Hepatica 2021

[Gabriela]

More beauties Roma and Leena!

I took few more pictures yesterday ahead of a new cold snap. Hepatica transsilvanica grown from seeds (thanks Kris) is flowering for the first time blue and also a white one which had few buds destroyed in the last cold snap. I am very happy, it's been years since I got the chance to see it in flower in the mountains. I mostly visit in late summer.


H. japonica forms continue to flower. I wasn't quite taken with H. j. ex. 'Hosyun' last year so it got into the 'experimental lot' for planting in the ground.

[Herman Mylemans]

More beauties Roma and Leena!

I took few more pictures yesterday ahead of a new cold snap. Hepatica transsilvanica grown from seeds (thanks Kris) is flowering for the first time blue and also a white one which had few buds destroyed in the last cold snap. I am very happy, it's been years since I got the chance to see it in flower in the mountains. I mostly visit in late summer.
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H. japonica forms continue to flower. I wasn't quite taken with H. j. ex. 'Hosyun' last year so it got into the 'experimental lot' for planting in the ground.
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Gabriela, nice to see that your Hepatica season is going to start.

[Gabriela]

Gabriela, nice to see that your Hepatica season is going to start.

Thanks Herman, yes it seems it will be an early Hepatica flowering this spring, due to the unusual warm weather we had a week ago.
Today, with 3C at midday, sunny and crisp, I was surprised to find even in the woods a few very advanced Hepaticas!



Well, I tried to post more picture but it seems large images are not allowed again.

[kris]

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I've never had a Hepatica nobilis with as many flowers open at one time as this blue one

Beautiful blue shade Roma. I always have an attraction for blue flowers.

[kris]

Today opened the first of H.pubescens ex 'Hohobeni'. So pretty:). It is interesting to notice that all H.pubescens have buds more developed at this time than any of H.japonicas (or H.nobilis).

Very pretty one Leena.

[Herman Mylemans]

Hepatica nobilis 'Alba Plena' found in Borgholm, Öland, Sweden

Hepatica nobilis 'Black Eye' from Mr Sven-Erik Beigler, Kungälv, Sweden

Thanks Gunilla.

[Herman Mylemans]

Hepatica maxima x Hepatica  japonica 'Touyama-shigure'

Hepatica maxima x Hepatica nobilis 'Bavarian Blue'

Thanks Carsten.

[Leena]

Herman, how lovely Swedish Hepaticas.

Here nights are again colder, so flowering is delayed, but there are lot of fat buds.
Hepatica x schlyteri from Ashwood two years ago.
Another H.pubescens ex Hohobeni, a darker pink.

[Herman Mylemans]

Herman, how lovely Swedish Hepaticas.

Here nights are again colder, so flowering is delayed, but there are lot of fat buds.
Hepatica x schlyteri from Ashwood two years ago.
Another H.pubescens ex Hohobeni, a darker pink.

Leena, I find this one more beautiful!

[Leena]

It is really pretty!

[Gabriela]

Nice Herman; luckily there are many sources of lovely Hepaticas that you can access.
Does the maxima x japonica 'Touyama-shigure' has a particularly large flower or is just the way the picture was taken?

[Gabriela]

It is really pretty!

Extremely pretty!

[Gabriela]

H. x media 'Silberprinzess' flowering for the first time (from a small division). The chipmunks are awake and eating Hepatica flowers at the moment  so
I cannot wait for all the buds to open.
Without the label I would have said is a transsilvanica.

[Joakim B]

Nice hepaticas
Here we have got all 4 seasons in 24h. We went from summer to autumn, to winter and back to spring and it went several cycles

Been taking photos and see that the flowers size and shape and even colour is changing. They tend to start much darker and then they with a bit of sun they fade quite a bit. Or is it time?
All my plants receive sun so I can not distinguish time and sun.

Very happy with my plants from last year 2019 autumn from Anne. Oheilia has a very nice colour initially very dark even if it fades a bit it still have a nice colour in the end.

The plants from Andreas Händel is showing quite a bit of diversity on the nobilis but so far not so much exiting amongst the mixed transsylvanica. Not many of the transsylvanica in flower and all blue so far but nobilis has 7 different colours so far so a very lucky mix.

I will leave you with a snow picture and see if I can add more later

[Herman Mylemans]

Nice Herman; luckily there are many sources of lovely Hepaticas that you can access.
Does the maxima x japonica 'Touyama-shigure' has a particularly large flower or is just the way the picture was taken?

Gabriella the flower has a diameter of 25 mm. Maybe the flower still becomes  bigger as the plant gets older.