Hepatica

[Diane Whitehead]

After you have clicked "Additional options" and "Browse" to post one pic, then click "more attachments" to open other browse buttons , up to ten in total.
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There is a lot of scrolling -  read the comment, scroll down to examine the picture, scroll up to read the next comment, down for the second picture, and so on. 

When I was posting several pictures, I tried to put the comments between the pictures but was unsuccessful.

Is it possible to do this?

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Diane, it is possible, see the Help at hand for posting to the forum in the General Admin page. I'm short of time now, just off to work, but briefly, instead of just adding the pix at the end of the post, you may insert them in the text by using "attachthumb=1" "attachthumb=2" etc, only using the [] brackets, I can't show that coreectly here or the program will look for a pic file... then add you pix in the order you want them to appear by the usual browse, add, method,
Cheers in haste,
Maggi

[Hkind]

Do you want to see some cultivars of three Swedish Hepatica?

The first one - my favorite - is 'Maj-Gull' - a very slow grower. Then there is the darkviolet double 'Gun-Britt' and a double white.

Hannelotte

[Maggi Young]

Oooh, lovely , Hannelotte! Especially the first one!

[Joakim B]

Hej (Hello) Hannelotte
I did not know that we in Sweden had so nice cultivars. But they are not common are they? 
Or are they called somthing else like "Stockholm form" (second one)
The first is wonderfull pitty it is a slow grower  The others are very nice too. Are they findings from the wild or from a garden? It is more if there is other than the normal Swedish hepatica nobilis in the genepool like nobilis var japonica or so, but then again the japanese cultivars are not that common in cultivation in Sweden either.

Thanks a lot for showing them. By the way are they later than the single hepaticas and do they last longer?
Sorry for the many questiones
Kind regards
Joakim

[Hkind]

Joakim, these cultivars are not at all common. 'Stockholm form' is pure blue, while 'Gun-Britt' is darkviolet. Every one of them has its own story. But all of them are Hepatica nobilis v nobilis.

I got these plants from a friend, who because of illness has to leave her garden and she thought that her (now mine) plant of Gun-Britt was the last being left. Previous divisions have died with their owners.

'Maj-Gull' you can find in five/six gardens in the Stockholm area, but hardly else where.   About the white one, I don't know more but that it was found in the surroundings of Stockholm.

There is one more fine cultivar 'Taellberg', which my friend found herself and I am the only one in Sweden who got it. But Ian Christie got a division of it last year, so it is also represented in Scotland.  ( the image is an old one from last year)

  Hannelotte

[Joakim B]

Hannelotte thanks for the answers and the nice story behind the plants 
I had seen stockholm form and tällberg form on Your webpage but do not remember Maj-Gull or Gun-Britt but my memory is not as good as it should. I will have to revisit Your webpage 
Kind regards
Joakim

[Diane Whitehead]

I've had unexpected success germinating some NARGS exchange seeds of
Hepatica insularis and H. maxima.  Of the four insularis seeds, two have
sprouted.

They arrived this year in mid-January and I sowed them and kept them warm in my
kitchen for two months, then put them in the fridge ten days ago. They just
have roots so far, but I'm delighted as I have never had success with late
seed before, and even fresh seed germinates very erratically.

I guess I should add information about the rest of my experiment.
I took half of each lot of seed and kept them in my unheated greenhouse where
the temperature is comparable to outside, but frost-free. (between 4 and 10 C in winter)
 None of those seeds has germinated yet.

None of the H. nobilis mix seeds have germinated, whether kept warm or cold.  They
were from a different donor, so their behaviour can't be compared to the two
Asian species.

[dan]

I have quite a few Japanese doubles I wouldn't mind swapping for some of the double European forms or the double Chinese forms. Anyone interested? 

[chris]

hello all,
it is a long time that you hear from me, I build a new alpine house for my japanese Hepaticas and other shade loving plants.
In my new house the first Hepaticas show a few flowers

[Rob]

Your new alpine house looks well thought out.

Beautiful hepaticas also.

[ChrisB]

Very nice!

[Paul T]

That is really beautiful.  What a lovely way to grow and display your plants.  Beautiful!! 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hello Chris,

Good to hear from you again !

Big difference to when you showed me the foundations back in January !  You've been a busy boy ! It looks great, even somewhat in Japanese style...
Now that this work is finished there will be no excuse to post more pix of Hep's and Pleione 

[mark smyth]

jealousy comes to mind