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Herman, what a nice cyclamen flowering you have, and a lot of them!Here first C.purpurascens started to flower in early August, and still there are flowers in some of them. It seems that some of them start to flower later than others.C.hederifolium has not been hardy in my garden, but C.purpurascens is, I'm so happy about that!
Grandpappy Cyclamen africanum which I grew from seed from the 1985 Cyclamen Society Seedex. The pots is 60cm wide and the corm touches the rim. Carefree and a reliable bloomer which appecriates being outdoors for the autumn.johnw
A couple of mixed pots. The first one was labelled parviflorum subalpinum and appears to be mainly coum with a couple of persicum.Seed was from the Cyclamen Society sown in November 2017. (Attachment Link) The second is labelled cilicium. I think some are cilicium but there's also coum there. (Attachment Link)
Leena - C. hederifolium is not dependable long term here either. Our very wet winters which are often combined with long streches of ice bound corms are not at all to its liking. In the 1980s it seeded about all over but one brutally icy winter wiped all but the original out & the latter big corm took 7 years to reappear.I too am very happy C. purpuracens is so dependable and prolific.
John, thanks for your experience with C.hederifolium. I think it is the same here.Herman, Cyclamen seem really to enjoy your garden!C.purpurascens is still flowering, picture last week.
Yes Leena, most cyclamen are here growing well and they are a good combination with the Hepatica's and Trillium.
Cyclamen and Hepaticas tolerate summer dry well at least here. In your experience can also Trilliums grow well in a bed with summer dry? My experience is still quite limited, so I have Trilliums only in more moist bed, but they would look good with Hepaticas and Cyclamen:).
Herman, thank you for the pictures of the places where Hepaticas and other plants grow so well in your garden. Most of these plants I have grown only for a few years, 7 or 8 at the most and Cyclamen only for couple of years, so it is still trial and error for me to find good places for them where they would thrive:). Here are some pictures of the place where I have found that Hepaticas, snowdrops, crocus and Helleborus seem to grow well, and last year I planted also Cyclamen (seed grown coum and bigger purpurascens-corms). This place is summer dry because of big trees around it which suck all the moist from the ground, and soil is sandy which I have made better with lots of humus, compost and leaf mold. It gets a lot of sun in late autumn and spring but in the summer it is in shade. In the last picture is the spot around the apple tree where I have planted Hepatica japonica and H.pubescens, and now Cyclamen (and some new smaller snowdrops last summer). I don't know yet if it will be a good place, but at least my own seed grown H.japonica have grown there now for five years even through one bad winter, and that is why I thought it might be good for also others:). So far my few Trilliums grow in other part of the garden which is more moist, but maybe I could try some also here.
hi, "funny" to see, that there are ONLY TWO Cyclamen LOVERS IN THE FORUM.
