THE delightful, diminutive hepatica thrives in sheltered ground beneath mature, deciduous trees, which provide the perfect microclimate. Here they will produce vibrant flowers in gentian blue ...

They are hepaticas and I love them. I am not alone in doing so. In Japan they are known as “breaking snow plants”. On the southern coast of Korea, there is an island hepatica whose popular ...

By my front door I have a queue of happy hepaticas. They are not distressed migrants. They are fascinating plants and I am giving them a good home. I will now give them an even better one.

Hepatica doesn't display the earliest flowers that bloom each year. Those of bitter cress, henbit, purple dead nettle, bird's-eye speedwell, and others appear in open moist sunny spots by late ...