Hepatica 2011

[Diane Clement]

Hi Mike ,I do have a copy of Ashwoods mail order 2011 for hepatica plants and seed.
If you would like a copy let me have your address and I will send it.    

The mail order info is also on line here:

http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/images/stories/mailorder/hepatica_plants.pdf
http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/images/stories/mailorder/hepatica_seeds.pdf

[Mavers]

Hello Cheryl, you are very kind to offer to send Ashwoods mail order list to me.

I've received their informative colour hepatica brochure already this year & the order form was included..........there's nothing like choosing your own plant though is there?

Mike

 

[Gunhild Poulsen]

Nice flowers Diana, and you are right Hepatica change. It is sayd that one can expect changing the first 3 year.
Here is one of my examples

[fleurbleue]

Diane, I had seen a beautiful double white and green Hepatica on the old forum... Do you have it yet ? I have kept it in my mind 

[angie]

Diane just had a look at your Hepatica pictures they are absolutely lovely, thanks for showing.

Angie

[kalle-k.dk]

Today, it has been perfect Hepatica weather, lot of sunshine. I took pictures from one of our glasshouse.

Gunda and Kalle,
Denmark

[annew]

It must be lovely in your greenhouse (very tidy!), all those beautiful hepaticas. Do they stay inside all year?

[ChrisB]

Kirsten, your H. japonica is wonderful. 

[Nick_the_grief]

Thanks, Cheryl.  My addiction is fuelled by
a) living only a few minutes from Ashwood    and
b) having a generous Japanese friend   
 

But no scissors to cut the price tag off    THey look great Diane - maybe I'll have a stab at after I've been killing easier things first.

[Mavers]

Hi Gunda & Kalle.

We are having hard frosts & very bright sunny days here in the UK & I was thinking maybe I should think about shading my hepaticas.

Will you keep your hepaticas in the greenhouse through the summer ? When will you start to provide shade?

I've attached a picture of my Millstream Merlin it looked so perfect yesterday.

[annew]

That's a beauty, Mike.

[Mavers]

Thank you annew, I'm thrilled with it, such a stunning colour with that lime green centre.

Hope I can keep it for many years to come.   

[kalle-k.dk]

Anne and Mike, Yes all the Hepatica we have in pots are always in a glass house. There are several reasons for this; early season, better experience to control pollination, early seeds and a few other things.

Mike; I will not shade my Hepatica now, they need and love the sunshine now. We start by giving them shade in late May.

[Mavers]

Thanks KKD, I was thinking along the same lines regarding shading. Plants in the wild would not have overhead shade yet as the trees are still without foliage.

[gote]

As far as nobils goes. in mid-Sweden it likes a fairly sunny position when grown in the ground. In the wild they grow in the shade but this is not because they need it. it is because there is less competition there. I would not try them in very exposed positions though. Potted plants may be another matter.
Göte.