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Hello Hans,seeds of George Bisson are slow to obtain, that is true, I find the plant difficult to get to set many seeds. For the past few years I have had almost no seed set to be able to pass any onto the cyclamen society. I do know that numerous people in the society have plants that I have given them over the years in the hope that they will pass on seeds when they have them.Sometimes seedlings just pop up around the greenhouse, usually in very odd places, presumably as a result of ant activity.I find golan heights can also be temperamental about setting seeds, though much easier that George Bisson, a friend gave me some of his golan heights seeds last summer and the resulting seedlings are beginning to come into flower now.best wishes,Mary
hello, I do have some photos on my computer somewhere but cannot access them easily at the moment, I do have a link to edgewood gardens photo albums and there they have some superb photos of cyclamen coum albissimum "George Bisson" and also cyclamen coum albissimmum "golan heights". I hope the link below will work. If not if you enter www.edgewoodgardens.net and search for coum albissimum "George Bisson" you should find it. They are superb close up photos showing the lack of redness to the flowers and stems.www.edgewoodgardens.net/Plants_album/The%20Plants%20-%20%20Complete%20Collection/Primulaceae/Cyclamen/Subgen%20Gyrophoebe%20Ser%201/C.%20coum/slides/Cyclamen%20coum%20ssp.%20coum%20f.%20albissimum%20George%20Bisson%200001.htmlI found the orginal seedling entirely by chance in a group of coum seedlings growing outside that were grown from seed collected from my own plants. I can remember the day I first saw it, for some reason I began to search through the flowering seedlings looking for an all white one, maybe my eye had seen it but not registered it, as they are so incredibly rare the chances of finding one like this were very slim. As for the seedling at the beginning of this thread, ar first glance it doesn't look like cyclamen coum albissimum "GeorgeBisson" nor does it appear similar to cyclamen coum "golan helghts", although it does appear to have plain green leaves, maybe it is a new cyclamen coum albissimum. It will be interesting to see more photos when it flowers this winter, and it is also exciting to know you have some seedlings coming along I am also curious where Jo obtained her cyclamen coum and whether she named it or it was named when she purchased it.
This thread which I have just seen has everything. Diane kicks it off with a rare new finding - of another C.coum albissimum, only the third (?) so far. Well done. Appropriate development follows as in the first act of a play. Then high drama as a newcomer takes the stage, unexpected; a new voice - authoritative, modest and poignant. Mary, I think Agatha Christie could not haver done it better. Coupled with that a link, a feast of a link, to photographs which are pertinent, forensic in quality and rich in comparative examples. All encompassed with remarkable economy a few posts which are informative and highly entertaining.This is the Forum at peak performance; absolutely tip-top - like a Rooney on fire. Participants merit our warmest commendation and thanks; take a bow, folks.
Hans -.....You could also phone and ask to speak to Brian direct......
