Hepatica x media Millstream Merlin

This has to be one of the most beautiful of the non japonica hybrid Hepaticas.

Flowers are made up of broad blue petals, a good strong blue and arguably the deepest blue on any except maybe some japonica hybrids. Foliage is tri-lobed and mid green in colour, dying away for the colder winter months. The flowers tend to rise in early spring before the fresh green foliage. Deep cobalt blue, deeper than Hepatica nobilis Cobalt blue but slower growing. Completely sterile and therefore the flowers last considerably longer.

 Quite possibly a hybrid between H. media and H. acutiloba.