Cyclamen 2018

[Roma]

4 different Cyclamen colchicum.  Idly browsing through Rareplants (Paul Christian) website I was shocked to see Cyclamen colchicum priced at £29.95!  Better get sowing!
Cyclamen purpurascens album - this has been very slow but has 5 flowers this year. 

[Mariette]

Very nice plants, Roma! This one I received as Cyclamen graecum ´Glyfada´.

[Bart]

Nice purpurascens 'Album', Roma , and Graecum 'Glyfada' looks great Mariette. My plants of C. graecum and C. persicum are coming into bud / leaf right now and there are some nice patterns showing. A plant raised from Cyclamen Society seed 2014, C. persicum puniceum ex JJA 3665520 has very nice leaves:



Unfortunately not all pots of seedlings have escaped the wrath of out Rhode Island hen, who has legs like a bulldozer, and has uprooted many a label over the years. Hence I have too many pots with nice plants but with unknown provenance. I made pictures of some of the flowers and only spotted the serration on this one when I looked at the pictures on the computer. It is a large flower, way larger than any C. cilicium, or C. intaminatum  I have ever flowered, and I have no id. Maybe someone could help?



Another one I am not sure about is a very squat, dumpy looking C. 'hederifolium'. Anyone know if that is hederifolium, or a hybrid?





And there are many more. Here's a shot of a nice pink C. hederifolium that could well be a C. x whiteae:



It's interesting to notice how it is not at all straight forward to re-identify subjects when labels are lost. Even after growing Cyclamen seriously for some 12 years now and having Brian Mathew's and Christopher Grey-Wilson's books at hand, I am still not secure in naming 'lost' specimens... I have been waiting for a proper frost for some years now to weed out the C. africanum from C. hederifolium in some cases 

[Bart]

And a few more...

[David Nicholson]

One I'm sure of................I think    Cyclamen cilicium from seed (AGS 12/13-2136 sown 16-08-13) and flowering for the first time.

[bibliofloris]

Beautiful cyclamen, Bart and Dave!

Bart, I usually think of serrations on the flower like that with C. mirabile, but I haven’t grown it and am not sure if the rest fits your description... My chickens share your hen’s love of bulldozing and tag-pulling, so it’s getting harder for me to ID things here, too! (At least they help keep the slugs down!)

Dave, the first flowers from seed are always the best, aren’t they? My favorite kind of magic (after germination, anyway.)

I noticed a nice shout-out to the SRGC seed exchange in my new (US-based) Hansen’s Nursery cyclamen catalog today - like meeting a friend in an unexpected place!
Kelly

[Maggi Young]

I noticed a nice shout-out to the SRGC seed exchange in my new (US-based) Hansen’s Nursery cyclamen catalog today - like meeting a friend in an unexpected place!
Kelly

   From the Oregon cyclamen specialist nursery?   That's good to know and kind of them!

[bibliofloris]

   From the Oregon cyclamen specialist nursery?   That's good to know and kind of them!

Yes, that’s the one, Maggi! While talking about growing bulbs and discovering which do well in your garden in her introduction, Robin says, “There are lots of opportunities for experimenting with lesser-known and unusual bulbs. The Pacific Bulb Society, Scottish Rock Garden Club, North American Rock Garden Society, and Alpine Garden Society have terrific seed exchanges where you can obtain seed inexpensively with which to experiment.”

[Maggi Young]

Robin Hansen of Hansen Nursery is also the Editor of the Pacific Bulb Society's  'Bulb Garden' Quarterly. 

www.hansennursery.com

[Mariette]

Bart, Your Cyclamen persicum has a very beautiful leaf-pattern, indeed!

Like bibliofloris, I associate serrated flowers with C. mirabile.

Some of my Cyclamen hederifolium show short, squat flowers, too, but usually  for only one year. It appears to be due to some kind of disturbance. I noticed this only with potted seedlings flowering the first time, but never with established plants in the garden.

[fermi de Sousa]

I grew Cyclamen persicum "ex Israel" from AGS Seedex 2005 but the best flowering plant of it was the one I gave Otto who planted it out in the garden at Ferny Creek Hort Society! Encouraged by its success outdoors (mine were all in the shade-house) I planted some out a couple of years ago and this year there are the first flowers showing and lots more to follow
cheers
fermi

[johnw]

A rather good Cyclamen purpurascens  that popped up in the garden.  The flowers are usually very dark.

john

[Harald-Alex.]

with the first rains after a very hot and dry summer also in my garden the Cyclamum hederifolium starts with flowering

[tonyg]

Major ivy removal revealed something much more attractive albeit it will have ivy shaped leaves in a while 

Cyclamen hederifolium - venerable ones.

[fermi de Sousa]

I grew Cyclamen persicum "ex Israel" from AGS Seedex 2005 but the best flowering plant of it was the one I gave Otto who planted it out in the garden at Ferny Creek Hort Society!

We were at the FCHS Spring Show today and got a chance to take a pic of the Cyclamen persicum "ex Israel" which I gave Otto - he was rather dismissive of the one I posted above!
The bamboo stakes are placed around the plant in flower to discourage the feathered vandals, I think
cheers
fermi