Hepatica 2024

[Leena]

Different pink H.nobilis









A purple nobilis seedling

[Leena]

H.nobilis 'Selma'



ex 'Bavarian Blue'



H.nobilis



H.nobilis double from Denmark



H.nobilis 'Müssel' which almost died in bad winter 2022, but I'm so glad it is coming back

[Leena]

Bicolour H.nobilis



Also this one is kind of bicolour, the colour fades during flowering. A very nice found from here.
I must separate the blue one from it, so they don't get mixed up.
This has been growing here since 2019, a very small in the beginning, and the colour has been true every year,
except last spring the blue one emerged. It may be a seedling, I hope, rather than the bicolour reverting to blue.



The same one



Another foundling, a multipetal nobilis.



And a maiden nobilis

[Leena]

All the nobilis I have from here have white (or sometime creamy) connectives, but this one from Carsten has pinkish connectives,
which adds to its flower.
'Tausendschön' x 'Füssen'


Also this one has pinkish connectives and very nice petal shape, grown from seeds from Gunhild Poulsen,
and flowering last spring for the first time.
42N Picos strain x 90N SuperCentra


Hepatica x schlyteri


'Millstream Merlin', growing well.


Hepatica americana, multipetal

[Leena]

Some Hepaticas were still flowering in mid May.
'Louise Koehler', I'm so happy this one is doing well


'Tenjinbai' was struggling after I planted it, but it has flowered now in two springs, and both times it is much later flowering than H.pubescens or H.japonicas,
and yet it grows right next to the others. Is it typical for 'Tenjinbai' to flower later?


Then I have couple of mysteries.
I planted some H.japonicas in spring 2021, and winter 2021-22 was very difficult and some of them died then.
Or so I thought. This H.japonica with very nice leaves seemed to be dead and rotted in spring 2022, and it didn't come up at 2023 either,
but last spring in that place came up couple of leaves which look excatly like the one I planted there.
It seems that it started to grow from the roots two years later! The original plant didn't flower in 2021 so it can't be a seedling.
Has anyone else had this kind of thing happened?


This one did the same thing. Planted in 2021, seemingly died in 2022, but last spring 2024 appeared with a flower too.
In this spot I planted H.maxima, do you think this plant is it? It is flowering also late (mid May).

 

[Herman Mylemans]

Leena, great Hepatica's! Japonica's are doing very well in your garden, I wish that was also true in our garden.
Concerning maxima, when you see the seeds (black and white) then you are very sure. The flower looks like maxima flower, but the involucre is rather small to be maxima.

[Leena]

Concerning maxima, when you see the seeds (black and white) then you are very sure. The flower looks like maxima flower, but the involucre is rather small to be maxima.

Thanks Herman.
I will have to see how the seeds look like next year. I don't think there were any seeds last year, but I'm not sure. They may have escaped without me noticing them.

[Carsten]

Lovely Hepaticas, Leena! They do very well in your garden and especially the japonicas seem to benefit from your strong winters. In milder climates the change of freezing and melting and lots of moisture may kill them.
Seems to be a maxima, yes.

[Leena]

Thanks Carsten for confirming my H.maxima. Hopefully it will start to grow well and I could try to cross it with nobilis to get my own H. x schlyteri.

Weather is also here becoming more unpredictable. This winter temperatures have gone up and down. One week it is -15C and next, like right now, +4C! There is still snowcover over the plants.
I am so happy that most H.japonicas are doing well, and it is thanks to your advice here about how to make a bed for them.
This is so beautiful, I can't wait to see it multiply.
H.japonica ex 'Ryaugetsu'


Some of my H.americana plants. I like how the blue in H.americana is different than in nobilis. It is somehow more powdery blue.


This is my favourite H.americana, nice flower shape and colour.


This picotee colour is also something that I haven't had in H.nobilis.


Multipetal H.americana, really nice.

[Leena]

Is there a way to tell if a white flowering seedling is H.japonica or H.nobilis? When the anthers and connectives are all white.

[Herman Mylemans]

Is there a way to tell if a white flowering seedling is H.japonica or H.nobilis? When the anthers and connectives are all white.

Leena, I have read that the japonica leaves are more shiny or glossy and the flowers have a scent.