Cyclamen 2016

[stonehill]

Greetings!
I am beginner at this forum , my first post
 purpurascens from our forests.

I am sorry for my bad style - my English language is an accident

[ashley]

Welcome Stonehill and thank you for showing these wild purpurascens

[sokol]

Cyclamen cilicicum is succesfully self seeding around.

[Maggi Young]

Stonehill, do not worry - we have native English speakers here whose English is also mostly an accident! 
Lovely cyclamen pictures, thank you.

[stonehill]

thank you

[Mark Griffiths]

thanks for posting these stonehill. The few times I've seen C.purpurascens in the wild they have only had a flower or two - that would probably have been June-Aug. Do they build up to flower more later in the season or have I just been unlucky?

[SJW]

The thing is......

Last year (2015)
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This year (2016)
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Yes, there were some regular exhibitors missing last year, including me.

[SJW]

Is that a Cyclamen elegans in Melvyn's 2nd photo - at the top or far right? I think I've seen November flowering forms seed for sale - unfortunately not been able to keep them.

Don't recall seeing any C. elegans at the show, Mark.

[Graeme]

Yes, there were some regular exhibitors missing last year, including me.

I am definitely going to go next year - I bet I have missed the CS seed distribution as well this year...

[Mark Griffiths]

I think you've missed the main distribution. It usually arrives about now.

But there will be the surplus distribution list published in the December Journal

[stonehill]

The few times I've seen C.purpurascens in the wild they have only had a flower or two - that would probably have been June-Aug. Do they build up to flower more later in the season or have I just been unlucky?

Purpurascens want water if they stand too dry they do not grow much flowers
Main flower is august, september but a bit they bloom until it snows

[SJW]

I think you've missed the main distribution. It usually arrives about now.

But there will be the surplus distribution list published in the December Journal

I know it's been a poor year for seed, not as many donations as usual, so not sure how much will be left for the surplus distribution. Poor year for CSE seed as well.

[Mark Griffiths]

I had a poor year here. Most of the old C.persicums didn't get up, let alone flower & seed.

[Bart]

This year might be better though if this graecum is anything to go by!




Cyclamen graecum seed set 2016

Earlier in the year I spotted this seed pod on C. hederifolium album and thought it was unusually large:


C. hederifolium seed pod

And finally a hederifolium looking lacquered in the drizzle...


C. hederifolium 'Album' leaves

[Bart]

Emerging with the first moisture are Cyclamen libanoticum leaves:



Cyclamen libanoticum

It has been growing and flowering under a cotoneaster bush for some 4 years now and has set seed every year.

And a hederifolium selection from J. Bravenboer,



C hederifolium.

Earlier I posted a query about a very small flowered hederifolium,(post 183) and another one with a very odd flower (post 192). does anyone have any comments on these please.

Great to see the pictures of the cyclamen show, thanks everyone for sharing! There is a beautiful really plum-black hederifoium in one of the pictures. So far all my plants from seed from 'extreme dark purple' plants have turned out very pale pink- nearly white! I'll keep trying...
Thanks too, stonehill for the great pics of C.purpurascens. Mine are growing near the C.libanoticum, sso probably way too dry for good flowering. I'll find somewhere wetter, although that isn't so easy where we are, it seems to get drier and drier over spring and summer..