Cyclamen 2014

[Maggi Young]

Found this photo on google image of a Paxos olive grove in October. Looks like there's cyclamen growing everywhere.
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A lovely photo in itself - but yes, just look at all the flowers!  Cyclamen heaven.

[Melvyn Jope]

The first Cyclamen hederifolium in flower in the garden today...Autumn is coming!

[Maggi Young]

The first Cyclamen hederifolium in flower in the garden today...Autumn is coming!

Melvyn you horror!  Go and wash your mouth out  - we're only just getting summer!

[Roma]

Maggi, I've got Acis autumnale flowering.  I haven't noticed any Cyclamen hederifolium - yet.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, I've got Acis autumnale flowering.  I haven't noticed any Cyclamen hederifolium - yet.

Oh good grief -  what is the place coming too? I'm feeling the year slipping away!

[Lesley Cox]

My only starring cyclamen at present are C. coum in various leaf and flower forms but this one is interesting because I am not aware of this colour in C. hederifolium. Of course it started months ago but has retained the reddish shade well into winter. It's a rather sad tuber, rescued from a grassy and almost dead pot when we moved more than a year ago. It didn't come up for months last year and didn't flower but has decided that life is worth while after all.

[cycnich]

Hi Lesley
                 Lovely to see a bowles apollo that looks the real deal. Super plant, you must sow any seed from it or better still send some to me just for safe keeping. There are several clones of hederifolium that show this pink colouration but most plants of apollo strain seem to have lost it over the years it is great to see it is still a possibility.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Oh yes , great plant Lesley !!! 

[SJW]

The first Cyclamen hederifolium in flower in the garden today...Autumn is coming!

My first flowering potted cyclamen, the Dutch- bred, dark flowered hederifolium. Would probably have been a deeper colour if I'd have kept the pot in more shade. I think this strain is generally early to flower so it probably doesn't feature as much as it could on the autumn show benches. Although I know Pat (Cycnich) has managed to coax a later show of flowers for one of the AGS autumn shows and the Cyclamen Society show. Quite difficult to capture the correct colour with a simple point and shoot camera as can be seen by these different shots of the same plant!

Lesley - not often you see the Bowles Apollo red colouration persisting like that, very nice.

[johnstephen29]

I was checking some pots in to which I had sown various seeds, I found that in one of them marked C, Purpurecens Album a tiny seedling, success at long last  . I have put it in a shady part of my greenhouse and keeping everything crossed that I can keep it growing.

[SJW]

I was checking some pots in to which I had sown various seeds, I found that in one of them marked C, Purpurecens Album a tiny seedling, success at long last 

And let's hope the seed donor had isolated the seed parent from any pink-flowered purpurascens! 

[Tim Murphy]

Last month I spent a few days in Croatia and Bosnia. I saw C. purpuracens in flower in the hills above Samobor, a small town just west of Zagreb. Most of the plants looked in need of water; the woodland areas here and further south around the Plitvice National Park were very dry, more so than I've ever seen before in early June. This is the first time I've seen C. purpurascens flowering so early in the wild.

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for the comments about my 'Bowles' Apollo.' It's one (or two actually, since I have the same plant in both pink and white-lowered forms) I've had many years and though it usually flowered well, I've had almost no seed but in future I'll keep a better eye out and Pat if there is any next season I'll certainly send it. Perhaps you'd send me your postal address in a PM so that I don't forget. Oddly however, I've never had this red colouring until this year.

[johnstephen29]

Hi Steve I got the seed from Jan over in the Netherlands so hopefully it is a white plant.

[cycnich]

Hi lesley
               Thank you for your kind offer. I think the white form of apollo is called Artermis. Hopefully someone will confirm this.