Cyclamen 2008

[Paul T]

David,

That silver Cyclamen cyprium is very special.  Far superior to anything I've seen before.  Beautiful!!!!!

[Oron Peri]

Temperatures are still above 30c and  not even one drop of rain yet 
but my Cyclamen seems to love it.
some photos from this morning.
C. colchicum
 C. graecum ssp anatolicum
C.  hederifolium ssp. confusum -good color
C.  persicum var autumnale - miniature form
C. rohlfsianum

[Oron Peri]

Some more [hotos:

C. africanum
hederifolim album
2 leaf forms of my persicum 'Persian Beauty' just started to set leaves

[Anthony Darby]

These, and especially the plant in the last pic, are stunning Oron. Keep them coming.

[ashley]

Outstanding persicum Oron and cyprium David   

If ever you have a few seed to spare ...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful leaf forms David and Oron - absolutely stunning !
Great buy you did there David !!

[Anthony Darby]

I lose too many of these half-hardy species and wonder when best to keep dry and how much to water during the winter.

[Gerdk]

Here are some Cyclamen species photographed in Erich Pasche's greenhouse today.
The flowers of C. colchicum are a little bit darker than usual
The persicum leaves may not be as spectacular as those from Oron, nevertheless I'll show them here

Gerd
C.africanum
C.  colchicum dark
 C.mirabilis
 C.persicum1
 C.persicum2
 C.persicum3

[ChrisB]

Oron, lovely photos.  Would you consider putting your location onto your postings so I can see where you are in the world, obviously somewhere warmer than here, that's for sure.  many thanks again for the wonderful pics.


Edit by Maggi: Oren has  now made a change to his profile to show his location 

[Lesley Cox]

Spectacular leaves all right, and the flowers are pretty good too. Gerd, Erich's persicum leaves are not to be sneezed at!

[Joakim B]

LOVLY cyclamens
Here I am happy with far simpler plants that in principal are standard garden center varieties but there a re not that common in Portugal. No special leaf forms but ok and the colours match my bouganvillas. I speant 14€ for 4 cyclamen and 2 bouganvilla. All to be grown on the balcony.
Who knows what their off spring will be like. Hopefully I will find some more interesting patterns later to mix in the blend.

Kind regards
Joakim

[art600]

Oron

Your persicum 'Persian Beauty' has an excellent/outstanding leaf.  Did you grow from seed, or buy the plant.  hopefully one from Peter Moore. 

[Oron Peri]

Art,

Mother plant of what I named 'Persian Beauty' was collected in the wild by me in northen Israel.
for some reason it was quite a 'weak' plant, meaning it doesn't have long life...
for the last 6 years I have been selecting stronger plants which hopfully will do better.
This kind of pattern is extremely rare, it is the first time i have found something like that.
There is another plant called 'Begonia Leaf' which starts to set leaves this week, these have curly and highly serrated  leaves,  when I will load the photo you will agree with me why I have chosen this name.

By the way Jan Bravenboer lists Persian Beauty in his seeds list. [from plants i have sent him]

[Hans A.]

Oron, Gerd - thanks for showing this wonderful cyclamen - the leafs of the different persicums are very special - never have seen somthing like "Persian Beauty"- Congratulations!

[Joakim B]

I am planing to put the C. persicum outside and would like them as "ground cover" for my Hibiscus sp. bought at the botanical garden. The Hibiscus looks like rosa-chinensis to me so I do not know why they had them as H. sp? Would C.persicum like to never to dry out as is the case with Hibiscus?
Martin has once talked about C. persicum as a possible "ground cover" for Rhododendron since it seems to be possible to have it running over the summer if watered. I put some seedlings with the Rhododendrons and will see if they survive.
The soil for the hibiscus will be more normal garden soil maybe with a bit of water retentive material. The top layer where the C. persicum would grow might get som expanded clay below and even some perlite in the mix to ceap it better drained.

Regarding the Garden center C. persicum I bought I was surprised that most of the foliage did not have read backside. I thought that was standard! Is there some other genes in the Garden center C. persicum so that they might be hybrids of some sorts? They are not stated to be C. persicum so they could have mixed parentage. Rix and Philips talk about them as selections.

The plantings will be done in Portugal since they would die for surtain in Sweden. Both cyclamen and hibiscus unless different ones would be chosen.

Kind regards
Joakim