Hepatica 2021

[Herman Mylemans]

Beautiful hepaticas Leena and Gabriela. More hepaticas have started flowering. The native ones are still in bud. Some pictures from the garden
Hepatica nobilis alba
Hepatica nobilis pink
Hepatica nobilis rubra plena
Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica
Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica

Beautiful Hepatica's Kris!

[Herman Mylemans]

I have a Hepatica which I lost label. It looks like the  special blue one shown by Leena got from Gunhild Poulson.
Mine has only six petals instead of seven as in her hepatica
I also got seeds from Gunhild Poulson some years ago.
Here is the picture attached

Kris, it is indeed a special blue!

[Gabriela]

Wow Gabriela!
Never seen a hepatica on top of a boulder.
I have Seen them by the stems of trees and one in a tree stump but never on boulders. Is it high moisture there in summers to have moss or how does it survive the summers?

In places where such moss covered boulders exists Joakim, there are often young seedlings established on top. There is no high moisture, regular rain seasons in spring and fall and the summers are most often very dry. But still the moss offers a good place for the start of the seeds.
Probably they perish later on, because I've never seen larger clumps developing.

[Gabriela]

Gabriela, very nice H.americana in the wild! And they don't seem short-stemmed, my plants are maybe just too young.
Here are couple of pictures of them, these are all from your seeds. I especially like the blue ones, and it seems to be a different shade of blue than in my native H.nobilis.
One is almost white, just a hint of pink in the flower.

Looking good   nice to have a wide range of colors.
In the populations where I collect most there are some whites with pink flares, your seedlings may be a descendant. Last week I was happy to re-found again a large clump I like (somehow I couldn't find it again in the last 2 years! - too little time and too much to see and later on the woodland floor changes so much!).




A seedling nearby.

[Gabriela]

Herman - the color for the connective in H. americana I would say is in shades of greenish/whitish, most of the time. In any case, not other colors.

Maybe you can see it this americana 'baby' from my garden.

[Gabriela]

Re - double H. americana, I don't really care finding such; as I mentioned before I'm not a fan of double flowers, I admire them but that's all. On the other hand I like a lot the multipetals or other similar forms that may appear.

[Gabriela]

Beautiful Kris. All my H. nobilis var. pyrenaica are in blue shades.
It seems your spring is getting better while we, in Ontario, are reversing back to winter starting Monday.

[Rick R.]

The native ones are still in bud.

Oh thank goodness!  I was wondering how yours could be so far ahead of mine!

[kris]

Gabriela Saskatoon temperature is cold now. The prediction is more colder temperature for the next two days.

[kris]

Oh thank goodness!  I was wondering how yours could be so far ahead o mine!

Rick some of them has already stated flowering. I am waiting to take pictures once most of the buds opened. My friends garden which gets southern sun has the native ones fully opened.

[Rick R.]

My most floriferous H. americana, the most advanced in the yard and ready to pop with some sun, I'd say.  (Wild acutiloba ones are only buds.)  This one is from Minnesota/Ontario border wild seed.  A rabbit ate most of the foliage.

[Peppa]

Nice H. americana, Gabriela! They look very delicate looking.

My most floriferous H. americana, the most advanced in the yard and ready to pop with some sun, I'd say.  (Wild acutiloba ones are only buds.)  This one is from Minnesota/Ontario border wild seed.  A rabbit ate most of the foliage.

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Rick, It was lucky that the rabbit ate only the old foliage and not the flowers.

[Leena]

Leena, have you had already sown seeds from your Hepatica nobilis 106N x Ederka 91N? Normally double genes should come back.

Herman, I have five seedlings from it from last year, and I hope to have more seeds this year. I'm hoping some will be double, but of course the pollinating was done by bees and as there are so many native H.nobilis, it is more likely that the outcome is single.

I have a Hepatica which I lost label. It looks like the  special blue one shown by Leena got from Gunhild Poulson.
Mine has only six petals instead of seven as in her hepatica
I also got seeds from Gunhild Poulson some years ago.

Tha flower shape is similar to my plant. Possibly they share the same ancestor.

Kris, you have such nice clumps of hepaticas! Beautiful.

[Leena]

In the populations where I collect most there are some whites with pink flares, your seedlings may be a descendant.

Those look very similar. Mine were sown in 2016, so maybe that year you got seeds from those plants.

Rick, that is a very floriferous plant! 

[Herman Mylemans]

Herman, I have five seedlings from it from last year, and I hope to have more seeds this year. I'm hoping some will be double, but of course the pollinating was done by bees and as there are so many native H.nobilis, it is more likely that the outcome is single.

Leena, you should make an effort for handpollination!