Hepatica 2012

[Lesley Cox]

Tha Tokyo plates are as beautiful as the plants.

[angie]

What a collection  . I hate opening this topic,  as I love everyone. They are just like tiny cute faces.

Angie 

[YT]

Probably the bronze medal winners would have us drooling 

Art, several unawarded hepaticas have already been uploaded here

Wim, thanks You've already seen faaaaaaaaaarrr better flowers than mine on this thread

Karl, very nice hepatias you have Yes, 'Jakkoh' is one of the best flowers of all I guess too

Lesley, it's good idea these plates are given to the winners instead of medals or trophies. How about using these for sushi decoration

Angie, yes indeed

[YT]

...continued from yesterday

20. Shibu-Mi
21. unnamed, shishi-ba (ruffled leaf)
22. Bi-Sei
23. Inashima-Midori
24. Inashima-Midori

[ronm]

These are amazing pictures, YT, of what must have been a truly inspiring event! How many entrants are there for a show such as this, and how many people from the public would visit, please?

[WimB]

  The electric green 'Inashima-Midori'

[Michael J Campbell]

Wow Love that Inashima-Midori. Would probably need to mortgage the house to buy that.

[YT]

Ron, I cannnot answer that, sorry. I'm only a visitor and stay the show place about 1 hour, as you know. Several ten thousand visiters and some decades exhibiter, ten or some more nursery shops

As far as I know, this event is sponsored and managed by professional hepatica nurseries and breeders. Amatures can entiry the contest and exhibit their plants but it seems just a kind of commercial events. Free for entry charge, so many peoples like us amatures visit the show and buy lots of hepatica plants from nursery shops and both become happy, like that

25. - 27. Exhibition floor
I visited the show in the afternoon of the last day, not so many people were there.

[YT]

28. Shopping floor, all are hepatica shops, very fun
29. sandan-zaki (leafy green centre, double) seedling, JPY 30.000-
30. sandan-zaki (leafy green centre, double) seedling, JPY 5,000 - 8,000, what is different to above, in anyway
31. yellow double seedling, priceless

[YT]

32. a shop display bench, more than 4,000 pots on the bench
33. a sort of single seedlings close up, JPY 2,000 - 7,000, I like single flowers best

[YT]

34. a sort of single seedlings, JPY 1,000 - 8,000

[YT]

35. a sort of double seedlings, JPY 5,000 - 100,000 or more

This is the last pic of the hepatica show, thanks for all comments

[WimB]

All those plants 
And those prices 

30. sandan-zaki (leafy green centre, double) seedling, JPY 5,000 - 8,000, what is different to above, in anyway

That reminds me of Galanthus  (Now the Galanthophiles AND the Hepaticaphiles will want to kill me  )

I like single flowers best

I find that the "simplest" flowers can be the most beautiful very often, too! (And it's healthier for your wallet!  )

[art600]

Even more glad that I am several thousand miles away from temptation 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Amazing stuff Tatsuo !!  Thank you so much for showing us these !!