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Title: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 20, 2018, 11:39:53 AM
Hepatica Japonica yellow.
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Post by: fermi de Sousa on January 20, 2018, 01:54:11 PM
An exquisite gem, Michael,
cheers
fermi
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Post by: Leucogenes on January 20, 2018, 04:37:10 PM
... what a delicate beauty. My admiration for you, Michael.

Cheers  Thomas
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Post by: angie on January 20, 2018, 06:30:37 PM
Really pretty.

Angie  :)
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Post by: shelagh on January 21, 2018, 04:01:28 PM
Lovely.
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Post by: annew on January 21, 2018, 06:32:59 PM
 :o :o
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Post by: Gabriela on January 22, 2018, 12:10:53 AM
The first Hepatica of this spring! Indeed congratulations :)
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 23, 2018, 12:31:52 PM
The names are embedded in the pics.

 edit by maggi to add  plant names in text so they may be found by the search facility.....
Hepatica japonica Koshi no Maborosh

Hepatica nobilis/ japonica 'Akafuku

Hepatica japonica purple nidan-saki

Hepatica japonica dark purple

Hepatica nobilis rubra plena
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 23, 2018, 12:33:53 PM
A few more.
 edit to add names ....


Hepatica japonica yuzuru

Hepatica nobilis, white with a hint of blue

Hepatica nobilis craemar

Hepatica japonica Sakuragari

Hepatica japonica Seikai
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 23, 2018, 01:23:30 PM
And a few more.
Heatica henryii.
Hepatica Nobilis Dark blue with blue anthers.
Hepatica japonica hokutosei.
Hepatica Japonica  onidaiko.
Hepatica Japonica  ryokurei.



Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on January 23, 2018, 01:51:50 PM
It is a joy to see these flowers, Michael.   It'll be a while before we see nay here in Aberdeen - though I know Alan Gardner in the "Central Belt" of Scotland  has  lots in flower in his glasshouse.
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Post by: Peppa on January 24, 2018, 11:06:58 PM
Pretty flowers, Michael!

I grow all my Hepatica sheltered outside and while some of them have just started to bloom most are still in bud.

This one caught my eye yesterday.
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on January 25, 2018, 05:22:15 PM
Nice Hepatica's Michael!
Here it is waiting for the sun to see some Hepatica flowers in the garden.
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Post by: annew on January 27, 2018, 02:53:34 PM
A beautiful painting by my talented friend, Judith Hartup. Hepatica 'Orihime'
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Post by: Maggi Young on January 27, 2018, 02:54:57 PM
A beautiful painting by my talented friend, Judith Hartup. Hepatica 'Orihime'
How lovely!
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 28, 2018, 04:37:26 PM
Hepatica japonica blue sandan.
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Post by: Gabriela on January 30, 2018, 06:45:17 PM
Hepatica japonica blue sandan.

Another perfect Hepatica to beat the January blues!
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on February 02, 2018, 09:27:32 AM
 Hepatica japonica yellow.
Hepatica japonica tosen
Hepatica japonica ryokurei.
 Hepatica japonica 'Koshi-no-maboroshi'
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on February 04, 2018, 08:12:42 PM
Glorious, Michael! You are way ahead of here.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on February 04, 2018, 08:16:53 PM
Hepatica japonica yuzuru.
Hepatica japonica hokutosei.
Hepatica japonica Kuukai.

Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on February 13, 2018, 09:25:23 PM
While my garden is still covered with snow, the hepatica season starts at the frost-free greenhouse.
Seedlings of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' (and others on the sides) sown in 2015.
Seedling of Hepatica nob.var. jap. 'Shinku' sown in 2016 still with it´s seed leafs and first leaf of 2017.
Seedling of an unnamed japonica crossed with Hepatica nob.var. jap. 'Touyama shigure' with lilac tips on the edge.
First time bloomers are always exciting to watch out and not all of them are disappointing ;)
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edit by maggi to rotate photos.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on February 15, 2018, 05:33:51 PM
I have been admiring all your photos in this years hepatica thread. Lovely flowers!  Carsten, the intense red colour of your seedling is amazing.

Wish I had a frost free greenhouse. My early ones have to struggle.

Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: shelagh on February 16, 2018, 02:27:12 PM
Well the Hepaticas are certainly on the move.  Can't name any of mine though because all of these have come as gifts. Apologise for number 2 being slightly out of focus, the tremor in my hands seem worse when I get a camera out. Also 2 pics of number 3 because it looks blue in the picture but after a bit of jiggling I have managed to get it looking more like the purple it is in reality.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Mike Ireland on February 16, 2018, 04:07:30 PM
Michael & others, keep posting those wonderful Hepatica photos, WOW & WOW again.
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Post by: Maggi Young on February 16, 2018, 04:25:06 PM
A selection of delectable Hepatica pictures  from Ian Christie


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Post by: Maggi Young on February 16, 2018, 04:25:58 PM
and some more - sorry , no names given

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Post by: shelagh on February 16, 2018, 04:42:10 PM
I rather like the pink one, it looks as if it can't quite decide whether to be a single or a double flower :)
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Post by: Maggi Young on February 16, 2018, 04:46:16 PM
I rather like the pink one, it looks as if it can't quite decide whether to be a single or a double flower :)
No 7,   Shelagh?  Yes, I was taken by that too.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on February 17, 2018, 01:39:25 AM
Beauties all of them!

Carstens - I'm not after strong colours in Hepatica but your red flowered seedling with new fuzzy leaves while still holding the seed leaves it is particularly cute :)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on February 17, 2018, 03:22:40 PM
A cross from Gunda & Karl Kristensen, Hepatica yamatutai x H. nobilis 'Cremar'.  I am very fond of the big marbled leaves with dark red undersides. Yesterday, I noticed the advanced buds and I didn't dare leave it outside in my cold frame.  Inside in a cold room it started to flower.

Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on February 17, 2018, 04:12:28 PM
A cross from Gunda & Karl Kristensen, Hepatica yamatutai x H. nobilis 'Cremar'.  I am very fond of the big marbled leaves with dark red undersides. Yesterday, I noticed the advanced buds and I didn't dare leave it outside in my cold frame.  Inside in a cold room it started to flower.


A good time to show it, Gunilla - it's Karl's birthday today!
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Post by: Gunilla on February 17, 2018, 07:22:12 PM
Oh, I didn't know.   I wish you a very happy birthday, Karl!    'Fantastica' salutes you  ;)
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on February 18, 2018, 10:30:56 AM
A cross from Gunda & Karl Kristensen, Hepatica yamatutai x H. nobilis 'Cremar'.  I am very fond of the big marbled leaves with dark red undersides. Yesterday, I noticed the advanced buds and I didn't dare leave it outside in my cold frame.  Inside in a cold room it started to flower.
Gunilla, 'Fantastica' is indeed fantastic! Does it give seeds or is it sterile?
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on February 18, 2018, 09:43:04 PM
Gunilla, 'Fantastica' is indeed fantastic! Does it give seeds or is it sterile?

I don't know yet. I asked Gunda and she thought it might be sterile.  I had a close look and there doesn't seem to be any pollen at all. 
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on February 19, 2018, 10:35:45 AM
I don't know yet. I asked Gunda and she thought it might be sterile.  I had a close look and there doesn't seem to be any pollen at all.
Thank you Gunilla, it is a pity that it does not set seeds!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on February 19, 2018, 04:50:25 PM
Hepatica maxima  x  nobilis.
Hepatica japonica akafuku.
Hepatica nobilis  bibo
Hepatica seedling.
Hepatica  nobilis flora plena alba.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on February 19, 2018, 04:55:48 PM
Hepatica nobilis  indigo strain.
Hepatica henryi.
Hepatica japonica haruno-awayuki
Hepatica japonica shikouden.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on February 20, 2018, 03:16:31 PM
Hepatica japonica 'Blue Sandan' in tufa garden.
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Winterfreude' is also starting.
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A lot of Hepatica's are waiting for more sun.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on February 21, 2018, 06:23:15 PM
Hepatica japonica onidaiko.
Hepatica japonica kougyoku.
A couple of pics from the greenhouse.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on March 02, 2018, 08:05:02 PM
I have a second double japonica seedling to add to my first!
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 02, 2018, 08:28:16 PM
Cute little things!
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 03, 2018, 10:54:07 AM
The weather is turning, today some snow, but the freezing has stopped. Now it is waiting for thaw, so that the Hepatica's in the garden can start again.

Hepatica transsilvanica 'Winterfreude' makes an effort to get through the snow.
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 03, 2018, 02:03:07 PM
A brave effort!
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Post by: ruweiss on March 03, 2018, 09:10:57 PM
Hepatica falconeri
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 04, 2018, 08:05:47 AM
Hepatica falconeri
Beautiful falconeri Rudi! He is so early? You have probably kept him frost free. Here they are still dormant or death.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 04:41:44 PM
A sunny day and the Hepatica season seems to start here (in the greenhouse).

Four unnamed Hepatica japonicas.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 04:47:58 PM
A few seedlings of a 2015 cross with japonica and a forest hybrid are very tiny.
See the tiny leafs next to one of  Anne Wright´s x schlyteris
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 04:51:18 PM
A semidouble Hepatica nobilis ready for crossbreeding ...
... and Hepatica pyrenaica 'Sue's Double'.
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Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 04:56:24 PM
Two pics of an unnamed bicoloured cultivar.
Hepatica japonica 'Ryougetsu II'
Hepatica japonica 'Hikogami'
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 05:01:13 PM
These seedlings of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' of 2015 give a nice spread and there a some more distinct forms.
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Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 05:03:25 PM
Finally two superb cultivars

'Yumeno hana' and 'Kouten'
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 04, 2018, 05:35:27 PM
Lovely Hepatica's, Carstens! Is Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' hardy?
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Post by: Carsten on March 04, 2018, 06:34:39 PM
Hi Herman,

pubescens is from the central range of Honsu. So they will cope with frost without any problem. But I guess the plants are well covered with snow in this regions and are therefore relativly dry in winters, like other Hepaticas from the far east. This will not fit too well to our european winters with cold spells and frostfree phases. I have not yet tested pubescens in the garden but other japonicas do very well. Most important in my view is a very free draining compost or a slope that helps to remove excess water in the winter. Mine are planted on a raised bed with about 5 cm of substrate over a 20cm layer of pumice. I cover them with some composted pine and fir shredding so they are not to much affected by permanent frost movement that easely may cut the roots. Hope this helps.
The pics show 'Shirayuki' today at 15.30 and 16.30. It will start to bloom next week, depending on the temperature.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 04, 2018, 09:43:32 PM
Carstens, thank you. Here al the snow is gone and temperature is rising.
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Post by: ruweiss on March 04, 2018, 09:48:53 PM
Thanks Herman, I cultivate my Hepatica falconeri in the Alpine House,
minimum temperature is -7°C controlled by a fan heater. When the
seedlings grow bigger I will try to cultivate them in the open garden.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on March 04, 2018, 11:57:47 PM
A few seedlings of a 2015 cross with japonica and a forest hybrid are very tiny.
See the tiny leafs next to one of  Anne Wright´s x schlyteris

The tiny leaf one is very cute Carstens. I found a very similar one in the wild - of H. americana; precisely the exact leaf shape. I will measure it this year.

Your H. japonica cv. are very beautiful. I didn't manage to keep H. japonica alive here (the plants were from a nursery from a milder climate in British Columbia).
I try to grow from seeds now, maybe the seedlings acclimatize better. I see you are zone 6b, here is in between 6 and 5 so maybe there is hope.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on March 05, 2018, 12:38:26 PM
Blue semidouble H.nobilis is my favourite! I think Hepaticas are becoming one of my most favourite plants. :)

other japonicas do very well. Most important in my view is a very free draining compost or a slope that helps to remove excess water in the winter. Mine are planted on a raised bed with about 5 cm of substrate over a 20cm layer of pumice. I cover them with some composted pine and fir shredding so they are not to much affected by permanent frost movement that easely may cut the roots.

This is very good information, thank you  :)
I have some seed grown H.japonica which have survived two winters now outside (three after this winter), they are in a slight slope under apple tree, and I cover them with dry oak leaves for the winter.
Some years ago I got forest-hybrid as a present, and planted also it outside, but it died the first winter. :(
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on March 05, 2018, 03:14:44 PM
I think Hepaticas are becoming one of my most favourite plants. :)

I couldn't agree with you more, Leena. It's not easy to pic a favourite, they are all very nice,  but the white seedling of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' is the one that won my heart :).  Lovely flowers, Carsten.
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Post by: Carsten on March 05, 2018, 11:04:30 PM
@ Gabriela: You are probably right. The Forest Hybrid of this cross might be an americana/japonica cross and in the F2 generation the spectrum of different leaf forms is large.

@ Gunilla: I´am happy to give you a white seedling even though they are still small. Yours doing very well here  ;)

@ Leena and Gabriela: I think it´s always worth to try the japonicas outside. They are quite tough and add so much beauty to a garden.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on March 06, 2018, 10:17:36 AM
Carsten, that is very kind of you. I'll send you a mail when mine are starting to wake up and I know what I have for swapping. By the way, yours are doing fine here, too  :).

Hepatica nobilis 'Bavarian Blue'
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 07, 2018, 10:45:59 AM
Very nice Gunilla. It looks like 'Prickel'
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Post by: Leena on March 07, 2018, 11:01:26 AM
@ Leena and Gabriela: I think it´s always worth to try the japonicas outside. They are quite tough and add so much beauty to a garden.

Thank you. :) There is so much more variability in H.japonica than in H.nobilis. Close by my H.japonicas I have native H.nobilis plants, maybe they will interbreed?
Gunilla, 'Bavarian Blue' is so different than any other I have seen!  :)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on March 11, 2018, 03:46:07 PM

Post # 52 showed Hep. jap. 'Shirayuki' covered with snow. Today a week later it looks like this ...
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Post by: Leena on March 12, 2018, 01:08:18 PM
That is an amazing Hepatica! :) And also seems quite hardy.
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Post by: annew on March 12, 2018, 04:50:15 PM
Some beautiful flowers from everyone  :D
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 12, 2018, 04:58:47 PM
Yesterday there was some sunshine:

Hepatica nobilis 'Alba'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra plena'
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Hepatica nobilis Multipetala Group
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 12, 2018, 05:03:08 PM
Hepatica transsilvanica 'Alba'
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Rosea', difficult to get the right colour, it is softly pink
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Hepatica yamatutai
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Post by: Carsten on March 12, 2018, 07:30:23 PM
Yesterdays pics from the greenhouse

An intensive rose nobilis that even does have a good marbled leaf.
Rote Glut - always difficult to capture the nearly red colour on a pic.
'Giselle', one of Andreas Händels cultivars.
'Bergfexing' is a generous gift of a very kind forumist - many thanks again!

... and Hepatica japonica 'Ryougestu II' now in full bloom.

Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on March 13, 2018, 09:04:00 PM
Some new seedlings today.
4156-2-17-18 maxima x nobilis white tabby- this one has nicely marbled leaves later.
3876-3-17-18 own petaloid x Tenjinbai - the only one to have the dark pistil I was hoping for.
3871-1-18 jap Emiko x blue nobilis (seed from Gunhild Poulsen)
3709-4-17-18 Takumi x Tenjinbai
3600-1-18 F2 ex Red Senne  (seed from Gunhild Poulsen)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on March 13, 2018, 09:05:03 PM
One of our Dryad Blush group, clone 7, from transsylvanica Lilacina x japonica.
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Post by: Leena on March 14, 2018, 08:29:43 AM
Really beautiful Hepaticas. :)
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 14, 2018, 10:27:33 AM
Beautiful Hepatica's Anne. The first flowering of new seedlings is always exciting!
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Post by: Peppa on March 20, 2018, 01:11:20 AM
Lovely Hepatica, everyone! I have been busy crossing and making records of my Japanese Hepatica but most of them are now past their prime for this year.

I made some crosses of my two H. acutiloba several years ago and I had one good result last year. This year, I have several nice flowers blooming and this is one of them.

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The anthers won't produce pollen and the flowers are closer to a semi-double form.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on March 20, 2018, 07:32:32 AM
That is a beautiful semidouble! :)
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 20, 2018, 09:57:09 AM
Lovely Hepatica, everyone! I have been busy crossing and making records of my Japanese Hepatica but most of them are now past their prime for this year.

I made some crosses of my two H. acutiloba several years ago and I had one good result last year. This year, I have several nice flowers blooming and this is one of them.

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The anthers won't produce pollen and the flowers are closer to a semi-double form.
Peppa, maybe you should pollinate it with another acutiloba!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on March 20, 2018, 11:47:42 AM
Some really nice seedlings in this thread  :o 

What a beautiful pure white flower, Peppa.

Hepatica x euroasiatica 'Rötgebütteler Röschen' has started to flower here and it looks similar to your H. transsylvanica Lilacina x japonica, Anne. I love the soft pink flowers.

Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Peppa on March 21, 2018, 08:13:59 PM
Thanks for the nice comments!

Peppa, maybe you should pollinate it with another acutiloba!

Yep! I have crossed this one with an interesting-colored acutiloba. I can't help pollinating anything that might set seed.

Here is another sibling that has bigger flowers.

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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on March 24, 2018, 01:20:21 PM
A nice little seedling of Hepatica japonica Lavender.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 24, 2018, 06:51:32 PM
Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra' is spreading around.
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Post by: Claire Cockcroft on March 26, 2018, 12:20:05 AM
Hepatica acutiloba -- a plain Jane, but cheerfully blooming.
...Claire
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Michael J Campbell on March 26, 2018, 09:40:45 AM
Hepatica nobilis compact form flowering in the garden today.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on March 26, 2018, 11:07:17 AM
A really nice picture of Claire's H.acutiloba, and how wonderful leaves it has.
Blue and pink H.nobilis are also so nice, when they are full of flowers.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on March 26, 2018, 11:37:06 AM
Hepatica acutiloba -- a plain Jane, but cheerfully blooming.
...Claire

   A "plain Jane" ?? With foliage that fabulous? I think not!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 29, 2018, 06:45:38 PM
Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Ellison Spence' is also starting.
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on March 29, 2018, 08:45:20 PM
Hepatica acutiloba -- a plain Jane, but cheerfully blooming.
...Claire

Beautiful acutiloba Claire, wonderful foliage. Something we'll miss in Ontario this spring; due to long snowless periods all foliage is badly burnt.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on March 29, 2018, 08:46:41 PM
Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).

Hepatica transsilvanica 'Ellison Spence' is also starting.

Wow! How old is that clump of H. nobilis plena? Amazing.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gunilla on March 29, 2018, 09:35:35 PM
Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).

What a magnificent H. nobilis plena!
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Post by: kris on March 29, 2018, 09:42:03 PM
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden)
My dream plant !! Very beautiful.
Claire the Acutiloba is also amazing specially with the beautiful leaves.
As our area is very cold in spring  the older leaves  of Hepatica won't look nice.

Looks like we have wait two more weeks to get good weather. Next 5 days are going to be extremely cold with the arctic cold front!!!
Kris
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on March 30, 2018, 07:29:26 AM
Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland (Sweden).

That is wonderful plant, so full of flowers and so pretty flowers! Your growing conditions must also be exactly right for it to grow so big. :)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 30, 2018, 05:15:57 PM
Wow! How old is that clump of H. nobilis plena? Amazing.

Gabriela, this Hepatica is planted in 2003, it is a very good grower once it has settled. In the past I have already planted several pieces from it on other places in the garden.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 30, 2018, 05:28:00 PM
Hepatica americana 'Rosea'
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 30, 2018, 05:28:46 PM
Hepatica nobilis 'Peach Blossom'
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 30, 2018, 05:29:23 PM
Hepatica pubescens
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 30, 2018, 05:30:12 PM
Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 30, 2018, 05:34:24 PM
Hepatica x media ‘Buis’
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on March 31, 2018, 09:10:48 PM
Gabriela, this Hepatica is planted in 2003, it is a very good grower once it has settled. In the past I have already planted several pieces from it on other places in the garden.

I was wondering because in the wild I have never found such big clumps, neither of H. americana, nor H. acutiloba, even in the best populations. They don't make it past 8-10 years in the wild probably.

Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica is particularly pretty.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on April 03, 2018, 04:55:21 AM
Hello can any of the experts in the forum help me.
What is the difference between Hepatica transsilvanica "ROSEA" and Hepatica transsilvanica "SHAWANEESE"

Kris
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on April 03, 2018, 01:41:55 PM
Kris - to start with, I think you may have a mis-spelling there - there is  a Hepatica transsilvanica 'Schwanensee' - you can see a photo of that  here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12570.msg322379#msg322379 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12570.msg322379#msg322379)

(Schwanensee  means  Swan Lake)


Hepatica transsilvanica "Pink Form"  is shown here:  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220762#msg220762 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220762#msg220762)

 Razvan Chisu lists 59  cultivars of  transilvanica from Jurgen Peters book  and mentions that superficially  many look similar : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220711#msg220711 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6473.msg220711#msg220711)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on April 03, 2018, 02:37:43 PM
Thank you Maggi for the right spelling and the links.
I got the answer. A nursery here has the Hepatica Schwaneese and when I googled I can't find any difference between the two types.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on April 14, 2018, 08:43:30 AM
Hepatica falconeri
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on April 14, 2018, 08:44:27 AM
Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler'
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on April 29, 2018, 11:42:03 PM
Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler'
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Such a nice acutiloba variety.

Hepatica acutiloba is in full flower in the forest in Ontario. Pictures from a mixed population with flowers in white, pink, lilac and all shades in between.

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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on April 30, 2018, 12:54:02 AM
Beautiful!!!! I love them all.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on April 30, 2018, 01:23:40 AM
Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica and a Hepatica nobilis seedling blooming right now in the garden
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on May 01, 2018, 01:31:28 AM
Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica and a Hepatica nobilis seedling blooming right now in the garden

Wow, is that transsilvanica the mother of my babies? :)

Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on May 01, 2018, 05:13:35 AM
yes  Gabriela. :)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on May 01, 2018, 08:25:06 PM
Gabriela and Kris, beautiful Hepatica's! Here the season is over.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on May 02, 2018, 01:56:38 AM
They don't flower for long unfortunately, it's good to enjoy them to the fullest :)
More H. acutiloba, first from the same pastel mix population.
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And from another place one of the biggest clump I've found in the wild (I think I mentioned once that very large clumps are not usual)
H. acutiloba white
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on May 02, 2018, 04:50:31 AM
Thanks for the comment Herman. They are just starting to flower now. I will have more in a week.
Gabriela the Hepatica looks more charming in the wild compared to garden .
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: GordonT on May 02, 2018, 12:56:49 PM
I see another plant addiction coming on, as the woodland garden is missing any Hepatica. First of all, the need will be to source some fresh seed!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on May 02, 2018, 10:39:26 PM
Hi Gordon
 please send me a PM . I can give you some fresh seeds once ripe.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Rick R. on May 03, 2018, 02:04:44 AM
Large clumps are not usual in the wild here, either.  In many of the Minnesota habitats they grow in, this is the norm:
Hepatica acutiloba
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on May 03, 2018, 08:28:58 AM
Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica

That is really something you have there Kris!

H.acutiloba pictures from the wild are so beautiful, and also Rick's picture!

Here H.nobilis has been flowering now for about a week, but it's been rainy so I don't have many pictures. Near where I live Hepaticas in the wild are not so big clumps, mostly only one or few flowers per a plant, but last weekend I was about 70 kilometres from us (in an area where the soil is known to be calcerous) and saw a lot of H.nobilis growing so well I've never seen before, in big clumps and everywhere. Sadly only blue ones and no doubles or anything more special. The most petals I've seen here in the wild have been nine in a flower, though mostly  six to eight.
This nice pale pink H.nobilis is growing in my garden.
In the second picture there are my seed grown H.japonicas on the right behind Crocus 'Blue Pearl'.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on May 04, 2018, 12:57:33 AM
Lovely Leena. This year I also didn't took that many Hepatica pictures because of the weather.
I have quite a few H. japonica seedlings now, I'll keep them in pots for one more year and then I'll see how they do in the garden.

Thanks for the comment Herman. They are just starting to flower now. I will have more in a week.
Gabriela the Hepatica looks more charming in the wild compared to garden .

I agree Kris, nothing compares with seeing them in the woods. It is the whole atmosphere that makes them look so beautiful and happy.

Let's enjoy some H. americana :)

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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: kris on May 04, 2018, 03:46:50 AM
Lovely :)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on May 05, 2018, 07:08:22 AM
Gabriela, so beautiful Hepaticas in the wild!
Your H.americana seedlings are doing fine here, I just pricked them to individual pots in April and they are now growing first real leaves. :) I'll plant them outside later in the summer.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on May 06, 2018, 12:54:36 AM
Gabriela, so beautiful Hepaticas in the wild!
Your H.americana seedlings are doing fine here, I just pricked them to individual pots in April and they are now growing first real leaves. :) I'll plant them outside later in the summer.

I am glad they are doing well Leena, so very cute when the show the true leaves :) I have so many Hepatica seedlings of all kinds now that I find no other solution than plant 2-3/pot or in large containers.

The variation in colour/form of Hepatica americana it is just incredible in the wild. Too bad that with the sudden heat wave it is a short flowering this year.
Just when I said I'm done with the scouting, one late flowering cutie showed up:
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on May 07, 2018, 04:31:51 PM
Our spring hepatica plant list will be available on our website from this evening:
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html (http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on May 07, 2018, 06:07:07 PM
Our spring hepatica plant list will be available on our website from this evening:
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html (http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html)

 Online now!!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on May 07, 2018, 07:30:10 PM
Is that an order, Maggi?  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on May 07, 2018, 08:10:08 PM
It sounds like it, doesn't it? Sorry about that - I do strongly advise attention though!  8) 8)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Carsten on May 08, 2018, 03:00:36 PM
Dear Hepatica growers,
instead of waiting an extra season for seedlings to germinate with the seed exchange in winter I can spread some Hepatcia nobilis seed now.

Sorry, only one portion of
'Giselle'  white
'Selma' salmon
'Tausendschön' blue multipetaled

and more then ten portions of
'Bavarian Blue' white with blue spots

Feel free to ask  ;)  and send a PM
Carsten
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on May 09, 2018, 10:03:29 AM
Some pictures of H.nobilis in my garden last week-end. I love the blue ones in a garden scene, no matter that they are an ordinary colour. You can't get that same blue from anything else, and also there are variations in the blues.

Also two pictures of H.japonica which I have grown from seed. 4-5 seeds germinated, and I planted the whole pot outside, but now I should separate each individual. I guess after flowering would be best, but I want to get seeds from these so I will have to wait until later. Or do you think they root better now than in the summer?
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Herman Mylemans on May 09, 2018, 10:17:52 AM
Some pictures of H.nobilis in my garden last week-end. I love the blue ones in a garden scene, no matter that they are an ordinary colour. You can't get that same blue from anything else, and also there are variations in the blues.

Also two pictures of H.japonica which I have grown from seed. 4-5 seeds germinated, and I planted the whole pot outside, but now I should separate each individual. I guess after flowering would be best, but I want to get seeds from these so I will have to wait until later. Or do you think they root better now than in the summer?
Leena, beautiful pictures and Hepatica's. If you want the seeds, I think it is best to wait till they are ready to sow.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on May 09, 2018, 10:29:06 AM
Thank you Herman. :) It would be best to have seeds to sow because you never know what next winter is going to be like though these plants have survived now for three winters.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: annew on May 10, 2018, 09:28:57 PM
The hepaticas look very 'at home' with you, Leena.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Leena on May 12, 2018, 08:13:37 AM
Thank you Anne.  :) Seeds I bought from you last summer have now germinated well, and it is nice to have even more variety to my H.nobilis in a few years.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on September 16, 2018, 02:45:18 PM
Is it fall or is it spring? :) Actually still summer on this part of Ontario.
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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on September 16, 2018, 07:58:17 PM
Is it fall or is it spring? :) Actually still summer on this part of Ontario.

 
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 Wow!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Joakim B on November 03, 2018, 01:44:23 PM
Wonderful to see all this lovely hepaticas
I am extra happy to see so many variants of the hardy ones
I am now finally having a possible place to plant my hepaticas where I actually can see them. I have mistreated them in pots so decided that better to plant them now when I have a place.
I would imagine that that south of o hedge with protection from any sun from the east by huge conifers is a ok habitat for them.
The soil is quite compact so will be mixed garden soil. It will be H. nobilis and H. transylvatica.
I will take them out of the pots as intact as possible so even if this might not be ideal time it should be possible.
If people already now sees that this is a huge risk and that it would be better to wait until spring please let me know as I plan to plant on Sunday.
Thanks for any thoughts on this
Kind regards
Joakim

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Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Gabriela on November 03, 2018, 09:11:52 PM
Hi Joakim,

From the perspective of my cold climate of Ontario, I would say better wait for spring. Of course that it is not impossible as you say; the major worry (in my region) would be
that they won't have time to settle down and the frost heaving will bring them up when no snow on the ground.

Another observation is that Hepaticas do better in locations where they receive plenty of sun in the spring when flowering and then get shaded for the rest of the season.
Usually in the wild they grow under deciduous trees shade.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2018
Post by: Joakim B on November 04, 2018, 12:38:38 PM
Thanks for the input Gabriela
My thinking was that the hedge would act as a partial shade during during spring. The hedge is a ribes of some sort so should give partial shade.
The other hope is that the intact soil and rots from the pots would keep them in the ground. Normally we only have not so strong ground freezing.
I will see if the forecast talks about if there will be continued warm weather so that rooting / integration in the ground could take place. I will also place a pine branch on top in case of strong freezing to slow down the freezing of the ground as the freezing generally is short.
Thanks
Now I know what to secure if I want to succeed with this.
Kind regards
Joakim
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