Hepatica 2010

[chris]

Gunda and Karl nice to hear from you, ofcorse the yellow one is fantastic, I wait to see mine Yellow to flower the first time, I have it from last year and hope to see the first flower this year, when it's flowering I hope to cross it with the crimson one to create a orange color, see it in tree years if we have lucky, I love verry much the T-7 D.
here tree pictures of the same flower of H.'Cho no Mai',  the first 2 weeks ago the last today

[chris]

Marc here one with some foliage: H.Hana no Nami'

[TheOnionMan]

Marc here one with some foliage: H.Hana no Nami'

Thanks Chris, I like the green staminodes in that one.  Interesting to see how the colors change with flower age.  I like to see what these plants look like when seeing the foliage, thanks for including some foliage.  

Interesting too, in your previous series, how it takes a couple weeks for some of the flower parts to mature.  All very nice.

[Gail]

I love hepatica - most of mine are forms of H. transsilvanica (my two Japanese did not survive an unscheduled repotting by my chickens!) They still need a couple of weeks here but I went to the AGS Loughborough sale yesterday and Edrom's display was fantastic!  Poor pictures I'm afraid but they will give you an idea of the treasures they have.  I deliberately did not look closely at their sale hepaticas as I didn't dare fall in love.  I had already managed to spend the money that was meant for my son's school lunches next week!

[Michael J Campbell]

I notice that a lot of the Hepatica on show still have their old leaves,I cut off all the old leaves when moving them to their flowering positions on the greenhouse bench. Is this the proper procedure or not?

[Maggi Young]

It occurs to me that if I had paid £100 for a hepatica japonica, I would be leaving it with as much foliage as possible for it to build it's strength up!
They are not the most robust of plants here and I would hesitate to give them the same treatment that I would for the stronger species and forms. 

[Michael J Campbell]

Maggi,are you suggesting that I paid a £100 for a hepatica.? 

[Maggi Young]

Maggi,are you suggesting that I paid a £100 for a hepatica.?  

Good grief, Michael, I would never be so daft as to make THAT mistake!!  


Edrom must have some crafty method of packing those stylish pots for transit... they'd be a nightmare otherwise... that shape is just asking to tip over inthe back of a van!

Gail, your poor boy, risking lunchlessness!..... come on folks, let's have a whip round for sandwiches for Master Harland's lunches next week....his mother has been reckless!

[chris]

I cut only sick or death leaves, on shows in Japan you always see leaves when a plant has no leaves than it will be taken out the show.

[Maggi Young]

Chris, most interesting to hear the protocol for the Japanese hepatica shows, thank you.

[kalle-k.dk]

We cut the old leaves when new leaves are beginning to come.
We have few types of the yellow, the picture I send of before is the best until now. I send a picture of one where the flower is not so big and the yellow colour is more light. We also have a yellow form with a green stem, but no flowers yet. We also have a double yellow, but it is the same, we have not seen it in bloom yet, so there is plenty to look forward to when spring comes.

Gunda & Karl Kristensen

[TheOnionMan]

I cut only sick or death leaves, on shows in Japan you always see leaves when a plant has no leaves than it will be taken out the show.

Sounds rather sensible, glad to hear it.  In the 'Tensai' photo shown by Gail, I think the flowers subtended by a base of waxy foliage is very attractive and perfectly natural looking.

[kalle-k.dk]

Hej Chris
It will be interesting if you can get an orange flower by crossing the yellow Hepatica, I've seen some images of Hepatica Jap. which were yellow in the middle, they were really nice.

Gunda og Karl

[chris]

I hope my yellow will flower, at this moment I dont see flowerbuds, I save some pollen from the red one in the fridge.
here tho others: 2 pics of a good white one and H.'Tsumabeni'

[Gail]

Gail, your poor boy, risking lunchlessness!..... come on folks, let's have a whip round for sandwiches for Master Harland's lunches next week....his mother has been reckless!

Maggi - reckless is not the word I'd use.  I bought a bulb of Galanthus 'Long Drop' from Rannveig Wallis; now I've just got to teach the boys to twin-scale and then long after I am gone they can be selling snowdrops to augment their pensions.  That's shrewd not reckless surely??