Cyclamen 2015

[Matt T]

There was some discussion about this plant/collection in the summer of 2014. Will try to search for it.

Seek and ye shall find - it's here, Mark: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11254.msg310473#msg310473 and here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11254.msg310555#msg310555

[Mark Griffiths]

ok, so crassifolium. Mine are scented but not so much as the confusum.

[Gert-Jan]

Hello,

With temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees in Belgium, it does not feel winter.
C. coum and C. alpinum are ready for it. Leaves have appeared last month. Flower buds are vivisible.
C. elegans is flowering at this moment. (pictures to make)
Please find a picture of C. coum leaves.

Greetings

Gert-Jan

[Maggi Young]

With temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees in Belgium, it does not feel winter.

    Very warm temperatures  for December  - what might it be in January and February I wonder?

[Mark Griffiths]

warm here also.

I have coum and alpinum in bud also. Plus some C.persicum. Having said that about half of the mature C.persicum (about 20 years old) show no signs  of growth at all which is a bit worrying. I let most of them seed last summer and I wonder if that's the cause. Not sure if I sowed some of the seed of the standout ones myself 

another observation, when I was collecting C. persicum seed I found some were really mouldy - so much so I couldn't really send it to an exchange. I sowed some and guess what? Something like 100% germination in a few weeks.

[Roma]

Not much going on here at the moment, but C. hederifolium ex Zakynthos (one of the plants that Roma brought to the DWE sales table in 2014) is looking and smelling good. I was amazed at the size increase of the tuber - it literally burst it's pot last summer. Thanks, Roma!

Well done, Matt, getting flowers.  Apart from the one I had at the Discussion Weekend this year with plenty of flowers and few leaves I have another 4 none of which have flowered this year.  They all seem later growers than the one I took to Grantown.  I still have 2 to part with but they were not even showing leaves in October.  The two which I am keeping have a bit of silver on the leaf.  It looks more silvery in the flesh. 

[Roma]

First flower on Cyclamen coum.

[Matt T]

Well done, Matt, getting flowers.  Apart from the one I had at the Discussion Weekend this year with plenty of flowers and few leaves I have another 4 none of which have flowered this year.  They all seem later growers than the one I took to Grantown.  I still have 2 to part with but they were not even showing leaves in October.  The two which I am keeping have a bit of silver on the leaf.  It looks more silvery in the flesh.

Thanks, Roma. No treatment out of the ordinary, just our non-summer! It did put up a couple of small flowers last year, so maybe it's just a good flowerer. Your's with silver markings is nice.

[Naoto The Zombie]

Hi gang! This is the first coum to flower in my garden - albissimum Golan Heights cross. Flowering one month earlier than usual.

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice Naoto, I've found Golan Heights to be difficult to keep - had it for a short while and then lost it. I do have some seedlings I hope (never know until they flower). Is this hybrid more robust?

[Naoto The Zombie]

@Mark

Yes, it is hybrid and much more vigorous than Golan Heights yet the flower is very charming......I planted this in my raised bed last winter but no problem so far (in London area)

[Rimmer de Vries]

identified as Cyclamen greacum candidum
 from SRGC seed Ex 2013/14 #1212 seed sown 14 August 2014, blooming now in a 3" pot

nice leaf pattern and very dark flower color.

 is this identified correctly?

i wish the SRGC identified the donor.  beautiful plant

[Mark Griffiths]

I'd say C.coum forma pallidum. 

[Rimmer de Vries]

Thank you Mark, i should have known it was coum with those mouse ears

[Claire Cockcroft]

I helped salvage cyclamen from a late friend's garden.  There seems to be a couple of different species or forms besides the usual C. hederifolium.
The first picture is the mixed box.  The second picture shows a form in darker green and spotted leaves.  And the third picture shows a bright, glossy green leaf.  Are these all C. hederifolium?
Thank you.