Cyclamen 2015

[johnralphcarpenter]

First Cyclamen hederifolium of the season - apologies for terrible photograph.

[Melvyn Jope]

Musical Cyclamen purpurascens

[Maggi Young]

Musical Cyclamen purpurascens

So it is!  Great photo, Melvyn

[Melvyn Jope]

Two Cyclamen in flower today, a dark C.hederifolium and a pale C.colchicum

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great dark colour, Melvyn !

[Gabriel B]

Melvyn, I like the interesting jagged coloring on the edge of C. colchicum. Hard to see: is it pigment or veining, or something else? I'm planning to get seed of C. colchicum from the Cyclamen Society this year. If it does well, I'll see if it's hardy in our cold winters. A long shot, perhaps.

Very nice picture of the coiling seed stems.

[Gabriel B]

My cyclamens (Cyclamen purpurascens) are still blooming. The largest have had 15-20 flowers each at one time. These cyclamens do very well in Minnesota, though they don't really like the summer heat.

The new leaves are coming up, and it's amazing how the new leaves have much more pronounced patterns than the old ones. It's like they're newly washed by the rain and shining like a gem.

The three oldest plants:







Then the two young ones with promising leaf patterns: silver with a green edge, fully green. The fully green is perhaps a little homely, but it having all the same leaf pattern isn't very interesting. It would look very nice to plant a cyclamen bed with green leaf forms planted among silvery leaf forms. Contrast catches the eye.





I like the flower form of the large-leaved cyclamen best. Sadly, it has died. I'll post about that later. Fortunately, I have seed from it and a better place to plant the seedlings.

[Anthony Darby]

Cyclamen persicum from Rhodes. Seed kindly sent by Hans Joschko.

[Gabriel B]

Anthony, very pretty form. If I'm seeing it right, it looks like the leaves are unusual for C. persicum: fairly deeply toothed, and with angles like C. hederifolium.

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony, very pretty form. If I'm seeing it right, it looks like the leaves are unusual for C. persicum: fairly deeply toothed, and with angles like C. hederifolium.

If you scroll to the bottom of this page you can see the Rhodes plant in April Gabriel. http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12608.195

 Edit by maggi - direct link to the post :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12608.msg331092#msg331092

[Roma]

Cyclamen hederifolium, seedlings from'Red Sky'
Cyclamen colchicum

[Anthony Darby]

Close up of the leaf of my Cyclamen persicum from Rhodes.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Cyclamen purpurascens alba in flower !

[Hans J]

 

Hans

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hans

Your memory is correct, Hans !!