Cyclamen 2016

[Graeme]

Many thanks Maggi 

you are really helpful !

OK - the link is for the Editor

OK - I will write for the other question to the membership adress

Have a nice day
Hans

Hans - I was wondering if they were going to move the Cyclamen-L discussions onto there at some stage?

[Matt T]

I think the fresh new look and feel of the site is great. Well done to all the the Cyclamen Soc.
Looking forward to seeing it grow as more content is loaded.

[Hans J]

Graeme ,

it is long time ago that I have visit the Cyclamen L list ...

Hans

[johnw]

The first C. rohlfsianum has opened and the others are close.  The flowering one has nice short flowers and sturdy stalks which don't flop.


I thought I had lost the graecum growing points but they've made a miraculous recovery, even buds. The last pic shows a 30 year old graecum.


john

[Rimmer de Vries]

John should these cyclamen be planted so high? with the tuber entirely above the soil/ gravel level?

[johnw]

C. africanum with corm just showing, another 30 year old and a tight squeeze in a 16" pot. Another one from Cyclamen Society 1987 seed and hundreds of buds yet to open.  And an old shot from 2008 in a 12" pot.

johnw

[johnw]

High is mandatory for graecum and rohlfsianum here otherwise their crowns will rot away from botrytis in the once (?) dismal, foggy and damp days of November. They're 30 years old and flower reliably.

Here another rohlfsianum that was mistakenly planted as another species. Lacking air and extra grit it made a rather desperate attempt to surface but then the new crown rotted off before it reached the surface.  Our climate is quite unlike yours, perhaps not this year but as a rule damp and foggy autumn till June/July.

john in Lycoris-free Nova Scotia

[Mark Griffiths]

I also keep graecum up high - that's because that is how it grows from seed here - persicum is another one that sits on the surface naturally.

[Maggi Young]

A recent Marcus Harvey blog on cyclamen.... http://hillviewrareplants.com.au/ramblings/cyclamen-a-race-of-thoroughly-individual-characters


 

[johnw]

I also keep graecum up high - that's because that is how it grows from seed here - persicum is another one that sits on the surface naturally.

Indeed Mark and I missed persicum, which as you say requires high planting as well.  Back in the late 80's or early 90's the Cyclamen Society published a little pink-covered  handbook on Cyclamen and there was a great little blurb on the planting depths of the various cyclamen species.


john

[Yann]

Cyclamen cilicium CSE 08123
Cyclamen mirabile tilebarn jan, seeds from CS
Cyclamen hederifolium albiflorum, seeds from CS
Cyclamen hederifolium, seeds i collected near Opi, in the Abruzzo

[Bart]

This year my cyclamen graecum has produced more flowers than ever before.

Cyclamen graecum

Last season it refused to spring into life all together, and made only 1 leaf  around March which soon disappeared again.
Cyclamen rohlfsianum is still dormant, except 1 plant which has flowered and is displaying nice leaves:

Cyclamen rohlfsianum

And a cyclamen  hederifolium, could be 'Ruby Glow,

Cyclamen hederifolium

Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas' is finally showing some potential. Are the very floriferous specimens that people show really old plants? This one must be 5 years old and only ever produced a few flowers at any time

Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'

And finally


Cyclamen intaminatum

[Graeme]

And a cyclamen  hederifolium, could be 'Ruby Glow,

very elegant flower on that one - and colour is good as well

never sure how people get a lot of flowers on cyclamen? Some years I have loads of flowers - some years not - the plants that had loads on last year have very few on this year.....   also the C Coum seem very very early this year into leaf (I have always wondered if removing the seed pods off plants makes them flower more the year after?)

[cycnich]

Hi Bart
 I noticed that the tips of the petals on your dark hederifolium are bleached out. This is not a critism just an observation. I grow several dark forms including Jan bravenboers dark purple which is almost black. I used to suffer with the same thing. It is caused by exposure to bright light or direct sunlight. I moved my plants to a much shadier place several years ago and the problem never reoccoured. Hope this helps.

[Graeme]

Bart the tilebarn Nicholas - did you buy that or grow from seed - as it looks like most of the plants I have as tilebarn anne?

the Nicholas I had (lost this year) has a christmas tree leaf more like a coum