Cyclamen 2014

[Mark Griffiths]

for some reason I missed the notification for this thread and have just been catching up. lovely plants everyone.

I showed this one before but it's now at it's peak I think, it's a seedling from a plant of C. persicum autumnale I got directly from Peter Moore. The parent is a bicolour pink, this one is really intense.

[Maggi Young]

More news from the Cyclamen Society, from Vic Aspland and Art Nicholls - 

Following filming at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, the BBC Gardeners' World programme to be broadcast on Friday 7 March will feature Cyclamen, with interviews with Vic Aspland and Nigel Hopes the BBG Alpine Area Supervisor.

BBC website says : "In this episode, Carol is looking at one of the gems of early spring - the crocus, and meets world-renowned crocus expert Brian Mathew."
So not sure whether cyclamen or crocus, or both are to feature.....

[David Nicholson]

for some reason I missed the notification for this thread and have just been catching up. lovely plants everyone.

I showed this one before but it's now at it's peak I think, it's a seedling from a plant of C. persicum autumnale I got directly from Peter Moore. The parent is a bicolour pink, this one is really intense.

Lovely colour on that one Mark.

[johnstephen29]

Hi maggi saw the gardeners world programme yesterday 7.3.14, it only showed crocus which are great plants. It also featured Brian giving his expert advise, great guy. Hopefully vic and the cyclamen will be on next week.

[Maggi Young]

yes JS, fingers crossed for Vic and the Brum Bot Gdn. next week.

[Hans A.]

Great colour Mark!

Here an ordinary but floriferous C. persicum.

[Roma]

This Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum is in a square plastic pot double potted into a clay for a show last year or the year before.  Curiously the leaves are coming up in 4 groups at the corners of the plastic pot.

Cyclamen x schwarzii

[johnstephen29]

Hi Roma a lot of my cyclamen plants do that, I was in my glasshouse yesterday checking over my plants and my peloponnesiacum is doing the same. The leaves and flowers must grow diagonally for a bit then grown upwards when they reach the edge of the pot.

[SJW]

Hi Roma a lot of my cyclamen plants do that, I was in my glasshouse yesterday checking over my plants and my peloponnesiacum is doing the same. The leaves and flowers must grow diagonally for a bit then grown upwards when they reach the edge of the pot.

Not only do they grow horizontally - I find the petioles and peduncles of the repandum group also seem to grow downwards at first (hands up those who've seen a flower or a leaf poking out of a drainage hole even though the tuber is high in the pot?).  When planted shallowly I find the fragile stalks can quite easily rot off if the watering isn't exactly right - particularly in plastic pots - because they head downwards.  I've had much better success with this group since I started planting the tubers quite deeply in the pot. I assume it's because the developing leaves and flowers hit the bottom or tapering sides of the pot fairly quickly if planted deep and then head straight upwards.

[ruweiss]

Cyclamen parviflorum from seed sown 2010

[johnstephen29]

Hi Rudi I Really like your parviflorum plant, I have never had much success with that one but I will keep on trying.

[Tony Willis]

One of my  Cyclamen parviflorum from seed I collected on the Zigana Pass in 1997

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice Tony. I have some plants from 1990 CSE seed hidden away in a corner of the greenhouse. Nothing like as well flowered as yours and still in about a 4 inch pan but it's been the best flowering season for some time this year.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Tony, one that has passed my collection by.

[Tony Willis]

It is another plant that likes my climate-cold and wet.