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Here in my area of south germany you can find a lot of Hepatica nobilis populations. In most of them, the flowers are only blue and I have no pictures of these which show the connectives. I will have a look the coming season.Connectives from two places with a lot of colour variations like red, pink, white, some with dots or cloudy colors apart from blue or white have the following colors in the connectives:blueish-pink, pure green, light blue, white, pink and also some in kind of red with a tint of blue.These are only from wild populations without any gardeninfluence.I will certainly have a look around other populations and collect all different colour findings. Probably this rules have more exeptions...
As with Eranthis now and with H. nobilis, maybe they have not looked for it thoroughly until now.
Lena, at your photos I like H. americana.
Since I had more pictures to look at, it matters when one looks or takes pictures: when the flowers are just opening or later when fully opened.
This is interesting. Does the colour become lighter when flower ages or can it change alltogether?I will have to look at my native plants more carefully this spring.'Walter' is very pretty!
Thanks, I hope the few 'Walter' I have will survive the brutal January. We usually don't have very low temp. for such long periods of time.It seems that the beginning of February will bring some relief but remains to be seen.
Here it has been milder but temperatures going up and down has resulted in ice in some places. Mostly it is still snow, but I'm a bit worried about all ice in beds.I hope your February will be better!
We had some sun today and more and more plants start opening their flowers.Hepatica japonica 'Kagura' 2picsHepatica japonica 'Shirayuki'Hepatica japonica unnamed