Hepatica 2018

[kris]

yes  Gabriela.

[Herman Mylemans]

Gabriela and Kris, beautiful Hepatica's! Here the season is over.

[Gabriela]

They don't flower for long unfortunately, it's good to enjoy them to the fullest
More H. acutiloba, first from the same pastel mix population.


And from another place one of the biggest clump I've found in the wild (I think I mentioned once that very large clumps are not usual)
H. acutiloba white

[kris]

Thanks for the comment Herman. They are just starting to flower now. I will have more in a week.
Gabriela the Hepatica looks more charming in the wild compared to garden .

[GordonT]

I see another plant addiction coming on, as the woodland garden is missing any Hepatica. First of all, the need will be to source some fresh seed!

[kris]

Hi Gordon
 please send me a PM . I can give you some fresh seeds once ripe.

[Rick R.]

Large clumps are not usual in the wild here, either.  In many of the Minnesota habitats they grow in, this is the norm:
Hepatica acutiloba

[Leena]

Picture of Hepatica transsilvanica

That is really something you have there Kris!

H.acutiloba pictures from the wild are so beautiful, and also Rick's picture!

Here H.nobilis has been flowering now for about a week, but it's been rainy so I don't have many pictures. Near where I live Hepaticas in the wild are not so big clumps, mostly only one or few flowers per a plant, but last weekend I was about 70 kilometres from us (in an area where the soil is known to be calcerous) and saw a lot of H.nobilis growing so well I've never seen before, in big clumps and everywhere. Sadly only blue ones and no doubles or anything more special. The most petals I've seen here in the wild have been nine in a flower, though mostly  six to eight.
This nice pale pink H.nobilis is growing in my garden.
In the second picture there are my seed grown H.japonicas on the right behind Crocus 'Blue Pearl'.

[Gabriela]

Lovely Leena. This year I also didn't took that many Hepatica pictures because of the weather.
I have quite a few H. japonica seedlings now, I'll keep them in pots for one more year and then I'll see how they do in the garden.

Thanks for the comment Herman. They are just starting to flower now. I will have more in a week.
Gabriela the Hepatica looks more charming in the wild compared to garden .

I agree Kris, nothing compares with seeing them in the woods. It is the whole atmosphere that makes them look so beautiful and happy.

Let's enjoy some H. americana

[kris]

Lovely

[Leena]

Gabriela, so beautiful Hepaticas in the wild!
Your H.americana seedlings are doing fine here, I just pricked them to individual pots in April and they are now growing first real leaves. I'll plant them outside later in the summer.

[Gabriela]

Gabriela, so beautiful Hepaticas in the wild!
Your H.americana seedlings are doing fine here, I just pricked them to individual pots in April and they are now growing first real leaves. I'll plant them outside later in the summer.

I am glad they are doing well Leena, so very cute when the show the true leaves I have so many Hepatica seedlings of all kinds now that I find no other solution than plant 2-3/pot or in large containers.

The variation in colour/form of Hepatica americana it is just incredible in the wild. Too bad that with the sudden heat wave it is a short flowering this year.
Just when I said I'm done with the scouting, one late flowering cutie showed up:

[annew]

Our spring hepatica plant list will be available on our website from this evening:
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html

[Maggi Young]

Our spring hepatica plant list will be available on our website from this evening:
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/index.html

 Online now!!

[annew]

Is that an order, Maggi?