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Specific Families and Genera => Hepatica => Topic started by: Michael J Campbell on January 01, 2019, 09:01:03 AM
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Hepatica x media Harvington Beauty.
Hepatica transsilvanica.
Hepatica japonica sakuragari
Hepatica japonica seikai.
Hepatica japonica tosen
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Hepatica japonica purple.
Hepatic americana.
Hepatica japonica yuzuru
Hepatica japonica hokutosei.
Hepatica nobilis lavender purple
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Beautiful Hepatica's Michael! Your season starts early. Here in the garden there is also showing some new live in the Hepatica's.
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Great way to wake up on the 1st day of a New Year Michael !
All is dull and grey here - you're letting a ray of sunshine into 2019!
Exquisite selection !
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Fabulous Michael, ours are just starting too. We could do with some frost to slow them down.
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Best way to start the New Year with all these gorgeous Hepaticas! :)
It must be very mild in Ireland.
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Yes between 12 and 14°C here for the past couple of weeks. :)
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Heppy New Year! Mine are starting too :D
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News from Glenn Shapiro, a National Collection Holder, of an open day at Hazelwood Farm, Silverdale Lancashire LA5 0UB on Tuesday 19th March 2019 at 1pm in aid of Plant Heritage.
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Lovely Hepaticas Michael.
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Hepatica japonica deep pink.
Hepatica japonica Pink nidan saki.
Hepatica japonica green.
Hepatica Japonica yellow
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Hepatica japonica Pink seedling
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Just love seeing these beautiful hepaticas .
Angie :)
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A couple of Hepatica japonica seedling.
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Really pretty! :)
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A couple of Hepatica japonica seedling.
I love the contrasting white petals and purple stamens.
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Hepatica Japonica Kosi no maboroshi
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It looks hand-painted, lovely!
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A couple of Hepatica japonica seedling.
Are they both H. japonica?
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That's what I have on the label anyway. :)
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My seedlings have started to bloom but many flowers were eaten while they were still in bud. I manged to take some photos of the ones that were not too badly damaged...
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Some more...
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Peppa,
no wonder something decided to eat them - they look delicious! ;D
A real feast for the eyes!
cheers
fermi
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Peppa,
no wonder something decided to eat them - they look delicious! ;D
A real feast for the eyes!
cheers
fermi
Thanks Fermi for your kind comment! I'm always amazed how slugs and other pests can tell which ones are my favorites or the most expensive...
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Beautiful Hepatica's Peppa!
Probably all H. japonica?
Here in Belgium it is also always a struggle with the slugs.
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Peppa, did you find out what was eating the flowers?
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Last year I caught the culprit in act - unfortunately no good pic taken in a Swedish wood.
Beautiful variations, Peppa! Are You able to grow them outdoors?
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He's obviously using camouflage. Chameleon slugs ;)
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Beautiful seedlings, Peppa!
Still heavy snow in southern Bavaria but some flowers start in the greenhouse.
japonica seedlings
and two unnamed japonicas
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These are all seedlings from Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni'
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Carsten, very nice seedlings from Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni'!
Here it is at the moment to cold for the Hepatica's, the flowers stay closed.
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Carsten, beautiful seedlings! :) The white with red center is a really special one.
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Thank you Leena and Herman. It seems that the white with inner deep red is noticed to be most attractive. There are still some plants to share, so don´t hestitate to ask for. It´s been a large seed batch ;-)
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Nice seedlings, Carsten! Interesting to see your H. pubescens! I especially like the pure white with red pistils! My seedling is a softer pink than yours and it has just started to bloom.
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It's a bit of a stretch, but I don't manage to find pictures of Hepatica japonica leaves online and was wondering if they differ from those of Hepatica nobilis.
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Peppa, Hepatica pubescens are just lovely and so is your seedling.
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First seedlings from 2018 to appear and tiny seedlings of 2017 in flower 21 month after sowing ;-)
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bicoulored japonica 2pics
Hepatica japonica 'Tamamidori'
Hepatica japonica 'Touyama-shigure'
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Two very different seedlings of a cross with Hep. Jap. 'Shikouryuu'
and three seedlings out of a light rose japonica
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a good yellow japonica from rareplants
Hepatica japonica 'Kibani' very light yellow
unnamed japonica
Hepatica japonica 'Shiroi-hanten'
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It's a bit of a stretch, but I don't manage to find pictures of Hepatica japonica leaves online and was wondering if they differ from those of Hepatica nobilis.
Hi Geri, this website of Karl Kristensen will be of help to you ....
http://www.kalle-k.dk/Hepatica%20bladformer-Leaf%20forms.htm (http://www.kalle-k.dk/Hepatica%20bladformer-Leaf%20forms.htm)
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Hepatica nobilis 'Selma'
two nobilis findlings
Hepatica nobilis 'Maria Theresia' impossible for me to get the real deep violett on the picture
Hepatica nobilis seedling
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Really nice nobilis findings!
I like 'Selma's color, I hope the same color is in 'Selma's seedlings, which germinated well last spring. :)
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Plant Heritage Hepatica Event Tuesday 19th March with Glenn Shapiro's National Collection at Hazelwood Farm, LA5 0UB. Beautiful garden, expert knowledge and homemade cakes!
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Hi Geri, this website of Karl Kristensen will be of help to you ....
http://www.kalle-k.dk/Hepatica%20bladformer-Leaf%20forms.htm (http://www.kalle-k.dk/Hepatica%20bladformer-Leaf%20forms.htm)
Thank you Maggi, it's wonderful!
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Thank you Maggi, it's wonderful!
I thought you'd like that - Karl's website is a joy! We are so lucky to have such great members sharing their websites - and gardens- with us!
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I enjoyed looking though your pretty seedlings, Carsten! :D
It would be fun to visit Glenn's Hepatica event to see all her collection!
We are having a cold snap and actually we have had a decent amount of snow. So my propagation area is under snow, but here are some Hepatica I took before the snow started.
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Very impressing flowers in shape and colours. Thank you for sharing, Peppa!
To see the National Collection would be very desirable ...
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I’m really enjoying everyone’s photos — what beautiful tiny treasures! :)
Peppa, since you’re near me: any tips for growing them in our climate? Do you grow yours in pots to protect from rampaging slugs?
Thanks!
Kelly
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Thanks Carsten for your nice compliments! :)
Kelly, I have Hepatica planted both in pots and in the ground here, and they require less maintenance in the ground. I like to make crosses, which is why I keep many in pots. Hard to cross two plants in the ground on opposite sides of the yard. :)
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Peppa and Carsten, it is very nice to see your beautiful Hepatica's.
Most of my Hepatica's are outside in the garden and I am waiting for some sunshine, so that the flowers are more open.
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Thanks, Peppa — good to know! At least they won’t mind more snow either way!
Kelly
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Today a little bit of sun:
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they are really pretty ..
but why at home, the Hépatica are they still in the basal bud stage, while yours have been blooming for nearly a month?
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Dear Véronique, most of the pics shown are from potgrown plants. Mine are all placed in a frostfree greenhouse. And the climate with Peppa´s plants at the northwest cost of the US is much more maritime then ours.
Here some more flowers from the greenhouse ...
Hepatica japonica 'Ukigumo'
unnamed double japonica
another colourform of Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni' seedlings
and another two japonica seedlings
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Four different foundlings of Hepatica nobilis.
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Such beautiful foundlings, in different shades of blue and so many petals! :) Do you think they are fertile (pollen or seeds)?
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Leena, the first plant listed shows some anthers. Hopefully a few turn out to produce fertile pollen.
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Fingers crossed. :)
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A few Hepatica. the names are embedded in the pics.
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A few more.
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Last few.
Hepatica transsylvanica ' Elison Spence'
Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica 'Apple Blossom
Hepatica nobilis rubra plena.
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Beautiful collection Michael!
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what a difference - a raised bed outside and inside the greenhouse
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Seedling ex Hepatica japonica 'Touyama shigure' visual just as the mother plant but much more vigorous
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First time bloomer japonica seedling of 2017
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Three very special japonica forms - just a matter of taste
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Hepatica nobilis 'Prickel' and a promising semidouble for cross breeding
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what a difference - a raised bed outside and inside the greenhouse
Indeed a great difference Carstens! Here it was today 15°C and sun but in the morning we had some frost. So I hope to have some pictures of Hepatica in the coming days.
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Hepatica nobilis 'Prickel' and a promising semidouble for cross breeding
Indeed a very promising semidouble for cross breeding! I wish you good luck with it.
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So many beautiful Hepaticas, and a greenhouse filled with flowers! A little paradise on Earth :)
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Hepatica japonica, a seedling
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Just beautiful, Tatsuo!
Are you visiting any of the japanese Hepatica shows this year? I guess, some of us would have longing looks on your pics ;)
And three of my japonica seedlings
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Semidouble´s of Hepatica nobilis are still quite rare and very valuable for breeding double´s
A foundling I posted before
Hepatics nobilis 'Bergfexing'
and one of the 'Severine Strain' from Andreas Händel
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Top flowers, Carsten! Here "Bergfexing" has also a flower bud.
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Beautiful flowers everyone.
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Picotee Hepatica Nobilis.
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Hepatica japonica murasaki.
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Hepatica Maxima x nobllis lavender.
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You are having a good season with these, Michael.
The pictures from all members are lovely - these must be among the most photogenic little flowers!
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Can anyone tell me how to get hepaticas to release their pollen? I have lots of plants just begging to be pollinated but even if plants have functional stamens, the pollen won't seem to shed, even in the warm weather we have at present.
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Dear Anne, I´ve been told that you can extract the pollen by cutting the fully developed stamens with a scalpel. The pollen then should poor out directly. That does not mean that the pollen is fertile in any case. Good luck!
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I don't think I have that much time to spare! :o :o
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The weather forecasts are very favorable for next week. The Hepatica's will love it very much.
Today:
Hepatica nobilis
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra plena'
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Winterfreude'
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It is too warm here - I had to shade my greenhouse!! 8) 8)
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Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa 'Rosea'
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Hepatica henryi
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Alba'
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Rosea'
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I so enjoy all your hepatica pictures. Beautiful flowers, everyone. Mine have not really started yet except for a few.
1. 2015 I crossed H. maxima with H. nobilis 'Indigo strain' (Hepatica x schlyteri). Now the first flowers are beginning to show.
2. H. nobilis var. japonica 'Ginrin'. (From a very generous hepatica enthusiast.)
3. H. nobilis var. japonica 'Houkan' and
4. H. nobilis var. japonica 'Sadobeni' (from another very generous forum member).
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I so enjoy all your hepatica pictures. Beautiful flowers, everyone. Mine have not really started yet except for a few.
1. 2015 I crossed H. maxima with H. nobilis 'Indigo strain' (Hepatica x schlyteri). Now the first flowers are beginning to show.
2. H. nobilis var. japonica 'Ginrin'. (From a very generous hepatica enthusiast.)
3. H. nobilis var. japonica 'Houkan' and
4. H. nobilis var. japonica 'Sadobeni' (from another very generous forum member).
Gunilla, your crossing looks very promising!
I have also see some interesting plants between the Hepatica's sown in 2015. Seeds came from a friend who has a lot of different Hepatica's in his garden. So there will be crossings among them.
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Now it will be waiting for the leaves.
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland is going to start.
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Magnificent, Herman!
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I have also see some interesting plants between the Hepatica's sown in 2015. Seeds came from a friend who has a lot of different Hepatica's in his garden. So there will be crossings among them.
Exciting! I see the pollen is ready :)-
Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland is going to start.
It is such a nice plant. The one you sent me is doing fine but I have to wait before it starts to flower.
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Herman, how fabulous nobilis plena! :)
Gunilla, so nice different colours and forms in Hepatica. :)
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Just beautiful, Tatsuo!
Are you visiting any of the japanese Hepatica shows this year? I guess, some of us would have longing looks on your pics ;)
Thanks, carstens! I didn't go to the show this season, sorry.
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Hepatica japonica, another seedling.
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Hepatica japonica, another seedling.
:o :o :o What a tremendous seedling Tatsuo !! Wonderful !
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Some that flowered or are still fowering over the next few weeks for me :
1-2 Unnamed Hepatica japonica with flower power !
3 - Hepatica japonica 'Hakurin'
4-5 - Hepatica pyrenaica x H. japonica
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Thank you for sharing your wonderful treasures. Own seedlings are always so exiting!
In 2016 I got some F2 nobilis seed from Gunhild Poulsen prepared for filled flowers.
Semidouble first time bloomers ...
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Within Hepatica nobilis there exist different forms of spotted flowers.
Heptica nobilis 'Bavarian Blue'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Prickel'
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Hepatica nobilis 'Finnish Flag'
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Two seedlings ex. Freckles
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One of my seedlings of Freckles shows a spotted flower besides a plain-colored...
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... and a light form ex 'Freckles'
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Outside in a raised bed I grow some unnamed single forms of Hepatica nobilis var. japonica.
Unfortunately the weather is not at it´s best to let the flowers open fully.
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Last year I visited Kolding plant market in Denmark. I got this beautiful plant from Gunda Kristensen, a very fine semidouble nobilis and likely with fertile pollen.
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Five different nobilis doubles. The last in the row is 'Borgholm' and it´s from a very generous forum member.
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Gunilla showed her beautiful dark blue Hepatica xschlyteri the other day. In 2015 I did a cross with Hepatica maxima, too. One with Hepatica nobilis 'Bavarian Blue' and one with Hepatica nobilis var. 'Touyama shigure' witch are both spotted cultivars. Unfortunately the flowers of the crosses are plain-colored. I wonder if the F2 cross could show the desired form? Any ideas?
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And finally a japonica cultivar of it´s own, 'Yumeno hana'
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Beautiful Hepatica's Carsten! Your F2 crossing looks very promising. You probably now that flowers still can change during the first years. So you need to be patient, but that makes it exciting.
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Today I was on a Hepatica show in Kalmthout (Belgium) and saw some beautiful things. These crossings have very big flowers!
Hepatica x schlyteri 'Blue Max'
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Hepatica x schlyteri 'Certse'
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In 2015 I did a cross with Hepatica maxima, too. One with Hepatica nobilis 'Bavarian Blue' and one with Hepatica nobilis var. 'Touyama shigure' witch are both spotted cultivars. Unfortunately the flowers of the crosses are plain-colored. I wonder if the F2 cross could show the desired form? Any ideas?
I don't know but it is worth a try. I would have thought that something of the blue from the spotted forms would show in the crosses but apparently not. I think your plain coloured are nice but a big spotted Hepatica x schlyteri would be spectacular :).
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Today I was on a Hepatica show in Kalmthout (Belgium) and saw some beautiful things. These crossings have very big flowers!
I envy you, Herman. It must have been lovely to see all the beautiful Hepatica. I wish we had something like that here too.
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I wonder if the F2 cross could show the desired form? Any ideas?
By the way, Carsten, do you think your crosses are fertile? Most Hepatica x schlyteri are not. Some of my seedlings from the cross between H.maxima and H. noiblis have lots of pollen and others have undeveloped stamens with no pollen at all. They may all be infertile, it is impossible to know until you have tried to pollinate them.
If you want a spotted cross and if your plants are fertile it may be better to back cross them with the spotted nobilis again. I am just speculating ::).
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Today some more pictures from the show. There were a lot of Hepatica japonica forms but I am more interested in Hepatica's for the garden.
There was also made a small garden with Hepatica japonica.
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Some more.
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I love the small show garden with Hepatica and logs and mosses.
Carsten, you have really nice doubles and semidoubles and H.japonica seems to thrive outside in your garden, such big clumps!
H.nobilis 'Finnish Flag' is something which is not known in Finland. Last year I asked around and no-one had heard of it here, but it proves that it could be possible to find that kind of plants here in the nature. I have to keep on looking. :) Perhaps populations where there are both white and blue forms could give that kind of spotted flowers? Although white ones are quite rare here, I know only one place in the wild with white ones.
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Herman, thanks for your impressions of the show. Very aesthetic presentation!
Leena, the japonicas do work very well for me in the garden. But this is only the second winter outside and therefore you can´t be sure how it works in the long run. I lost one plant out of some 15 and those remaining developed much better then those in pots in the greenhouse.
'Finnish Flag' should be from Mikael Ahlgren from Finland. I got it from a generous forumist from Sweden and it is also called 'Finska Flaggan'. In my view spotted flowers are not a combination of the two colors, e.g. white and blue, but a mutation that often stays stable propagated by seed.
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Gunilla, back crossing might be a good idea. Thank you! But in this case only 25% of maxima will remain in the cross.
There are fertile x schlyteri crosses but many also won´t work for further crossings. I will try to find the fertile ones between my seedlings ;)
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On Saturday at Loughborough Show we had nowhere to put our 6 Hepaticas except Class 1. Amazingly we won a first and the Sewell Medal. We thought you Hepatica lovers might like to see them.
Back row from L to R Hepatica japonica, H.j. Gyousei, H.j.Ryougetsu,
Front row from L to R H.j.Mount Fuji, H.j. Toki, H.j. Blue Sandan
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Well done Shelagh and Brian! Very nice they are too!
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Hepatica asiatica
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On Saturday at Loughborough Show we had nowhere to put our 6 Hepaticas except Class 1. Amazingly we won a first and the Sewell Medal. We thought you Hepatica lovers might like to see them.
Got this photo from Facebook - it's of Shelagh and Brian Smethurst with their winning six- pan of Hepaticas - photo is by their old chum forumist JohnnyD ( John Dower)
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So many beautiful Hepaticas to admire here :)
Thanks for showing pictures from the Kalmthout show Herman. It would be well worth of a visit one year.
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Greetings from B.C. I was wondering which hepatica this one is ... having difficulty to paste the image. It is the deep blue nodding hepatica from this site: http://www.srgc.org.uk/nurseryws/040404/content.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/nurseryws/040404/content.html) 5th image down. I would like to try and find it here in the Vancouver lower mainland or try to find it's seeds. Thank you.
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Greetings from B.C. I was wondering which hepatica this one is ... having difficulty to paste the image. It is the deep blue nodding hepatica from this site: http://www.srgc.org.uk/nurseryws/040404/content.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/nurseryws/040404/content.html) 5th image down. I would like to try and find it here in the Vancouver lower mainland or try to find it's seeds. Thank you.
Hi! And welcome to the Forum!
I think this is the one you like......
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Ian Christie just has that image labelled as "Hep. darkest blue " so I think it is simply one of the seedlings he had raised. I'm drawing his attention to this post in case he can help with a name - of course others may be able to suggest one for you that is similar!
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Note from Ian C -
"Hello, The picture shows Hepatica nobilis which are very variable from seed - this is one which we grew years ago and now have so many both inside and in the garden.
Perhaps one of the best new H nobilis blue flowers is 'BIBO'
I could collect some seed later if this is any use, cheers Ian "
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Today it was here good weather for Hepatica's.
Hepatica nobilis Multipetala Group
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Hepatica nobilis plena from Gotland
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Hepatica nobilis 'Perrine's Pink'
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Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica 'Alba'
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Elison Spence'
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Hepatica transsilvanica 'Rosabell'
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Hepatica x media ‘Buis’
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Hepatica x media 'Millstream Merlin'
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Catching up with the thread... It is very interesting to see your Freckles's seedlings, Carsten! And it seems like you added nice nobilis to your breeding program! :)
Nice Hepatica, Herman, they are pretty and look great!
We had a record-breaking cold February but now the temperatures are warming up. My Hepatica in the ground are blooming and I have lots of nice flowers from the seedlings.
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Here are some seedlings I'm excited about. :)
All japanese hepatica except for the last one, which is H. acutiloba.
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Great Hepatica's Peppa! Your Hepatica acutiloba is very impressive, is it found in the wild?
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Thanks Herman! The acutiloba is one of my selections that I have been growing from seed. Unfortunately, I lost the parent plants but their seedlings came out very nice.
This is another sibling.
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Peppa, it is a pity that you lost your original plant. But the seedlings are also very promising.
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Hepatica x schlyteri (Blue Marble Group)
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So many beautiful plants around!
More flowers appear at my plant of Hepatica nobilis 'Finnish Flag' and all are different.
I managed to get 4 on one picture.
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Two Hepatica japonica cultivars in a quite sunny and windy spot outside. Not the best position to place them but they do fairly well.
'Shirayuki' and 'Toki' ...
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It seems that the excellent Hepatica nobilis 'Andersen's Dream' is quite tricky in culture and/or not availlable at all. So I'am very happy having grown some F2 seedlings of a cross witch is from Gunhild Poulsen's seeds.
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Outside in a raised bed
A group of Hepatica insularis
and a closer look
Hep. nobilis plena #44
Hep. nobilis 'Czech Form'
Hep. japonica
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Carstens, you have a VERY BIG collection of beautiful Hepatica's!
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Carstens, you have a VERY BIG collection of beautiful Hepatica's!
Indeed ,Carstens, I agree with Herman! And thank you for sharing the photos with us! You seem to have great success with their cultivation, while others can struggle with them - what is your advice ?
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In my view it´s quite easy to satisfy the needs of Hepaticas. They are classic woodlanders of deciduous habitats, even survive in quite dense coniferouse forests. They often grow on slopes and seem to like good drainage. This in mind they will grow easily under hedges or deciduous shrubs and trees. They respond well for a frequent topping of leaf-mould. They will show their full beauty in a sunny spot in spring before the new foliage appears. After flowering they like to be shaded and can cope drought if fully established. They like humidity and are best untouched in their spot - self sowing is more likely as if you clean the area to frequently.
In pots give them a free draining compost and repot every year with the new roots starting to grow after the summer rest - Sep-Nov. I start to shade the greenhouse in February and finaly up to 70% in late March when the new foliage developes - so much earlier then outside.
John Massey of Ashwood Nurseries published a small leaflet of the culture of Hepaticas with is consicely and especially for the UK grower. He recommends a mix of equal parts of John Inns No. 2, bark or leaf-mould and perlite. My compost consists of equal parts of 'Einheitserde' (peat based standard mix), shredded and composted coniferous needles/branches and pumice. I use deep pots like those for Galanthus and add some drainage of pumice, lava and zeolite. (I know that this kind of drainage is controversial) Whatever mix you use, it must be free draining and don´t compress the compost to firmly when repoting. The buds should be above the compost but not too high as the new roots grow from the base of the bud every year. Older plants grown outside in a tidy garden often grow out of the ground as new organic matter is removed.
Maggi, if I was a Hepatica, your garden would be the right place for me ;)
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Whatever mix you use, it must be free draining and don´t compress the compost to firmly when repoting. The buds should be above the compost but not too high as the new roots grow from the base of the bud every year. Older plants grown outside in a tidy garden often grow out of the ground as new organic matter is removed.
Thank you Carsten to putting together the requirements of Hepatica. :) Most of it I remembered but I hadn't thought of that the new roots grow from the base of the bud every year, and I should also check the plants growing outside that they don't grow out of the ground. Though I don't tidy too much, usually I add more mulch every year, and I think I may have lost self sown seedlings to putting too much mulch on top of them/on top of the seeds. When the seedlings are bigger they are easier to see.
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Greetings from B.C. I was wondering which hepatica this one is ... having difficulty to paste the image. It is the deep blue nodding hepatica from this site: http://www.srgc.org.uk/nurseryws/040404/content.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/nurseryws/040404/content.html) 5th image down. I would like to try and find it here in the Vancouver lower mainland or try to find it's seeds. Thank you.
Hello again, Monica - Ian Christie is has been trying to make contact with you be the email address you have registered to the Forum - without success - can you contact me via the forum please, with your address etc. Maggi
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Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler' is starting to flower!
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Nice to see all the flowers
Mine in flower are Hepatica transylvanica normal and Elison Spence
I am very positively surprised with E:S as it is much darker in bud almost purple. In pictures it tend to be quite pale blue
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Elison Spence
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I am very positively surprised with E:S as it is much darker in bud almost purple. In pictures it tend to be quite pale blue
Yes, Joakim. That is my experience too. H. transsilvanica 'Elison Spence' starts as a dark purple bud and then gets more light blue as it matures.
For some years I have grown a double Hepatica nobilis called 'White Eye' . The flowers have been all blue and I couldn't understand why it was called White Eye. This year I know :)
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Yes, Joakim. That is my experience too. H. transsilvanica 'Elison Spence' starts as a dark purple bud and then gets more light blue as it matures.
For some years I have grown a double Hepatica nobilis called 'White Eye' . The flowers have been all blue and I couldn't understand why it was called White Eye. This year I know :)
Gunilla, 'White Eye' is very nice!
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Hepatica nobilis var. insularis
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I have enjoyed all the beautiful hepaticas shown in the forum. I specially love the double blue.
In Saskatoon H.transsilvanica performs better than nobilis.
Here are 3 pictures taken today in the garden.
1.Hepatica transsilvanica
2.Hepatica transsilvanica alba
3. Hepatica nobilis
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I have enjoyed all the beautiful hepaticas shown in the forum. I specially love the double blue.
In Saskatoon H.transsilvanica performs better than nobilis.
Here are 3 pictures taken today in the garden.
1.Hepatica transsilvanica
2.Hepatica transsilvanica alba
3. Hepatica nobilis
Hi Kris, very nice clumps of Hepatica's, here the Hepatica season is gone. The leaves are showing now.
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I have enjoyed all the beautiful hepaticas shown in the forum. I specially love the double blue.
In Saskatoon H.transsilvanica performs better than nobilis.
Here are 3 pictures taken today in the garden.
1.Hepatica transsilvanica
2.Hepatica transsilvanica alba
3. Hepatica nobilis
Hi Kris,
both of your transilvanicas are very impressing! I have never seen them flowering so densly before.
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Thank you Herman and Cartsens.
Somehow the ordinary Hepaticas like our climate.
I can't get the doubles or rare ones here. No nursery in North America sells them. My only way to get them is by seeds. I have some of them through the donation of some kind forumist. They are little late and they are not as floriferous as the ones posted above.
My dream plant is the H.nobilis double blue.
Hepatica nobilis double pink is available here and it is still in buds.
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I have enjoyed all the beautiful hepaticas shown in the forum. I specially love the double blue.
In Saskatoon H.transsilvanica performs better than nobilis.
Here are 3 pictures taken today in the garden.
1.Hepatica transsilvanica
2.Hepatica transsilvanica alba
3. Hepatica nobilis
They are incredible beautiful Kris! I don't understand how they are in flower though; is this early spring warmer in SK than in ON maybe?
The transsilvanica seedlings from your seeds are doing very well :) they didn't flowered but next year for sure. They started to grow in the garage together with some japonica seedlings in late February and I had to use LED lights but it's been a good experience.
Before the natives start flowering I should post few pictures from my mini-collection of japonica and nobilis - all started from seeds received from a kind forumist 3 years ago. I am very happy not just because they flower and are beautiful, but also because I know now it is possible to grow and flower them well. Some flowered inside my frost free garage and few that were left in the cold frames outdoors are flowering now.
The start:
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Hi Gabriela Saskatoon is always colder than your province.
This year not many fluctuations.Spring started may be a week ago. These hepaticas are early. I have a few more still developing flower buds.
Unfortunately we can't grow H.japonica here. I am anxiously waiting for the Hepatica seeds I got from you to germinate..
I have a few H Americana and acutiloba but they are not out. Somehow the transsilvanica is very robust here.
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Hi Gabriela Saskatoon is always colder than your province.
This year not many fluctuations.Spring started may be a week ago. These hepaticas are early. I have a few more still developing flower buds.
Unfortunately we can't grow H.japonica here. I am anxiously waiting for the Hepatica seeds I got from you to germinate..
I have a few H Americana and acutiloba but they are not out. Somehow the transsilvanica is very robust here.
Yes, that's what I knew Kris. Just that the transsilvanica made me think otherwise :)
The blue one with patterned leaves is a H. nobilis actually. It is nice to have one extra month of flowering Hepaticas! The LED lights are very efficient and economic, I highly recommend.
With patience the seeds will germinate. The H. acutiloba - pastel mix and the pure white are just starting to germinate outdoors and few other seeds samples I placed under lights are long germinated (not that I need more seedlings....).
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Kris, your H.transsilvanica is wonderful.
Mine has never formed so tight clump, but it is also the first to flower here and spreads well.
Two H.japonicas which were flowering in my polytunnel. I'm going to plant these outside this week end now that the coldest nights seem to be over. These are so so pretty! Out my own seed grown H.japonicas are in bud and have survived outside now for four winters.
Also H.nobilis is already flowering in the warmest spots but in my woodland bed they are still in bud.
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Kris, your H.transsilvanica is wonderful.
Mine has never formed so tight clump, but it is also the first to flower here and spreads well.
Two H.japonicas which were flowering in my polytunnel. I'm going to plant these outside this week end now that the coldest nights seem to be over. These are so so pretty! Out my own seed grown H.japonicas are in bud and have survived outside now for four winters.
Also H.nobilis is already flowering in the warmest spots but in my woodland bed they are still in bud.
Super nice japonicas Leena!
Yes, I will most surely plant some of the seedlings in the ground. Growing from seeds gives us this great opportunity to try/keep the plants in different locations.
I also do this with other species when I'm not that sure what conditions they like.
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very nice ones. pity I can't grow H.japonica here.
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comparatively warmer weather here and lots of plants are emerging from the ground.
Here are 4 Hepatica pictures taken two days ago
1.Hepatica Ellison spence
2. Hepatica nobilis pink
3.Hepatica nobilis white
4.Hepatica transsilvanica pink
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Very nice Hepatica's Kris!
Here are some leaves from Hepatica asiatica.
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beautiful shiny leaves Herman. Do they flower and what is the origin of this plant?
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Kris, Hepatica asiatica flower was in March. I have found the plant on a market in Belgium. John Massey (Ashwood nursery) says that it comes from the Provinces of Anhui, Henan, Liaoning, S.E. Shaanxi and Zhejiang. It has now survived one winter. We will see what happens in the future.
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Thanks Herman
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Hepaticas really love your garden, Kris.
Herman, also I love H.asiatica leaves.
Some H. transsilvanica in my garden.
'Blue Eyes'
'Rosea'
And 'Alba' which I have grown from seed and this is the first time it flowers.
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A new raised bed I made for my H.japonicas.
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Very nice. We can't grow H.Japonica here. :(
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Can anyone tell me what are differences in H.nobilis and H.americana (how they look)?
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Can anyone tell me what are differences in H.nobilis and H.americana (how they look)?
Leena, it is not easy because there are a lot of different leave forms.
Hepatica nobilis the lobes are more heart-shaped
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Hepatica americana (Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa) the lobes are more kidney-shaped.
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Thank you Herman for the pictures of leaves! I have some H.americana seedlings waiting to be planted, and I was wondering if I plant them close to H.nobilis, am I going to identify them later or am I going to mix them up if I forget which one is which.. :)
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Can anyone tell me what are differences in H.nobilis and H.americana (how they look)?
Sorry I didn't see this Leena. I think I've posted few leaves images at one time.
Things are not that simple; leaves in Hepatica americana can vary greatly in size, lobes shape, pubescence (can look just like the nobilis Herman posted it).
I would say to plant them well labelled. Here's the description for H. americana from Flora of North America.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500049 (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500049)
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On hepatica foliage from Gabriela....
2015 : www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12570.msg345260#msg345260 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12570.msg345260#msg345260)
2016: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13919.msg356949#msg356949 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13919.msg356949#msg356949)
and starting here 2017 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14988.msg383716#msg383716 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14988.msg383716#msg383716)
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Thank you Gabriela and Maggi.
Hepaticas seem to be quite difficult to identify, but all are beautiful!
This May has been colder and so even today there are still some flowers in my H.nobilis (grown in woodland bed) and at the same time the earliest seed pods in the same plants are ripening any day now. I have put small acryl bags over the seed pods to help catch the seeds. :)
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Our Dryad Nursery fresh seed list containing hepatica and galanthus seeds should be ready by this evening and will be sent to all those on our email list.
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Some of the plants of Hepatica pubescens ex 'Hohobeni', planted last spring, have put up single flowers now.
I hope they still prepare themselves for the winter well. This is so pretty, I can already imagine what it would look like with lot of flowers. :)
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Leena, it is very pretty. The one I have (maybe a sibling?) has also started to flower and I am very pleased with it :).
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Gunilla, it looks just the same. :) Funny that these both had flowers already now, maybe it was the move in the spring.
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Haven´t been online for a while. Dear Leena und Gunilla, very nice to see that my seedlings do so well in the north.
Mine are more reasonable and wait for spring ;)
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Dear Leena und Gunilla, very nice to see that my seedlings do so well in the north.
Mine are more reasonable and wait for spring ;)
Carsten, they are so nice! All other of my Hepaticas also wait for spring, but almost all H.pubescens- seedlings have tried to put up a flower in the autumn. I think it may be that when it started to rain in August after a very dry summer (and planted out in spring, though I had watered them), the plants think now is new spring. ::) Next year they may flower more in the right time :). Now I'm hoping for a mild winter, and when the cold comes I will put dry oak leaves around the plants to protect them.
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Carsten, they are lovely and I hope they will flower in spring also. I have no idea why Leena's and mine both flower at the same time out of season. Apparently something has triggered them to start early.
Most of my plants out in the garden are covered with leaves now, ready for the winter. When I looked under the cover I found buds and flowers on several H. transsilvanica. They are not as well behaved as yours ;).
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All being well, our hepatica plant list will go live around 6.30 pm on Saturday 2 November. You will have ONE WEEK to order as I need to get these in the post quickly. The list will not be on the website, so please message me if you wish to receive our list by email.
UK and EU orders only.
Many items are in very limited numbers, so you will have to be very quick!
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Our H. hohobeni is pink. You have got me thinking now.
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I had to search through my files but his is our Hepatica hoho beni earlier this year.
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I had to search through my files but his is our Hepatica hoho beni earlier this year.
Shelagh, I think your plant is Hepatica japonica 'Hoho Beni' and not Hepatica pubescens 'Hohobeni'!
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You are absolutely right Herman, sorry.