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Lesley Cox

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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #45 on: January 29, 2012, 10:15:35 PM »
The seeds yes but whole pods disappeared Arnold. Sometimes it happens with Trillium pods too. I suspect possums. They're Australian. ;D Besides, I've never found libanoticum seedlings elsewhere in the garden as I do with coum and hederifolium, long way from where they're planted.

Couldn't find that word in my dictionary but see that myrmecology is the study of ants and ant life.
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #46 on: January 29, 2012, 10:43:41 PM »
I think the seeds are covered with a sugary substance which encourages the ants to take them.  They consume the sugar and cast aside the seeds.

E.A. Bowles mentions it in his Crocus & Colchicum on pages 27 and 158.

See  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecochory

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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #47 on: January 29, 2012, 11:32:56 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 29, 2012, 10:15:35 PM
The seeds yes but whole pods disappeared Arnold. Sometimes it happens with Trillium pods too. I suspect possums. They're Australian. ;D Besides, I've never found libanoticum seedlings elsewhere in the garden as I do with coum and hederifolium, long way from where they're planted.

Couldn't find that word in my dictionary but see that myrmecology is the study of ants and ant life.

Here squirrels take the cyclamen seed pods in my parents' garden. Could be your possums.
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #48 on: January 30, 2012, 01:18:26 AM »
Roma - I can see why you'd moan, moan, moan - the flowers were beautiful and now the seed will be gone as well. 

Our deer change their favorites from year to year.  One year it was primula, next anemone nemerosa (right as the flowers were going to open), epimediums and trilliums never safe but so far they've left the cyclamen alone.

All of your cyclamen are stunning, but I really like your libanoticum.

My seed-nappers are ants (cyclamen & trillium) and wasps (trillium). 
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #49 on: January 30, 2012, 06:12:43 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 29, 2012, 10:15:35 PM
The seeds yes but whole pods disappeared Arnold. Sometimes it happens with Trillium pods too. I suspect possums. They're Australian. ;D Besides, I've never found libanoticum seedlings elsewhere in the garden as I do with coum and hederifolium, long way from where they're planted.

Couldn't find that word in my dictionary but see that myrmecology is the study of ants and ant life.
Lesley , after C. hederifolium and coum ,the most prolific seeder in my garden is libanoticum. I have watched ants carting away Cyclamen seeds but never possums ,which are a pest here in this forrest area ( just like in N.Z.) -even had a couple in my roof for weeks till I engaged a Possum Man who caged them.


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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #50 on: January 31, 2012, 02:40:04 PM »
I find that I have to mulch all my cyclamen as the seed pods ripen to ensure they germinate well, but I don't know whether its because it provides the darkness they need to germinate or protects them from voles and mice.

Here is a group of C coum 'Nymans' which self seeds well and comes very true to type.
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #51 on: January 31, 2012, 02:53:17 PM »
Wow what a lovely picture  8) will try mulching mine to see if I have better success.

Angie  :)
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #52 on: January 31, 2012, 05:51:16 PM »
The ants do a pretty good job here too, but I'd like to train them to bury the seeds where I get a good view of the resulting plant. This is the only good plant of C. coum 'Tilebarn Elizabeth' I have and it's 3m away from the path at the back of a border among the roots of a tall aster.  :-\
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #53 on: February 04, 2012, 02:29:24 PM »
Some Cyclamenpics taken today in the order from most to less I worry about how they will look after freezing and snow: C. rohlfsiamum, C. persicum and C. alpinum.
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #54 on: February 04, 2012, 10:49:36 PM »
They look OK so far, Hans.
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #55 on: February 07, 2012, 03:32:04 AM »
Quote from: Jo on January 31, 2012, 02:40:04 PM
Here is a group of C coum 'Nymans' which self seeds well and comes very true to type.

Beautiful Jo - I'll have to watch for seed for that one with the next Cyclamen Society seed exchange. 

Quote from: annew on January 31, 2012, 05:51:16 PM
The ants do a pretty good job here too, but I'd like to train them to bury the seeds where I get a good view of the resulting plant.

Anne - wouldn't that be wonderful.  :)

Hans - hope all of them come through the cold spell (not the usual weather for you).  You have some gorgeous cyclamen even with the snow.

Oh happy day - finally 28 days after my initial post my Cyclamen coum is blooming! ;D

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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #56 on: February 17, 2012, 01:54:28 PM »
Cyclamen coum, dark nose, pink flowers, from JJA seeds (list no. 360.600). It is the first flower for me :) I also ordered 'dark nose, white flowers' with this but didn't germinate :(
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #57 on: February 17, 2012, 05:59:06 PM »
 :o Tatsuo - Quite a stunning beauty!
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #58 on: February 17, 2012, 06:06:21 PM »
Gorgeous YT  ;D.
My wife, Nora , loves her cyclamen. We've never seen anything like this. Congratulations, a lovely thing.
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Re: Cyclamen 2012
« Reply #59 on: February 17, 2012, 07:14:22 PM »
That is gorgeous Tatsuo.
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