Cyclamen 2009

[Guff]

This is a different Dark Purple Hederifolium flower then the one I had posted on the 14th. I had watered with some ferts after taking the picture and it ruined the flower for some reason.

In the second picture to the right/front is a light pink Hederifolium. Also that is a coum leaf from another pot behind the Dark Purple Hederifolium flower.

A couple more pictures of my cyclamen bed.

[johnw]

And here is another variation, silver with green a Xmas tree centre.

I thought with such a cool summer here purpurascens would not flower so well but they have. Maybe next summer they will be shy.

johnw

Wow, John, that's a great variation for C. purpurascens! Is it flowering size yet?
cheers
fermi

Fermi - The seed from the CS was just sown this past March and the tubers are only 3/8" across. The hederifoliums from the same sowing are already 5/8" and much lustier.

johnw

[johnw]

I thought this was a rather unusual flower shape for C. purpurascens.

johnw

[Hans A.]

Until now there are no flowering Cyclamen - but today I had to replant an older Cyclamen rohlfsianum in my garden. It grew in a rectangular corner of a trough, I was amazed how perfectly the tuber has used the space.

[Guff]

Not the dark black purple, but still nice.

Dark Purple Hederifolium

[Hans J]

since some day I see on my fresh cyclamen leaves that they are damaged .....now this morning I found this beast 
this is what we call "Frostspanner"

[Paul T]

So... Hans... is it now what we call "Dead"?   Or did you move it on to somewhere it wasn't going to matter to lose a few Cyclamen leaves?

[Hans J]

Paul 

I'm shure this animal will never more visit my Cyclamen again

 

I have just looked - this animals like not all Cyclamen leaves .....
C. purpurascens + rohlfsianum are not touched - they prefer :
C. coum,graecum .....
for the other I can not say -they flowers but they have no leaves ( hederifolium,confusum.cilicicum,mirabile)

Have any other growers of Cyclamen this beasties too ?

[Anthony Darby]

since some day I see on my fresh cyclamen leaves that they are damaged .....now this morning I found this beast 
this is what we call "Frostspanner"

It is the larva of a saw fly (Order Hymenoptera, sub-order Symphyta, family Tenthredinidae).

[Hans J]

Thank you Anthony 

....this caterpillar is not from a butterfly ?
I did not know it !

But I found in my pots also larvae ....next time I will make a pic !

[Hans A.]

Here most damages on Cyclamenleaves are caused by cutworms (Agrotis + Euxoa).

Replanting some Cyclamen seedlings I found among some Cyclamen rohlfsianum one lacking the typical reddish colour of the proliferation - could this result in a white flowering plant?
(seeds are from a normal pink one)

Edit: After searching in internet it is nearly impossible the seedling will be white as it seems there is only one white in cultivation?! http://www.cyclamen.org/rohlf_set.html  (this one has reddish flower and leaf stalks)
Nevertheless I am very curios how it will flower  

[Melvyn Jope]

The Cyclamen graecum ssp candicum are now coming into flower, the photo is from a plant that originated from Omalos in Crete, plants grown from wild collected seed will show quite a lot of variation in the petal colour and shape but the majority are likely to be as the one shown.

[Paul T]

Very nice, Melcyn.  I have relatively young seedlings of that coming along at the moment.  Nice to see again what they will look like when they grow up (I did check out pics when I first got the seed, but haven't looked them up since).

[David Nicholson]

Very nice indeed Melvyn. I take it they are outside, they wouldn't look so perfect in my wet garden.

[Tony Willis]

Melvyn thats very similar in flower to my post 373 which came from NW Crete,the Rhodope peninsula.I hesitated to call mine ssp candicum as I think it might  not be from the known area but I cannot see much difference