Hepatica nobilis in our forests

[Hoy]

Natalia, this A. ranunculoides was extraordinary! I have never seen them like that. Do they keep this leaf  colour when the flowers are fully open too?

Here are some A. ranunculoides from my garden:

[Natalia]

Trond, you have beautiful anemones!  Particularly interesting form Gulveis.
 

 Unfortunately, my anemone foliage color lasts until flowering buds revealed - the color is like the others. Veins remain are slightly painted, but no more that...
In our forest I saw some interesting anemones, but yet was not engaged in selection of forms. I will try this year's search for something new:)

[Hoy]

"Gulveis" is the Norwegian name of A. ranunculoides! I don't know if it has a cultivar name.

[Natalia]

Trond, Thanks!
Did not know that it is a grade.

In the book of Janisa Rukshansa "Buried Treasures" there are photos of forms Anemone ranunculoides from islands of Estonia. Very interesting from different type Plena, to viridiflorus.
 So and in your woods probably there are interesting forms an anemone.

[Hoy]

Anemone ranunculoides grows wild in Norway but far from here. Only the common windflower, A. nemorosa is common where I live, but Hepatica nobilis is commen where I have my summerhouse.

I have some coloured forms of A. nemorosa that have established themselves from seed in the garden. (1)
I also try to establish the cross between A. nemorosa and ranunculoides ( x lipsiensis) but these plants are still small. (2)

[Natalia]

About as it is interesting!

From seeds ' Robinsoniana ' at you the more brightly painted form has turned out.
You have photos of other plants grown up of seeds?
 Do I understand correctly - it's your selections  of plants grown in a garden from hybrid seeds?

About А х lipsiensis = А х intermedia = А х seemannii I know, saw it, but here hybrids between it and other kinds - it is very interesting.

[cohan]

interesting! nothing that looks like those woods here! i'm posting some images of our forests on my alberta thread, so i don't corrupt this thread..
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5641.new#new
i'm still looking for pictures of spruce woods here, i have them, but maybe in last year's pictures, i think i'm not hunting anymore tonight ..lol
natalia--this anemone is beautiful! if you ever have/find extra seed (along with the hepaticas and corydalis  i would beg you for some... maybe you will see something you like in my thread

[Natalia]

cohan, I can not promise, but it is possible to try to exchange seeds in the future season. If weather allows - this year some seeds were ruined by a heat...

Alberta forests are beautiful!

[cohan]

thanks natalia--
yes, you never know what will happen with collecting (wild) seeds..some things i could not collect because i just didn't have good weather on the days i was free!

[Natalia]

Last year's finds Hepatica nobilis in my garden.

Hepatica_nobilis lilac form_3_11
Hepatica_nobilis_light pink_11
Hepatica_nobilis_light_blue_11
Hepatica_nobilis_light_blue_2
Hepatica_nobilis_lilac_green_11
Hepatica_nobilis_plena 2_11
Hepatica_nobilis_new_plena 2 and garden form

For comparison cultural and found in last year plena forms Hepayica nobilis the flower from the young plant of the cultural form having 1 socket was used. The bush of the found form had also 1 socket. The sizes of a flower: the cultural form 1-1,5cm, the found form - 2,2 cm.

[KK-Ann Arbor]

Natalia,
Nice Hepaticas!  Like the doubles.  Do they all grow in your zone 3 garden?  Are they protected during the winter in any way?  I have some H. Japonica growing in pots with some winter protection in my zone 5 garden.  I also have Japonica seedlings sown in 2009 and 2010.  I would like to put at least some of them in the ground eventually and interested to find out example cases growing in colder regions.
Koko

[Maggi Young]

Natalia, lovely flowers and super photos, thank you!

[Natalia]

KK, they at us grow to the north of Moscow and to Karelian isthmus (it to the north of Sankt of Petersburg), so stability high enough. Winter well, these are wood plants of our northern woods.
 Hepatica japonica at my friends have successfully wintered in Ural Mountains around Ekaterinburg. Not all grades, but have wintered.
In my garden Hepatica japonica victims last year from mice, in a current of summer have germinated on roots. Young very small plants now get out.

Maggi, thanks! I am very pleased:)

[Maggi Young]

Hepatica japonica at my friends have successfully wintered in Ural Mountains around Ekaterinburg. Not all grades, but have wintered.
In my garden Hepatica japonica victims last year from mice, in a current of summer have germinated on roots. Young very small plants now get out.

 I am quite surprised at this survival near Ekaterinburg.... my vision of this place was VERY COLD!!
Sorry to hear that Russian mice as as big a nuisance as Scottish mice..... good news that root cuttings are surviving though  

[Natalia]

Maggi, yes, there are great cold, but there is heavy snowfall. Under a snow blanket Hepatica bad winters. But the mouse ...