Cyclamen 2014

[Mark Griffiths]

- oh alright, obsessive - interest in Cyclamen.

Surely, there isn't such a thing? 

[Maggi Young]

 

obsessive - interest in Cyclamen.

If such a thing existed,  then the following event would be a must see : 

2014  RHS Wisley Plant Society events
Cyclamen Early Spring Show - 8 February
Enjoy exhibits of spring flowering cyclamen and companion bulbous plants, plus original artwork. Also features an 11am talk and Genus Cyclamen book signing by Brian Mathew VMH.

 10am-4pm, Hillside Event Centre                http://www.cyclamen.org/   

[SJW]

Surely, there isn't such a thing? 

That's what I keep telling my wife - usually while I'm holding a seedtray, negotiating for extra windowsill space...

[YT]

JJA 358.232 Cyclamen alpinum f. leucanthum
Turkey, Antalya, Tahtalı Dağı. Ex. a P. & P. Watt coll. (From white form selected in the wild in by Peter & Penny Watt. Seedlings may be less variable than the preceding.)

[Maggi Young]

Thank you , Tatsuo, I have added the photo to the Archibald thread.

[Mark Griffiths]

lovely plant YT

[Mark Griffiths]

Has anyone else seen this? First time I've seen marbled seed leaves. C. mirabile sown in Oct 2013 and the seed leaves are marbled, it's not some kind of leaf damage, it's proper marbling.

[johnralphcarpenter]

A nice self-seeded Cyclamen coum in the garden yesterday.

[SJW]

Has anyone else seen this? First time I've seen marbled seed leaves. C. mirabile sown in Oct 2013 and the seed leaves are marbled, it's not some kind of leaf damage, it's proper marbling.

Mark - while the seed leaf is usually unmarked, I don't think it is too uncommon to have a distinguishable leaf pattern from the off (with some species). In my experience it tends to signify that the mature plant will have good, or at least interesting, leaves. Certainly been the case for me for hederifolium and purpurascens. Here's a few mirabile seedlings, sown autumn 2013, with two showing some marbling.

[cycnich]

Has anyone else seen this? First time I've seen marbled seed leaves. C. mirabile sown in Oct 2013 and the seed leaves are marbled, it's not some kind of leaf damage, it's proper marbling.

I agree with Steve nothing unusual and it is usually an indication that the true leaves may be interesting. A few years ago I sowed seed ex cse93159 hederifolium ssp crassifolium which were from a pink flushed leaved plant from Leonidi.All the seed leaves were pink as were all the resulting 35 plants.

[Maggi Young]

A report on the opening a of Jo's garden : http://www.plantheritagedevon.org.uk/blogs.php?a=v&b=178

 Also a note that : The gardens at Higher Cherubeer are open again under the National Garden Scheme on Friday, February 14th from 2pm to 5pm, and again later in the year.

[David Nicholson]

Cyclamens coum and alpinum looking good in the garden regardless of the atrocious weather but far too wet underfoot to get near them to picture. Couple of alpinum from the greenhouse here, one light pink and one dark, both from the same batch of seed. Coum in the greenhouse very slow this year.

[SJW]

First flowering of C. coum 'Meaden's Crimson', sown January 2012. The deep, rich colour doesn't really show in the photos. The pot on the left is true to type ie plain, green leaves.

[David Nicholson]

Nice form Steve. Good going too two years from sowing to flowering.

[SJW]

Nice form Steve. Good going too two years from sowing to flowering.

I 'cheat' a bit, David. Any seed I get after September I sow in the house using the 'Reading Method'. Germinated pots then go on a windowsill and are grown on indoors for the first season. So they are a bit mollycoddled. The seedlings do get a bit drawn but make good growth before their first dormancy.