Cyclamen 2024

[Herman Mylemans]

Cyclamen purpurascens and Cyclamen purpurascens f. album

[MarcR]

Herman,

VERY NICE!       My C. purpurascens are all still unbloomed seedlings. Is it normal to get summer bloom from C. purpurascens?  My  Cyclamen tend to be Fall, Winter, or Spring bloomers.

[Herman Mylemans]

Herman,

VERY NICE!       My C. purpurascens are all still unbloomed seedlings. Is it normal to get summer bloom from C. purpurascens?  My  Cyclamen tend to be Fall, Winter, or Spring bloomers.

Marc, purpurascens always flowers in the summer and for a very long time!

[MarcR]

Herman,

Thank you!

[StevenS]

Cyclamen africanum is looking dainty today:

[Leena]

First of the C.hederifolium from seeds I got from Herman couple of years ago, is now flowering.

[arisaema]

I have quite a few pots of seedlings of purpurascens, hederifolium and coum sprouting, sown last winter. Are they okay left outside in a bench over winter (down to -13 or so), or would they do better inside under lights at around 2-10C?

[Carolyn]

I would certainly plunge the pots if leaving them outside. In Dec 2022 I lost every pot of cyclamen (hederifolium, coum mainly) in my cold frame. The pots froze (min temp -8C) because they were not plunged. Purpurascens should take the lowest temperatures out of all the species I think, but even it is vulnerable in a pot.

[arisaema]

Thak you, Carolyn! There's a couple of lovely silver foliage forms among them, so inside sounds safer.

[Leena]

I don't have inside space for my Cyclamen seedlings (hederifolium, coum, purpurascens and cilicium), but I have kept them in our root cellar over the winter. It is dark and temperatures are +3 - 0C, and all seem to be well in spring. Of course inside under lamps they would grow also during winter. C.purpurascens seedlings do well also outside in open ground, they has even self seeded some.