Hepatica
Liverwort
- Height × spread
- 0.15m – 0.3m × 0.2m – 0.3m
- Position
- Part shade
Availability
Please ask in store about availability
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About this plant
These small, spring flowering plants have beautiful flowers in shades of white, pink, blue, and purple. The majority of the forms grown in gardens have simple flowers, but there are a range of elaborate hybrids which are suited to the specialist alpine grower. The leaves have rounded lobes and there are forms with interesting patterned leaves that extend their season of interest beyond the few spring weeks of their blooms. These like to be left alone once established so choose their position with care.
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Cone
- Height
- 0.15m – 0.3m
- Spread
- 0.2m – 0.3m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Winter
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Winter garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes part shade, tolerates light shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Clay, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Winter hardiness
- Varies, most are hardy
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Hazards
- No
AutumnNow
Autumn · Outdoors
Apply mulch
Use bark chips or leaf mould to add an organic mulch around the crown of the plant.
A mulch is a covering that can: protect the soil surface from rain, heat and cold; deter weeds; provide nutrients. Organic indicates that material has vegetative origin e.g. manure, compost. Synthetics i.e. plastics, or stones are often called mulches.
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water to keep the soil moist
For best results, this plant needs soil that is always moist. Water deeply and regularly as soon as soil appears dry. Even for established plants in the ground, a dry week can cause problems with some soils. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather. Or install an automatic irrigation system which will do the hard work for you, even when you are away on holiday.
Without regular watering some plants never fully regain their beauty.