Cyclamen 2014

[Maggi Young]

 Jan Bravenboer's list says :

"C. coum 'Alice D', silver leaf, different pink (RHS 67 A paling into 67 B, red purple corolla) "

[johnstephen29]

Here are a couple of Cyclamen Colchicum plants that i'm growing, the one in flower is in the greenhouse & the other one I am trying in the garden to see how well it does or not. I am also growing two young C. Purpuracens plants that I have grown from seed, I have them in the shade of some crinum plants.

IMG_0078.JPG by johnstephen29, on Flickr

IMG_0070.JPG by johnstephen29, on Flickr

Untitled by johnstephen29, on Flickr

[Naoto The Zombie]

Jan Bravenboer's list says :

"C. coum 'Alice D', silver leaf, different pink (RHS 67 A paling into 67 B, red purple corolla) "

Thank you, Maggi! - though it makes me think what "RHS 67A" and "RHS 67B" are........

[Maggi Young]

Thank you, Maggi! - though it makes me think what "RHS 67A" and "RHS 67B" are........

They are colours on the Royal Horticultural Society colour chart. These are used to standardise colour descriptions of plants. One man's mauve is another man's puce    so the RHS colour chart is meant to remove such subjective description difficulties.

[Maggi Young]

They are colours on the Royal Horticultural Society colour chart. These are used to standardise colour descriptions of plants. One man's mauve is another man's puce    so the RHS colour chart is meant to remove such subjective description difficulties.

Follow this link on the blog of Forumist Jim Shields to read about colour charts  : http://www.shieldsgardens.com/Blogs/Garden/201002.html  - relevant part is about three quarters of the way down the page .

[Roma]

Thought it was time I posted a few Cyclamen pictures
Cyclamen purpurascens album
Cyclamen purpurascens

[Roma]

Cyclamen colchicum
The seedlings from 2009 have done much better than those from 2007

[johnstephen29]

Hi Roma your purpuracens & colchicum plants are looking really great.

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello Roma, Good to see your plants looking so well, I particularly like the very pale C.colchicum, haven't seen one as pale before.

[johnw]

Roma  - Did you have to grow many plants from seed to land two white purpurascens?  I ask because I have received seed from Europe and the Cyclamen Society and there are usually very few per packet.  As luck would have it they've never sprouted unlike all other purpurascens seed. Very nice chunky flowers there by the way.

I wonder if it is possible to have a white with marked foliage?  Haven't seen one yet.

johnw

[Mark Griffiths]

John, you can have purpuracens album with marked leaves. If you squint at the picture on Jan Bravenboer's site you will see one with marked foliage.

My experience has been either no germination or they are pink from Cyclamen Society seed - although I did get a nice silver leaved one amongst them.

I may have one seedling from seed from Jan but it's a long way from flowering.

[Roma]

Thanks Johnstephen & Melvyn.  The plant front right in the first picture is very pale.  They are all from Cyclamen Society seed sown in 2007 and 2009.

Johnw - I sowed 5 seeds of Cyclamen purpurascens album from Cyclamen Society seed in 2007.  I think 4 germinated and two were pink with patterned leaves and two with plain leaves and white flowers.  I do not remember trying it any other time.  I must have been lucky.  The white ones have been very slow and do not produce many flowers. 3+1 this year.  No seed either

[johnstephen29]

Hi Mark I have had the same experience as you with regard to purpuracens album, the seed I received from the society were all pink, I was disappointed that they were not white, but I still had some great little purpuracens plants all said and done. I turned to Jan and I have also managed to get a seed to germinate in the spring, I have everything crossed that it's white.

[johnw]

Whites could appear in the second generation from those pinks so keep them going!

johnw

[David Nicholson]

My first two of the Season from the greenhouse:-

A nice little white Cyclamen intaminatum
Cyclamen mirabile

Both are from seed and grown by my friend Mike Quest who passed them on to me a couple of years ago.