Hepatica 2008

[Maggi Young]

Gunhild, are you sure these are real flowers and not pretty icing sugar confections that you have sculpted?? 
The H. pubescens with the pink edge is glorious.

[art600]

Gunhild

The hepaticas are exquisite and your website needs hours to fully enjoy.  What a wonderful garden

[Maggi Young]

The hepaticas are exquisite and your website needs hours to fully enjoy.  What a wonderful garden

I agree, Arthur 
 Can I take this chance to remind readers to keep an eye open  to spot Forumists' website addresses, usually shown in the 'signature'  area to the foot of a post .... like this is Gunhild's case:
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http://www.gtpoulsen.dk
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or in the case of Chris  Vermeire:
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Chris Vermeire
www.veen-helleborus.be
Zomergem
Belgium
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Many Forumists have extensive websites, showcasing their gardens or special plant interests  or even Nurseries  and these constitute a useful resource - I commend them to you 

[johanneshoeller]

The typical Austrian Leberblümchen. Lots of them are growing  behind my house and the photos show wild grown seedlings from them in my garden. The last one is growing in concrete!

[johngennard]

Here are a few pics.taken in my hepatica house to-day.

[Lvandelft]

WOW, these are THE pots. Very, very beautiful.

Would you like to show us the Prunus? as well.
It looks like you have them there to make a little shade over
the Hepatica's.

[mark smyth]

John what are the Prunus and how do you get them to flower so well?

I Ashwoods yesterday I picked up some great colours but they have no match to what has been shown already. John Massey is now concentrating his own interests on Hepaticas. We spent so much time in his garden we didnt have time to look at his breeding programme

[Martin Baxendale]

Absolutely stunning, John! Your superbly grown plants almost make me want to cry when I recall how I followed the seller's advice to plant my own expensive Japanese hepaticas in the garden rather than cossett them in pots. Following that advice was the most expensive mistake of my gardening life! The annoying thing is, I did grow them in clay pots to start with, just in case - then when they were good strong clumps I planted them out in the garden, only to watch them rapidly disappear in the first drought summer that came along. I see amongst your excellent plants some of the very cultivars I used to have before following that stupid advice.  

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 

John, I've never seen anything like this !
What a mass of unequalled beauty - I bet some of these plants are over 15 years old ! 

Truely wonderful and a great idea to make the Prunus add to the beauty !
Thanks so much for sharing this.

[johngennard]

Thanks eveyone for the kind comments,its nice to be able to share my pleasure with you all and to answer your questions,I started to grow the the jap.hepaticas in 1999 so none are more than eight years old.The prunus is P.incisa 'KOJO-NO-MAI' and naturally flowers prolifically and better still is readily available in all garden centres,particularly at this time of year when it will shortly be coming into blossom outside.I have one in a tub on the terrace just showing colour.I grow the ones in pots purely to add to the picture in the hepatica house as they seem to compliment each other so well.The shade is not required at this time of the year but neither does it do any harm.When the prunus are further out I will try and remember to take another picture.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Unbelievable that none of these prolific jap. hepaticas is over 7 or 8 years old    You certainly know how to please them John !
Don't hesitate to show us more 

[Lvandelft]

That is really unbelievable John. You must have a good hand for them.
The Prunus could on the picture be anything and probably Japanese.
I have it in my garden but will take some time before start flowering.
Still one question: do you leave them yearround in the glasshouse or in summer
outside or under the table?

[Gunhild Poulsen]

WOW John - what a house. How many different sorts are representing?
Do you ever divide them? repot? fertilice?

[mark smyth]

My P incisa never flower like yours. They are about 6 years old

[Hans A.]

Hello John- just fantastic - I have never seen such a Hepaticashow.