Hepatica 2014

[Anne Repnow]

Saw my first opening flower-bud of Hepatica transsylvanica 'Winterfreude' today! Our winter has been mild so far - usually they bloom later in my garden.

[Gunilla]

I'm a little worried now. The weather is mild here too, hardly any frost so far. Many of my plants, both nobilis and transsilvanica have buds that are beginning to show colour.  What will happen when the cold comes? I can't remember having hepatica flowering this early any time before.

[Anne Repnow]

We had this problem in January/February 2012: After very mild weather until the middle of January the temparatures dropped to -18 degrees C. Some of my Hepaticas (particularly the red filled ones) were in flower. The blooms were destroyed, but after it became milder again in the end of february new blooms appeared. None of the plants were destroyed.

[Gunilla]

That's good to know, Bolinopsis and if we are lucky we get a nice snow cover before the temperature drops.

[Yann]

Hepatica nobilis 'Tamsa', i love this robust cultivar.

[Yann]

Hepatica nobilis 'Cobalt', a well know cultivar

[Uwe]

Hello,
i have cross follow:
 yamatutai x transsilvanica blue. I hope in few weeks these plants are in flower:

[Anne Repnow]

That looks very promising, Uwe. Hope we'll see some photos then!

Isn't this a sight for sore eyes?
Hepatica nobilis 'Alba Plena' (Type Schlyter) - obviously doing very well

[Auricular]

From 7. -9. March 2014 will be the Exhibition

"Welt der Leberblümchen"
(Hepatica World)

at Munich Botanical Garden

Saturday, 8. March there are some interesting lectures about Hepatica

[KK-Ann Arbor]

What a lovely poster!
Thanks for posting the info.

Koko

[kalle-k.dk]

Uwe I've made the same cross, but I use Hepatica yamatutai marbled form. As you can see the flower is blue, like  transsilvanica and the leaf like yamatutai. I have also made a cross between Hepatica yamatutai x Cremar, I still not know how the flower look.


    Hepatica yamatutai marbled form x Hepatica transillvanica 1
    Hepatica yamatutai marbled form x Hepatica transillvanica 2
    Hepatica yamatutai marbled form x Hepatica transillvanica 3
    Hepatica yamatutai x Cremar

[kalle-k.dk]

The first two, 2014, flowers of my own filled Hepatica nobilis cross, Both, I have made from seeds a few years ago, both with names from the Nordic mythology.

Hepatica nobilis 'Balder'
 Hepatica nobilis 'Ydun'.

[Anne Repnow]

Absolutely gorgeous, Karl! What a wonderful deep purplish blue.

[Uwe]

Very nice ,Karl!!!

[Garry Edwards]

My First Hepatica of the season bought in the frost free tunnel 5 weeks ago and now flowering.

-30 this morning but at least the sun is out.