Cyclamen 2016

[cycnich]

I agree it is tilebarn Anne.

[ashley]

... I grow several dark forms including Jan bravenboers dark purple which is almost black. ...

Having recently planted out a batch of 1-year seedlings I'm really looking forward to seeing them flower in due course.
Germination of this and other seed from JB was close to 100% so the quality is excellent.

[Graeme]

Having recently planted out a batch of 1-year seedlings I'm really looking forward to seeing them flower in due course.
Germination of this and other seed from JB was close to 100% so the quality is excellent.

I have some seedlings from red forms and dark forms which are now a year old - cannot wait to see the flowers
Been all day today in the alpine house where all my cyclamen are - found a tray full of cyclamen intminatum in flower under one of the benches - label said sown 2006 from own seed......... I still have the plant the seed came off and it must be 6" across - not flowered that well this year

[Bart]

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.

Hi Pat, that's interesting. I've had this one for years, and have moved it around, but not with the purpose of getting rid of the white tips. I thought it was a rather special feature! Might try it in a more shaded environment next year. I have one offspring planted in the 'woodland patch', and I think it has bleached tops too, but I will have to check.
I have some batches of Jan Bravenboers 'extreme dark purple' flowering first time this year, but so far none of them are any darker than this' ruby Glow' one...

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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

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I agree it is tilebarn Anne.

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Ok that's useful to know, thanks.
I keep a list of all the seed I get from different sources , and guess what, neither of them are listed in my records!
Typical. This must be SRGC seed from some 4-5?years ago. I will have to delve into my old magazines and see if I made a note. But for now I'll re-label it, and keep an eye on its brothers and sisters for a christmas tree.

I spotted another curious hederifolium today with silver leaves, and absurdly tiny flowers. For comparison I stuck a 'normal' white flower from a plant in the garden in the pot:

Hederifolium  tiny

It is perhaps not that clear in the picture, but the biggest flower of the tiny plant is 10mm, as opposed to 24mm for the normal one.

Anyone an idea if this is a named variety, or just a seasonal variation?

[johnw]

Cyclamen rohlfsianum today.


john - sunny, 25c, humidity 46%

[ThomasHe]

Hello
i was two month ago in a Gardencenter and saw some Cyclamen. As really don't know this species i asked somebody from the Center if they are winter hard? She told me they don't bother snow but don't like cold. I said aha and bought one.
Could please anyone tell me what i have bought.
Thank you very much, Thomas

[ThomasHe]

some other species i have and don't know what it is. It had white Flowers.

[Bart]

Hi Thomas, they look like the miniature florists' C. persicum to me. Some have a fab scent!

Maggi/ someone else, I don't know what went wrong with my previous post, but my own text came as part of a quote. Tried to edit it, but thought better of it...
Came across this sunny picture of C. graecum:



Cyclamen graecum

[ThomasHe]

Thank you very much Bart. So you think both of them are C.persicum ? I am asking because of the second one i took some seed and i have seedlings from them. So it's soon time to take them in the House.

[Maggi Young]

Such things happen, Bart - often to me!  Luckily the readers generally work it out for themselves!

[François Lambert]

Hi Thomas, they look like the miniature florists' C. persicum to me. Some have a fab scent!

Indeed, I grow 2 different colours of these.  One pale pink that has the power to perfume a whole room, another dark pink that has no smell at all.  They respond badly to a summer rest (one died upon receiving a dry summer rest -  but I have seedlings of that one), so I keep them growing all year round and they flower even through summer.

[David Nicholson]

When they have finished flowering I put them in the garden (in the warmest place possible). Some last a few years and throw up more flowers, others just fade away.

[Bart]

I had a beautiful red one, that I treated like any other persicum, so got rid of all the peat around the root as soon as it stopped flowering, repotted it in gritty compost and I had it for 6 years or so, until one year there were so many flower buds it got botryris and I lost the whole plant. Diameter of bulb was something like 18cm. If we hadn't moved on to windows 10, I could have found a picture of it, but I am at a complete loss as to how to get the view per year/ month like we used to have in windows 7... Another matter, but maybe someone can help?

Today glorious sunshine on some cyclamen:

Cyclamen africanum


Cyclamen rohfsianum


Cyclamen hederifolium 'Album'

And a hederifolium with a very odd flower. It is only the second flower, I'll keep an eye out for this one. Any idea what this might be? No auricles compared to normal hederifolium.

[Bart]

  wasn't meant to be upside down, wasn't on my computer?

[ThomasHe]

thank you all for your answers, Thomas