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UK Cyclamen Shows 2024
Saturday 10 February - RHS Hilltop - The Home of Gardening Science, RHS Wisley
(joint show with British Iris Society''s Early Spring Show)
Saturday 23 March - RHS Bridgewater, Greater Manchester
Saturday 21 September - RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Yorkshire
Saturday 12 October - Birmingham Botanical Gardens
More details at www.cyclamen.org (http://www.cyclamen.org) or www.facebook.com/groups/CyclamenSociety/ (http://www.facebook.com/groups/CyclamenSociety/)
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C. alpinum
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Ashley,
Beautiful plant! Very well grown ;D
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C. alpinum
Ashley, indeed a very beautiful Cyclamen alpinum. You don't come across that much anymore, it is also a bit more difficult in the garden and does better in a pot.
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Thanks Marc and Herman. Here I think the main challenge is summer rain, so with a batch of seedlings coming along I'll try them under bushes or trees with roots keeping conditions a bit drier.
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Ashley, here some pictures from Kris De Raeymaeker in Southern Turkey, they like to grow in a scree
https://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=2692.225
Look at #239
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Such a lovely cyclamen, Ashley. Does it flower earlier or later than C. coum for you?
I might give it a go if I can get hold of seeds, but it would have to take its chance amongst tree roots as I try to avoid having lots of pots and containers. There are at least a couple of places in my garden that get uncomfortably dry for most plants in summer thanks to all the roots, so if it is indeed summer moisture that causes problems with garden cultivation then I should be able to accommodate it.
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Daft question from someone who ought to know. When is the optimum time to take the gillions of seedlings which have germinated on top of the large established hederifolium corms and pot them up to be grown on and re-homed elsewhere?
I know I used to grow them commercially, but for some reason I have failed utterly here to successfully transplant babies. Annoying.
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Such a lovely cyclamen, Ashley. Does it flower earlier or later than C. coum
Thanks Redmires. Here it's flowering at about the same time as coum caucasicum in the garden.
When is the optimum time to take the gillions of seedlings which have germinated on top of the large established hederifolium corms and pot them up to be grown on and re-homed elsewhere?
I do it when they're in leaf, although it's a fiddly job because the stems are quite fragile, then grow them on in a cool place.
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I prepare seed trays with the potting mix of choice and then gently pull out the one- leaved babies and immediately line them up in the prepared rilles in the trays and leave them to their own devices for a year or so and then plant them out or pot them on. There appears to be hardly any loss unless an overzealous blackbird comes along. I think it is somewhere at the end of October when they are all appearing. I am weeding the normal ones out otherwise you end up with sooo many!
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Marco ten Hoope's Cyclamineus website (https://www.cyclamineus.com/about/) has a nice seedlist (although mostly sold out now until next season).
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Ashley,
Thank you for sharing that valuable source! ;)
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It's snowing here now, so I took a quick photo of Cyclamen elegans (Cyclamen coum subsp. elegans) before it gets covered up.
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A few minutes later:
Cyclamen elegans
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Cyclamen repandum
Cyclamen rhodium ssp. rhodium
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Cyclamen purpurascens and Cyclamen purpurascens f. album
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Herman,
VERY NICE! My C. purpurascens are all still unbloomed seedlings. Is it normal to get summer bloom from C. purpurascens? My Cyclamen tend to be Fall, Winter, or Spring bloomers.
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Herman,
VERY NICE! My C. purpurascens are all still unbloomed seedlings. Is it normal to get summer bloom from C. purpurascens? My Cyclamen tend to be Fall, Winter, or Spring bloomers.
Marc, purpurascens always flowers in the summer and for a very long time!
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Herman,
Thank you!
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Cyclamen africanum is looking dainty today:
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First of the C.hederifolium from seeds I got from Herman couple of years ago, is now flowering. :)
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I have quite a few pots of seedlings of purpurascens, hederifolium and coum sprouting, sown last winter. Are they okay left outside in a bench over winter (down to -13 or so), or would they do better inside under lights at around 2-10C?
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I would certainly plunge the pots if leaving them outside. In Dec 2022 I lost every pot of cyclamen (hederifolium, coum mainly) in my cold frame. The pots froze (min temp -8C) because they were not plunged. Purpurascens should take the lowest temperatures out of all the species I think, but even it is vulnerable in a pot.
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Thak you, Carolyn! There's a couple of lovely silver foliage forms among them, so inside sounds safer.
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I don't have inside space for my Cyclamen seedlings (hederifolium, coum, purpurascens and cilicium), but I have kept them in our root cellar over the winter. It is dark and temperatures are +3 - 0C, and all seem to be well in spring. Of course inside under lamps they would grow also during winter. C.purpurascens seedlings do well also outside in open ground, they has even self seeded some.
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Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclamen mirabile f. niveum
Cyclaman cilicium
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Cyclamen confusum
Cyclamen colchicum
Cyclamen graecum
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Herman,
Once again, Very Nice! All your plants look so well grown! Between the deer and the turkeys, many of my plants look chewed :(
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Cyclamen hederifolium, different forms!
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Cyclamen hederifolium ssp crassifolium
Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum spreading around!
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Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum is still going on, there are two forms:
- plain green leaf
- leaf with strong markings
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Gorgeous! I've germinated Cyclamen intaminatum but the plants don't last for me.
...Claire
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Gorgeous! I've germinated Cyclamen intaminatum but the plants don't last for me.
...Claire
Claire, it's a pity, here it spreads well.
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Claire,
I'm in zone 8b and it grows well for me in sandy loam with a lot of organic material and added leaf mold. I invert a large poultry feeder jar over them when hard frosts are expected. The lip of the jar is threaded, and I rotate it while pressing down to let it bite its way into the soil.
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Thanks for the advice, Marc. My zone is closer to 7 than 8, winters wet and cold. But some sort of cloche might work if I find the right spot to try them again.
...Claire