Hepatica 2016

[Maggi Young]

Super pix, Dave - I know Brian and Shelagh Smethurst enjoyed the day too.  Glenn Shapiro is also an SRGC member, of course -  a woman of taste, to be true!
 John Massey is  a fantastic speaker - not to mention a natural comedian - all ingredients for a great day.

[Gabriela]

So many of them! I wish I'd been there...Thanks for showing.

[ichristie]

Many thanks for posting all the super pictures ours are now nearly all flowering a few pictures from today,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

next few, Ian

[Dave M]

Lovely plants Ian, some nice pots full of them. A few of mine out today in the spring sunshine.

H. 'Shi ko den'


H. 'Isari bi'


H. 'Orihime'


H. 'Tenjinbai'

[annew]

This is the plant I grow as Hepatica nobilis glabrata dwarf. My original plant came from AGS seed in 1986 (!) which had been donated by Severin Schlyter as Hepatica noblis glabrata dwarf. In all the last 30 years, it has never produced a seedling that wasn't identical to the parent, even when deliberately cross-pollinated. If Schlyter termed it a dwarf, I wonder if it is a small form of glabrata? Since I've never seen anyone else's, I don't know. Does anyone know how big a normal glabrata is? The second photo shows the glabrata (white) in front of a normal japonica to show scale.

[Maggi Young]

Karl K. says    "Hepatica nobilis var. glabrata

There are several varieties of the European species. The variety; glabra, which has white flowers and light foliage and there is no hair. It is smaller and more slowly growing than the species."   http://www.kalle-k.dk/hepatica%20English.htm   

and Gunhild Poulsen grows it too ,she may be able to comment.

[Roma]

Hepatica nobilis

[Gerhard Raschun]

Karl K. says    "Hepatica nobilis var. glabrata

There are several varieties of the European species. The variety; glabra, which has white flowers and light foliage and there is no hair. It is smaller and more slowly growing than the species."   http://www.kalle-k.dk/hepatica%20English.htm   

and Gunhild Poulsen grows it too ,she may be able to comment.

Hepatica nobilis var. nobilis forma glabrata Fries ( Fries was a swedish botanist, 1794-1878 )

lat. glabratus means without hairs

[annew]

Hepatica nobilis var. nobilis forma glabrata Fries ( Fries was a swedish botanist, 1794-1878 )

lat. glabratus means without hairs

But is it small, Gerhard?

[Diane Clement]

But is it small, Gerhard? 

My H glabrata is small, Anne, similar in size to Ashwood's H nobilis Pygmy Group (they used to sell it as "Compact Strain").  I'm not at home at the moment but will take a picture next week.

[chris]

H.nobilis semi double, new material from Tsech Republic found in the Sumava region by Lenka Holubcova,

[Maggi Young]

How lovely, Chris -  Mrs Holubec has the same good eye as her husband!

[Gabriela]

H.nobilis semi double, new material from Tsech Republic found in the Sumava region by Lenka Holubcova,

Wow! Maybe other special forms await to be discovered in the woods - this is so exciting!

[WimB]

Some of the Hepatica japonica seedlings I selected to keep from those sown in the past years...