Cyclamen 2018

[Gail]

Definitely all tastes catered for in Amsterdam!
I wasn't tempted by the 'Merengue' (despite the fact that at least 80% of my SRGC & AGS seed requests this year are for cyclamen) but I did buy a good sized root of the Itoh hybrid peony 'First Arrival' and the extremely flamboyant hippeastrum cultivar 'Tres Chic' and still had change from a €10 note.

[Joakim B]

Some fun cyclamen persicum hybrids there.
I went to the wrong site when going to the cyclamen society so found cyclamen.com
On the first page is a strange one called pipocas
I think that is popcorn in Portuguese
If you like strange ones they have some, but also nice bitones

We have a warm spell at the moment but there is risk for frost and I plan to put pine branches on top of my plantings both as a protection from frost and from cats as they do not like to walk on the pine branches.

Is the cyclamen in need of the winter sun (not much of that) so can not be covered? I have C. hed and C. purp but planned to give the pine branch as cover!
Happy for any input
Joakim

[stone]

purpurascens like a little wintersun, when its not strong frozen
a rare one like a hedera

[Gabriela]

purpurascens like a little wintersun, when its not strong frozen
a rare one like a hedera

This type a variegation on Cyclamen is indeed rare, I wouldn't have guess it was Cyclamen leaf.

[Gabriela]

Interesting new forms of Cyclamen from Japan Maggi.
They are quite popular as house plants here as well and very affordable (like all mass produced plants).  I also noticed a new offering similar with the Merengue, but not quite as frilly.
I like more the 'traditional' forms like this little one, also fragrant; my favourite this year.

[Roma]

I bought this one a few weeks ago at a garden centre.  It is a small one called 'Victoria Deco'.  It's quite pretty and not too far away from normal cyclamen shape.  There used to be a large cultivar called 'Victoria' with similar colouring and frilled edges to the petals.

[Mariette]

purpurascens like a little wintersun, when its not strong frozen
a rare one like a hedera

Really a gem, stone!

This Cyclamen hederifolium seedling develops pink leaf- centers when the temperature falls.

[Graeme]

This Cyclamen hederifolium seedling develops pink leaf- centers when the temperature falls.

second picture is very nice

[Leena]

Very nice plants everyone, and the leaves in stone's and Mariette's Cyclamen are beautiful, they look so different!

[stone]

thanks

[Gail]

A friend has just emailed this image with the query virus or thrip damage?
My somewhat flippant thought was chicken pox. Any more sensible suggestions?

[Maggi Young]

I'd guess thrip damage.

[ashley]

Cyclamen elegans
C. coum 'adjaricum'

[Mariette]

Your C. elegans appears to be really large-flowered, Ashley! Mine, raised from seed ex Iran, has flowers the size of an average C. coum.

[David Nicholson]

C. coum[/i] 'adjaricum'

From "Cyclamen A guide for Gardeners, Horticulturalists and Botanists", Grey-Wilson (Timber Press 2002) in reference to Cyclamen coum ssp. caucasicum

'.....In the Caucasus a medley of different forms exist sometimes side by side but also as discrete colonies, and botanists working in the region have described many species in this complex, though few would uphold these today as distinct elements; the synonyms include C. adZHharicum,
C. abschasicum, C. caucasicum, C. cicassicum, C. ibericum and C. vernum"