Hepatica 2022

[mellifera]

Hepatica japonica without a name, just a number. But it is beautiful enough to get a name!

[Herman Mylemans]

Hepatica japonica without a name, just a number. But it is beautiful enough to get a name!

Patrick, great start for the new Hepatica season! Here also the first flowers are appearing.

[Starking007]

Almost everyone is still asleep here, almost.....

[Herman Mylemans]

Almost everyone is still asleep here, almost.....

Arthur, here the Hepatica's are waiting for the sun! A lot of buds are visible in our garden and the greenhouse. The temperatures are also between 0 and 8°C. Some nights below zero. Next week there will be more sun but still low temperatures (<8°C). So we are hopeful!

[Carsten]

So nice to see that the season is about to start.
Among the first flowers in the greenhouse is Hepatica pubescens.

[Carsten]

Hepatica japonica, a very dark flower form and even more blackish than I was able to fix on the photograph.

[Herman Mylemans]

Carsten, great Hepatica ‘s!

[Leena]

It is nice to see Hepatica season is starting!
Hepatica pubescens are so lovely. I'm waiting for spring to see mine. If they have survived this winter then they are really hardy. This winter frost has gone deep because in early December it was so cold without snow. I'm still positive everything will be ok when spring comes. There is now some snow cover though rains (!) last week melted some of it. We'll see how the rest of the winter will be.
Black H.japonica is really special.

Herman, it will not be long before your Hepaticas are also flowering, it is so warm there.

[Gabriela]

So nice to see the first buds and flowers of Hepatica!

Carsten: H. pubescens is very beautiful and the dark H. japonica is the queen of the night! I've never seen such dark flowers I think, the range of possible colors in H. japonica is astounding.

We still are in a deep cold in Ontario and will last till end of January; alas with very little snow. Last night we recorded -25C. Like Leena says, we'll have to wait for the spring to see what survived. It doesn't get this cold in this part of ON every year, and usually it doesn't last so long.

[kris]

very nice flowers Carsten and Herman. I am in India till April. In Saskatoon the flowering season starts in April

[fermi de Sousa]

Hepatica japonica, a very dark flower form and even more blackish than I was able to fix on the photograph.

That's amazing, Carsten,
I thought it was a pic of Cosmos atrosanguineus!
Very impressive,
cheers
fermi

[Carsten]

Hepatica nobilis in different colour shades. All
plants are in the greenhouse and only very few start to flower ...

[Carsten]

A range of different blue filled Hepatica nobilis.

[Herman Mylemans]

Carsten, nice colors, you had probably some sun today. Here it was again cloudy weather and then the flowers remain closed.

[Herman Mylemans]

A range of different blue filled Hepatica nobilis.

Carsten, they are very beautiful and so different!