Hepatica 2017

[Gunilla]

Thank you for your kind words! This is the best time of the year.  New hepatica buds open every day.  Most of my plants are open pollinated and you never know what will appear in the seed pots or in the garden.

Three years ago I sowed seed from a plant with nice, big flowers of a good dark pink colour and ordinary green leaves.  All seedlings except one look like the mother but one plant is tiny and very different with dark red flowers and marbled leaves.
 

[Cephalotus]

Great set! H. nobilis 'blue' is just crazy blue. Is that colour durable during the flowering? I like the H. nobilis 'pricle' it fascinates me, it is such an interesting form.

[Gunilla]

Thanks Chris! The colour of "blue" is a kind of dark velvety blue that really stands out and it does not fade. Maybe it's a cross between H. japonica and nobilis. 

The next buds on that Prickel plant look more like they are supposed to look.

1-2. Hepatica nobilis 'Prickel'

3. Hepatica nobilis seedling

[Lesley Cox]

And I like 'Prickel' with its exciting explosion of anthers.

[Cephalotus]

That plant is just fascinating! I suspect it is very hard to get thought. :/

[Gunilla]

Prickel usually comes true from seed. If you want to try I can collect seed for you.

[Gunilla]

The last ones to flower are double forms of H. nobilis.

1. Lilly
2. Walter Otto
3. Black Eye
4. White Eye
5. I don't know the name of this one

[Lesley Cox]

Gunilla I'm not sure whether your seed message was for Cephalotus or for me but I'll take a chance anyway and ask you for some seed if you will have some to spare. We have only one or two ever available here and no chance of importing plants. I'll send you a message. Thanks

[johnw]

Nothing terribly exotic, Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea' ex the late & formidable Vera Peck, for many years the AGCBC's seed chair.

johnw

[johnw]

Hepatica maxima, a seedling Ken grew and which I spied for the first time. Lusty leaves.

john

[Herman Mylemans]

Hepatica americana or Hepatica nobilis?

[Leena]

Nothing terribly exotic, Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea'

How floriferous!

[kris]

The hepaticas start to flower now.
Just ordinary Hepatica transsylvanica

[Gabriela]

The hepaticas start to flower now.
Just ordinary Hepatica transsylvanica

There is nothing 'ordinary' about H. transsylvanica Kris The seeds are germinating - thanks a million times!
Hope one spring I'll go and take pictures when it flowers in the wild - absolutely a dream.

[Gabriela]

Hepatica americana or Hepatica nobilis?

Herman, I will take more pictures with the leaves. Right now the new ones are growing and the old ones are not looking too good anymore.
Looking at your pictures - there are H. americana specimens with this sort of leaves.