Hepatica – Modern hybrids for the garden

Presentation by Jürgen Peters in the “Großer Hörsaal”

New for the shady garden! What do you get when you combine colourful and diverse Asian Hepatica with our robust native ones?

Dainty, blue and very early in the year – these are the childhood memories of native Hepatica. Stunning!

But in many gardens they get lost, lacking the long-distance effect, and when the diversity of Japanese varieties is on the wish list, it becomes challenging in the choice of location.

Fortunately, gardeners are ambitious and like to play bee. Targeted selection of pollination partners has resulted in a large number of new Hepatica varieties

Breeding focus: combining beautiful colours, flower and growth forms of Asian varieties with vigorous European species.

Over the last fifteen years, wonderful varieties have emerged that combine many good qualities – vigorous, great foliage, strong colours and special shapes.  Above all, they are suitable for normal Hepatica sites – shady, humusy, reminiscent of European deciduous forests.

Let us take you on an excursion into the history of breeding, the new variety and a look into the future.

Start: 3:00 p.m. in the Big lecture hall of the Botanical Institute

Participants: max. 250 people

Suitable from 16-year-old

Pictures: © Jürgen Peters

The event will be held as part of the Flower Power Festival 2023.

Location

Big lecture hall on the first floor of the Botanical Institute
Menzinger Straße 67
D-80638 München
Tel.: 089 17861-321
Fax: 089 17861-324
E-Mail: botgart@snsb.de
Webseite: www.botmuc.snsb.de

Cooperation partner

Staudengärtnerei Susanne Peters
Auf dem Flidd 20, 25436 Uetersen
Alpine.peters@t-online.de
Website: https://shop.alpine-peters.de