There was a Hepatica exebithion at the bothanical garden Munich on the weekend from 7th to the 9th of March as some of you may know. It was an exebithion with a show of many plants and some plants for sale as well as there were some lectures at satureday. I was there at Friday and Satureday and enjoyed the weekend I was long looking foreward to already.
I want to show you some of the impressions I got at the exebithion and tell yo something about it.
I got up pretty early to be there on time at 9 am and headed for Munich. As I stood in front of the gates of the (still not opened) bothanical garden it was even 15 minutes to early and I was the first one there. When it was 9 they opened the gates and I went in with some others that had gathered until than. I very fast went to the greenhouse in wich i knew the Hepaticas were located and the weekend begun
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A gorgeous private Hepatica collection was shown in pretty green colored claypots. I did not count them and it is hart to tell how many they were when everything you see are just flowers but I think there were about 100 showplants. Hepatica nobilis, transsilvanica, japonica, henryi, media, eurasiatica, schlyteri, asiatica, pubescens, maxima, pyrineica and insularis were shown in the greenhouse. Double, semidouble and singleflowered varieties.
Andreas Händel, as one of the Hepatica seller, brought some showplants himselve aswell. Beautiful xmedia and transsilvanica. He also sold some really nice Trillium cloropetalum and different adonis corydalis and Eranthis. But manly he sold his own collected and crossbreeded hybrids. He mainly grows completely hardy clones (well hardy to german winter so 6-7) and thats why he mainly sold Hepatica transsilvanica, like „Schwanensee“ or „Elison Spence“ nobilis like „Tausendschön“, xmedia like „Avatar“ or „Tausendschön“ and xeurasiatica like „Prof. Friedrich Hildebrand“ and „Rötgelbüttler Röschen“. He also sold his extremely beautifull and big book about the Hepatica that I can truly recommend to any Hepatica-friend, even if its written in german the photos are simply stunning. Andreas Händel sold his plants for very reasonable prices and gave plenty of good advise for free
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The second Hepatica-seller was Susanne Peters (Jürgen Peters was not there because of his health, but he is recovering already as I heard) from the great Nursery Alpine Peters. She is a very nice person and comes up with all her knowledge if it is to answer crossbreeding questions even if she mentioned that she is not so deep into Hepatica as her husband Jürgen.
Alpine Peters brought a lot of plants to sell. Beautiful and healthy plants. They cind of came up with the varietes that were still missing. They showed and sold (not all) Hepatica japonica (very many of them), asiatica (the simble white form), maxima (the simble white form), nobilis (doubles like „colonel typ.5“ and different blue plenas), pubescens like Tenjinbai and pyrineica and aswell the hybrids schlyteri like „Blue Max“, eurasiatica like „Mandy JP“ and media like „Babsi JP“.
They also sold Jürgen Peters book about Hepatica, wich I can also recommend even if the focus lays not so much on plantportraits. As well as they sold japanese Hepatica Magazines showing incredible latest crossings.
As you can imagine now a Hepatica enthousiast or even somebody new to Hepatica was in a flower paradise and very impressed by all thous beautys.
Sure I wont leave you without a photo of this spectacle, I will show you some now that you did or did not read my little introduction. Enjoy the photos wich I am happy to share with you!
You can see the plants for sale in the first pictures.
A.H Bücher - Andreas Händel's book
A.H Verkaufsstand - Andreas Händel's sales table
Japonica Verkaufstisch - H.japonica sales table
nobilis Verkaufstisch - H. nobilis sales table
pubescens u. nobilis Verkaufstisch
