Pacific Northwest Gardening: Help with trilliums and hardy orchids. Please!, 1 by katie59

katie59 wrote:
I'm just going to take the liberty of posting other woodland flower pictures here. I think I've mentioned how excited I am about my Hepatica from Mt. Tahoma last Fall. I knew I wanted Hepatica, but relied on Rick to recommend which I should get. He did great by me. Here's my baby this spring - I have two of them and they are going crazy budding out - much tougher a plant than I realized. After blooming, I'm going to put them in gallon containers and set them 3/4 into the ground into a nice spot. I'm hoping that will protect them from the slugs while they grow this year.

I have two blossoms out, one more up and one on the way. My camera's broken, so it isn't taking great pictures and the lighting kind of washes out the color. These blossoms are a nice, bright magenta. Hepatica nobilis x cremar. What a great plant!