Cyclamen 2015

[Gert-Jan]

Some more pictures.

[Gert-Jan]

Last ones.

[Chris Johnson]

Hi Gert-Jan, welcome to the forum.

Thanks for sharing your cyclamen images with us, they are obviously very happy in your garden.

[Maggi Young]

Welcome, Gert-Jan!  Your cyclamen path is lovely - and it's good to see your success in finding a safe home for the less hardy species.

[Mark Griffiths]

Gert-Jan, maybe I mised it but do you say which ones they are, I can see graecum and colchicum amongst them

[goofy]

hello friends,
these are some Cyclamens, just flowering in the open garden.

Cyclamen purpurascens


different cultivar with slightly darker color


Cyclamen fatrense from Fatra mountains (pot grown)


enjoy

[Gert-Jan]

Hello Mark,

In the "Thuja Garden", we grow the next species: C. intaminatum, C. rhodium, C. creticum, C. elegans, C. cilicium, C. balearicum, C. libanoticum, C. mirabile, C. pseudibericum. All planted 10-15 cm deep. Lot of pine bark and needles, beech leaf and grit.
They survived the winters of 2011, 2011 and 2012 with -15 to -18 degrees C. But with protection of fleece and buble plastic.

Gert-Jan

[Chris Johnson]

I recently knocked out a neglected pot of Cyclamen cyprium and repotted the larger corms in individual pots. The smaller corms were potted together.

This is the first flower to appear.

[Matt T]

Hi Chris,
This plant has been nagging on my mind since I saw it last week. It doesn't look quite right for C.cyprium to me. The flower is a bit too pink and the blotch at the base of the petals should be more of an 'M' shape than a 'V'. Does it have a scent? C.cyprium is strongly fragrant. I wonder if a rogue C.hederifolium seed could have dropped into your pot of C.cyprium?

[Chris Johnson]

Thanks for the insight, Matt, and, no, it doesn't have a smell. The pot has been in the vicinity of C. hederifolium in the past so your hypothesis is likely. It will be interesting to see what emerges from the other pots.

Do the two species hybridise?

[Mark Griffiths]

I've had C.hederifolium mixed in with C.cyprium seed from the Cyclamen Society - I think we saw another member last year with the same thing.

[Matt T]

There's a hybrid between C.cyprium x libanoticum but not with C. hederifolium as far as I know.
M

[Chris Johnson]

Ok, thanks both.

I'll see what appears over the next 3-4 weeks.

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello Chris, I am confident that your plant is Cyclamen hederifolium...with no involvement from C.cyprium!

[Chris Johnson]

Thanks, Melvyn.

It's possibly a wrong label but more likely a rogue.