Hepatica 2021

[Herman Mylemans]

Nice hepaticas!
Lovely to see a double in such a big plant was it four that all grow well or is it different plants?. The light makes it difficult to see if they are identical or not! Hepatica Gotland seems to be a clumper as they say about bulbs. Is the foliage plain green or with marbled leaves.

Joakim, it is all from one small plant. The leaves are not complete plain green.

[Herman Mylemans]

Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica is enjoying the sun and it will flower for a long time because it is sterile.

Hepatica 15005 02 a seedling from 2015, parents unknown.

Hepatica nobilis var. acuta

Hepatica nobilis 'Alba'

[Carsten]

Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica x japonica is enjoying the sun and it will flower for a long time because it is sterile.

Hepatica 15005 02 a seedling from 2015, parents unknown.

Hepatica nobilis var. acuta

Hepatica nobilis 'Alba'

Very nice, Herman! I like your seedling!

[Gabriela]

Beautiful Hepatica japonica Gabriela. They glow in your garden.

Thanks Kris. It is a good feature that they flower earlier than the natives, I wouldn't mind to have 'waves' of flowering Hepatica starting in late March into late April

[Gabriela]

All nice Herman. I like the H. insularis, has a very nice marbled foliage.
And of course the 'seedling' is superb.

It seems that the last H. acutiloba with large light pink flowers is a maiden form? I can't see in detail.

[Gabriela]

Not very friendly with the transfer of photos from phone to computer so sorry for that
I do have a question if acutoloba has bigger flowers than nobilis in general?
I have one as acutoloba and the foliage is a bit pointier than some nobilis but not totally different from all. It seems to have quite big flowers as big as transylvanica and significant bigger than the nobilis next to it. It might be a hybrid or not at all a acutoloba so if one can tell from a flower here is a picture

Joakim, I hope all your new addition will grow well in your garden; nice start for a small collection.

Regarding your question: first of all, it is not after the flowers that you can distinguish the H. acutiloba from H. nobilis, or H. americana. Yes, in general the flowers are bigger, but not always. There is soemthing that you can look in flowers - the involucral bracts which must have acute ends.

But the most important and easy character are the leaves. I think I posted pictures before, I have plenty. The middle lobe of the leaf it is +/- acute or acuminate in H. acutiloba; see a few examples. There are variations, like with everything else in nature, but in general this is how the foliage should look.




Also, the lenght of the middle lobe should be 70-90% from the total leaf blade; see a picture I made a few years ago to exemplify.

[Herman Mylemans]

All nice Herman. I like the H. insularis, has a very nice marbled foliage.
And of course the 'seedling' is superb.

It seems that the last H. acutiloba with large light pink flowers is a maiden form? I can't see in detail.

Yes  Gabriela, it is a maiden form. I will try to pollinate them with the special seedling.

[Carsten]

Hepatica nobilis var. nobilis is in full bloom now.

[Carsten]

Some Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica in the garden.

[Carsten]

Hepatica x schlyteri and a media in the garden.

[Herman Mylemans]

Carsten, great Hepatica's! Beautiful colors and flower forms. This week will be very sunny, so there will be a lot of flowers to enjoy.
Your Hepatica x schlyteri are doing very well in your garden. Are they complete sterile or can you cross them with Hepatica's with genes for filled flowers.

[Carsten]

Carsten, great Hepatica's! Beautiful colors and flower forms. This week will be very sunny, so there will be a lot of flowers to enjoy.
Your Hepatica x schlyteri are doing very well in your garden. Are they complete sterile or can you cross them with Hepatica's with genes for filled flowers.

Herman, most plants are sterile.

[mellifera]

Carsten, thank you for these great pictures!

Here the hepatica saison is slowly coming to an end.
I have a few beautys, which I'd like to show you.

Hepatica nobilis 'Kyrvinberg'
It was found in 1956 in Norway on an island, called Hestholmen. There was an old farm named ,Kyrvinberg'. And there this blue filled plant has grown.

Hepatica nobilis Alba Plena 'Stockholm'
The plant was found near Stockholm (maybe from Schlyter). It has a lightly yellow touch in the flower.

Hepatica henryi Alba Plena full open with 3 flowers.

Hepatica nobilis 'Rote Glut' form Germany. A breded red filled form.

Hepatica japonica 'Shinku'
A dark red double flower without antheres. Maybe one of the best clones in europe..

[Leena]

Gabriela, thank you for posting the picture of the dimensions of H.acutiloba.

Carsten, your Hepatica season is so long when you have plants in the greenhouse and outside.
H.nobilis has such amazing forms and the blue in H.x schlyteri is really something.

Mellifera, how interesting filled forms, really beautiful.

Here the season is slowly starting when snow is melting. H.pubescens ex 'Hohobeni' had well advanced buds when the snow melted. This picture is from yesterday, today it has rained all day, and more snow melts.

[Gabriela]

Yes  Gabriela, it is a maiden form. I will try to pollinate them with the special seedling.

Good things may arise from a cross like this Herman!