Hepatica nobilis in our forests

[Gerry Webster]

Welcome Natalia & many thanks for sharing the beautiful Hepatica photos. I look forward to seeing more from you.

[annew]

I also enjoy your photos, Natalia. I understand your English very well. It is much better than my Russian!

[ranunculus]

Welcome Natalia ... lovely images.

[Diane Whitehead]

Natalia, do the double flowers grow near each other?

[arillady]

Natalia,
Welcome and thank you so much for sharing your photos - -48 in winter - I think I will stay in Australia where winters are very mild - no snow.

[Natalia]

Thanks for responses, I am glad that you liked my photos.

Diane, we have found a place in wood where double flowers Hepatica different shades and forms was about 10 copies. Hepatica plants of different age and colour.  But all in lilac-blue range of colors.

arillady, such temperatures, to huge happiness, at us it is very rare. Though every winter there are some weeks when the temperature falls more low-30oC

[Hoy]

Natalia, I like those liverworts! (... and I don't mean the moss...) At my summerhouse Hepatica nobilis plants are common but I have never seen anything like your plants there. Whites and pinks are common but not those colours of your plants. Maybe you have windflower (Anemone nemorosa) and fumeworts  (Corydalis sp.) in your wood? You know, I am interested in woods as I have a woodland garden myself.

Here are some of "my" Hepatic nobilis plants:

[Natalia]

Hoy, Thanks!
In our forests you can find brightly colored plants Hepatica nobilis, but I do not find such. Next spring I'll go look for - maybe you are lucky

At us in forest is grow Corydalis solyda, Anemone ranunculoides. In 100-200 km from us forests is Anemone nemorosa and Corydalis cava = С bulbosa.
 We have found different, including double Anemone ranunculoides form and shape with reddish leaves, but variation of this species I was not looking. Anemone nemorosa grows from our town pretty far so it's hard to look for interesting shapes ....

About 10 years ago I has casually found the first population Corydalis solyda with different colouring of colours. And then and some more places with multi-coloured plants. If it is interesting - I can show the found plants... Only prompt in what section it better to lay out.

[Maggi Young]

Natalia, it would be nice to see the Corydalis in a new thread you could make in this section...  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?board=11.0     

[Natalia]

Maggi, thanks!
I while badly am guided at a forum

[Maggi Young]

No need to worry, Natalia.... with a Forum as big as this is it easy to get lost! 

I read every word and sometimes I have no idea where to find certain things! 

[Natalia]

Thanks, Meggi! In such abundance of interesting themes even to lose the way well...

[cohan]

thanks natalia for these pictures-- all the hepatica are lovely, though i seem to like the pale ones and pink..
do you know, is anyone selling seed of these natural forms from your region?

trond, yours are lovely too--we have no hepatica here naturally, and i do not yet have any unnaturally--i have some seeds sown since 09, i hope maybe next spring there will be some activity, but i will be hunting for more seeds either way! i am very jealous of the riches of the great deciduous forest, very different here in the mixed/boreal forest-almost no spring flowers in the woodlands!

[Hoy]

Cohan, we have deciduous forests along the coast but the inland is covered by the boreal spruce and mixed forest. The liverwort (Hepatica) also grows naturally in spruce forest but the soil has to be calcareous.
Here are two pics from an island with deciduous forest where I often walk in summer.
A large part is hazelwood (cobnut)(1) and in spring it is covered first by liverworts and later by windflowers and lesser celandines.
(2) Oak and hazel (cobnut) and windflower (Anemone nemorosa).

[Natalia]

cohan, аt us Hepatica grow not in deciduous wood, and in wood from pines and fur-trees with a deciduous underbrush.Soils in the forests, sandy, acidic.

Hoy, what a great forest!
Such oak groves grow to the south approximately on 100 kilometres:)

Trond, that's what I said anemone - has red veins, but it blooms like a normal form.