Hepatica 2012

[fleurbleue]

A really little jewel Tetsuo 

[Maggi Young]

 Sweet flowers , super photos. 

[tetsuo]

Fleurbleue,I think same as you.Hepatica japonica is small
and pretty.
Maggie, thanks for reparing my posting. I will care hereafter.

[Maggi Young]

Dear Tetsuo,it is my pleasure to help. It is easy to make this small errors... they are of no importance. 

[Jonny_SE]

I have been thinking about the choice of names when it comes to diff. Hepatica nobilis..Who decide those names?...and when are they valid?..Like Magnolias they have to be registered....is it the same with Hepatica?..And how "special" does they have to be?...Many questions and maybe someone knows...I have mine by numbers..1,2.3 etc....mostly because i think they are too similar to others..or they are to mine....Jonny

[Lina Hesseling]

Jonny, these are very nice Hepatica's. My favorite one is number 3.
I don't have answers to your questions, sorry.

Lina.

[tetsuo]

 Nice Yukiwarisou, Jonny.

 There are many Hepatica which have familiar names.
 205 names have been registered from 1997 to 2011
by Japanese Hepatica Association.
 Their names are like nicknames.
 I think more 500 Hepatica are named by growers or nursery.
  There is no rule of naming.
  Many people grow nice Yukiwarisou and enjoy new nickname.

[kalle-k.dk]

Some leaves forms, almost as beautiful as the flowers 

[WimB]

Wonderful leaves, Karl! I love the frilly ones!

[Paul T]

Karl,

I think I've seen them from time to time here on the forums, but those leaves are amazing.  That lovely ruffled with the dark edges is to die for!!   Wow.

[kalle-k.dk]

Beautiful colour forms Ian, Wim, Jonny and Janis 

Paul; 1040645 - 647 - 652 is seedplants from my Hepatica nobilis Cremar 430. There are also many good leaf forms of Hepatica nobilis v. japonica and now when almost all in the glass house are finish with flowering, it is good to look at the leaves. There are still Hepatica in the garden with flowers. Hepatica nobilis v. japonica 'Arata' is one of my own cross. Right now I prick out in pots and I'm still not finished.

[Stephen Vella]

Jonny to answer your question about cv names and having them valid, if they are registared with an association, be published in a magazine or a nursery catalogue will simple do. Hope this helps

[Paul T]

Karl,

Your "Arata" is a beauty.  And those pink leaves in the first one are amazing.    Does anyone here in Australia who is reading this have any of these interesting leaf forms?

[WimB]

Wow, Karl. That 'Arata' 

[Hoy]

Can't compete with the pot-grown specimens!

I visited this wild population of Hepatica consisting of several 100 specimens today. About 30-40% of them are red and a few white also. No doubles though but I spotted a bicoloured white and blue (sorry no picture). The colour is deeper red (and blue) than shown. 50m from this population is another (not more than 50-100 specimens) but almost all are redflowered. 100m in another direction is a very big population of only blue specimens.