Hepatica 2021

[johnw]

"Gorgeous John, why do you keep it in pots?"

Gabriela - One of the hazards of visiing gardner friends in BC in late January.  You come home with potted material already in growth, not suitable for planting here till April.  We'll propagate this one and then plant it out next year.

john

[kris]

Nice Hepatica pictures Every one.
Here is one Hepatica acutiloba with very dark flower. Gabriela do you come across this colour in nature? The Picture is from my friends garden. The leaf is pretty too. I have a seedling with similar colour flower but plain leaf.

The Hepatica nobilis #75 is from Gunhild Poulsons seed. Very intense pink flower and a short plant.

3rd is the Hepatica acutiloba pale pink colour.

[mellifera]

I got a small piece of this H.transsylvanica two years ago from a friend who had bought it 15 years ago from Stockholm botaniska garden without any other name.
It is very nice. It may be a nameless seedling, but has anyone seen a H.trannsylvanica like this?

Very beautiful Leena!! A special treasure. It reminds me of 'Elison Spencer'.
I think it exsist one full filled transsylvanica. The name is 'Barbarossa'. I have this plant, but it hasn`t flowered untill now.

[Herman Mylemans]

I understand now. Regarding this H. americana 'Rosea' - I didn't want to say anything, but I always thought it is a hybrid (and I've seen others people pictures with it).
Being on the market already I'm sure the name won't be changed.
I don't think someone can distinguish H. americana from H. nobilis after the foliage, it is a character allowing for a lot of variation in size/shape/hairness.

Here's one more close-up with a H. americana flower

Thank you Gabriela. I will change the name in Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea' for the future. So I need to look after the real Hepatica americana 'Rosea'.
The same confusion is sometimes with Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica there the connective should be white till yellow. There are also H. nobilis with beautiful marbled leaves but then with pink connective, which have been given the name pyrenaica.

[Herman Mylemans]

I got a small piece of this H.transsylvanica two years ago from a friend who had bought it 15 years ago from Stockholm botaniska garden without any other name.
It is very nice. It may be a nameless seedling, but has anyone seen a H.trannsylvanica like this?

Leena, beautiful H. transsilvanica. Is it originally found in the wild? If you can ever divide it I am surely interested.

[Herman Mylemans]

Nice Hepatica pictures Every one.
Here is one Hepatica acutiloba with very dark flower. Gabriela do you come across this colour in nature? The Picture is from my friends garden. The leaf is pretty too. I have a seedling with similar colour flower but plain leaf.

The Hepatica nobilis #75 is from Gunhild Poulsons seed. Very intense pink flower and a short plant.

3rd is the Hepatica acutiloba pale pink colour.

Kris, thanks for showing your beautiful Hepatica's.

[Gabriela]

I got a small piece of this H.transsylvanica two years ago from a friend who had bought it 15 years ago from Stockholm botaniska garden without any other name.
It is very nice. It may be a nameless seedling, but has anyone seen a H.trannsylvanica like this?

What a beauty Leena!

[Gabriela]

"Gorgeous John, why do you keep it in pots?"

Gabriela - One of the hazards of visiing gardner friends in BC in late January.  You come home with potted material already in growth, not suitable for planting here till April.  We'll propagate this one and then plant it out next year.
john

Makes sense John. It is not much that can be obtained by dividing one small Hepatica; you can also sow the seeds, who knows what nice surprises await.

[Gabriela]

Nice Hepatica pictures Every one.
Here is one Hepatica acutiloba with very dark flower. Gabriela do you come across this colour in nature? The Picture is from my friends garden. The leaf is pretty too. I have a seedling with similar colour flower but plain leaf.

The Hepatica nobilis #75 is from Gunhild Poulsons seed. Very intense pink flower and a short plant.

3rd is the Hepatica acutiloba pale pink colour.

Very nice plants Kris. I did show at the beginning of our season a purple H. acutiloba - a single flower from a young plant. Even blue H. acutiloba are very rare in my region.
I would like to see how the new foliage looks on your specimen; the old leaves don't show very well the acute ends of the lobes.

Many H. acutiloba (just like H. americama) show marbled foliage in late fall/spring but the new foliage is green afterwards. Young  seedlings/plants don't show  this feature right away.

[Gabriela]

Thank you Gabriela. I will change the name in Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea' for the future. So I need to look after the real Hepatica americana 'Rosea'.
The same confusion is sometimes with Hepatica nobilis var. pyrenaica there the connective should be white till yellow. There are also H. nobilis with beautiful marbled leaves but then with pink connective, which have been given the name pyrenaica.

I suppose there are many missnamed forms of Hepatica Herman. Understandable considering that H. americana, nobilis and nobilis var. japonica are so look-alike.

I am still yet to find a true pink H. americana; there are pink blushed, or pink/white striped here. A pity that other members from US and Canada don't post more picture
with the native species from their regions.

[Rick R.]

Look what I spied in the lawn today.  I have lots of flowers seeded into the grass, but I never would have expected this in the sunny part of the lawn.  Except now that I think about, there was a small anthill there at one time. 

[Leena]

Very beautiful Leena!! A special treasure. It reminds me of 'Elison Spencer'.
I think it exsist one full filled transsylvanica. The name is 'Barbarossa'. I have this plant, but it hasn`t flowered untill now.

Thank you Patrick. The person from whom I got the plant has also ES, and she says they are close but not the same. I don't have ES, so I can't say for myself, and now is the first time this plant is flowering for me. I didn't know how special this is is until I saw it in flower this spring, it really is beautiful.

Leena, beautiful H. transsilvanica. Is it originally found in the wild? If you can ever divide it I am surely interested.

Herman, I don't know anything other from it's origin, but probably not from the wild, because it was bought from Sweden though from a Bergianska botanical garden sale).
It seems to be slow to increase (a small piece I got took two years to flower), but when it grows for some more years I will try to divide it (also to have it growing in two places in case something happens to it in one spot).

[Leena]

Look what I spied in the lawn today.  I have lots of flowers seeded into the grass, but I never would have expected this in the sunny part of the lawn.  Except now that I think about, there was a small anthill there at one time. 

This is the best, to find self sown seedlings in surprising places, and it is what I hope will happen also here in time.

[Leena]

Some pictures of my few double H.nobilis.
'Rubra Plena', 'Rote Glut' and Mussel (with two dots above u, but I don't know how to make them with my computer).

[Herman Mylemans]

Leena, your Hepatica's are nicely upright!