Hepatica 2020

[Gabriela]

Some Hepaticas in a vase
Starting at the top clockwise
Hepatica nobilis double
Hepatica japonica
Hepatica nobilis 'Buttercup'
Hepatica acuta 'Nimbus'
Hepatica nobilis 'Blueberry'
Hepatica japonica

Your Hepatica collection is never ending Carstens
Could you please provide more info on Hepatica acutiloba 'Nimbus' (the one at 6 o'clock?). I heard about it last year for the first time but never found where from it originated. If possible to see the foliage it would be great - many thanks in advance.
Semidouble H. acutiloba are very rare, only found a white one after quite few years of scouting the woods.

Also thanks for your thoughts on using sand in the beds. I have an area in need of increased drainage if to plant more Hepaticas in the ground and never thought it would be detrimental. Pumice is not available here, unless in tiny, expensive bags. Must find something else..

[Carsten]

Unfortunately 'Nimbus' is not mine. I got the flower in the vase to watch it. But I will ask for some extra facts. Hope to get a pic of the leaves after all the corona mess in summer.

Sand/pumice again:  Donīt get me wrong. The problem with cut roots is only in one raised bed witch has some +50% in it. This is not a bed for Hepaticas but nobilis does grow ok there. I thought I would need the drainage for the japonicas (and onthers) but the plants get lifted by frost and need to be fixed in spring again.

So, I like to add 1/3 of pumice to my substrate for Hepaticas grown in pots and I do add it in raised beds, but too much causes problems.

[Gabriela]

Thanks Carsten, I would really like to know more about Nimbus.

The quantity of added sand may be important, of course; 50% is quite a lot. It is more about the H. japonica cv. I want to plant in the ground that I worry.
H. acutiloba is flexible regarding to the substrate I noticed. H. americana require more dryish soils. In the wild they grow best on rocky slopes and I'm trying to reproduce the conditions.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Deeply impressed with your Hepatica show Carsten !!  Lots of skill and dedication there !  Well done !! 

[kris]

looking at all the beautiful Hepaticas shown here is great. Still under snow  and temperature at minus side.
Specially Cartsens Hepaticas and Gabrielas H.japonicas.
Too bad I can't grow H.Japonica here .

[shelagh]

Looking in the frame just now and took a pic of the Hepaticas which should have been on the benches. Some now have a lot of leaves these would have been removed for showing.
Top L-R Hep. nobilis, Hep. japonica HoHoBeni. an unkown Hep. japonica from Kimihiko some time ago and Hep. japonica Toki whose flowers are very small this year.
Bottom L-R Hep. japonica Blue Sandan, Hep japonica Gyousei, Hep. japonica Ryougetsu.

Also posting Hep. nobilis pink and Hep. nobilis Pygmy variety.

[Herman Mylemans]

Today the weather was good to take some pictures:

Hepatica nobilis 'Peach Blossom' selection from Lithuania, it is a pink form like the flower of a peach-tree. It is difficult to get the right colour on the picture.

Hepatica nobilis var. insularis

Hepatica transsilvanica 'Elison Spence'

[Maggi Young]

A couple  of  photos  from Alan Gardner


"Hepatica transylvanica 'Mrs. Ellison Spence' flowering well this year."


"One of my own Hepatica Nobilis seedlings flowering for the first time. Simple but nice "


"Hepatica x Media Millstream Merlin doing well in my north facing trough"

[Roma]

Hepatica nobilis - self sown seedlings



A pink hepatica has been seeding here and I moved the seedlings to between the stones edging the bed.  So far all have been pink.




Hepatica x media 'Ballardii'

[annew]

The fruits of another photographic session with the hepaticas. Included are several H.maxima hybrids with various other species.

[Leena]

Very nice, everyone.
Anne, are maxima hybrids the bigger ones?

[annew]

Yes!

[Joakim B]

How hardy is maxima hybrids? Outdoor to -10c with no snow?
Lovely plants
My nobilis are showing flowers too. The newly bought have been in flower for a month and the Transylvanicas are flowering too. The colder weather makes things last longer

[Herman Mylemans]

Hepatica acutiloba 'Louise Koehler'


Hepatica x media 'Blue Jewel'

[Carsten]

At the beginning of the mountain biking season I am still slow enough to spot Hepaticas.