Hepatica 2011

[Michael J Campbell]

How many Hepatica do you grow Gunhild and Michael ?

I grow all I can get my hands on, I beg and Barter anywhere  I can.

[fleurbleue]

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[Natalia]

Gunhild, congratulations on the excellent Hepatica - Daisetsurei Beauty and Kiou - gorgeous rare color!

Gerhard, very mysterious Hepatica!

 Michael - what a great Hepatica viridiflora! I'm smitten to death! 

[Michael J Campbell]

Hepatica  Japonica  Kosino maboroshi
Hepatica  Japonica Hohobeni
Hepatica  Japonica Anjyu
Hepatica  Japonica Toki
Hepatica  Japonica Shikouden

[Maggi Young]

Michael J Campbell... now tell the truth... you have a giant Sun Ray Lamp in  your garden, don't you?


Loving the flowers  in all the forum from lucky souls with better weather than we have here!

[Michael J Campbell]

No Maggi, we just have an early spring. Temperatures went from -7C or 8C to + 10C in a couple of days and it has been like that for three weeks now. It might all end in tears if we get another cold snap, much toooooooooo early for spring.

[WimB]

Gunhild and Michael,

Wow...just WOW  

Thanks for showing  

[Luc Gilgemyn]

    Michael, ... I'm lost for words... 

Kosino maboroshi looks like it's hand made (by an excellent craftsman that is... !)
Unbelievable !

[Graham Catlow]

All just stunning but the deep purple one from a couple of days ago is amazing
It would be easy to get hooked by these, but I must refrain.

[Gunhild Poulsen]

Nicole -
In my greenhouse I grow around 400 different named or numbered japonica, and around 100 different named or numbered nobilis, transsilvanica and others. I don’t know how many Hepatica I grow in my garden – but I suppose there are more than in the greenhouse – nobilis as well as japonica. Every year I grow a lot from seeds, and sometimes I’m lucky to create a good form.
Gunhild

[Gunilla]

Wow! I feel intoxicated  . Michael and Gunhild, your amazing hepatica flowers bring sunshine to me. 
I had the pleasure to visit Gunhild last spring and can assure you, she grows a lot of hepaticas  and her garden is wonderful.   

[fleurbleue]

Gunhild, it's a pity you are so far from Lyon   

[Casalima]

These Hepatica are all so very wonderful!!  Congratulations to all of you!
I just gaze and sigh ...
(though of course many Hepatica growers might gaze and sigh at what can be grown in the region I live in - some of the gardener's grass is so often greener elsewhere ).

[Yann]

Stunning Hepatica, i'll ask Santa claus to bring me these gorgious plants.

[kalle-k.dk]

After a cold November and December, January was like spring here in Denmark. Now it is cold again so it is good we can see our Hepatica in the greenhouse. We have insulated the greenhouse with bubble plastic and mineral wool and warm it up to +2 degrees with a heater, so it is like spring in there. It is almost Hepatica we grow in the greenhouse and a lot of them got big buds and a few got also flowers. We grow them in 10 cm. high pots on tables and 5 cm. of the pots stay in fine gravel. The soil we use is well drained peat.
For two years ago we bought Hepatica nobilis var. japonica ‘Nozakuya’ because it has a green and not a typical flower. So last year we was a little bit disappointed because all flowers was more pink than green. This year got the plant the right filled green flowers, but also a few pink filled flowers.
Thank you all for the picture of the beautiful flowers, it feels good to see them here in the cold Denmark.

Gunda & Kalle,
Denmark