Cyclamen 2012

[YT]

Dear Jo, you are the exactly right person who I'm just waiting for

[art600]

YT

I am going to take your phoyographs to the Cyclamen Society Committee meeeting tomorrow for review.

Will advise on Monday

[Martin Baxendale]

Does anyone know if pollen can transmit virus when cross-pollinating? And what about fungal-infected plants? I assume it's more likely that pollen may transmit a fungal disease if it's systemic in the bulb/tuber/corm?

[YT]

YT

I am going to take your phoyographs to the Cyclamen Society Committee meeeting tomorrow for review.

Will advise on Monday

Thank you, Art I'm looking forward to your information. Have a nice cyclamen meeting on Sunday!

[Mark Griffiths]

A few C.persicum, the first one is a stray that appeared in a pot of Frit seedlings.

[Shadylanejewel]

Your stray is very nice Mark!  So far, I only have one C. persicum and it has yet to bloom hope its flowers are as beautiful as yours.

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello Tatsuo,
I think the Cyclamen coum leaf is variegated and not virused. I have seen about four plants in cultivation with similar leaves and used to have two myself which I used in a display when the Cyclamen Society used to exhibit at the RHS shows in Westminster.
 The only species that I have seen in the wild with variegated leaves is C. hederifolium, most were in the Peloponnese but the one shown was growing under olive trees at Ag. Stephanos Corfu.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Hello Tatsuo,
I think the Cyclamen coum leaf is variegated and not virused. I have seen about four plants in cultivation with similar leaves and used to have two myself which I used in a display when the Cyclamen Society used to exhibit at the RHS shows in Westminster.
 The only species that I have seen in the wild with variegated leaves is C. hederifolium, most were in the Peloponnese but the one shown was growing under olive trees at Ag. Stephanos Corfu.

Wow Melvyn , never seen a variegated hederifolium ! Not in cultivation , neither in the wild.
But I have here in the garden also  a variegated coum . I have never planted it ! It is a seedling or is it possible that a normal form became a variegated one ?
I included a picture of this variegated coum ...

[art600]

I would always be thinking - is it virus 

I did see a leaf like this in the wild and gave it a wide berth.  Really not attractive and worth taking the risk.

[YT]

Hello Tatsuo,
I think the Cyclamen coum leaf is variegated and not virused. I have seen about four plants in cultivation with similar leaves and used to have two myself which I used in a display when the Cyclamen Society used to exhibit at the RHS shows in Westminster.
 The only species that I have seen in the wild with variegated leaves is C. hederifolium, most were in the Peloponnese but the one shown was growing under olive trees at Ag. Stephanos Corfu.

Thank you, Melvyn I'm sure the variegated coum is not virused from my experience and knowledge about variegated leaf plants. And thank you again for shareling the extreamly rare hederifolium with variegation in the wild  

But I have here in the garden also a variegated coum . I have never planted it ! It is a seedling or is it possible that a normal form became a variegated one ?
I included a picture of this variegated coum ...

Kris, I also have the coum plants with the same type of variegation as yours These are seedlings from Green-Ice-Nursery in the Netherlands labeled as 'variegata, (pink flower and many seedlings with variegated leaves)'

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, I also have the coum plants with the same type of variegation as yours These are seedlings from Green-Ice-Nursery in the Netherlands labeled as 'variegata, (pink flower and many seedlings with variegated leaves)'

Hello Tatsuo , I have also plants from Green Ice Nursery in my collection, but this coum came from another nursery .
It looks that coum gives the best chance to make some variegated leaves...
I know that in your country variegated leaves and plants are very popular . I am also a grower of succulent plants and I know their is a great demand in your country on variegated Agave, Haworthia and many others .   

[fermi de Sousa]

Cyclamen graecum now starting to flower in the rock garden
last week (24-02-2012)




and this morning


cheers
fermi

[krisderaeymaeker]

Cyclamen graecum now starting to flower in the rock garden
cheers
fermi

Here they only grow in our rockgardens in our dreams Fermi. But nice display anyway , I like them.

In our garden the alpinums and coums are in charge now .
  

[ian mcenery]

Just starting to flower here a few different forms of pseudibericum from magenta to almost white

[YT]

Kris,

I am also a grower of succulent plants and I know their is a great demand in your country on variegated Agave, Haworthia and many others .    

Yes, I'm very interested in variegated leaves, too

Fermi, so Autumn is just coming to your place

Ian, a nice bunch of pseudibericums and a roseum with smaller blotch is lovely