Hepatica 2008

[chris]

beautiful plants John.
I have 3 photos of my japanese plant I showed last year, you can see it on the old thread page nine, it looks almost a different plant. I have seen that with a lot of plants, if you divide the plant sometimes you have to wait one or two years to see the same flower. My japanese friend told me that in Japan they make divisions and than some doubles make singel flowers with pistels and pollen and than you can make some new crossings.

See here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=49.120
 Reply #125 on: February 27, 2007, 01:08:21 PM »

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful shades of pink Chris ! Gorgeous flowers.

Here's a simple H. nobilis from a batch of seedlings (Chris, you may recognize it...  ) - if flowers it's heart out on stems, barely 2 to 3 cm long - all the others from the batch have normal 8 to 10 cm stems.

Too bad I can't produce the blue in my pix as good as it looks like in the real world.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely, Luc and I'm sure I can exactly see the "proper" blue in my mind's eye

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Maggi,
Not with these sunglasses you can't 

[Paul T]

Great pics everyone.  John G ..... you must be pleased with those single seedlings.  Beautiful!!  The named doubles of course are spectacular, just so perfectly formed. 

[johngennard]

A few hours of warm sunshine is working wonders with the hepaticas.Hepatica pubescens 'Tenbingai' is not everybody's favourite because of its lax growth but to compensate it is very floriferlous and very pretty at close quarters.I show three pictures to demonstrate its habit.Apart from Benikanzan the others are grown from my own seed and for the sharp eyed you will notice petal damage.I purposely left these on to see if anyone else suffers this damage.I have had it for the last few years always on the earliest flowers and I suspect that it takes place while the flower is in bud as well as after the petals have expanded.I have tried various insecticides as well as surounding individual pots with sticky yellow card in case some insect was crawling up the pots i.e.earwigs but to no avail.Can anyone throw any light on to my problem?
I have botched up the picture postings and don't know how to remove the first two pictures but perhaps Maggie may come to the rescue ?

[johngennard]

The final picture shows a 3ltr.pot containing 15 seedlings sown in April 04 just starting to show their first flowers although one cannot judge them in their first couple of years.

[Rob]

John my favourite is the stripey purple from your own seed.

I've got no idea on the petal damage, it doesn't look bad enough to be a caterpillar or earwig crawling into the pot.

[chris]

beautiful plants John, especially the H.jap.'Benikanzan'. How old is your crossing H.yam.x H.jap.
here tree plants in my alpine house:2 japanese and one cross H.jap.x H.nobilis,
I saw some damage too on some of my plants, here I think it is the changing temperatures, in bud it was verry cold and the plants stopped growing for a while

[Maggi Young]

Hello, John, sorry to have kept you waiting, been busy elsewhere this evening..... I'll knock off the first pics for you now. Lovely Hepaticas.... saw the first in this area out with Lily dog this morning, about half a mile away, a garden with a huge old clump... could do with a bit of attention, since there are fewer flowers every year though the clump gets bigger.

[Maggi Young]

Chris, I am  excited about seeing what you will have to show us this year.... I hope they are all happy in their new hepatica house?!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Chris,
I find that Jap x nobilis cross verrrrrrrrrry beautiful indeed !  Great contrast

[gote]

Very beautiful and very early.
I have lost my "foreign" Hepaticas planted out in the garden.
This in spite of my tens of thousands native ones growing wild on the premises.
(Unfortunately they do not make the show they could since the deer eat them.)
It seems to me that the Japanese and Chinese Hepaticas do need pot culture in Europe.
It is a little strange since so  many other woodlanders from the area grow well in our woods.
Göte

[mark smyth]

all very nice looking. This year I plan to cross nobilis with maximus after seeing the lovely hybrid a year or two ago on the web site

[johngennard]

Chris,nice pics.I love the subtle colouring of 'Saichou'.Did you manage to firm up a visit to the Hepatica Day at Wisley in March ?