Cyclamen 2015

[Anthony Darby]

Not sure about that Matt. We had some torrential rain at the weekend, which drenched one but didn't affect the other. They look no different.

[Philip Walker]

Cyclamen repandum exJCA515
Cyclamen rhodium
Cyclamen pseudibericum
All 1st flowers

[Maggi Young]

Cyclamen repandum exJCA515

 

Found this on the JJA Master List  .......
368.003 : CYCLAMEN REPANDUM subsp. PELOPONNESIACUM Greece, Lakonia, Oros Taigetos, above Paleopanagia. 1400m. In humus under Platanus, Abies & Pinus. Ex JJA 5157 (From a clone with foliage, speckled all over with white, but this population, from a much higher altitude than that usually recorded for this subspecies, has extremely variable leaf-markings, many like the type-race. Flowers, however, are consistently the pale-pink with red noses to be expected in most Peloponnese C. repandum.)

Might you have missed off the final 7  ?

[Maggi Young]

East Cheshire Alpine Garden Society- from their  Facebook page

 "Cyclamen of the month - April - C. rhodium peloponnesiacum
This is ......Steve Walter's ( SJW's)  Cyclamen rhodium peloponnesiacum. Like other members of the C. repandum group, it is at it's flowering peak in April."


Very nice.

[SJW]

East Cheshire Alpine Garden Society- from their  Facebook page

 "Cyclamen of the month - April - C. rhodium peloponnesiacum
This is ......Steve Walter's ( SJW's)  Cyclamen rhodium peloponnesiacum. Like other members of the C. repandum group, it is at it's flowering peak in April."

Very nice.

Hi Maggi - this plant does seem to get better every year (the tricky bit is keeping it alive from year to year, of course!). For those interested in natural variation (or possibly a rogue bee in the greenhouse ) there's a good photo of another rhodense peloponnesiacum from the same sowing about half way down this thread: http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Midland+AGS+Show+/19898/. Both 1st generation offspring from the CSE plant 92060, which was collected in the Parori Gorge in 1992.

[Philip Walker]

I'll have to check with my seed supplier,Maggi.

[johnw]

Not a very flattering picture but this coum was planted last summer as it was reputedly hardier than all the coums we have tried to date and failed with.  Ice was the killer.  However this one and a second sat in 6" of solid ice for 11+ weeks with a good meter of snow atop.  Not only did it emerge unscathed but in flower.  Defies all reason. Hopefully it will seed about.

johnw  - a frigid 7c

[SJW]

...Hopefully it will seed about.

Is that a seed leaf right in the middle of the photo?

[johnw]

Could very well be and likely a hitch-hiker from the donor's garden!  Good eye their mate.

john

[goofy]

hello friends,
here are some Cyclamens from my side.

Cyclamen repandum, dark selection


Cyclamen repandum vividum


Cyclamen persicum ex Ugarit dark seedling


Cyclamen persicum, 'Karpathos' seedling (tks to Carol)


enjoy

[David Nicholson]

CYCLAMEN WATERING REGIMES

Here's post I made recently in another thread but thought I should try it here.

"I wonder if I've made a mistake? I got this idea in my head that I would take out the grit and hortag, on which my pots stand, from my greenhouse benching and line them with polythene and stand the pots on capillary matting. I even ordered the matting and it came today but now I'm having second thoughts!

The major reason why I thought I might change is that given the number of pots of Primulas I have (over 185) and the time it takes me to look after them something else doesn't get the attention it deserves. This year it has been my ever growing Cyclamen collection. I don't have the time to water them from the bottom and I'm very careful when watering from the top to not over-water. I've not, so far, suffered any losses to tubers rotting but my plants leaves do die back very early. So, I thought, change to clay pots and stand them on capillary matting.

Am I on the right lines  or should stick to grit and hortag? Views for and against welcomed."

Also another Cyclamen watering issue. Should I start to water the Spring flowering species at the same time I start to water the Autumn flowerers or leave them until later?

[Mark Griffiths]

David, don't know, I'm struggling too.

Previously my plants were plunged in sand, either in clay or plastic pots. Some have the bad habit of either keeling over (too wet) or very poor growth (too dry). C. alpinum is bad in this respect although in my last greenhouse I grew it for years with no issues, lots of flowers and leaves. C. mirabile is similar. I had individual plant out in the garden fine, in greenhouse or frame - then suddenly they got awkward. I have C. persicum that suddenly get grumpy for years.

I'm now trying both C.mirabile and C.alpinum on capillary matting and mainly out in a frame.

As for the C.persicum issues - no idea. It may be they are getting more difficult as they age, I guess they are probably now 25 years old. 

[Rimmer de Vries]

I found this tiny bloom in a pot of seed started last fall of 2014 SRGC seed Ex seed labelled as "Cyclamen intaminatum"
 the seed pot is in my basement under lights in a cool environment and quite dry.
is this identified correctly?

[Mark Griffiths]

Rimmer, I'm not seeing any picture?

[Rimmer de Vries]

Rimmer, I'm not seeing any picture?

the iPhone photos ended up sideways so i deleted, cropped and reposted them , now they look upright from here.