Hepatica 2012

[ian mcenery]

Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on

[Hagen Engelmann]

A very nice display. Lovely colors.
Not only the sturdy white and green of galanthus.

[Maggi Young]

....... here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on.

Very nice Ian, not only good flowers but some well marked foliage too.

[Paul T]

Maggi,

I was going to say exactly the same thing.  Some nicely marked foliage in there, and a lovely range of flower colours.

[Diane Clement]

Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on

Are these my babies or yours Ian?

[Maggi Young]

Your hepatica babies are just through the ground here, Diane..... tiny, but healthy seedlings. 

[Diane Clement]

Your hepatica babies are just through the ground here, Diane..... tiny, but healthy seedlings. 

Oh, great! nice to hear.  I'd forgotten you'd had seed - was that 2010 harvest?

[WimB]

Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on

Are these my babies or yours Ian?

Speaking of your babies, Diane.  These are some of yours, sown in 2010 and they have flowered this year for the first time! 

[Maggi Young]

Oh, great! nice to hear.  I'd forgotten you'd had seed - was that 2010 harvest?

No Diane, these were  2011.

[Diane Clement]

Speaking of your babies, Diane.  These are some of yours, sown in 2010 and they have flowered this year for the first time!   

Oh, that's nice to see, they've done well, thanks for posting. 
Maggi, yours will be another year or two before we see the flowers!

[Maggi Young]

I rather think so, Diane, they are just little cotyledons through the soil at present.

[ian mcenery]

A very nice display. Lovely colors.
Not only the sturdy white and green of galanthus.

Hagen I didn't notice the snowdrop seedling until you mentioned it. These weeds get everywhere

[ian mcenery]

Some of the varieties shown here are amazing (and expensive) but here a few 2 year old seedlings that cost nowt and are still lovely. These will go out in the garden after flowering and a new batch brought on

Are these my babies or yours Ian?

Yes Diane some of them are from your seed so thanks and others were from my own plants.  .

[Janis Ruksans]

Three Hepatica nobilis forms selected from wild in Latvia by my friend Juris Egle - famous tulip breeder in Latvia. Many of his varieties are grown in large scale in Holland. You can find something about him on     
http://picasaweb.google.com/104093660717292700553

[tetsuo]

Nice yukiwarisou, Wim and Janis!
I post pics of ' Sakiwake'.  Sakiwake means two colours or forms in one plant.
Intermediate patterns will often appear.