Hepatica 2009

[mark smyth]

It bugged me all night about the double white. It's yamatutai

[Gunilla]

It bugged me all night about the double white. It's yamatutai

And a very pretty yamatutai it is  .  I think I like the single ones just as much as the doubles.
Prickle is cute.

[Joakim B]

Thanks for the information Maggi and Ulla.
Nice plants Gerhard, Ewelina and Mark.
I am enjoying them all.
Kind regards
Joakim

[Gunilla]

Warm and sunny today but still frost every night. A few more Hepaticas.

H. nobilis fl. pl. Czech form
H. transsilvanica 'Supernova'

[Paul T]

Gunilla,

I love the blue of that last one, but the form of the Czech one is striking.  Much flatter double than I had seen (or else it was just from a different angle).  Very nice!

[Gunilla]

The flowers open up wide in the sunshine and look a bit flat. The Czech form is new to me so I don't really know how well it will perform but it certainly looks different from my other blue double nobilis.
My favourite one is almost impossible to get a good photo of. It is tiny and very dark blue.  I have no name on it.
Hepatica nobilis blue double

[Paul T]

 

[Joakim B]

It there any international thing that is blue so that it can be used as a colour standard?
It is often tricky to get the right blue and with the change of weather it is even trickyer. But with a standard beside it would be possible to get a feeling.
I am thinking of something like a Pepsi can (I was actually thinking on a coca cola as example for read hen I realized that there is an other common one.
I know that it is not pretty but maybe helps to get a feeling for colours since normally one can not get several types in the same picture if they are growing a bit apart and with only few flowers it might not be fun to pick them.

Are there any better suggestions? I know there are several colour standards that are exact but generally cost a lot and is not available every where.
It might also be the blue from "bounty" or something similar.

Maybe this is a general issue and maybe it fits better elsewhere but I got inspiration here.
Input about making a "international colour-standard" are welcome and also if it is at all interesting. It makes the photo less pretty but helps compare I think.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Ewelina Wajgert]

I have found the shown Hep. nob. semi-double last year.

I have photographed on the show such Hepatica. It seems to me, that this is similar to Gerhard's plant.

[mark smyth]

double blues are so lovely

[Maggi Young]

I think there is something magical about the blues in Hepatica generally.... don't know what it is but I find them really appealing.
Here's the  fuzzy new growth coming on a pink Hepatica today... the flowers are already fallen after the bad wind and rain last week...

[Katrin Lugerbauer]

Last year it had only 4 flowers and look now at it! Does anyone know whats the matter with the flowers? They don't have stamens, I think, so it must be a steril plant. Maybe this is the reason that it is growing so quickly.

The picture above shows the main hepatica bed. Below there is the double one my sister found in 2004.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Your Hepatica hill looks gorgeous Katrin !
Very natural ! 

[David Nicholson]

Lovely pictures everyone, one of these days I'll succeed in growing one

[ichristie]

Hi to all thanks for the super pictures, I post a late Blue hepatica nobilis possible hybrid with H. nobilis var japonica, cheers Ian the Christie kind.