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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: ArnoldT on January 12, 2021, 05:56:32 PM
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Cyclamen coum Yayladagi
From a forum friend probably twenty years ago.
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I guess it's time to change the year here
Some cyclamen are just in flower
1. Cyclamen elegans Reiko from the late Jan Bravenboer
2. Cyclamen creticum
3. + 4. Cyclamen coum Meaden's Crimson
Gerd
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Cyclamen coum f. album
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Cyclamen elegans
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Cyclamen coum ssp. caucasicum
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Cyclamen coum, a nice white one and one that tucked itself under an Acer circinatum.
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Cyclamen coum ssp. caucasicum
often named vernum
Here's mine seedlings
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Found the first Cyclamen graecum flowers emerging this week!
cheers
fermi
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Seeing the first C. graecum I went to check the Cyclamen rohlfsianum and sure enough the first flowers there were also evident,
cheers
fermi
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Cyclamen coum started with 4 corms more than 30 years ago, now they grow at many places in
the meadow. We must say, that the ants did a very good job.
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Cyclamen coum started with 4 corms more than 30 years ago, now they grow at many places in
the meadow. We must say, that the ants did a very good job.
Your ants have been busy - and very successful, Rudi! We have no ants in our garden, perhaps that's why we struggle to get Cyclamen coum spread around. We doe try to spread the seed ourselves, but we're not as good as the ants!
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Hi Maggi,
no ants in your garden?? I thought they were everywhere. We have a lot so if my cyclamens will germinate some day I’m looking forward to have tiny little plants all around ;D
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When we planted our first Cyclamen coum more than 40 years ago we were not very succesful
with the propagation. Maybe the clone we had didn't like the conditions in our garden, but all changed
when we got the corms which originated from the region around the Sumela Monastery near Trabzon
by the Turkish Black sea coast. My theory is, that this clone is more suitable for the climate in our region.
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Cyclamen libanoticum
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Another autumn flowerer, Cyclamen mirabile. It was grown from AGS Seedex seed ex 'Tilebarn Nicholas'
cheers
fermi
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More flowers on Cyclamen rohlfsianum
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fermi
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Cyclamen graecum - a few different plants in the rock garden and one in a pot which I've just noticed shows a paler edge to the petals
cheers
fermi
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Haven't had a chance to remove the leaves and weeds.
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Haven't had a chance to remove the leaves and weeds.
Guff! With a show of flowers like that - who sees any weeds! Lovely!
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Maggi, thanks.
Past years, I usually have bird netting a couple feet above the ground to keep out the leaves. There are wood posts around the edge of the bed, with a nail which would keep the netting tight. Sometimes heavy snow would push the netting to ground and ruin the buds, so I have left it as is with no netting. Was going to make something with chicken wire instead, but haven't gotten around to it.
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I keep taking pics then not getting round to posting any. Here are some Cyclamen flowering now.
Cyclamen pseudibericum. I have a few from CSE seed.
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This was the best one this year.
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Cyclamen libanoticum
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Cyclamen persicum from CSE seed from Israel
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Cyclamen from the repandum, rhodium group are flowering well
Cyclamen repandum, C. rhodium ssp pelopponesiacum and ssp vividum. The white one is Cyclamen creticum.
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Cyclamen repandum, rhodium ssp pelop, ssp vividum, creticum
Who needs flowers when the leaves are this good.
Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum
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Cyclamen rhodium ssp vividum - the colour is more vivid in real life
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Roma, you have a big collection of beautiful Cyclamen!
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Thank you Herman.
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Roma is our SRGC Cyclamen Queen, Herman! 8)
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A few seed pods on my ancient C. africanum this year.
john
58F and extremely windy after 2 x 85F days
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Cyclamen purpurascens is starting to flower.
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First flowers on Cyclamen persicum for the year. Ours were grown from AGS Seedex labelled "ex Israel"
cheers
fermi
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Purpurascens
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Purpurascens Alba
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No weed growth on bare ground?
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There are a few weeds that need to be pulled, hardly any grow in that spot. Hundreds of Purpurascens seedling are though....
Purpurascens Alba
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Very impressive sight...
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Different forms of Cyclamen purpurascens
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Guff, how lovely white Cyclamen.
Herman, very nice foliage and flowers.
Two years ago I got several corms of C.purpurascens and planted them in different kinds of places to find out where they would grow best.
The best place seems to be dryish shade under apple tree close to Hepatica japonicas.
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Leena thanks.
Purpurascens Alba
I have three plants. This has been the first year I have had seeds to collect and it's maybe around 30 seeds. Will be starting them next week and grown under lights. Hoping next summer for more seeds so I can make a mixed bed like my hederifolium.
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Cyclamen colchicum
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Purpurascens is still flowering strong, and the fragrance in the air is amazing.......
Been keeping my eye on this solid green leaf Purpurascens seedling, flower opened today.
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Cyclamen hederifolium is spreading around.
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Cyclamen cilicium also starts to flower.
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Cyclamen graecum
Cyclamen intaminatum
Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum
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Some different colors from Cyclamen hederifolium going from white till dark red.
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Herman very nice.
Years ago, I had gotten dark purple seeds from Jan. Not sure if I lost my very dark purple plant or not, but this one is nice as well. Next to a normal pink.
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Herman very nice.
Years ago, I had gotten dark purple seeds from Jan. Not sure if I lost my very dark purple plant or not, but this one is nice as well. Next to a normal pink.
Guff, my dark red purple form is from Jan.
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Cyclamen are so nice in the autumn, they grow very well for you Herman. I have tried once C.hederifolium and it died the second winter. Now I bought one plant and try once more, but I'm not very confident about it's hardiness.
C.purpurascens is so good here and flowers for a long time, though now it is over.
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Cyclamen are so nice in the autumn, they grow very well for you Herman. I have tried once C.hederifolium and it died the second winter. Now I bought one plant and try once more, but I'm not very confident about it's hardiness.
C.purpurascens is so good here and flowers for a long time, though now it is over.
Leena, here it has already happened that the leaves of hederifolium were frozen and died. The frost here is not very hard the last years (not lower than -10°C and only for a few days). I have each year a lot of seeds. So if you want to sow them let me know.
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C. cilicium is starting, both in the greenhouse & garden.
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Cyclamen purpurascens with a variety of leaf forms.
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Cyclamen mirabile, Cyclamen rohlfsianum, Cyclamen maritimum.
Cyclamen mirabile
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Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'
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Cyclamen rohlfsianum
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Cyclamen maritimum
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Cyclamen cilicium is spreading around.
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These are my Cyclamens on the windowsill: C.cilicium, C.intaminatum and C.mirabile. C.cilicium and C.mirabile I've grown from seeds.
C.cilicium
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C.cilicium
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C.intaminatum
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C.mirabile
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C.mirabile
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These are my Cyclamens on the windowsill. C.cilicium and C.mirabile I've grown from seeds.
Isn't it fascinating how many flower buds they can produce?
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Indeed what a joy a single bulb can give!
Here i can't compete, the mirabile seedlings are 2 years old but already blooming
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Hope everyone competing at or simply attending the Late Autumn Show of the Cyclamen Society at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, on 10 October 2021 has a great time!
https://www.cyclamen.org/shows/
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These are my Cyclamens on the windowsill: C.cilicium, C.intaminatum and C.mirabile. C.cilicium and C.mirabile I've grown from seeds
Nice how the flower stalk are elongated,but not floppy, and so many on all of them. Well done.
My C. mirabile 's are doing well this year in the greenhouse, but they appear reluctant to set seed, just like C. cilicium. There is plenty of ventilation, bumblebees etc, but many flowers fail to set.
Is there a trick to make them 'set' better? I've tried putting some pots out in nice weather and wind and hand pollinating but still a high fail rate.
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Cyclamen mirabile
Cyclamen mirabile, Cyclamen rohlfsianum, Cyclamen maritimum.
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Cyclamen rohlfsianum
So many flowers! How old is your plant, Roma? I have a few plants that must be about 10 years old now, and the number of flowers is steadily increasing.
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Cyclamen rohlfsianum
I have been cleaning seeds for the cyclamen society exchange, and now for 'our' exchange and find it extremely time consuming to get to a reasonable standard of cleanliness. Has anyone got a top tip to quickly separate seed from little stones, seedpod leftover, and other dust? I simply run out of time for the deadline!
Speaking of which, the Cyclamen society's deadline is so early that I struggle to get seed ready for that. This year I just about managed but have heard absolutely nothing- Does anyone know if you normally get an email or something? I just wonder if the letter got lost in the post.
Hope everyone competing at or simply attending the Late Autumn Show of the Cyclamen Society at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, on 10 October 2021 has a great time!
https://www.cyclamen.org/shows/
I quickly looked on the facebook post of the cyclamen society and it said: 2 people attented this show :)
Is interest in the forum and sites like facebook waning?
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C.hederifolium
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C. libanoticum
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C. graecum
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Bart,
In answer to your question about seed cleaning - I bought a set of 6 gold-panning sieves on eBay. I think they came from USA and cost about £30 or £40, but this cost saves you hours of work. For chaff which is the same size as the seeds (and therefore can end up in the same sieve) I use several techniques. A clean plastic yogurt pot or margarine tub is useful. Wipe the inside with a cloth, and place seed/chaff in tub. The static charge will often make the light weight chaff stick to the sides of the tub and the seeds can be separated from it. Another technique is to use a large sheet of paper and blow gently. The chaff should blow away, leaving the seeds. I am not very good at this one! Also, shaking the seeds/chaff on a folded piece of paper will sometimes make the chaff gather at one end and you can remove it.
here are my sieves:
Set of 6
Largest holes
Smallest holes
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Thanks Carolyn,
I will probably not invest that kind of money- and it is also more stuff to store. I do use all your methods, except the plastic & static method, thanks for the tip.
I recruited the wind, poured the seeds from one container into another 50 cm below; that worked really well. You lose some seed, but on large quantities of not so precious seed it is a good time saver. I'll get them in the post now, my measly contribution this year. Cyclamen seed-set was ok, but many other genera did not produce a lot.