I will still be keeping a collection but will have to part with those extra to requirements. I keep dividing them and finished up with 600 more that could comfortably handle. I have reduced that now but still have to dispose of another 300 to give myself breathing space. :) :) :)
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A seedling of H. japonica f. magna, from my friend.
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Anne, I will still be keeping a collection but will have part with those extra to requirements. I keep dividing them and finished up with 600 more that could comfortably handle. I have reduced that now but still have to dispose of another 300 to give myself breathing space. :) :) :)
Goodness, Michael - That is a lot of hepaticas!
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Tatsuo - beautiful colour combination on that flower.
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Hepatica japonica f. magna ‘Shunkō’
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3-year-old seedlings of H. japonica f. magna opened their first flowers.
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Nice ones ;)
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3-year-old seedlings of H. japonica f. magna opened their first flowers.
Wow! Well done Tatsuo - your own crosses?
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Wow! Well done Tatsuo - your own crosses?
Thanks, Anne. A friend of mine gave me some his hand pollinated seeds 3 years ago.
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Hepatica nobilis FL.PL. White.
Hepatica Japonica Asahizuru.
Hepatica noblis var. pyrenaica snowstorm
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Four unnamed japonica flowers ...
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A seedling of H. japonica f. magna :)
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Two yellow forms of japonica
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Two seedlings of 'Hohobeni' 22 month after sowing. The first one is very close to the mother, the second one almost pure white.
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Hepatica japonica 'Yumeno hana'
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The Hepatica are really a world I do not know well. However, by dint of seeing these little treasures in photos that you cultivate, it ends up giving desire to cultivate them in turn. ;D
I have just one that blooms blue in a flower bed of the garden, near the Cardiocrinum.
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Two seedlings of 'Hohobeni' 22 month after sowing. The first one is very close to the mother, the second one almost pure white.
Well done, carstens :) 'Hohobeni' is selected from Hepatica nobilis var. pubescens.
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Thank you, Tatsuo :)
I had better written the entire name to make this point clear, as Hepatica nobilis var. pubescens is tetraploid, which is important to know for crossbreeding.
Are you attending the Tokyo show Feb 26th/27th? I guess there is a number of forumists very happy about some pics ;)
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Are you attending the Tokyo show Feb 26th/27th? I guess there is a number of formumists very happy about some pics ;)
There will be a few heart broken forumists if he doesn't :-X :-[
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A plain H. nobiis
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Hepatica Yamatutai x nobilis.
Hepatica maxima x nobilis.
Hepatica maxima x pubescens
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Hepatica maxima x pubescens
That one is really stunning, Michael!
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A few Hepatica japonica in flower here today and Hepatica euroasiatica 'Prof. Friedrich Hildebrand'
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A few Hepatica japonica in flower here ...
I like very much the term used: "a few" ... :D
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I like very much the term used: "a few" ... :D
:)
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5 new ones I selected today from the seedlings.
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All beautiful Wim, the variability in H. japonica is incredible!
Too bad it's a bit too fussy for our climate.
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All beautiful Wim, the variability in H. japonica is incredible!
Too bad it's a bit too fussy for our climate.
Yeah, same here, that's why I keep them in pots, indoors in winter.
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Hepatica event at Kalmthout Arboretum - on 11th and 12th March March : http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/ (http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/)
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http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/kalender.masterdetail.html/p_detail_url/nl/dvt/arboretum/kalender/hepatica.period_1.html (http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/kalender.masterdetail.html/p_detail_url/nl/dvt/arboretum/kalender/hepatica.period_1.html)
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Hepatica nobilis ex 'Cremar'
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Hepatica event at Kalmthout Arboretum - on 11th and 12th March March : http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/ (http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/)
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http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/kalender.masterdetail.html/p_detail_url/nl/dvt/arboretum/kalender/hepatica.period_1.html (http://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/kalender.masterdetail.html/p_detail_url/nl/dvt/arboretum/kalender/hepatica.period_1.html)
Small report (in French) in relation to this event. This is the program "JARDINS ET LOISIRS" broadcast on 05 March 2017 on the RTBF in Belgium
https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_exposition-d-hepatiques-a-l-arboretum-de-kalmthout?id=2190873 (https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_exposition-d-hepatiques-a-l-arboretum-de-kalmthout?id=2190873)
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Hepatica nobilis 'Perrine's Pink' (a selection from Thierry Delabroye)
and a regular Hepatica nobilis showing it's flower power
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H. japonica f. magna ‘Izayoi’
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Some photos from Ian the Christie Kind of Hepatica he has flowering now .....
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Some more of Ian Christie's Hepatica . starting with this very green one! (Sorry, I haven't any names for any of them)
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Oh dear I can feel a new addiction budding :)
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Some photos from Ian the Christie Kind of Hepatica he has flowering now .....
Maggi , Ian's white hepatica is so pretty 8)
Angie :)
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Some of mine that flowered over the last few weeks.
- unnamed Hepatica japonica
- Hepatica jap. 'Hakurin'
- Hepatica nobilis 'Cobalt' (camera can't catch the true dark blue alas)
- Hepatica pyrenaica x japonica close up and the plant
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And some more... all unnamed Hep. japonica seedlings.
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WOW Luc, beautiful. You should get out more and see the cycling :P ;D
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I'm impressed by the amount of flowers you show in those clumps, Luc - bursting with health!
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One of the seedlings of Hepatica japonica I selected this year...actually my favourite of the year....
and some hardy forms in flower:
Hepatica nobilis 'Edith'
Hepatica nobilis 'Perrine's Pink'
Hepatica nobilis var. insularis
and Hepatica transsilvanica 'Blue Eyes'
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And two more:
Hepatica x euroasiatica 'Prof. Friedrich Hildebrand'
and Hepatica x media 'Millstream Merlin'.
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Hepatica flowering in the garden today.
1. Hepatica transsilvanica 'Schwanensee'.
2. Blue and white H. transsilvanica.
3. Hepatica nobilis seedling .
4. Hepatica nobilis, a little shy ;)
5. Hepatica transsilvanica, not at all shy.
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Beautiful Hepaticas! Especially the pink transsylvanica and Hepatica nobilis 'Perrine's Pink'. :)
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In my garden, I only have these. They are less attractive than yours. ::) :D
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Fred, perhaps yours are just still young :). Most of mine are, but I'm hoping they will become bigger in time, and I have fallen in love with Hepaticas in last few years.
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In my garden, I only have these. They are less attractive than yours. ::) :D
Fred, perhaps yours are just still young :). Most of mine are, but I'm hoping they will become bigger in time, and I have fallen in love with Hepaticas in last few years.
It takes a couple of years indeed for them to clump up and start to selfseed...you'll see!
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It's to cold and to wet in Berlin for Hepatica japonica :-\ but I will try to plant some in potts sooooooon :D
H. nobilis flore plena white and blue and
H. nobilis 'Ohleila'
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Beautiful Hepaticas from all :)
I am envious for the H. transsilvanica cultivars; it is one that does well here (in the ground) but no one offers them :'(
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H. japonica f. magna, a seedling
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H. japonica f. magna, a seedling
Wow, it looks so much like a Japanese plum-blossom in a painting!
Very nice,
cheers
fermi
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It hasn't been a bad year for our Hepaticas except that they have all come together. We are very lucky to have Kimihiko as a friend and quite a few of ours without a name have come from him as a couple of leaves packed in damp moss. Here is the season to date.
The first one is a lovely double but a very untidy habit. The third one is another of Kimi's with a wonderful habit and masses of flower.
Hepatica double
Hepatica double close-up
Hepatica from Kimihiko
Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica Millstrea Merlin 2
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The rest are named varieties, all Hep. japonica.
Hepatica gyousei
Hepatica HoHo Beni 2
Hepatica japonica Blue Sandan
Hepatica japonica Ryougetsu
Hepatica Toki
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This last one H. j. Takumi is a very pale blue and this is the first year it has flowered really well.
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Hepatica nob. var nob. 'Rote Glut' with three pics to illustrate the ageing of the flower.
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Hepaticas in the garden are in full bloom now. The japonicas grow well on a raised bed over deep drainage of pumice beside a single nobilis and 'Rosea Plena'.
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In the greenhouse the season peak is over. One of the last to start flowering is Hepatica nob. var. acuta 'Louise Köhler', a real beauty. The third one is a Forest White.
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One of the second year pyrenaica seedlings looks very different. I suppose some pollen of henryi was involved.
For me it´s a very satisfying outcome.
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A double Hepatica nobilis
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Wow Herman that's a beauty.
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Hepatica falconeri:
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More gorgeous Hepaticas!
Wow Herman that's a beauty.
Simply fantastic!!!
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Carstens - you have so many Hepaticas! Are running a nursery? :)
By H. nobilis var. acuta do you mean H. acutiloba please?
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Carstens - you have so many Hepaticas! Are running a nursery? :)
By H. nobilis var. acuta do you mean H. acutiloba please?
Gabriela
Hepatica nobilis var. acuta is indeed acutiloba and Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa is americana
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Gabriela
Hepatica nobilis var. acuta is indeed acutiloba and Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa is americana
Gabriela, as Herman wrote, this should be the right name for now. On my labels it´s still acutiloba and americana ...
I don´t run a nursery but half of the greenhouse is dedicated to Hepaticas and the seedlings - and they require more space each year ;)
Herman: Your nobilis plena is outstanding!
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Thank you Herman and Carstens - I am following close the work done on Hepatica nomenclature; not that is something soon to be clarified ;D
At this time there are still disagreements although all last molecular studies show them as separate species. I was just curious to know because following this line of thought H. japonica should be called H. nobilis var. japonica.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter; in NA everyone calls them americana and acutiloba. If we would be to follow Flora of NA the names are Anemone americana and A. acutiloba, even more unacceptable :-X
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Snowdrops are basically over, so I had to find a new addiction - Hepatica. My first find:
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Why might it be that there are so many plants with different forms in Poland?
Over here I have never seen double Hepatica in the wild, only different colour forms.
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Why might it be that there are so many plants with different forms in Poland?
Over here I have never seen double Hepatica in the wild, only different colour forms.
Leena,
that particular plant was found in Czech Republic, not in Poland, although I found a photo of a H. nobilis flore pleno from Poland several years ago.
(http://www.malogoszcz.isn.pl/12_przylaszczki.jpg) http://www.malogoszcz.isn.pl/przyroda.htm (http://www.malogoszcz.isn.pl/przyroda.htm)
I tried to contact the person who did that discovery and photo, but the e-mail was not working and the person moved to another city, so I had no means of contacting that person. I went there several years ago, but I found nothing interesting. One day I would like to go there again, who knows, maybe I will be more lucky than.
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That blue one is also so pretty!! :)
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I have one plant that has pointed tips. Does such petals shape count as something interesting?
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Ellison Spence'
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I have one plant that has pointed tips. Does such petals shape count as something interesting?
It is lovely.looks very different from my H.nobilis which has rounded edge.They are still under snow here!!
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1. Hepatica x schlyteri has long lasting flowers and the old leaves are still in good condition.
2-3. Two plants from one seed batch. They both have large leaves that stay green all winter unlike most H. nobilis.
4. A pink nobilis, also with old leaves in good condition.
5. H. nobilis plena blue Czech Form - this plant too have large leaves that stay green past flowering time.
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and some more
1. Blue seedling with coloured anthers.
2. Dark red seedling with red anthers.
3. A pink pyrenaica
4. H. 'Blue Jewel'
5. Blue and white seedling
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and a few H. transsilvanica
1. H. transsilvanica 'Pfauenauge'
2. H. transsilvanica 'Hohenstein'
3. A dark blue seedling
4. H. transsilvanica
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Beautiful plants Gunilla 8)
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I don't even know how to call them anymore; beautiful is not enough :)
The 'pink clover' has super interesting foliage!
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I am speechless, they are all so lovely.
The picture with blue double with yellow Helloborus in the background is great, and also the blue seedling with coloured anthers, I have never seen one like it.
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Thank you for your kind words! This is the best time of the year. New hepatica buds open every day. Most of my plants are open pollinated and you never know what will appear in the seed pots or in the garden.
Three years ago I sowed seed from a plant with nice, big flowers of a good dark pink colour and ordinary green leaves. All seedlings except one look like the mother but one plant is tiny and very different with dark red flowers and marbled leaves.
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Great set! H. nobilis 'blue' is just crazy blue. Is that colour durable during the flowering? I like the H. nobilis 'pricle' it fascinates me, it is such an interesting form.
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Thanks Chris! The colour of "blue" is a kind of dark velvety blue that really stands out and it does not fade. Maybe it's a cross between H. japonica and nobilis.
The next buds on that Prickel plant look more like they are supposed to look.
1-2. Hepatica nobilis 'Prickel'
3. Hepatica nobilis seedling
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And I like 'Prickel' with its exciting explosion of anthers. :)
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That plant is just fascinating! I suspect it is very hard to get thought. :/
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Prickel usually comes true from seed. If you want to try I can collect seed for you.
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The last ones to flower are double forms of H. nobilis.
1. Lilly
2. Walter Otto
3. Black Eye
4. White Eye
5. I don't know the name of this one
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Gunilla I'm not sure whether your seed message was for Cephalotus or for me but I'll take a chance anyway and ask you for some seed if you will have some to spare. We have only one or two ever available here and no chance of importing plants. I'll send you a message. Thanks
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Nothing terribly exotic, Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea' ex the late & formidable Vera Peck, for many years the AGCBC's seed chair.
johnw
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Hepatica maxima, a seedling Ken grew and which I spied for the first time. Lusty leaves.
john
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Hepatica americana or Hepatica nobilis?
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Nothing terribly exotic, Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea'
How floriferous! :)
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The hepaticas start to flower now.
Just ordinary Hepatica transsylvanica
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The hepaticas start to flower now.
Just ordinary Hepatica transsylvanica
There is nothing 'ordinary' about H. transsylvanica Kris :) The seeds are germinating - thanks a million times!
Hope one spring I'll go and take pictures when it flowers in the wild - absolutely a dream.
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Hepatica americana or Hepatica nobilis?
Herman, I will take more pictures with the leaves. Right now the new ones are growing and the old ones are not looking too good anymore.
Looking at your pictures - there are H. americana specimens with this sort of leaves.
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Herman, I will take more pictures with the leaves. Right now the new ones are growing and the old ones are not looking too good anymore.
Looking at your pictures - there are H. americana specimens with this sort of leaves.
Thank you Gabriela. Ten years ago I have planted in this part of the garden one Hepatica with the name americana and no Hepatica nobilis. Now there are are a lot of self sowing plants al with blue flowers. But I wasn't sure that the original plant really was americana. But if you think it is possible with that kind of leaves then I will use the name americana. Yesterday I found Hepatica falconeri on a plant market.
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Now that I have H.americana seedlings, I was wondering if H.americana and H.nobilis hybridize? Perhaps I should plant them (later, for now they can grow in pots) not close to each other.
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Thank you Gabriela. Ten years ago I have planted in this part of the garden one Hepatica with the name americana and no Hepatica nobilis. Now there are are a lot of self sowing plants al with blue flowers. But I wasn't sure that the original plant really was americana. But if you think it is possible with that kind of leaves then I will use the name americana. Yesterday I found Hepatica falconeri on a plant market.
H. falconeri is something one would never find on a plant market here! (you can barely find H. americana and acutiloba actually)
Here are few leaf images that resemble your americana. There is another type with more rounded lobes, and smaller leaves.
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Now that I have H.americana seedlings, I was wondering if H.americana and H.nobilis hybridize? Perhaps I should plant them (later, for now they can grow in pots) not close to each other.
That is for sure Leena; but hybrids are often very interesting ;)
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That is for sure Leena; but hybrids are often very interesting ;)
:) :)
Hepatica nobilis is still flowering here.
Blue, pink and also I have a small white one. :)
The only double I have is H.nobilis 'Rubra Plena', though to me it is more pink than red. Anyway, a lovely Hepatica, and I wish I had a similar one in blue (I don't know if it even exists).
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All beautiful Leena :) Enjoy their flowering!
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Gabriela, I am enjoying them, especially the blue ones which I have most. :)
Last week opened H.japonica seedlings which I had sown 2014 and they have lived planted in the ground through two bad winters, so I'm very happy about that. The first flowers are very tiny.
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Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica (CB33) is still flowering (It started in March). Cyclamen repandum subsp. rhodense (CB35) is on the background.
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Herman, that Hepatica has wonderful foliage!
This is H.nobilis 'Tamsa'.
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Leena your Hepaticas are very beautiful.
This year the super hot weather destroyed lots of Hepatica flowers. Some just skipped flowering completely.
Hepatica acutiloba started nicely but suffered because of the hot weather.
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Hepatica nobilis pink
Hepatica nobilis purple
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Leena your Hepaticas are very beautiful.
Thank you Kris, your H.acutiloba is also very beautiful!
My Hepaticas as mostly our native plants which I have moved from the edge of woods in our property to my woodland bed, where they become bigger clumps (hopefully) and wild rabbits don't eat the flowers so easily.
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Leena your Hepaticas are very beautiful.
This year the super hot weather destroyed lots of Hepatica flowers. Some just skipped flowering completely.
Hepatica acutiloba started nicely but suffered because of the hot weather.
Kris, very nice big clump of acutiloba!
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Thanks Leena and Herman.
Last year the H.acutiloba was even bigger than now and flowered nicely
This year the hot weather intimidated the plant . I have another two pink H.acutiloba just skipped flowering . Happy at least they did not die.
Herman Your H.nobilis flora plena is out of the world.
It is impossible to get good Hepatica cultivars in North America.
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Are there any double Hepatica americana or acutiloba in the wild in America?
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Kris,
your Hepaticas are looking very good, considering the weather!
Are there any double Hepatica americana or acutiloba in the wild in America?
I only found specimens of H. americana sort of semi-double until now, but who knows they may be hiding somewhere :) In any case, that's a big difference comparing with H.nobilis where doubling is more frequent.
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From Ashwood's Nursery -
Don't miss this years Hepatica seed crop & order without delay. They must be sown fresh for success.
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https://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/shop/plants/speciality-seed.html?cat=172 (https://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/shop/plants/speciality-seed.html?cat=172)
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Kris,
your Hepaticas are looking very good, considering the weather!
I only found specimens of H. americana sort of semi-double until now, but who knows they may be hiding somewhere :) In any case, that's a big difference comparing with H.nobilis where doubling is more frequent.
Gabriela, Hepatica americana is a varietal of nobilis (Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa) so I presume there must exist double forms.
From acutiloba, I have got this year from a friend a piece of Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler' (or 'Louise Köhler'), I don't know if there exist any other forms.
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DRYAD NURSERY'S fresh seed list (hepatica and some galanthus) will be ready within the next 2 weeks. If you are not already on my email list, and would like to receive it, please contact me.
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I like Hepaticas for their foliage as much as for the flowers. Although rare, sometimes there are few flowers in late fall, the same time the foliage gets a marbled aspect.
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H. acutiloba foliage markings are always angular (cannot find a better word) in look, different than H. americana.
This particular specimen was named H. acutiloba 'Rabbit's foot'.
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H. americana
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Interesting difference in the leaves, thanks for posting it Gabriela. :)
I have planted outside pots of Hepatica which germinated last spring.
Couple of days ago I saw a foot print of a deer just centimeters away of those tiny plants, I was relieved to see them still ok and then I protected them with twigs so that if deer walked there again, they would not walk over the seedlings.
Deer had been eating leaves of my other Hepaticas which they normally don't eat.
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I like Hepaticas for their foliage as much as for the flowers. Although rare, sometimes there are few flowers in late fall, the same time the foliage gets a marbled aspect.
H. acutiloba foliage markings are always angular (cannot find a better word) in look, different than H. americana.
Nice pictures Gabriela!
Here is Hepatica nobilis and Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra'
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What huge H.nobilis 'Rubra' clump! :)
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What huge H.nobilis 'Rubra' clump! :)
Leena, ants do there work and all the seedlings are pink.
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What huge H.nobilis 'Rubra' clump! :)
Indeed, wonderful Herman, and the leaves have a nice wavy look.
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Interesting difference in the leaves, thanks for posting it Gabriela. :)
I have planted outside pots of Hepatica which germinated last spring.
Couple of days ago I saw a foot print of a deer just centimeters away of those tiny plants, I was relieved to see them still ok and then I protected them with twigs so that if deer walked there again, they would not walk over the seedlings.
Deer had been eating leaves of my other Hepaticas which they normally don't eat.
In the woods I've never found any Hepatica with eaten leaves Leena, and there are deers around.
On the other hand, this spring in the garden a rabbit clipped entirely two Hepaticas, which they are also not supposed to eat! Maybe the wild animals change their behaviour/diet when browsing outside their wild habitat.
In any case, I hope he went to rabbits hell ::)
About leaves again, I should mention that some Hepaticas get marbled and some not, even when they grow with the same exposure to the spring/late fall sun. Especially H. acutiloba not often gets couloured foliage.
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Leaves from Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica in our garden.
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra' on a place where it gets more sun, so the autumn leaves are much more intense
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In the woods I've never found any Hepatica with eaten leaves Leena, and there are deers around.
On the other hand, this spring in the garden a rabbit clipped entirely two Hepaticas, which they are also not supposed to eat! Maybe the wild animals change their behaviour/diet when browsing outside their wild habitat.
It could have been a rabbit, too, but I have seen deer hoof prints in the garden so it is either one. Perhaps plants taste better when they are grown in a garden bed and have more lush foliage than what they do in the wild.
Here H.nobilis loses it's leaves during winter anyway so I don't think it matters if they get eaten now, but they would have been nice now when there is so little else.
Here is a picture of H.nobilis with eaten leaves, only the stalks are left.
The other Hepatica they eat is H.transsylvanica, in the foreground.
I try to distract the animals by putting wild cherry twings (which smell bad) around plants they like to eat (or spruce branches in the winter), but I didn't think about Hepaticas until it was too late.
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It could have been a rabbit, too, but I have seen deer hoof prints in the garden so it is either one. Perhaps plants taste better when they are grown in a garden bed and have more lush foliage than what they do in the wild.
Here H.nobilis loses it's leaves during winter anyway so I don't think it matters if they get eaten now, but they would have been nice now when there is so little else.
Here is a picture of H.nobilis with eaten leaves, only the stalks are left.
The other Hepatica they eat is H.transsylvanica, in the foreground.
I try to distract the animals by putting wild cherry twings (which smell bad) around plants they like to eat (or spruce branches in the winter), but I didn't think about Hepaticas until it was too late.
Yes, the leaves grow back, it's just like you say, nice to have them when little else.
I sometimes lay spruce branches, or twigs from an old Chaenomeles on 'problem' areas; even over the seedlings pots.
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Since we are talking Hepatica foliage, I don't think I showed a form I found two years ago. It wasn't in good shape, luckily the leaf was marbled and attracted my attention. It has recovered well in a pot and this fall I planted it in the ground.
I hope it will bulk up a bit so I can share it with friends. I call it Hepatica 'Butterfly' just because I need to call it somehow.
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The flowers are not special, except the fact they have a longer than usual peduncle that gives them a drooping aspect, especially after rains. They also seem not to be fully functional reproductive. This I noticed in other leaf forms of H. americana, some even have unisexuate flowers.
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Since we are talking Hepatica foliage, I don't think I showed a form I found two years ago. It wasn't in good shape, luckily the leaf was marbled and attracted my attention. It has recovered well in a pot and this fall I planted it in the ground.
I hope it will bulk up a bit so I can share it with friends. I call it Hepatica 'Butterfly' just because I need to call it somehow.
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The flowers are not special, except the fact they have a longer than usual peduncle that gives them a drooping aspect, especially after rains. They also seem not to be fully functional reproductive. This I noticed in other leaf forms of H. americana, some even have unisexuate flowers.
Hepatica 'Butterfly'
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That is interesting, Gabriela! I'm a big fan of interesting leaf forms and colors of Hepatica, too.
Here is one of my H. acutiloba: the new leaves come up very dark and then turn the normal green as the season goes.
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Since we are talking Hepatica foliage, I don't think I showed a form I found two years ago. It wasn't in good shape, luckily the leaf was marbled and attracted my attention. It has recovered well in a pot and this fall I planted it in the ground.
I hope it will bulk up a bit so I can share it with friends. I call it Hepatica 'Butterfly' just because I need to call it somehow.
Hepatica 'Butterfly'
Gabriela, Butterfly is indeed a suitable name!
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Gabriela, your Butterfly is special!! :) I also like Peppa's dark foliage.
Here are my H.japonica seedlings (sowm 2014), with some nice foliage markings, too. These have grown outside for the past two years so they are quite hardy, the biggest one even flowered last spring, but the flower was quite tiny compared to H.nobilis flowers.
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Nice seedlings, Leena.... I have not had luck with Hepatica seed. One day I hope to have some success germinating Hepatica. They would be such a welcome addition to our woodland garden.
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Thank you Peppa, Herman and Leena :)
Peppa, very nice dark leaf! The one I showed has reddish/bronze foliage in the spring. It is also particular in forming the new leaves on the same time with the flowers, much earlier in the spring than others. The first image is taken on April 13, 2015, after a record cold winter in Ontario.
Since I am set on giving names, I call it H. acutiloba 'Rabbit's foot' ;D You will see why.
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Gabriela, your Butterfly is special!! :) I also like Peppa's dark foliage.
Here are my H.japonica seedlings (sowm 2014), with some nice foliage markings, too. These have grown outside for the past two years so they are quite hardy, the biggest one even flowered last spring, but the flower was quite tiny compared to H.nobilis flowers.
Nice seedlings Leena! I hope they will do well for you. I am also trying to grow japonica from seeds; ready purchased plants perished after a bad winter.
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Nice seedlings, Leena.... I have not had luck with Hepatica seed. One day I hope to have some success germinating Hepatica. They would be such a welcome addition to our woodland garden.
I will put together some seedlings pictures in the afternoon for you Gordon. There is no reason not to be able to germinate any Hepatica; even dry kept seeds (short term) will germinate in some proportion.
So, here they are as an encouragement, with the note that some seeds will germinate in the second spring even if they were sown fresh/ kept moist.
First pictures - a container where I threw all leftover seeds or the ones I considered not good enough to sell.
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More - all H. americana, I used them as trades for other plants
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Seeds from others - first H. transsilvanica from forumist Kris - thanks again.
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H. nobilis and japonica from another kind forumist. And there are more....
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I still have H. americana seeds (moist kept) - you are most welcome to try (pm please).