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Cyclamen 2006

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Paddy Tobin:
Tim,

Now all I have to do is put this excellent advice into practice. All you say makes perfect sense and I cerainly will be following your method from now on. It certainly seems to me to be one which has a far better chance of success than that I have used to date.

Maggi,

Apologies about the pictures and thanks for your note above and e-mail. It remains a mystery as I had saved them properly and had gone throught the posting routine I had used previously. I won't bother re-posting them. They are not of any particular interest.

Paddy

Tim Murphy:
Cyclamen elegans (photos 1 & 2) is in full flower here at the moment, providing a bit of colour in the gap between autumn and spring flowering species.

Cyclamen purpurascens is in the middle of a second, smaller flush too.

The first hellebore photo shows H. odorus from Corfu (the north of the island). I collected two of these plants back in 2001 and since then they have been the first species to flower every year. They start to flower in late October/early November. The odorus I have from Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary are much later; they are only just pushing buds through the soil surface.

The second hellebore photo is of true Helleborus orientalis orientalis, grown from seed collected near Tblisi, Georgia.

Paddy Tobin:
Tim

I can see that I can safely take any advice you offer on cyclamen. These are beautiful plants, well grown. Many thanks for the photographs.

I must admit, in my ignorance and lack of experience, that I would have assumed the first two plants to be C.coum pewter group.

Paddy

Lesley Cox:
I've several times bought seed of or seedlisted the white purpurascens only to have them ALL flower as white (or sometime pink) hederifolium. Maddening.

(What on earth did I mean by that?) ...bought seed of, or seed listed as, the white...

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