Hepatica

• 2 Jan, 2009
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I love hepaticas. I once saw one I have never forgotten. It was in a specialist garden place, and it was in a small pot (there was only one plant!). It was robin's egg blue and double! I told the proprietor that I would take it, and he said, "No you won't"! :-( I was so crestfallen that he wanted to cheer me up, and so he went off and returned with the corms of Frittilaria Camchatkensis, a black variety of fritillary from Alaska. I felt much better after he allowed me to have those. (I never know if Fritillary has two t's or two l's.) Hepatica is called "Leberbluemchen" in German: Liverflower! As in hepatitis!