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Title: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 05, 2020, 12:33:04 PM
Cyclamen Society Show - Winter Show 2020: Sunday 9 February 2020 – Birmingham Botanical Gardens https://www.cyclamen.org/shows/ (https://www.cyclamen.org/shows/)

Sorry, no times  given  - I hope a  Cyclamen Society  member  might  be  able to  help!

 Directions  to the  show  :
Birmingham
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses are situated in Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3TR. Tel: 0121 454 1860.
FROM M40 – Take M42 West to M5 North and then follow directions from M5.
FROM M5 – Leave at Junction 3 and take A456 signposted to City Centre. Turn right on to B4129 (Norfolk Road) signposted to Botanical Gardens.
FROM M6 – Leave at Junction 6 and take A38(M) to City Centre. Follow underpasses sign posted Birmingham West to A456. At Five Ways island turn left on to B4217 (Calthorpe Road) signposted to Botanical Gardens.
The gardens are well signposted with brown and cream tourist signs from at least two miles away. If you have a De Luxe Birmingham A-Z map, the reference is page 116 4B. On the Ordnance Survey Street Atlas of Birmingham and West Midlands, the map reference is page 85 7F.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Gerdk on February 07, 2020, 11:24:18 AM
Just 2 pics of Cyclamen elegans Reiko (seedlings) - originally received from the late Jan Bravenboer

Gerd
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 07, 2020, 11:48:19 AM
Just 2 pics of Cyclamen elegans Reiko (seedlings) - originally received from the late Jan Bravenboer

Gerd
Perfect!
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on February 07, 2020, 01:07:31 PM
Beautiful plants Gerd.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Gerdk on February 08, 2020, 09:30:47 AM
Thank you Maggi & David!
Gerd
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on February 12, 2020, 10:34:54 PM
I'd like to donate some mature cyclamen plants to my local botanical garden.  Can someone suggest the best time to dig the tubers?  Some are 4 or 5 inches across.
Thank you.
...Claire
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: SJW on February 12, 2020, 10:57:45 PM
I'd like to donate some mature cyclamen plants to my local botanical garden.  Can someone suggest the best time to dig the tubers?  Some are 4 or 5 inches across.
Thank you.
...Claire
Wait until the foliage dies back in early summer and lift the tubers then.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on February 13, 2020, 07:13:52 PM
Thank you for the advice.  I can easily wait until then.  In some places in my garden right now, cyclamen are a solid green ground cover.
...Claire
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Roma on February 16, 2020, 02:25:19 PM
A couple of mixed pots.  The first one was labelled parviflorum subalpinum and appears to be mainly coum with a couple of persicum.
Seed was from the Cyclamen Society sown in November 2017.

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The second is labelled cilicium.  I think some are cilicium but there's also coum there.

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on February 16, 2020, 02:37:50 PM
nice foliage on the first batch
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on February 23, 2020, 06:10:22 AM
Cyclamen graecum is the first of the year in our garden
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on February 25, 2020, 12:30:07 PM
Cyclamen rohlfsianum is already in flower in the rock garden
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on February 27, 2020, 09:33:51 AM
White Cyclamen graecum also flowering
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on March 05, 2020, 01:55:45 AM
More blooms on Cyclamen rohlfsianum
and Cyclamen graecum in the rock gardens
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Graeme on March 08, 2020, 06:21:28 PM
how come the best seedlings are always in the plunge below

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Graeme on March 08, 2020, 06:26:44 PM
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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Graeme on March 08, 2020, 06:28:35 PM
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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Graeme on March 08, 2020, 06:31:59 PM
Coum Porcelain seems to have liked the mild weather

a very kind forum member sent me a couple of corms a few years ago - this is the first time I have managed to get a decent flowering

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Graeme on March 08, 2020, 06:34:24 PM
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Coum 'Golan Heights' seems to be flowering well this year - I suspect it needs a bit more warmth over winter

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on March 08, 2020, 09:44:50 PM
Coum from Golan need a very late watering. The white form is now classified as Cyclamen coum f. albissimum

Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Gerdk on March 09, 2020, 09:00:48 AM
Coum Porcelain seems to have liked the mild weather
a very kind forum member sent me a couple of corms a few years ago - this is the first time I have managed to get a decent flowering

Unfortunately the fine lines on the petals are not stable. My plant, received from the late Jane Bravenboer looks like an ordinary white coum this season.

Gerd
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Bart on March 23, 2020, 08:32:18 PM
Cyclamen libanoticum in the garden, flowering in exactly the same weeks as last year:

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There is a coum growing next to it, showing some of its leaves in the picture.

Also, to my surprise, Cyclamen pseudibericum made it into a batch of C. hederifolium that I planted on the edge of a path under a tall fir tree:

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I am now growing more species outdoors without protection than I ever thought possible. One day they will freeze I suppose or succumb to a soggy summer..For now they look very cheerful.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on March 27, 2020, 10:33:05 AM
Cyclamen mirabile - grown from seed from AGS Seedex as "ex Tilebarn Nicholas" and subsequent generations
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on March 27, 2020, 01:58:47 PM
Nice to see ‘em Fermi. My Cyclamen in the greenhouse are terrible this year mainly because of a lack of attention during our big wet period between November and the early part of March when it was mainly too wet to even think about getting outside.

This last week has been beautiful with wall-to-wall sunshine every day but quite a nip in the air and was able to catch up a bit. The thing is as we are confined to home because of the Virus Maureen drags me out every afternoon on a long walk and my knees are just about shot now. I could do with making an appointment! ;D
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: François Lambert on March 27, 2020, 03:40:08 PM
Cyclamen Coum, sown fall 2018 (but too late), germinated fall 2019, flowering spring 2020 - spent winter in an unheated greenhouse.

I really was not expecting these to flower that fast :)
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on March 28, 2020, 03:10:01 PM
Nice to see ‘em Fermi. My Cyclamen in the greenhouse are terrible this year mainly because of a lack of attention during our big wet period between November and the early part of March when it was mainly too wet to even think about getting outside.

This last week has been beautiful with wall-to-wall sunshine every day but quite a nip in the air and was able to catch up a bit. The thing is as we are confined to home because of the Virus Maureen drags me out every afternoon on a long walk and my knees are just about shot now. I could do with making an appointment! ;D
Thanks, David,
we're now heading into cooler weather at last! Soon we'll be complaining about how cold it is!
As for your knees I'm happy to suggest some exercises :)
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on March 28, 2020, 10:06:03 PM
I am now growing more species outdoors without protection than I ever thought possible. One day they will freeze I suppose or succumb to a soggy summer..For now they look very cheerful.

Cyclamen are stronger than literature claims
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Bart on March 31, 2020, 01:56:23 PM
A pot of Cyclamen x meiklei, raised from seed obtained from the late Jan Bravenboer, seed from C.creticum completely silver leaf x C. repandum. Sown 23/09/2010

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Also flowering C. balearicum, nice flower but look at the leaf!

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The more Cyclamen I grow, or rather the longer, the more I get odd behaviour. I have one C. persicum that flowered before Christmas and has just produced ripe seed  ???
I hope this leaf problem doesn't spread. It appears on and off on balearicum but not on others in section repandum.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on April 02, 2020, 10:54:13 PM
A pot of Cyclamen x meiklei, raised from seed obtained from the late Jan Bravenboer, seed from C.creticum completely silver leaf x C. repandum. Sown 23/09/2010

Should try to cross them, it's stronger than creticum itself.

Cyclamen rhodium is very shy this year few stems per pot
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Jupiter on April 07, 2020, 05:53:53 AM
Here in Adelaide South Australia we are 180° out of sync in our seasons and Cyclamen are waking up from summer dormancy. I was given a few pots of seedlings by a fellow enthusiast last spring, some of them sans labels. Can anyone tell me what this could be? My initial thought was persicum, but maybe graecum? No sign of flower buds at this stage which will help to clear it up.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: SJW on April 11, 2020, 01:27:30 AM
Here in Adelaide South Australia we are 180° out of sync in our seasons and Cyclamen are waking up from summer dormancy. I was given a few pots of seedlings by a fellow enthusiast last spring, some of them sans labels. Can anyone tell me what this could be? My initial thought was persicum, but maybe graecum? No sign of flower buds at this stage which will help to clear it up.
I think persicum from the 'look' of the leaf but flowering period will obviously confirm which it is.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Jupiter on April 11, 2020, 04:09:34 AM
Thanks SJW, I think I'll just have to be patient and wait for flowers.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on April 16, 2020, 01:20:17 PM
Cyclamen repandum.

I've struggled with this in the greenhouse and never got it to flower and it has rarely looked as if it was going to survive. A couple of years ago I moved out into the garden and it is spreading nicely.

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Roma on April 18, 2020, 09:55:28 PM
I think I have only one Cyclamen repandum doing well in the greenhouse this year. C. rhodium peloponnesiacum and C. rhodium vividum are looking good.  The white one is Cyclamen creticum

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on April 21, 2020, 11:41:22 PM
This Cyclamen repandum was overrun by Zauschneria garrettii a few years ago.  It has thrived, putting out lots of seedlings.  I guess this just shows that plants grow where they want, even though it wouldn't be a spot I'd pick for them.
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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on April 22, 2020, 12:39:42 AM
Cyclamen rhodium peloponnesiacum

Roma does your plants is from seeds? Very nice foliage not often seen in the wild.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: DaveM on April 22, 2020, 03:08:09 PM
Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum from Rock Garden Club seed received Jan 2013. I recall that 6 seeds germinated, three I have in pots; first image is the best one I think. The other three I planted out in the garden, in dappled shade. Two have now survived three 'winters' here, planted quite deeply and with just a little mulch. Leaves get a bit moth eaten as time goes by but one of the remainers flowers quite well. I expect a hard winter might see the end of these, but I'll enjoy them whilst I can. Maybe this species is hardier than we are led to believe??

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Roma on April 22, 2020, 03:56:31 PM
Yann, my Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum was grown from Cyclamen society seed - 2nd generation from CSE wild collected plant.  Seed was sown in 2003.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on April 24, 2020, 08:34:53 AM
Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum from Rock Garden Club seed received Jan 2013. I recall that 6 seeds germinated, three I have in pots; first image is the best one I think. The other three I planted out in the garden, in dappled shade. Two have now survived three 'winters' here, planted quite deeply and with just a little mulch. Leaves get a bit moth eaten as time goes by but one of the remainers flowers quite well. I expect a hard winter might see the end of these, but I'll enjoy them whilst I can. Maybe this species is hardier than we are led to believe??

During winter temperatures can drop down 2-3°c in south of Greece and dodecanese islands, until it's not frozen under 5°c no problem with the bulbs. 
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on April 24, 2020, 08:35:18 AM
Yann, my Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum was grown from Cyclamen society seed - 2nd generation from CSE wild collected plant.  Seed was sown in 2003.
thanks Roma
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Gerdk on April 28, 2020, 04:44:22 PM
Two colour variants of Cyclamen repandum - seem to have no problems outside here

Gerd
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Roma on June 19, 2020, 01:58:13 PM
Cyclamen purpurascens is starting to flower and Cyclamen colchicum is not far behind.

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on July 31, 2020, 04:51:33 PM
An early starter here, maybe I should blame the weather? Cyclamen hederifolium f. albiflorum

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 01, 2020, 07:08:45 AM
A friend of mine always lamented the first Cyclamen hederifolium because it meant the end of summer - I would be the opposite in our climate! I no longer bemoan the winter because it means the fire season (here at least) is over.

Cyclamen elegans in a pot in the garden.
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 01, 2020, 02:44:53 PM
First of the Cyclamen persicum in the garden to flower
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on August 07, 2020, 03:29:40 PM
Anthony Darby on Facebook showed  his  C. persicum in his  Aukland  garden ......

"This morning, just before heading to school. Cyclamen persicum from Rhodes at the back and Jordan at the front."

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Anthony Darby on August 13, 2020, 10:56:39 PM
Cyclamen persicum flowering in the rockery in East Auckland. The larger one is from Rhodes seed, the other from Jordan. Two single tubers from seed kindly sent by Hans Joschko.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Hans J on August 14, 2020, 02:21:13 PM
Congratulation Anthony !!!

Nice to see your  pretty plants from my seeds

Hans :)
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Roma on August 17, 2020, 03:48:38 PM
Cyclamen mirabile  - very early this year

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on August 17, 2020, 05:16:29 PM
Roma, I have one that has been flowering for around ten days now but haven’t had a chance to picture it yet. As you say, very early.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Carolyn on August 17, 2020, 06:43:00 PM
I found a whole tray full of mirabile in full flower under the greenhouse bench (unwatered) at the start of August. Very early indeed. I wonder if it was the cool nights In July (8C in my greenhouse) which triggered flowering?
Also, in the garden, my first C. hederifolium came into flower on 2nd June, following a brief shower of rain. It had been so dry and warm from March - June that the poor plants must have thought the rain meant autumn. The cold and the rain of July brought all the rest into flower. I would post some photos if  could, but apparently my files are always too big (sigh).
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on August 18, 2020, 01:09:34 PM
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I would post some photos if  could, but apparently my files are always too big (sigh).
Oh Carolyn, I do not  know  why  you  have  this problem. I do occasionally have  such a  hiccup but  by  and  large  the  system will post  photos  of  just  abut  any  size  without  "complaint". The  other  day I was  posting  pix from elsewhere  for  a  member  and  I posted  a  whole string  of  large  size  images  without  bother. Suddenly  the  system decided to "change  its  mind"  and baulked  at any  larger  than 200kb.  Irritating? Yes, but  I  used the  simple  resizing  element  I have  on my  ancient  ACDSee programme  and   then loaded the  pix as  usual.  It  really  didn't  take  very  long and  the  end  result  is  that the  photos are  there  in the  forum as  a  lasting  record.
I am far  from being  a  computer  whizz and  the  programme  I use  for  photo sizing  etc is, in computer  terms, almost  antediluvian, so no fancy knowledge  or  equipment  is  needed. 
As  previously  stated, it  seems  the  best  way to load  photos  is  using  the  attachimg route  = inline  full size  image
Of  course, there  will be internet  connection changes/interruptions from time  to time - depending  on the  service  in  a  given area or  time,  and  often these  are  so minimal   as  to  pass un-noticed  generally, but  they  do occur, I am reliably  informed, so I do hope that  people  will  not  be  deterred  and  will make  that extra  effort, should  it  be  needed, to support the  forum fully.

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Leena on August 20, 2020, 10:54:08 AM
Last summer I planted several C.purpurascens corms in different places in the garden to see where they would like it most.
All survived the winter well and now most are flowering.  :) I'm so happy about these, and hope they will grow bigger in time.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on September 04, 2020, 12:44:33 PM
Cyclamen graecum ssp. candicum, a Creten species, from seed kindly sent to me by Tony Willis a few years ago now, and sown 2011.

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on September 04, 2020, 12:47:43 PM
Cyclamen mirabile again from seed provided by Tony Willis

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on September 04, 2020, 12:52:04 PM
Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'.  A bit on the dark side, sorry. Flowers coming towards their end now but the leaves are nice.

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on September 04, 2020, 12:55:07 PM
A light form of Cyclamen cilicium from SRGC Exchange seed sown eons ago!

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Guff on September 08, 2020, 08:00:12 PM
Purpurascens Alba

Planted out last Fall, 2019. Flowers damaged by rain.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Yann on September 08, 2020, 10:43:10 PM
Cyclamens are a sure value in any garden, 2 years ago i plantes several graecum in a south corner, bulbs are now twice the size they were and not damage with the winter rains.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on September 11, 2020, 06:46:05 PM
Cyclamen hederifolium and a very dark one.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on September 11, 2020, 06:47:33 PM
Cyclamen graecum in tufa garden.

Cyclamen graecum ‘Glyfada’ is wrong name, the leave is not right. It should be Cyclamen graecum.

Cyclamen graecum f. album
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on September 11, 2020, 06:48:50 PM
Cyclamen confusum on different places in the garden.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on September 11, 2020, 06:55:26 PM
Cyclamen colchicum

Cyclamen purpurascens, picture from July 
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Leena on September 12, 2020, 01:14:53 PM
Herman, what a nice cyclamen flowering you have, and a lot of them!
Here first C.purpurascens started to flower in early August, and still there are flowers in some of them. It seems that some of them start to flower later than others.
C.hederifolium has not been hardy in my garden, but C.purpurascens is, I'm so happy about that!

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Gerdk on September 13, 2020, 09:39:53 AM
This is Cyclamen graecum ssp. candicum from Crete - flowering since two weeks

Gerd

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on September 13, 2020, 10:31:14 AM
Herman, what a nice cyclamen flowering you have, and a lot of them!
Here first C.purpurascens started to flower in early August, and still there are flowers in some of them. It seems that some of them start to flower later than others.
C.hederifolium has not been hardy in my garden, but C.purpurascens is, I'm so happy about that!
Leena, here I have had in the past some damage at the leaves of C. hederifolium because of frost, but they always have survived.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Rob-Rah on September 17, 2020, 12:46:37 PM
This was kindly identified from its leaves last year as C. hederifolium - it originated from the Madonie mountains in Sicily and I had hoped it was C. repandum. Anyway, here is the flower at the moment for anyone to confirm :)

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Bart on September 23, 2020, 07:44:56 PM
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Still not sure if this is graecum, maritimum or candicum. I think it is candicum, but can anyone tell from this picture?

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Cyclamen hederifolium bicolour flower

This tuber produced mostly white flowers, but 2 flowers are distinctly bi-coloured! probably a chance mutation that will not come back next year. I'll try to keep the seedpods separate ( ;D wish me luck)

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: elena on September 27, 2020, 01:47:10 AM
These C.purpurascens have grown indoors and were planted in the garden 2 years ago.
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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Mariette on September 27, 2020, 02:39:07 PM

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Cyclamen hederifolium bicolour flower

This tuber produced mostly white flowers, but 2 flowers are distinctly bi-coloured! probably a chance mutation that will not come back next year. I'll try to keep the seedpods separate ( ;D wish me luck)

This one appeared 4 years ago in my garden and was potted, but never flowered the same again. Probably this phenomenon is due to stress of any kind.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: brianw on September 27, 2020, 07:18:49 PM
I had a similar "striped" flower this year on a young plant, which I lifted from the garden. Hints of the forms called "Ruby" with a much darker colour. A second flower showed little of this marking, but I do have some other corms with much darker colour.

Brian Whyer SE UK
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: papapoly on September 28, 2020, 07:53:12 PM
Has anyone tried to hybridize Cyclamen hederefolium with Cyclamen cilicium? 

Do they hybridize?
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on October 02, 2020, 05:17:42 PM
From Kirsten Andersen on FB -  "Cyclamen hederifolium CSE 07003G. I have a question - is it a 'Red Corfu'? "

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on October 02, 2020, 06:41:38 PM
From Kirsten Andersen on FB -  "Cyclamen hederifolium CSE 07003G. I have a question - is it a 'Red Corfu'? "

Kirsten says she's had  it  confirmed  as  'Red Corfu' - nice  isn't  it?
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: johnw on October 05, 2020, 12:48:21 AM
Grandpappy Cyclamen africanum which I grew from seed from the 1985 Cyclamen Society Seedex.  The pots is 60cm wide and the corm touches the rim.  Carefree and a reliable bloomer which appecriates being outdoors for the autumn.

johnw
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: johnw on October 05, 2020, 12:57:58 AM
Herman, what a nice cyclamen flowering you have, and a lot of them!
Here first C.purpurascens started to flower in early August, and still there are flowers in some of them. It seems that some of them start to flower later than others.
C.hederifolium has not been hardy in my garden, but C.purpurascens is, I'm so happy about that!

Leena  - C. hederifolium is not dependable long term here either.  Our very wet winters which are often combined with long streches of ice bound corms are not at all to its liking.  In the 1980s it seeded about all over but one brutally icy winter wiped all but the original out & the latter big corm took 7 years to reappear.

I too am very happy C. purpuracens is so dependable and prolific.

johnw

john
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: goofy on October 06, 2020, 07:50:54 AM
Grandpappy Cyclamen africanum which I grew from seed from the 1985 Cyclamen Society Seedex.  The pots is 60cm wide and the corm touches the rim.  Carefree and a reliable bloomer which appecriates being outdoors for the autumn.

johnw


hi johnw,

GREAT. UNBELIEVABLE - 60cm diameter?!?

have fun
goofy
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: goofy on October 07, 2020, 08:39:12 AM
A couple of mixed pots.  The first one was labelled parviflorum subalpinum and appears to be mainly coum with a couple of persicum.
Seed was from the Cyclamen Society sown in November 2017.

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The second is labelled cilicium.  I think some are cilicium but there's also coum there.

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hi Roma,
I think, most of them are C. coum.

btw I send an PM, but not yet a reply???

thanks
goofy
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 07, 2020, 09:31:36 AM
Cyclamen purpurascens is still going on.

Cyclamen hederifolium ssp crassifolium
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 07, 2020, 09:32:59 AM
Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum and the normal Cyclamen intaminatum
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 07, 2020, 09:35:02 AM
Cyclamen mirabile f. niveum

Cyclamen cilicium
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Leena on October 11, 2020, 08:29:17 AM
Leena  - C. hederifolium is not dependable long term here either.  Our very wet winters which are often combined with long streches of ice bound corms are not at all to its liking.  In the 1980s it seeded about all over but one brutally icy winter wiped all but the original out & the latter big corm took 7 years to reappear.
I too am very happy C. purpuracens is so dependable and prolific.

John, thanks for your experience with C.hederifolium. I think it is the same here.
Herman, Cyclamen seem really to enjoy your garden!

C.purpurascens is still flowering, picture last week.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 11, 2020, 10:01:43 AM
John, thanks for your experience with C.hederifolium. I think it is the same here.
Herman, Cyclamen seem really to enjoy your garden!

C.purpurascens is still flowering, picture last week.
Yes Leena, most cyclamen are here growing well and they are a good combination with the Hepatica's and Trillium.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Leena on October 11, 2020, 05:51:26 PM
Yes Leena, most cyclamen are here growing well and they are a good combination with the Hepatica's and Trillium.

Cyclamen and Hepaticas tolerate summer dry well at least here. In your experience can also Trilliums grow well in a bed with summer dry? My experience is still quite limited, so I have Trilliums only in more moist bed, but they would look good with Hepaticas and Cyclamen:).
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 11, 2020, 07:07:10 PM
Cyclamen and Hepaticas tolerate summer dry well at least here. In your experience can also Trilliums grow well in a bed with summer dry? My experience is still quite limited, so I have Trilliums only in more moist bed, but they would look good with Hepaticas and Cyclamen:).
Leena, I don't work with beds.
A part of the garden is in the shade of our house and only get the morning sun. The other places are filled with shrubs that have no leaves in the winter. On the soil is a lot of humus. Normally our soil keeps rather moist. There is also a difference in humidity near the stem  or further away. Cyclamen like mirabile, intaminatum, graecum stands a bit dryer then the others. On this places stands: Erytronium, Trillium, Hepatica, Eranthis, Cyclamen, Galanthus, Ferns, Adonis, Leucojum... . In full summer there are leaves on all the shrubs, so the soil stays cooler. When the Trilliums are flowering and it is a long dry period, then I need to give them water or they are going in early dormant. Asiatic Trilliums love to stand more moist.
Pictures from the garden are from April.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Leena on October 12, 2020, 04:43:40 PM
Herman, thank you for the pictures of the places where Hepaticas and other plants grow so well in your garden. Most of these plants I have grown only for a few years, 7 or 8 at the most and Cyclamen only for couple of years, so it is still trial and error for me to find good places for them where they would thrive:).
Here are some pictures of the place where I have found that Hepaticas, snowdrops, crocus and Helleborus seem to grow well, and last year I planted also Cyclamen (seed grown coum and bigger purpurascens-corms). This place is summer dry because of big trees around it which suck all the moist from the ground, and soil is sandy which I have made better with lots of humus, compost and leaf mold. It gets a lot of sun in late autumn and spring but in the summer it is in shade. In the last picture is the spot around the apple tree where I have planted Hepatica japonica and H.pubescens, and now Cyclamen (and some new smaller snowdrops last summer). I don't know yet if it will be a good place, but at least my own seed grown H.japonica have grown there now for five years even through one bad winter, and that is why I thought it might be good for also others:). So far my few Trilliums grow in other part of the garden which is more moist, but maybe I could try some also here.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 13, 2020, 09:41:42 AM
Herman, thank you for the pictures of the places where Hepaticas and other plants grow so well in your garden. Most of these plants I have grown only for a few years, 7 or 8 at the most and Cyclamen only for couple of years, so it is still trial and error for me to find good places for them where they would thrive:).
Here are some pictures of the place where I have found that Hepaticas, snowdrops, crocus and Helleborus seem to grow well, and last year I planted also Cyclamen (seed grown coum and bigger purpurascens-corms). This place is summer dry because of big trees around it which suck all the moist from the ground, and soil is sandy which I have made better with lots of humus, compost and leaf mold. It gets a lot of sun in late autumn and spring but in the summer it is in shade. In the last picture is the spot around the apple tree where I have planted Hepatica japonica and H.pubescens, and now Cyclamen (and some new smaller snowdrops last summer). I don't know yet if it will be a good place, but at least my own seed grown H.japonica have grown there now for five years even through one bad winter, and that is why I thought it might be good for also others:). So far my few Trilliums grow in other part of the garden which is more moist, but maybe I could try some also here.
Leena, beautiful pictures! There is a lot of moss to see, so I should think it is moist enough to try some Trilliums. Hepatica japonica and pubescens are not growing well in our garden, they disappear after a few years. It is not always easy to find the best spot for a plant. When a lot of seedlings appear then they are on the right place. Sometimes it depends on a few meters in the garden, but that is the big challenge!
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: goofy on October 13, 2020, 01:24:05 PM
hi,
"funny" to see, that there are
ONLY TWO Cyclamen LOVERS IN THE FORUM.

VERY SAD  ;D

cheers
goofy
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Gail on October 13, 2020, 06:04:03 PM
hi,
"funny" to see, that there are
ONLY TWO Cyclamen LOVERS IN THE FORUM.
I'm pretty sure that is not true - this topic has had more than 6,000 views...

These were attracting a lot of attention at Wisley yesterday;
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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: ArnoldT on October 17, 2020, 04:58:27 PM
Two different Cyclamen hederifolium.

One grown inside the cool greenhouse and one outside under a Medlar tree in an ivy bed.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: johnw on October 24, 2020, 11:03:34 PM
My photographer neighbour must have been in the garden in the past few days.  Received these pix of our Cyclamen hederifolium flats.  He asks "Can you spot the small Buddha?", no I can't.

john
drizzle the day long after summer-like nights
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Joakim B on October 24, 2020, 11:59:18 PM
Thanks for the pictures of the Wisley and the funny photos of foliage as well as describing the habitats
I think we are many that reads but fewer that comments.
Must say that the cyclamen is the ones that did best of the seeds sown so far.
Interesting to mix hepaticas and cyclamen. I have so far only one cyclamen with the hepaticas.
The other cyclamen is in other places.
The cat is doing his visits and I have now added grape fruit and mandarin peel to get the cat/s to stay away
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 25, 2020, 05:07:08 AM
My photographer neighbour... asks "Can you spot the small Buddha?", no I can't.

I think this is what he means, John,
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on October 25, 2020, 05:11:38 PM
I think this is what he means, John,
cheers
fermi
  Oh yes! I see  him now!  Mesmerising  photos!
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Arda Takan on October 25, 2020, 08:57:46 PM
Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum and the normal Cyclamen intaminatum
where is this Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum from?
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Herman Mylemans on October 26, 2020, 09:17:58 AM
where is this Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum from?
Arda, this cyclamen came from the late Jan Bravenboer ( Green ice nursery).

Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: annew on October 27, 2020, 02:36:09 PM
Cyclamen cyprium smelling pretty today.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Bart on October 27, 2020, 09:54:37 PM
Wow, Anne, that is an impressive amount of flower on one plant! I usually get  2 to 5 flowers at a time, at most.

Still going strong here is Cyclamen rohlfsianum. this particular plant started flowering at the beginning of September-I never had flowers lasting that long ever.

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And also C. graecum still going equally long

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Bart on October 27, 2020, 09:57:07 PM
The rain brings out the leaves of C. hederifolium very nicely:
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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: annew on October 27, 2020, 10:31:21 PM
A favourite occupation on these rainy days is a wander round looking at the cyclamen leaves which gleam like wet pebbles on a beach.
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Diane Whitehead on October 28, 2020, 04:54:27 PM
With leaves like those, who needs flowers?
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Roma on October 29, 2020, 09:51:44 PM
I've been taking plenty photos of Cyclamen but have not got round to posting them.
I don't know what happened to my prize winning Cyclamen mirabile this year.  It flowered in August but not as prolifically as usual then went to sleep.  All flower and leaf buds seemed to dry up. I did not think the greenhouse got any hotter than usual.  Earlier this month leaves started to appear but it is nowhere near what it has been in previous years .

14th August

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4th October

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23rd October

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15th October 2019

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Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: annew on October 29, 2020, 10:54:14 PM
Still beautiful, though!
Title: Re: Cyclamen 2020
Post by: Peppa on November 07, 2020, 06:48:32 AM
I do enjoy Cyclamen leaves, too, and to be honest, I am more interested in leaves than flowers. I was a bit disappointed in this C. hederifolium when it was a small seedling because it had just a regular silver leaf, so I planted it in a crevice in the steps in my back garden. Now the leaves are much more interesting, and I can't get it out... :)
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