Hepatica 2012

[Lesley Cox]

1 part Akadama, 1 part Kanuma, 1 part Kyriou

What are these ingredients please? Not things I would find in the supermarket with the cocoa and coconut I presume.

[wolfgang vorig]

my Hepatica today

[Don B]

Our native hepatica here in central Iowa is H. nobilis acuta (acutiloba), which is very common in our woods, ranging normally from off white to pale blue. However, nearby on a limestone ridge I found a colony that showed deeper blue flowers, and several years ago collected some seed. The resulting plants are now maturing, and I'm pretty happy: the typical "blue" hepatica is shown on the top picture, a pretty nice blue is second, and then my prize last.

[Shadylanejewel]

Hi Don - Bingo is very very nice!  Looks like your "bluer" has some extra petals.

[Don B]

It does, and is really a more attractive flower. There is quite a bit of variation in my seedlings. Here is one that I assume has a virus, and will probably get the heave-ho:

[tetsuo]

Nice Yukiwarisou, Wolfgang and Don!
Don, I don't think that the Hepatica is infected with virus.

[WimB]

Don & Tetsuo, I don't know if they are virus infected but if you sow seeds from such plants, some of the seedlings will have the same characteristerics....and since most of the virusses are not transmitted by seed...I would doubt it is virus too, but you can't be sure until they've been tested!

[tetsuo]

Thanks for good advice,Wim.

My first impression is that Don's pic is attractive rare form of hepatica and not
viral(mycoplasma) infection.
For, the shape of petal seems to be natural and not curled. Though petals are a little a bit rounded.
Don,are there any chance of hybridisation ?
I have sometimes experienced of viral infecetion with Lilium ,Trillium and others. The symptom of infection
are often appeared at the leaves and petals or sepals.
I hope Don get seeds.then grow and propagate widely.

We call them " Shibori","Sakiwake", "Chimera"etc.

[Paul T]

Howdy All,

Just started catching up with the Hepatica area...... some of the stuff in here is breathtaking..... in fact most of it is.  Wow!!!!!!!!!  Absolutely amazing.

Tetsuo, the pics from the show are wonderful to see.  Such a wonderful opportunity to see what the top growers in Japan are producing, but the sale stands nearly had me in tears.  If only we could buy them.    We always want what we can't have.

As Lesley said, the same is for Janis Ruksan's catalogue, although I never look at that as I don't want to cry for days afterwards. 

Thanks so much to everyone who's posted pics here this topic.  So beautiful!!

[Ulla Hansson]

Don, I have a Hepatica 'Prickel' that looks like yours. It is very variable. Sometimes blue, blue white, white blue dots, half blue half white. When I seeds on it so the seedlings will be alike. Sorry, I have no picture.
 Sends a link to an image. Hope it works.
 http://shop.blomstergarden.se/func/img.php?id=2227

[Lina Hesseling]

A few Hepatica's in my garden today.

H. 'Blue Eyes'
H. 'Blue Jewel'
H. 'Willem's Blauw' (because Willem gave it to me without a name)

Lina.

[Don B]

It's nice to know my Hepatica acutiloba may just be flamboyant rather than ill (the foliage looks fine). I'll spare it. The reason I was particularly thinking disease was the greenish blotching on some of the flowers, which maybe shows up on a couple of these pictures. Every flower is different on the plant (these are all from this plant):

[Don B]

I managed to post post one picture twice- here is the other flower:

[mark smyth]

Hepatica 'Prickle' 

sadly my parent plant of H. 'Prickle' died over the winter but to my surprise I just noticed that it's seedlings flowering now, sown in 2009, are coming true from open pollinated seeds.

[mark smyth]

This was the parent this time last year or the year before